Baseball has come and gone for another season. The Red Sox Nation won it all Sunday night. I have a love for baseball that goes back to when I was a kid and cutting out baseball cards on the back of my favorite Post cereal box. They even had cards inside Kahns Hot Dogs. Here are some funny baseball moments- 2 from this weekend and one from 1997.
"I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'" - Forida Marlins Manager (1997-1998) Jim Leyland
Defintition of Sweep: to win (every game, round, hand, etc., of a series of contests): The Yankees swept the three-game series.
Denver, Colorado-True Story: Some New Zealand tourists asked a sports writer why fans wearing caps with "B" on the front were carrying brooms Sunday as they made their way towards Coors Field. The Kiwis wanted to know if those people were going to clean the stadium.
They weren't familiar with the World Series or the concept of a sweep, which Colorado fans hoped their Rockies could avoid Sunday night when they faced Boston in Game 4 of baseball's Fall Classic.
“My Postseason baseball games too slow to keep interest
By Mark Bradley | Sunday, October 28, 2007, 06:19 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mark Bradley Denver — I love postseason baseball — in theory. The reality is rather different. I don’t love nine-inning games that begin at 8:36 p.m. EDT and end 4 hours and 19 minutes later. Saturday night’s Game 3 had a lot of things to keep you interested — a big Red Sox surge, a big Colorado comeback, a clinching Boston countermove — but how many in the Eastern Time Zone (outside New England, that is) stayed up to watch....
The first World Series game I ever attended took 2 hours and 1 minute less than the one I witnessed here Saturday night. Think about that. I’ve been thinking about it all day, and I have to confess: If I hadn’t been getting paid, I wouldn’t have watched Game 3 to the end. Life’s too short. As Lenny Megliola of the Metro West Daily Post said when the official time of 4:19 was announced, "My first marriage didn’t last that long.”
P.S. And whatever happened to Chico Escuela who immortalized the saying: "Baseball been berry berry good to me."
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