Top of the 9th and itâs a tied game at 2-2.
Extra innings. Into the 10th.
Wow. Scenes. Kirk Gibson in Game 1 of 1988 World Series re-visited.
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What a fucking game. Wow
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That was just incredible. A walk off Grand Slam for the Dodgers to win 6-3 after the Yankees had edged 3-2 ahead. First walk off Grand Slam in World Series history.
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That had everything. Amazing outs, errors, fan interference. And then a (slightly) hobbled Freddie freeman hits a game winning grand slam bottom of the tenth.
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Amazing
I always imagine 1955 to be the centrepiece of the fantastical white middle class American idea of the 1950s (Pump Up The Volume, Pump Up The Volume).
The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Yankees 4-3 to win their only World Series, James Dean was alive before he got killed, and Michael J. Fox came back from the future. There was something else but I forgot it. Heffo leading the Dubs to a 20 point Leinster final win over All-Ireland Champions Meath possibly.
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Good decision to get up a little bit earlier than usual on a Saturday morning to catch it from the top of the 9th.
Time to walk the dog before the action gets underway in Rawalpindi.
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You timed it well for the fireworks but the tension was dripping out all through. Just a phenomenonal pitchers battle and then a host of clutch plays.
I might throw an eye on goings on in Pune myself later.
What game out of the series of seven is tonightâs?
Iâd like the Dodgers to win as the Yankees are one of the hun sporting franchises I hate, along with the Dallas Cowboys and Carlton FC, both of whom Iâve spent time following for the craic - I currently follow Carlton.
But never the Yankees.
Who would people in Brooklyn want to win this World Series?
Disappointing though for any early morning risers for Badminton Weekly. It appears to have fallen foul of the schedulers with the extra innings in LA. Weâre off to the India v New Zealand test match in Pune now as youâve said.
Game one.The Yankees are the evil empire alright, the dodgers are their own empire but just a lot more likeable and well run ball club. Game two is tomorrow.
Brooklyn is split. Majority Yankees, sizable minority Mets, especially up near Queens. Like your beloved Carlton, Italians will support the Bronx bombers, as will Puerto Ricans. The sons of Israel are primarily Mets fans. Any dodgers fans have long since passed.
But the jets and nets, and for the firemen and cops, islanders, would be the biggest draws.
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What about New York Baseball Giants fans? Who would they support?
I always think of the Brooklyn Dodgers leaving Brooklyn as one of the saddest events in all of sport ever, even though I hate baseball.
if you were a Brooklyn Dodgers fan youâd surely want both teams to lose, if not be killed in a plane crash. OK a plane crash is probably a bit much. Brooklyn Dodgers fans donât really exist any more though, do they?
Getting the trolley to Ebbets Field, itâs like something from Back to The Future.
Being a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the mid to late 50s must have been like being a general Gaelic football fan now. Suddenly, the thing you follow no longer exists.
American sports need some sort of back door. In the same way we once had a Tyrone v Armagh All-Ireland final, Iâd love to live to see a Yankees v Red Sox World Series or a 49ers v Cowboys Superbowl.
Make it happen.
The giants, much like moycullen, were always a reasonable dual club, so their fans would have gravitated towards the big ball when the small ball game left. The Yankees would have vaccumed any interested parties pretty quick the polo grounds only being a stones throw.
Yeah itâs sad about the Dodgers, so much history, Jackie Robinson breaking the barrier etc. Why they couldnât have just given LA a new team⌠Wasnât really the done thing at that stage. You had the As going from Philly to Kansas City ( and then to Oakland and now to Sacramento then Vegas) setting a bad example for Walter O Malley
It actually sickens me the way Oakland has been treated over the last few years across multiple sports.
I hope the Raiders fail and fail catastrophically in Las Vegas. I donât really give a shit about baseball but I hope the Athletics fail wherever they go too.
Were the New York Baseball Giants and the New York Football Giants affiliated to each other?
Yeah very rough on Oakland. I terms of what a team should be in the community the raiders are already a failure. Most expensive tickets in the NFL so no locals can afford to go, but they sell out with off their heads bros from New England or Cincinnati or wherever who use playing a road game there as an excuse to get away from life and onto the bag for a weekend. It creates a shit atmosphere by all accounts.
It looks like the As are trying to do the exact same thing. They demolished the fabled Tropicana last week to make way for their stadium, which will be nothing more than a tick the box distraction for tourists on the strip.
In contrast the Golden Knights hockey team are loved in Vegas. Everything is community based, they have a range of affordable tickets and they were the only team in all sports to be fully free to air to all households in their home city the last few years. They have a massive permanent support. One reason people like them is they were born in Vegas. Not imported for a quick buck like the others. It counts.
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And to the second question no they werenât the one club I was only messing there.
Like Manchester United and Manchester United.
Papi knows the score
