In the interest of full disclosure, I live on the San Francisco Peninsula,
25 miles from At&t park in S. F.
I have watched the vast majority of Giants games over the season
and the thing about them is heart, the Giants more then anything else,
talent or skill or anything is they have heart. No matter what the score is,
they keep fighting on. Earlier this year, in one game they were getting
crushed 8 to 0 and Pagan hit the ball toward short and the short stop
threw the ball to first and Pagan ran like it was game 7 of the world series
and beat it out. It lead to a comeback where they almost tied the game in the 9th.
Mid season, way out of it and yet they still fought hard to win that game.
This team never gives up, never takes an at bat off or pitching match up lightly.
It is not talent or skill that makes up a champion, but heart and desire.
At this level, no one stands out talent wise because to get to the big leagues
you have talent. You are very good at what you do to get there.
it is rare a skill will win a battle, but it is impossible to win without heart
and S.F. has heart and desire and that is why they will win in 7.
It’s possible to win without heart. About half of the world series championships in the last 15 years have been won either by the Yankees or the Red Sox. (I am a Blue Jays fan, how do you think I feel?). I watch those teams on a regular basis… they’re in my division. Neither team has a soul. I make exception for a player or two, but as you know, a player or two does not win you games, let alone 4, let alone what it takes to even get to the final series.
Detroit will crush your team. That’s a guarantee. And as you’re watching, you’ll see a team win with no heart----because believe me, they have none.
I predict that more people will attend the Alabama game this weekend than the any given world series game. I could be wrong, it might be close. Are we counting people who are just flooding the streets?
Sorry, I have to say, but, who gives a shit? It’s just a game and it’s not even a game you are playing or have vested interest in. Watching other people play a game, Zzzz…
Why not resurrect that soccer-game predicting octopus and have him figure out the ‘World Series’ and the presidential election as well? I don’t want to waste my vote or listen to stats and names of athletes I’ve never heard of in order to intelligently gamble for these things.
Let alone a game arrogantly named the ‘World Series’ when only one country gives a fuck about the sport.
Let alone a game that’s so utterly dull and latently homosexual.
Paul the Octopus was replaced at the Euros by several psychic animals, my favourite of which was Funtik the pig. Not that his predictions were particularly accurate, I just like pigs. If there was a world series in hog racing then I’d totally be there.
Let’s imagine for a moment that that is true (it isn’t) - that baseball was popular all over the American continent. How on earth does that make up ‘one half of the world, at least’?
I stand by my position that arrogance is being expressed, not just in the name ‘world series’ but also in the argument presented here in defence of that name.
‘Quack’ is ad hom, which in this forum is supposedly not tolerated. Football is heterosexual - the aim is for all the little swimmers (players) to get the key thing (the ball) to impregnate the target (the goal). Baseball is about a bunch of guys in VERY tight trousers handling their bats and balls. Perhaps not strictly homosexual, but certainly has obvious parallels to a circlejerk. They do stand in something approximating a circle. It’s right there in front of you, but your cultural programming prevents you from seeing it clearly.
‘Irregardless’, baseball is pretty dull. As dull as cricket, which is much more popular. American Football is equally misnamed, but is not a bad sport, though unlike proper football it cannot be learnt by a kid playing on their own. The best footballers are always the ones who as kids were happy just dribbling and kicking a ball around, whether or not there were other people in the game. There’s a simple beauty about football, epitomised by players like Zidane and Seedorf that I’ve never seen in any other sport. Then again, I’m into F1 which is just watching a bunch of very expensive cars drive round in a circle, and which I totally understand most people find very boring. For me that’s more about the sheer cinematic quality of the sport, and trying to understand the engineering aspects as a means to predicting what will happen, which I invariably get wrong.
The city where the stadium is, is about 30 miles from me. It has a population of about 70k. The stadium holds 101k people. The streets are completely corded off for about 10 blocks surrounding it, and there are at least another 100k people in the streets for every game. They’ve all been sold out since the 80s or something. Face value for my tickets to tomorrow’s game is $65, I had to pay $250. I’ve got tickets to the Iron Bowl that I’m gonna sell and use the money to take a trip to Europe in the spring.
LOOK!! It’s the 8th largest stadium by seating capacity in the world. Crazy shit.
I go to a lot of Braves games. It’s never crowded. Where do they get the money to pay these guys? I remember when Michael Jordan was playing for the White Sox and got transferred to a minor league team in Birmingham. The place was sold out every week, then he struck out once and threw the bat and hit a kid with it. Excellent stuff.
It’s bigger than your stadium. I live down the street.
When the Blue Jays were winning the world series, and I lived in Toronto… they were selling out crowds of 55,000, but they were doing it 3-5 times a week. now, they get 30,000ish.
I’m not losing any sleep over how good or bad they are. It’s the first I’ve heard they suck. I’d rather re-paint the inside of my basement closet than watch a football game. Baseball… that’s different. Baseball is a sport.
I think that’s true. And in Toronto, they charge $10 bucks (CDN) for what’s basically a tall can that costs $1.50 at gas stations in Tennessee. It’s criminal.