It's World Series time!

[Guinevere]

Let's go RED SOX!!!

[Lord Jim]

If the Dodgers had gotten in I would be rooting for whoever was playing against them, but with no one to root either for or against, this series is stirring about as much passion in me as a Tennessee Titans/Jacksonville Jaguars football game....

It's possible I care as little about the outcome of this World Series as Strop does....



I suppose I somewhat favor the Red Sox because of the Boston Marathon bombing...I always like to see communities that have taken a blow get a morale lift...

[Guinevere]

Kind of like this guy:

[Daisy]

And you lot had the nerve to have a go at cricket!!

You made a national sport of rounders for goodness sake

[Sue U]

And you lot had the nerve to have a go at cricket!!

You made a national sport of rounders for goodness sake

Well, there's beer involved in it, too.

[Daisy]

Ahh you see beer makes everything better. Except its probably one of those nasty, fizzy, weak assed, to cold to drink "beers" that has corporate sponsorship of the whole league?

You need the Campaign for Real Ale in the USA

[Crackpot]

We got plenty we just don't like to share.

[Guinevere]

Ahh you see beer makes everything better. Except its probably one of those nasty, fizzy, weak assed, to cold to drink "beers" that has corporate sponsorship of the whole league?

You need the Campaign for Real Ale in the USA

Nope.

St Louis (the Opposition) may be the home of god-awful Budweiser, but in Boston and in all of New England, we love good beer ----- there was a thread around here over the summer about the best craft beer drinking cities in the US, and we were right up there. Sam Adams (not really craft any more, but still very good beer); Harpoon; Beer Works; Cambridge Brewing; and lots more in Massachusetts overall, and then a bonanza of fabulous small volume breweries in New England -- it would take me all day to list them!

In fact, the best IPA in the world -- the fabulous Heady Topper -- is produced just up the road, in Waterbury Vermont. The cannery sells out every single week.

[Big RR]

True Guin, but how many of those craft beers are served at Fenway? I'd bet a small number, and even less during the world series (where only the "official beer" of MLB or the world series will be served. It's amazing how many ballparks and stadiums only serve the major brands like Budweiser or Coors, but those big brewers pay dearly to get that monopoly.

[Guinevere]

Sam and Harpoon, yes, definitely.

According to a list I saw recently: Guinness, Smithwick's, Harp, Harpoon IPA, Sam Adams Summer Ale, and Presidente. Not small volume, but good beers, because small is a problem when you're selling 20,000 beers a night (or more).

[Rick]

I thought this was about the series go Red Birds, don't let these furineers obfuscate...

[Long Run]

Well, these are two cities that are at the very top when it comes to loving baseball and supporting their team, so let them have the most fun. I think if the Cards keep pitching like they have, the Series will go their way, but then a lot of people thought the same about Detroit and Boston.

[Guinevere]

And fun shall be had!

Taking nothing for granted, but I've worn the lucky hat all day -- yes, even at the office!

[Rick]

Next year there will actually be replay anyhow.

[Lord Jim]

Ahh you see beer makes everything better. Except its probably one of those nasty, fizzy, weak assed, to cold to drink "beers"

Yes, there's nothing like a strong, flat, warm beer to wash down a good brat with on a hot day at a ballpark...

St Louis (the Opposition) may be the home of god-awful Budweiser,

I believe in Camden Yards, they still serve ice cold, (at least they did as recently as seven years ago when I last saw a game there) National Bo...

"In sixteen hundred and seventy four, that elegant gent Lord Baltimore, arrived with ruffles and a purple cloak, and a tasty brew for the local folk"...

National Bo....

(I can't find the exact commercial that matches that jingle that I've been wasting grey matter in my brain remembering all these years, (along with the words to the theme music for a show that flopped badly in the mid 60's called "Hank", and all the words to the theme for the cartoon, "The Mighty Hercules"...and all the words to the F Troop intro music...

I ought to be using that brain space for designing the world's first cold fusion reactor... ) but this one's pretty close:

[MajGenl.Meade]

And the 'world' says - ho hum. Wake us up when USians start to play a real sport

[Rick]

Ya'll act like the UK is some kind of Isl...oh wait

[Lord Jim]

Speaking of cute and British...

[Gob]

"World series"?

Oh, this one you mean, an actual "international" series ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013–14_Ashes_series

[Joe Guy]

'World' doesn't always refer to everywhere on earth.

It can be used to describe one of the most important places. You know... The place that matters....