HOUSTON — Septuagenarians: the new market inefficiency.
Here we have the Houston Astros, erstwhile masters of the dark art of misusing technology like some cutting-edge dark web hackers, now going back to the World Series for the first time since their sign-stealing scheme was made known because of the know-how of a 72-year-old manager and 73-year-old pitching coach.
The combined age of Dusty Baker and Brent Strom is older than that of George Burns and Walter Matthau when they filmed The Sunshine Boys, a 1975 flick about the reunion of a vaudeville comedy duo.