Posted on 12/20/2016 4:47:29 PM PST by WMarshal
In the 1960 World Series the losing team scored more than twice as many runs as the winning team, as the Yankees won three blowout games (16–3, 10–0, and 12–0), while the Pirates won four close games (6–4, 3–2, 5–2, and 10–9). Regardless of how many runs the Yankees had the Pirates won the series by winning the most games. How many Yankees fans have been mocked over the decades for claiming they really won the 1960 World Series because they had more runs? Even the brain dead liberal's at ESPN can understand the Yankees lost under the rules.
In the same fashion, under rules understood for 230 years before this election, Trump won the most games/states/electors in this election so that is the end of it. California, New York, Illinois, and every leftist crybaby can suck it.
Here is the detail from Wikipedia:
The 1960 World Series was played between the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League (NL) and the New York Yankees of the American League (AL) from October 5 to 13, 1960. It is most notable for the Game 7, ninth-inning home run hit by Bill Mazeroski, the only time a winner-take-all World Series game has ended with a walk-off home run.
Another unusual aspect of this World Series is that the losing team scored more than twice as many runs as the winning team, as the Yankees won three blowout games (16–3, 10–0, and 12–0), while the Pirates won four close games (6–4, 3–2, 5–2, and 10–9). The Series MVP was Bobby Richardson of the Yankees, the only time in history that that award has been given to a member of the losing team.
Lovely illustration - thanks!
I was a big Pirates fan, 13 years old. Those were the days when we took transistor radios to school to listen to the WS games.
Arg...(again)
the old names are rekindled in my memory; Law, Groat, Virdon, Hoak...as well as Mantle, Berra, Skowron, Howard...
baseball ruled in those days...
I see by your profile that you area teacher with 22 years under you belt, so I assume your sentence should have been structured as:
Actually a good number of my 8th grade, friends, as well as my family still claim the Yankees should be the winners.
Since I assume you don't really have friends that are in the 8th grade, and instead the 8th graders are your students. Is that a correct assumption?
305 to 233 EV. That’s a 72 point difference. That’s not even close.
It’s the equivalent of being ahead occasionally throughout the baseball game and ahead in the 8th inning, only to lose by 5 runs at the end of the game.
Then the losing team claims the umpire blew all the calls and they actually won. They want to replay the last inning. The losers claim the pitcher and the catcher cheated. All the sports announcers agree with the losers and they egg them on claiming the losing team is the really the winning team.
The losers tell everyone the baseballs themselves were not regulation size and that the bases were improperly set. And then they claim the scoreboard miscalculated the strikes and outs in the winner’s favor and that altered the game.
When the that fails to make them the winner, the loser claims the fans interfered with the game and request the referees demand an entirely new game because they should have won. And they tell the sports announcers to say that they actually won and the winning team lost.
This year’s World Series ended with the Indians and the Cubs each scoring 27 runs. Does that mean they’re co-champions? [/sarc]
RIP Roberto and Danny.
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Good analogy.
As in football. Award the win to the team with more rushing yards but lost to the team with the fewest rushing yards who won on points.
BFLR
After a short program, he stuck around to sign autographs and chat with anyone who wanted. Really nice man!
Wow. That’s outrageous. I’m calling for the World Series format to be changed..
4 Things. Don’t forget Bill Virdon!
No, in 1960 was in the 8th grade and I still count more than a few of those classmates as friends
That was the other option. I just didn’t state it. I was really hoping that you didn’t have 8th graders you considered as friends. 8>)
I remember them all & yes, baseball was king. I went on to become a Mets fan the following year. I was always a National League guy but jumped to the Yanks briefly after the Dodgers betrayed Brooklyn. Coached thru LL with my son but dropped it after the '86 world series (thank you Buckner). Not sure why, I quess life just got in the way.
A majority of 2016 voters voted for someone other than H->!.
The games often started later in the afternoon on school days. The gym teachers had a TV in a corner of the gym with the game on.
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