BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox

Subject: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 09:05 AM

I want a Yankee - Red Sox world series.

If we get a Cubs - Red Sox series, Nostradamus predicted the end of the World.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 09:23 AM

It's Napoli v Liverpool tomorrow night. Eat your heart out.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 09:24 AM

Would you settle for a Yankee - Red Sox ALCS (I'd like to see Astros-Sox with the Astros advancing). An AL-AL world series is not possible at this time.
A Cubs-Red Sox series would be a classic but the Cubs have a long row to hoe starting with beating the Rockies tonight in the wild card playoff.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 09:33 AM

Actually a Yankee - Red Sox ALCS ain't gonna happen either as the winner of tomorrow night's AL wild card (NYY/Oak) gets the Sox in the ALDS so we might have a HOU/BOS ALCS.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 09:53 AM

The long and winding road just stopped for the Cubbies Now there could be a Dodger Yankee series but the Red Sox would have to pull a monumental collapse.
Steve I know we are far from the 'world' champions but baseball is a remarkable game in which strategy distance and speed are displayed in infinite variety.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 10:09 AM

Yanks gotta get by the A's tonight to get to Bos.
Those Cubbie bats really went quiet at the end of the season, just 2 runs in
22 innings in must-have home games on consecutive nights. Both games though were close and exciting.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 10:12 AM

I think we call it rounders here, generally played by big girls with lusty, chapped thighs...

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 10:24 AM

Baseball is an actual sport, not a bunch of britholes mincing about on a field in their skivvies.

Tonight's game features a 61 mil.$ payroll
(A's) vs a 162 mil.$ payroll (Yanks). A's are starting a reliever w/ no victories and are expected to use a sucession of them for 5-6 innings. Should be interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 10:26 AM

There are actually few differences. Millions of kids play rounders here and it's taken very seriously.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 10:47 AM

Hitting the ball with one hand in rounders with a teeny stick is not going to produce Home Runs of 500 feet.
To me soccer is skillful but scoring is one dimensional compared to baseball.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 10:54 AM

I do not understand how one can mentally compute the moment of collision between a spheroid 228.60–234.95 mm in circumference and having a mass of 141.75 to 148.83 g. moving at 152.9–169.14 km/h (the usual speed) in a 1 g. field (and even ignoring air friction) in a time frame such that it can be struck by a object no more than 1,100mm in length, massing no more than 1 kg. and having a diameter of not more than 70mm at the thickest part after traveling over a distance in a distance of 18.3 meters. This is especially difficult when the object to be struck will itself be traveling in an arc -- but see Fortenbaugh's The Biomechanics of the Baseball Swing (Dissertation, U. of Miami, 2011) for a much more complete discussion of this.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 11:18 AM

I hear all that but what was Fortebaugh's OPS+ and WAR this past season.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 12:03 PM

Who was it who said that baseball even makes golf look interesting...

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 12:45 PM

Wouldn't you be happier posting to the current (faux) Football thread rather than pissing in people's cornflakes on this one?

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 01:13 PM

Don't be so delicate. We're discussing tribalistic sport, not Trump. You should see some of the comments threads after Liverpool or Man U match reports...

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 01:14 PM

Anyway, nuff said from me.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 01:22 PM

More than nuff.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 02:00 PM

Steve Shaw knows what would happen to him
if he were so careless as to talk like that
in a bar in the middle of "Red Sox Nation."

This week is one of those singular weeks, by the way:
all four of Boston's BIG-BUSINESS pro sports are engaged.
(Boston has a professional black-and-white-spherical football team,
but big business they are not)

The Bruins have started their ice hockey appearances
(I cringe at the sight of the ice on the restaurant television screens,
please, don't remind me of last winter already),

The Celtics, pronounced Boston Seltics, have got their
green jerseys on and are starting their basketball games,

The New England Patriots have begun another juggernaut,

and the Boston Red Sox are in play.

All four big-business franchises in the same week.
All with loud muscular followings here.
Only happens during so many weeks in a year.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 02:43 PM

Steve Shaw knows what would happen to him
if he were so careless as to talk like that
in a bar in the middle of "Red Sox Nation."

I'd speak quietly so as not to wake anyone up, but if I did so by accident I'd commiserate about the terrible beer they have to endure...

And yes, gillymor, I lied...

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 02:53 PM

That's okay,Steve, we're used to it, ever since trump came on the scene lying is overtaking baseball as the national pastime. And, btw, there are lot of excellent beers being produced in the North East and all over the U.S. We just send you guys the Budweiser and Miller. Now back to the Grand Old Game.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 02:55 PM

Yep, kickoff at 8 o'clock in five minutes... go, the reds!

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 03:09 PM

I was referring to the REALLY Grand Old Game.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 18 - 03:20 PM

Steve YOU WOULD LOVE BASEBALL much of it is centered around food.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Oct 18 - 11:04 AM

Here comes the biggest rivalry Red Sox vs Yankees. After 5 games the winner goes to the world series against........I do not know.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 04 Oct 18 - 11:44 AM

It gives me no joy to tell you this,Don, but you are wrong again. The winner of Yanks/ Bos faces the winner of Astos/ Cle in the ALCS for the AL Pennant. Check it out at mlb.com.
Yanks/Red Sox, Yankee Stadium/Fenway, 2 100 win teams in October. Could be a classic.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Raggytash
Date: 04 Oct 18 - 12:55 PM

How can you call it a "World Series" when it is primarily played by clubs in cities, almost entirely within the USA.

The very title "World Series" should indicate some considerable imput from other countries.

Do the odd club elsewhere in the world take part in the "World Series"

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Oct 18 - 04:34 PM

Donuel is getting something like what he asked for,
even if the formal terms are arguable.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 05 Oct 18 - 04:49 PM

The "formal terms", as Don used them, are not arguable they are incorrect. The good news is we do get a Red Sox/Yanks series in addition to a whole lot more.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 05 Oct 18 - 04:52 PM

It just occurred to me that you're probably responding to Raggy. Apologies.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 02:39 PM

I guess it is only when the Red Sox make it into the playoffs that
we get all four pro franchises competing, within the same week,
for the ticketholders' money and time in Boston.

After all there are years when the Red Sox
get shut out before the playoffs,
or get shut out in the earliest part of the playoffs,
and their season ends with somebody muttering about
no joy in Mudville, and all that.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Raggytash
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 02:50 PM

None of which answers my question.

Do clubs outside of the USA play in the "World Series"

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 03:04 PM

Blue Jays

To be a Cubs or Sox fan is a great life lesson for the highs and lows in life.
Baseball is the rare sport Trump doesn't mess with.Trump is what baseball thinks about when its trying not to come.
Go Sox

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 03:20 PM

Well the Sox squeaked one out last night so there is a glimmer of joy in Mudville.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 03:29 PM

Good one, Don. I'll have to try that.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 03:32 PM

...at the risk of going completely flaccid, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 04:22 PM

Luckily a Bic lighter makes a good diagnostic device. If its flame is bright blue instead of yellow cut back from double dosing Viagra.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Oct 18 - 05:06 PM

Thankfully Baseball is Trump free but people are using baseball analogies; "Trump was born on 3rd base but out of incompetance he went to second base and complained that he had really hit a triple".

Starting at 8PM the glimmer of hope for the Sox will become a bright flash as they will win again 4-3 without extra innings.
I called thier last 4 games correctly. I hope I'm on a roll.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 07 Oct 18 - 06:02 AM

Return of the Bronx Bombers, series even at 1-1 going to NY for next 2, advantage Yankees. How much did we bet on that one, Don? :^)
Astros, Brewers and Dodgers all up 2 zip.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Oct 18 - 08:28 AM

woof was I wrong. Pets, kids and baseball make us all liars.
There is more superstition about baseball than anything else I know.
Other than the lottery and $40 at a casino once I have never placed a bet on anything. I looked at the gestalt of the whole betting thing and decided it was more harm than good. (once you decide, it collapses the quantum wave)
The Dodgers are a late season hurricane and the Yankees are a home run factory.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Oct 18 - 07:50 AM

Sox come storming back, dismantle Yanks 16-1 in the Bronx with a stellar 7 innings from Eovaldi, go up 2-1. Astros close out Indians 11-3, wait for NY/BOS winner. It's now Dodgers/Brewers in NLCS.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Oct 18 - 12:41 AM

See the Sox did win 4-3 as I posted days ago
I really do have some psychc talent but as you can see its a day late and a dollar short.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Oct 18 - 01:16 AM

Not only are Americans self centered (re: World Series). You can't get more self centered than one hill in Boston. You see when you use the word 'Yank' on the eastern side of the pond you mean Americans from the USA. When Southerners use it they mean north of the Mason-Dixon Line. North of the Mason Dixon line they mean New England. In New England they mean Massachusetts. In Massachusetts they mean Boston.

In Boston they mean Beacon Hill.

Not for nothing do Bostonians call their environs "The Hub".

Go Red Sox. Now I truly have to dig my cap out of the closet.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Oct 18 - 01:46 AM

Yee haa! Evil Empire goes down, it's Sox and Astros.
Care to predict the sunrise, Don, you don't have to be specific as to the day. :^)

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Oct 18 - 09:44 AM

I've had 6 correct result guesses out of 7.
I got (16-1)wrong

Houston is strong but I am drawing a blank right now.
Beating the Yankees feels more enjoyable than the next 8 games or more.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Oct 18 - 07:40 PM

I was just rattlin' your cage, Don.

We've got another series featuring 100-plus win teams and it's good pitching vs. good hitting on both sides so basically it's baseball Nirvana. Brewers and Dodgers should be fun too.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Oct 18 - 07:53 PM

It's kind of nice not having to worry about the home team (the Nats) and just being able to enjoy the baseball. Of course, they fired a manager who averaged 96 wins in his 2 year tenure so maybe they got what they deserved but then all the injuries didn't help.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 07:27 AM

I am the simplest kind of baseball fan. My better half is a baseball historian and names cats YAZ ETC.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Oct 18 - 08:33 AM

That's a great name for a cat.

Dave Frishberg wrote a song using the names of old ballplayers for the lyrics- Van Lingle Mungo

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: robomatic
Date: 12 Oct 18 - 11:14 PM

Dave Frishberg is an underexposed national treasure. Thanks for bringing him up.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Oct 18 - 06:24 AM

I'm hip, but not weird (even though I do wear a beard).
Dodgers lose to hottest team in b-ball, Brewers, 6-5.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Oct 18 - 03:01 PM

I hope the rain breaks in time for tonight's Fenway Park game.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 18 - 08:00 AM

It was cold last night so the play off games had very little expectoration. You see Baseball is the only sport that is all saliva all the time. The average game produces 4 liters of spit but last night was only a one liter of total spittle game.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 18 - 09:35 AM

Bob Uecker was positively funny last night.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Oct 18 - 11:08 AM

No spit? :^)

Joe Kelly was driving me nuts with his slow pace causing batters to step out constantly on a chilly evening in Boston. It was a bit of karmic justice that he got the loss though he only gave up one hit and no earned runs.
I missed Uecker, I'll have to Google it.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Oct 18 - 11:21 AM

Bob U. has a statue of himself in the last row of the stadium.

He was in the champagne shower with his goggles on while trying to start an imaginary chain saw. The damn chain saw would not start

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Oct 18 - 11:46 AM

I remember the unveiling ceremony for Ueck's statue, it was in the last row behind a vertical beam.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Oct 18 - 08:40 AM

Well Houston weather is crying loads of rain up to Dallas.
The Brewers have nothing to be ashamed of.
So the final challenge is between the Dodgers and Red Sox.
I'm predicting a 7th game

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: gillymor
Date: 22 Oct 18 - 11:56 AM

I'd be happy with a 7 game series, as long as the Sox prevail over the L.A. Pretty Boys and that bush leaguer Machado. :^)

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Oct 18 - 06:17 PM

Tonight, and last night as well,
there was a rainbow over Fenway Park in Boston before the game.
People are taking pictures and all.

Regardless of who defeats whom,
I think the rainbows will go down in history somehow.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 18 - 07:39 PM

Now THAT is cool !

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Oct 18 - 10:00 PM

I don't watch many sports - though when I first got a large HD television I found golf to be interesting since you could see the ball fly through the air in a way that the old CRT TVs never allowed.

In the World Series I remember when one beard appeared (the year of the California earthquake during the Series?), probably two decades ago, and it was such an anomaly. Now clean-shaven is scarce.

Fashion or superstition?

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 18 - 10:10 AM

There was a player on the Red Sox team that broke the curse that looked like a caveman. But Big Poppi was also on the team and he shaved.
You don't get macho points by wearing glasses so it seems like fashion.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 09:05 PM

Tonight I'm in a hotel off the Massachusetts Turnpike.
The Red Sox are in California facing the LA Dodgers.
The hotel eatery has television screens.
You should have heard
the roar that came out of the doors
when the Red Sox just scored a home run.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Oct 18 - 09:27 PM

That was LA's home run :^\

Subject: BS: GO America (Baseball- RedSox vs LADogrs)
From: robomatic
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 02:11 AM

Man oh man! (or as Megyn Kelly would say, "Wow"). Bottom of the 14th inning! I'm glad I bought the Costco version of Irish Cream, less expensive than Bailey's and a full liter more fluidic goodness. Good thing the game's in L A, it's warmer there right now and a blizzard is heading for New England.

Game 3 tied at 2 and 2, soccer type score, and the L A crowd seems to be energetic and civilized, shouting cheerily, the organ player is still doing his job. They've gone through three dozen baseballs. The crowd has done TWO seventh inning stretches.
Times are good.
God bless the Red Sox.

Going to the fifteenth inning as I finish this OP. Still 2 to 2, the longest game in World Series History.

Subject: RE: BS: GO America (Baseball- RedSox vs LADogrs)
From: robomatic
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 03:16 AM

Okay it's top of the 18th Inning and it's just become Saturday in LA. Back in Boston the sports bars are settling in for what exactly? Do tey have mandatory closing? I can't remember.
History is going on right effing now! I'm looking on the internet for a great short story I read years ago, about baseball reporting in a small Southern town: James H. Street's "The Golden Key" If you can find it, read it.

Subject: RE: BS: GO America (Baseball- RedSox vs LADogrs)
From: robomatic
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 03:32 AM

Matt Muncie just ended it for the Dodgers with a home run. Good job, LA! All those tired folks in the Boston Bars can check their breatalyzers and drive home now.

Subject: RE: BS: GO America (Baseball- RedSox vs LADogrs)
From: robomatic
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 03:36 AM

FOX spells it "Max Muncy" I'm too tired to look up the rigt spelgni.

Subject: RE: BS: GO America (Baseball- RedSox vs LADogrs)
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 09:58 AM

Bless you, robomatic,
the nor'easter headed for the Northeastern US
is a rain event, as it is too warm for snow or ice.
The winds are cause for concern.

The name is spelled "muncy"
both in the LA Times
and the Washington Post (looked online).

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 12:05 PM

I couldn't make it, I bailed about an hour before the game ended.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: robomatic
Date: 27 Oct 18 - 09:30 PM

Turns out that I 'tried' to research the name before splnge it and there is a person named the first spelling I used so it was confusion and a small amount of irish cream on my part. sry fr teh error.

In the mean time there is a whole other game on right this minute. Still doing soccer style scores. Zero to zero in fact.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 01:14 PM

Well, the Red Sox used to be known as the team
that lost the World Series four times;
with their victory,
they can sort of re-write history now.

A moment's silence for the Dodgers.
They fought hard.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 03:38 PM

I watched a little bit here are there, and I enjoyed it. I didn't really favor one side or the other, but I did like that these were two very old teams, each with rich traditions.

So, now it's time for that other Big Game, the one that takes place next week Tuesday on Election Day. That's a game that really matters, but still it's sometimes fun to watch it as a spectator. May justice prevail.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Oct 18 - 05:41 PM

I thought they were swell games and from what I could see of the Dodgers and hear of the LA crowd it was a tough yet civilized contest. Left me feeling pretty good, proud of Boston, and friendly toward LA.

Quite a relief from other news.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 06:33 AM

pro: The best series in 15 years with plenty of suspense.

con: sleep deprivation and terrorism

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 10:45 AM

And it ended so quickly!

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: Donuel
Date: 30 Oct 18 - 02:06 PM

Are you really Woody Allen?

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Oct 18 - 12:25 PM

I was at a music camp this last weekend. We had 55 people at the camp, mostly Quakers. We sang a very enthusiastic "Sweet Caroline," and found out later that right after we sang, the Red Sox scored four runs in quick succession.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Oct 18 - 06:46 PM

Yes, although I did not watch these games,
I overheard one of the radio commentators going on about
the days when
The Dodgers were in Brooklyn,
and Babe Ruth wore Red Sox,
having yet to become a Yankee.

'Course anybody alive then is either dead or dying now ...

Subject: RE: BS: World Series 2018 - Dodgers Vs Red Sox
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Oct 18 - 06:57 PM

Grandpa was Babe Ruths mechanic