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catlover79
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A's fans were still able to make their fury at the Astros known when the teams played in Oakland last night. They may not be physically allowed in the stadium, so they did the next best thing:

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I read that Houck said he was "bummed" that he would missing a start. Hmmm, if only there was something he could have done to make sure he could play in every park. 

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7 hours ago, MattDuffysCat said:

listening to Joe Buck and watching Fox's coverage usually makes me want to stab my ears with a pencil

I'm with you there.

Heard a nice story about Cleveland on NPR's "Morning Edition" while driving into work and I love how the reporter said several movie theaters in the area showed "Major League" last night with an admission price of $1.00.

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Lantern7

Lantern7

To review: Indians haven't won a Series since 1948, only been back three times since, including the season where they won 111 games and got swept by the Giants. Cubs haven't been to the Series since 1945, haven't won in over a century. Sure, the Dodgers haven't won in 28 years and the Jays have gone 23, but that isn't a level of fanbase suffering. Cleveland wins, they get two champs within a year. Chicago wins, 108 years of ghosts are exorcised, and that's over two decades past the wait for Red Sox fans.

ETA: Pete Rose makes bow ties uncool. He would cancel out Matt Smith.

Mittengirl

Mittengirl

Anybody else having issues with sound dropping out?

Listening to the fans talk is such a different feeling than listening to the players talk about how much it would mean for their team to win.  Seriously, they asked Andrew Miller about what it would mean for the Indians.  He's been an Indian for what, five minutes?    Sure they want to win, for themselves and their teammates.  And there is nothing wrong with that.  But it isn't like back in the days of Ernie Banks and his peers.  They just don't have the connection to the city anymore.  Ernie was 22 years old when he played his first game as a Cub and retired at age 40, still a Cub.  He meant something to the city, and it meant something to him. 

 

The longest tenured current Cub is Travis Wood, who has been with the team since 2012.  Jason Kipnis holds the title for the Indians, starting in 2011.  I have shoes I have had longer.

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Lantern7

Lantern7

Damn, I feel old. And I almost missed that. I was too busy crying after the Red Sox scoring two in the tenth, I missed everything prior to E3. The only defense I have is that I was ten years old.

Thank goodness for highlights tapes, because I can "remember" Bob Murphy's call on WHN. "Ground ball trickling, it is . . . A FAIR BALL! IT GETS THROUGH BUCKNER!!!" Vin Scully's "If a picture is worth a thousand words, you have seen a million!" is classic as well.

ETA: I found Bill Simmons' recollection of that night, but it was only up for about a second. Only thing I disagree with him about is that the Sox were toast in Game 7. Thanks to a rainout, they went from putting Oil Can Boyd on the mound to Bruce Hurst, the one guy who could have supplanted Marty Barrett as MVP. And Boston went up 3-0 before the Mets made up the difference.

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45 minutes ago, Moose135 said:

Thirty years ago tonight - little roller up along first...

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v13062925

Purrrrrr.  And it was a 3-2 count, I didn't remember that.  'Course I was six days from my 13th birthday and had been a Mets fan for about a month so it was all new to me still.  Such joy!  And by my #1 baseball player Mookie Wilson.

My husband and I were talking earlier that we still love baseball but really miss the days when guys played for the shirt and not the paycheck.  And then we shook our canes and shooed some miscreants off our property.

And here is a useless tidbit for today - in 1908 the highest salary was $8500.

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Mittengirl

Mittengirl

Mojo, don't send those hooligans over to my yard.  I have been feeling old lately.  Must be the changing weather.

I just realized that my grandmother was born in Chicago in 1908 and died in 1988.  That makes the time gap a little more real to me now.  Grams was a southsider, though.  But I am sure she would still be rooting hard for the Cubs.  She used to talk about the nuns taking the kids to the ball game and "not noticing" them eating hotdogs on what were supposed to be meatless Fridays.

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Crs97

Crs97

If anyone wants to know why Cleveland has this "us against the world" mentality, Joe and Jon spent the top half of the ninth inning explaining why the Cubs are so obviously going to win the World Series, as if losing that game 6-0 was just part of their master plan.  That's okay; I like the Tribe's chances when the team plays with a chip on its shoulder.

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Crs97

Crs97

I was in college during this series as well, Aim.  Few of my fellow Texans were interested, but I was a huge Mets fan at the time.  During game 7 my dorm called a fire drill!  I told my RA I wasn't leaving the room.  She had to beg, promising I could stand right beside the building and be the first person back in.  I think I was the only fan in America who was happy that someone tossed a smoke bomb in the outfield.

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cleo

cleo

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I'm rooting for the Cubs for a couple of reasons, but damn if the Indians don't make it hard- with the exception of Bauer who I don't like, they really seem like a likeable team, I enjoy the way they play and I like an underdog. 

The Cubs on the other hand seem kind of bland except for Baez, who is one of my baseball boyfriends. Although I haven't watched them play much so maybe they are more interesting than they seem

Still, would be cool to see them win and break the curse. 

As for the media, in Canada we are probably insulated from the worst of it, but I am slightly more sick of hearing about the Cavaliers than anything else. It was a different sport, can we pls just let it go...

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rcc

rcc

Kluber is a very good pitcher. He took care of the Cubs last night but it's not over yet. The thing I like most in this series is that both fan bases are deserving of a WS champion because it's been so long.

Tito has won more WS games in a row than anyone else in history I'm pretty sure. The Red Sox swept both Colorado and St. Louis with Francona as manager. So much interesting history with this WS.

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King of Birds

King of Birds

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3 hours ago, stealinghome said:

You can be the Oprah of this thread. "A million dollars for you!" "A million dollars for you!" "A million dollars for everyone here!" :)

Oh we all know InsertWordHere would let the power go to his/her head.  "Okay, only a million $$ to Indian fans"  As if I'd sell my soul for ... a ... million.... dolllllllaaaarrs.  Notice how @mojoween was right there, corrupting the power?

eta: so I just looked up the box scores - Lindor stole a base in game 1. FREE TACOS NEXT WEDNESDAY!

you know in all the years they've done this I've never went in for a taco.

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tacos! tacos! tacos!
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twoods

twoods

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1 hour ago, Artsda said:

Looks like the families of the other 2 guys on Marlins' Jose Fernandez's boat are gearing up to sue Jose's estate. 

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article110563512.html

I know they are grieving but this makes me sick. His family is grieving as well and now they have to hire lawyers to protect their estate? They were all on the boat together, and they don't even know who was driving it. I can understand being sued if they hit another boat or something, but that wasn't the case. Humans make me ill sometimes....show some decency for a change.

Im all about free tacos, but those Doritos tacos look absolutely disgusting. I wish Del Taco would have a promotion like that...

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MyAimIsTrue

MyAimIsTrue

11 hours ago, ebk57 said:

Chris Archer in the ESPN radio booth on my drive home.  I really like him.  He'll be good doing commentary when he's finished playing.

Not that I'm wishing away his career but I agree and I look forward to that day.

10 hours ago, mojoween said:

Also, he's really good-looking!  Even if that makes me a total Mrs. Robinson to say it.

Ahem, it makes both of us a Mrs.  Robinson.

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Maximum Taco

Maximum Taco

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12 hours ago, mojoween said:

Also, he's really good-looking!  Even if that makes me a total Mrs. Robinson to say it.

Sigh.  The baseball gods giveth and then taketh away.  Hopefully this is an anomaly and the Cubs bats fall back dormant.

It isn't an anomaly.

The Cubs have been feast or famine all postseason, they either get completely shut down, or they break out for 5+

In the NLDS they scored 5+ runs in 3 out of 4 games and 1 run in the other game.

In the NLCS they scored 5+ runs in 4 out of 6 games and got shut out in the other 2 games.

I wouldn't count on the Cubs going cold for long, based on their history. Maybe Cleveland could shut them out one more time like the Dodgers did, but if they want to win they are going to need to put up some runs and outscore the Cubs.

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attica

attica

8 hours ago, twoods said:

Looks like the families of the other 2 guys on Marlins' Jose Fernandez's boat are gearing up to sue Jose's estate.

This is probably pretty standard practice. Any settlement is probably going to be paid by insurance, and you sort of have to sue in order to make that happen. (I know some people who were all in a car wreck together, and there was a lot of suing and cross-suing going on afterwards. They're all still friends -- with a bit more money than they had.)  All that said, I don't actually know any details, so feel free to ignore me.

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MyAimIsTrue

MyAimIsTrue

A coworker of mine doesn't give two shits about baseball.  We live near each other and have been carpooling for about eight years now and I gamely listen to her talk about football and she good naturedly puts up with my baseball obsession and we peacefully co-exist, so imagine my surprise at finding out she's not only watching this WS but is also really into it!  She admits that part of her sudden interest is the historical perspective of the match up plus she was born in northeastern Ohio and her favorite aunt was a huge Indians fan.  It's been fun having her ask me basic questions (example, can a baserunner only steal if the pitch is a strike?) and after just two games hear her casually mention the players by last name as if she's followed them her entire life. 

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