Which was the more exciting World Series?

[Seabiscuit]

(not counting the pennant playoffs, where the 7 game Red Sox - Yankees series was undoubtedly the most amazing and gut-wrenching pennant battle of all time, with Boston losing the first 3 games, then becoming the first team in history to come back and win the next 4)

[KitchenWitch]

1. Out of the two you have listed

this years!

All the games were close.

[Seabiscuit]

2. True - they were all 1-or-2 run wins.

[KitchenWitch]

3. For me, the most exciting one was the 1991 Series

Game 6 and Game 7 in particular!

[Seabiscuit]

5. OK, you got me. Who played in the World Series in 1991?

That's a long time ago for me. I haven't the foggiest.

It must not have made much of an impression on me. :)

[Seabiscuit]

6. Here's a bit of trivia: Who played in the 1994 World Series?

[KitchenWitch]

20. No one

Baseball strike

The Expos probably would have though.

[Seabiscuit]

22. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!!!

[KitchenWitch]

24. Who won the AL Rookie of the Year in 1994?

[Seabiscuit]

27. Who? Mark Fydrich? Nah... that was back in '76 or so.

[KitchenWitch]

28. Bob Hamelin - Kansas City Royals.

[Seabiscuit]

29. Hmmm... never heard of him.

Then again, the only Kansas City player I ever noticed (besides Roger Maris, *after* he was traded to the Yankees) was George Brett.

[KitchenWitch]

30. He played with Kansas City, Detroit and Milwaukee

had a fairly short career.

[KitchenWitch]

7. Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves.

Kirby Puckett hit a walk off homer in Game 6 to secure a Game 7.

In Game 7, Jack Morris pitched 10 innings of shutout ball, Twins won 1-0 in the bottom of the tenth.

[Seabiscuit]

8. Oh, that one.

I slept through it.

For some unknown reason I've always hated the Atlanta Braves since Hank Aaron retired and since Ted Turner started that stupid tomahawk chop. So I quit watching any playoffs or World Series when the Braves were playing.

[KitchenWitch]

10. As a Twins fan, it rocked

My mom was a Braves fan when the Braves were in Milwaukee.

[Seabiscuit]

13. Oh. So what do I know???

[KitchenWitch]

15. That was not meant to be offensive

I cannot stand the current Braves either...I am tired of them being in the post season. My only consolation is that they have been to the big dance a lot in the past decade and only won one of them.

[Seabiscuit]

26. No offense taken. I didn't realize the move to Atlanta was that recent.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. I seem to remember someone pretending to catch/throw the ball,

and Terry Pendleton getting fooled as the baserunner and getting frozen on that play, and that being important to the Twins' win in that game.

[Seabiscuit]

4. A related poll could read:

Which was the biggest monkey lifted from a team's back?

Boston's "the Curse"?

or

Chicago's "Black Sox scandal"?

[KitchenWitch]

9. I think really it was the Black Sox scandal

[Seabiscuit]

11. You obviously aren't from Boston.

:)

But objectively, the Black Sox scandal was real; "The Curse" concerned a belief in a ghost. A pretty important ghost, but still a ghost.

[KitchenWitch]

12. Nope!

:)

I think the scandal is a bigger monkey, and Boston has had more chances than the White Sox to get the monkey off.

[Seabiscuit]

14. I think it was blowing all those chances that really got to Boston fans.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Was somebody talking about the 'Black Sox'?

Silly me — I'm sure Faux mentioned it a few times. :eyes:

That's a non-sequitur. The "Black Sox" were three generations ago; all eight men are long gone. It happened, and nothing can change that, but it was 86 years ago. It's best we let it be what it is — part of history.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

16. Sorry, the absolute most exciting World Series was in 1975;

In my view, Red Sox vs. the Reds. Two of the original 16 MLB teams playing their lives out.

Drama beyond belief, Carlton Fisk's home run in the in the 6th game to tie the Series up. Tony Perez, Joe Morgan, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench,Davey Concepion; the Big Red Machine vs Carlton Fisk, et al.

An awful lot of Chicago White Sox fans will claim Fisk as their own, but bottom line, Carlton was a New England man born and bred and proved it when he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and wore a Red Sox shirt. Which he was so duly entitled to do.

The World Series in 1975 changed baseball forever. Hometown heroes deserted their teams for the almighty dollar.

Carlton Fisk and Pete Rose are prime examples.

[Seabiscuit]

17. I agree.

Before 1975 it was the 1956 and 1955 World Series:

In 1955 Jonny Podres, a rookie pitcher, shut down the mighty Yankees and the Dodgers took their first World Series against the Yankees after losing seemingly year after year.

In 1956, the year Mickey Mantle won the Triple Crown (I think Carl Yastremzki, of the 1975 Boston Red Sox, is the only one to win it since) the Yankees roared back and "The Mick" bombed the Brooklyn Bums back into oblivion.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

31. I stand corrected.

I remember my mother telling me about those World Series games.

However, herself being a Cubs fan, actually she was a total baseball fan, explained to me the subtelites of baseball.

The one game Mom always talked about was the perfect game that the Yankees pitcher, I think it was Don Larsen, threw in the World Series. Was it in 1956?

Please give me a break right now, I live on the South Side of Chicago, will always love the Chicago Cubs, but fair play to the White Sox, they broke their curse.

Will my beloved Cubs do the same in my lifetime!

[Seabiscuit]

19. Time's up: who won the 1994 World Series?

[KitchenWitch]

21. No one

no one played.

[Seabiscuit]

23. See above.

I suppose for someone who hates baseball, 1994 was the greatest World Series ever.

[KitchenWitch]

25. yeah

My brain is not wired for believing anyone can hate baseball, but that is just me!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

33. Of recent ones I liked 2001, Randy Johnson pitching in relief to beat

Yanx in game 7. It's doubly sweet that he didn't produce for them in the postseason this year after they spent a brazillion bux for him, MUHAHAHA.

[Seabiscuit]

35. I think "brazillion" is going to be around for a long, long time.

It's the one thing we have to thank * for.

[NYC Liberal]

34. Eh, neither of them were really that exciting.

I mean, Game 7, down to the final out would have made them so much better, like the 2003 ALCS. I like drama. But of the two...last year's.

[kick-ass-bob]

36. Boston's was an anticlimax.

This one had comebacks and close games throughout the series.

[Initech]

37. 2002: SF Giants vs. LA Angels

Of course, they werent called the Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim then!