steveu
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The '03 postseason remains the gold standard for me, at least in recent memory. No doubt 1986 was fantastic, but 2003 to me was vindication.
A lot of people were bashing the game, saying baseball was a dying sport. Then came a crazy postseason. I went to two Twins-Yankees games that year in Minneapolis, but all around was chaos. The Marlins took out the Giants and the Cubs beat the favored Braves.
Then the Yankees-Red Sox went seven and had the famous fight with Pedro and Don Zimmer. The Cubs-Marlins? Ya. Bartman.
Both the ALCS and NLCS went seven games. The networks were forced to substitute repeats of Friends and CSI on NBC and CBS because they expected 25-30 million viewers for the last game.
The cover of SI around spring training read "Baseball's Back!" as if the game had staged a comeback. I couldn't resist and e-mailed SI to say "I'm glad you think it's back. Some of us thought it never left!"
A lot of people were bashing the game, saying baseball was a dying sport. Then came a crazy postseason. I went to two Twins-Yankees games that year in Minneapolis, but all around was chaos. The Marlins took out the Giants and the Cubs beat the favored Braves.
Then the Yankees-Red Sox went seven and had the famous fight with Pedro and Don Zimmer. The Cubs-Marlins? Ya. Bartman.
Both the ALCS and NLCS went seven games. The networks were forced to substitute repeats of Friends and CSI on NBC and CBS because they expected 25-30 million viewers for the last game.
The cover of SI around spring training read "Baseball's Back!" as if the game had staged a comeback. I couldn't resist and e-mailed SI to say "I'm glad you think it's back. Some of us thought it never left!"