The World Series - St Louis & Boston

[OzzyKP]

Bingo... it's amazing to hear some of them say that it was just a blip and we'll be back and all that jazz and underneath it all you can hear that arrogance and as MTG said, a sense of entitlement. To say that this team won't be remembered as much as other teams is to be utterly ignorant of baseball.

Well actually, as to your first point, he is right. This is just a blip (it may last a decade or so as GePap suggested) but looking back over Yankee's history they will always come back. You cannot defeat the evil empire. They may go rebuild for a few years, but they will return and be as dominant and hated as before.

'dems tha breaks.

[Ming]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
'dems tha breaks.

Naaaaa... that's just money

[Bosh]

Hoooooome run! What a way to start a game.

Go Sox!

[Ming]

And Boston scores again in the first inning with a home run... St. Louis hasn't lead once... they look like death warmed over, waiting for it all to end... sigh.

I was hoping for a series that might match the two league championship series... sigh...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well actually, as to your first point, he is right.

I didn't say he wouldn't be. I said you can hear the utter arrogance and sense of entitlement when he says it.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hey Mingy, I noticed you closed an election thread because there are too many. Should I go ahead and create a 'US Election Thread' so the front page isn't overwhelmed in the next few days or so?

[Ming]

It might be necessary... it's not bad with a few, but this is getting out of hand... as expected

[Imran Siddiqui]

Wooo... Nixon swings on 3-0 to give the Sox a 3-0 lead . Almost a Grand Slam!

[Dis]

I missed the NLCS, how in the world did the Cardinals make it to the world series with such horrible pitching?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
That wasn't my point. My point was that Yankee fans seem to think there is no league beyond the Yankees. They know less about other teams and history of the league than other fans. They only focus on themselves.

HELLO! That is what being a sports fan of one team is ABOUT! You know, fan, from the word fanatic?

A BASEBALL fan might care about the histories of the game-but a fan of a team, be they Yankees, Red Sox, Braves, Mets, or whomever, will only care about their own teams history. To think that somehow all baseball fans save Yankee fans have a deep understanding of the game is sheer stupidity. There is a reason the WS does not get a third the ratings the superbowl gets- if your teams not in it, most people don't care. Thats true of all fans.

I doubt TEF care much about the deep Yankee history.

What is Bill Mazeroski known for? What is Bucky Dent known for? What are the '69 Mets remembered for?

For thewir amazing comeback against the Cubs to make it to the series? as the hapless expansion team that finally won? Of course, does anyone remember the 1997 Marlins?

Being remembered for winning a World Championship after the team hadn't won in 86 years is not something minor.

It is not minor, but neither is it being remembered for the timeless qualities of the team itself.

To compare it to something New York. The '94 Rangers will be remembered (well if hockey comes back) because they broke the 50+ year losing streak. They are remembered for being that team.

And yet does anyone put the 1994 Rangers as one of THE most remembered teams in hockey history? Do they?

My point is made.

Only a spoiled Yankee fan could say that if you don't win the WS you have nothing to cheer about .

The Red Sox have a long and storied history and the cheering did not end in 1918. It is idiotic to say differently.

A long and storied history do0es not equal something to cheer about- Lets take Braves fans from the mid 90's- they sure had a great run- but what is most obvious about them? That in that whole great run, they had one WS, and that they got to only 3. But I assume you think Braves fans were xtatic about having made so much history, and their inability to win it all was just a minor setback...

[Dis]

baseball is so gay. why is the pitcher wearing a necklace?

[Bosh]

Originally posted by Dissident
baseball is so gay. why is the pitcher wearing a necklace?

So he can hang himself after being beat like a red-headed step child by the Sox?

[GePap]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous


1.) Don't call it a meltdown - the Red Sox beat the Yankees, the Yankees didn't beat themselves. Mariano blew a save twice: it happens. Your top three hitters couldn't hit in the last four games: the Boston pitching was far better in the last four games than the first three. The only way I'd say the Yankees choked is if the first two games didn't go to extra innings, but they did: Boston beat the Yankees.

It was a meltdown- the Yankees outscored Bopston in the series- the batters were doing amazing, and then, NOTHING. That is called a meltdown.

2.) Boston isn't Florida or Seattle or Pittsburg. Boston fans don't give up on the team when they're not winning. The Sox were 10 freakin' games behind the Yankees, and in the summer gave no notion that they would even contend for the Playoffs. But Boston still sold out every game of the season. Boston fans care, not because our team always loses and we want to be "loveable", but because the town and the team exist as one. Boston is a sports town as much as (and perhaps moreso than) New York.

The town and team became one in your joint suffering- expect that to change.

3.) You know, you go on a lot about the Sox fans complaining and the Sox fans *****ing, but who's *****ing now? You're being a stuck up arrogant ***** who, it seems like, has really fallen hard since the Yankees lost. Calling me "silly little one", saying how NY is eternally Teh Champs although they had one bad series, its just pointless and really shows your character in an unflattering light. Your Yankees are out, the Red Sox aren't. No matter how much you want to be in a pissing contest, the fact is that this year (the year it counts because its NOW) your team lost. Suck it up and deal, and wait for next year. We have for decades.

Somehow I survived last year, when we lost the WS, and 2002, when we didn;t even make it out of the division series, or in 2001, when we camee so close, and lost. And I do find this funny- funny in the sad, don;t you realize its a game, and YOU are not playing it, but only watching, sort of way. Maybe I am not enough of the "fanatic" part of fan. I like it when the Yankees win, and don;pt when they lose, but at least it does not consume one. Fanatic red soxs fans like youself are akin to the bleacher bums in Yankee stadium- both need to have a reality check

[Theben]

Hey, the Cards got a hit- double.

Although as a Cubs fan I can appreciate the Cardinals losing.

EDIT: Wild throw. wtf?

[JohnT]

... Bill Buckner relaxes in his recliner.