World Series 2004

Soron

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Tonight at 7:30 ET the Fall Classic starts in Boston's Fenway Park.

The NFL long ago passed baseball as America's favorite sport. But, it's still my favorite game, try as they might to screw it up, what with the DH and not playing many day games anymore. To me it's just a more personable game than football, and I LOVE my football.

This year we have two of the oldest teams going up against each other. But, with football season in full bloom now, does anybody out there really care?
 
It's sing-along time! ;)

http://www.geocities.com/pfw8015/rags/takemeouttotheballgame.mid

Take me out to the ball game
Take me out with the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack
I don't care if I ever get back
Let me root, root, root for the home team
If they don't win it's a shame
For it's one, two, three strikes you're out
At the old ball game


I love baseball, especially seeing games in person. I'm not ready to bet on who's going to win the series yet, though. :D
 
Arden said:
It's sing-along time! ;)

http://www.geocities.com/pfw8015/rags/takemeouttotheballgame.mid

Take me out to the ball game
Take me out with the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack
I don't care if I ever get back
Let me root, root, root for the home team
If they don't win it's a shame
For it's one, two, three strikes you're out
At the old ball game


I love baseball, especially seeing games in person. I'm not ready to bet on who's going to win the series yet, though. :D
I know you wish your Cubbies were in there, beautiful. :rose:
 
Here is Friendly Fenway pre Green Monster seats......

I would love it to have been the Cubbies Arden, that would be the ultimate!! I love going to the games too, far nicer then TV. My cousin use to pitch for the Tigers when I was a kid, and when he came to Boston for a series, he'd stay with us. He was always a really late sleeper so I'd go into his room early and whisper to him, 'sign this' and I'd have him signing over and over, then I sold them to the neighborhood kids for a quarter. Later in the day he found out what I had done and made me give the money back! I was so ahead of my time, it was years before selling an autograph became a money maker!

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Soron said:
I know you wish your Cubbies were in there, beautiful. :rose:
Maybe in another decade or two, lol...

Gosh, what's more exciting than the World Series? I'd go see it no matter who was playing if I could. We have no baseball team in this half of the state. :(
 
cpk50 said:
Shades of 1967, I'll take THE CARDS!!
Not a chance!

With no Bob Gibson available to win three games for the Cards, I say it will be the Red Sox in 6 or 7. Both teams have plenty of fire power but the home field advantage should help my beloved BoSox. And then there is the factor of Curt Schilling, who is by the far the best big-game pitcher on either staff.

I remember the heartache of losing in 1967 as well as the great sixth game in 1975 against the Reds. And we won't even begin to talk about the horrible experience of the 1986 World Series.

So - count me in with Cate - a devoted Red Sox fan with a long memory and a strong desire to make up for some past heartache.

Go Boston!
 
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Sorry,boston fans
The winner of the series
is going to be St Louis
its in the
CARDS :D
 
top of the 9th sox leading - 1 out - tying run at the plate -
The Sox will rule!!!
S
:rose:
 
omahaman2 said:
Guess the cards will have to win it in 5!!

Oh no you DIDN'T!!! :eek:

Jenny, fellow Met fan of mine, hit him for that one, please!!!

BoSox in seven; Reverse the Curse!
 
And they'll win game 2 tomorrow cause Curt "The Natural" Schilling is going to whoop some ass.
 
The day after

Congrats to all the Sox fans. I wound up taking my daugter and two of her friends camping. The thing that pissed me off was, all I could find on the radio was college freakin' football. I know football is king in Florida but %$#*, this is the World Series for cryin' out loud. So, I hunted and hunted the dial and finally found the game on an ESPN station out of Jacksonville.

Anyway, if offense is what you wanted, you got it baby, 24 hits and 20 runs scored. Neither starting pitcher made it past the 4th inning, and Boston's defense looked horrible at times. But, that's the great thing about baseball. Boston had St. Louis down, but they kept scratching their way back in it and finally tied in the top of the 8th, only to see Boston come back and get two in the bottom of the inning. Overall though, it was an exciting game.

Tonight should be a little less offensive with Schilling pitching for the Red Sox and Morris going for the Cardinals. Nevertheless, it's great to see some passion for baseball. Good luck to both teams.
 
Did anyone else find it a little comforting to see Johnny Pesky on the field before last night's game? After all, for years he was considered the goat of game 7 of the 1946 series when the Cardinals beat the Ted Williams-led Red Sox.
 
It was great seeing Johnny Pesky, AND Yaz throwing out the first pitch.


"I'm the goat. I never expected he'd try to score. I couldn't hear anybody hollering at me above the crowd. I gave (Enos) Slaughter at least six strides with the delay. I know I could have nailed him if I had suspected he would try for the plate. I'm the goat - no doubt about it." - Johnny Pesky


Mel Allen broadcast the 1946 World Series and his play-by-play of the Mad Dash went as follows, "Enos Slaughter is on first base with two away. Harry Walker at bat. Bob Klinger on the mound. He takes the stretch. Here's the pitch. There goes Slaughter. The ball is swung on, there's a line drive going into left-center field. It's in there for a base hit. Culberson fumbles the ball momentarily and Slaughter charges around second, heads for third. Pesky goes into short left field to take the relay from Culberson. And HERE COMES ENOS SLAUGHTER ROUNDING THIRD. HE'S GOING TO TRY FOR HOME. HERE COMES THE THROW AND IT'S NOT IN TIME. Slaughter scores!"

Enos Slaughter once poetically described his "Mad Dash" with, "When the ball went into left-center, I hit second base and I said to myself, 'I can score.' I didn't know whether the ball had been cut off or not. I didn't know nothin'. It was a gutsy play. But, you know, two men out and the winning run, you can't let the grass grow under your feet."


And, Ted Williams hit ,200 for the Series, with no RBI.
 
And they say history doesnt repeat itself!!!
Like Ive said before,
the victory
it is in the cards!!
 
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