A Thread For The Playoff Games Of A Sport That Matters...

[rubato]

The best pitcher in baseball came out of the bullpen to swat the gNATS.

Go Dodgers!

Yrs,
Rubato

[Lord Jim]

It so figures that you're a Dodgers fan rube...

[Big RR]

Now, now; I like the Dodgers and the Giants much more than the Cubs. Then again, I like the Yankees and the Mets pretty much equally as well.

[Joe Guy]

Now, now; I like the Dodgers and the Giants much more than the Cubs. Then again, I like the Yankees and the Mets pretty much equally as well.

You can't like the Dodgers AND the Giants. You have to hate one of them. It's not humanly possible to like them both. And everybody is supposed to like the Cubs once their home team is eliminated.

In regards to the Yankees and Mets, you should hate the Yankees but admire some of their players and you should think the Mets are okay but you don't really like them.

P.S. - Everyone should hate the Dodgers.

[dales]

It so figures that you're a Dodgers fan rube...

The Dodgers are and have always been.................BUMS!

Eat your heart out, bums!



Oh yeah, Cubs all the way!

[Econoline]

I learned to hate the Dodgers during the 1959 World Series (look it up). Seeing them lose to the Cubs this year would be a real thrill.

[Big RR]

Growing up in Brooklyn, I was groomed to like the Dodgers, even though they moved away and even though they were bums--they were our bums (and my favorite team). And because San Francisco had also moved, I never inherited the hatred of the Giants (and always liked Willie Mays). Of course most of my friends' fathers (not mine, he didn't like baseball) hated the Yankees, but they grew on me when they started losing. And the mets? I started liking them early on because it was easy (and cheap) to get tickets and watch them play some of my favorite NL teams (that and my parents didn't mind me going to Queens on the subway, but they didn't want me going to the Bronx).

[RayThom]

I have never been able to process the idea of professional team sports without thinking it is nothing but Big Business on steroids -- literally and figuratively. So I find it very hard to 'hate' any one team or any one athlete. It's business, period.

All I see are highly paid adults being paid for activities I last played in grade school. I can, however, buy into the idea of sports being a metaphor for life if it only teaches us that we win some and we lose some. Other than that I will never understand the attraction to professional sports.

On the other hand, and maybe because of the passive competitive nature of Track & Field events, they get a pass from me. It's almost all silly stuff, otherwise.

[rubato]

Red Barber
Vin Scully
Sandy Koufax
Jackie Robinson
Don Drysdale
Roy Campanella
Mike Piazza
Fernando Valenzuela
Orel Hersheiser
Clayton Kershaw (the best pitcher in baseball) 149 innings, 179 strikeouts, 11 bases on balls.

[dales]

So what!

The Giants have won more games than any other MLB team.

[Lord Jim]

Dodgers’ Late-Inning Gamble Backfires in Cubs’ Timely Grand Slam

CHICAGO — The move was aggressive and brazen, and for a few moments, it seemed as if it might work. With Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on the line Saturday night, Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts asked reliever Joe Blanton to intentionally walk two Chicago Cubs batters.

The score was tied, and Blanton had been stellar for the Dodgers all year. And the walks forced Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman out of the game in favor of pinch-hitter Miguel Montero, who had not hit Blanton well in his career.

But the decision also loaded the bases with two outs and pushed the Dodgers dangerously close to the edge. With one powerful swing, Montero pushed them over.

After whiffing at the previous slider, Montero blasted a hanging two-strike slider from Blanton over the right-field fence for only the third pinch-hit grand slam in postseason history, powering the Cubs ahead on their way to an 8-4 victory.

“As a kid, you always dream of these situation,” said Montero, 33, who has been relegated to occasional pinch-hitting duties with three catchers on the Cubs roster. “And that’s what you live for.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/sport ... .html?_r=2

[rubato]

So what!

The Giants have won more games than any other MLB team.

And they have so much free time to think about that now.


yrs,
rubato

[Econoline]

The Giants have won more games than any other MLB team.

I haven't looked up this statistic to verify it (since it only occurred to me just this minute ) but I'm pretty sure that no other MLB team EVER has won more games since their last World Series championship than the Chicago Cubs...

[dales]

I'm sure that is a true fact, econo.

Just to refresh the flakey memory of our junior scientist from Sta. Cruz....

From Wiki:

As one of the longest-established and most successful professional baseball teams, the franchise has won the most games of any team in the history of American baseball.[5] The team was the first major league team based in New York City, most memorably playing at the legendary Polo Grounds. They have won 23 NL pennants and have played in 20 World Series competitions – both NL records. The Giants' eight World Series championships rank second in the National League and are tied for fourth overall (New York Yankees are first with 27, then the St. Louis Cardinals (the National League record-holders) with 11, the Oakland Athletics with 9, and the Boston Red Sox also with 8). The Giants have played in the World Series 20 times – 14 times in New York, six in San Francisco – but boycotted the event in 1904.

Eat your heart out, Richard!

[Lord Jim]

The Giants have won more games than any other MLB team.

I haven't looked up this statistic to verify it (since it only occurred to me just this minute ) but I'm pretty sure that no other MLB team EVER has won more games since their last World Series championship than the Chicago Cubs...

I'm sure that's true...

I'm also sure it's true that no team has ever lost more games since their last World series championship, or had more extra innings games, more rained out games, or more generations of the same family attending a game since their last World Series Championship...

[Big RR]

And definitely more games called on account of darkness during that same time period.

[oldr_n_wsr]

The only problem I have with the Cubs winning is that if they do, they will lose some sort of innocence that they have now.
It would be nice to see them win finally, but will they still be the "Cubs", if you catch my drift?

[rubato]

The only problem I have with the Cubs winning is that if they do, they will lose some sort of innocence that they have now.
It would be nice to see them win finally, but will they still be the "Cubs", if you catch my drift?

They're probably safe.


The Giants finally won a WS in San Francisco, and then two more, without their fans losing the chip on their shoulder or the pettiness for which they are famous.


yrs,
rubato

[dales]

Look at yourself in the mirror, Richard.

Most of the crap you post here has "pettiness" written all over it.

[MajGenl.Meade]

These must be National League teams. Who cares?