Worst World Series of All Time

[Johnny Cool]

Is there any good storyline? Any good history? Any player you're rooting for to finally get the ring?


It's a bland, personality lacking, history lacking team vs. a History less team of jackasses.

and it's not even especially good baseball.

This is just terrible. I watched a meaningless hockey game instead of a World Series game. Baseball needs to pull and NBA and get Yankees/Dodgers at all costs.

 

[HeavyStick]

Go play with your barbies.... Nancy Boy.

 

[teddybear4play]

Is there any good storyline? Any good history? Any player you're rooting for to finally get the ring?


It's a bland, personality lacking, history lacking team vs. a History less team of jackasses.

and it's not even especially good baseball.

This is just terrible. I watched a meaningless hockey game instead of a World Series game. Baseball needs to pull and NBA and get Yankees/Dodgers at all costs.

This is a direct result of allowing the "wild cards," teams that were not even good enough to win their own divisions, into the playoff structure.

Now we have two of them playing each other, and we are seeing the results. Hideous pitching feeds the hitters, and we have an endless carousel of run-scoring. None of the games are the tight, climactic games Series contests should be. Rather, they're bloated affairs that serve as a last top-off to three weeks of distended, boring playoffs.

Florida won as a wild card in '97. Until the seventh game, it was an absolutely dreadful Series. While the years since may not have been all that exciting, because the Yankees always seemed to be there, at least it had the sense that the great team was proving their validity. This year we're watching two teams that look more like they got lucky.

Neither one of them will make the playoffs next year.

TB4p

 

[Lasher]

Re: Re: Worst World Series of All Time

This is a direct result of allowing the "wild cards," teams that were not even good enough to win their own divisions, into the playoff structure.

We're watching 2 of the 3 teams that played the best baseball for the last 2 months of the season. Oakland should be there, but given a month to set up his pitching staff Art Howe still couldn't get it right.

None of the games are the tight, climactic games Series contests should be. TB4p

Jesus, you're right!! 3 of the 5 games have been horrendous one run blowouts!

Cry baby.

 

[WaxNWane]

Game 2 was a great, close game.

 

[flawed_ethics]

I dunno - seems like an okay series to me. I was personally hoping for STL vs MIN, but oh well. I don't much care for California (Let's have an earthquake and sink that god forsaken land into the ocean once and for all, I say), but Giants vs Angels beats Braves vs. Yankees anyday.

I'd just like to see this go seven games. Nothing beats a seventh game in any playoff structure. There's nothing to hold them back - you know they'll pull out all the shots. (Game 5 of MIN vs OAK? AWESOME!!! Tight and well played on both ends to the final out.)

 

[Cheyenne]

The worst would be 1982.

I was there.

It was!

 

[Siren]

 

[70/30]

I think the biggest difference is everyone has always said "pitching wins the world series". This is the 1st year that isn't so. Previously with the better pitching, the playoffs have seemed like national league ball. This being american league ball makes it kinda suck. For a cure they should let Pedro pitch against a rested Randy Johnson for game 7.

 

[Backyard sweaty]

It would not matter who was playing when the pitching is this bad the game is bad, wildcards or not. While I am very happy not watching the Yankee's I also do not like a series from the same State.

As for storylines if that is what makes you want to watch a game you've got Bonds post season performance, Kent/Bonds bonding, Lasorda underlings, Angels never having even been to the WS before........ya got story lines.

I personally would like to see some decent pitching from either team.......that would be a nice story line.

 

[Phoenyx]

According to Bob Costas the worst world series was anyone involving the Blue Jays..

 

[Marxist]

The worst would be 1982.

I was there.

It was!

Yeah, the mayor of St. Louis won his bet and had to drink Miller beer. Ugh.

 

[teddybear4play]

Re: Re: Re: Worst World Series of All Time

We're watching 2 of the 3 teams that played the best baseball for the last 2 months of the season. Oakland should be there, but given a month to set up his pitching staff Art Howe still couldn't get it right.

As true as that may be, 2 months does not the whole season make. If a team hasn't proven itself worthy of even winning their division over the course of a demanding 162-game season, why should they make the playoffs simply because they were better than the rest of the other losers?

If you ask me, two of the ten "greatest moments" in MLB history were Bobby Thomson's home run in '51 and Bucky Dent's homer in '78. If the wild card had existed then, neither would have happened. The Dodgers and Red Sox would have made it into the playoffs anyway.

Jesus, you're right!! 3 of the 5 games have been horrendous one run blowouts!

Cry baby.

Games 1 and 4 were decent. Game 2 was absolutely crazy and looked more like a Little League or Slow Pitch Softball game than a World Series. And Games 3 and 5 were absolutely horrendous.

Just look at the Nielsens for how well the people like the way the Series is going. Baseball would do much better scrapping the extraneous tier of playoffs, making them two weeks instead of a month. And removing a system which lets two more nonchampions into the postseason would make the playoffs less of a bloated, tepid affair.

TB4p

 

[teddybear4play]

According to Bob Costas the worst world series was anyone involving the Blue Jays..

Not so. Costas enjoyed the '93 Series where Toronto beat Philadelphia.

TB4p

 

[lavender]

 

[Siren]

 

[Lasz]

I am just glad it doesnt involve the braves or the Yankees for the 10th time in a row. This year we have two teams that havent been in it for a long time. Not to mention two cities that havent had a series in them for well... since never! This has probably been one of the most pleasent series in a while.

Of course the best world series ever would be a battle of the Red line. White Sox vs. Cubs. Imagine that in the history books. Two cursed teams vie for an eternities bragging rights. A man can dream can't he?

Laz

 

[Siren]

 

[lavender]

 

[Lasz]

a man can dream Laz

a wished for world series
a keg of beer
and a bj while watching

isnt that nirvana?

Ok that is one of my ultimate dreams right there. I think you just created a fantasy for me.

I am so easy to please

 

[Siren]

 

[Lasz]

you are a guy


how hard could this be?

Well hey I like to think I am more complicated then that

Oh hell who am I kidding

 

[teddybear4play]

It is quite simple........

It is California envy.


They all want 'something' to boast about, and California took that away.

Bonds is phenom to what
a true athlete'

They just dont like this series cuz it is all contained in one state........the state most other states resent. Afterall, to most of the world.......there are only two states that are truly recognized and commented on....

California, and New York.... must suck to be the forgotten 48

I enjoyed the '88 L.A./Oakland series. The '89 S.F./Oakland series was good, except for the earthquake.

I'd enjoy this series if it weren't a bunch of nondescript nobodies and Barry Bonds.

And what the fuck is a "Rally Monkey"? Jesus Tap-Dancin' Christ.

TB4p

 

[Morwen]

Is there any good storyline? Any good history? Any player you're rooting for to finally get the ring?

It's a bland, personality lacking, history lacking team vs. a History less team of jackasses.

and it's not even especially good baseball.

This is just terrible. I watched a meaningless hockey game instead of a World Series game. Baseball needs to pull and NBA and get Yankees/Dodgers at all costs.

Fuck you.

Ignorant fans like you are the reason why baseball is struggling. You're so bored, so jaded, so used to seeing George Steinbrenner buy championship after championship that when the Yankee$ don't buy another ring, you get confused and start to drool.

Well guess what. Steinbrenner can spend four times what the bottom teams are paying out (Yankees payroll: $130 million, the Yankees' farm team the Devil Rays pay $30 million), but with the new playoff format, you just don't get to automatically win anymore.

Yeah, now you actually have to play baseball. And that's kind of hard for fans of big market teams to understand. Because you don't really follow the game. You're all a bunch of Dodger fans. You show up in the third inning, leave in the sixth. You watch the home run derby in the all-star game. About the only thing you can understand.

Barry Bonds is one of the greatest players of all time, but jackass New York sportswriters always took him down by saying he never did anything in the post-season. Now he is. More than anyone ever has. And he'd do twice as much if he wasn't walked every time. You east coast babies can't stand it.

So fuck you twice. You don't know anything about what it means to be a Giants fan. We live and die with this team and have had our hearts broken again and again and again. Red Sox fans suffer, Cubs fans suffer, but the Giants fans suffer too. Always a bridesmaid, never the bride.

Well not this year. This year its ours. Our time to shine baby. And no New York blinders, no DH-loving, no metal-bat swinging, Bud Selig crony piece of shit like you is going to ruin it.

So how about those Jets? Yeah, New York is real good on a level playing field, aren't they?

Your teams suck, your baseball knowledge is a joke, and your crappy post just got shown up by a girl. How's it feel?

Asshole.

 

[70/30]

Just wait until 03 they'll be entertained, Astros are going all da way. Miller, Oswalt, Reynolds, Wagner, Dotel. They'll see some pitching badasses. Bagwell will be healthy, Hidalgo and Ward will get their head outta their anuses. The Home Run Express can't be stopped.
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