Hey, Let's Talk About The World Series!!!

If the cards pull it out they will call LaRussa a genius. But if seems to me that he has been over coaching ever since Milwaukee. Making unnecessary moves and making mistakes.

Please explain the squirrel stuffed animals?

Walk AP, now the Rangers against the guy that rejected the Rangers....you can't make this stuff up.

Please explain the squirrel stuffed animals?


It is the Cardinals pregame meal.

Wow

The season does not want to end!

Birds just won't die!

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Originally posted by baseball_fever:
Please explain the squirrel stuffed animals?

Remember the game against the Phillies where the squirrel ran across home plate just as the Oswalt's pitch was crossing the plate? It was called a ball and the Phillies argued the squirrel affected the umpire's call.

Great game. I think LaRussa may be reconsidering his early and often use of the bullpen. the bullpen has got to be beat up and worn down.

WOW!!!!!

Game 7

OMG, as the kids say nowadays!!!!!

The new Carlton
Fisk

Great game. Was hoping for a Texas win but what a game.

That kid is cool!!!!!

In fact, he's cool like the other side of the pillow:

What a game! The Cardinals--the team that would not die!

And game 7 is in the wildcard's park instead of a division winner's because of an exhibition game. There's one thing wrong with baseball.

Friday Night Lights..Game 7 Winner Take all..What else can you dream for! May the best team win!

"Gotta go with the hot hand. Cardinals in 7. Home field pays off and Texas will face Carpenter 3 times if needed."

To brag a little I called it on the first page of this string.

Too bad I didn't have any faith in my prediction and put some cash on it.

As a Yankee fan, there's not a whole lot of interest in this WS but this has to be an exciting series for the fans of these teams. Tonight was some wild game. It has turned out to be a very good series.

The Rangers were one pitch away twice and didn't get it done. I predict they come out flat. The Cards win by at least three runs.

Feliz looked like he was losing his composure starting wih the second pitch to the second hitter.

For some reason, I don't think the Rangers will come out flat. They've been hitting well and scored those two runs after the first tie. If Ogundo and Feliz have been shaken up from tonight's game, that's another story.

What this game does remind me is how good Mariano Rivera has been all these years. Getting that last out not so easy.

Yay! I was rooting for a game 7.

Now I just have to decide who to root for IN game 7! At the beginning of the WS I backed the Cardinals, but the Rangers have grown on me.

Julie

Random thoughts...

5 errors, and a walk to bring in a tie run. That's a bad high school play off game, must less Game 6 of the World Series.

The Cards are making the most of the NL All Star win, as Washington appears to be struggling with managing an NL style game.

Kudos to the Cards for hanging in there and not giving up.

As an Astros fan, I'm glad to see Berkman doing well.

I'll be tuned in tonight!

stayed up too late - disappointed with out come. Wash did fine managing, 2 pitchers and a very timely misjudgment - trying to get the out at first rather than second - cost the game. But that's baseball!

More tonight!

That's the way baseball go!

An EPIC series, with great stories for the cardiac Cards, AP, Craig, Berk, Freese, Naps, Nellie, Holland, Hamilton, Beltre, etc etc etc ... I guess you could name everyone from both teams, including TLR and Wash.

Whether you like it, or don't like it, sit down and look at it 'cause it's the best thing going today! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

GED10DaD

All I can say is, Holy Moly I like baseball.

Is my memory messed up or, did the Rangers just give one easy run away on a ground ball to 3rd... runner was heading home with one out, he's a dead man at home but they throw to 1st for a Little league out?????
Bet they wish they had that run right now

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Originally posted by trojan-skipper:
Is my memory messed up or, did the Rangers just give one easy run away on a ground ball to 3rd... runner was heading home with one out, he's a dead man at home but they throw to 1st for a Little league out?????
Bet they wish they had that run right now

I thought the same thing when it happend. I didn't see a replay though to see how far the runner was down the line. My first thought was they could of had him out at home without much trouble or risk.

From late-August through this WS, this has to be one of the most exciting periods in MLB.

Did I hear correctly that Freese took a year off from playing after high school?

You did. Google it. He was an incredible HS player. Recruited D1 quit BB and had the "college experience" then went JUCO and then to a D1. Lots of great stories in the WS.

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Originally posted by twotex:
5 errors, and a walk to bring in a tie run. That's a bad high school play off game, must less Game 6 of the World Series.

And that doesn't include the untimely walks, Andrus going to 1st instead of 2nd, the sloppy plays that WERE made (like the Cards pitcher slipping fielding the dribbler and then Pujols catching the toss high on the palm), missed cutoffs, overall drop in pitching sharpness, and IMO, the killer - Cruz played that line drive terribly. He took a slow, lazy route and it looked like he was still back far enough on the leap but just wiffed badly because of the route.

These are the Pros, even this year's best of the MLB teams. These are the same two teams that have played so well the last few months to get here, the same two teams that have played so sharply (for the most part) the first several games of the series. It continues to amaze me how, in baseball, things have a way of snowballing like this in a single game, even at this level.

All this, combined with the back-and-forth lead and all the other drama, it still made for a GREAT ballgame to watch from an entertainment standpoint. Maybe one of the greatest.

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Originally posted by baseball_fever:
You did. Google it. He was an incredible HS player. Recruited D1 quit BB and had the "college experience" then went JUCO and then to a D1. Lots of great stories in the WS.

There isn't a greater story than a hometown kid hitting a walk off World Series homer. I'll bet every male on this board had that dream at some point in their baseball life.

I agree with twotex, this was a horribly played game, with five physical errors, plenty of mental errors, and walks in inopportune times. However, even with the sloppy play, it was arguably the most exciting World Series game of all time!

As GED10 stated, there are numerous stories in this series that are hard to beat. Freese, Craig, Pujols, Berkman, Napoli, Cruz, as he said...you can name the entire rosters, not to mention the excitement of watching Wash in the dugout!

My daughter works at a local pizza parlor in our city. The family of Allen Craig comes into the parlor to watch the games. You can imagine how exciting this series has been for them...according to my daughter, our city was St Louis WEST last night! Anyway, Allen's cousins and younger sister bought plane tickets to fly out to watch game seven at midnight after that exciting game last night (Allen's parents were already in attendance). They landed a couple hours ago, and have sent Facebook messages out stating that St Louis is going Cardinals Crazy...gotta love it! Holliday will miss game seven with an injury, so Allen will be in LF tonight, and I'll be rooting for number 21. My son grew up playing baseball with his cousin, and I've coached Allen's sister in basketball for a couple years so I'm sharing in this excitement. Go Cards! On a side note...they'll be facing the young lefty that Coach May tutored as a youngster...you can't make this up, great stuff!

I love this small world of baseball!

I think Coach May's guy is going to come up big tonight.

I think the Ranger's better build up at least a 4 run lead. I hope they score as many as they did when they beat the Tigers 15-5.

hopefully lightening won't strike twice and the bullpen will be better tonight.