[RummyChick]

meanwhile, Mattress Mack is scurrying around the US placing bets on the Astros as a hedge on his promotion. So far over 8 million that he is admitting to

[StormEye]

"... for the first time since the 1910s, they have gone a
full calendar decade without so much as appearing in
the World Series."

Awwwwww, it must be breaking their tender hearts.
Keep on crying about New York.

[alternatives?]

I recall Willie Mays largest salary was $125,000. With $2 billion, you could hire Willie Mays for 16,000 years.

[60Gunner]

Yankees Spent $2 Billion and Have No World Titles in 2010s To Show For It

Good. The schadenfreude is particularly sweet this time of year.

[bwest]

I’m a Yankee fan and I’m heartbroken.
On another note, this will be a strange Series with Houston in the American League and Washington in the National.

[Sans-Culotte]

I don't think the Yankees have to do much to be just as good next year. Any team that wins over a hundred games is doing something right. The series with the Astros could have gone either way. Had they walked Altuve, they would have had Jake Marisnick at the plate, who would have struck out on three pitches. I still can't figure why they chose to pitch to Altuve. You can't even pitch around him because he can hit balls out of the strike zone.

Had they walked Altuve, the Astros would likely have had to use Rondón as the next pitcher, and he would have probably lost the game.