With the Astros in town, Chandler Rome of The Houston Chronicle joined the Fenway Rundown podcast to talk all things Red Sox-Astros. Rome and host Chris Cotillo dug into the similarities between the contract situations of Xander Bogaerts and former Astro Carlos Correa, whether the Boston-Houston rivalry is a real matchup and Alex Cora’s relationship with Astros players in a post-sign-stealing scandal world.
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Here are some highlights:
Rome on how the Red Sox-Astros rivalry has developed over time (1:46):
“These are two of the best teams in the American League, the best well-run teams in the American League every single year. I think that, in and of itself, just breeds good competition and it breeds good games. Good games can turn into rivalries. I don’t know of any rivalry that’s just completely lopsided one way or the other where one team just beats the hell out of the other one. That’s not this one. These are always compelling games. It doesn’t seem to matter where the teams are, or the records. They get up for one another. I think, as long as Alex Cora’s managing the Red Sox, that will always be the big storyline because fair or not, Astros fans do view Alex Cora as something of a pariah or something of a villain because Rob Manfred did paint Alex Cora as a ringleader of the sign-stealing scheme in 2017.”
Rome on his reaction to Red Sox fans still booing Jose Altuve and others (18:35):
“Maybe i’m just desensitized to it, but I didn’t think it was that bad last night until after the rain delay when everyone was liquored up. Everyone that sat through that hour-and-a-half rain delay came back having a good time. The boos were going to be loud. Before that, it didn’t really hit me that much. I’ve been on the road since this whole thing started so maybe I’m just desensitized to the booing. But I do think it has been less pronounced this year. Granted, we have not gone to New York yet.”
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