MLB Playoff Thread.

I'm all in with the Rockies too, Kaybli.  Only because I think they would be easier pickings in a World Series.  And thanks for starting a thread on a non-Yankee game.  Have to keep tabs on the opposition.  Where do you come down on Houston-Cleveland?  Cleveland certainly for me, and I am guessing you as well.

Ah, consider it done.  Seriously, how great would it be to finally meet Boston again in the post-season for the first time since the awful 2004 collapse?  Definitely time for some payback.  Although honestly this Boston team is not as obnoxious as that one was.

Kaybli, I had just moved to Boston when that happened.  We were living in Back Bay and could literally see that wretched Citgo sign from our condo if we stood on our balcony and looked to the left.  It would have been horrible anywhere, but having to live among it was really a strain.  Those fans were very nasty -- not good-natured ribbing, but aggressive and confrontational.  When I would go out running along the Charles River, people would see my Yankee hat and give me the finger or a sincere FU.  Boston is a great city, but when the subject turns to baseball, look out.

The thing is, we moved there directly from NYC, so it was a radical shift in atmosphere.  We arrived in July 2004, and literally as we were pulling up to our temporary housing, the taxi radio announced the trade of Nomar to the Angels.  I had a sinking feeling that dumping him was going to turn the Red Sox around -- I regarded him as their A-Rod, enormously talented but in some mystical way an anchor around the team.

I will tell you another obnoxious team from before your time.  The 1979 "We Are Family" Pittsburgh Pirates.  They used to play that song and players wives danced on the top of the dugout.  Never before or after have I rooted so hard for Earl Weaver and the Baltimore Orioles.

I loved the '79 "We Are Family" Pirates. Of course, I was only 10 years old and was a big Willie Stargell fan. I've since grown indifferent towards the Bucos.

Are you by any chance from Western PA Chi?  That would certainly give you an excuse.  I was a Stargell fan too.  Great player, great guy.  For whatever reason -- maybe their indelible identification with disco and Omar Moreno's wife dancing wildly on the dugout -- they rubbed me the wrong way.  Plus guys like John Candelaria, Phil Garner, Kent Tekulve and the aforementioned Moreno -- not to mention their announcer Bob "A bloop and a blast" Prince -- just irritated me.  Sports is irrational, who knows?  Maybe it was just the Sister Sledge factor.

Oh yeah, I hated the 1969 Mets as well -- probably not many on here who lived through that -- they were such media darlings, and people who didn't know squat about baseball suddenly became, for maybe two weeks, avid Mets fans.

Surgery? Hope everything’s all right, noetsi. Nothing serious. I mean. Man. That sounds so stupid on my part. Is surgery ever not serious, at least to a degree? “I’m having surgery this week, but it’s just for fun. Every once in a while I like to have something operated on. Call it a hobby, I guess”... (:

Oh man, that must have been brutal living in Boston in 2004! I was depressed enough going to school in Hoboken at the time, I would have killed myself if I had to live in Boston for that. Red Sox fans, they are something else.