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I lost interest after they knocked the Yankees out in the playoffs.My only live game at the old Yankee stadium was against the Blue Jays in May 2001.We lost 1-0.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 17:55 - Oct 21 with 1212 views
I'm a Red Sox fan, but have really lost interest since they sold the farm ten years ago. They lack soul now, in my opinion. Watching and listening to Don Orsillo before he was let go and the late, great Jerry Remy was also a huge part of my streaming experience, and I miss that.
I'd love to get back into it, but I'm just not feeling the love.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
This Jays team is pretty remarkable. Only one Bona Fide star, a handful of decent journeymen and a bunch of make-weights. It was glorious how they wiped out the Bronx Bullies whose fans booed them constantly. Even the laid back Seattle crowd lit into George Springer when he injured himself on the base-path. Fortunately he repaid their rudeness by hit the winning three-run homer in game seven.
So now to The World Serious, the star-studded Dodgers await. Where If the Jays win a single game it'll be an achievement. L.A., OTOH have only lost one out of ten playoff games. And in Shohei Ohtani have probably the best all-round player in baseball history — ten strikeouts as a pitcher, three home runs as a hitter in a single game against the Brewers in the NL playoffs. Phew!
Still you gotta dream eh?
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 19:21 - Oct 21 with 1085 views
Orioles fan, but leaning a bit more towards Texas Rangers having been there a few times this year.
I was just thinking the other day, maybe it will take the likes of Dodgers/Yankees winning the next few championships for baseball to do some form of salary cap Like NFL.
I was rooting for the Brewers, and then the marinas as their kind of underdogs.
I think blue Jays are 4th or 5th in terms of spending on salary. Dodgers no1.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 20:15 - Oct 21 with 1013 views
Saw the Jays last year in Toronto due to my son being a big fan. Great stadium, lovely people, something very dare I say, Qprish, about them. Dodgers are formidable, but here's hoping, and at 12-1 to win over in 5, worth a flutter.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 22:26 - Oct 21 with 902 views
Last time the Jays won the World Series my step dad did every home game, or something equally ludicrous. He's a bit 'not quite there' these days, but he's been glued to his radio and getting increasingly excited last few weeks.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 22:49 - Oct 21 with 854 views
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 18:49 - Oct 21 by BrianMcCarthy
I'm a Red Sox fan, but have really lost interest since they sold the farm ten years ago. They lack soul now, in my opinion. Watching and listening to Don Orsillo before he was let go and the late, great Jerry Remy was also a huge part of my streaming experience, and I miss that.
I'd love to get back into it, but I'm just not feeling the love.
We'd turn the sound down and listen to Joe Castiglione on the radio.
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 22:26 - Oct 21 by Northernr
Last time the Jays won the World Series my step dad did every home game, or something equally ludicrous. He's a bit 'not quite there' these days, but he's been glued to his radio and getting increasingly excited last few weeks.
Ah yes, '92 and '93, glory days. Joe Carter jumping and skipping round the bases after the home run that won the series with the last pitch of game.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 22:59 - Oct 21 with 834 views
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 22:49 - Oct 21 by Boston
We'd turn the sound down and listen to Joe Castiglione on the radio.
"Can you believe it..." Joe's hung up his microphone now :(
"Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 23:03 - Oct 21 with 824 views
Were neutrals pulling for the team that has never been to a World Series? The wait continues for the Mariners (the only team never to get to play in the Fall Classic).
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 23:10 - Oct 21 with 812 views
Dodgers fan. it's a bit like what I imagine being a Man City fan is like. hated and accused of buying wins, but also winning a lot. It's nice to have one team that wins, especially for my kids who are now die-hard QPR fans even though they are American and - like their mates - could have picked any premier league team to support.
which, to be fair, they tried and i didn't let them.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 23:28 - Oct 21 with 758 views
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 22:59 - Oct 21 by rottcodd
"Can you believe it..." Joe's hung up his microphone now :(
"Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."
Do American sports fans follow different sports throughout the year?I like the NFL and baseball,but I never got into hockey or basketball.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 23:58 - Oct 21 with 712 views
"Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."
One of my favourite ever. As good as sports writing ever got.
Giamatti, though, to give him his due.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 23:58 - Oct 21 by BrianMcCarthy
"Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."
One of my favourite ever. As good as sports writing ever got.
Giamatti, though, to give him his due.
I think the very best sports writers gravitate to baseball — and, in earlier decades, boxing. My favourite was Roger Angell, who wrote like one for New Yorker. His elegy on the closing of the Polo Grounds, the home of the New York Giants, is stone gorgeous.
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 01:19 - Oct 22 with 646 views
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 00:55 - Oct 22 by VancouverHoop
I think the very best sports writers gravitate to baseball — and, in earlier decades, boxing. My favourite was Roger Angell, who wrote like one for New Yorker. His elegy on the closing of the Polo Grounds, the home of the New York Giants, is stone gorgeous.
I agree.
Never read that, though, and will try to find it, thanks.
“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat.” ― Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Is it a coincidence that with the Blue Jays potential success, that one of their biggest fans, Geddy Lee, along with his best mate Alex Lifeson, two of the three still alive and kicking from one of the World's greatest bands, Rush, have announced a tour next year, and during the WC? Barrstards, it's emotional blackmail, I have to go, forcing me to get a couple of games in against my better judgement with the mango megalomaniac and fraudulent FIFA running things. Please draw England in Mexico, so I can visit Monterrey and Gualalajara and see Rush in Mexico City...........
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 05:33 - Oct 22 with 507 views
Atlanta Braves follower from my time there, where I went regularly to Turner Field. Of all the Yankee sports, I love baseball and been lucky to go to Fenway and the old Yankees stadiums a few times. Oh, and I guess I should throw West Ham's ground into the mix, too.
However, after going to many games, if you ask me to sum up the sport, I'd do it thus: seven innings of mass crowd eating and drinking, followed by a stretch and singing of the anthem, and then two innings of actual focussing on the baseball.
Chez Planet will be rootin' for Toronto.
'Always In Motion' by John Honney available on amazon.co.uk
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 22:59 - Oct 21 by rottcodd
"Can you believe it..." Joe's hung up his microphone now :(
"Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops."
Take Me Out to the Ballgame on 19:19 - Oct 21 by VancouverHoop
This Jays team is pretty remarkable. Only one Bona Fide star, a handful of decent journeymen and a bunch of make-weights. It was glorious how they wiped out the Bronx Bullies whose fans booed them constantly. Even the laid back Seattle crowd lit into George Springer when he injured himself on the base-path. Fortunately he repaid their rudeness by hit the winning three-run homer in game seven.
So now to The World Serious, the star-studded Dodgers await. Where If the Jays win a single game it'll be an achievement. L.A., OTOH have only lost one out of ten playoff games. And in Shohei Ohtani have probably the best all-round player in baseball history — ten strikeouts as a pitcher, three home runs as a hitter in a single game against the Brewers in the NL playoffs. Phew!
Still you gotta dream eh?
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Yeah it's a bit of an ask isn't it - and part of me during the ALCS was, well whoever gets to the World Series is really just making up the numbers. But like you say, you gotta dream! Getting Bichette back fit would help a little, but basically the Jays need to be at 100% all the way and hope the Dodgers have four off nights.
Anyway, any excuse to show the winning Springer Dinger (with bonus Joe Carter content)
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