2013 WORLD SERIES - GUARDIANS vs OUR LAST BEST HOPE

[Craig H]

The Cubs could win the World Series on the fucking moon and I wouldn't give a shit.

[Tabe]

The Red Sox were pretty damned epic. They faced Verlander, Scherzer, Wainwright, Wacha a total of seven times. They went 6-1 in those games.  That's kind of insane.

Ya know, that's freaking huge. Big props for winning the toughest games.

[Brian Fowler]

I'm still trying to figure out how the Tigers got that epic set of performances from their starters in the first 4 games, and only came away with a split.

[Ryan]

Villainy.

[Niners Fan in CT]

So the way this played out.. I'm thinking Papi's grand slam will go right up there with Carter's blast in '93 and every other postseason home run we've seen for ages?

[Tabe]

So the way this played out.. I'm thinking Papi's grand slam will go right up there with Carter's blast in '93 and every other postseason home run we've seen for ages?

By virtue of not being in the World Series, it's necessarily behind Maz, Carter, Fisk, Gibson '84, Gibson '88.  Probably on the level of Ozzie's "Go crazy folks!" home run in the '85 NLCS, maybe a bit ahead because it was a grand slam.  It's "importance" will get overinflated because a Boston guy hit it and half the people telling the story in 5 years will have it happening in game 7 in the bottom of the 9th.  I'd say it's comfortably in the top 10 of postseason home runs but also comfortably behind at least 5 others.

[SirFozzie]

Hell, I'm not sure it's beating out the Ortiz game winner from the '04 ALCS

[Joe Lucia]

Juan Uribe's gut punch is probably the third most memorable (on the negative side) for Atlanta fans. I think the game situation can end up mattering more than the series situation. For example, I can name probably half a dozen moments from the 2004 ALCS, and the only one I remember from the 2004 WS is Keith Foulke going crazy. 

[Kuetsar]

 

So the way this played out.. I'm thinking Papi's grand slam will go right up there with Carter's blast in '93 and every other postseason home run we've seen for ages?

By virtue of not being in the World Series, it's necessarily behind Maz, Carter, Fisk, Gibson '84, Gibson '88.  Probably on the level of Ozzie's "Go crazy folks!" home run in the '85 NLCS, maybe a bit ahead because it was a grand slam.  It's "importance" will get overinflated because a Boston guy hit it and half the people telling the story in 5 years will have it happening in game 7 in the bottom of the 9th.  I'd say it's comfortably in the top 10 of postseason home runs but also comfortably behind at least 5 others

Not being in the World Series won't necessarily doom it(though it is behind all of those comfortably), as the Shot heard Round the world was a playoff and is the biggest homerun of all time. . . .

[odessasteps]

Sadly, it appears clip fromMASH featuring the bobby thompson hr is not on youtube

[piranesi]

Maybe less the clip than that still photo of the Ortiz slam should become iconic.  being in fenway, with an old-timey fat Boston cop in the frame, and Hunter upside down.

 

That's Ken Burns stuff there (cue ragtime music and slowly scan across the photo).

[elizium]

If Doris Kearns Goodwin shows up, I'm fucking out...

[LooseCannon]

Via Deadspin:

 

 

Belt provided by John Cena.

[piranesi]

WWE is going to try to make this a regular thing, right?  Like Wheaties and Disneyland? 

 

They'd be stupid not to.