2011 World Series: AL Champion vs. NL Champion

[jason21nl]

Not sure this has been talked about much, but this game should not be being played in St Louis.

[jason21nl]

Well, I have had enough..can't watch this crap anymore

[JET15]

This is starting to get depressing. If only... ugh... can't... take... anymore

[Jimbo]

I've only had a chance to catch glimpses of the Series. But I find it eeriely similar to the '86 Mets-Red Sox Series. The Red Sox were one strike away in Game 6. There's a book with that title.

 

I refuse to watch the final innings.

[hawing]

Yeah, I'm hanging it up for the night. Talk about ending an otherwise fun season with a whimper.

 

I wonder if they'll act like they've been there before when the game ends.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

This is really going to suck. After seeing the Cardinals completed a totally improbable run to even get onto the playoffs, then having our team's pitching staff crap the bed in the NLCS, the only thing that was possibly "rewarding" was a bit of schadenfreude. Instead, we'll have to endure a whole offseason of hearing how TLR is the greatest manager ever, that this World Series win was the classiest, and that the Brewers will never know how to win what really matters. It really will suck much.

[pitchleague]

Assuming the Cardinals hold on to win, I'd like to hear/read a quote from a Cardinal that acknowledges the role Nyjer Morgan had in turning the Cardinals season around. I still hold to the idea that Morgan's twitters after the "altercation" with Carpenter lit a fuse under the Cardinals' butts and that was all she wrote. Never mind Atlanta losing worse than the Astros in the month of September (pure hyperbole--I have no idea if they really did.) All the Cardinals needed was that spark to get them motivated and it was over.

 

Thanks, Nyjer. No really.

[SeriesFinale]

This is really going to suck. After seeing the Cardinals completed a totally improbable run to even get onto the playoffs, then having our team's pitching staff crap the bed in the NLCS, the only thing that was possibly "rewarding" was a bit of schadenfreude. Instead, we'll have to endure a whole offseason of hearing how TLR is the greatest manager ever, that this World Series win was the classiest, and that the Brewers will never know how to win what really matters. It really will suck much.

Oh, and right or wrong, Prince is leaving.

 

The dull malaise of the early Oughts looks pretty good at this moment.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

I suppose it's worse being a Rangers fan, watching your team lose consecutive World Series, including being one strike away from winning twice in Game 6. That's all the silver lining I've got.

[theavrock]

Did Allen Craig do Aaron Rodgers' title belt celebration there at the end?

[AZBrewCrew]

It was written in the stars...

[JET15]

I suppose it's worse being a Rangers fan, watching your team lose consecutive World Series, including being one strike away from winning twice in Game 6. That's all the silver lining I've got.

TLR is a genius. Albert is one classy ballplayer.

 

That's all I've got

[H4P]

What a horrible couple of weeks. Cards bounce Milwaukee at home. In the post game interview, Prince talks about Milwaukee like it fell into Lake Michigan some years ago. The national media croons over TLR and his genius. Then, when I can at least take solace that they didn't finish the deal, they come back....TWICE.....to win game 6 and come back and slam the door in game 7. I think it's time for a little ESPN blackout in my home.

[NievesNoNO]

As much as watching the Cardinals winning it sucks, it was quite a series and a crazy run for them. Congrats..... I guess. On to 2012.

[thablingster]

Pujols totally Tebowed.

 

We will see you April 6, 2012, champs. Bring it. It's on.

[brewmann04]

let the official where Prince will land thread start.

[RedFlash2]

Not sure this has been talked about much, but this game should not be being played in St Louis.

Agreed. NO wild card winner should ever have the privilege of having a home field advantage in the World Series. Nice rule you included into the All Star Game, Bud Selig. St. Louis can fall off the map for all I care. In fact come Monday, I will forget who won the 2011 World Series and conclude that like the 1994 WS there was no winner, only losers.

 

Special shout out to those choking dogs of Texas. One dang strike, one $%+%$' strike.

 

[TooLiveBrew]

I changed my avatar, because I was hating with all my might tonight. I need Silky Johnson's help for Game 7.

Silky Johnson, you have failed me for the last time.

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[Schlitz001]

I'm not too upset at this outcome. The World Series was exciting and the Cardinals were a compelling story line. Just like in '08, the Brewers lost their playoff series to the eventual World Series champion.

[TooLiveBrew]

This was easily one of the best World Series... eseses... in my lifetime. I'm happy for Berkman, & Motte too -- Motte came across as a pretty likeable dude. Also, the David Freese storyline is amazing. Sportswriters everywhere were overcome with euphoria with that story, guaranteed -- it writes itself. I can just see the Rick Reilly story now...

[SeriesFinale]

Not sure this has been talked about much, but this game should not be being played in St Louis.

Agreed. NO wild card winner should ever have the privilege of having a home field advantage in the World Series. Nice rule you included into the All Star Game, Bud Selig.

Whether a Wild Card winner should be able to have home field in a World Series is another question, but you do realize that if Bud had never instituted the All-Star home field advantage rule and they'd stuck with the just-as-random alternating-year rule that had been in place prior that St. Louis would still have home field advantage, right?

 

Anyway, it's hard for me to like Motte as he was the one who did TLR's evil bidding and plunked Braun

[RedFlash2]

Not sure this has been talked about much, but this game should not be being played in St Louis.

Agreed. NO wild card winner should ever have the privilege of having a home field advantage in the World Series. Nice rule you included into the All Star Game, Bud Selig.

Whether a Wild Card winner should be able to have home field in a World Series is another question, but you do realize that if Bud had never instituted the All-Star home field advantage rule and they'd stuck with the just-as-random alternating-year rule that had been in place prior that St. Louis would still have home field advantage, right?

 

Anyway, it's hard for me to like Motte as he was the one who did TLR's evil bidding and plunked Braun

First: Rotating HFA for the World Series between the leagues is a lot better idea then letting HFA be the prize for winning a meaningless exhibition game during the season. Outside of the NBA All Star Game, none of the ASG will be popular or bring in huge waiting, so let's stop this crap of awarding HFA to the winner of the popularity contest?

 

Second: Why can't baseball go back to the days in which whoever had the best record, regardless of league, having HFA? Best record=HFA. But of course Bud Selig can't see it because it requires common sense, which apparently he has none.

 

 

[Funketown]

Outside of that last game, which was a bit dull, that was a great World Series.

 

And honestly, outside of TLR, Carpenter and the minority in the crowd that does their bidding, I don't dislike St. Louis. Berkman is a pretty awesome guy, Freese is a great story.

 

Now, here's to Pujols signing a 15 year $400 million deal with the Cubs.

[craigharmann]

Now, here's to Pujols signing a 15 year $400 million deal with the Cubs.

No, no, no. Pujols needs to sign a 20 year $750 million deal with the Cards. I want to see that franchise crippled!!

[hawing]

Reverend Brewmeister, you forgot one more thing that's going to suck: April 6, 2012, the Brewers' next game - UNLESS Brewers fans get it together and don't sell out to STL fans who will be all too eager to flaunt their 2011 world champion crap in our faces, in our ballpark. Indeed, I will be only mildly surprised if the Cardinals don't petition MLB to let them have their ring ceremony or whatever on the MP grass, just to show Milwaukee.

 

Ahem. OK. I guess there's a degree of solace to be had in losing to the "eventual champion" (though that loses its sheen after the third time, or fourth if it also happened in 1981). Just as I've often said on this forum and in the chat room, STL 'tis no team, 'tis a remorseless baseball machine - and it's possible they were simply a juggernaut that couldn't be stopped down the stretch. That they stopped PHI first supports that theory.

 

I agree with pitchleague that Nyjer's infamous tweets may well have been the spark that got STL going. All a spark really had to do was get TLR going, because he is a most able motivator (even if I don't think he always uses his motivational skills for good). I won't blame the season outcome on Nyjer, but I'll be happier going forward if the Brewers can avoid that kind of trash talk.

 

I'm oddly OK with David Freese's success in the postseason. There are a lot of more vexing options on that roster. For his sake, I hope he doesn't get sucked into the cult of TLR.

 

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