Is Baseball Dead?

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<p>allie’smom, good for you! I went to work today in my Varitek shirt, khakis, and dress shoes. My boss (who’s retired Navy and from the Oakland area) rolled his eyes when he saw me. I also had many “I hope there won’t be too many blurry eyes in the morning” comments throughout the day. Don’t these people understand this is THE WORLD SERIES?!?</p>

<p>The hardest thing to endure, however, was when he turned down tickets to tonight’s game from a vendor because he didn’t want a perceived conflict. I certainly wouldn’t have felt any favorable bias towards the vendor had I gone…I even offered to pay face value for the tickets. So close to going!</p>

<p>Go Sox!</p>

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<p>peariceparent - Oh, so close and not able to get those tix… I feel your pain - LOL! </p>

<p>My H has actually been at Fenway Park all day today reporting for his radio station “from the street”. Unfortunately, they waited too long to request press credentials for him, so he cannot go in for the game. But, doing lots of man-on-the-street reports, and when I talked to him a few hours ago, he was actually waiting outside the players’ entrance to see if he could get someone to talk to him on their way in. He and I were able to go to Game One of the Division Playoffs two weeks ago, and that was so much fun.</p>

<p>I just came back from shopping and am now the proud owner of an official Red Sox uniform-style jersey to wear to school tomorrow! And, the 5 of us took a photo after school today and we’re going to ask our webmaster to post it on the school website tomorrow, just to make a point!</p>

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<p>allie’s mom,</p>

<p>Good Day to wear the Uniform! Did you get to work on time ?</p>

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<p>In post 1 of this thread razorsharp ask the question “is baseball dead.”</p>

<p>As of Labor Day 2007, the minor league baseball clubs had set an attendance record for the fourth consecutive year, they had 900,000 more paying fans this year than last. There are 175 minor league clubs that charge admission and they attracted 42.6 million fans.</p>

<p>A few more innings like last night 1st inning and people will begin to complain that baseball is too exciting.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/10/romney_passes_o.html[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/10/romney_passes_o.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>“Republican presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo wants to put something important on the line – his candidacy. His campaign called ABC News to issue this challenge: The Colorado congressman will drop out of the race if the Rockies lose the World Series – if rival Mitt Romney agrees to pack it in if the Red Sox lose.” :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>An empty offer. Tancredo is polling within the margin of error. Or, from another perspective, he gets less support nationally than the joke candidacy of Stephen Colbert.</p>

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<p>At the end of the school day yesterday, the Principal announced that today was “Wear your Red Sox gear to school day”, so not only are many of the teachers sporting Sox clothes, but about 1/2 of the students are, too. Lots of bleary-eyes around, which will only be worse after another late night tonight!</p>

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<p>The way baseball karma works, the Rockies will win tonight by 3-2.</p>

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<p>GO CUBS!!!</p>

<p>**** both the red sox and rockies</p>

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<p>The clock struck twelve for Cinderella last night in the first inning. The Red Sox put the “rocky” back in the Rockies.</p>

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<p>The Red Sox are the AL equivalent of the Cubs; cf., Fenway vs. Wrigley. It’s the rare time that I’ll root for an AL team.</p>

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<p>The only AL teams I root for are Red Sox and Detroit, but the Sox have, for me, lost their Cub-ness–they win too much now.</p>

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<p>^^^^
Oh, how I wish we could say that about the Phillies!
The SOX give us hope though…</p>

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<p>Win too much now? You know, I saw an article comparing the Sox to the Yankees but I didn’t take it seriously.</p>

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<p>Saw that, too, and I have to say, though they’ll never be the Evil Empire, they’ve got the firepower to be empirish now.</p>

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<p>Re “Cubness” (#212), you’ll sometimes hear that term used this time of year when folks are talking about who’s going to win the World Series. </p>

<p>Reduced to its simplest terms, the theory goes like this: Cubness=losing; therefore, the team with the fewer ex-Cubs on their roster will win the World Series. </p>

<p>This year it’s close: the Rockies have just one ex-Cub (LaTroy Hawkins), but the Red Sox (having learned their lesson, perhaps, with Bill Buckner) have none.</p>

<p>Ex-Cub Factor Advantage: Boston.</p>

<p><a href=“http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/postseason_blues_and_choices[/url]”>http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/postseason_blues_and_choices&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>But there is also the ex-Padre factor to consider. Based on the theory that the Padres will almost always foolishly trade away their most promising players, and that the Padres themselves would be winning the Series if they had kept them.</p>

<p>Thus, the team with the greatest number of ex-Padres will win the World Series. I’m not sure which team has Ex-Padre Factor advantage.</p>

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<p>I’ve never heard that theory…sounds as if it was made up by a disgruntled Padres fan.</p>

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<p>Looks like the Sox are going to win this all with a gimpy first baseman (Ortiz, since Youk has to sit due to no DH). Anyone remember another World Series where the Sox had a gimpy first baseman? lol</p>

<p>Apparently the Sox are reversing ALL curses upon them!</p>

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<p>Baseball may not be dead, but the Colorado Iraqis are. </p>

<p>Did Colorado ever have a lead, even a one run lead, over Boston at any point during the Series? I can’t remember them ever leading. They were always struggling (and failing) to catch up. </p>

<p>I’m normally a National League guy, but I was pleased to see the Red Sox win. It provided nice bookends to D’s college time in Boston. They won it all her freshman year and now again her senior year.</p>