2016 MLB Postseason Thread

Love this commercial.

 

At least no Jose Mesa involved this time....

 

I'd be interested to see the Indians version that I'm sure will never air.

 

SF doesn't care if they were "the best team" in '10, '12, & '14, they were the Champions.

 

I kind of felt the same way after the Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010 (and that was every bit as much a pig's flying moment as this). I just haven't gotten quite as emotionally overwrought over my team's fortunes as I did before then. It does tend to smooth things out a bit.

 

Interesting

 

I'm hoping that the Cubs somehow get the old Cubbies like Fergie Jenkins and Keith Moreland into the celebrationl

 

I was only 4 when the Phillies won in '80, so I don't remember that golden age as well as you. The '83 Series, their last gasp of greatness, is really the first time I remember watching the World Series.
I popped my championship cherry with LSU (the alma mater) in 2003, and definitely felt like you afterward. That 2003 season was a magical moment. I got to go to the Georgia game that year, when they gave up a game-tying 90-yard TD pass and then scored the game-winner in the last minute, and screamed my lungs out for 3 1/2 hours. I felt like I and the other 90,000 people there had something to do with that win, and the season. The day after the championship game, people were congratulating me like I'd just had my first-born son. It was awesome.
After that, it felt like I'd climbed Everest. When LSU won again in 2007, it was great but it was also a different feeling. There wasn't that same "live and die" mentality that was there the first time. When the Phillies won in '08, I thought more of my dad (a real diehard who watched or listened to every game, and sometimes both) than myself.
Maybe it's just getting older and realizing there are more important things to invest your energy and emotions in. A championship definitely changes you, though.

 

Parades are for winners.

 

Good job by my former colleagues on the OC Register.

 

Jenkins, Williams, Moreland, Dernier, Dunston, Hebner, Matthews, Kingman, Sandberg, Durham, Grace, Jody Davis, Sutcliffe, Maddux, Lee Smith, Wood.....

 

... Dusty Baker... (ducking/running)