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Post by President Ackbar™ on Sept 1, 2018 2:50:32 GMT
For single worst play---I cant recall the teams or season -  |
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 1, 2018 3:00:31 GMT
President Ackbar™wait a sec... your saying the game was tied and that play cost them the final game of the playoff series? that does seem pretty bad. but... correct me if I am wrong, but say he caught that and got the simple out, like expected, would that game went extra innings? ; because if it did, there is still no way to know which team would have won had that play not occured and he got the out like expected. still, that would be damn hard to swallow that kind of a loss especially in the last game of the playoff series! 
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Sept 1, 2018 3:05:26 GMT
President Ackbar™ wait a sec... your saying the game was tied and that play cost them the final game of the playoff series? It was actually Game 6, that out would have won the World Series, instead that run tied the game, which they won in extra innings, and then won game 7 the next day. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 1, 2018 3:18:38 GMT
 Humanity did not comprehend what we witnessed. I first thought of Bobby Orr's Cup winning flight. Yet even he had finer plays not in such a moment. Bolt 2008 was the most incomprehensible athletic achievement via arguably the planet's purest sporting event, on the planet's largest sporting platform. He was doping so that's kind of an odd choice.  |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 1, 2018 3:44:29 GMT
It’s the 1954 World Series. The highly ranked Cleveland Indians vs. the New York Giants who are picked to lose badly. The first game was played at the Giant’s Polo Grounds with its endless center field (483 feet). The game was tied 2-2 in the top of the 8th when Indians’ slugger Vic Wertz came to bat with two men on and nobody out. On a 2-1 count, Wertz lofted a line drive into center that would have been a homer in any other stadium. Willie Mays, at the sound of the bat, turned and ran as hard as he could, with his back to the plate, and caught the ball over his left shoulder while running full speed. This has come to be known in baseball lore as The Catch. Now, everybody knows that great catches like that happen almost everyday in major league baseball. Mays himself has said so. Willie Mays was so good that as soon as a ball would leave a bat, he knew where it was going to land so he ran to that spot to catch it. Mays said that the catch of Wertz’s line drive was no different. But what made it different was how it seemed to deflate the seemingly more dominant Cleveland Indians. They were just not themselves after that inning. The supposedly weaker Giants won the World Series 4 games to 1.  |
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Post by mslo79 on Sept 1, 2018 3:58:06 GMT
President Ackbar™Damn, after seeing that video... that would have sucked being the Red Sox as you were in great shape having a two run lead (5 to 3 in Red Sox favor) with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning as it was pretty much over. then a whole bunch of BS happens... Red Sox give up three hits in a row with the first two hits got the Mets on 1st/2nd base but the 3rd hit the runners on 1st/2nd base advanced two bases so they scored a run with one guy on 3rd which put the score 5 to 4 in Red Sox favor with the Mets having the tieing run on 3rd and then the fricking Red Sox pitcher has a wild pitch, which the catcher has to chase the ball down, then the guy on 3rd comes home to tie it 5 to 5, and then that fluke play at 1st base happened with the missed out on 1st base that should have happened and then the Mets runner comes home and ends the game right there with Mets winning 6 to 5. the fricking odds ; that game has to be up there in terms of losses and what's even worse is it's the World Series, the main event of all of baseball! damn! that's a great example of a situation that should have been pretty much over but then suddenly everything went wrong for the Red Sox. it's like the pitcher was choking and then on top of that the 1st basemen happened to screw up THAT play and then it happened to be in the world series on top of all of that. the odds p.s. it's kind of like that McGrady thing on page 1 where not only did McGrady catch fire but the other team screwed up to. like everything happened to click just right for that to occur. accept in this case it was the fricking World Series as it can't really get worse than that, at least for the Red Sox and the Mets had to be flipping out as depending on who you were going for that going to be something amazing or something you wish you could erase from memory. lol
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Sept 1, 2018 4:07:02 GMT
President Ackbar™ ...the fricking odds ; that game has to be up there in terms of losses and what's even worse is it's the World Series, the main event of all of baseball! damn! What's really weird is that something very similar happened just the year before, in the 1985 World Series. The Cardinals also ended up losing games 6 and 7. |
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Sept 1, 2018 4:48:06 GMT
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Sept 1, 2018 16:24:55 GMT
Exactly 
he's my favorite all time sports person as he's the best. the hell with King Ego (i.e. Lebron James).
p.s. I am old enough to remember Jordan well in the 1990's as I was born late 1979. basically I think it was about 1992 when I first got into NBA as I remember taping some of the Dream Team from 1992 on VHS tape etc.
I think LeBrons gonna be up there. Others like Tiger Woods and David Beckham too. But Michael Jordans the man. |
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Post by maxwellperfect on Sept 1, 2018 19:14:26 GMT
Another amazing catch.
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Post by Catman on Sept 2, 2018 0:24:42 GMT
Then there was the time Payne Stewart picked up Colin Montgomerie's ball on the 18th to concede the match during the 1999 Ryder Cup, a small gesture of grace in an otherwise appalling day of poor sportsmanship by the US team and nasty hecklers.
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Post by ant-mac on Sept 2, 2018 12:13:29 GMT
Australia winning the America's Cup in 1983.
And in the words of the then Prime Minister, Bob Hawke...
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Post by maxwellperfect on Sept 4, 2018 16:19:42 GMT
I love stuff like this.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Sept 7, 2018 20:56:19 GMT
The Shot Heard 'Round The World Nah, pretty easy when you know what's coming. Guess that's why Giants won Game 1 in Brooklyn, lost (got pounded) at the Polo Grounds in Game 2, and were trailing in the 9th in Game 3 <style></style><style></style> |
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