[robjna]

sorry about spelling error in the end , it posted before i could edit, it should be angels , not angle. apologies.

[billbears]

No one probably ever heard of one angel before the play-offs and that is what makes it so sweet.

You've got that right. I hadn't heard of half of their players, yet I've heard about the entire Giants lineup all season. Sorry to see Dusty didn't win one, but last night was for the Angels

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

To a great degree, sports has become a soap opera rather than what it should be. You can argue that the media dumbs down the public or that it's the other way around. I guess those debates will go on till the end of time. Still, sports have undoubtedly been Oprahized, that's for sure.

[Wolfie]

Tip to the Giants: Don't turn your dugout into a day-care center, and you might be able to better concentrate on the task at hand.

[vollmond]

Steve Spurrier. A jerk of coach with a jerk of an attitude.

I used to think that Steve Spurrier was a whiny little baby. But it's like when Jagr came to the Caps. He's still a whiny little baby, but now he's our whiny little baby. Go Caps and go Redskins!

And it looks like the beatification of Barry Bonds will have to be put on hold for another year. Whatever he's taking, the rest of MLB needs to get on, because he's leaving them in his dust.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Don't worry, the media in Southern California is NOT disappointed! Barry who?

[Illbay]

Yet another example of the senseless Vanities that continue to proliferate. I notice you moved the "Vanity" I had posted decrying the Vanities, to "General." Yet these continue on.

What gives? What are the rules? Is there some threshhold of contribution to FR that allows us to post whatever we want, wherever we want?

If so, what is the threshhold that allows us to move all Vanities to "General" whenever we want? Let me know the amount; I'll try to work it into my budget.

[TopQuark]

And the relevance of these thoughts to the conservative forum is... what exactly?

[staytrue]

I hate to bring race into it, but the giants are a much "darker" team than the "angels". The giants have bonds, dusty baker, dunston, sanders, as blacks, santiago and aurielia as hispanics. The angels only had a very "white' acting garrett anderson and the molina brothers. On the pitching staff, the angels only had the rookie rodriguez while the giants had hernandez and rodriguez. Plus the term "angels" implies religion. I don't know if dusty baker would have been the first black manager to win a world series, but that would have been a plus. The kids in the giant dugout also feminized the giants a little as the dads were sharing in the kids upbringing.

[seams2me]

Local Fort Worth Star Telegram headline reads: "Angels in Seventh Heaven". Thought that was a great headline.

[dead]

If you whine this much when your team wins, I wouldn't want to be around you when they lose.

[martin_fierro]

[NYCVirago]

Bonds is not just a good player; he's the best in baseball right now, and one of the best of all time. And this was his first World Series -- the rap on Bonds has been that he flopped in the postseason, but this year he finally did well in October. Of course it's newsworthy to see Bonds' reaction when the Giants lost the World Series. I was watching the game, and Fox only spent a few seconds camera time on Bonds as opposed to the Angels.

[xzins]

I'm glad the Giants lost even though I'm a National League fan (Cincy Reds). I think Bonds is a constant abuser of steroids, I think his records mean nothing because of that, and more importantly, I think his abuse of those substances will take his life at an early age.

I don't want to support the ruination of legitimate records and the ruination of lives that are valuable in God's sight.

[Graewoulf]

"The Media" is capable of only following one idea at a time. Thus in a dynamic situation, such as sports, "The Media" is poorly suited to follow the action of the unfolding play.

For example, near the end (9 th inning) of the last game (7 th), the question posed by the announcer was: If the Angels win, should Barry Bonds be named the MVP?

What a joke! Barry fumbled THREE balls hit to him in left field in game seven! His aim was off in game seven and he drove in NO runs. True, he did hit 4 home runs in the Series. "The Media" could see only that.

"The Media" did the same with Mia Hamm when the USA beat China. Mia had a so-so game, but many others played a lot better. Now what does "The Media" remember of that game? Right, the gal who took off her soccer jersey.