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Charaxes
10/20/2007, 03:51
ESPN Classic is showing Game Five of the 2001 World Series tonight. It is reminding me why I loved this World Series so much. In all seriousness, I believe that it is my favorite World Series of all time. The only one that comes close is 1993 where Joe Carter hit the walk-off homer in Game Six to clinch the World Series for Toronto. However, I think that entire series in 2001 was the best. As much as I'd like to claim that the 2006 World Series was my favorite (I've been a huge Cardinals fan for years), but we all know that it was a terribly played series of games. St. Louis just played less badly than the Tigers, and they kind of lucked into it. So, I must conclude that the Yankees vs D-backs is my favorite series.
So, I was wondering: What do you'll consider the best World Series that you have ever seen?
DOOMBOTSKI
10/20/2007, 11:12
I got to go with 1991, Twins vs. Braves.
I sat at the 'dome for game seven and watched Jack Morris and Kirby Puckett win the series for the home team.
Granite Moose
10/20/2007, 11:15
My knee-jerk reaction is to choose 2004 because the Red Sox finally won it. But honestly, it wasn't the most interesting series unless you were a Sox fan. St. Louis was pretty well outplayed all series.
I will certainly agree with your choices that the D-Backs/Yankees and the Phillies/Blue Jays series' were good ones. I'll have to review them to remind me of ones I had fun watching and get back to you. I do remember a great Orioles/Pirates series from the late-70's that was quite eventful at the time I watched it.
theanalogkid
10/20/2007, 12:58
As a Tiger fan, it is the 1984 series between the Tigers and the Padres.
RCricket55
10/22/2007, 22:39
I have to go with the Reds/A's 1990. I remember everyone thinking the Reds would get killed and A's shirts were printed early. Reds swept, which is baseballs version of "any given sunday".
That and any world series not won by the Yanks:)
malakim2099
10/23/2007, 00:45
I got to go with 1991, Twins vs. Braves.
I sat at the 'dome for game seven and watched Jack Morris and Kirby Puckett win the series for the home team.
Yeah, that's my favorite. I was the only Twins fan in a dorm full of bandwagoning Braves fans.
Man, that was SWEET REVENGE! Stupid bandwagoners. :cool:
Let's see, living a couple of hours out of Montreal, I have to say the 1994 World Series with the Expos and Yankees, and their two best records in baseball... Oh, wait, I forgot. There was no World Series, and the Expos fans never forgave MLB.
Now, as a Mets fan, I'll go with the 1986 World Series. The Red Sox fans at school were giving me a hard time after game 5, saying that they had the Series sewn up. :)
That Series was a lot of fun for a 16 year old kid.
Granite Moose
10/23/2007, 14:33
That Series was a lot of fun for a 16 year old kid.
Being a Red Sox fan, it wasn't so much fun for a 25-year old. :ermm:
Charaxes
10/23/2007, 14:40
I swear that every time I see the clip of Buckner bungle, I pray that for some reason he catches the ball that time just this once. That has yet to happen.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no BoSox fan, but man, that is just painfull to watch...
Granite Moose
10/23/2007, 21:29
I swear that every time I see the clip of Buckner bungle, I pray that for some reason he catches the ball that time just this once. That has yet to happen.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no BoSox fan, but man, that is just painfull to watch...
The really sad part is that for so many fans, that is all Buckner is known for. The man had a wonderful career, and quite frankly the Sox probably wouldn't have been in the series without him that year. Unfortunately, because of poor managing by McNamara to leave him in instead of putting in Stapleton as the defensive replacement as he had the rest of the playoffs, he is viewed as the goat. Not to mention the fact that Wilson had a very good chance of beating Buckner to the bag even if he did field it cleanly. Also not to mention the many other gaffes by the Sox to let NY stay in the game. And also not to mention NY taking advantage of the many opportunities to take the game.
But I digress and need to meditate on 2004 to relieve my stressed out mind.
Has anyone here seen the Michael Keaton movie "Game 6"?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425055/
I really enjoyed it, and it really seemed to go into what it was like to be a Red Sox fan before 2004.
Granite Moose
10/24/2007, 11:39
Has anyone here seen the Michael Keaton movie "Game 6"?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425055/
I really enjoyed it, and it really seemed to go into what it was like to be a Red Sox fan before 2004.
I haven't seen it, but then I'd be naturally hesitant to see Hollywood's take on what it's like. I mean you can't really portray that punch to the gut feeling that game 6 gave in a movie. You've got to have the history and personal investment to feel that one.
However, that being said, I might track that down to see how it's done.
Charaxes
10/25/2007, 05:02
The really sad part is that for so many fans, that is all Buckner is known for. The man had a wonderful career, and quite frankly the Sox probably wouldn't have been in the series without him that year. Unfortunately, because of poor managing by McNamara to leave him in instead of putting in Stapleton as the defensive replacement as he had the rest of the playoffs, he is viewed as the goat. Not to mention the fact that Wilson had a very good chance of beating Buckner to the bag even if he did field it cleanly. Also not to mention the many other gaffes by the Sox to let NY stay in the game. And also not to mention NY taking advantage of the many opportunities to take the game.
But I digress and need to meditate on 2004 to relieve my stressed out mind.
I really don't know much of Buckner; hell, I was only six years old when he retired. I still think that he it's #### that he gets blamed for the Sox losing the '86 World Series. They had many chances to get out of the tenth inning to force an eleventh. Also, they also had another chance (Game Seven) to win the whole thing. It wasn't entirely his fault for keeping the Sox from winning the hardware that year. Just like the whole Bartman debacle from 2003. That one play didn't keep the Cubs from going to the 2003 World Series. They were up three in the eighth inning. That one play didn't allow eight runs to score.
Granite Moose
10/25/2007, 07:53
I really don't know much of Buckner; hell, I was only six years old when he retired. I still think that he it's #### that he gets blamed for the Sox losing the '86 World Series. They had many chances to get out of the tenth inning to force an eleventh. Also, they also had another chance (Game Seven) to win the whole thing. It wasn't entirely his fault for keeping the Sox from winning the hardware that year. Just like the whole Bartman debacle from 2003. That one play didn't keep the Cubs from going to the 2003 World Series. They were up three in the eighth inning. That one play didn't allow eight runs to score.
Yeah, I'm totally with you there. However, some fans need a scapegoat and the media loves to be able to point to one play that makes the difference while ignoring the whole entwined web that is a ball game.
I haven't seen it, but then I'd be naturally hesitant to see Hollywood's take on what it's like. I mean you can't really portray that punch to the gut feeling that game 6 gave in a movie. You've got to have the history and personal investment to feel that one.
However, that being said, I might track that down to see how it's done.
The game itself is pretty much a sideline to the story of the movie, but it really gets into how the fan feels knowing that the curse could be broken, and whether the playwright should attend game 6, where the Sox could win their series, or the opening night of his new play, and dealing with the aftermath of both.
I had never heard of the movie until I received it as a small Christmas gift last year. It is funny because it combined theatre and baseball, more specifically my Mets, but that isn't why I got it. My mom got it because it was cheap, and had Michael Keaton on the cover, and since he is a good actor, and I like movies, she bought it for me. Commentaries and features on the dvd were great to listen to, and read.
Frontman
11/25/2007, 22:22
Char,
Like you'd have to ask me what my favorite one was.
For pure drama, I have to say the 2005 White Sox win was the greatest for me. From the come from behind win in game 2; to the longest game in World Series history in Game 3; to the greatest final 3 outs of a World Series (Podsednik diving and just burying his knee in the soggy turf at Minute Maid, to Uribe diving 3 rows in to get the 2nd out, and then Uribe playing a very hard to field grounder over to Konerko for the final out.)
A close second for me would be the 2001 WS. After 9-11, that was just a very emotional time for the US as a whole, and to see the Yankees battling, then the President throw out the first pitch (which was funny, when Fox did this year's series and looking back, they had a firefighter say the same thing I said when Bush went to the mound. "Come on Mr. President, make us all look good.") it was just awesome to watch America's Pastime and think about what it meant that the games continued.
Charaxes
11/26/2007, 16:59
For pure drama, I have to say the 2005 White Sox win was the greatest for me.
Did anyone not see this coming?
Seriously though, it was a pretty good series. I've always been a pretty big White Sox, and I loved to see the Astros lose. My favorite moment was when Ozzie came out to call Jenks into game, and just gestured for the tall, big guy. That was great...
NeoShazam
11/29/2007, 17:17
I'm an A's fan and I enjoyed the Athletics/Dodgers World Series where Kirk Gibson hit that Pinch hit Homerun. I video taped game 4 or 5 where it was Orel Hershisher versus Storm Davis.
Frontman
11/29/2007, 19:21
Did anyone not see this coming?
Seriously though, it was a pretty good series. I've always been a pretty big White Sox, and I loved to see the Astros lose. My favorite moment was when Ozzie came out to call Jenks into game, and just gestured for the tall, big guy. That was great...
That's part of it. It had humor, it had drama, it had a feeling for a bit that it could go either way (until game 3.) It had Sox fans screaming
"WHO THE BLANKETLY BLANK IS GEOFF BLUM?!?!?!?!?"
;)
Charaxes
11/30/2007, 21:36
That's part of it. It had humor, it had drama, it had a feeling for a bit that it could go either way (until game 3.) It had Sox fans screaming
"WHO THE BLANKETLY BLANK IS GEOFF BLUM?!?!?!?!?"
;)
I have heard of the name before but I could remember exactly who he was...
Interestingly enough, he now plays for the 'Stros.
Frontman
11/30/2007, 23:21
I have heard of the name before but I could remember exactly who he was...
Interestingly enough, he now plays for the 'Stros.
His second stint with the Astros. He was with them in 2004 if I'm not mistaken.
Boosnickerty
12/01/2007, 01:28
I think the Marlins Vs. Indians of '97 was awesome. 7 games of great baseball. It helps that the Marlins won, one of my favorite teams.
KitsuShel
12/01/2007, 03:08
1980
I was only two, but I remember it so well. :cheeky:
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