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Lindseynelson

10-28-2006, 10:32 AM

After a magnificent rise from the ashes the Tigers inexplicably looked a lot more like the 03- 04 version than this years.
83 wins and a Series title, well congrats that banner next April will mean as much as the 98 Yankees or any other Champion.
It isn't even just the 8 errors that made a year long juggernaut look like a March 1 split squad ,it was all the missplayed balls as well.
Great Series for Casey but too little too late and the Cards outfield was no reincarnation of Dom Dimaggio either .
Tony should thank the Reds for never rising to the occasion this year but a Championship is a Championship and wear the ring proudly , you earned it in the same manner as anyone before, by winning the last game of the entire season

PhilWings24

10-28-2006, 01:58 PM

it was a strange series. a huge upset that was definitely more the favorites coming up short than i think most people will want to admit.

the 2004 red sox still played one of the worst world series i've ever seen lol, and they swept. 4 errors in games 1 and 2.

nice to see pujols get a ring, even though he didn't play too outstandingly in the actual world series.

hubkittel

10-28-2006, 02:01 PM

i'd rather win ugly than lose a perfect well played series. a win is a win is a win. either way, we're holding a parade tomorrow.

CanadianKid

10-28-2006, 02:04 PM

Normally (a regular season game) I'd say I'd rather lose a well played game than win a sloppy game but in the World Series I'd take a win any way I could get it.

PhilWings24

10-28-2006, 02:33 PM

Normally (a regular season game) I'd say I'd rather lose a well played game than win a sloppy game but in the World Series I'd take a win any way I could get it.

yeah i'm with you. the more the game matters the more i care about winning, but when its the fourteenth game of the season or something i'd get more excited by seeing my team look real good than i would by see em back into a win.

Astro

10-28-2006, 02:35 PM

The Tigers pitcher's played (and fielded) like they had money on the Cardinals

Old Sweater

10-28-2006, 02:37 PM

One of the worst played World Series ever. I enjoyed every minute of it.

Senior skittles

10-28-2006, 02:53 PM

efin98

10-28-2006, 03:27 PM

I don't think it's the worst played series considering the fact that the field was soaked for the final three games and outside of Game 1 the games were pretty tight with one bad pitch being the difference between winning and losing...some of the play was bad true, but the vast majority was routine.

I agree with the earlier sentiments, I'd rather have a sloppy series than a cleanly played series. The truth is games are not meant to be cleanly played, that's the reason why they have errors and walks! Not every play will be routine...

Erik Bedard

10-28-2006, 03:35 PM

The Tigers pitcher's played (and fielded) like they had money on the Cardinals

All but Kenny Rogers.

Knick9

10-28-2006, 03:57 PM

The Tigers just couldn't do the things that they had to do to win, plain and simple. Give credit where credit is due, which is to a team in St. Louis, but the Tigers had so many easy plays to make and they make it 100 times harder than what it usually was. Hey, you make the plays, you win, you don't make the plays, you lose.

DownUnderDodger

10-28-2006, 10:33 PM

the games were pretty tight with one bad pitch being the difference between winning and losing...
It wasn't so much a bad pitch but bad throws by pitchers which turned the games - 3 leads surrendered by horrible errors - which is very unfortunate for the Tigers, but huge slices of good fortune for the Cards. Sadly the series will probably be remembered for the errorfest it was!!
Anyway - congrats to the Cards who took full advantage of what they were dealt. :clapping

hudsonharden

10-28-2006, 11:05 PM

End-of-the-season "momentum" doesn't mean squat. At the beginning of the postseason, every team is 0-0. They should start giving a ring for best record in Baseball.

BigStellyPADRES4LIFE

10-28-2006, 11:23 PM

all you guys know that if any of your teams were in the situation the cardinals were in you would have been perfectley happy with a win weither or not it was well played. Ill take however I can get it!

I cant agree more congrats to the cardinals they are world champions just as legitimately as any other champ in major league history.

malt-tones

10-28-2006, 11:32 PM

YUP, not a real great display of baseball prowess by either team; however, in the WS, 4 wins means a ring and a parade and the loser goes home.

Congrats Cards!

AznInvasion

10-28-2006, 11:59 PM

Dodgerfan1

10-29-2006, 12:35 AM

End-of-the-season "momentum" doesn't mean squat. At the beginning of the postseason, every team is 0-0. They should start giving a ring for best record in Baseball.

I guess we'll have to be happy with baseball's version of the Electoral College.

pfairban

10-29-2006, 06:11 AM

. . .that banner next April will mean as much as the 98 Yankees or any other Champion.

It isn't even just the 8 errors that made a year long juggernaut look like a March 1 split squad ,it was all the missplayed balls as well.

. . .

Tony should thank the Reds for never rising to the occasion this year . . .

It's not so much the cards won, it's more that tigers played crappy. I don't think the Cards are "World Champs" or the best team. They beat the mets who had a battered pitching staff and the tigers played like a minor league team. . . .

Sour grapes.

Apparently the Cardinals played better than the teams you mentioned. They even played better than the 'Stros. Injuries are part of the game, and if the Cards had lost in any post-season series, you'd be hearing about how battered their players were.

The reason the Mets were great this year was offense. I quaked in my boots with every single Mets at bat during the NLCS because every one of those guys was likely to kill us. Their offense was intact; Carlos Beltran, the real best player in baseball, watched a pitch go by him for last out of the last inning of game 7 of the NLCS.

Funny thing is, I then expected Detroit to pound us to a pulp, and also thought the Cards had already won their own world series and wouldn't be able to put up the effort. How many times in sports do we say "well, they lost because they were so worn out by the effort of the last series." And the funny thing is that, in retrospect, the NLCS was the series this year.

The Cardinals were better than any team in baseball this year because they made more good plays in more critical situations than the other teams. That's very good, not bad.

I don't think it's the worst played series considering the fact that the field was soaked for the final three games . . .

And it was fricking winter. Knock a few games off the regular season schedule, MLB. Did you see the strike zone in game 5? I just have to think that the umps did not want to go back to Detroit (ha, I like Detroit, but how many people ever say "I want to go to Detroit").

nice to see pujols get a ring, even though he didn't play too outstandingly in the actual world series.

I thought his defense (see next comment) at least evened out with his lack of offense, and as usual he came through in the clutch.

One of the worst played World Series ever. I enjoyed every minute of it.

Yeah, some of the great moments in WS history (Bill Buckner, Enos Slaughter's mad dash) are more the result of crappy playing by the loser than excellence by the winner.

The Cardinals are world champions. They will probably be remembered for a long time because, not in spite of, the fact that they were the worst regular season team ever to win a world series. Go Cards.

SHOELESSJOE3

10-29-2006, 05:29 PM

It's not so much the cards won, it's more that tigers played crappy. I don't think the Cards are "World Champs" or the best team. They beat the mets who had a battered pitching staff and the tigers played like a minor league team. Still better than a yanks WS though. LOL
So what does that mean, not the first time a team helped the opponent by sloppy play. Any way that matters zero, it's part of the game making the plays in the field.

Add to that some of the Tigers biggest hitters amounted to almost zero in the batters box in many games, that didn't help.

W_Marone

10-29-2006, 05:35 PM

To me, a win's a win, no matter how sloppy it is, how can anyone honestly say they rather lose a game than win one? Ludacris...hahaha....I'll take it how i can get it.

DownUnderDodger

10-30-2006, 11:02 PM

I don't think the Cards are "World Champs" . LOL
They are NOT World Champs they are the USA MLB World Series champs. Japan are the World Champs of baseball.

World Champions are those who beat teams from other countries of the world. The term World Champion is too loosely used.

soberdennis

10-31-2006, 03:10 AM

It was not a pretty World Series, for sure. Who says the WS has to be pretty. In another sport, How many Super Bowls have been pretty? But in either case, the winner is the one left standing after it's all over. And this year that team resides in St. Louis.:clapping

Brownie31

10-31-2006, 05:43 AM

hellborn

10-31-2006, 05:51 AM

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the 2004 red sox still played one of the worst world series i've ever seen lol, and they swept. 4 errors in games 1 and 2.
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You know, I was thinking about the same thing during this WS...as I saw error after error by the Tigres, I realized that the Bosox had made even more. The differences were that the Bosox were also pounding the ball and pitching well, except for Game 1 with the pitching. It was incredible that the errors didn't hurt them more. Almost all Manny and Mueller, if I remember correctly.

I guess it was more exciting to see a team win despite its errors than to see a team lose because of them!

Captain Cold Nose

10-31-2006, 06:43 AM

They are NOT World Champs they are the USA MLB World Series champs. Japan are the World Champs of baseball.

World Champions are those who beat teams from other countries of the world. The term World Champion is too loosely used.
Japan's all star team is the best all star team in the world. I'm not so sure that means the best team in the world is from Japan.

riverfrontier

10-31-2006, 11:06 AM

One question for Japanese baseball, inc. Now that you are World's Champions, how 'bout opening up your domestic league for any and all comers? No? Didn't think so. I understand the purity issue, and all. But when So Taguchi is front page news, you gotta back that up. C'mon, best players in the world. Stop treating it like Sumo.
Cards fans, nice hit on 17, with the dealer showing 4. Though you busted the rest of the table, you earned that Bud Lite. Enjoy.

DownUnderDodger

10-31-2006, 05:32 PM

It was not a pretty World Series, for sure. Who says the WS has to be pretty.
Too true! Look at how many football (soccer) championships, including world cups, are won with a drawn game and subsequent penalty shhotout - that is not pretty but the result is there in the record books. The Cards did what they had to do, they won 4 games in the WS. Pretty or not, generations down the track will still read that the Cards won the 2006 WS.

saxymuse

11-03-2006, 12:24 PM

Captain Cold Nose

11-03-2006, 12:27 PM

What's going on with the ratings... people just aren't watching the series any more. I heard a report that they're not going to have a friday night or saturday night game during the world series next year.... I don't know, I don't think it will matter. What do you guys think?
Where did you hear that? There wasn't supposed to be a Friday night game this year, but that's because of when the series started. I wouldn't think it's a good idea to skip two days in a row.
Ratings are down because TV options have increased so greatly the last few years.