Any Los Angeles Dodgers fans out there tonight?

[Barry Izbak]

If you are not interested in baseball, move on there's nothing to see here.

But if you are Dodgers fan, here's a reminder that its never over until the fat old trout belts out a song.

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Ouch, that's gotta hurt. And with the Reds losing , the sweep sees us back on top the NLC and is fine revenge for the reverse set on the west coast earlier in the season.

 

[Reinelt12]

And I thought Pujols had blown it in the 8th!

 

[Juan Albion]

A good comeback, but not earth-shattering.

 

[willyfantastic]

Angels fan here

 

[NMH]

When I arrived in Orange County in 1981, The Dodgers were on the run-in to the World Series final. Fernando Valenzuela was on fire, and it was an excellent introduction to the great traditional American game.
I moved up to SF the next year, and the 49'ers went on to win the SuperBowl - but although I got into the excitement there at the time, gridiron football never grabbed me quite like baseball did.
A few years later, down in Los Angeles, The LA Kings were playing great ice-hockey and got The Great One in, playing for us. We got to the Stanley Cup final but lost, the series turned due to an illegal-shape stick held by Marty McSorley, and after leading in the final minutes of what woulda-been a 2nd win of the series Montreal levelled on a power-play before taking it in overtime. Demoralized by an outflanking by Montreal's experienced coach, The Kings lost the rest of the games.

 

[lasvegan]

NMH, we both arrived in Orange County about the same time and I remember Fernando as the rookie sensation winning his first 7 or 8 games, although I gravitated to the Angels and the LA Rams as they were both playing at Anaheim Stadium, which was very close to where I was staying.

I stuck with the Angels and still enjoy baseball. I discarded the Rams when they left for St. Louis; being from England I could not understand how a team could just "up and leave". I hated the Raiders for the same reason when they were in LA. I have never really followed football that closely since then.

My lasting memory of Marty McSorley was when he smashed his stick over some poor players head, I'm not sure if he ever played again after his suspension.

 

[NMH]

NMH, we both arrived in Orange County about the same time and I remember Fernando as the rookie sensation winning his first 7 or 8 games, although I gravitated to the Angels and the LA Rams as they were both playing at Anaheim Stadium, which was very close to where I was staying.

I stuck with the Angels and still enjoy baseball. I discarded the Rams when they left for St. Louis; being from England I could not understand how a team could just "up and leave". I hated the Raiders for the same reason when they were in LA. I have never really followed football that closely since then.

My lasting memory of Marty McSorley was when he smashed his stick over some poor players head, I'm not sure if he ever played again after his suspension.

It's not just "being from England" that generally lacks understanding and dislodges gruntles about teams upping sticks (e.g. Wimbledon/MK Dons). I know a lot of ex-Raiders fans who were unhappy at them moving house.

McSorley got seriously dangerous to other sportsmen plying his trade.
Tbh, it's bizarre how ice-hockey has 'allowed' for fighting and moderate sticking occurrences. When players are on slippery stuff, how can they be angered so much and be prepared to slip and slide in a crazy-comedy fistfight when bumping into each other is integral to the sport??!

I remember his very-deliberately smashing that black player unconscious with his hockey stick - it was so absolutely nothing to do with the actual play going on around him, and his selecting a non-white man (rare, in ice-hockey) hints at racism. Even if it's not that, he was known as a very loose cannon who often went too far and was dangerous.

It was okay that he was an enforcer, and guys like Wayne Gretzky (creme de la creme of skill), Alexei Zhitnik, and the always productive Corey Millen (small players) benefitted from such protection. I mean, I remembered someone DARED to board Gretzky once, and all hell broke loose on the daring fellow! You just didn't bump the great one, it's a nicht-nicht.