It proves nothing of the kind. Why couldn’t the 1988 Dodgers have been the best?
As for 1996, Baltimore beat the Injuns because they were better. The fan interference came in Game 1. Not Game 7 or something. No reason that the O’s couldn’t have come back. But they didn’t. Because the Yanks were better.
And I have to second owners blackmailing for publicly funded stadiums. Jerks. That’s why, as much as I hate the Giants, I must respect their franchise for building their own field. Same with Reliant field in Houston for the Texans. AND Reliant doesn’t have “personal seat licenses” for season ticket holders…which are another horrible thing about the game today.
OK, fuck it. I give up. This is such an ignorant statement that I have lost the will to live, let alone continue trying to reason with you. I’ll just encourage you to read about the 1906 World Series, if you ever manage to pull your head out of your ass.
I’ve ranted about the Bob Cole/Harry Neale duo during last years play-offs, so I’ll spare everyone the details. Anyone who has had the misfortune to listen to these two idiots call a hockey game knows exactly what I’m talking about.
I also have an issue with all the professional sports teams that feel compelled to change their uniform every season. WTF?!?!
Even worse are those stupid “Alternate” jerseys that more than half of the NHL teams have. What the hell are they thinking. Its bad enough that hockey rates below sport fishing as a spectator sport in the States, they have to emphasize the “bush league” label branded onto the NHL with these beer-league shirts. Dumb-fucks!
While I’m ranting about the NHL, how about the yearly decree from the league brass on enforcing the rules. Every year its the same song and dance. They make a big deal about how the referees are going to call all the penalties as per the rule book (like this is some radical new idea…), but by Christmas its always back to the same old-same old. Then the play-offs roll around and they “put the whistle in their pocket and let them play”…which translates to anything short of murder is “part of the game”.
Don’t get me wrong, I actually like the play-off hockey the best, but take a set of rules and stick to it, for christsake!!!
Somebody once said, “That’s why they play the games”, I believe at that time referring to how champions are determined. But I really believe it’s the MONEY, and that’s why they play the games.
I find it hilarious that someone who just called the 2002 Anaheim Angels a crappy team and castigated them for preventing you from watching a “good” team is telling someone else to pull their head out of their ass.
This sounds a lot like in third grade, when the other kids win, and the losers keep yelling, “You still suck!” and walk away.
RickJay sez:
No, no, no! I know you’re a big baseball fan, so I’m sorry your local guys have given you this impression. But come to San Francisco and you will hear one of the best broadcasting teams in MLB. Sports Illustrated had an article about Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper about a year ago. Lon Simmons just retired, Jon Miller joined (I think) two years ago and Joe Angel joined us this year. I will happily challenge anyone to stand up to Kruk & Kuip & Miller.
( Jon Miller’s call of San Francisco winning the pennant.)
One of the biggest disappointments in San Francisco during the 2002 postseason was finding out that KNBR radio was two seconds off the TV broadcast, preventing us from muting the hideous FOX announcers and listening to our guys.
Continuing the hijack because I can… I have to point out that this is an entirely illogical position. If the better team has a non-zero chance of losing a single game in a series, it’s pretty damn obvious that it has a non-zero chance of losing the series as well. The mere fact that random chance can determine the result of a single game implies by definition that random chance can determine the result of seven games. Now, one can define better to mean “won 3 games out of 5,” but then one is making up a new definition of the word.
Of course, no one on either side will ever be convinced that the other opinion is right, because this argument has been around forever. And that this is true is, in my obviously somewhat less than humble opinion, one of the stupidest, dumbest, mostest annoyingest things in sports today, ranking right up there with people who assume that having a passing acquaintance with statistical analysis automatically means that one is not really a fan.
Hey, at least he finally learned the difference between Magnus Arvedsson and Daniel Alfredsson. A habit of Neale’s that really ticks me off for no good reason is his seeming neccesity to inform us of the exact distance each shot was taken from the goal. I don’t really frickin’ care if it was 58 feet or 47 feet or negative 2.
I don’t understand the reverence for Bob Cole either – it’s gotta be some combination of Maple Leafs worship and not wanting to admit he’s past his prime, like Pat Summerall.
Where in the hell did you and Neurotik get the idea that I am a Yankee fan? My first post IN THIS VERY THREAD made it pretty clear that I am a White Sox fan, which means my team was effectively out of playoff contention by May or so.
And I said you were a Yankee fan where? I realize that calling you an idiot and calling you a Yankee fan are close, they are not the same thing.
Apologies to you few true-navy blue, intelligent Yankee fans.