seagull wrote:Tigers lost the season series to the Tribe so they asked if they could borrow the Indians' bats.

Good one!

Nothing will ever be as great for me as a Cleveland Indians World Series Championship in my lifetime....and we WILL get one. I'm only 56. Some of you guys better eat your Wheaties or something....

But I know I am fortunate that I have a surrogate team in The San Francisco Giants who have given me season ending happiness in 2010 and 2012.

I was also fortunate to have moved to The San Francisco Bay Area and listen to Cleveland Indian Duane Kuiper in the Giants broadcast booth. It was easy to pay attention to The Giants, as it was easy to pay attention to Oakland with Ray Fosse in the broadcast booth for the A's.

It was easy to go often to The San Francisco Giants ballpark, as it is a wonderful ballpark.

It was easy to to the Oakland Athletics ballpark, because it reminded me of the empty Cleveland Municipal Stadiums of my youth during Cleveland Indians games.

I was in that mob celebration in downtown San Francisco when The San Francisco Giants clinched in 2010.

And I happily watched The Giants celebration on Fox this evening.

Oddest part of the viewing was watching the poor guy from Chevrolet who was called upon to offer the MVP car to Pablo Sandoval. I think the GM guy had been near tears after his Tigers lost The World Series.

I'll bet he never watches a replay of any of those four games.....at least a wager from MY personal experiences.

Now begins the long, dark off-season ...

Hey, at least the October Classic got wrapped up in October again!

Now begins the long, dark off-season ...

What!!!

Don't you expect a beehive of activity from the Front Office?

Yeah, we have a new manager, and now that Jimmy Haslam bought the team...
no, wait, he bought the Browns.
Oh well....

VT'er wrote:Now begins the long, dark off-season ...

Hey, at least the October Classic got wrapped up in October again!

Hey VT'er, Sandy ("you can't call me Dave") looks like it has a chance of really putting you in the dark in Vermont. And I read tonight there are over 100,000 without power in Northeastern Ohio.

NYC and environs got hit pretty hard, but around here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbb5mSomdV8#t=03m36s

Game on! Choo leads off for the Reds.
Soto walks him.
Brandon Phillips up.

Phillips singles, bringing up Votto.

Singles to center, Reds take a 1-0 lead. 1st and 3rd, nobody out.
Passed ball! 2-0
Ludwick up...
Soto walks him.

Jay Bruuuuuce up...
Finally got an out, as he grounds to 2nd.

Force out at 3rd, but a run scores. Cabrera made a nice play.

Double for Cozart, and Soto is gone.
Stubbs quick throw prevents another run.

Anybody reading this?

Fly ball to center. Stubbs and Bourne look at each other, and let it drop. 2 more runs score.

KENM raises the white flag on the season.
CALIFLA blames it on Shapiro and voting trends in Cleveland.
JOEZ says this never would have happened if we had more Cubans on the team.