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Freese or if something ridiculous happens, Napoli.
Craig taking away that homer did it.
There are times I skip to the Lou. This is not one of those times.
Congrats to RnR and others. Fun to have a vested interest in the last game of the season two years in a row. Sucks to lose them both.
Reverse jinxing sonsa#####es. We reject your congratulations!! Reject them thoroughly.
Congrats while still hoping .0001 percent chance of a silly 9th inning comeback.
Their last two WS titles are this one and 2006 when they won 83 games.Great runs.
sigh
Congrats to Cards fans, that was a pretty amazing run from Sept 1 on.
this team was better than the 2006 team but this run was more improbable just cuz of how far back they were, how they beat the stud Phillies, and their two comebacks in game 6. Perhaps the most incredible sports story in professional sports history.
I'll bet the field on that one too
My thoughts exactly. I am physically exhausted (mostly still from last night).
Yu Darvish?
I was just telling my wife that even the posting from Rangers fans had no energy. Spent it all last night and only holding on the smallest of hope.
George W?
except when it's a ball according to the umpire. I don't think you understand what I mean by pitch and context.Pitch: That pitch clearly got at least six inches of the outside part of the plate. On top of that, the strike zone had until that point been generally much more generous on the outside of the plate then the inside. (As is typically the case. Rangers pitchers also got several bad calls on the inside part of the plate, but this is far from unusual.) There was absolutely no question about the height of the pitch; it was at the middle of the vertical strike zone. And it's not like that was a sweeping curveball that danced it's way into the strike zone. That was a strike from the moment it left the pitcher's hand until the second the umpire butchered that call.Context: Obviously it's game 7 of the World Series, so the game can't have any more meaning. It's a full count, there are 2 outs, and the bases are loaded, so calling a strike ends the threat, and calling a ball gives the Cardinals another run. At the time, the Rangers were only down 3-2, we all know they can score runs in a hurry, and there was plenty of time left in the game. But that pitch not only gave the Cardinals the run, it gave them the momentum and prompted Washington to put in a pitcher that clearly wasn't quite ready. That makes a 3-2 game a 5-2 game, which causes the Rangers to press when they otherwise wouldn't have in a one-run game. That one call makes it an entirely different ballgame.I have a lot of respect for the Cardinals for what they accomplished over the last couple months. No one here thought they would do a damn thing worthwhile at the end of August when they were over 10 games out of both races. By the end of the last Brewers series here, I could pretty much pick up any ticket and sit wherever I wanted...it was like I was suddenly watching baseball in Florida. But the Cardinals apparently never gave up on the season, and their fans came crawling back when they started putting that deciding run together. Then they beat the top two seeds on the road in the NL playoffs, and they outplayed a very good Rangers team. It's very likely the Cardinals still would've hung on to win this game. However, I wish at the very least that they would have done it without the benefit of one little call that affected the game to the magnitude it did.Congrats to the Cardinals fans. Obviously it was a pretty special season. But when you see a Brewers fan, please try not to gloat too much. Remember, you've been here before (and not very long ago), and we never have. Imagine the Blues having the season of a lifetime, only to lose in the championship to the Red Wings. Then you might start to understand.Sorry for the long post.
Amazing run. I used to be an incredibly hardcore baseball fan until the '94 strike. This year, as a result of the Cards at the end of the year, I sat down to watch my first full baseball game on TV in a long, long time. I haven't missed a game since and had my love for baseball fully rekindled. Truly epic, historic, and enjoyable to watch.
Hats off to the Rangers and their fans for having a class organization. It's nice to play a team for the title that's not only been there before, but act like it.I do have to feel bad for Rangers fans, though. Being down to one strike away from your first World Series not once, but twice has to be soul crushing.
I hate to say it, but, this kind of loss is like the march to adulthood as a fanbase. The Rangers lost playoff rounds and even lost a world series, but god, this is the kind of gut searing that builds a mythology and character to a fanbase. They will win and when they do, this loss will only make it all the sweeter.
