"Game 6" - Michael Keaton Movie - Page 3

Malleus Dei · 03-14-2006, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

Why isn't anyone beating down the door to do the movie version of The Curse of Rocky Colavito complete with Jose Mesa totally blowing game 7?

Because it would have to be about Cleveland.

boilermaker · 03-14-2006, 04:30 PM

My best friend is a Mets fan, I'll be sure to tell him about it.

And I'd like to go on an anti-Red Sox rant here...I've been on an anti-Sawx rant for about three years now. My primary complaint is that they're so self-absorbed because of this "curse", it's like they're supposed to be thee protagonist of baseball. Screw that, there are other teams in baseball and us fans like our teams, too. You know, when they talk about 1986, it's always Buckner and the Sawx. Well another team was playing in the Series that year and they were pretty friggin' spectacular. You have to be good to be lucky, I says, and how can you NOT be impressed with that 1986 New York Mets team? In my best Karl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force impression, I submit to you that they were friggin' awesome. The "off the field" stuff and the intrigue in that dugout trumps any Billy Martin story I've heard. Why do the friggin' 86 Mets have to be relegated to "just another team that won a World Series", but the losers get headlines for the rest of time? That's not how it should work. Screw the Red Sawx.

boilermaker · 03-14-2006, 04:51 PM

And another thing.....I suspect that the Sawx have a lot of sympathizers entirely accounted by the fact they are the main nemesis of the Yankees, and since the Yanks are evil incarnate, are deserving of said sympathy...screw that...if that is true, how in the world does that make any sense whatsoever? Why is it not possible to hate BOTH the Yankees and Red Sox?

Le Grande Orange · 03-14-2006, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Yes, and even though it clearly cost the Red Sox a World Series...

Well, actually no, it didn't cost the Red Sox the Series. It did cost them that game though.

Now, they still could have won game #7 and made losing game #6 irrelevant, but they didn't.

So what really cost the Red Sox the Series was losing game #7.

Malleus Dei · 03-14-2006, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by boilermaker

Why is it not possible to hate BOTH the Yankees and Red Sox?

Perhaps because - at least until the Sox finally hired Bill James and paid attention to what he was telling them long enough to win a Series of their own - you would be hating both the arrogantly evil bad-mannered unsportsmanlike eternal winners and the plucky, lovable, unlucky and terminally stupid eternal losers at the same time?

Malleus Dei · 03-14-2006, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange

Well, actually no, it didn't cost the Red Sox the Series. It did cost them that game though.

Now, they still could have won game #7 and made losing game #6 irrelevant, but they didn't.

Technically that's true, LGO. But when the Sox saw the World Series go right through Buckner's legs they were psychologically done for even if Bruce Hurst did keep them in Game 7 for a while.

Just a year before, during the 1985 World Series, in what ESPN has correctly called the single worst call in sports history, Don Denkinger called Jorge Orta of the Royals safe at first in the ninth inning of Game 6 when he was clearly out (I was at the game; everyone in the entire stadium could see that Orta was obviously out). The Cardinals lost the Series at that point. Yes, there was a Game 7, but the Cardinals were psychologcally destroyed and didn't really show up for it. That's what shocks like that do.

AnotherAlias · 03-14-2006, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

So exactly how many movies do we need about juvenile Red Sox fans dropping all life responsibilities to watch their team play in the World Series? This is worse than the overload of movies about evil oil or pharmaceutical companies. Why isn't anyone beating down the door to do the movie version of The Curse of Rocky Colavito complete with Jose Mesa totally blowing game 7?

I wonder if there's a script out there about the 75 Red Sox. Maybe some guy can ditch his shift with the paramedics to see Pudge Fisk hit the homerun, only to ironically have to come back the next night and save some guy's life who had a heart attack when the Reds won.

Enough! Boston fans, I acknowledge your overwhelming greatness and your unalienable right to believe Fenway is the center of the sporting universe. Now can we please get on with other things.

How about a book about being in love with Tom Gordon for something refreshing?

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Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

Technically that's true, LGO. But when the Sox saw the World Series go right through Buckner's legs they were psychologically done for even if Bruce Hurst did keep them in Game 7 for a while.

And history sort of repeated itself in 2003, when the Cubs blew game six at home and went on to lose game 7 in the NLCS, to the Marlins.

I can still feel the stake in my heart...

Malleus Dei · 03-14-2006, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by AnotherAlias

And history sort of repeated itself in 2003, when the Cubs blew game six at home and went on to lose game 7 in the NLCS, to the Marlins.

Yes, and I hated to see it happen. The Cubs should have won.

Sven Draconian · 03-15-2006, 02:57 AM

Im I the only person that thinks pro-athletes should be mentally tough enough to handle a bad call or an error? Sorry, your 1B blowing an easy play shouldn't cause you too strike out three times.

AnotherAlias · 03-15-2006, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Sven Draconian

Im I the only person that thinks pro-athletes should be mentally tough enough to handle a bad call or an error? Sorry, your 1B blowing an easy play shouldn't cause you too strike out three times.

No, you're not the only one. You're right.

However, inevitably it happens quite often.

KurtBevacqua · 03-15-2006, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by AnotherAlias

How about a book about being in love with Tom Gordon for something refreshing?

No doubt the movie version of that is on the way as well.

03-14-2006, 04:30 PM	#42
boilermaker All Star Starter Join Date: May 2004 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 1,956	My best friend is a Mets fan, I'll be sure to tell him about it. And I'd like to go on an anti-Red Sox rant here...I've been on an anti-Sawx rant for about three years now. My primary complaint is that they're so self-absorbed because of this "curse", it's like they're supposed to be thee protagonist of baseball. Screw that, there are other teams in baseball and us fans like our teams, too. You know, when they talk about 1986, it's always Buckner and the Sawx. Well another team was playing in the Series that year and they were pretty friggin' spectacular. You have to be good to be lucky, I says, and how can you NOT be impressed with that 1986 New York Mets team? In my best Karl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force impression, I submit to you that they were friggin' awesome. The "off the field" stuff and the intrigue in that dugout trumps any Billy Martin story I've heard. Why do the friggin' 86 Mets have to be relegated to "just another team that won a World Series", but the losers get headlines for the rest of time? That's not how it should work. Screw the Red Sawx.

03-14-2006, 04:51 PM	#43
boilermaker All Star Starter Join Date: May 2004 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 1,956	And another thing.....I suspect that the Sawx have a lot of sympathizers entirely accounted by the fact they are the main nemesis of the Yankees, and since the Yanks are evil incarnate, are deserving of said sympathy...screw that...if that is true, how in the world does that make any sense whatsoever? Why is it not possible to hate BOTH the Yankees and Red Sox?

03-15-2006, 02:57 AM	#49
Sven Draconian Major Leagues Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 432	Im I the only person that thinks pro-athletes should be mentally tough enough to handle a bad call or an error? Sorry, your 1B blowing an easy play shouldn't cause you too strike out three times.