Baseball Thread Rated X -- Mature Audiences Only

And now they trail again.

Only these Dodgers can have such a great, dramatic comeback to seemingly save the pennant race, only to still lose it in the very next frame.

There is no curse in the tongues of man, Ents or Elves to describe this feeling.

 

Don't feel so bad Rasputin, Nomar just homered to win it 10-9. Bochy wants the double-switch, so he takes out Hoffman after he settled to retire three in a row, and puts in Rudy Seanez.

Why not let Hoffman pitch one more and make the change in the 11th, should you get there? He pitched one inning yesterday, his first appearance in three days.

 

That was amazing.

I would usually say this is the type of win that propels one team to the playoffs and kills the other's spirit . . . . but these Dodgers just lost two of three in Chicago.

 

That was freakin' insane.

 

I can't even think of words right now. I am almost in tears. Listening to it on the radio, I can't even comprehend what happened. This is the defining moment. World Series, here we come.

 

You are young and have not had your heart broken enough by the Dodgers yet.

I just hope they can hold on.

 

Baseball would not be my favorite sport if it weren't for my aunt. She was one of the biggest Dodger fans and collectors you could possibly imagine. She taught me to love baseball and the Blue Crew starting at age four, and there are fewer things in my life I am more passionate about. She passed away in July at age 57 from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — Lou Gehrig's disease. She lost the battle after only one month.

So if there's one thing that really hits a nerve, it's people telling me I don't feel pain associated with the Dodgers just because I had barely been born when Gibson trotted around the bases.

I said a prayer for my aunt after they foiled a bases-loaded, no out opportunity in the fifth inning tonight. And I feel like it was answered in a spectacular way I couldn't have even imagined.

 

Interesting.

Sorry about your aunt.

But if you remember Gibson at all, you should understand that the Dodgers have done an excellent job disappointing their fans ever since. There's no need I'm sure to go over all the different heartbreaks, but let's just say my hope is high, but my belief is taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Wonderful, breathtaking game tonight. An absolutely spectacular comeback. But 1991, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003 - to say nothing of 1978, 1982, 1985, etc. - have done much to destroy any youthful optimism I once had regarding the Dodgers. Not to mention that dismal roadie they just finished.

I fervently hope that they can use this to go on a run and make fans with all levels of passion and rooting interests happy. But a franchise once associated with "wait 'til next year" has forced its fans to once again embrace such a philosophy.

 

I take solace in San Francisco's "impressive" World Series accomplishments. I understand your suppressed optimism, but I'll say this: if a team can accomplish what it did tonight, it can accomplish anything. ANYTHING.

 

Indeed. Three solid starting pitchers, a good lineup (though Martin could use a day off, he looks tired behind the plate. But thankfully not while batting). But the bullpen gives me pause.

I take great joy in reminding every single Giants fan I know - including one who insists on wearing his damn SF hat in the pressbox - of the "little-known fact" that the SAN FRANCISCO Giants have NEVER won a World Series.

I hope we're still talking about this win in a month. And not as the last gasp, but as something this group successfully built on.

 

uggghm, probably because all mets fans are assholes. every stinkin' one of 'em.

 

So in other words, they're just like Yankees fans.