Posted on 10/28/2011 2:06:30 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
With FOX broadcaster Joe Buck echoing his father's well-known call by saying, "We will see you tomorrow night," after the Cardinals' epic 10-9 win over the Rangers in Game 6 of the World Series on Thursday, it conjured memories of the Twins' win in similar fashion over the Braves in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series.
It was legendary broadcaster Jack Buck who famously said, "And we'll see you tomorrow night," after Twins center fielder Kirby Puckett launched a solo homer to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning at the Metrodome to send the Series to a seventh game.
Exactly 20 years and one day later, it was the younger Buck paying tribute to his father's call when Cardinals third baseman David Freese connected with a solo homer to open the bottom of the 11th inning at Busch Stadium to push the World Series to a decisive Game 7 on Friday night.
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I thought it was an amazing game and i’m a Rangers fan. Of course i wish that game had gone the other way but it was still the most amazing game i’ve ever seen.
As a Yankees fan, I have been thru both baseball agony and ecstasy. I’m an old hand at it.
Based on my experience, I predict that you will at least keep track of the game and possibly tune in if things are looking good. I only say that because I have pledged many a time NOT to watch the game for fear that it might kill me, but found that I couldn’t stay away. Of all the sports, baseball loses really hurt because they slowly string you along at a heightened level of stress. I have no idea how the managers endure 162 + games and not keel over.
I really do hope the Rangers win.
Throughout the post-season, the Rangers have crushed everyone in sight, so it was all the more incredible to see the scrappy Cardinals coming back with 2-out, 2-strike breakthroughs, hanging on and hanging in there.
I guess we’ll see tonight if the Rangers still have any of that same power and momentum or was it stunned out of them??
Being a Dodgers fan, I’m a bit removed, but as a baseball fan I am thrilled. I would be happy for President Bush and Nolan Ryan should the Rangers take it, but being a NL girl, I favor the Red Birds underdog style.
Nah. This is baseball. Football, basketball, soccer ... those are athletic contests where you are battling head to head against the opponent, exhausted players have to gut it out, and morale is important. In baseball, an overweight guy stands at the plate and swings a stick at a ball, and nobody has to run very far or very often. It's a great pastime for lazy summer days on which nobody wants to run very much, but I can't think of any sport in which team psyche is less of a factor.
Rob Dibble is really good. We had him calling nats games a year or two ago until the wimps gave him the boot for being opinionated. I saw one game where he made fun of these two women yaking behing homeplate to eachother in the TV shot. They talked non-stop through the whole game, never even looked at the field. Pretty funny stuff. Still, he got in trouble for it.
Freegards
Where’s this great series?
Each team is making 5 -6 Bad News Bears type errors a game, the starting pitchers can’t make it past the 3rd inning, the bullpen is pitching batting practice and only if they can find the strike zone at all, base running blunders abound, the managerial decisions are bizarre to say the least, etc, etc
If two last place teams like Baltimore and the Florida Marlins were paying each other instead of these two champions you would probably see more fundamentally sound baseball
These are probably the two worst teams ever to play each other in the World Series
Oh and Puck the Fhillies
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