2014 World Series thread

The subhead is /// World Series 2014: Baseball Is No Longer the Center of Attention in a New Landscape


Way to get on it, New York Times. You've discovered a change that definitely only became evident in 2014.

It's like Gee wrote that earlier posted article specifically to counteract the coming New York Times story. And Gee did the job in that regard.

 

I was particularly flabbergasted by the late breaking news that a national team that plays once every four years outdrew Games 1 and 2 of the World Series. Cold chill ran through me.

 

Royals lineup tonight:

Escobar
Gordon
Cain (in right)
Hosmer
Moustakas
Infante
Perez
Dyson (in center)
Guthrie

 

I like it.

 

Wow they don't think Aoki can cover that space in right. I was hoping they'd find that out the hard way.

 

Hosmer & Moustakas back-to-back is screaming for Lopez and/or Affeldt in the middle innings.

 

Could a "moment" be more scripted?

Ugh.

 

One more inning and this will be as good as over. Who would have guessed Game 3 would be the best pitched?

 

I assume you mean the Stand Up 2 Cancer thing? Yeah, that was pretty much vomit inducing.

I don't know if it's because of my new line of work in PR, but all these causes and salutes and "moments" really don't do anything but make me roll my eyes anymore. They're so contrived.

Sometimes, the PR machine gets it right and just nails a tribute, but, man, more of them end up like that wretched attempt at poignance than those that truly hit home.

 

Not tonight. Not this game. SF pen will have to be better than KC pen if they want this one.

 

This is the kind of game the Giants have found a way to tie up all playoffs long.

 

nice idea by blanco, but kind of showing not much confidence in hitting Davis. OOP did point that out a while ago, Davis is nasty. I think Bettances can be the same for the Yanks, but this year Davis has been the best 8th inning guy. Bettances was called on for more multi-inning appearances since the others in the Yankees' pen aren't as good as those in KC's. But Davis has f'n nasty stuff.