If it wasn't for so many errors in the beginning this would have been one of the best WS games ever. Very, very entertaining game, and exactly what MLB needed. It helped that I was huge on the STL and the Over for me rooting wise, but overall I'm pulling for Texas as a fan and would love to see Texas take tomorrow nights game, though I doubt I'll have any plays either way.
http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2011/10/28/2520373/2011-world-series-game-6
A World Series Game That Will Live*Forever
by Al Yellon on Oct 28, 2011 7:40 AM CDT in Meta BCB
David Freese and the St. Louis Cardinals celebrate at home plate after hitting a walk off solo home run in the 11th inning to win Game Six of the MLB World Series against the Texas Rangers at Busch Stadium on October 27, 2011 in St Louis, Missouri. The Cardinals won 10-9. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again.
Those words were written by Red Smith, a great sportswriter of the last century, sixty years ago after the Giants beat the Dodgers in Game 3 of their tiebreaker series on Bobby Thomson's three-run walkoff home run.
Those words apply this morning as well. As Cubs fans, virtually all of us are unhappy that the Cardinals won Game 6 of the 2011 World Series. But as a baseball fan, I hope you recognize the greatness you saw Thursday night. If you are too young to remember Game 6 in 1991, or Game 6 in 1986, or Game 6 in 1975, all World Series games that are often held up as models of "greatest postseason game ever", this one was better. Twice, the Rangers were within one strike of being World Series champions, once in the ninth, once in the 10th, and failed both times. That's never happened before.
And I'm no fan of Joe Buck, but his "we'll see you tomorrow night" after David Freese's home run was a touching tribute to his dad's identical call, which happened 20 years and one day ago when Kirby Puckett hit his walkoff for the Twins in that famous Game 6 in 1991. Nicely done, Joe. For one night, you rose above.
Now ... go Rangers. Best World Series since 2001. This is why I love this game so much.
A World Series Game That Will Live*Forever
by Al Yellon on Oct 28, 2011 7:40 AM CDT in Meta BCB
David Freese and the St. Louis Cardinals celebrate at home plate after hitting a walk off solo home run in the 11th inning to win Game Six of the MLB World Series against the Texas Rangers at Busch Stadium on October 27, 2011 in St Louis, Missouri. The Cardinals won 10-9. (Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images)
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again.
Those words were written by Red Smith, a great sportswriter of the last century, sixty years ago after the Giants beat the Dodgers in Game 3 of their tiebreaker series on Bobby Thomson's three-run walkoff home run.
Those words apply this morning as well. As Cubs fans, virtually all of us are unhappy that the Cardinals won Game 6 of the 2011 World Series. But as a baseball fan, I hope you recognize the greatness you saw Thursday night. If you are too young to remember Game 6 in 1991, or Game 6 in 1986, or Game 6 in 1975, all World Series games that are often held up as models of "greatest postseason game ever", this one was better. Twice, the Rangers were within one strike of being World Series champions, once in the ninth, once in the 10th, and failed both times. That's never happened before.
And I'm no fan of Joe Buck, but his "we'll see you tomorrow night" after David Freese's home run was a touching tribute to his dad's identical call, which happened 20 years and one day ago when Kirby Puckett hit his walkoff for the Twins in that famous Game 6 in 1991. Nicely done, Joe. For one night, you rose above.
Now ... go Rangers. Best World Series since 2001. This is why I love this game so much.
Oct. 23, 1993, Phillies at Jays, Game 6 at Skydome in Toronto. With Jays ahead 3-2 in the Series, Joe Carter hit a game-winning three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams.
I was there. Had probably had the worse seats in the stadium - right-field corner, top deck, next to the hotel. Shortly before Carter's homer, I nearly got kicked out by an uptight Skydome security for having a smoke in the washroom.
Managed to stay in the Dome to witness one of the greatest moment's in World Series history.
I was there. Had probably had the worse seats in the stadium - right-field corner, top deck, next to the hotel. Shortly before Carter's homer, I nearly got kicked out by an uptight Skydome security for having a smoke in the washroom.
Managed to stay in the Dome to witness one of the greatest moment's in World Series history.
