For some bizarre reason, I am going to World Series Game 7
 

I just learned today that my father won club seats for game 7 tonight in an office game- his friends are all doing things so he's taking me. Despite my indifference towards baseball, i'm going anyway. Anamiem here I come...

Should prove to be interesting......:hang:

Have fun it's not everyday you get to go to a game seven. I wish I was there and had a sign that said "SHUT UP MONKEY"...

sorry pure hatred for the Angels (me Yankee Fan)

You lucky SOB.

Xerxes the Jock. :D

lol. I am still wondering why I am actually going... I never watch sports. Something to do I guess.

Don't really feel for either team; Angels are Disney, and the Giants are from San Francisco. What a gay world series. :p

Any Giants fans going to Anaheim, bring a sign saying

"Fuck the damn monkey!"

I'd have thought it's worth going just to see what it's like - and also to spend time with your dad - I know I should spend more time with my parents, but what with working irregular hours, and dealing with all the stuff life throws at me I don't get as much time to do that as I'd like.

Then again, I'd probably go just to see what your curious American sports are like :p

i wanted the Angels to win just because they beat the Yankees :)

have fun!

Never speak ill of the monkey:
http://espn.go.com/media/mlb/2001/06.../monkey1_i.jpg

Next thing you know Xerxes will be advocating the benefits of being a Sports Illustrated subscriber

Im not speakin bad bout the monkey

Im supportin my Man Barry and his hopes to get this season's troubles off his back.

I think InvisableMan is going to the game tonight as well, rooting for the right team, THE GIANTS!

Go Titans!!!

Go locally-operated sports franchise!

Anaheim will win the World Series.

Ahead of time - congrats to Anaheim.

Dont worry Barry, you'll be back...

Group of ball players located in Anahiem collectively known as "Angels" - 4

Group of ball players located in San Francisco collectively known as "Giants" - 1



The stadium was a madhouse. Half of the parking lot was occupied by people who did not even have tickets- throwing a party outside with large-screen televisions.

Inside, there has not been a collection of people wearing red and screaming at the top of their lungs since Lenin held his first communist parade down St. Petersburg. Although Lenin did not have the luxury of "Cheerstix(tm)", the inflatable plastic sticks everyone banged together. I saved mine and put them in a chest to sell on E-bay after 20 or so years pass. The communist overtone to the whole thing was heightened by the "Hunt for Red October" signs everywhere (A coy reference to the angels team color)

After they won, Michael Eisner came on the stage and was soundly booed.

I must say my favorite part was walking into the stadium and seeing a two guys holding signs- one said "Trust Jesus" and the other "Repent, or Perish in Hell!" ... there is some loose irony to the team being called the Angels ... aw screw it.

I for the life of me could not understand what makes the crowd so into it... why people care about something so irrelevant to progress.

Yet I cannot ascribe this to being the doom of civilization, as the Romans in both their republic and imperial days had several riots over their beloved blue and green chariot teams. The byzantines had sports riots as well. Is it because of a basic human need to belong to something larger? If not religion, why not Baseball? As evidenced by the sports fans posters "Yes We Can" "We can do it" - as if they were an actual part of the team, although their actual contribution is virtually nil? Is this willing delusion?

Furthermore, I find that part of sports is .. the hate. You cannot love the team without truly... hating another. So similarly, as people love to bond in support of something, despite its worthlessness, they equally love to bond in hatred of something else.

It contradicts reason, but when did reality ever subscribe to reason?

I hate sports. ;)

Sometimes i think you should let us mere mortals get on with it X, you know you will have the last laugh so why ruin it for us now when you can make us suffer longer.

Mea culpa from Bilbo? Why, I never imagined it possible! :-p

That reason more than any other is why I gave up my NFL season tickets. Attending a game got to be so unpleasant.

I have been to 2 world series games - spent $300 to see my team get beat by the damn yankees (lower case intentional). That is why I say:

Way to go Angels!

(Yes, I don't like the atmosphere of hate, but that doesn't mean I'm immune to its' power - especially where the yankees are involved :D )

Lol. What about Hitler's famous mass-public speeches? And the little Nazi boys and girls?

I'm indifferent to sports as well (well, at least you know you hate the sports). I dont watch them often, and they do bore me most of the time. I'd much rather either play the sport myself (although I'm not a jock, I'm not physically fit, and I dont do it as often as I should) or go do something intellectually stimulating.

Oh well, congratulations Angels. :)

Pipe down you ;)

hehe, bread and circuses eh? ;)

Fortunately, there is a silver lining to the yankee cloud

Is it possible that the shear vitriolic content of Yankee fan's speech is creating an NY localized ozone hole? :p

Good lord! The moral order of the universe has been turned on its head. For as long as man has been aware, God has resided in the heavens, and the Yankees have played in the World Series. What now? Slaves giving birth to their masters?