Cal.E.'s Korner

d.: Well, the World Series starts tonight. I don’t have a dog in the fight, though. However, there are a lot of ex-Astros on each team, so I think I’ll tune in to my favorite radio host and see what he has to say about it.

Live, from Cut-N-Shoot Texas, it’s the Joe Groan Show, here on KEEP?KEEN Conroe/Cut-N-Shoot. And now, here’s the 138^th ranked sports talk show host in the northeast corner of Montgomery County JOE GROAN!!

JG.: Oh, oh, oh, oh!! I put in an extra “oh” because I’m so excited about the first game of the World Series-not!

I mean, come on, the hated Los Angeles Dodgers, minus center fielder  Cory “Crybaby” Bellinger against a Canadian team so, who cares?

The Blue Jays do have “Mr. November,” though, the one and only George Springer.

No, he’s not the “New Mr. October” because there can only be one Mr. October, the incomparable Reggie Jackson. And one of my two favorite Astros of all time did his heroics in a World Series that ended in the first week in November.

Jackson hit three consecutive home runs on four pitches and three swings…wait for it…IN A WORLD SERIES GAME!! Why the other team insisted on pitching him again when he’d already hit two home runs is still beyond me.

Mr. October

George Springer, when he was playing the outfield, was a better fielder than

R-E-G-G-I-E, I’ll give him that; but Jorge hit three home runs in the whole 2017 World Series that lasted seven games. The seventh game, incidentally, was in Chavez Ravine. The series was tied at three games each, and the Dodgers had the better record that year, so it came down to one game…in DODGER STADIUM! And the crybaby says the Astros didn’t deserve the win. Cory, did your attendants, at Dodger Stadium, help the Astros by banging on trash cans? Hmm, it seems that I heard somewhere that Mr. Bellinger hit one-hundred points higher at home than on the road. OH, right, it was on this show, which is, as we all know, one hundred percent accurate.

Yes, I do know that batting averages are a fraction, but ten percent higher at home than on the road is a smoking gun if I’ve ever seen one. Do yourself, and everyone else a favor, Cory, and stop running your mouth and hit weights to keep from being injured once again.

Back to this year’s World Series. The Blue Jays do have more former Astros on their roster than the Dodgers. Honestly, the only one of the former Astros now wearing a Dodgers uniform I know much or care much about is Teoscar Hernandez.

I felt that the Astros were making a mistake when they let him go, and I still feel that way. He’s been a steady, if not spectacular performer for the Dodgers, and he won this year’s Home Run Derby. The Astros could have used his bat in their line up with all the injuries they suffered this year.

As far as predictions go, well, the Blue Jays do have “Mr. November,” so I’ll go with the Blue Jays in six games. Remember, though, that this show is for entertainment purposes only.

This has been Joe Groan, with one man’s (correct) opinion.