White Sox win

[Cianne]

Another boring World Series, yawn.

[GeauxTo]

Another boring World Series, yawn.

How about that White Sox closer, Bobby Jenks!
;)

[jneesy]

baseball without a crimson "A" on their hats.....yawn

[Cianne]

baseball without a crimson "A" on their hats.....yawn

Yea, watching the Tide pitchers throw pitch after pitch to the backstop is real exciting :p

[jneesy]

more fun than pro baseball.....at least the backstop got hit

[WayzUp]

Lowest rated World Series ever...just goes to show you that unless the Yankees, Braves or Red Sox are in it, the vast majority of people could care less. Seriously, it's the World Series and all I heard about it all day yesterday while out making calls was the "controversy" of MLB forcing the Astros to open the roof for Game 4 when they wanted it shut. No stories about this player coming through or that player carrying his team...it was about Bud Selig telling Houston to open the retractable roof so it'd look better on TV.

Um hello! How disinterested does the average fan have to become for our "national pasttime" to see that it's due for something in the range of an overhaul. This season won't go down as the first World Series since 1917 for the White Sox or the first ever for the Houston Astros or anything to do with any player from either team. This season will go down as the one in which the steroid scandel finally came to light and the word 'asterisk' shifted from Roger Maris to just about every potential Hall of Fame candidate who may have been using. Just ask Rafeal Palmeiro. And Barry Bonds. And Sammy Sosa. And Mark McGwire.

Meanwhile, Victor Conte gets sentenced to just four months in prison and another four months of home confinement. With the names of players associated with his company (Balco Labs), I'm sure his home confinement isn't going to be all that unpleasant.

Seeya baseball, lemme know when the college kids start back up....and thanks for yet another ho-hum season with the same teams in the playoffs, sprinkled with a couple decent Cinderella stories. :rolleyes:

[RW13]

I guanrantee you that no one on the white sox team this year was using steroids, they used small ball and pitching to win the series....

[WayzUp]

I guanrantee you that no one on the white sox team this year was using steroids, they used small ball and pitching to win the series....
I'm not slamming the Sox or saying that any of them or any of the Astros were on the juice or the cream or the whatever...I was just making the point that the first World Series in recent memory that didn't include one of the top markets (New York, Boston, Atlanta, etc) is conincidentally the least watched of all time too. :rolleyes:

Seriously, ten years from now, more people will remember this season as the one the steroids story broke than the one in which Chicago's other team won their first World Series in 80something years. That fact is very telling about how a vast majority of people feel about our "national pasttime."

[ScreamingTiger]

Another boring World Series, yawn.
no sh!t. Baseball sucks. I'm just glad it ended quickly.

[RW13]

I hate baseball as well, but the whitesox were my childhood team so it still meant something to me and I watched alot of the ALCS and World Series, but yeah, other than that it's pretty gay....

[uscrebel]

I guanrantee you that no one on the white sox team this year was using steroids, they used small ball and pitching to win the series....

Hmmm. I thought that steroids caused small balls. Or is that something else.
:p

[Where's_Demetris?]

I love baseball and baseball loves me back, and Brian McCann went yard off of Clemens in the post season. I'll be holding my breath and playing with my balls until spring training. Sleep well this offseason, baseball. I'll be right here spooning behind you all winter long, while visions of Mazzone dance in my head.

[volimhtown]

Well, I certainly understand the majority of the sentiment. Having grown up in the South, I too had zero interest in professional baseball. It wasn't until I moved to Houston in '88 that I ever payed any attention to it. But, having a team to have a vested interest in certainly changed my perception. Baseball is an incredible sport. There is certainly much more to it than the average fan understands or appreciates. I guess until you truly understand that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in professional sports, you can't really appreciate it.
That said, congrats to the Sox! They played a great series and were certainly the better team. Although most didn't watch, it was truly a great series. The pitching on both sides was outstanding and every game went down to the very last pitch. I'm just sorry that the Astros didn't make a better showing. But, what an incredible year (2yrs, now) by my Stros. The 36-6 run to make the playoffs a year ago, and then to come back from 15-30 just to win the NL pennant and close down legeondary Busch Stadium in the process. WOW...what a ride!! Trust me, had you resided in Houston the past 4-5 weeks, even the biggest baseball nay-sayers would now be fans!! Thanks Astros for a memorable season!!
GO ASTROS!!!!

[WayzUp]

Well, I certainly understand the majority of the sentiment. Having grown up in the South, I too had zero interest in professional baseball. It wasn't until I moved to Houston in '88 that I ever payed any attention to it. But, having a team to have a vested interest in certainly changed my perception. Baseball is an incredible sport. There is certainly much more to it than the average fan understands or appreciates. I guess until you truly understand that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in professional sports, you can't really appreciate it.
That said, congrats to the Sox! They played a great series and were certainly the better team. Although most didn't watch, it was truly a great series. The pitching on both sides was outstanding and every game went down to the very last pitch. I'm just sorry that the Astros didn't make a better showing. But, what an incredible year (2yrs, now) by my Stros. The 36-6 run to make the playoffs a year ago, and then to come back from 15-30 just to win the NL pennant and close down legeondary Busch Stadium in the process. WOW...what a ride!! Trust me, had you resided in Houston the past 4-5 weeks, even the biggest baseball nay-sayers would now be fans!! Thanks Astros for a memorable season!!
GO ASTROS!!!!

Baseball as a sport isn't the problem. MLB, however, is.

[OmahaBound]

Baseball as a sport isn't the problem. MLB, however, is.

i'm not really sure what you want them to do differently (other than obviously continuing to increasing punishments and testing for illegal substances) but they're probably not going to do it. there are plenty of people out there who have given up on baseball or just don't like it, but the game is still highly profitable and that's the bottom-line no matter what sport you are referring to....and you can be darn sure that applies to college football as well.

as far as the games are concerned, i'm absolutely shocked that the chicago white sox won the world series considering where they were last year. all those pitchers on that team with great potential cashed it in at the same time this season and all of a sudden they had one of the two best staffs in baseball. pitching and defense absolutely win championships. everyone remembers big papi winning those games in the clutch for the red sox, but they won that championship with schilling, pedro, and lowe leading the way.

it's pretty funny how much everyone loves the Cubs and is apathetic to the White Sox though. their losing streak was longer than the Red Sox and almost as long as the Cubs, yet no one really cared about that story. if it had been the Cubs this year in the series the ratings would have been comparable to last years.

[Djshockley3]

Baseball is OK. But there is no sport like College Football,and there never will be. I get chills walking around a college campus and when kickoff rolls around. There is nothing like that,espicially not baseball.

[Where's_Demetris?]

Baseball is OK. But there is no sport like College Football,and there never will be. I get chills walking around a college campus and when kickoff rolls around. There is nothing like that,espicially not baseball.
It's all in the eyes of the beholder. I've never been more excited at a sporting event than I was when McCann hit that ball. Sorry to keep harping about the homerun, but I was going ABSOLutELY INSANE :D .

[WayzUp]

i'm not really sure what you want them to do differently (other than obviously continuing to increasing punishments and testing for illegal substances) but they're probably not going to do it.
From my perspective as a fan of a small market team (chose Pittsburgh as a favorite when i was 5, long story), the steroids issue is a distant second to a hard salary cap (one that every team can realistically reach) in terms of importance. Call me a fair weather fan or whatever but once the Pirates fall to 20 games back in the second month of the season and it's like that every year since the Francisco Cabrera incident, it's kind of hard to keep any kind of interest y'know? Jeter & A-Rod made more than the entire Pittsburgh roster. The lack of any kind of salary cap has effectively turned teams like Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay into a major league level farm team. Every good player we have that comes up through the farm system has one good year and then it's off to whoever throws the most money at them in free agency. That is what I want them to do differently. Make it a level playing field for all teams. It's why the NFL & NASCAR have soared past baseball in popularity and it's why year after year, unless one of the big market teams is involved, no one will tune in. And I don't blame them, I'm one of them.

if it had been the Cubs this year in the series the ratings would have been comparable to last years.
Very true...I think it would have surpassed last years, actually. The Cubs have turned losing into an artform.

[cocky4ever]

MLB has a lot of problems. While I am a Braves fan Im not really a Major League Baseball fan. I think thats how a lot of people are. I very rarely watch a major league game that the Braves arent in, and even then its only in the postseason. I didnt watch any of this years World Series Games after the Braves went out. The way they do it now is horrible. Instead of showing how the defense is playing for a particular batter they will only show the pitcher. Then instead of hearing about particular players or why they pitcher or defense is doing what they're doing you are often subjected to hearing the announcers reminisce about something that happened 30 years ago. When the cameras do finally show something besides the pitcher they show fans in the stands. No wonder a lot of people think there is not much strategy to baseball. In football the announcers will break down the plays, the defenses, the players,etc.

MLB has a lot of problems and I wont even get into the salary cap thing, thats too obvious. Its basically the baseball equivalent of letting a few pro-bowl teams play together for a whole season. Thank God the Braves have an awesome farm system or else I probably wouldnt watch MLB at all.

[WayzUp]

I see that I'm going to have to turn off ESPN for a few hours (days??). That clip of the Sox players singing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" is going to get real old, real quick.

There had to have been better choices for a celebratory theme song than that. :confused: :rolleyes: :eek: