Eight Years Ago Today
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 21, 2009 2:28 PM PDT
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Personally, I'm rooting for the Yankees to finish the job in the ALCS. But for those of you who can't understand why any Mariners fan would dare pull for the Angels, know that those people have their reasons, and that their reasons are good.
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Well,
I was having a good day, until now. Thanks!
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
To be fair...
In that thread it’s pretty clear I’m a moron, too..
SHOW FiFi THE MONEY!!!!
by PositivePaul on Oct 21, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
That was the worst day ever
So much hope was built up that year. We were one of the best (if not the best) teams in the history of baseball and here come the Yankees to ruin our fucking perfect season. That day sealed a lifetime of hatred.
That said, I still can’t root for the Angels on matter of principle. I’d argue that winning another World Series would greatly help the Angels future, and thus help ruin ours moreso than another Yankees win. The more teams win, generally, the more seats they sell and the more money they make. And the more money they make, the more their ownership is willing to invest into payroll. The better free agents, as well as many of the best international signings generally want to go somewhere they can win, sometimes taking less money to do so, so another ring would only help the Angels attract talent. These are obvious upsides that happen to every team who wins but because the Angels are in our division it has a direct impact on our future, moreso than just another Yankees championship.
Oh good now there'll be two threads about why to root for one team or another!
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I remember beaning Soriano every time he came up in Allstar Baseball '02
Hey I was 10 at the time.
Yes, we have a coupon.
I had no idea he had screwed us over so badly.
I know very little about our trips of the playoffs. No point in reading about bad things…
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 21, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I couldn't imagine how I would have reacted to this.
I was angry for days when Morrow blew that lead against the Twins in the first series of the season. Same when we blew the huge [7 run?] lead in Anaheim.
But being in the playoffs, in games that really matter, and then losing in that fashion … that would crush me.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
I felt like I had gotten married, had a couple kids, and then watched them die in a fire while I stood there helpless
and I felt like this for about a week after.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
The night we lost the series I drove downtown, got insanely high and sat on a bench in front of the Olympia Film Society and stared into space for five hours.
I didn’t get out of bed for two days after I got home. I cried more watching Game 1 of the WS than I did when my girlfriend dumped me a month earlier. That was, by far, the most miserable two weeks of my life.
by Aaron Campeau on Oct 21, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
My biggest fear is that no one here would understand why I was acting like a giant douche bag for a weeks.
Which is why when we do get back to the playoffs, I’ll be on the first flight to Seattle, even if I don’t have a place to stay/tickets.
I was at Shea for the Felix-Slam!
Personal M's record: 5-4.
by EnglishMariner on Oct 21, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Three words:
John Terry England. They’ll understand.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I cried for the entire second half of game 5, the only time I've ever cried due to a sports loss.
After the game was over, I cried some more as I said little thank yous to all the members of that team that I had hung pictures of on my wall. I can’t ever decide what hurt more between the Bernie Williams HR or the Locklear “hold” in the SB but I can tell you that one of them was the single worst moment of my life.
I had to play a gig that night.
I played okay, but people said I looked like I was ready to kill anyone and everyone in sight.
Which is embarrassing since the assisted living facility brought you in to play Neil Sedaka covers
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
by pdb on Oct 21, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
I didn't watch baseball for about 5 years after that
I don’t know if that was the exact reason (I really don’t remember), but it happened. Sucked big time
I blame 9/11, I really do.
1. We were in position to rest our starters. 9/11 gave the entire league the opportunity.
2. The Yankee players had extra motivation to succeed. I know it is an intangible thing we cannot measure, but everyone felt bad for New York. That boosted the Yankees’ mentality and hurt everyone else. Yes, the Diamondbacks overcame it in the World Series, but we had to play our elimination games in New York (the Diamondbacks lost all three games they played in New York). We screwed up not winning our games in Seattle, but we didn’t have Schilling and RJ on the mound either.
9/11 also spawned November baseball.
It seems low to blame a national tragedy on a sports loss.
but I agree. we lost all the advantages our record had given us and the Yanks gained tons of momentum with the whole country, sans the Pacific Northwest, pulling for them to win that series.
It's not so much low as wildly incorrect.
Nice Guys Finish Third - My semantics are a waste of time.
I don't know about that.
I remember fielding calls from friends in Philadelphia and Chicago, celebrating the Diamondback’s World Series victory.
Well, on the bright side
This series is the one reason I’m glad I didn’t resume watching baseball until about halfway through 2002. Sure, 2001 was a great team, but shit… if I had spent my first season of really loving baseball again watching a true fairy tale season end in unthinkable disaster, would I have gone on watching? I don’t know. And considering how much awesomeness Ichiro and Felix have brought to my life in the years since…. well no, fuck, this just really sucked.
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