For the first time since 1999, the Braves are going back to the World Series.
Eddie Rosario continued a torrid postseason with a three-run homer just inside the foul pole in the fourth inning, breaking a 1-1 deadlock and propelling Atlanta to a 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night. One season after the Braves lost to the Dodgers in a seven-game National League Championship Series, Atlanta knocked off the defending champions in six.
The Dodgers got the tying runs on base with no one out in the seventh, but lefty reliever Tyler Matzek came on and struck out three straight to electrify a thundering Truist Park gathering. The last of the three was former MVP Mookie Betts.
Rosario, who was named NLCS MVP, went 2-for-4 with a walk and finished the NLCS with a .560 average, 1.040 slugging percentage, three homers and nine RBIs in six games.
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1. JRVJ Posted: October 24, 2021 at 07:22 PM (#6048745)Curious, and I suppose inevitable at some point.
But this is definitely the most southern feeling WS.
most big cities have their own personality - and even if it's not a place you'd want to live, it's fun to visit and take in the local style.
these two? not so much. one has endless streets named Peachtree, the other has too much Westheimer.
But I think that's because Atlanta is a place to live more than a tourist city.
/coke to McCoy
can you give us a hint what it is?
I've only been there a dozen times or so, but....
it reminds me of Phoenix - if you want to go somewhere interesting, schlep to Buckhead in Atlanta or to Scottsdale in AZ
have been to Indianapolis in recent years, and that city upgraded significantly from the 1990s for a visitor.
it does happen (though I have little hope for Phoenix).
Except for thinking their way and city are better than everywhere else. Most cities have that.
Also, trees. Lots of trees.
Houston is a less obvious case, but I actually came to really like it after visiting a few times. Great arts, incredible diversity, good food. It's a pain to get anywhere and the weather is less than ideal. But there is a lot to enjoy if you look for it.
Did not realize the Yankees or Mets had made it.
Houston is a great city, as Baldrick notes unless you are only talking in terms of weather, traffic, and the imminent possibility of most of it being underwater.
As others have said, most large cities are like most others in a lot of ways, weather excluded ... I don't know of any with pleasant traffic situations. Houston is bigger than most American cities and has the advantage of sheer diversity if there's something you require in a city.
But honestly it depends on what you're trying to do. Commute in from the suburbs? Move around a neighborhood? Go across town? I think pretty much all of the cities I've lived in were perfectly fine traffic wise if you lived in the city and were smart about your drive. If you lived outside the city and wanted to commute in during peak hours you're going to be in standstill traffic.
Having said all that LA's traffic is bad for everyone.
The most inhospitable cities for human habitation are any cities where it gets cold, end of story. Warmth = life. Cold = death.
Houston isn't very densely populated, which makes it nice in some ways, but creates hideous traffic problems. The thing about Houston is it's an enormous geographic area. Mostly nice and green, lots of rain, you can grow almost anything, but if you can't take heat and humidity you will be miserable.
Ha, Westheimer does go on forever, long enough to pass through three normal cities.
A good bialy? Nope. & yeah, I'm struck every time I drive through certain parts of the city south of downtown but within the 610 how vacant it is.
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