Lunch Thread Topic: God Almighty appears before you and offers you a choice:
The Angels will win the World Series this year, it will be their only title in the next 15 seasons, but you will get stuck somewhere and not be able to watch any of the playoffs until well into November, or they can win their only title of the next fifteen years in 15 years from now and you will have front row seats for the whole magical run* ... which do you choose?
*Magical Run is a trademarked term of Steve Physioc used to fellate the Boston Red Sox during his regulalry-recurring insufferable monologues reliving their 2004 title. How the hell does that chump still have a job?
0 recs | 37 comments
One Title in 15 years...
I think I would convert and try my luck with Allah, Buddha, or floaty Hindu thingy.
NO DEAL!
Angel Hawker - July 8, 2009
God is trying to fool you.
The only way you would get front row seats to the World Series game is if you died and went to heaven. So I choose 2009 so I can see it while I am alive.
44FAN - July 8, 2009
Another poll you could do Rev...
Is how many of us would sell our souls to the devil for 15 straight championships?
Angel Hawker - July 8, 2009
Im in.
WillGoAngels27 - July 9, 2009
Didn't the KC Royals make one of those deals?
Oh wait, it was with the Devil, and apparently, it was at least 25 years, not 15 years.
red floyd - July 8, 2009
I actually had a God-like proposal this year...
Strangely, I recently just WON a trip to Europe. Crazy shit. The catch? I can only go in October?
So if the Halos make the playoffs and make a serious run at it, I wont even be around this year to see it.
What do I do?
Go to Europe…duh.
BryanHarvey'sMoustache - July 8, 2009
and just buy the DVD of their "Magical Run"
acuda27 - July 8, 2009
It won't be available
Compare Angels 2002 with Bosux 2004 as to video availability.
red floyd - July 8, 2009
October = best time to vacation in Europe.
Downing Rules - July 8, 2009
Octoberfest
best time to tour Munich, scew the rest of Europe
Moondoggy - July 8, 2009
Too bad that occurs in September.
Downing Rules - July 9, 2009
I won't be here in 2024...
The mothership is coming to pick me up in 2012.
Funke5ive - July 8, 2009
im going with you
mastermind565 - July 8, 2009
im going with 2024
if a title is won and you were not there to see it…do you have any connection to it?
ihearhowie2.0 - July 8, 2009
Yes if you buy the DVD's......and if you noticed, Rev said you wont be able to watch the Playoffs
UNTIL NOVEMBER…….So you would be able to watch them WIN IT ALL!!!!!
acuda27 - July 8, 2009
2002: My baseball journey is complete
Throughout the 80’s and 90’s and most especially after that horrible afternoon on Sunday October 12 1986, all I wanted to witness was one, just one World Series Championship for the Angels. As the years went on that seemed very unlikely. In fact, during the late 90’s I accepted that the Angels were the West coast Cubs and that the Angels would never win one in my lifetime.
The 2002 season was a deliriously enjoyable season. Another World Series championship won’t even come close to matching the exhilarating excitement of that year. I watched every pitch of every game during the Angels 2002 post-season and one thought was constantly on my mind; ‘When will I get kicked in the stomach with another choke?". I had been conditioned to expect epic failure (82, 85, 86, 95, 98), so I kept waiting and waiting for it to happen. But the Angels responded by providing clutch performance after clutch performance. It was an U N B E L I E V A B L E experience and one that can’t be matched simply because the impossible has already happened; the Angels won a World Series Championship.
The fact that the Angels have been so good from 2004 to-the-present is not just icing on the cake; it’s more like getting the entire bakery.
Fan Since 1981 - July 8, 2009
rec'd, and concur.
My boys will tell you, I was giggling for many months after 2002. “Really? The Champions of Baseball are the ANGELS?!?!” It was my shit-eating grin period in my life.
I am 52, and been following since ‘65-’66. With all the people dropping like flies these days, I might not be here in 15 years. If I could nab a second shit-eating grin period while I am above ground, I will take it. And I don’t need to sit in the front row to enjoy it all.
(2002 was, FWIW, a very, very, very good yar for me as a sports fan. Lakers fan since early 60’s. Angels fan since mid-60’s. Patriots fan since ’73. Ducks fan since inception in ’93. Galaxy fan since inception in ’96. For that one year, I ruled everywhere. Only a 7th game loss in the Stanley Cup prevented absolute domination. I have asked for nothing more from God for my sports team since!)
Stirrups - July 8, 2009
I'm with Stirrups and Sothball on this one
Same age bracket, same gratitude for 2002 (except the Pats). I will always chase the high I got in 2002, but like the junkie I know I am, it will never be as sweet and satisfying.
Also, there’s probably a 50/50 chance I’ll be moved out to Asia by October, so scenario one may happen anyway,
And if I was around in 2024, it would probably be one of those twilight zone situations where I would be drooling on myself and asking my boy which team I was supposed to root for,
Moondoggy - July 8, 2009
to what city?
vlad IS my man - July 8, 2009
Me three.
2002 was my 40th birthday present. I turned 40 on 30 October. I’d been a fan since I was a kid of about 5 (1967, see my sig).
Just as ‘82 and ’86 weren’t as fun as 1979, the next Series championship, while awesome, will never match 2002.
red floyd - July 8, 2009
For me, it was simply to witness a World Series APPEARANCE.
Downing Rules - July 8, 2009
Another rec.
I couldn’t say it any better.
To the questions…I’d take another world championship this year. Come that late November, 2009, I’d relive every moment of the
championship runmagical run…even though I missed it live. I still do that during Winter months with the 2002 World Series! It’s that old saying…a bird in hand with an onion ring is better than 2 bushes of caviar. Or something like that.How does Phyz hold his job? Look around you…there’s incompetence everywhere!
sothball - July 8, 2009
2002 series was one of the only highlights that year for me
my dad died in november 01 and me and my mom were losing the house in october we were actually moving things into storage while I was watching the world series. When they won it was like a cold glass of water in hell lol.
devildogamp - July 8, 2009
This one is easy - 2024
While I’ve been an Angels fan all my life (I’m just 19 by the way), I wasn’t a big baseball fan until 2005. So while I rooted for the Angels in ‘02, I didn’t catch all of the games during that magical run. Only a couple here and there. So while I have the DVD and all, I don’t feel as if I was apart of that run. It wasn’t really a moment I relished in. I never felt I could necessarily connect to it.
When I compare my feelings to the of the Lakers’ titles in ‘00, ’01, ’02, and ’09, I feel very different. I feel as if I was far more engaged with those title runs. To be watching each and every second, makes a huge difference. You feel connected to the team and their success. You don’t feel that way if you just have the team DVD.
Joey Kaufman - July 8, 2009
I see your point
We live and die with every pitch since the outcome’s unknown. It’s just not the same if you know what’s going to happen.
It is better if you’re along for the ride.
WiHaloFan - July 8, 2009
Rec'd.......Same with me I'm 21 and didnt become a baseball fan till 2004 when we got VLAD.
I have no sentimental attachment to the players of the 2002 WS team. Now I have Morales, Vlad, Rivera, Hunter, Aybar, Izturis, Santana, Saunders, Weaver, Arredondo…..and so on that I am attached to and feel that I know the players and have been watching them since they came up to the Bigs(Most) or the Angels.
I would take the 2009 WS win because all of these players would be here still and It would be more special for me. And I will be 36 when the WS curse is over which is not bad at all.
acuda27 - July 9, 2009
*37
acuda27 - July 9, 2009
RE: Lakers...
While you are in tune with the 00, 01, 02 Lakers, I feel the same way about 00, 01, 02 that you do about 09. The Shaq Kobe Lakers were all about who could take the spotlight and be “THE MAN.”
I prefer the 80, 82, 85, 87 and 88 Lakers since it was about “picking up your teammates” “no ‘I’ in team” and “elevate everyone around you” brand of hoops.
Downing Rules - July 9, 2009
In the immortal words of Dr. House:
There is no ‘I’ in ‘TEAM", but there is a ’me’ .
Stirrups - July 9, 2009
I missed most of the playoffs in 2002 because I had a night job and had to listen to the entire World Series on Radio. Somehow it seemed a bit more magical because it was old-fashioned.
wildwill - July 8, 2009
probably more enjoyable
than Joe Buck and Tim McCarver…
Rev Halofan - July 8, 2009
2024
if only because…… it turns that life as a grown up is pretty expensive and i could do with a good few years to save up for the first class plane tickets, hotel booking etc that i’d obviously need to make ‘the whole package’ really magical!
AmyAngel - July 8, 2009
2024
This is assuming that this scenario leaves the Angels as perennial contenders, but they just don’t win a WS. I’m still relatively young, and in 2002 I wasn’t as big of a fan as I am now. It’d feel better for me if I was able to see most of the games, follow them more closely, know more of the players and the various moves around the majors that would help me see a bigger picture.
Although I do want to see a 2009 WS win because it would complete my dream year. Steelers, Penguins, and Lakers so far, just need Angels to finish it off for me.
TheKingfish - July 8, 2009
Yeah...and if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle
I love these hypotheticals :)
Anyways, 2024 is my choice. I’ll be 44 and I assume have a couple kids by then, and I could share it with them, which is a special treat no doubt.
swiss mcgee - July 8, 2009
Either way...
I can’t help but feel that I would be incredibly bored watching a season of baseball in which the outcome was already determined.
I’d just tell God to get his priorities in order.
Red114 - July 8, 2009
God Almighty appears before you and offers you a choice:
I tell my wife and she has me committed. So I’ll take 2024, maybe I’ll be out by then.
vladtheimpaler - July 8, 2009
I wouldn't want to know in advance...
Part of the fun of watching a season is rooting for the team to go all the way. If I knew that they wouldn’t make it for sure for 14 out of 15 years, it would make those seasons that much worse.
In other words, I’d rather have the hope of a WS victory for all 15 years without actually pulling one off than get one and know the other 14 would be lost ahead of time.
thetooth - July 9, 2009
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