MLB Postseason and World Series thread

[sacker12]

According to the Wagner on his postgame interview, it is a strained oblique. It's still up in the air how long he is out for.

[Sport]

There's nothing you can really do about it though - what if the crowd wanted (for some stupid reason) to do a white out and everyone wore white shirts? You couldn't disallow them entry to the park. You couldn't really stop people from bringing and waving their own towels either. Not defending it, just saying that crowd distractions are nearly impossible to legislate.

If the team hands out red towels then the idea of a fan white towel movement would be put to bed rather quickly. I think it's silly to hand out white towels to begin with. It's just as likely to screw up your own team as it is the visitors. I'm not blaming the towels, Jay Bruce has to make that catch, no excuse.

[BBTV]

There's nothing you can really do about it though - what if the crowd wanted (for some stupid reason) to do a white out and everyone wore white shirts? You couldn't disallow them entry to the park. You couldn't really stop people from bringing and waving their own towels either. Not defending it, just saying that crowd distractions are nearly impossible to legislate.

If the team hands out red towels then the idea of a fan white towel movement would be put to bed rather quickly. I think it's silly to hand out white towels to begin with. It's just as likely to screw up your own team as it is the visitors. I'm not blaming the towels, Jay Bruce has to make that catch, no excuse.

Like I said, it has hurt the Phillies too (at least once) but nobody has complained in the 3 or 4 years that they've been doing it (they do it starting in early-to-mid September I think). I wonder if anyone made a big deal about it back in '91 when the Twins did it (not sure if they did it since then or not.) Actually, I thought I saw that Bruce said that he lost it in the lights - did he mention the towels at some point? I was at the game, so I didn't hear any of the immediate post-game interviews.

EDIT: one should never tuck one's jersey into one's jeans. Never.

[infrared41]

EDIT: one should never tuck one's jersey into one's jeans. Never.

Usually I'm not much of a stickler when it comes to "the rules of fashion" (or whatever it's called) but in this case I wholeheartedly agree.

[TFoA]

Bit off topic, but Tony Gwynn has cancer.

"I had surgery for a parotid tumor in 1997 and again three years ago and both those times there was no cancer," said Gwynn. "But this time they found a malignancy. They took out three lymph nodes and did all the tests and the results showed cancer in the parotid. The doctors have told me they feel they caught the cancer early and there was not much of it there."

Determined to treat the cancer "aggressively," Gwynn now faces seven to eight weeks of five-day-a-week radiation treatments and once-a-week chemotherapy treatments. He still plans to return as the baseball coach at San Diego State.

At least they caught it early & he feels like he's going to make a full recovery. I sure hope so.

[Punch]

The Twins season looks as if it is coming to another abrupt end at the hands of the Yankees. Though they are down 2-0 and are really bad when it comes to beating New York, I will not stop supporting this team. Tonight, at 7:37pm, I will be watching the game while listening to John Gordon and Dan Gladden on the Twins Radio Network. I love my Twins, and the last thing I would ever do is "jump on the bandwagon" of another team.

/End emotional speech that, if read by Twins players, might motivate them to win.

[TopCat]

On the homer hankies/white towels:

I don't really see the point of them. Sure, it's fun to wave them when EVERYBODY is doing it, because then it looks cool. But otherwise your arm just gets sore. I'd rather be comfortable while I watch the game. I just frame my hankies and hang them in my room. Now that looks cool, and it's a fun collectible. There's 9 of them, if you count the Target Field opening day one.

What is worse is those stupid Rays cowbells. Make your own noise you bleeping morons. Such amateurs. Act like you've been to the playoffs before.

[dfwabel]

Bit off topic, but Tony Gwynn has cancer.

"I had surgery for a parotid tumor in 1997 and again three years ago and both those times there was no cancer," said Gwynn. "But this time they found a malignancy. They took out three lymph nodes and did all the tests and the results showed cancer in the parotid. The doctors have told me they feel they caught the cancer early and there was not much of it there."

Determined to treat the cancer "aggressively," Gwynn now faces seven to eight weeks of five-day-a-week radiation treatments and once-a-week chemotherapy treatments. He still plans to return as the baseball coach at San Diego State.

At least they caught it early & he feels like he's going to make a full recovery. I sure hope so.

He also suffers from DVT (deep-vein thrombosis). I wish him the best.

[Punch]

On the homer hankies/white towels:

I don't really see the point of them. Sure, it's fun to wave them when EVERYBODY is doing it, because then it looks cool. But otherwise your arm just gets sore. I'd rather be comfortable while I watch the game. I just frame my hankies and hang them in my room. Now that looks cool, and it's a fun collectible. There's 9 of them, if you count the Target Field opening day one.

What is worse is those stupid Rays cowbells. Make your own noise you bleeping morons. Such amateurs. Act like you've been to the playoffs before.

The hanky-waving has decreased this year. At the Dome in game 163 last year, everybody was waving one. This year at Target Field in the playoffs, there was only some sporadic hanky-waving.

I have collected homer hankies since 2002, so I only have 7 of them. But I hang them up on my wall, and it pretty cool. Waving them is tiring, but the adrenaline pumping through my body during a playoff game overrules any fatigue in my arm.

[The_Admiral]

EDIT: one should never tuck one's jersey into one's jeans. Never.

Usually I'm not much of a stickler when it comes to "the rules of fashion" (or whatever it's called) but in this case I wholeheartedly agree.

Minneapolis in the late '80s/early '90s probably didn't have rules of fashion.

EDIT: oh god what if that was taken in the 2002 postseason

[TopCat]

EDIT: one should never tuck one's jersey into one's jeans. Never.

Usually I'm not much of a stickler when it comes to "the rules of fashion" (or whatever it's called) but in this case I wholeheartedly agree.

Minneapolis in the late '80s/early '90s probably didn't have rules of fashion.

EDIT: oh god what if that was taken in the 2002 postseason

Confirming that the baggie didn't have the division championships and MLB team logos on it in 2002.

Of course I'm kidding.

[dfwabel]

EDIT: one should never tuck one's jersey into one's jeans. Never.

Usually I'm not much of a stickler when it comes to "the rules of fashion" (or whatever it's called) but in this case I wholeheartedly agree.

Minneapolis in the late '80s/early '90s probably didn't have rules of fashion.

EDIT: oh god what if that was taken in the 2002 postseason

The fashion with the woman with the "Sally Jessy Raphael" glasses and subsequent sweatshirt should indicate that it was a 90's photo. I really hope.

We do not see how the men's jeans are worn though. I think there was a lot of acid washed at that game though.

[FiddySicks]

Uggh, what a BAD loss for the Giants. I'm still confident we can take this series, but we NEED to find our bats, and again, Pablo should be sitting with Barry Zito right about now.

[lordsketor]

EDIT: one should never tuck one's jersey into one's jeans. Never.

Usually I'm not much of a stickler when it comes to "the rules of fashion" (or whatever it's called) but in this case I wholeheartedly agree.

Minneapolis in the late '80s/early '90s probably didn't have rules of fashion.

EDIT: oh god what if that was taken in the 2002 postseason

The fashion with the woman with the "Sally Jessy Raphael" glasses and subsequent sweatshirt should indicate that it was a 90's photo. I really hope.

We do not see how the men's jeans are worn though. I think there was a lot of acid washed at that game though.

I think thats from the 1991 World Series.

[NJTank]

That picture reminds me of the movie Fargo.

[Punch]

That picture reminds me of the movie Fargo.

Fargo isn't in Minnesota...jeeeezzz. Pull out an atlas or something, gol.

[NJTank]

That picture reminds me of the movie Fargo.

Fargo isn't in Minnesota...jeeeezzz. Pull out an atlas or something, gol.

And most of the movie Fargo takes place in Brainard and Minneapolis.

[TopCat]

Oh ya don'tcha know?

[Cujo]

[NJTank]

Classic