World Series: Fall Classic or Fall Dud?

You should see the papers around here this morning. I think the OC Register is going to explode from sheer delight.

if rueter gets the win tonight, giants are world champions.

The Rangers' Fox Sports play-by-play guy is pretty good, too. Same goes for any non-Carey Braves announcer. The rest of the Fox Sports posse can get eaten by Kruk, Farr, and Arnold for all I care. (I bitch because I care.)

Felicity, re: the McDonough comment (in case you were wondering), I was just trying to say that Sean's deadpan sarcasm during my nascent days as a Red Sox baseball fanny make it easier for me to appreciate Senor Buck's low-level flights of fancy. I wasn't trying to one-up or anything, madam. And I'm an OLD FART!!!!!! Well, that's half-right. (Who's Jack Brickhouse?)

I have dreams of Sean McD. coming back to do nationally-televised games, like he did when CBS had the baseball contract. McDonough's become so bitter and caustic, however, that I don't think the national audience could handle it anymore. (Not that I blame him - YOU try being a Red Sox broadcaster for 15+ years and see where your psyche ends up.) Especially if the Indians make the playoffs anytime soon - he STILL refers to catcher Einar Diaz as a "Hall of Famer" after an incident involving the light-hitting Mr. Diaz, Mr. Pedro Martinez, an "inside pitch", and some Diaz umbrage that took place FOUR YEARS AGO. He needs a good colonic and a lollipop stat.

forget the horrible starting pitching, this is why the Giants lost games 2 and 3.

if the Angels pitched to Barry more often than once or twice a game, this series would be over... at the very least, one of these guys needs to step it up and either put the Angels in a position where they HAVE to pitch to Bonds, or let them walk them and then make them pay. Santiago's TWO bases loaded double plays were completely heart-breaking.

his waving off of bonds on the sac fly was a joke. bonds has the better arm not to mention the better shot at throwing him off being a lefty coming toward center fielding the fly. (think about it, i just relived the motions in my kitchen).

Obviously the crowd digs on IDM riddims.

Let me second the props to Mike Krukow. Absolutely deserves national spotlight -- he may be an irrepressible homer (not that I care one iota), but he's the funniest and most insightful 'sucker I've heard in ages (not saying much though).

Grab some pine, meat! &c

Is that before or after Zito and Mulder don the pinstripes?

Then they'll have NINE starters and still no one with a clue as to how to pitch in the 8th.

And Sterling Hitchcock will still be getting $145 million a year to sit on the DL.

FAP: toronado on saturday!

When the Yankees acquired Weaver and put him in the bullpen, my brother and I joked that by the next time we go to Yankee Stadium, Steinbrenner will have El Duque selling nachos.

but I love Felix the Cat! ;)

I'm not too crazy about the way everyone at the bar last night kept going on how the Giants have to win because Bonds "deserves" a ring. Is this a common way of going about doing things? Yes, he's a great player but I don't see how that makes it like his birth right to win a World Series...

you all have made my heart say "OUCH"!

i put my thang down flip it reverse it.

how i will remember the idiot angels fans: reggie sanders retreiving a ball against the wall and two fans taking their thundersticks and hitting him with them as he was trying to make the play!!! angel fans = the lowest slime imaginable... where were they last year?

okay, i can feel more tears coming, i better stop this posting... angels = the pure depth of satanic evil... WALT = 666 = THE RAT.

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awww, bc, don't worry, i'm sure the yankees will be back soon. ;-)

no way no way no way was that a boring series. even in the last inning there was some suspense, or at least more than we'd seen before in the postseason with percival on the mound.

dogpiles: S/D The Twins in 87 stand out in my mind.

i'm disappointed they didn't show the inevitable royal rumble in the sf clubhouse. TS: Jeff Kent vs. Livan Hernandez's kid.

what about DH-ing pedro feliz?

The Giants bench was what, 0 for 93? Maybe they shoulda given a bat to Dusty's kid. We know he can find home plate at least.

Freddie Freeman with first ever World Series walkoff grandslam in 10th inning ( extra innings).

Classic Fall Classic ending

Ohtani injury not that bad they're saying. Might play in game 3

We have two active WS threads atm btw

World Series baseball is so great. Loved seeing the Los Angelenos biting their nails in the ninth inning last night. Baseball is so cruel in that you never know when the game is over, you can never relax. Have to say, these are two of the most formidable teams I’ve seen in the Series in years.

Wait Till This Year: 2024 World Series

On this thread you can say if the whole thing is a dud, though

Also, That "Wait till This Year :2024 World Series" thread is on I Love Baseball, not I Love Everything

twenty-one years pass...

What a time capsule. SF Giants fans in shambles. Glad things worked out for them a bit.

Shades of the Yankees being down 2-0 in 2001 against the Dbacks.

♪It's coming home, baseball's coming home
ThirtyFifteen years of hurt never stopped them dreaming♪

Euro/UK fans of baseball what are you doing with your lives

I have not known any UK Yanks fans. I have known UK Mets fans. Yanks = Man U.

As an example, the Boston Red Sox, Liverpool F.C., and the NHL hockey team Pittsbugh Penguins are all owned by the Fenway Sports Group. Aiui (happy to be corrected here) there is/was no salary cap in Premier League or in MLB so supporting the Red Sox could benefit Liverpool and vice versa if it leads to financial success for that team.

Fenway also have some common ownership with Rousch Fenway Racing in NASCAR which was a roundabout way for my brother (when he became disenchanted with auto racing and his favorite driver retired) to transfer his main sports interest to Liverpool.

WHERE IT REMAINS lol

tl/dr

Don’t you have sports in the uk? Just follow that and don’t bother us Americans with your bogus opinions

Time to Uber home, bruv...

Don’t you live in Texas?

Morbs said I was "Spiritually British"

Is that a point of pride ?