MLB 2007 - World Series

[MichaeltheGreat]

Most of the season, I was sooooooooooooooo hoping for baseball in October without the MFY.

In minor league notes, nice rally by the Padres last night to gain some ground on having a little October baseball locally.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Guynemer
MFY.

QFT

[Imran Siddiqui]

While wallowing in the sadness of the Mets' collapse, I found this article that made me smile:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/070926&sportCat=mlb

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

You're going to miss Barry Bonds

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Today marks Barry Bonds' last game as a Giant in San Francisco. You're gonna miss him.

True, Bonds says he won't retire after the season. He'll very possibly sign with another team, probably in the American League as a DH. And depending on the interleague schedule, Bonds could wind up playing a series in San Francisco next season, but all that is speculative. What we know is this is his last home game for the team with whom he will always be identified. And tonight will be even more meaningful if Barry actually plays (he's missed the past 10 games with a sore toe) because no active player means as much to a team as Bonds has to the Giants.

As difficult as it is to recall now, the Giants nearly moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., the summer before Barry arrived. They had reached the postseason three times in the previous 30 seasons. They had averaged fewer fans than the league average the previous 15 years, drawing under a million as recently as 1985. Then Barry arrived in 1993 and everything changed. The Giants drew 2.6 million his first season and won 103 games. They reached the postseason four times in one seven-year span, and came within two innings of winning the city's first World Series (why, oh why couldn't Spiezio have hit that ball three feet lower?). And they now play in one of the finest ballparks in the game, where they average two fans for every single fan who showed up pre-Barry.

San Francisco fans love Bonds, which is only natural, and yet fans elsewhere always look down on them as if they're the biggest group of delusional, blindly loyal losers this side of Clark and Addison. As if Giants fans need to apologize for rooting for the best player on their team over the past 15 years, as well as one of the very best players in the game's history.

That makes no sense. Somehow it's all right for fans in other cities to root for Gary Sheffield, Jason Giambi, Pudge Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens or any of the other players who have been linked to or suspected of steroids. But San Francisco fans rooting for Bonds? Oh, no. That's shameful.

Well, tough. San Francisco fans don't need to defend rooting for Bonds. And if you were too busy rooting for the steroid users on your own team to understand, that's just too damn bad.

Because you will miss Barry.

Sure, he may still play next season, but it won't be nearly the same. As soon as Barry takes off the Giants uniform, he loses stature and becomes a marginalized figure. He'll be Hank Aaron finishing out his career with the Milwaukee Brewers, Babe Ruth unhappily playing out the string with the Boston Braves, Crash Davis breaking the minor league home run record with the Asheville Tourists. No matter how legendary the player, once they become identified with one team, they always lose luster when they change uniforms at the end of their careers.

Barry simply won't be the national lightning rod for emotions and heated opinions while wearing a Rangers jersey. Columnists and late-night comics will have to come up with jokes that don't use the size of Barry's skull as a punch line. Hell, Dodgers fans may not even heckle him quite so mercilessly.

From here on out, Barry will just become an aging player trying to keep his career going. First you'll forget that he isn't on the Giants anymore. Then you'll forget he's on the roster when his new team comes to town. Then you'll forget that he's still playing at all.

So loudly cheer Bonds tonight as he finishes up his career in San Francisco or boo him just as soundly. Because next year, you won't care enough to do either. With his departure from San Francisco and McCovey Cove, Barry also abandons his exhausting role as baseball's unofficial villain.

Unless, of course, he signs with the Yankees.

[Stuie]

That last line is priceless!

[Arrian]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Most of the season, I was sooooooooooooooo hoping for baseball in October without the MFY.

In minor league notes, nice rally by the Padres last night to gain some ground on having a little October baseball locally.

Too bad, so sad. You will get the division title, for what that's worth.

You can still hope for a first-round exit, and given the state of Yankee pitching and the way the Indians are playing, that's a reasonable hope.

The Yankees have two reliable starters and two reliable relievers. Everyone else is like a number on the roulette wheel.

But **** that. They've come back from the dead to make the playoffs. Maybe they've got some more surprises up their sleeves.

-Arrian

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Stuie
That last line is priceless!

QFT

[MichaeltheGreat]

I always hope for a MFY first-round exit.

You know, the whole "my two favorite teams" drill.

[Guynemer]

Down to me the good Emperor Fabulous in the daily league, and I lead by a razor's edge with four days to go...

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Down to me the good Emperor Fabulous in the daily league, and I lead by a razor's edge with four days to go...

The weekly league final is a farce

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Down to me the good Emperor Fabulous in the daily league, and I lead by a razor's edge with four days to go...

You'd be beating me this week if my best two pitchers hadn't gotten themselves hurt

[Stuie]

HOLY ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[snoopy369]

Yes?

[Imran Siddiqui]

[snoopy369]

Go Braves?

[Stuie]

I love seeing the Mets included in the WILD CARD standings!