BS: World Series

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 12:37 PM

The Trophy is now doing it`s rounds of the County and this will continue until every one of the 50 or so Clubs gets the chance to have a "big night".
Our County Armagh is the smallest of the nine Counties which make up the Province of Ulster, and taking into account the remaining 23 Counties in the Provinces of Leinster, Connaught and Munster, we are rightly proud of being All-Ireland Champions.
So there you have a geography lesson and once again Mad4Mud celebrate. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 12:07 PM

Thanks Ard Mhacha! Victory is indeed sweet! I'm very tempted to go join the celebrations going on today in Anaheim. It's pretty much an all-day event being held between Disneyland, Edison Field and then Disney's California Adventure later today. Many co-workers have taken the day off to see the victory parade. They were lucky enough to have tickets to games six and seven.

Congrats to your Armagh team too! It makes being a long-suffering fan worth it, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha
Date: 29 Oct 02 - 07:35 AM

Congratulations Mad4Mud, you did it the hard way, just like our Armagh team, we won the All-Ireland Football Championship for the first time, and the Championship has been around from 1884.
Well done and like our County celebrate, for it may be a long time coming around again. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 28 Oct 02 - 08:50 AM

angels did it, beat the giants and Barry Bonds.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 27 Oct 02 - 08:38 AM

The Angels did it so go Angels.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 12:56 PM

This is truly a freakin' bore......Thankfully, Dusty Baker introduced elements of Little League last night........and I missed it. Tragic. Baseball is really going in the crapper.........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 12:29 PM

Ouch! That last game hurt but like Bob I think the Angels can still pull it off. Being back home will help.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 11:10 AM

They are back at home on Saturday so maybe they will win.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 09:47 AM

still say go Angels.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Kim C
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 09:45 AM

Well, apparently, there ain't too many people watching the Series on TV. I heard this morning that among young people, more of them watched The Bachelor.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,Wull
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 02:18 AM

I don't know or care much about rounders, but, next to playing it, or watching it, this has my vote as the most boring thread on the Mudcat at the moment.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 09:21 AM

2 games each.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Kim C
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 01:25 PM

What's "baseball"?

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 01:05 PM

Wow, so the John Birch Society beat the ACLU by 55 lynchings huh?

Spaw, what kind of hat does the JBS wear? And is it becoming to you? :~/

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: SharonA
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 08:42 AM

Oh, man, this is not looking good for the National League (carnsarned designated hitters, anyway...)!!!

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 08:31 AM

The Angels did it 2 to 1 now.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 06:24 AM

Yeah Ebbie? Wow, so the John Birch Society beat the ACLU by 55 lynchings huh?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 02:03 AM

Good game tonight...if you're on the right side. *g*

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 08:29 AM

Go Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 07:47 AM

More like the rally monkey butt-fucked by a thunderstick.........

The real score was St.Louis Browns 7, Florida Marlins 3

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: JJ
Date: 22 Oct 02 - 12:14 AM

What is this, the folk process? Final score, 11-10, Angels.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 08:56 PM

Mad4Mud, wouldn't it be more accurate to say they won by two runs? The score was tied at 9 when the Angels came in at the bottom of the 9th inning. A homer brought in a guy on second base (or first?) Final: 11-9 Angels

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 05:04 PM

Not a problem, SharonA. You were half right. They WON by eleven runs! Now if the Angels can just prove the second half of your earlier prediction wrong... O:-)

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: SharonA
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 04:59 PM

Mad4Mud: Sorry 'bout that. That's what I get for listening to the sports report on the radio when I first wake up in the morning!! I could've sworn they said Anaheim won it in the bottom of the eleventh.

Note to self: drink coffee before listening to radio... *G*

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 04:10 PM

Are you sure that team isn't called the Texas Chanteyrangers?

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 03:23 PM

I forgot to add Hank Sharon and Madlock4Mud to the team.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 03:00 PM

Its going to be a close series, still pulling for the Angels.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 01:52 PM

It was a great game.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 01:29 PM

SharonA, I will respect your dislike for the thunder sticks but the Angels won that game without any extra innings! They didn't even have to play the bottom of the ninth!!! I'm sorry you didn't watch. It was really an exciting game. Congrats on winning that pool though.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: SharonA
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 01:14 PM

So much for my prediction back on the 17th: Anaheim pulled off an extra-inning win last night! Now, like the Giants and the Angels, I am one for two. *G*

Oh, well, at least I won the baseball pool at work for that 2nd game!

I'm with Clifton53; the thundersticks make it annoying to watch the game on television. I turned off game 1 and didn't even turn on game 2 solely because of the thunderstick noise. ("Just turn down the TV's volume", you say? What fun is that?!?!?)   While I was watching game 1, they showed fans drumming with their thundersticks on the roof of one of the dugouts. To me, that's going too far!

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:52 AM

I agree.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:51 AM

I have to tell you about those thunder sticks. I was at their "debut" about a month ago. Those things are LOUD. You get 10,000 fans banging those suckers together and you're hearing them for the rest of the evening in your head.
I think the tomahawk and those homerun hankies are for the weak. They don't even make noise! At least with the thunder sticks you can save your voice from getting hoarse.

Go Angels! Go Salmon!!!

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 09:07 AM

Yeah Angels.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 21 Oct 02 - 05:28 AM

Series winner takes on the Toledo Mudcats!

1B...Morticia McGwire
2B...Jeff Kendall
SS...Cranky Campy Yankaneris
3B...Brooks Dharmabum
C....Roy Catspawnella
LF...Barry "Finn" Bonds
CF...Big Mick Mantle
RF...Joe Di Offero
DH...Alison Kaline
P...Dizzy Duckboots
P...Sandy Koupaton
P...Bobert Gibson
MGR.John McGraw of Harlow

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 09:50 PM

Go SENATORS!

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,chinmusic
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 09:44 PM

Watching the game tonite, David Bell of the Giants hit a homer, and sped around the bases and didn't stop until he got to the dugout. He didn't stroll back to the dugout. What a refreshing sight to see a guy not hotdog it! I would have like to see someone do that to Bob Gibson in the 60's. Showboating has become an accepted part of the sporting landscape, but it doesn't mean that I have to like it. Where did "class" go to? Hotdogging seems to be putting one's achievements ahead of the team, but that just way things are nowadays.Am I just an old fart for thinking this way?

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 05:30 PM

I agree with the chop chant of Atlanta and Atlanta is my favorite team.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Clifton53
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 05:07 PM

Yes Spaw, and those 'thunder sticks' or whatever they are called have got to go. They are worse than the dreaded 'chop' of Atlanta. And Chanteyranger, yer talkin' my language baby.

Clifton ( life long Jint fan)

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha.
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 04:36 PM

Mark, Sorry i`m late, many thanks that is an education , I am still laughing at the Reds changing their name to the Redlegs, what a twisted time when that bastard McCarthy was spreading his hate.
The 50s Baseball list also reminds me of the time I could name every World Boxing Champion from heavyweight to Flyweight, just 8 Champs nowadays there is close on 100 chumps. Ard Mhacha

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 11:06 AM

I'm already tired of the rally monkey.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 10:35 AM

I'm for the Angels.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 10:22 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 04:20 AM

The Giants win the series! The Giants win the series! The Giants win the series! Barry Bonds hits into the lower deck and they're going crazy! They're going crazy! Yahaaaa!!!!! I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I do not believe it! The Giants have come up series winners, and they're picking Barry Bonds up and carrying him off the field!!!

Just wishing aloud.

-Chanteyruss Hodgesranger

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 01:49 AM

Pretty good job Mark! Being a Philly boy, I bet you remeber the joke:

Spell Philadelphia<
P-H-I-L-D-E-L-P-H-I
What happened to the "A's"??
They moved to Kansas City

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:52 AM

Let's see if I can still do this without peeking.
National League in the 50s, before Californization:
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Giants
Brooklyn Dodgers
Pittsburgh Pirates
Boston Braves
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Cincinnati Reds (became Redlegs with McCarthyism, then back to Reds)

American League in the 50s:
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Philadelphia Athletics
Baltimore Orioles
Washington Senators
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers

In 1957 or thereabouts, the Giants moved to San Francisco and the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Somewhere around the same time (I might be wrong on the time) the Athletics moved to Kansas City and the Braves moved to Milwaukee. In 1962, the National League added the New York Mets and the Houston Colt .45's (who became the Astros when they moved into the Astrodome), and the American League added the Los Angeles Angels (who became the California Angels when they moved to Anaheim, and then the Anaheim Angels when they were bought by Disney), and the Minnesota Twins. After that, things got really confusing.

And Anaheim was founded by German immigrants in the 1840s or 50s as a winemaking center, but they switched to oranges after the vines died. The name comes from the Santa Ana River and heim, German for "home".

Aren't you glad you asked?

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha.
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 05:17 PM

Thanks Madd4Mud and Ron, I listened to the Baseball broadcasts here in Ireland away back in the 50`s, we could pick up the American Forces Network in Germany, AFN Munich, Stuttgart etc.
As I was saying, way back then the Dodgers were in Brooklyn and the Giants were in New York, and I suppose the Oriels and many others have also changed Cities.
This is a very rare occurence in European Soccer, I doubt if it would go down well here. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: YOR
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 04:20 PM

Jerry, no relation just ROY backwards. Spelled my name that way sometimes as a child, my brothers still use it as a nickname now and then.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Ron Olesko
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:55 PM

I believe the Angels was a name used by a minor league team from LA for a few decades before the MLB franchise was formed.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 03:24 PM

The Angels were formed in 1961. They originally played the first couple of years in Los Angeles and were called the Los Angeles Angels. They moved to Orange County (where the city of Anaheim is located) in 1966. I'm guessing they got their name while playing in Los Angeles (it being considered the City of Angels) but couldn't tell you for sure. I'm sure someone on Mudcat knows the complete history. I believe Gene Autry's wife Jackie had something to do with the naming of the team.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,Ard Mhacha
Date: 18 Oct 02 - 01:35 PM

Sorry I will begin again, I remember a different City with the word Angels, how many teams over the past 50 years have moved to different cities and please tell me how long Mannaheim have been around. Ard Mhacha.