182 thoughts on “2011 World Series: Game 7”

1. Last!

   1. 525 LTEs to go!

2. I wish the Rangers had won last night so we wouldn't have to get Daughtry singing the national anthem.

   1. I'm don't know who or what Daughtry is.

      1. and you're a better man for it

         1. Yeah, I got a sense of his demo from selling music. Young wide-eyed girls, and greasy, lame dudes.

            1. Nickelback wannabe

               1. Of all the things to want to be...

                  (I also have no idea what a Daughtry is)

                  1. Runner's explanation is accurate. If he and the lead singer from Nickelback switched bands, even some of the big fans wouldn't notice.

                     Daughtry was, like, third place on American Idol or something. Everyone who came in to buy his stuff complained that he didn't win, as if it mattered since he was selling ridiculous numbers of albums for his atrocious crimes against music.

                     1. Is it too early to study what's "in" now so I can pretend to know what's "in" in 12 or so years to embarass my daughter?

                        1. Sounds like the perfect time to start. I think your "in-ness" should reach its peek when she's around five, so she can remember how old it is.

                        2. I think so. I'm not sure Daughtry's even all that "in" anymore...he's just "in" enough to still perform for sporting events on FOX.

3. Fantastic base-running there.

4. Here we go.

5. Game over, right?

6. On the grill: Cheddar Potato soup, french bread, milk

   1. Yellow dal, jasmine rice, sierra Nevada brown.

      1. Sloppy Joes!

   2. Mac and Cheese

   3. Turkey chili for me with a grilled smoked cheddar and mozzarella sandwhich.

7. I wonder how soon La Russa will pull Carpenter.

8. There's some big time schädenfreude in watching LaRussa and Carpenter fail miserably, but I don't want even more support for the "OH NOEZ!! HE'S STARTING ON SHORT REST" panic mafia.

9. What you drinking? Grain Belt Premium for Game 7.

   1. Cherry Coke.

      1. Apple cider.

         1. UW Saison

            1. A nice Argentinian Cabernet--Trapiche

            2. Oh, how is it?

               The saison I tried to make ended in exploding bottles.

               1. I finally nailed the carbonation by reducing the amount of priming sugar. Very pleased.

   2. Schell's Stout, then Benchmark bourbon.

   3. Water, maybe some milk

      1. Sounds just like me. Though I might have some apple cider.

   4. SN Pale. It's always so damned cheap around here.

10. Pujols Freese is going to be intentionally walked the rest of the game.

11. This series is so effing sick! It makes me sad this is the last game.

    1. dido

12. I've seen this somewhere before.

13. Buck pays homage to his father. Hamilton pays homage to Jim Edmonds with the unnecessarily difficult catch.

14. This is nothing more than a continuation of last night's game, I think.

    1. except the benches/bullpens have been reset

    2. So you're saying this is still game six and we can have another one after this?! Sweet.

    3. The 2-run increments do seem very familiar.

15. Score? I am heading to my car.

    1. 2 all.

16. Bill Hall? Really?

    1. The manager must have forgotten he had numerous better batters.

       1. He was the 16th best hitter on the Astros last year. And it wasn't a down year.

          1. I stand corrected.

          2. Yeah, but that one time in a video game, he hit one out of the park! Take that, math.

             1. No wonder you're only being a math teacher [there] for a single year 😉

                1. Don't worry, my other job involves just as much math. Also, I'm not leaving 100% yet.

       2. It was Houston, though, so I don't think he did.

       3. It's like having Yuniesky Betancourt as a nemesis.

          I'm just glad the opposing team wasn't the Twins.

17. Baseball Reference getting some big-time plug during the Google ad.

    1. As well as Aaron Gleeman's own Rotoworld!

18. I'm still having trouble processing the idea that Kyle Lohse and Nick Punto could have World Series Rings after tonight, and yet Mauer and Morneau do not. It's just not right.

    1. If Lohse gets the game 7 win, I think I would be okay with the hilarity of it.

    2. I'm sad to say that this is a large part of my rooting interest.

       I guess I wouldn't mind Lohse having one. I always liked him, to be honest...maybe because he seemed surly and abrasive. I can do without Li'l Nicky getting one, though.

    3. The craziest thing is that Punto played for most of the games in this series.

    4. Lohse having one and Morneau not wouldn't bother me as much as, say, Lohse having one and Roy Halladay not.

       1. But then, I feel that way about any of the pitchers in this series other than Chris Carpenter (who already has one).

       2. This. BTW, who is your avatar? (I miss Roger. And Worf.)

          1. I was thinking Eddie Izzard from The Riches

          2. Richard Harrow from Boardwalk Empire, which is, since Breaking Bad's season is over, the default "favorite" show I'm watching right now, I guess, until Mad Men or Game of Thrones or Justified or something starts again. I'm sure Roger will show up again when that happens.

             1. Actually, I probably like Survivor overall more than BWE, but I'm not about to make Jeff Probst my avatar.

                1. But how about Ozzy???

                   1. I'd rather have Coach.

                      1. Yeah, I keed.

                         1. Heh, yeah, I know.

             2. I miss jesse pinkman

19. I'm spookying absolutely every jack in this series, I swear. I'm getting creeped out.

20. Right field sure seems like a copy of the Bandbronx the way these right-handed hitters keep sending flyballs that way.

21. StL radio guys are MUCH better than Buck/McCarver. That goes without saying, I guess.

    1. Yeah, it would be more worth mentioning if they weren't.

22. Young borrowed Freese's glove

23. Will Washington pinch-hit for Harrison here and bring in Wilson for the bottom of the 4th?

24. Timmy: Small man. Too big of a swing.

    Me: Punto?

25. Cash Back Players to Watch: Hamilton & Pujols? How cliché

26. Albert tried to extend the lead there.

27. 29 DPs this season for Pujols?! Ain't NOBODY going to want him next season.

28. Rangers are in some trouble here.

29. This isn't living up to the rest of the series.

30. Well that was kind of dumb of Wilson.

31. I really hate Molina and Carpenter just for being douches, so I would love to have had strike three called on that perfectly good pitch in the strike zone.

32. Oy, this series deserves better than this idiocy...

33. Twins baseball!

34. OMG - he hits the feller. Oops, o'boy!

35. Carpenter's getting strikes called in the same spot as ball 4 to Molina.

    1. Robot umps don't try to play to the home crowd.

       1. Is that one of Asimov's rules?

          1. No, but the end of the story involves a robot ump beating Punto furiously with a bat for being a danger to the game of baseball.

             1. In that case, I feel like we could have saved a little trouble had we had robot umps when Eckstein was around.

                1. Robots just don't appreciate the human value called sCrappiness.

36. Sweet Catch!

37. Yet another WOW!

    It's been a Fall Classic

38. Punto almost got to bat in a Game 7. Almost.

    1. Punto's totally catching the last out at second. It can be the only way to end this.

       1. With hopefully a Mientkiewicz-like epilogue.

          1. That was definitely my favorite part of that series.

       2. This is exactly what I'm feeling.

39. Octavio "Don't Ask" Dotel, the 3^rd 4^th #^th pitcher of the inning

40. Okay, this clown is a no-question mutee.

    1. But he was nominated for a grammy!

41. never heard of him

    1. Was that Daughtry?

42. The Rangers are going to think hard about last night if they lose this one.

    1. It'll be an interesting offseason for the voices in Josh Hamilton's head.

       1. I wish this was a plague-able post. I laughed pretty solidly.

          1. The bubonic was pretty awesome.

             1. Damn whiskey, although it strangely still sort of fits.

       2. I see I wasn't the only one who read that hilarious headline.

43. And now, on top of everything else that's already happened, Lance freekin Berkman hits a freekin infield single.

44. Evening folks. The bar I just left is really somber.

    1. Why, is the high school football season over?

       1. Ha! No. Sadly.

45. Good evening gents. What's going on?

    1. Well, I'd say Nolan Ryan is in desperate need of Robin Ventura right about now, if that sums it up.

46. Remember when the first four Rangers reached base today? Ya, me neither.

47. There are a couple of bettors who have been showing over their +10000 Cards tickets online. I say good for them. I've got one at +1200 and I am starting to get pretty excited.

    1. How many peanuts did you have at plus 12?

       1. quarter.

          1. Cha-ching.

             1. Congrats!

             2. Baby got a new pair of shoes.

48. A terrific series, but so far the seventh game is a letdown. I suppose last night just could not be topped.

    1. Yeah, I was kind of afraid it would be a no-doubter like this, but hey, third best series I've ever seen is pretty good.

    2. I'm just fine with the game the way it is.

49. Punto after all!

    1. My scenario is now, officially, on the board!

50. Her's a cool thing: as many people in the brackef picked the Cards to win as picked the Yanks to make the series and no one picked the Yanks to win.

51. It must suck to be a good reliever during game 7 of the world series for the losing team

52. Ogando. It's over.

53. Those Chase commercials annoy me way more than they should.

    1. I just realized that the guy with the camera is the same guy sitting to Jordan in the plane in those Hanes commercials.

       1. You just blew my mind.

       2. Most commercial actors are all the hell over commercials. It's a living.

    2. I want to punch the guy in them because he looks and sounds like a dbag(Tolbot).

54. Perfect outing for Ogando!

55. Punto is in the game.

56. Okay, if you're Punto, would you rather have had the Twins pick up your option and make $3+ million more or get the ring?

    1. Why couldn't he have had both? In St. Cloud is is a known fact Punto is the reason the Cards have made it this far.

    2. With my current life experiences, I'd take the 3+ million in a heartbeat. Rings are for suckers.

57. pop up to Punto. pop up to Punto. pop up to Punto. Make it happen!

    1. Alas it was not to be.

58. VICTORY! See you for that round of drinks next year brianS!

    1. Booooo. But I look forward to libating you, zooomx.

59. Well, that was boring.

    1. In comparison to the first six games, it was.

       1. Oh, the first six games made the series great. It just ended more calmly than I would have liked.

    2. I've heard the same said of me.

60. Remember five weeks ago when these dudes were definitely going to miss the playoffs entirely?

    1. I'm pretty sure they did. Isn't that the Red Sox out there celebrating?

61. As long as Punto had a negative WPA for the WS, I can stomach it.

62. I'm a sucker for the montages where they show everyone's reaction to the last out. Love them.

    1. That Ron Washington reaction shot reminded me of the Twins defeat I felt worst about(Game 163 2008).

       It definitely sucks to get so close and lose it.

       1. I was with the Rangers here - I wanted them to get their first - but hearing the home crowd do that is always worth it.

          1. Yeah, the only places I don't want to be able to see fans celebrate are Bronx and Boston.
             Even Angels fans are fine with me, as long as Scioscia's been ejected and has to watch on TV from the clubhouse.

             1. When they had the rally monkeys and the Thunderstix, they were pushing it.

                Of course, I hated them at that time for lot of reasons...

                1. It's the schadenfreude of the entitlement that Yanks/BoSox fans show.
                   Also, I guess I wouldn't mind the Cubs losing the WS at home, need to keep them from becoming BoSox fans. For their own good. Losing builds character.

                2. The Thunderstix really made me hate Angels fans. The monkey only gets annoying if they keep bringing him out to early.

63. Wait did Pujols Tebow that?

64. Suck. It. Neighbors!

    1. Oh, my.

65. I keep looking for Punto in the pile-on/celebration crowd but can't find him. Is he that little?

    1. If he was crushed, this will have been the greatest World Series celebration of all time.

       1. I saw him during the Carpenter interview.

66. Dr. Chop: Tony LaR sounds more lucid than he looks.

    Me: Ha. hahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahha.

    1. I love his reaction shot. You'd've thought the tying run was on third and the winning run was on second.

67. I still think Napoli s/b MVP.

68. aw, Selig sighting. crap

69. That Chevy guy could have used a few more rehearsals.

70. David Feese is Spicoli!

    1. Mr Hand, you dick!

71. Berkman: this is the greatest team I've ever played on.

    Lance. You were a Yankee.

    1. He was a washed-up Yankee. He's a rejuvinated Redbird.

       1. You obviously didn't see my smirk.

72. My company is HQ'd in St.Louie. Monday should be a holiday.
    Dang rain postponement, today could have been a holiday.

73. BTW, I'm not getting all the Punto-loathing above.
    I'm glad for him, and Lohse. They're not worthless players.

    1. The 2011 Twins proved that.

    2. Punto's a tool.

       I wouldn't mind if he was merely the awful hitter that he is, but he routinely ran himself into outs and ignored advice that would keep him on the field and get to first base faster.

       It's not enough that he's terrible - he's also obviously proud of the terrible things he does.

74. From AP:

    This marked the ninth straight time the home team had won Game 7 in the World Series.

    So, this game was decided in July. Nice.

    1. it used to be decided long before that.

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