I've limited interest in modern day baseball but, as an onlooker, it appeared to be a fascinating season with many great stories including 3 perfect games, 7 no-hitters, Hamilton's 4 home run game, Rodriguez tying with Gehrig for most career Grand Slams, Moyer becoming oldest pitcher to win a game, Fister striking out 9 consecutive batters and many more incidents and stories that have slipped my mind.


It would be rather ironic were the A's to win the World Series given the recent Moneyball film. Some have made reference to a movie about the Red Sox being released shortly before they won the World Series in 2004.


Personally, although they haven't been very impressive recently, I hope that the Yankees can do it, especially as this year is the 80th anniversary of Babe Ruth's "called shot" in the 1932 Series rout of the Chicago Cubs.


More so, following on the back of Moneyball, I'm very much looking forward to the release of "42", the movie about Jackie Robinson who, of course, was the first black player to play in the major leagues:





Also, whilst on the subject of movies, as some of you likely know, I am a strong collector of original vintage baseball photography. This is one of the photos I picked up when in the United States over recent weeks. It's an original photo during the filming of one of the greatest ever baseball films of all time, Slide Kelly Slide (1927).

It shows Hollywood actor William Haines as a baseball player, pictured with a number of real life baseball legends of the era, Tony Lazzeri, my favourite player of all-time, Bob Meusel and, his brother, Irish Meusel. For the purpose of the film, all these players are pictured here in NY Yankees uniforms, even though Irish was actually a NY Giants player !!


http://i926.photobucket.com/albums/a...llyslide-1.jpg

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i hated to see the reds go. i've always loved cal ripken jr. i'm hollerin' real loud for the orioles lol. not a yankee fan, so that gives me extra hollers.

Great to see the Yankees make it through - the way it should be every year.

Now for revenge against Detroit after last year's defeat.

Let's go Orioles over the Yankees. Yeahhhh Boiiiissss!

yeah those yankees won. puh! and they will not get these tigers by the tail! :)

i didn't get to watch the nationals/cardinals. i like both of those teams. so i'm going with the cardinals/tigers ... tigers to win it!

guess I'm out of the loop. Thought the Orioles were still in it and hoping they would kick the Yankees out. :|

I'll go for the Cardinals or Giants for the win!

The way it should be every year is the Indians in the postseason, but was not to be.:eyebat:

Seriously, I have no favorites, but since the Yankees, Giants and Cards have all won in the last three years, I say it's the Tigers' turn.

This lifelong, die-hard Tigers fan cannot wait to see a lot of this in the ALCS:



That would be A-Rod striking out. And this was shot at Yankees Stadium, so those are Yankees fans booing him.

Tigers have superior starting pitching, but a weaker bullpen. It's going to come down to who brings the bats. And we already know that won't be A-Rod.

:huhlaugh:



The good thing is that baseball doesn't work in that egalitarian way .... if it did, the Red Sox wouldn't have had to wait 86 years to win the series :D

Yankees will win it this year.

what the hell kobi! detroit had it won LOL. good freakin' grief charlie brown lol.

what a trade raul ibanez has been from the phillies. was it last year or this year he was traded to the yankees?

goodnight. i'm not going yet lol.

Cardinals all the way! We won it all last year.... and looking for a repeat in '12!

damnnn Jeter broke his ankle. ouch!

The Yankees' batters are performing poorly but Sabathia (sp?) is fully rested and probably their best pitcher. It really depends how the Tigers match with him.

Only one other MLB team has ever come back 0-3 and won. Three guesses who the losers were; the winners shall not be mentioned on my keyboard ;).

if the yankees don't win with sabathia, especially going up against max scherzer ... well that would say a lot. not good, of course.

i don't agree with benching a rod. i don't like him, ... way too much ego for me. but he is a go to player, and coach played him all year and won with him in slumps. i say always go with what got you here. a rod has had way worse years and still played.

go tigers!



i don't know guihong. i will look it up lol.

Kobi got it :)

In the meantime, it's still raining in St.Louis :(. I suppose it might be called soon.

A great sweep by the Tigers, but I hope they don't lose momentum while they wait into next week. OTOH, they'll be rested and whoever they face will not.

A Rod too busy adding to his binders of women from the stands..

Yankees lose ! and Congrats to the Tigers and good luck to all the teams standing still!

where is atlast?

i've been giving my rah rah's to the cardinals. but it's looking rough. gambaru!

i'll turn it all over to the tigers later tonight lol.

Giants vs Tigers! World Series starts Wednesday
 

Its going to be a great world series !

there may be more, i can't think of, ... but hunter pence was traded this season from the phillies to the giants. omar infante and anibal sanchez, this season to detroit from miami. good moves. i like all of these players and marco scutaro.

looking forward to tonight.

well that just tic'd my pic! what the shoot fire!

lol there's tomorrow.

This Dodger die hard fan says "Go Tigers!" Besides be at odds with the SF Giants for a lifetime because of my allegience to my home team the Dodgers; The Detroit Tigers deserve the World Series. If they don't win it this year, I am happy they made it this far.