Game 7 of the World Series
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I turned out to be mostly wrong about the weather being risky by extending baseball so late into the fall, with only an hour of rain so far. It’s a fairly warm evening in Cleveland, although it might rain late.
TV ratings have been very high, perhaps the best since the 1990s.
Pretty good game, huh? (Especially in the Pacific Time Zone.)
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Go Cubs!
>I turned out to be mostly wrong about the weather being risky by extending baseball so late into the fall, <
They got lucky this year.
It’s been surprisingly and agonizingly competitive for this former recovering Cubs fan. Was hoping for a sweep, but after 108 years and 103 wins, it all boils down to a single game for all the marbles. Wow.
“TV ratings have been very high, perhaps the best since the 1990s.”
The World Series beat out Sunday Night Football for the first time ever last Sunday – and SNF was a Dallas / Philadelphia match up where both teams are good. Combination of high WS ratings and declining NFL ratings.
SNF had what, Cole Beasley and Carson Wentz?
Oh yeah, and Sean Lee.Replies: @The preferred nomenclature is...
I liked that members of the Cleveland Symphony played the national anthem.
I’m surprised it went to game 7. I thought the Cubs were finished after the Indians went up 3-1.
Ratings are probably helped by the fact that both clubs are old franchises with lots of history (even if largely losing histories) and large local fan bases, along with lots of transplants around the country who are from Chicago and Cleveland.
The World Series beat out Sunday Night Football for the first time ever last Sunday - and SNF was a Dallas / Philadelphia match up where both teams are good. Combination of high WS ratings and declining NFL ratings.Replies: @Yep, @Lagertha, @Desiderius
I think it was the first time baseball has beat Sunday night football since 2011.
I always thought that if the Cubbies got to this, I’d be jubilant.
I’m at the point however where I want nothing from Chicago, or related to it, to win anything. Ever again.
Nor anything from Cleveland for that matter.
Jesus, but the sickness has touched everything. In the Current Year I can’t even be happy about imagining (((Steve Goodman)))’s ashes drifting out over Waveland Ave…..
No wait. That’s just Kek enough to enjoy.
The last time the Indians were in the World Series, in 1997, was the archetype of what you are talking about with the weather. There were snow flurries and bitter cold in Cleveland, which provided a fun contrast with the games played in Florida. The juxtaposition between the retro Jacobs Field (as it was then known) and the hideous Joe Robbie Stadium in Davie, FL was interesting too.
No dog in this fight. Leaning towards Cleveland but…this is just a fun Series.
They got lucky this year.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Tim Howells
The Japan Series finished earlier this year. And Japan’s late-October weather is better than all but the Sunbelt cities’ over here.
It is sad to see, though, the corruption of J-ball with the introduction of the “Climax Series”. Is there “playoff-free” baseball anywhere in the world today?
(Sorry to Carp, but I’m a Fighter on this.)
Miss when-they-go-low-we-go-high just ran an anti-Trump ad featuring the Billy Bush video about grabbing them by the p***y during Game 7.
If they could just speed up the games! I am tired. They are sacrificing long term for short term. Coors and jeep will keep paying no matter what.
If the Cubs win………..
It’s depressing that all the players look like escapees from the ‘Cops’ show; everybody in the dugout would look better handcuffed behind their back and a bull reading them their rights….and these clowns are worth millions. There is no justice in the world.
And you don’t throw it waist high down the middle of the plate. I replayed every homerun last night, and every damn one was waist high down the middle of the plate. The only guys that can pitch waist high over the middle of the plate have 100mph+ fastballs or curveballs that drop a foot; in other words none of the current series pitchers. Morons.
I’m gonna work on my Vodka bottle and go to bed… too pissed off.
We’re 2 innings away.
Global warming is an MLB plot.
Nevermind that shit!
HERE COMES MONGO!!!
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6-4.
6-6 what fun
All tied up.
6-6.
Whose curse is worse?
I have one eye on the TV while enjoying this fabulous piece of journalism.
Dee, calm the hell down and be a man already.
Yawn.
I fixed the game.
Cubs will win 8 to 6.
It was supposed to be 8-6.
Someone will sleep with the fishes tonight.
Tied in the ninth now. And I was ready for a Cubs win. They just gave up three runs in the eighth.
Two middle American teams tied in the ninth in game seven. What could be better?
Hey, we have an election tied in the ninth in game seven too!
OT
Black church in Mississippi burned, tagged with ‘Vote Trump’ graffiti
HO LEE FUQ! I knew this was going to happen Tribe ties it up. Head is going to explode. Rain coming. Breathe breathe breathe.
An indictment may be coming.
Damn…..extras!
Go Tribe!!
well there is this at bottom of 9th
Kate Bush – Cloudbusting
It’s like the Cubs don’t want to win. We will see. At least they stopped choking @ 3 runs in the 8th
…..and now. Rain delay!!??
The level of play in this Series has been horrible. Errors, base running mistakes, usually non-clutch hitting, strikeout after strikeout. Compared to KC’s play last year these guys all look like the Black Sox (I stole the Black Sox line from my son).
OH MY GOD STEVE YOU JINXED IT!!!
When I was a kid I really wanted the Mets to win and they did! If the Cubs win I will be happy for Joe the Plumber Maddon if the Indians win I will be happy for Bob Feller the war hero’s team. It is a win win situation.
This has got to be the first rain delay in extra innings of a game 7 of the World Series ever, right?
Joe Buck
Go Tribe, get it next yearReplies: @Hibernian
Right now, Joe Maddon, the fan of Joe the Plumber, and Ben Zobrist, the most famous Evangelical athlete author after Tim Tebow, are looking good, If the Indians win, I will be happy for them, if they don’t I will be happy for Maddon and Zobrist.
OT:
More hysteria from The Forward, this time from Maya Wax Cavallaro: Donald Trump’s Plan for Immigrants Should Scare The Hell Out of Jews
http://forward.com/opinion/352854/donald-trumps-plan-for-immigrants-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-jews/
Great game so far
1 out away.
Should the Cubs win, it will be interesting to see if the Chicago shootings increase or decrease.
OT but funny – I can’t be the only one (am I?) casting a wary yet bemused eye upon the Twitter account of disturbed neocon groupie Louise Mensch. She’s calling anyone who trolls her on Twitter ‘Vlad’ and thinks Dan Scavino’s working with the Russians. Also shilling nonstop for her and Rick Wilson’s fantasy neocon prez, the half-Jew/half-Mormon creepy weirdo Egg McMuffin.
every 100 +/- years is good
How about those Cubs?
OK, that’s a sentence that qualifies for my back top shelf bottle of Orcadian single malt.
Good job, boys. Good job.
Cubs put in Alicia Machado as pinch runner.
I fixed the game.
Cubs will win 8 to 6.Replies: @Anon
Heads will roll!!!
It was supposed to be 8-6.
Someone will sleep with the fishes tonight.
Sailer’s rain jinx done this.
Indians didn’t dance for rain this time, but Sailer done it and messed it up.
The entire bar I was in was in stitches by the end of that ad
last time the Cubs won “trust busting” was the ‘thing’
Jay Caspian Kang (Seoul brother # 1) is probably mad because it wasn’t a black guy who recorded the last out.
https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/794041126630129664
Because Science.
Now that the Cubs are no longer losers, will they still be lovable?
Will a victory on the North Side help stop the shootings on the South Side?
Buck & F0x Sports were very biased towards the Cubs.
Anyway, congrats to Chicago, as if the Cubs winning helps anyone in their day to day hustle in that crappy murder capital of a town.
Rain delay seemed to help Cubs
Was really necessary?
Didn’t really rain that much.
Will a victory on the North Side help stop the shootings on the South Side?Replies: @Hubbub
Yes, the Cubs will still be lovable.
No, the shootings, the murders, the rapes, and the robberies and burglaries will only increase, ’cause one has nothing to do with the other. North and South, forever and ever at odds with one another.
OT – Scary video – M1 Abrams vs. Kornet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3898918/Video-shows-Russian-missile-fired-ISIS-completely-obliterate-tank-Iraq-showing-vulnerable-American-armored-vehicles-battlefield.html
The M1 Abrams used in the US has a different armor system than the ones sold to Middle Eastern nations.
All has been foretold by Nate Silver
Reminder: Cubs will win the World Series and, in exchange, President Trump will be elected 8 days later.
https://mobile.twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/730251094614528000
I am amazed at how bad John Smoltz is in the booth. Tripped over his words all night, didn’t even make sense much of the time. Inspired trolling to pair him with Buck.
I told myself when it was 3-1 that Trump would win if the Cubs won.
Here’s hoping superstition doesn’t fail me on Tuesday.
Yes, it has been pretty rough. Weird, after Cleveland played extremely well against Boston and Toronto.
Good grief Steve, this was baseball played to a bitter (and glorious) end that no one knew existed. Tied up in the 9th in game 7 of the World Series is the kind of scenario kids would imagine themselves in on the playlot and park diamond. Fireworks in Portage Park were continuous for 1/2 hour after the last out, and kids are wandering up and down my block with kazoos at midnight on a Tues. in November. With my wife working graveyard, I watched this one alone, but my thoughts went out to my grandmother, who, born in 1907 (and died in ’07), was an infant when the Cubs last won a World Series; to my deceased parents, lifelong, long-suffering Cubs fans who lived a block from Addison St. their entire lives; and Steve Sailer, one-time Chicagoan and baseball devotee waiting a lifetime to see how this championship would unfold.
I was hoping for a Cubs win not because I give a sh*t about them but because it would put an end to all the “wait till next” year sob stories that are trotted out annually about die hard Cubs fans.
An observation:
Just before Aroldis Chapman gave up the game tying home run in the 8th Joe Buck helpfully reminded the viewers that he’d been suspended this season for thirty days as a a result of a domestic violence charge (that was dismissed).
If any man reading this was charged with domestic violence he would likely lose his house, his job, his savings and be behind bars on a felony charge. Instead of that this multimillionaire is on a national stage pitching in the World Series.
Sickening.
An observation:
Just before Aroldis Chapman gave up the game tying home run in the 8th Joe Buck helpfully reminded the viewers that he'd been suspended this season for thirty days as a a result of a domestic violence charge (that was dismissed).
If any man reading this was charged with domestic violence he would likely lose his house, his job, his savings and be behind bars on a felony charge. Instead of that this multimillionaire is on a national stage pitching in the World Series.
Sickening.Replies: @snorlax, @The Last Real Calvinist
TBF star athletes have always had wife/girlfriend beating and the like hushed up for them.
Congrats Cubs!
Did you guys see the anti-Trump ads during the game? They were supposed to make him look bad, but instead they made him look badass and hilarious. “And you can tell them, ‘Go… F*CK themselves…’” I was dying.
An observation:
Just before Aroldis Chapman gave up the game tying home run in the 8th Joe Buck helpfully reminded the viewers that he'd been suspended this season for thirty days as a a result of a domestic violence charge (that was dismissed).
If any man reading this was charged with domestic violence he would likely lose his house, his job, his savings and be behind bars on a felony charge. Instead of that this multimillionaire is on a national stage pitching in the World Series.
Sickening.Replies: @snorlax, @The Last Real Calvinist
The Chapman sidebar to the main CUBS WIN! story was at least somewhat satisfactory. The one thing the Cubs did this year to make themselves much less lovable was bringing Chapman on board. I was delighted to see them win in spite of him blowing a three-run Game 7 lead in spectacular fashion.
The game was just…wonderful. I loved both teams the whole season, well, despite being a Red Sox fan. I had tears in my eyes. I honestly, rooted for both – how can you make a decision over either team?…the players will be remembered.
I stopped caring about MLB ten years ago after my Red Sox finally won.
Go Cubbies though. I’m glad they won one finally. Hopefully Cleveland will win next yr.
Here's hoping superstition doesn't fail me on Tuesday.Replies: @Lagertha
you’re not the only one! I also thought it was weird that tonight on TV, at least Fox, went there!
I don’t know if Kelly/O’Reilly/others, felt their pulse these last days (or their career foresight) , but shockingly, they reported the FBI & investigations over Hillary’s machinations, DOJ shenanigans/all kinds of bad shit tonight…while I was watching the game and cooking a massive group dinner. I was glad that the World Series was interesting and historic and all, but I was more glad that the INTRIQUE METER is up 100%!.
The World Series beat out Sunday Night Football for the first time ever last Sunday - and SNF was a Dallas / Philadelphia match up where both teams are good. Combination of high WS ratings and declining NFL ratings.Replies: @Yep, @Lagertha, @Desiderius
declining NFL ratings are do to the dissing of the National Anthem…but, the upshot is, I am happy!
“This is also the first time in over 100 years that a Chicago cub sneezed and wiped his nose during a world series game”
Joe Buck
Go Tribe, get it next year
They got lucky this year.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Tim Howells
It’s Global Warming. I just hope the Indians get that name changed before the End of the World.
I was surprised to see a couple of Hillary Clinton commercials (attacks on Trump for his comments about women) during the World Series here in the NYC media market. Then I was even more surprised to see Trump ads. Do they think NJ is in play?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3898918/Video-shows-Russian-missile-fired-ISIS-completely-obliterate-tank-Iraq-showing-vulnerable-American-armored-vehicles-battlefield.htmlReplies: @Anonymous Nephew, @Maj. Kong
IIRC Hezbollah used some Kornets in the last Israeli incursion into Lebanon. Isn’t it a two-head thing, so one hits the reactive armour and the second goes through?
Sounds like a great game – thanks to the BBC I now know all about the 108-year streak and the Curse of the Billygoat.
Incidentally I see Jeb’s son George P. Bush has come out for Trump.
Sucks living in California.
Trump isn’t going to visit us until after he’s elected, and that’s likely just to direct traffic to the Mexican border, so we can’t go to a rally until next term.
:^(
The World Series beat out Sunday Night Football for the first time ever last Sunday - and SNF was a Dallas / Philadelphia match up where both teams are good. Combination of high WS ratings and declining NFL ratings.Replies: @Yep, @Lagertha, @Desiderius
Well, baseball doesn’t discriminate against white people.
SNF had what, Cole Beasley and Carson Wentz?
Oh yeah, and Sean Lee.
Has anyone else noticed that the very rare White men playing defense in the NFL, tend to be extremely good?
If Theo Epstein isn’t elected to the Hall of Fame tomorrow, that institution isn’t worth a dang.
You said it. Hard to argue with the cursebreaking his teams have gotten done. And the Cubs are absolutely loaded with young talent going forward.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3898918/Video-shows-Russian-missile-fired-ISIS-completely-obliterate-tank-Iraq-showing-vulnerable-American-armored-vehicles-battlefield.htmlReplies: @Anonymous Nephew, @Maj. Kong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_variants_of_Soviet_military_equipment
The M1 Abrams used in the US has a different armor system than the ones sold to Middle Eastern nations.
Absolutely; Theo Epstein will eventually get elected as one of the best GM’s ever. What’s next for an encore? Go to the Tribe and help them get off the schneid?
Told you so. Brexit is by no means a done deal. Just winning a referendum means nowt to the EU and the usual suspects. Parliament is predominantly pro-EU. Be interesting (in Chinese curse sense) to see May’s response. Now we’ll find out what she’s made of.
“High Court rules that Government does not have power to trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval “
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/03/high-court-to-rule-on-brexit-legal-battle-and-theresa-mays-decis/
Then she needs to significantly pare down the ability of lefty activist judges to legislate from the bench.Replies: @Anonymous Nephew
You know Steve is just itching to tie this into his grandfather and great uncle writing Casablanca; Billy Beane and Moneyball; steroids; the Chicago crime rate; Carlos Slim; and the Turkish Gulan cult. Can’t wait for that article.
Nah, he wants a bigger challenge. He’s currently fielding calls from the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Minnesota Vikings, and England’s World Cup teams.
SNF had what, Cole Beasley and Carson Wentz?
Oh yeah, and Sean Lee.Replies: @The preferred nomenclature is...
Um, Jason Witten. Plus the majority of offensive linemen.
Has anyone else noticed that the very rare White men playing defense in the NFL, tend to be extremely good?
Joe Buck
Go Tribe, get it next yearReplies: @Hibernian
They were in the Series, and lost, in ’45.
I think the Bears would be more likely than the Vikings.
This, in the morning email from Politico… 😉
— FLASHBACK — @NateSilver538 on May 11: “Reminder: Cubs will win the World Series and, in exchange, President Trump will be elected 8 days later.”
“grabbing them by the p***y during Game 7.” My wife saw that in passing and commented that any woman watching baseball would probably just turn the channel anyway. What man watches that and changes his mind about voting for Trump? what a waste of ad dollars.
If she loses, and is serious about Brexit, then she should immediately call a vote, with the announcement that she will treat it as a confidence vote (triggers a new general election if it fails, defectors expelled from the party).
Then she needs to significantly pare down the ability of lefty activist judges to legislate from the bench.
Then she needs to significantly pare down the ability of lefty activist judges to legislate from the bench.Replies: @Anonymous Nephew
Something like that is indeed what a strong and competent leader would do. We’ll find out soon if she is. My hopes aren’t high.
So, how was the World Series game 7, anyway?
My wife decided to not allow any of our four under ten year old, CNN/MSNBC binge watching children to watch The Game, once she heard that Trump’s antics will be aired throughout the night during the commercials breaks.
We are a simple, average family from suburbia and we just don’t want our children to watch that filthy old man degrading the whole country over and over and over…
So, we invited our family’s friend Tiny Duck, his Filipino mail-order bride Fernando, and their two equally adorable cats to come to our house for a round of Canasta.
Then we all went out to the movies to see the latest installment of the epic historical saga- 50 Shades of Medea’s Last House on the Left Diary IV.
Good times.
Was really necessary?
Didn't really rain that much.Replies: @ken
Anthony Rizzo called it the best rain delay ever.
Indeed. Although, like with the US election results, I’m cautiously pessimistic. She has exceeded my expectations so far.