# MLB: The Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [September 30, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-the-playoffs/598185 "2011-09-30T18:45:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 42
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-the-playoffs/598185/821 "2011-10-30T14:01:02Z")
> [@Hennessy](#): > > I never watched baseball in my life until a few games into the Cardinals & Brewers series, I caught on pretty quick though. But I have got to ask hard core baseball fans though, is every post season this damn exciting? Not every one is this exciting but a surprising number are. Probably every third one is pretty special. This was an outstanding example, it will draw comparisons to 2001 (Yanks lose but after many great comebacks and the 9-11 tie-in), 2000 (Subway series) 1996 (Lots of stuff), 1997 (7th game went extra innings after Indians & Marlins both upset the favorites to get there), 1993 (Joe Carter), 1988 (Gibson), 1986 (Mets & Buckner), 1977 (Jackson), 1975 (Fisk), The 2003 & 2004 AL Championships were extremely memorable and of course in 2004 Red Sox ended the 86 year curse. Actually maybe it is more then 1 in 3 years that are really exciting. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-the-playoffs/598185/822 "2011-10-30T14:17:37Z")
2002 was a hell of a World Series as well. Because there are 7 playoff series, there’s always a few that are awesome. Few people remember, say, the 1995 NLCS, but almost every baseball fan will remember the spectacular 1995 division series between the Yankees and Mariners, one of the best playoff series of all time. What Exit? didn’t even mention the 1991 World Series, which is without doubt the best playoff series in any sport I have ever witnessed and is frequently cited as the greatest World Series ever, and was played between two teams of limited market interest, the Braves and Twins. That after two league championship series hardly anyone recalls. ---
**Author:** ![Shniru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Shniru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shniru)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-the-playoffs/598185/823 "2011-10-31T04:16:04Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > And Ryan Theriot. Am I the only one who read his name as “the riot” every time he came up to bat? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-the-playoffs/598185/824 "2011-10-31T13:05:15Z")
What’s wrong with St. Louis? Hundreds of thousands of fans show up for a victory parade, and not one single car was overturned and set on fire. Slackers. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-the-playoffs/598185/825 "2011-10-31T13:08:45Z")
> [@Shniru](#): > > Am I the only one who read his name as “the riot” every time he came up to bat? No. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-the-playoffs/598185.md?page=41)