But any cordiality will be cast aside when the two share the mound Friday night at Citi Field, trading blistering fastballs in what has been seen as one of the most intriguing pitching matchups of the early season.
CLEVELAND The focus will be on the champion manager (Terry Francona), the intriguing pitching prospect (Trevor Bauer) and the former Yankee with a smile as wide as Chief Wahoo's (Nick Swisher).
Pitching Experiment Debated Now if you're really looking to reinvent the game, or at least conduct an intriguing pitching experiment, consider a plan percolating in the mind of the Milwaukee Brewers' general manager, Doug Melvin.
By the time the afternoon brought the most intriguing pitching matchup of this series — the dominant Edinson Vólquez against the streaking Mike Pelfrey — the heat had only grown more ruthless.
But that's acknowledged, in an intriguing sequence pitching Hoyle, Bourgeois and Maurice into arguments with their real-life, un-fabulous selves.
A more concentrated effort seemed to pay off, with a number of intriguing teams pitching their work, from a company promising to wring more revenue out of attorneys' mobile phone use, to a new open source platform for data scientists, to a startup trying to modernize moving companies.
But the proposal is serious, an intriguing if flawed pitch for a radical change in the way this nation sets monetary policy.
With the clubs due to meet on January 26 it promises to be an intriguing situation on the pitch - and in the boardroom.
