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Thursday, October 27, 2011

It Can't Get Any Better Than That Can It?

If Game 6 of the 2011 World Series featured the Chicago Cubs doing what the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals did, I wouldn't be typing this. I would instead be either curled up in the fetal position babbling like an idiot or I would be in a state of shock while celebrating with some doubles and maybe even triples. Game 6 of the 2011 World Series will go down as one of the best ever if not the best ever baseball game ever played. The only thing this game didn't seemingly have was Nolan Ryan ripping off his suit jacket, putting on a uniform and pitching to Mark McGwire with the game on the line. It was incredible. This was real "reality TV" and not that crap like "Survivor", "The Amazing Race" and all those other stupid shows out there. This was reality TV at its finest and it proves why sports is reality TV.

The Rangers were one strike away from celebrating the title----twice!! Yes twice!! They let a two run lead get away in the bottom of the 9th and after Josh Hamilton hit a two run homer in the 10th, the Cardinals tied it again before winning it in the 11th on a David Freese homerun. The unbelievable was unthinkable and it became reality just like that. In the 9th, they were so close to seeing Nelson Cruz snag the ball in his glove only to see it bounce off the wall.

The rollercoaster of emotions painted itself out on TV, yet it was likely nothing compared to the air of tension at Busch Stadium as Cardinal fans prayed for and received a miracle.

Like the Red Sox and Mets in 86, the two teams have to put this one aside and re-energize themselves for one more showdown. You have to like the chances of St. Louis after being on the edge of the cliff twice and fighting back to win in such dramatic fashion. However, picking a winner in what has been one of the best World Series I have seen in a long time is too hard to do. Game 7 can't live up to Game 6 can it? Do these two teams have one more thrilling chapter to write or does this book have an ending that is less desirable than one would hope. There's only one way to find out. If you are a baseball fan, you will be watching this one or PVRing it and watching it later while trying to stay away from the score.

For FOX"s Joe Buck, it was a chance to re-live a famous line from his dad as he copied Jack's words from 1991 when Kirby Puckett homered off of Charlie Leibrandt at the Metrodome to send the Braves and Twins to a Game 7 that I will never forget. "We will see you tomorrow night". Baseball fans wouldn't miss it.

It should be a ring-a-ding-dong dandy!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can say im not a real baseball fan but I new texas could win it so i found my self flipping between hockey and football to baseball to hockey for me it was a great night for watching sport and ending watching the final 4 inning wow it was great
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Anonymous said...

The last night of the regular season ws captivating, but it didn't come close to what the Rangers and Cardinals gave us last night. What a battle. I'm going to the Pats game tonight and setting the PvR. I hope I can get through the hockey game without finding out the score.

Anonymous said...

congrats st. louis. you just won the world series.

and I want to vomit.

never liked larusa. ever.

Finnigan said...

Cruz not making that catch in the 9th is inexcusable. It's game 6 of the World Series, you have to do everything you can to catch that ball even if it means slamming in to that wall and hurting yourself. Should the Rangers end up losing the series, I can only hope history puts a giant set of goat horns on him, much the same as was done to Bill Buckner in '86.

Anonymous said...

This has been the best World Series since Arizona/Yankees. It has had it all. With Pujols coming a free agent, I see him at the plate to either win it or lose it in the bottom of 9 tonight. That would be the perfect way for this season to end.

Anonymous said...

Its still baseball! YAWNNNNNNN!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, it's still baseball where the players have more class in there jock than the knuckle dragging hockey player has in his whole body. Here's to the next NHL lockout going 3 years at least.