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Blog #17

Monday 01 November 2010

The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!

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Blog #15

Saturday 30 October 2010

Rangers won Game 3. The way the Giants were playing, I half expected them to sweep the series. It got me thinking about World Series sweeps. THe first World Championship (which MLB sometimes treats on the same level as a World Series though the name was not yet attached to the series) was a sweep by the 1884 Providence Grays. And I know the Reds did it at least twice (the 1976 incarnation of the Big Red Machine, and the 1990 miracle over the universally favored A's).

Off to Google!

Cubs in 1907
Boston Braves in 1914
(New York) Giants in 1922 and 1954
Yankees in 1927, 1928, 1932, 1938, 1939, 1950, 1998, and 1999
Dodgers in 1963
Orioles in 1966
Reds in 1976 and 1990
Athletics in 1989
Red Sox in 2004 and 2007
and White Sox in 2005

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Blog #3

Tuesday 12 October 2010

As a baseball fan, the past decade and a half has been a tough one. But finally, no matter if you call it The Year of the Pitcher or The Year of the Rookie, the Steroid Era is finally over. Watching baseball became fun again, knowing that cheating (at least one particular form of it) was no longer being openly tolerated. Adding to the fun was the fact that three of my favorite teams (Reds, Twins, Rays) all had stellar years, especially in the second half of the season and won their respective Divisions. OK, it was disappointing to see the Twins and Reds both swept in the Division series, but that's baseball (and it the case of the Twins, some bad umpiring, but that's the topic for another blog). I would have liked to have seen a Giants-Reds matchup; I'm close enough to SF that I might have even been able to catch a game. The Rays could still pull it out, setting up one more battle against the (damn) Yankees. And there's always next season.

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