Mel Belli wrote on Oct 7^th, 2011 at 10:56pm:


Tough one Mel.....lets just say it was "in the cards".....next year player wise it's tough to say...I'm willing to pay Werth's bus ticket back to Philly if you want him!

I'll bet the Fox execs are drooling at the prospect of a Milwaukee/Detroit World Series.

nellie, please explain. epstein to the cubbies?

if he wins a series in five years, he is in the HOF, no?

Best World Series game ever?

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 28^th, 2011 at 11:38am:

A terrific game indeed, stayed up for the whole thang.  
Washington never should have batted for Feldman in the 11th, as he was their best pitcher.
Jacoby Ellsbury, and several others would have tracked down that triple by Freese
Jump ball with the below game, however Fisk "magic dance" homah beats last night's homah by Freese....

Game 6
Boston 7 Cincinnati 6
Tuesday, October 21, 1975 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts

This game would go down as one of the greatest games not only in World Series and post-season history, but baseball history as well. Thanks to three days of rain in Boston, Sox manager Darrell Johnson now had the luxury of both of his best starters, Luis Tiant and Bill Lee, available for Games 6 and 7 at home to try to stave off the Reds.

Fred Lynn opened the scoring in the first with a two-out, three-run homer off Reds starter Gary Nolan. Meanwhile, the fresh Tiant breezed through the first four innings, holding the Reds to all zeros.

The Reds finally broke through in the fifth. With two on, Ken Griffey sent a drive to deep center that Lynn almost made a spectacular leaping catch on against the wall. Lynn would suffer a rib injury, but would continue the game. Both runs scored as Griffey ended up with a triple. Johnny Bench singled Griffey home to tie the game at 3–3.

In the seventh, George Foster put the Reds ahead with a two-run double and, in the top of the eighth, César Gerónimo hit a solo homer to chase Tiant and give the Reds a 6–3 lead. In the bottom of the eighth, Pedro Borbon was on the mound, with Rawly Eastwick warming up in the Reds' bullpen.

Borbon gave up a single to Fred Lynn, and then walked Rico Petrocelli. Eastwick was brought in, and proceeded to strike out Dwight Evans and retire Rick Burleson on a line-out to left, Eastwick looked on his way out of the inning.

Bernie Carbo, a former first-round pick of the Reds, who had pinch-hit a home run in Game 3, was called on to bat for Roger Moret. Sparky Anderson was on the top step of the dugout, ready to call in left-hander Will McEnaney to pitch to the left-hand hitting Carbo. Anderson said later that he was concerned that the Sox would call on Juan Beniquez to pinch hit for Carbo if he made the move.

Carbo looked hopelessly overmatched by Eastwick, and on a 2–2 pitch, fouled off a pitch on a swing that was described as having "all the athletic grace of a suburbanite raking leaves." On the next pitch, however, Carbo tied the game with a three-run home run just to the left of dead center field.

Supposedly, as Carbo approached third base on his home run trot, (it was more of a sprint) Carbo yelled out to former teammate Pete Rose, "Hey, Pete…don't you wish you were that strong?" To which Rose replied, "This is fun." Carbo admitted in an interview with ESPN in 2010 that he was stoned on drugs and alcohol during this at-bat as well as in Game 7.[9]

The Sox looked poised to win the game in the bottom of the ninth. With McEnaney, the Reds' seventh pitcher, on the mound, the Sox loaded the bases with no outs. Denny Doyle walked and went to third on a Carl Yastrzemski single. McEnaney then intentionally walked Carlton Fisk to load the bases to face the left-handed hitting Lynn. Lynn flied out on a short fly ball to Foster in left, and Foster gunned down Doyle, who tagged up and attempted to score. McEnaney then retired Petrocelli, ending the jam. Doyle would later admit that, when he tagged at third, he thought he heard Sox third-base coach Don Zimmer yelling "Go, go, go!", when, in reality, Zimmer was screaming, "No! No! No!".

In the top of the eleventh, with Griffey on first, Joe Morgan hit a deep drive to right off Dick Drago that looked to be headed over the fence. Evans, however, made a spectacular catch near Pesky's Pole in right to rob Morgan and doubled Griffey off first.

The Reds mounted another threat in the top of the twelfth. Tony Pérez and Foster slammed one-out singles off Rick Wise, but Wise retired Dave Concepción on a fly to right and struck out Geronimo.

In a fitting end to such an exciting game, Fisk faced Pat Darcy, the eighth pitcher that Reds manager Sparky Anderson used. Fisk took Darcy's second pitch and lifted a high drive down the left-field line. The ball struck the foul pole just above the Green Monster. In what has now become an iconic baseball film highlight, the NBC left-field game camera caught Fisk wildly waving his arms to his right after hitting the ball and watching its path while drifting down the first base line, as if he was trying to coax the ball to "stay fair." The ball indeed stayed fair and the Red Sox had tied the Series. (According to the NBC cameraman Lou Gerard located above the third base stands, cameramen at the time were instructed to follow the flight of the ball. Instead Gerard was distracted by a rat nearby, thus he lost track of the baseball and instead decided to capture the image of Fisk "magically" waving the ball fair)  The game was ranked Number 1 in MLB Network's 20 Greatest Games

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Oct 28^th, 2011 at 4:17pm:

Was a 10 on the Wicked Pissa index.  LaRussa is a great strategic manager.  I'm a AL man, however, it's my view Carpenter comes up big & STL finds a way to win, just like they have since mid August.  I would not want to be on the other end of a Nolan Ryan discussion anytime today....

Mel sometimes even 200 million isn't enough to win.....Congrats Cards on a great win and without wild cards who would care about baseball when teams are in first by 20 games?

Baseball lost its integrity a long time ago when they put an asterisk on Maris' record and looked the other way at steroids. Football loving short attention span fan? Gee Mel you know me well!...heck I'm still mad at baseball for 1994 when they robbed my Expos of a series........

Gimmekeef: The attention-span comment was not directed at you personally, my brother.

Sweetcharmedlife: I will not deny that you might be right

The question now is, where goes Pujols?

phils sign thome? huh? mel, please explain. you ain't gonna give him a glove, are you?

Nice trade by the Giants. Getting Melky Cabrera for Jonathon Sanchez. I would of traded that nutcase Sanchez for a used rosin bag. But we get an actual real life hitter instead, nice!