Baseball is not for the faint of heart, my friends. As rally squirrel would say, that game was NUTS.
I was glad the TWinkies pulled off to WS trophies in ‘87 and ‘91 and the ‘65 series v. Dodgers almost as well.. it helps ease the pain of all the Vike losses at SBs.. (Bud Great deserved at least one, oh vell)
Kirby and Hrbek ,, Jack Morris and crew, they got it done and on the relative cheap compared to today..
It was a good one.
Not a good night for the Rangers to play like the Bad News Bears.
You've got that right. Not taking anything away from the steller, dramatic finish by the Cards, the monumental collapse of the Rangers will long be remembered, especially here in Texas. I think last night is a bridge too far and our hometown team is so dispirited that it can't be overcome. I see another game #3 on tap tonight with the Cardinals (a team of destiny this year) romping to a huge finish over the hapless Rangers.
As they say in Field of Dreams, "ease his pain." My pain (and those of my co-workers here at the shop) from last night's blown opportunities still stings. I'm sure the same could be said for Nolan Ryan and George W. Bush.
Listening to good baseball announcers call a great game has always been something special. It must be something unique to the subtle and incredibly tactical game of baseball. It’s not the same with any other sport. Last night was a great example, listening to a good baseball announcer makes you smarter.. I never felt that way with say John Madden or god help us all, Troy Aikman.
Can’t wait for the grand finale.
Buck is such a Cards homer. Can’t blame him, though. It must be very special for him to call Cards games as his legendary father did.
I was really hoping for the Rangers to win. It was an amazing game, but it was part of the reason why I hate baseball. So damn stressful! Every pitch is so dramatic.
There really is nothing like playoff baseball.
Angst? You think this was exciting, nail biting?
Talk to anyone in Red Sox Nation.
Tell me when you suffered through ‘67, ‘75, ‘78, and ‘86.
I was sending Bill Buckner “waves’ to the Rangers, just so they would have a small feeling of how we felt years ago.
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.
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