Yankess Win 27th World Championship

You bet I'm bitter. There were twenty-nine other teams. If any of them won the World Series, it would be an improvement over the Yankees.

Phooey.

What did you expect today? Something about Obama?

Comments

[Alderman Steve]

It's always sad when evil triumphs.

Speaking as someone who lived in the greater Philadelphia area for thirteen years, I can tell you that the only thing more frightening and expensive from a public safety point of view than a World Series defeat for the Philies would be a World Series victory by the Phillies.

Philly is one tough town, but God help me I love the place...

[buckyblue]

Twenty-eight other teams, the only thing worse than a Yankees series win would be a Cubs series win. But luckily we won't have to worry about that for awhile, er, ever.

[nonheroicvet]

Crooked umps.

[anon]

Haven't they heard of term limits?

[mgm]

Yankee$

[jim bouman]

You're bitter?

You know nothing of bitter.

Maybe something about this being the 55th anniversary of the the worst World Series EVER could teach you all about bitter.

The Tribe blew away the hated Yankees. Four twenty-game winners going to the mound; 111 games won (out of 156). The 1954 World Series began in the early afternoonon of September 29 at the Polo Grounds. Marv Grissom threw the first pitch, hitting Al Smith hard in the thigh. But him scoring--even with a bruise--was a foregone conclusion with Doby on deck, Avila in the hole and Rosen always ready to clean up.

Nothing worked for the Tribe that afternoon (or any of the next three afternoons). Willie Mays iced the first win by making the play of the decade in center. One hundred two(102) hours later, it (the entire World Series) was over, at the end of game four at Lakefront Stadium, Cleveland.

So intent on hustling the season conclusion, the Commissioner of Baseball didn't even allow a day off for travel. I couldn't find evidence of whether the trip to game three in Cleveland was by air or rail; the 20th Century Limited would have been the logical choice.

Baseball in the age of TV has been bent to the desires of revenue-hungry advocates of spectacle, not to mention the endless parade of advertising, necessitating strings of official time-outs, leading to three hour games.

And we get scenes of the Boys of Summer shivering their way through games played on the cusp of winter. I liked it better the way they did it in '54...mostly.

I refuse--still--to forgive Al Lopez for not going to Rapid Robert in the 4th game.