2017 World Series: Game 7

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Love it!!!!!!! Congrats Houston! Thank you for crushing the Dodgers’ World Series dream!
 

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Congratulations to all of you who were rooting for the Astros. They deserved this win.
 

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I’m crying tears of joy.

I was near Dodger Stadium tonight for work and I got a text from my wife that said “they’re gonna riot; get out of there.” Sure enough, checked the score and left.
 

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I’m crying tears of joy.

I was near Dodger Stadium tonight for work and I got a text from my wife that said “they’re gonna riot; get out of there.” Sure enough, checked the score and left.
Good for you, but does LA really need a reason to riot?
 

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That one is good but doesn’t beat the Cub fan from last year who predicted their 2016 World Series win, back in the 80s :):):)
 

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That was very satisfying and I can't wait to hear the crying and second guessing on LA radio tomorrow.
 
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Congrats to Bergman and Giles, those two players are New Mexican natives.:bday:
 

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This guy is pretty awesome, he's also the guy who housed all those displaced from Harvey and sent a couple first responders to the WS:

The man they call "Mattress Mac" has to pay up once again now that the Houston Astros are MLB champs -- to the tune of more than $10 million.

Houston business mogul Jim McIngvale, who owns Gallery Furniture, told ESPN he'll be giving back more than $10 million in purchases made from when he announced in May that he would rebate fans who spent more than $3,000 on mattresses and beds if the team won it all.

He said he paid an insurance premium of between 10 and 20 percent of the total value of what he had to pay out. In order to balance his risk out more, he placed some bets in Las Vegas on the Astros. Those bets, he said, totaled north of $1 million on the Astros to win the World Series.

In 2014, to promote his 63rd birthday, he predicted the putrid Astros wouldn't win 63 games. They won 70. He gave back more than $4 million to his customers. Earlier that year, he refunded customers to the tune of about $8 million, after he predicted the Denver Broncos would beat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII, only to see the Broncos lose.


http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...e-give-houston-astros-fans-10-million-rebates
 
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This guy is pretty awesome, he's also the guy who housed all those displaced from Harvey and sent a couple first responders to the WS:

The man they call "Mattress Mac" has to pay up once again now that the Houston Astros are MLB champs -- to the tune of more than $10 million.

Houston business mogul Jim McIngvale, who owns Gallery Furniture, told ESPN he'll be giving back more than $10 million in purchases made from when he announced in May that he would rebate fans who spent more than $3,000 on mattresses and beds if the team won it all.

He said he paid an insurance premium of between 10 and 20 percent of the total value of what he had to pay out. In order to balance his risk out more, he placed some bets in Las Vegas on the Astros. Those bets, he said, totaled north of $1 million on the Astros to win the World Series.

In 2014, to promote his 63rd birthday, he predicted the putrid Astros wouldn't win 63 games. They won 70. He gave back more than $4 million to his customers. Earlier that year, he refunded customers to the tune of about $8 million, after he predicted the Denver Broncos would beat the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII, only to see the Broncos lose.


http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...e-give-houston-astros-fans-10-million-rebates
That is pretty awesome of him to do such a thing.
 
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