2016 MLB Postseason Thread

93 Jays Phillies is always overlooked.

 

Fuckin' Kent Hrbek.

Sorry. Just seemed relevant here.

 

Vombatus in 3-2-1....

 

I saw two walkoff postseason homers in my career, Joe Carter's in 1993 and Aaron Boone's in 2003. The latter game was infinitely more dramatic, and has to rank among the greatest games ever. PS: Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS is up there, too, as is the last game of the 1992 NLCS.

 

More dramatic than a walk off homer to win the WS?

 

Only thing dragging that down was that it was Game 6, not Game 7.
People remember the finish, too. They forget the Phillies came back from 5-1 down in the seventh to take the lead.
Damn they should have won that series in six, not lost it in six. That one still haunts me.

 

I would say yes, because by the time Carter hit his, everybody knew Mitch Williams was going to blow the game somehow, and because Boone's home run came at the end of an impossibly dramatic game featuring the all-time managerial meltdown. I didn't grow up in Boston, but my Herald colleagues Steve Buckley and Karen Guregian did (they're still there!) and they agreed it was the worst loss in Red Sox history. Considering some of the other ones in said history, that's some game.
PS: Batman, the 15-14 game was the killer in that series.

 

A great book about the game:

 

I was in college for game six of the 2003 ALCS, and afterward my friend said I looked suicidal. I was so wound up that I wasn't even drinking, and yet I still can't really remember that night. I vaguely recall just wandering around our room after and shaking my head and repeatedly saying, "Why can't we just win once?" Until your team actually wins a World Series that you're alive to witness, it's amazing how much of a psychic hold it can have on you.

 

Were there riots in Chicago like Gator predicted?

 

The fact that we aren't hearing any reports of any only means that everyone in the city is dead from all the riots.