Eighteen Wheels & A Dozen Roses – Kathy Mattea
More Than A Woman – Bee Gees
Strangelove – Depeche Mode
Hey Jealousy – Gin Blossoms
Glad All Over – The Dave Clark Five
Anchorage – Michelle Shocked
Mrs. Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Peter, Paul & Mary
Love And Happiness – Al Green
From Jayson Stark’s most recent column
for The Athletic (paywall):
[A]s I watched their
final game together Saturday night, I texted an AL executive and asked if this
October provided any type of vindication for this group. Not surprisingly, I
didn’t get far with that premise.
“It’s hard to get
redemption,” he wrote, “for a complete lack of integrity. (But) I don’t think
any rational people didn’t think they were talented.”
I feel like that
summed it up eloquently. This October was a vivid reminder of the Astros’
talent — but it doesn’t excuse any of the misdeeds that earned them their
rightful place as baseball’s most loathed team. Nor does it excuse their lack
of acceptable contrition for what they did.
Manager Dusty Baker, after the loss, noted that the team members are “ballplayers”
and “men”. Not surprisingly, he neglected to add that they are also cheaters,
dismissing the entire scandal obliquely as “whatever problem they’ve had”.
And let’s not forget that baseball owes Rays manager Kevin Cash and his crew an undying debt of gratitude for short-circuiting Houston’s run towards another World Series.
