Even though the clubhouse was still wet with champagne Thursday and the triumphant parade through the Canyon of Heroes was a day away, attention already was turning to the future.

The Astros have added two players, bringing the team to the limit of the 40-man roster, general manager Ed Wade said Thursday.

Thirteen years after Joe Torre won his first World Series ring, his former player and assistant, Joe Girardi, was on the verge of winning his first as a manager.

Fox Sports had a good crowd on board for the first entry in the Amtrak World Series between the Phillies and Yankees on Wednesday, and all logical thought dictates that the network will show substantial improvement over last year’s weather-beaten Phillies-Rays series.