First of all, if you love the Astros, you love Charlie Freakin Morton, the only man to win both a game seven ALCS game and a game seven World Series. And it’s not just that he was such an important part of the Astros team that won its first World Series, it’s that he’s such a a beautiful, humble man. So let me speak for all of us here at TCB and say we love you, Charlie Morton.
I’m going to find it hard to root against him tonight. He shouldn’t be pitching against the Astros. (Not intended as a knock on the management decision to let him walk)
But business is business and Morton is facing Gerrit Cole, who’s been even better than Charlie since joining the Astros.