Originally Posted by
Commercecomet24
Yep 100%! Baseball is just different. Now way the 68th best basketball team wins the ncaa tournament or the 25th best football team wins an nc, but these things happen in baseball constantly, and a lot of folks don't understand it.
In your list of those bummers you can add Lonnie Smitn not scoring from first on the double in game 7 of 91 World Series or Wohlers 2 strike slider to Jim Leyritz in 96 when the Braves were on the verge of going up 3 games to none. Bart Giamatti wrote a poem about baseball and it's the best description I can think of for the game. Those of us who have it in our blood understand the meaning!
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
A. Bartlett Giamatti