# Can you say "Subway Series?" - Place your bets... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-say-subway-series-place-your-bets/37366 "2000-10-18T04:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-say-subway-series-place-your-bets/37366/41 "2000-10-19T04:52:45Z")
I’m rooting for Pakistan/India to tacnuke the city. They’ll apologise, Clinton will shrug it off, and we will all live on. People still care about Baseball? Those overpaid whiny boys? Sheesh. Oh… New York wins. The winning riot is in their city regardless. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-say-subway-series-place-your-bets/37366/42 "2000-10-19T05:23:17Z")
Timo of Athens, the Mikes, Al “the Cigarette” Leiter, the Body, the Ag-man, and the Fonz have it. Mets in 6. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-say-subway-series-place-your-bets/37366/43 "2000-10-19T13:19:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narile \* > \*\* > In the 2000 World Series, the Manhattan Fault line will slip and interrupt the first game. > > After all, if it can’t happen here in SF, it has to happen there in blightsville. > \*\* ``` I'll never forget how I learned of the quake. I was watching a NYR hockey game when this happened - they were coming to the first intermission, and the announcer said "Those of you who were going to switch to the Worlds Series, there's been an earthquake in SF and the game is delayed, so why not watch our between periods show?" WTF??? real fast channel change. At least give us an idea of the magnitude in death and damage... ``` > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Amarinth \* > \*\* > > Networks will scramble like hell to get away from having to air the games - thus > disrupting their schedules - this close to sweeps. > > \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crunchy Frog \* > \*\* > I wouldn’t go that far. Come next season, I’ll be rooting for no one but the Cards > again. This is a matter of the lesser of two evils, and I can’t bear any ill-will to a team > that simply outplayed the Cardinals. If there had been some bad umpiring or a cheap > play by a Mets player (taking out the second baseman in a slide or something) I’d be > against the Mets with a vengence. > > ``` > As it stands, though, they just outplayed my team fair and square. More power to > them. > > ``` > > \*\* ``` Your sportsmanship is appreciated sir. If the Mets cannot win next year, I promise to root for your Cards. ``` > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Deb2world \* > \*\* > I can now devote my time to hockey. Plan to go to a minor league game > > \*\* ``` The NY Islanders? ``` > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squooshed \* > \*\* > > I can’t root for the Mets either, as they are likely > to steal A-Rod in the offsason. > > \*\* Nah, he’s going to Atlanta if he leaves. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rysdad \* > \*\* > > Giuliani likes the Yankees. Does this mean Hilary is automatically a Mets fan? > > \*\* ``` Oh, no, don't you remember her with the Yankees hat? She ALWAYS followed the Yankees. She wouldn't LIE to you, would she? ``` > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don Jaime \* > \*\* > My whole home state doesn’t have a major > league nothing. > \*\* ``` Not even a major league English grammar program? ``` > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saint Zero \* > I’m rooting for Pakistan/India to tacnuke the city. They’ll apologise, Clinton will shrug > it off, and we will all live on. > > \*\* He only shrugs it off if Hillary is in the blast radius. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saint Zero \* > \*\* > > Oh… New York wins. The winning riot is in their city regardless. > > \*\* NY doesn’t riot. Didn’t riot '94 Rangers (the losers in Vancouver did), Yanks in '96, '98, or '99. If you count the Jersey Devils (I don’t, but it’s about 7 miles from NYC), '95 and 2000 - no riots. Basketball? The Knicks? No riots - no one would believe it. (Sorry, Biggirl) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-say-subway-series-place-your-bets/37366.md?page=2)