Carlos Correa, shortstop for the disgraced Houston Astros, has his answer. What they’re going to say now is, “Welcome to the American League Championship Series.”
Popped 11 months ago for dark choices their players, coaches and staff made across half of the finest era in franchise history, the Astros have knocked off the AL West champion Oakland A’s, this after sweeping the AL Central champion Minnesota Twins. It was after that series when Correa, among the game’s elite talents, asked of the cynics, “What are they going to say now?