Posted by Teddy Panos, Sun Staff
So much for American League dominance!
While the baseball world spent the entire season discussing how dominant the
Naturally, I fell in with the pack predicting a Detroit romp, even suggesting in my poll question that a sweep was as likely as a Cards win. Shows you how much I know! The team with only 83-wins in the regular season, the lowest total of any World Series champion ever, won the Fall Classic in 5-games. Topping it all off, former Lowell Spinner David Eckstein earned MVP honors and New Hampshire native Chris Carpenter, who I spoke with on a few occassions in a previous life, showed why he's a legitimate ace.
Other than that, I didn’t really have much or a rooting interest at all in the series. I'd have been happy for either team because both are great baseball towns. But as I watched
It was amazing to see Cardinal fans happy for us even as our team swept theirs. It was even classier of
So once again
What did you think of the Series? Did any of you see this coming? Was anyone there in 2004 to see
I couldn't agree with you more Teddy... the Cardinals did what they had to do to win and deservedly so. They are a class act from the front office down to the 40th man at the end of the bench. The fans are true fans and the team rewarded them with a World Series win. The Tigers did not deserve to lose the way they did but that is why they play the game till the final out. The pitchers looked similar to Matt Young tossing the ball in the stands as opposed to the first baseman. You know the drills that they practice for hours and hours down in spring training in Arizona and Florida all for them to forget how to do the fundamentals when the whole enchillada is on the line. Totally unexcusable, Jim Leyland did a great job with those Tigers to bring them out of the doldrums to the World Series. He gets my vote for A.L. Manager of the Year, if my vote counts...
Posted by RocketRoger | October 28, 2006 2:12 PM
Posted on October 28, 2006 14:12