Who will win the World Series?

Subject: Who will win the World Series?
From: GUEST,Rudy G.
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 03:05 PM

I'm sure it will be New York!

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Bernard
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 03:12 PM

It won't be me...

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Zebedee
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 03:13 PM

I expect it will be the Americans

Zeb

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Bernard
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 03:14 PM

Profound!

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 03:54 PM

All those who spend the allotted time reading uplifting books, or engaging in charitable works among the poor and downtrodden (or the rich and uptrodden, for that matter).

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 04:06 PM

The crowds are getting madder
As the innings mount past ten
And their voices rise in anger
As the side shuts down again
And the night air grows much colder
And the batter's getting slow
But they stay there in the bleachers
For where else could ballfans go?

For the thunder of the hickory
And the pounding of the glove
And the smell of franks and mustard
And the screams of men in love
Gives the night a special frequency
Which electrifies the land
But it's only heard by baseball fans
No-one else quite understands.

A.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 04:11 PM

THANK YOU AMOS!!! I love it!!!!!

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: RWilhelm
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 04:44 PM

Letterman said they asked Hillary who would win the subway series and she answered "The D train."

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: GUEST,Colwyn Dane
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 04:58 PM

G'day,

It won't be the Cubans or the Japanese methinks.

Bcnu.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 05:11 PM

The Canadiens? No? Ho hum. Truth in Advertising--it ain't the World Series, friends, it's the North American Series.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Hotspur
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 05:45 PM

And not even that, unless a Canadian team is in it.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 07:35 PM

You people are so petty! Reminds me of a game my sister invented called "Picking Apart Plebian Phrases." OK, GET THIS. When the when the name for the tournament to decide the best baseball team was named "The World Series", the United States WAS the only country in the world that played baseball. So what that now other countries play baseball that aren't in the U.S. Majors...but that the name "World Series" remains. Why keep something so seemingly outmoded and useless, but links us to our past and reminds us of our history? It's something called a FOLK TRADITION. Ever heard of such a dumb idea?

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Peter T.
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 07:39 PM

Actually I believe it was named after a sponsoring newspaper, Matt -- nothing to do with the world. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: GUEST,Mark Cohen in Kona
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 07:44 PM

OK, Matt, take a deep breath and let Mbo back outside to cool off. Your point is very well taken...but it might be better received if it were made with just a smidgen less outrage. OK? We're all friends here, including the ones who don't understand what baseball is all about. Hey, I lived through the 1964 Phillies, and I can still smile.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 07:48 PM

The 64 Phillies? Hey Mark, I was an Indians fan and as a child back in the early fifties remember when they had a team! It was a long dry spell. Only thing worse I guess would have been born a Cubs fan.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 07:55 PM

Well, at least the Canadian team (s?) are in the league and play offs. Matt, you may have a point there. Especially since baseball is originally an American sport.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 08:01 PM

Sigh...here we go again! Fergot my ";-)" and they all think I'm rage incarnate. BTW this "old Mbo" thing is pretty silly. Don't worry, my name may have changed and I have may have friends now, but I haven't changed one bit.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 08:08 PM

Good on ya, Matt! I did have this uncle who was a rabid St. Louis Cardinals fan, and he took me to see them play at home once. I was about 8. I have very vivid memories of seeing Stan Musial play, and being allowed to order my very own milk-shake. I chose vanilla, as my dad always ordered for all of us, and it was always chocolate. Turned out, I LOVED vanilla milk shakes. It was also the very first time I ever stayed in a motel....ahhhhh, "memories, pressed between the pages of my mind....."

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 08:13 PM

Now if the English had only thought of that one, Matt, they could win the World Cup every time...

But you're quiet right, it's a daft enough thing to call it, but it's harmless and a bit funny, and such things should be preserved.

But is there a real baseball world championship? With national teams from Cuba and Japan and Canada and Western Samoa and any other places where they play the game.

Actually I think it's rather a beautiful game, though I don't understand it, But I gather that American Football is now much more popular! I find that a very depressing thought.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 08:58 PM

Yep, McGrath, it's the baseball world championships, culminating of course, in the Olympics.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 09:13 PM

The OLYMPICS?? And, do the US pros get to play like they did with the Basketball Dream Team? And are the other countries players up to a professional standard? I think I am still unhappy about the US "Dream Team" BB stuff. Whatever happened to the Olympics being "amature"? Oh well, just what does that mean, anyway?

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 09:16 PM

NO Sorch, Olympic baseball is world major league teams against while the U.S. team is minor leaguers & college players.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 09:20 PM

That's what I thought......IOC rules again. Just like Andreea Rudican lost her medal because of Sudafed, and the fact that she is little..........IOC is sometimes very stoopid, no? Oh well.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 09:30 PM

At the risk of offending sports fans everywhere...except maybe in North Korea...

a-one, a-two, a-three...

WHOOOOOO CARES!!!!!!!!!

Hee! Hee! Hee! (e.g.) :-D

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 09:39 PM

I DO

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Parson
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 09:45 PM

As a confirmed Atlanta Braves fan, I can report with some sense of satisfaction that New York will LOSE! No offense to New Yorkers, in general. I've never been, but my daughter has & loves the place. Can't wait to go back. And guess what impressed my 14 year old daughter the most? Hard Rock Cafe? No, she liked it, but she LOVED the Metropolitan Museum of Art!

Take care.

Randall

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 10:27 PM

Yeah, Matt, I thought so...

That's why the "evil grin".

I am just a nasty lowlife rat with few if any scruples. Kind of like Spaw...

But I like F4F Wildcats, so I'm not all bad.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 11:05 PM

My favorite part of New York? I honestly don't know, because all I saw was New York City. My favorite part of NYC? Rockefeller Center after dark......hey, what can I say, I was only 14 and from TotoLand (Kansas, USA)

But, you know, LilHawk, even though sports in general do sometimes seem like a waste of time, I do love them because they are indicitave of all that the human race can do if and when motivated.

The 4 minute mile was impossible, humans can't run that fast--
The triple flip was impossible because the human brain will "check out"--
Women can't do a Giant Swing because of the center of balance--
Even though I know a lot of these feats are accomplished with the aid of drugs, and the athletes involved pay dearly with their health later, I guess I just like knowing what the human animal is capable of. And it is not relevant at all to (Folk) music, the Blooz, or a lot of other silliness here on the 'Cat that you have started.

Scorchy, who I guess is feeling a little Bitchy tonite.

rant off. Sorry, 'Hawk, I do agree with you about a lot of stuff. Think about the actual athletics involved in counting coup.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: richlmo
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 11:30 PM

I'm with Parson. Who gives a damn which bunch of New Yorkers wins? I'm a Braves fan from the Eddie Mathews ( my all time hero as a child )and Joe Adcock days. I read recently on the net that Eddie was having heart trouble. Wish him the best. If I did give a damn, go Torre and Justice!

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 01:36 AM

Anybody remember Bob Gibson? I remember one fantastic series...

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 01:46 AM

My parents grew up in Brooklyn, but everyone on both sides of the family were NY Giants fans. Not a Dodger fan in the bunch. The Giants organization must have known that. They followed my father to San Francisco ten years after he moved out West. Man, it took them long enough to find out where he was.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 11:15 AM

"The baseball world championships, culminating of course,in the Olympics" - fascinating. Who won?

I tried looking this up, but the only page I could find about it related to 1998 when the big news was that the USA had beaten Russia by 10 to 1. Quite a turn up for the books I imagine...

But at least I found that baseball is played in some places I hadn't realised - there was a team there from the Netherlands, for example. Italy, Spain, South Africa, Australia...

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 12:17 PM

Sorch, I have to assume "amature" means "not mature." "Amateur" means "not professional."

The problem being, of course, that the basketball (and probably other) teams from commie countries were by and large pro teams, since they were employed by the armed forces of that country and did little else but train for their sports. So the USA decided to "beat them at their own game" and allow pro bball players on their oly team as well. The amateur status of many oly athletes these days is suspect. The drug-free status of many more is very suspect. Which is really a shame.

Pro basketball is such a mindbogglingly dull sport, however, that I don't really care one way or another.

As for "World Series" -- anybody in Cuba, Japan, etc. good enough to play in the Majors in USA/Canada will be hired away from their Cuban/Japanese/whatever team. There are several Japanese players on Major League teams now, and more seem to come over every year. Contrariwise, many of the players in Japan are washed-up USA major-leaguers. It may not be a World Series in the sense that all nations' teams are allowed to compete, but it surely is a World Series in the sense that the best baseball players in the world are there, and it's not very credible that any other nation's #1 team could beat the World Series loser, let alone the winner, in a 7-game series.

Alex
O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Peter T.
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 01:50 PM

Actually, a much more thrilling contest going on right now is the real serious World Championship Chess Tournament between Kasparov and Kramnik, which has received zero press. This is the big one chess players have been waiting for for about 3 years: so far Kasparov is losing!

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 02:01 PM

09wtudhnm;e45..........Sorry PT, I kinda' nodded off there and my head smacked the keyboard.......More intellectual, but like sailing in a way......Begs the question......

Is there a grass growing championship I could watch instead? Do they have instant replay? I think the fescue fouled the bent and the ref missed it.

I do know what you mean....couldn't resist though.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:18 PM

McGrath--Cuba was the world champions, the U.S. won the Gold medal in the Olympics, for the first time ever.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:27 PM

Chess is thrilling? Maybe to play. It's not much of a spectator sport.

Alex
O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: bbc
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:39 PM

Well, as it happens, I live close to NYC & care nothing about sports. Duane D. & I were in a restaurant Sat. pm, though, & experienced some sports fans close-up. They were clapping & yelling when they saw the plays on the bar tv. When one of them started swearing & saying somebody cheated & he was fed-up w/ the whole thing, I started feeling it was time to go home. At my school, my principal came in, Friday, in a Yankees cap & one of the 4th grade teachers wore a Yankees uniform all day. Just to be perverse, I decided I'm rooting for the Mets! Hey, when they get to their home park, I figure they have a chance! :)

best to all, fans or not,

bbc

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 04:47 PM

You guys are breaking my heart. I'm a Red Sox fan, and have been since I came here 30 years ago. They haven't won since 1918, and the few times they did get to the Series, they lost in 7 games. The Yankees are the hated enemy, so I don't want them to win, and the Mets beat the Sox in 1986 (Bill Buckner!) so I don't want them to win either. Who is a Red Sox fan to root for? But, as my banner that I take to Fenway on Opening Day each year says: "Wait till next year!." Seamus

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 05:12 PM

So maybe the team that wins this week in New York could play Cuba? I might stay up to watch that.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: mousethief
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 05:22 PM

All the best cuban players have swam to the USA.

Alex
O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 06:03 PM

The problem with chess tournaments is No T-shirts. How can a fan show his true allegiance without a T-shirt? Something to think about.
Mary,faithful to her Mets.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 06:43 PM

T-Shirts huh Sinsull? That's an idea....but a logo might be tough.....Let's see here...............HEY!!! I got it!!!!

How about the Knight on his fiery steed whipping the Bishop???

Spaw

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 06:46 PM

The Bishop sentences the Pawn to eternal damnation.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 09:46 PM

The Knights are "Painting The Roses Red" while the Queen looks on horrified. They planted white, not red!!! And the Knights can be the appropriate contenders - one getting his head chopped off with a flamingo.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Matt_R
Date: 23 Oct 00 - 10:02 PM

And the Mets crush the Yankees like a frog under a steamroller (to quote George Orwell...sort of..)

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: GUEST,albamist
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 02:51 PM

Who cares why would anyone be interested in watching a bunch of overweight,overpaid and underworked spoiled brats smack a ball around. The game ranks next to watching fishing on TV or watching paint dry as the most boring way to spend an evening. Even the "fans" do not pay attention, they are all distracted by stuff going on around them, I have seen people reading magazines and others knitting during a baseball game. When the home team gets up to bat, the crowd stay to cheer. When the other guys get up to bat, that is the signal for over half the crowd to go and load up with hot dogs beer etc. ann indulge in a feeding frenzy which would put sharks to shame. I guess the fans are trying to emulate their heroes, perhaps if they can shift enough food and drink then maybe they too could be a baseball player. If you want to watch real athletes then watch soccer or rugby.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Robo
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 02:56 PM

Oooh, a manly man.

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: mousethief
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 03:18 PM

If the Mets are going to crush the Yankees like a steamroller, they'd better get to crushing. Starting the series 0-2 hardly seems very steamroller-like.

That said, I'd love to see the Mets beat the Yanks, just because they're the Yanks and so annoyingly smug.

GO METS!

Alex
O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Who will win the World Series?
From: Clifton53
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 04:45 PM

Hey Albamist, feel free to express yourself, after all, I'm sure some of your passions and interests are horseshit too!! In fact, you sound just like 'ol Serge !

Clifton53