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World Series, Game 1: Diamondbacks at Rangers (Open Thread)

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I don’t know either team, so I’ll just say “How ’bout those Cubs?”

Though in reality I grew up in Chicago as a White Sox fan – because my Dad was a White Sox guy, and I was Daddy’s Girl.  My Mom rooted for the Cubs, but what can I say except girls and their mothers…

So who’s everybody rooting for?

If there’s interest in having a thread for each game of the World Series, we can make that happen.  Just let us know in the comments if there’s interest.

Totally open thread.

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  2. 2.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    Rooting for the Rangers because they’re 1 of the 6 MLB teams that have never won a World Series.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Diamondbacks, not that I’m a fan but strictly because they’re NL. I’ve only once in my life rooted for an AL team, and that was for the BoSox in 2004, because ya kinda hadta that time.

  6. 6.

    eclare

    No interest in baseball since it dropped the pennant race to go to a playoff system.  It’s too bad since I moved to ATL the year that the Braves went from worst to first, and I watched over 100 games that year on TBS.

    And of course I watched the famous Sid Bream slide, “Braves win, Braves win, Braves win!”

  7. 7.

    Alison Rose

    In other sports news, I’ve just discovered that, way down in a 9th tier soccer league in England, there is a team called Cockfosters.

    Just thought others needed to know this, too.

  8. 8.

    Ihop

    So, since 1973 I’m a rock solid pirates fan. Some up years, a boat load of down.

    The Diamondbacks beat the fucking Yankees in 2001 with Jay bell (most favorite pirate shortstop) and former pirate Tony Womack. Good.

    The rangers beat the dirty fucking cheaters of Houston. (Forever its new name).

    I’m happy as hell to see a series that no one called.

  10. 10.

    cain

    I’m always surprised when the World Series shows up because I always felt that it was all over back in August or something.

    Not a fan of baseball.

    On the other hand, India is kicking ass on World Cup :D

  11. 11.

    Eric S.

    I always root for the NL.  plus the snakes are a big underdog. I won’t be mad if Texas wins though.

     

    @SiubhanDuinne, this St Louis fan forgives you. 😁

  12. 12.

    HeleninEire

    As an almost always broken hearted Mets fan I will watch because well, baseball is the best game ever. I HATED the new pitch clock rule at first but now I love it

    Do I care who wins? Nah. I was rooting for the Phillies in the playoffs because their home run hitters were crazy good.

  13. 13.

    steppy

    This Phillies fan is still rooting for the Phillies. So let’s just say I don’t have much interest in a World Series thread. I’ll pull for the Rangers if forced to.

  15. 15.

    coin operated

    Rooting for the underdog D-Backs. The Rangers bullpen has been on fire of late…Arizona is going to have their hands full.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Eric S.:

    If the Cards had been playing any other AL team, believe me, I would have been cheering them on. But I had (and have) too many Red Sox fans as friends to have rooted for any other team that year. Once they broke the Bambino’s Curse, I reverted to my tribal loyalties.

  17. 17.

    BenInNM

    Rooting for the Diamondbacks I guess. Can’t quite root for a Texas team although the point about the Rangers never having won a World Series is a point in their favor. I did go to school at Arizona State so that’s some connection.

  20. 20.

    KSinMA

    I’ll root for the Snakes because they’re known for playing small ball–imho the way baseball should be played.

  21. 21.

    CliosFanBoy

    Well, my Reds are not going anywhere anytime soon.  I was hoping for a Phillies/Os rematch, but that didn’t happen.  I’m sure I care which of these two wins.  Maybe the Snakes because I’m a National league fan.

  25. 25.

    scav

    Cubs because I have to go back to a maternal grandfather to find anyone interested by baseball.  & even he wouldn’t know what to do if they won.  The interest seemed to be in the new ways they could come up short.

  28. 28.

    SomeRandomGuy

    I guess I could root for the fans of the Rangers. I can’t root for the Diamondbacks, since they clearly only made it to the series by CHEATING to beat the PHILLIES, because when do the PHILLIES lose?

    (Your Philadelphia natives are reacting as if to a *terrible* pun – the Phillies are *good* at losing. They hold the record. Yes, partly because of 140 years of play, but….)

  29. 29.

    Captain C

    @Alison Rose: Joining the 5th level Dorking Wanderers as a team that my partner would not be seen in public with me were I to don one of their jerseys.  So my “Dorking ‘Til I Die*” shirt will have to be for late night solo expeditions.

    *Yes, I had to get one.  Now I might have to get a Cockfosters t-shirt as well.

  34. 34.

    Captain C

    @SomeRandomGuy: The Phillies won their first World Series 11 years after the Mets won their first.  There has never been a time in history when the Phillies have had more World Series wins than the Mets, including before the Mets existed.  The Mets have had 33 years where they had more rings than the Phillies (1969-79, 1986-2007).

  35. 35.

    Captain C

    As for this series, I’m rooting for the Diamondbacks, as. one-time 12-year resident of the Copper State.  I saw the Rangers when they were the opponent at my first Yankees game when I was 6.  The Rangers broke open a 4-2 game with back-to-back inside-the-park home runs, which I think hadn’t happened since the 19th Century and AFAIK hasn’t happened since.

  37. 37.

    Captain C

    @Alison Rose: Excellent names!  I also like Ramsbottom United and Billingham Synthonia, the only football team named after synthetic ammonia (apparently there was or is a plant nearby).

  40. 40.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl: He is. If he does run, I can’t see him losing. He’s a true patriot and hero – as are all the police officers who fought the insurrectionist traitors.

  42. 42.

    Alison Rose

    I wholeheartedly agree with this idea:

    Halloween caroling should be a thing. Roll up to my door singing Monster Mash and I will give you alllll the candy let’s do this.
    — Jonathan Edward Durham (@thisone0verhere) October 24, 2023

  44. 44.

    geg6

    I do not watch baseball any more.  I live in the Pittsburgh area.  When the owner decides to field a winning team, I’ll watch again.  I’m old enough to have been alive for Pirates World Series wins three times.  But not for over forty years.  It sucks and I’m boycotting until something changes.  Which also sucks because I love PNC Park.

  46. 46.

    geg6

    @eclare:

    Fuck that.  That, in retrospect, was the beginning of the downhill slide into the endless cravasse where the Pirates are currently residing.

  49. 49.

    SomeRandomGuy

    @Captain C: You think a Phillies fan doesn’t know this? Well… okay, I didn’t explicitly *think* about the Mets’ advantage in *particular*, but… there’s a reason the boo-birds are so cranky.

  50. 50.

    Anotherlurker

    @HeleninEire: As a fellow lifetime Mets fan, I concur,  although I felt a little bit unclean rooting for the Phillies.  How can you not be a fan of their offense?

  51. 51.

    RevRick

    My older brother was a Yankee fan, so naturally I grew up rooting for Da Bums, aka the Brooklyn Dodgers, the losingest team in World Series history.
    I think this fandom played a key part in my rooting for the underdog and my concern for social justice.
    In other news, we ran out of candy after an hour and a half, having given it out to over one hundred kids for Trick or Treat night.

  55. 55.

    RevRick

    @eclare: When my wife and I first moved to Pennsylvania, we were taken aback that local communities scheduled Halloween on nights other than Halloween. We understand some of the reasoning of not having kids wandering the streets on a school night. We sat outside and greeted the kids and did what we could to make them all feel welcome since 90% were Hispanic.

  56. 56.

    eclare

    @RevRick:

    That sounds great.  Here it’s all October 31, but very few come out before dark.  That is too bad because I don’t open my door after dark, I wish the kids came by about five pm.

  58. 58.

    Alison Rose

    @RevRick: Man, I would have thrown a FIT if anyone tried to get me to trick-or-treat on another night. I hated celebrating holidays not on the actual day. Made it interesting when I made a friend in middle school who was born on Leap Day.

  59. 59.

    piratedan

    this series certainly will be a contrast of styles, which I think will be fun.  I’d just turn off the commentary tho, these guys will twist everything to try and fit whatever game narrative they’ve decided upon before the game.

  61. 61.

    eclare

    Per CNN, Robert Card found dead.  Committed suicide, but had to fuck up dozens of families beforehand.  I wish I believed in hell.

  66. 66.

    Hoppie

    They both should lose.  No team that wasn’t in their city in 1970 should exist, ipso facto demon quid erat in loco parentis.  I’m in a mood, so there!

  67. 67.

    coin operated

    Damn good game so far.  Impressed with Gallen, the AZ starter, for taking it thru the 5th.  Pitched himself out of some hairy ones.

  69. 69.

    Jackie

    This is a great start for the series! Both teams are hungry. Hope it goes seven games with AZ ultimately taking the Title.

  70. 70.

    Tehanu

    I predicted the Rangers & D’backs would make the Series, but I wasn’t happy about it even before it actually happened. It’s a pain in the butt to watch two teams that aren’t even close to being the best in their leagues be in the championship. The only players on either team I have the remotest interest in are the pitchers and maybe Corbin Carroll. We might watch some of the highlights; otherwise, it’s wait till next year.

  71. 71.

    RevRick

    @Alison Rose: I can relate having grown up with Halloween being on Halloween, but the church has long since given up on celebrating its holidays on the actual day. The church I attend will, for instance, celebrate All Saints Day on Sunday, November 5th, and not on November 1st, the day after the Hallow(ed) evening. And don’t get me started on Easter which can fall between March 22nd and April 25th.

  72. 72.

    Hoppie

    @Jackie: 1975 was the best series EVER.  Will be very hard to beat, but one can hope.

    (confession: grew up in southwest Ohio, my brother was the REAL baseball fan)

  73. 73.

    coin operated

    @Tehanu

    The only players on either team I have the remotest interest in are the pitchers

    That’s the main reason I’m into post-season baseball. I love a good pitching duel.

  74. 74.

    piratedan

    @Tehanu: I keep hearing this argument being made in baseball, but never in any other team sport.  Football, Hockey, Olympics, Basketball ALL do this, is it because Baseball was the last to adopt it?

  75. 75.

    OGLiberal

    I hate this thread because I’m a Mets fan and there are ex-Mets all over this shit.  Yes, trading them was smart but still hurts.  Tommy Pham is the big one.  Scherzer, not so much because he’s sucked post-season.  But Tommy was pretty much a mercy FA signing…he just ended up being pretty good.

  76. 76.

    Jackie

    @Hoppie: LOL I can feel your homie bias😁 One of my favorite WS was in 2011. After recovering from the M’s meltdown postseason after tying the White Sox for most games won in the reg season, I was thrilled the upstart D’Backs beat the hated Yankees – after “America’s Mayor” proclaimed it was America’s destiny for NY to win: They were “owed” after 9/11.

    And, as the damn Yankees knocked Seattle out, I was ecstatically happy to watch Randy Johnson and Schillings do a one-two punch knockout to NY.

  77. 77.

    Hoppie

    @Jackie: Thanks. 5 single-run games, 2 extra-innings, winning in the opponent’s park, best series ever.  I followed it by newspaper in Italy, so even more, er, exciting.

  78. 78.

    Jackie

    Damn it! Tied 5-5 in bottom of the 9th. Hoping for extra innings…

    Extra innings it is! Goooo D’Backs!

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