Who will win the WS?

[kaylajr]

We are routing for the RED SOX
well DH and I are

The girls are Yankee fans

 

[cheyita]

As someone born and raised on the south side of Chicago, you know who I'm pulling for! Ozzie Guillen was my favorite player as a teen and now he's leading the team.

Do I really, truly think they'll win the World Series? Nah.

 

[Virgo10]

Believe me, it doesn't please me to say this but I think the White Sox may go all the way. It isn't just because of yesterday's masacre of the Red Sox but because they have been playing consistent very good baseball.

I should add... if last year taught us anything it's that on any given day, any team can beat any other team. Yesterday was bad for Red Sox Nation but it's a new day so let's see what happens.

 

[Minnie824]

GO WHITE SOX!!!!


You know, when the Cubs went to the playoffs, White Sox fans still watched and cheered, but yet now, Cubs fans still don't. I don't get it.

 

[cheyita]

GO WHITE SOX!!!!


You know, when the Cubs went to the playoffs, White Sox fans still watched and cheered, but yet now, Cubs fans still don't. I don't get it.

I was very proud for Chicago and happy for the Cubs when they were in a few years back. I hope the city rallies around the Sox if they progress further into the playoffs.

 

[jimmiej]

Go 'Stros

 

[YepsenCP]

GO WHITE SOX!!!!


You know, when the Cubs went to the playoffs, White Sox fans still watched and cheered, but yet now, Cubs fans still don't. I don't get it.

That is the biggest city-wide lie.. er misrepresentatin I suppose, I have ever heard. Maybe in certain circles this was true, but I heard nothing bux heckling from White Sox fan... Before that I was into the rivalry but liked to hear of a Sox win every now and then; but now? No way.

No love from this Cubbie Fan.

 

[cheyita]

That is the biggest city-wide lie.. er misrepresentatin I suppose, I have ever heard. Maybe in certain circles this was true, but I heard nothing bux heckling from White Sox fan... Before that I was into the rivalry but liked to hear of a Sox win every now and then; but now? No way.

No love from this Cubbie Fan.

I suppose your term "certain circles" in absolutely true. I was in one of those circles that held fast to the rivalry - about 15 or 20 years ago. With age I let it go. Maybe I'm just showing my age. Maybe I'm showing my decreasing interest in sports. But I'm in the place now where I take pleasure in the success of any local team, and I even enjoy the celebration of any team's "big year."

 

[imsorry]

Well, I'm originally from The Bronx, so

GO YANKEES!!!!!!!

 

[jrydberg]

I don't get why Cubs fans ought to cheer for the White Sox or vice versa. I'm a lifelong Yankees fan and I gotta say, there's only one team in all of baseball that could make me root for the Mets -- the Red Sox

 

[YepsenCP]

I don't get why Cubs fans ought to cheer for the White Sox or vice versa. I'm a lifelong Yankees fan and I gotta say, there's only one team in all of baseball that could make me root for the Mets -- the Red Sox

Exactly... Like there is only one team that will make me root for the Cardinals -- The White Sox. Right now I am the biggest "Anyone playing the White Sox" fan around!

I could not stand a year of listening to my Sox friends.... ugh.

 

[CharlesTD]

Please try to find a smaller brush when you go painting....

Hockey was the first organized, big sport that attracted the attention of this born and raised California girl. My shared psyche has nothing to do with my interest in sports....

Hockey is fun to watch. I remember, in HS going to a Kings game, and watching Marcel Dionne play even though his jaw was wired shut the night before. Dude still kicked some butt. I am not a bit Gretzsky fan though.
Baseball is fun to watch, when you actually go to a game with a team like the Cardinals. (Yeah, Dodgers and Angels fans and games pretty much sucked from 1980 until 1992. I didn't even care after that enough to know if they were good or not...No one gave me a reason to. )

The place a team plays, and the players, need to share a mutual affection. Hockey did kinda ignore and shove away the fans last year...like baseball did in '94. This year hockey needs to build up some trust and credibility with the fans.

That is something you will not see in many otehr sports an athlete playing with a broken jaw heck ball players won't even play with a blister LOL. A hockey player will get stitched up on teh bench and not miss a shift if he can help it. They play with broken bones and cuts and things that most other athletes would cringe about playing through.

 

[jrydberg]

The biggest reason I don't particularly care about hockey is that the regular season is meaningless. Just about everyone makes the playoffs. If you don't, your team really sucks.

Actually, that's one of the things I really dislike about baseball lately. They've added more teams to the playoffs. It used to be that winning the division meant something. Now, as long as you've got a good record, who cares -- you're going to the playoffs anyway.

But, of course, they do it for revenue purposes. It keeps more teams in the hunt for a playoff spot til later in the year and it makes for more playoff revenue.

 

[YepsenCP]

Still no one for the Padres... ouch.

Shows how menacing the Cardinals really are, or perhaps just how lucky the Padres are to even be in the Playoffs.

 

[Missy1961]

I gotta say I don't know! I don't root for any of the teams so I can watch & enjoy the games.

 

[CharlesTD]

The biggest reason I don't particularly care about hockey is that the regular season is meaningless. Just about everyone makes the playoffs. If you don't, your team really sucks.

Actually, that's one of the things I really dislike about baseball lately. They've added more teams to the playoffs. It used to be that winning the division meant something. Now, as long as you've got a good record, who cares -- you're going to the playoffs anyway.

But, of course, they do it for revenue purposes. It keeps more teams in the hunt for a playoff spot til later in the year and it makes for more playoff revenue.

Ah well hockey is exciting and fast paced and has hitting and fights all the stuff a sport should have. To steal a line from the movie Gone in 60 Seconds with Nicholas Cage I just can't get into your national sport Baseball is so bleeding boring!!!. Curling has more excitement than baseball.

 

[YepsenCP]

Ahh, but baseball is a exciting... I suppose its not easy to explain, but it is... So many little nuances have to be in place, and the right swing at the right time...
I mean really? It is a darn impressive sport where, if you can consitantly strike out 7 times out of ten, but hit 3 out of that 10, you are considered good.

What else can you succesfully do only 3 out of 10 times and be considered a good player? If only I could hit it 4 times out of 10 I'd be a millionaire.

 

[CharlesTD]

Ahh, but baseball is a exciting... I suppose its not easy to explain, but it is... So many little nuances have to be in place, and the right swing at the right time...
I mean really? It is a darn impressive sport where, if you can consitantly strike out 7 times out of ten, but hit 3 out of that 10, you are considered good.

What else can you succesfully do only 3 out of 10 times and be considered a good player? If only I could hit it 4 times out of 10 I'd be a millionaire.

Ok but lets put that into perspective you hit the ball and run somone hitting 3-10 is considered a great hitter. In hockey you have 5 guys on teh ice from each team that you need to get past in order to get a change to shoot at the net which is only 4X6 with a puck that is about the size in diameter as a baseball and you need to get it past another player standing in the 4X6 net that takes much more work for the entire team than hitting the ball honestly. I mean you are fighting off guys that are 6'4" 240 to try and get a shot away or pick up a rebound in front of the net unlike baseball where it is just you and the pitcher and a baseball. The puck comes at the goalie as fast as a pitcher can throw on a much more cinsistent basis for teh goalie.

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

Who will win the world series? I have no clue, but I know it won't be my Detroit Tigers.

(being a Tigers fan is a good excuse to not care about baseball ... I can stop following the sport when my team is elminated, which usually means somewhere around June 1 or so)

The other answer as to who will win the world series? Why, it's very obvious. The team that scores the most runs.

 

[jrydberg]

Ok but lets put that into perspective you hit the ball and run somone hitting 3-10 is considered a great hitter. In hockey you have 5 guys on teh ice from each team that you need to get past in order to get a change to shoot at the net which is only 4X6 with a puck that is about the size in diameter as a baseball and you need to get it past another player standing in the 4X6 net that takes much more work for the entire team than hitting the ball honestly. I mean you are fighting off guys that are 6'4" 240 to try and get a shot away or pick up a rebound in front of the net unlike baseball where it is just you and the pitcher and a baseball. The puck comes at the goalie as fast as a pitcher can throw on a much more cinsistent basis for teh goalie.

Hitting a baseball is generally recognized by those in the industry as one of the most difficult things in all of sports. Honestly, comparing the two sports is rather silly. They each require a great deal of talent and hard work.

Yes, hockey is a rougher game -- not more difficult, rougher.

Baseball is a game of moments. Every pitch is not necessarily exciting. Nor is every swing. Hockey is constant action. Baseball is not. But there are moments in a game that are clearly pivotal and filled with excitement.