That was a wonderful World Series. The Nats and their fans were outstanding.Kudos to the team and fans.
Where are all the baseball fans?
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They often say that in baseball, there's always something you've never seen before. The "winless at home"series seems to prove that point. Really a great series, happy to see the Nats win. They were in last place at 19-31 in late May. Certainly got hot at the right time.....especially during post season. Now only one team in MLB has not been to the World Series....the Mariners.
Glad Cougar
I used to be a pretty big baseball fan and would never miss the WS. I don't know if my attention span has gotten shorter or the games changed but I had to force myself to turn on game 7 and even then I was only half watching. Watching Baseball on TV pretty much bores me to tears now.
Outside of WSU football, I only care about a sport when there's a team that I'm rooting for that's playing well enough to warrant attention. When it became obvious that the Mariners were going to suck for the 925th straight season, I quit paying attention and only checked the standings once a month. If I lived close enough to go to games a couple times per year, maybe I'd feel differently.
With very few exceptions, I've watched every WSU football game that I could in the past 30 years......even when we were terrible. It's the only team and sport where I can say that with confidence. As mentioned above, baseball games are better suited for background noise at a sports bar than to actually watch.
Ball Four, which chronicles that single season of the Seattle Pilots, remains my favorite sports book ever. I was just a kid listening to Pilots baseball with Jimmy Dudley and Bill Schonely (of Trailblazers fame) on the radio and you could see even in that single year that Seattle had the worst of the 4 expansion teams of '69 (Pilots, Expos, Royals, Padres). Heck, they even traded a budding young star in Lou Piniella to Kansas City at the start of the season for Steve Whittaker and John Gelnar...a couple of nobodies. Of course, Piniella went on to become Rookie of the Year that season. Mariners have simply followed the same script.
Glad Cougar
The good old Pilots. Grew up in a coastal town, but Dad and brother treated (or maybe mistreated me) to the Pilots and MLB. I recall Tommy Harper being the highlight, or at least he stole a lot of bases for the ‘69’ team.
Trivia for any who cares, who pitched on opening day for both the Pilots and Mariners. Hint, his son was a decent player and also an ex-Mariner.
I was pulling for the Nats until their fans' booing.
Went to a lot of Pilots games and watched a lot of Expos games on CBUT. Ron Fairly and Rusty Staub, both red heads, but Staub was called The Grand Orange. Probably because he hit 30 home runs in 1969.
Fairly, who died a couple days ago, was a commentator on TV when he was injured in 1969.
Expos and Padres lost 110 games in 1969, Pilots lost 98. I liked that the Pilots went for vets, although it didn't work out very well. Going with youth worked better for the Royals.
Yeah, not a good deal with Piniella. I wonder if the Pilots got Whitaker because he was from Tacoma. He hit the last two Pilot homers. Gelnar lost two games in one day for the Pilots.
Went to that first Mariner game with Segui on the mound.
Went to a lot of Pilots games and watched a lot of Expos games on CBUT. Ron Fairly and Rusty Staub, both red heads, but Staub was called The Grand Orange. Probably because he hit 30 home runs in 1969.
Fairly, who died a couple days ago, was a commentator on TV when he was injured in 1969.
Expos and Padres lost 110 games in 1969, Pilots lost 98. I liked that the Pilots went for vets, although it didn't work out very well. Going with youth worked better for the Royals.
Yeah, not a good deal with Piniella. I wonder if the Pilots got Whitaker because he was from Tacoma. He hit the last two Pilot homers. Gelnar lost two games in one day for the Pilots.
Went to that first Mariner game with Segui on the mound.
I do watch a lot of Mariner games on TV. I did watch more WS than I have in a long time. I don't generally watch other teams like I did when I was young.
That goes for the NFL and college football as well. I used to watch all NFL games on TV and get up early and watch college games all day long. Now, I watch the Seahawks and the Cougars. That is it.
I also don't watch other sports like I used to. I haven't watched an Olympics since the original Dream Team. Golf. Nope. Tennis. Nope. NBA. Nope (not since the Sonics left). ETC,....
Whatever sports I watch has almost always been recorded to zoom through commercials and challenge replay waiting. Why do they take so long?
Watch late innings of Mariner games.
Watch all Seahawks and Cougars. Tune in to 4th quarters of Pac 12 football games and a few NFL games.
Ends of NBA finals games. Don't like the playing style and travelling. College bball final game. Watch a couple Coug Pac 12 games to see how bad they are.
Watch late innings of Mariner games.
Watch all Seahawks and Cougars. Tune in to 4th quarters of Pac 12 football games and a few NFL games.
Ends of NBA finals games. Don't like the playing style and travelling. College bball final game. Watch a couple Coug Pac 12 games to see how bad they are.
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