2014 World Series thread

[outofplace]

Sorry guys. Busy day and I am behind in my duties.

I must now point out that the World Series champions were among the top 10 in the majors in payroll. To be exact, the Giants were 7th.

Again, I apologize for making y'all wait.

Huh, who woulda thunk it? A team that's not even at the 80th percentile payroll-wise wins it all. Just goes to show you, money can't buy love or World Series championship banners.

The 2009 Yankees are leading the chorus of laughter at your expense.

LOL ...

Good. You are learning to laugh at yourself. Glad you could join us.

Only in OOPlandia is a "cause" having been followed by an "effect" in one out of the last six trials evidence of that cause's power.

Y'all never disappoint. I have a little fun, just like some folks here did when they acted as if the Royals making it to the playoffs somehow proved something in the other direction, and y'all go into attack mode.

Now please, try to follow,dq. You claimed that money can't buy a World Series championship. The 2009 Yankees were just one example that proves otherwise. The rest is just knucklehead behavior by you and LTL. That both of you are among those who are too lazy to grasp the overall point I've made over the years, one the Giants fit into nicely, is just a bonus.

 

[Double Down]

Whatever second guessing the Royals are receiving for not sending Gordon, multiply it by 10 billion and you might come close to the amount of second guessing had Jirschele sent him and he'd been out by 30 feet. It would have been the out that launched 1,000 hottakes. You could do a week of Around the Horn on that decision alone. Yes, it would have been thrilling in the moment to see a series potentially come down to a play at the plate. But throw in the fact that: Perez homered off Bumgarner in Game 1 — irrelevant in reality, considering Perez's injury and the roll Bumgarner was on, but important when concocting fantasy scenarios —and oh my word, the second-guessing would have melted our faces off.

 

[Tarheel316]

Where has YankeeFan been? It's not like him to disappear from the board for this long, especially during the baseball playoffs.

Hasn't been seen since the mods
nuked two (more) of his political threads.

Smells like he's in the penalty box.

Game misconduct?

 

[Steak Snabler]

Whatever second guessing the Royals are receiving for not sending Gordon, multiply it by 10 billion and you might come close to the amount of second guessing had Jirschele sent him and he'd been out by 30 feet. It would have been the out that launched 1,000 hottakes. You could do a week of Around the Horn on that decision alone. Yes, it would have been thrilling in the moment to see a series potentially come down to a play at the plate. But throw in the fact that: Perez homered off Bumgarner in Game 1 — irrelevant in reality, considering Perez's injury and the roll Bumgarner was on, but important when concocting fantasy scenarios —and oh my word, the second-guessing would have melted our faces off.

Last out of Game 7 of the World Series on a non-force play in a one-run game? Good lord.

Babe Ruth (of all people) was thrown out stealing by about 10 feet in a one-run game for the final out of Game 7 of the 1926 World Series (the famous Grover Cleveland Alexander game). Hard to imagine what the reaction would have been had TV, talk radio and the Internet existed back then. (Of course, he and Yankees quieted all critics the next season, but October 1926-April 1927 would have been some wild times under the scrutiny of the modern version of media and fan interaction).

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Where has YankeeFan been? It's not like him to disappear from the board for this long, especially during the baseball playoffs.

Hasn't been seen since the mods
nuked two (more) of his political threads.

Smells like he's in the penalty box.

Game misconduct?

It's like being in my wife's doghouse- dirty and it stinks.

 

[Songbird]

Are you talking about her vagina?

Although Raab wins the award for describing his own wife's vaginal aroma: " ... her snatch smelled like a Moroccan bazaar ... "

 

[poindexter]

Whatever second guessing the Royals are receiving for not sending Gordon, multiply it by 10 billion and you might come close to the amount of second guessing had Jirschele sent him and he'd been out by 30 feet. It would have been the out that launched 1,000 hottakes. You could do a week of Around the Horn on that decision alone. Yes, it would have been thrilling in the moment to see a series potentially come down to a play at the plate. But throw in the fact that: Perez homered off Bumgarner in Game 1 — irrelevant in reality, considering Perez's injury and the roll Bumgarner was on, but important when concocting fantasy scenarios —and oh my word, the second-guessing would have melted our faces off.

It would have been a terrible decision to send him and if the 3rd base coach had, he'd be the new Steve Bartman.

 

[qtlaw]

Yes you don't send him; as exciting as it sounds, these are the best in the world and you don't play like its LL

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

It would have been so in keeping with Ned- he probably even wanted it to happen.

 

[Songbird]

 

[Dick Whitman]

Crawford already has the ball there and his turned toward home, right?

 

[Steak Snabler]

Pretty much everything that could be said about Bumgarner has already been said, but Adam Carolla made an hilarious point on his podcast today:

"When they have to go back and find guys named Whitey to compare your records to, you know your performance is historic."