Time to head out to the Theater. I'll return either a fan of a World Series wonder, or of a World Series blunder. The entire 2011 season comes down to one game. What a season!!! Thank you Rangers for an amazing ride. No matter what happens, it's been better than last year.
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Sorry Mike. The Rangers were really a good team as well.
CONGRATS to all the CARDS fans ... they deserve it.
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<< <i>Rangers fans, this one is gonna hurt for a long time. >>
Very reminiscent of what 2002 was for us.
Is it too early to call the Rangers the Buffalo Bills of Major League Baseball?
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Giants pitching beat the Rangers last year. Rangers pitching beat the Rangers this year.
From an outsider's point of view I would think this year hurts a lot more.
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Just got the news at the theater. The title of my thread reflects how I feel right now. Rangers suck and are perennial losers but I love them anyway and always will. Go Rangers in 2012.
To my board friends that are Cardinals fans I say congratulations. Enjoy it. I wish I could feel your joy before I get old and die. Maybe one day. Maybe not. This will more than likely be my last post in this thread. Congrats Cards.
<< <i>Just got the news at the theater. The title of my thread reflects how I feel right now. Rangers suck and are perennial losers but I love them anyway and always will. Go Rangers in 2012.
To my board friends that are Cardinals fans I say congratulations. Enjoy it. I wish I could feel your joy before I get old and die. Maybe one day. Maybe not. This will more than likely be my last post in this thread. Congrats Cards. >>
Mike,
You're a classy guy. I sincerely hate it for you. However, it is a nice night to be a Cardinals fan!
Mike - as a long suffering Eagles fan, I think i know how you feel. It's depressing for awhile after decades of tough seasons and then ya suffer thru another one without a championship, especially when ya get so tantalizingly close like that...but then a new season begins and it's a fresh start.
After watching this series I'm all for the elimination of the DH in the American league. Much more strategy and looking ahead by the managers in St. Louis which I think overwhelmed Ron Washington at times. Great series though and the Rangers will be a good team as long as Nolan Ryan is in charge. Doug
<< <i>What bking & the previous poster said. Wash is great with the guys but one of the worst game managers I've ever seen. >>
You should spend 162 games watching Jim Leyland! Same exact thing, the players love him, and that's the only reason he's of value. I think getting players to play for you is 90% of the job in the American League (see the 2011 Boston Red Sox). Let's face it, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to manage American League baseball.
Congrats to the cards for a fantastic season, and a uber-fantastic playoff run.
Also, for letting me see two memorable things: that amazing game 6 comback, and the also the first time in 40+ years of watching baseball, I got to see a guy walk on strike three AFTER showing up the ump. .
But, that shouldn't detract from this as we just didn't play well enough
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<< <i>Congrats to the cards for a fantastic season, and a uber-fantastic playoff run.
Also, for letting me see two memorable things: that amazing game 6 comback, and the also the first time in 40+ years of watching baseball, I got to see a guy walk on strike three AFTER showing up the ump. .
But, that shouldn't detract from this as we just didn't play well enough >>
I agree with you. Molina should have struck out. That was strike three. However, I don't think it was "showing up" the umpire. It was just gamesmanship trying to "sway" the umpires decision.
Also, I would like to say this. Up through August, we Cardinals fans noticing the lack of "memorable games" and "memorable plays". About the only thing I can even remember positive about the first 5 months was Albert Pujols hitting 2 walk off HR in consecutive games against the Cubs (I think). Other than that, it was a terrible to mediocre season filled with blown saves and double plays. Then, from September 9th on (in a game which my son and I happened to attend), it was some kind of a ride. (September 9th is when the Cardinals came back and beat the Braves when Pujols tied it in the 9th on a bases loaded double and won it in the 10th).
You know things are messed up if a team that finished 6 games out of first (and barely squeaked out a wild card) gets home field in game 7
One of these days, a commissioner with half a brain is gonna come along and change that dumba*s rule, and finally recognize the All Star game for what it is - a fan exhibition and nothing more.
Cards fans had to endure going on the road to play the wild card Red Sox in 2004..... that is what the commish wants........
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Congrats to the Cardinals, but I feel the agony for the Rangers more than joy for the Cardinals.
Very reminiscent of the 1986 Red Sox, who also were one strike away from winning the World Series in game 6 against the Mets. Had to wait 18 more years to win it all - against the Cardinals oddly enough.
It is crazy that I feel as a fan that the Cardinals had superior teams in 1985, 1987, and also had some great teams in 2004 and 2005 yet the ones that won were the 2006 team and the 2011 teams, against all odds. Baseball is a funny game.
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I would like to see the teams like the Rangers who I was rooting hard for last year, even the Astros or the Indians to win world titles. I'd like the Cubs to be the only team to have not won a title in eternity and build to their legacy.
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Mike ... look at it this way ... next year the Rangers will have a chance to tie a record that has been accomplished only twice in World Series history ... losing three straight. If they do, it will be the first time it happened in 99 years! (Tigers 1907, 1908, 1909 AND NY Giants 1911, 1912, 1913.) HAHAHA Just joking .... would not wish that on a die hard fan like you!
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Mike, I promise you this - if the Cardinals do not make the postseason next year and the Ranger do, I will be rooting hard for the Rangers. They showed nothing but class in this postseason.
I thought the Cardinals deserved to win Game Seven, but it looked to me like the ghost of Eric Gregg was calling the balls and strikes for Carpenter, and then someone else was calling them for the Rangers. Josh Hamilton got a strike called on him that was at least 8-10 inches out of the strike zone. In the very next inning, Feldman got squeezed on that ball four. Carpenter got a LOT of calls that were questionable. Anything that was near the strike zone went his way. The Rangers did not get the same.
<< <i>Every day is a new day in baseball. Even after Yaz epic home run for the Red Sox in Game 6, the Big Red Machine came back to win Game 7, so you never know. >>
That was Carlton Fisk who hit that "waving it fair" tater.
<< <i>Very reminiscent of what 2002 was for us. >>
Worse. Texas was 1 strike away, TWICE, from winning it all. >>
I think my wife's BoSox in the 1986 World Series was one strike away at least 3-4 times (at least it seemed like it), plus they blew a 3-0 lead in Game 7.
<< <i>I think my wife's BoSox in the 1986 World Series was one strike away at least 3-4 times (at least it seemed like it)... >>
Close. With 2 outs in the bottom of the 10th, Knight drove in a run on a 0-2 count. Bob Stanley then threw a wild pitch on a 2-2 count to allow the tying run to score, then with the next pitch, got the grounder that turned into a walk-off error.
<< <i>I think my wife's BoSox in the 1986 World Series was one strike away at least 3-4 times (at least it seemed like it)... >>
Close. With 2 outs in the bottom of the 10th, Knight drove in a run on a 0-2 count. Bob Stanley then threw a wild pitch on a 2-2 count to allow the tying run to score, then with the next pitch, got the grounder that turned into a walk-off error. >>
wasn't Gary Carter down to two strikes, two outs nobody on or just two outs?
If you can't beat that team to win a world series, then you shouldn't complain about ball and strikes. Gawd awful world series, even game six was poorly played albeit exciting. Just a bad series with bad teams and bad baseball and one exciting game.
<< <i>If you can't beat that team to win a world series, then you shouldn't complain about ball and strikes. Gawd awful world series, even game six was poorly played albeit exciting. Just a bad series with bad teams and bad baseball and one exciting game. >>
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Let's get it on,
Mike
Honestly, I don't like the odds with Carpenter going on 3 days rest.
Shane
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CONGRATS to all the CARDS fans ... they deserve it.
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<< <i>Rangers fans, this one is gonna hurt for a long time. >>
Very reminiscent of what 2002 was for us.
Is it too early to call the Rangers the Buffalo Bills of Major League Baseball?
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From an outsider's point of view I would think this year hurts a lot more.
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To my board friends that are Cardinals fans I say congratulations. Enjoy it. I wish I could feel your joy before I get old and die. Maybe one day. Maybe not. This will more than likely be my last post in this thread. Congrats Cards.
<< <i>Very reminiscent of what 2002 was for us. >>
Worse. Texas was 1 strike away, TWICE, from winning it all.
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<< <i>Just got the news at the theater. The title of my thread reflects how I feel right now. Rangers suck and are perennial losers but I love them anyway and always will. Go Rangers in 2012.
To my board friends that are Cardinals fans I say congratulations. Enjoy it. I wish I could feel your joy before I get old and die. Maybe one day. Maybe not. This will more than likely be my last post in this thread. Congrats Cards. >>
Mike,
You're a classy guy. I sincerely hate it for you. However, it is a nice night to be a Cardinals fan!
Shane
There's always hope next season...I think?
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<< <i>What bking & the previous poster said. Wash is great with the guys but one of the worst game managers I've ever seen. >>
You should spend 162 games watching Jim Leyland! Same exact thing, the players love him, and that's the only reason he's of value. I think getting players to play for you is 90% of the job in the American League (see the 2011 Boston Red Sox). Let's face it, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to manage American League baseball.
Also, for letting me see two memorable things: that amazing game 6 comback, and the also the first time in 40+ years of watching baseball, I got to see a guy walk on strike three AFTER showing up the ump. .
But, that shouldn't detract from this as we just didn't play well enough
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<< <i>Congrats to the cards for a fantastic season, and a uber-fantastic playoff run.
Also, for letting me see two memorable things: that amazing game 6 comback, and the also the first time in 40+ years of watching baseball, I got to see a guy walk on strike three AFTER showing up the ump. .
But, that shouldn't detract from this as we just didn't play well enough >>
I agree with you. Molina should have struck out. That was strike three. However, I don't think it was "showing up" the umpire. It was just gamesmanship trying to "sway" the umpires decision.
Also, I would like to say this. Up through August, we Cardinals fans noticing the lack of "memorable games" and "memorable plays". About the only thing I can even remember positive about the first 5 months was Albert Pujols hitting 2 walk off HR in consecutive games against the Cubs (I think). Other than that, it was a terrible to mediocre season filled with blown saves and double plays. Then, from September 9th on (in a game which my son and I happened to attend), it was some kind of a ride. (September 9th is when the Cardinals came back and beat the Braves when Pujols tied it in the 9th on a bases loaded double and won it in the 10th).
Shane
One of these days, a commissioner with half a brain is gonna come along and change that dumba*s rule, and finally recognize the All Star game for what it is - a fan exhibition and nothing more.
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<< <i>Cards fans had to endure going on the road to play the wild card Red Sox in 2004..... that is what the commish wants........ >>
After winning 104 games.
Shane
Very reminiscent of the 1986 Red Sox, who also were one strike away from winning the World Series in game 6 against the Mets. Had to wait 18 more years to win it all - against the Cardinals oddly enough.
Baseball is a funny game.
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I would like to see the teams like the Rangers who I was rooting hard for last year, even the Astros or the Indians to win world titles. I'd like the Cubs to be the only team to have not won a title in eternity and build to their legacy.
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Doug
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Shane
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<< <i>Every day is a new day in baseball. Even after Yaz epic home run for the Red Sox in Game 6, the Big Red Machine came back to win Game 7, so you never know. >>
That was Carlton Fisk who hit that "waving it fair" tater.
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<< <i>Very reminiscent of what 2002 was for us. >>
Worse. Texas was 1 strike away, TWICE, from winning it all. >>
I think my wife's BoSox in the 1986 World Series was one strike away at least 3-4 times (at least it seemed like it), plus they blew a 3-0 lead in Game 7.
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<< <i>I think my wife's BoSox in the 1986 World Series was one strike away at least 3-4 times (at least it seemed like it)... >>
Close. With 2 outs in the bottom of the 10th, Knight drove in a run on a 0-2 count.
Bob Stanley then threw a wild pitch on a 2-2 count to allow the tying run to score, then with the next pitch, got the grounder that turned into a walk-off error.
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<< <i>I think my wife's BoSox in the 1986 World Series was one strike away at least 3-4 times (at least it seemed like it)... >>
Close. With 2 outs in the bottom of the 10th, Knight drove in a run on a 0-2 count.
Bob Stanley then threw a wild pitch on a 2-2 count to allow the tying run to score, then with the next pitch, got the grounder that turned into a walk-off error. >>
wasn't Gary Carter down to two strikes, two outs nobody on or just two outs?
<< <i> Just a bad series with bad teams and bad baseball and one exciting game. >>
If the Rangers and Cardinals were bad teams that play bad baseball, what does that say about the rest of the league? Everyone else must REALLY suck.
Mike
<< <i>If you can't beat that team to win a world series, then you shouldn't complain about ball and strikes. Gawd awful world series, even game six was poorly played albeit exciting. Just a bad series with bad teams and bad baseball and one exciting game.
....never mind what I was going to say.
Shane