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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Oct 24, 2017 11:05:55 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to this series more than any since probably 2004.
Far superior bullpen + hot bats gives the nod to L.A. Dem Bums win in 5 games.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 24, 2017 11:13:34 GMT -5
Only the BROOKLYN Dodgers deserve that name
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Post by hchoops on Oct 24, 2017 12:42:52 GMT -5
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Post by clmetsfan on Oct 26, 2017 9:33:49 GMT -5
What a freaking game last night.
The action was made even better by the reactions. Baseball is so much better when players are fired up and showing spontaneous displays of emotion. Guys like Correa, Altuve, and Puig are an utter joy to watch.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 26, 2017 9:36:12 GMT -5
Looks like it is not only the Yankees who may regret facing Houston this year.
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Post by lou on Oct 26, 2017 9:51:06 GMT -5
Remember when the WS was played during the afternoon? What time did the game finish this morning?
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Post by clmetsfan on Oct 26, 2017 10:19:17 GMT -5
Remember when the WS was played during the afternoon? What time did the game finish this morning? Afternoon WS games were before my time, but even with extra innings in a game played on the West Coast, the game last night didn't that far past midnight (I don't think it was quite 12:30 when Devenski struck out Puig). Beats the hell out of it being over before anyone's even home from work.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 26, 2017 13:07:53 GMT -5
I have to believe that any baseball game going past midnight is a joke.
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Post by sader1970 on Oct 26, 2017 13:15:43 GMT -5
Believe it or not, in the good old days, people listened to the Series on radio or watched their black & white TVs. If you went to a Catholic school and had nuns from Brooklyn and the Dodgers were playing the Yankees (we didn't need no stinkin west coast or southern teams in those days in a World Series), the right nun would have the game on the radio and you listened to some of it on a portable radio on the school bus home, jumped off the bus and turned the game on TV to watch the end. If the nun didn't allow the class to listen (a possible Giants fan), the principal would make periodic announcements over the PA system.
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 26, 2017 13:24:36 GMT -5
Thanks for reminding me of some good times, sader70.
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Post by CHC8485 on Oct 26, 2017 14:03:25 GMT -5
I was in the first grade and became a Mets fan the Fall of 1969 when Charlie the bus driver had the first League Chmpionship Series and then the World Series on the playing on his transistor radio propped in the corner of the dash board. I think the ride home lasted at most 10 minutes but I remember those rides vividly then bursting off the bus to get to the TV. Great memories.
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Post by clmetsfan on Oct 26, 2017 14:32:57 GMT -5
Believe it or not, in the good old days, people listened to the Series on radio or watched their black & white TVs. If you went to a Catholic school and had nuns from Brooklyn and the Dodgers were playing the Yankees (we didn't need no stinkin west coast or southern teams in those days in a World Series), the right nun would have the game on the radio and you listened to some of it on a portable radio on the school bus home, jumped off the bus and turned the game on TV to watch the end. If the nun didn't allow the class to listen (a possible Giants fan), the principal would make periodic announcements over the PA system. I'm all for nostalgia, but nothing you just described is more appealing than coming home from work and being able to watch a baseball game from start to finish.
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Post by sader1970 on Oct 26, 2017 14:34:37 GMT -5
Yeah but that presupposes one still enjoys watching MLB.π
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Post by clmetsfan on Oct 26, 2017 14:37:11 GMT -5
Yeah but that presupposes one still enjoys watching MLB.π Hey, your loss if you can't enjoy watching what happened last night (or the night before, for that matter, when two aces battled it out in less than 2.5 hours).
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 26, 2017 14:58:38 GMT -5
Yeah but that presupposes one still enjoys watching MLB.π Hey, your loss if you can't enjoy watching what happened last night (or the night before, for that matter, when two aces battled it out in less than 2.5 hours). I heard that was the fastest WS game in 25 years.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 26, 2017 15:19:47 GMT -5
Yeah but that presupposes one still enjoys watching MLB.π Hey, your loss if you can't enjoy watching what happened last night (or the night before, for that matter, when two aces battled it out in less than 2.5 hours). Maybe as you age, you will understand nostalgia
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Post by clmetsfan on Oct 26, 2017 15:38:39 GMT -5
Hey, your loss if you can't enjoy watching what happened last night (or the night before, for that matter, when two aces battled it out in less than 2.5 hours). Maybe as you age, you will understand nostalgia Not sure what you mean. As I said, I'm all for nostalgia. But you're also gonna have a hard time convincing me that the "good old days" were better when they meant that much fewer people were actually able to enjoy the sport. Being nostalgic and recognizing that something has improved are not mutually exclusive. I have this conversation with my peers all the time about the crappy television shows that we used to watch as kids. Just because we thought back then that Full House was good doesn't mean that it really was. Similarly, when I see old grainy TV feeds that we used to watch, it reminds me of the simpler days of childhood too. But there's not a chance in hell that I'd go back to it when we now have high-def footage, and slow-motion replay, and score bugs that mean we don't have to wait for the announcer to tell us what inning it is or how many outs there are.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 26, 2017 15:51:52 GMT -5
I love and have always loved baseball. I enjoy being able to watch every game, listen or mute the announcers and attend when I can. But there was something special seeing TV games when there were fewer. You appreciate it more. Even listening to Red Barber, Vin Scully and Connie Desmond on the radio excitingly describe events like Jackie Robinson steal of home are truly memories dear to my heart. That is what I mean by nostalgia. And do not forget the ridiculous prices of attending regular season and playoff games that preclude the middle class family from attending. The present does not win that argument.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 26, 2017 19:07:47 GMT -5
Overrmanaging by Roberts ? Used 9 pitchers in 11 innings, pulled starter Hill after 4 having given up 1 earned run, one game after pulling Kershaw, also arguably early. losing pitcher, McCarthy had not pitched in 24 Days
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 29, 2017 22:42:41 GMT -5
Turner leads off 7th inning with a double and Dodgers try a moronic sacrifice bunt--you know, to set up a sacrifice fly to go ahead 8-7-- and Turner is thrown out at third. Next batter hits a triple....,
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Post by hchoops on Oct 30, 2017 5:02:31 GMT -5
Turner leads off 7th inning with a double and Dodgers try a moronic sacrifice bunt With the cleanup hitter
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Post by Xmassader on Oct 30, 2017 7:50:13 GMT -5
Watched till the end....5 hours and 17 minutes....12-11 Astros in 10 innings. One of the most entertaining WS games Iβve seen in 60 yrs. of watching. Will JV close it out with first WS win of his career or will Dodgers extend it to 7 games?
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Post by WorcesterGray on Oct 30, 2017 8:03:05 GMT -5
The record number of home runs hit in this Series (22 and counting) is a little distressing for us purists, but probably thrilling for many fans who want more juice in their viewing experience. Maybe the balls are livelier, or slicker - www.si.com/mlb/2017/10/29/world-series-baseballs-leather-justin-verlander-yu-darvish-ken-giles-kenley-jansen - but the trend in MLB increasingly favors the free-swinging, Three-True-Outcome hitter-types like Aaron Judge. HRs/G increased in 2017 for the fourth straight year to an all-time record high, while K/G increased for the twelfth consecutive season, also to an all-time high, and a number of parks are shortening their fences, to boot. I guess this is how TPTB want to compete for an audience, but last night's 5 1/2 hour marathon concluded while many of us old-timers were deep in dreamland.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 30, 2017 8:11:47 GMT -5
Some of us were put to bed when our power went in the middle innings
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 30, 2017 8:56:02 GMT -5
Hoops, I hope all is well now with your power back.
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