The thrill of victory is always accompanied by the agony of defeat. If you want to be a baseball fan in October, you have to be willing to take on a large risk of disappointment in exchange for the small chance of winning it all. The expectation grows with each step closer, but so does the bitterness of possible failure.
So I'll ask a question. Which is worse: getting blasted in the division series and sent home in the first week, or coming oh-so-close to grasping the ultimate and then blowing it? One of these two teams will experience the latter. If the Giants lose, they'll have choked away another World Series in spectacular fashion. If the Rangers lose, they'll have beaten the Rays and Yankees, probably the best two teams in baseball, only to founder against the mediocre Giants.
My vote would go with coming close and falling short. If you get destroyed immediately, it feels like you never belonged in the postseason. But if the season ends in anticlimax, you'll have years to curse that one bad break that just didn't go your way. Donnie Moore and Dave Henderson anyone? And that didn't even happen in the World Series. Technically, the home run Brian Fuentes coughed up to Alex Rodriguez in Game 2 of the 2009 ALCS was just as decisive, but it certainly doesn't feel that way, does it?
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Got to be in the dance contest to win it..........
…………so there’s my vote.
norcaliangelsfan - November 1, 2010
the fans in that pic are wearing more red than blue
wtf?
2pintsofbooze - November 1, 2010
They have no idea what their team color is
ryanfea - November 1, 2010
Best thing about last nights game
The Giants taking a big shit on George Bush Day at Arlington Stadium
blochead - November 1, 2010
Since you felt compelled to inject politics in a baseball thread...
I’ve always wondered how a team like the Giants could have any kind of signifigant fansbase (just look at the TV ratings). We all know that SF is ground zero for the “progressive/far-left/etc.” types. I just don’t see how their ideologies synch with the game of baseball…
Liberals hate captilism- A big part of the game is about making maximum $$$
Liberals hate the rich- You’ve got players making “obsecene amounts of $$$” for playing a kid’s game. I mean you always hear liberals hooting and hollering about CEOs making so much money all the time.
Liberals hate traditional values- Um, baseball is all about mom, apple-pie and cheverolet
Liberals love political correctness- In baseball, you’re either a winner or loser.
Liberals hate American culture- Baseball is known as “America’s past-time”
Liberals hate the “vast miltary-complex”- Baseball often supports and promotes the military
Liberals think Cuba is a socialist paradise- Most cuban players risk their lives defecting to play ball in the U.S.
I’m not trying to be confrontational, these are legitimate ponderings…
3rd Echelon - November 2, 2010
Wow
That is like a guy kicking you in the balls and then telling you he isn’t trying to start a fight
SalmonStream - November 2, 2010
rec'd!!!
2pintsofbooze - November 2, 2010
the problem is that when someone
makes a joke that perhaps involves politics, others must then take that joke and turn it into a serious discussion. I know, I’ve been lured in a few times already recently. and as we can see from your ridiculous “ponderings,” you have just started it yet again.
there are so many untruths to what you wrote, I’m not going to waste my time correcting you. just know that I lean left and not a single thing you said relates to me. so next time keep your cheap and ignorant generalizations to yourself.
2pintsofbooze - November 2, 2010
Commander_Nate - November 2, 2010
You forgot "Liberals hate orphan puppies & kittens"
Quad Fin Rider - November 2, 2010
As a Twins fan
Getting swept, again, by the hated yanquis in the ALDS is the epitome of disappointment, but it’s better to be in the playoffs and lose than never to have had the chance at all.
less cowbell, more 'neau - November 1, 2010
Getting swept in the division series for sure
Losing game 7 of the World Series would suck, but it also means you ruined at least two other teams’ October dreams.
Like always, it’s about street cred.
Commander_Nate - November 1, 2010
As a fan
probably the 2nd scenario. I wouldn’t want to be a Giants fan in 2002 at Game 6 of the WS in the 7th inning.
phoenix15 - November 1, 2010
1st choice would be the worst.
1st choice would say to me that my team was on some fluke run to get to where they got, and their luck ran out revealing them to be the pretenders that they are. Caught pantless in public, stuck with some incredibly stupid antler-claw rally idiocy stitched to my cap, and utterly humiliated.
2nd choice would say to me that my team was just as good, just as deserving, but the breaks BARELY went the other way. I could go to my grave deluding myself that my team had every right to lay honorary claim to that missed title.
Stirrups - November 1, 2010
That sums it up pretty well.
agent_99 - November 2, 2010
AlanFalcon - November 2, 2010
sure looks like they are thinking about their dream season
doesn’t it?
2pintsofbooze - November 2, 2010
*aren't
2pintsofbooze - November 2, 2010
I thought our 2007 ALDS with the Roid Sox was just dreamy too...
Quad Fin Rider - November 2, 2010
not sure if anyone who comes here
follows professional surfing at all. but I just found out that Andy Irons passed away today from Dengue fever, which he got during the last contest in Portugal. he was found dead in a hotel room in Dallas on a layover on his way home.
for those that don’t know, Irons won 3 world titles earlier this decade (2002-2004), and was seen as the only real legitimate competition Kelly Slater ever had. after Slater retired, Irons won 2 straight world titles, which got people talking about him possibly being better than Slater. Slater came back the following year, and the world title race came down to the final heat in the final contest of the year at Pipeline, and Irons won it. Slater then went on to win a few more world titles, and is a shoe-in for his 10th this year.
Irons was 32 years old and born and raised in Kauai. his wife was pregant with (I think) their 2nd child.
very sad day for the surfing world
RIP AI
2pintsofbooze - November 2, 2010
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