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Its boring because liteally 90% of even a relatively exciting game is yawn yawn yawn. Hockey for example is don't blink.
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True enough, nfl. Baseball is different from basketball or football. It's more laid back, and it's more of a long haul. But, maybe because the tension builds up more slowly, and also because there's no set length of time for a game to last, when it does build up, it builds up to a crescendo. I think football is more exciting--in fact, I like it best--but baseball, especially late-season baseball, can be more dramatic.
As I was sitting here watching the final out, I couldn't look away, because there was no telling how long it might last. It could take one pitch, or it could take 10.
Anyway, what a great end to the season! In the American League, we have two classic rivals in the Sox and the Yanks. In the National League, we have two teams we don't see all the time bringing parity to the game. Nobody is more thrilled than the Marlins and the Cubs. Frankly, this is one of the best playoffs I can remember, so far!
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That's OK Elizabeth. While I hate Boston, I'm glad they won.
Really.
I'll enjoy watching the Yankees beat them much more that I would have enjoyed beating the As. I will also enjoy watching Boston lose to New York more than I would have enjoyed watching them lose to Oakland!
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Ha! There are going to be wheelchairs flying at my grandmother's assisted living place in Newburyport, MA. She moved up from Long Island last year, a 90 year-old, watch-every-game Yanks fan.
Our rivalry pales in comparison, but I still say: mustard or ketchup?
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Ditto what Icarus said re: baseball appreciation... maybe it's because I know the game well, but to me there's always drama and tension, even if it's quiet, in things as little as watching a pitcher try to get ahead of the hitter on a count, in the hitters trying to get a rally together, in the pitcher trying to get out of an inning when there's men on base with nobody out...
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Tension: I got to the end of the game, and flipped over to the Daily Show, thinking, "I just can't take it, i just can't take it," but I flipped right back.
I was tense from the first pitch on.
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That was a truly exciting game. THAT is why baseball is so much more exciting then football, or basketball.
Damon and Jackson scared the living daylights out of me. I have never seen a worse collission in baseball. Damon is lucky to be alive. He caught Jackson's forehead JUST NEXT to his temple at full speed. That is a lot of momentum transfer through a small area right next to the brain.
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I am very worried about Damon. I was also disgusted by the reaction of the fans. I really hope he will be OK.
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What will happen if there is a "collision of curses" and the Cubs play the Red Sox in the world series?
Does anyone find this majorly wrong or should we be happy that the odds of one curse lifting are good.
I know the sports commentators that say X is as likely to happen as the Cubs winning the world series are probably getting mildly concerned.
Will we have the number of old folks deaths predicted in either Chicago or Boston for those people who were merely staying alive in hopes that the team would win one in their lifetime?
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Well, theories range from meteor strikes, to four horsemen of the apocalypse.
My personal favorite is space-time continuum is disrupted, freezing fenway park in time with a full count, bases loaded, bottom of the ninth, tie game, in game seven. The pitch will be halfway to home plate when both teams are suspended in time. This space-time anomoly will not abate for 1000 years, by which time baseball will no longer be a professional sport, thus negating the relevance of what happens when the pitch reaches home plate. (Yes, game seven is at fenway if the red sox make the world series this year).
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The theory at my school is that if the Cubs play the Sox the game will be cancelled and they will both be declaired the loosers.
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Who cares about the Cubs or Red Sox? The Marlins are already the story of the year and there's no reason to believe that they won't continue to be. The 60-1 Marlins are eight games from becoming the first team to win two World Series as a Wild Card. Anyone doubting the Fish because they are losing tonight have already forgotten the series against the Giants. Fox still wants the Marlins to lose but that isn't going to stop 'em in the end.
The first I heard that there was a game on was in this thread. The radio this morning said both series began tomorrow! Since I thought there was no game on today, I took advantage of tonight to come in to work and catch up on some of my paperwork. Now I see on ESPN Gametrack that I'm missing one heck of an exciting game!
"And I have to say, having a girlfriend who is a Red Sox fan is very nice perk."
Bok, When I met my husband nineteen years ago, I was a Yankees fan. Part of our attraction, frankly, was a little bit of that ribbibg that goes along with a Yankee fan-Red Sox fan combination.(talk about "What is your sign" as a pickup line) Over the years, as I witnessed his annual heartbreak, I was converted. Now, there is a seven year old boy in this house, and the cycle begins again. I am hoping not to have to watch HIS heart break this year. Sheesh, they have to give ths family, and millions of others, a break, don't you think?
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Elizabeth I agree. Of course, this comes from a person who had 2 grandparents born in 1919... Not a single grandparent of mine saw the Red Sox win a World Series.
Puhleaze. As soon as you all found out there was no chowder here, you'd turn around and head home, grumbling and whining all the way.
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GO RED SOX!!!!!!!!!! My whole cheering force is behind them now that the Braves have lost. Poor Braves. Posts: 1658 | Registered: Sep 2003
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Icarus, you were NOT supposed to read my post, because you would find out that I started life as a Yanks fan. Sheesh. Some people just can't follow directions.
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