Random World Series Thoughts As A Season Winds Down

“Hmm...filthy rich or filthier rich...”Sometime between tonight and when children demand candy to avoid destruction of your property, baseball’s 2018 season will come to an end. As with any World Series, there is much to discuss and this year perhaps more than usual. It has been “one for the ages,” from game 3’s 18 inning, 7 hour and 20 minute odyssey to starters relieving and relievers blowing up at the darndest times. (Cue Bill Cosby, who ought to scare children by now, or at least their moms.)

Game 4 alone was ripe for analysis as the Dodgers suddenly broke open a scoreless game with 4 in the 6th only to watch the Red Sox score 9 unanswered runs in the tops of innings 7, 8, and 9. It…