Game One, 8:07 PM Eastern, AT&T Park, Fox TV.
Verlander versus Zito. Tigers at Giants. The New York Times:
The Giants have reached the World Series 19 times, the Tigers 11 times. Yet this is their first date for the championship.
Eight teams have reached the World Series at least 10 times: the Yankees, the A’s, the Red Sox and the Tigers in the American League, and the Giants, the Cardinals, the Dodgers and the Cubs (really) in the National League. All the possible World Series matchups involving those teams have now taken place, except for one: the Tigers and the Dodgers have still never met in the World Series.
Here’s Roger Angell on teams from the original leagues making it to the Series, published on October 11. If you haven’t read Angell before, here’s his bio along with a list of his baseball essay collections. Read them.
If you want more World Series feature stories, check out the sidebar when you click the preview link (the first one in this post).
Kemp’s rehab will take longer than he hoped.
I heard conflicting reports on KJ too. One said he could resume all activites in 10 days, the other report listed three months. I thought 10 days was quick, but both would mean he’s healthy with a good prognosis.
Will they Int. walk him next time up (no matter the situation)?
“We’re already down 6-0. What the heck. Let’s see if he can do it.” That would be my attitude.
“But watch out for in your ear…”
Grins. Right.
Not sure that I can actually watch this stuff. About as far as I will go is to quaff an Anchor Steam.
Wow! The Panda’s having one heck of a game.
Wow. The Panda putting on his best Albert Pujols, Reggie Jackson, Babe Ruth imitation. Those four guys are the only ones to hit three HRs in a WS game. (We all remember the Reggie ones, I’m sure.)
Maybe opening day in Sydney in 2014 won’t be happening after all (or they are keeping it under wraps!!)
http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121024&content_id=40015028&vkey=news_la&c_id=la
I’m pulling for you John.
thanks, I feel a bit like an inflated balloon after the earlier excitement!
Let’s file it under “where there’s smoke, there’s fire”
If you had told me in April that Barry Zito would be starting game 1 of the World Series, I’d have thought you were nuts.
If you told me in September, I’d have thought you were nuts!
Maybe by then I’d have believed it. 😉
No, John’s right. I wouldn’t have believed it then, either.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/magics-dodgers-set-to-step-up-to-plate-for-scg-spectacular-20121024-285wa.html
Another story on the proposed series
I hope this comes true, I almost screamed in delight when I read it!! http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/los-angeles-dodgers-set-to-open-2014-mlb-season-in-sydney-against-arizona-diamondbacks/story-e6frf56c-1226502900145
What stadium would the teams use if the deal got done, John? Post an image, willya?
There is more information in the second story. It will be at the Sydney Cricket Ground which is in the middle of major renevations at the moment. I believe when they are completed it will hold 45 to 50 thousand. It is used for cricket in our summer and Aussie Rules football (AFL) in the winter
here is an artists drawing of how the venue will look
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=scg&hl=en&sa=X&gbv=2&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=rEaPjd9NK7bWMM:&imgrefurl=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/more-sport/scg-in-with-chance-of-hosting-major-league-baseball/story-fnducgor-1226412814253&docid=sJiSpbz3-rtlcM&imgurl=http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2012/06/29/1226412/813950-baseball-at-scg.jpg&w=650&h=366&ei=OYGIULKyBIKPmQX-t4DYDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1024&vpy=286&dur=1585&hovh=168&hovw=299&tx=207&ty=80&sig=110067462372504196088&page=1&tbnh=138&tbnw=233&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:16,s:0,i:144&biw=1366&bih=599
Wowsers, that Jumbotron along the third-base line is huge!
there is a large electronic scoreboard about that spot currently, but that one looks bigger. It might be part of the new renevations
I think LAT’d still works. 😉
Seem to have LAT’d myself and so will repost–
Or is it EFd (Elysian Fielded) myself? Maybe not the best acronym, I suppose…
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Build it and they will come, goes the classic line about a stadium in the cornfield.
Now, apparently the big question is whether they’ll be sober once they get there..
http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/10/23/mlb-hall-of-famer-carlton-fisk-charged-with-dui/1653089/