Wow, what a great World Series! I believe the two teams were as evenly matched as they could have been!
And they weren’t selected by any committee! They played their way into the World Series as teams do every year, but this year the two teams were as evenly matched as hardly ever before!
Now it’s up to the National Football League and the National Basketball Association to match the excitement of the baseball season and playoffs!
Good luck!
Last year’s NBA season and playoffs came up lame compared to the most recent baseball season. The Red Sox and Dodgers pennant races were as exciting as they come and the playoffs went down to the wire as did the World Series. One game (I think it was the third game of the World Series) went 18 innings and lasted some eight hours before it was over and every run scored was the result of a home run with two outs!
It doesn’t get any closer than that!
No, I didn’t stay up until the end of that one. That was way past my bedtime!
As I am a New York Yankee fan as well as a Chicago Cub fan, I really didn’t have a dog in the hunt this year. Of the two teams playing, I could have lived with a Red Sox win as my best friend has a daughter living in the Boston area.
But baseball has always been my favorite sport to watch on television because of my association with Red Sox pitcher and lifelong friend, Dave (Boo) Ferriss. I once was the kid who knew the batting averages of all major league players and the season records of all the star pitchers on every team and which teams were leading both leagues every year. Now, there are just too many players, pitchers and teams with which to deal.
But I’m crazy about the current play-by-playcolumn announcer of the World Series, Joe Buck! I was equally crazy about his father, Jack Buck, who was paired with former Cub announcer Harry Carey, for years before he wound up announcing for the Chicago White Sox and running his steak house in the Windy City.
“Holy Cow,” Harry would exclaim after an exciting play.
Joe doesn’t have a signature phrase yet. He just deals with facts and statistics, quoting them freely throughout each game at appropriate times as casually as can be. If you’re not paying attention you will miss them completely. But his description of the action is incomparable, in my opinion.
But, again in my opinion, the best there ever was was Vin Scully, the long-time recently retired voice of the Los Angeles (and former) Brooklyn Dodgers. His voice was iconic and one of the most recognizable voices in baseball on radio. And he not only knew baseball but other subjects as well. He could talk to
you about any subject you chose and he would probably know more about it than you did.
But, as I said, it is up to the NFL and the NBA to match the excitement of major league baseball. With the NBA schedule being as long as it is, that will take some doing. I am usually ready for the NBA season to be over long before it is each year, but with Steph Curry and the Oakland Warriors playing as well as they are, it is a shame they are on the west coast where they play their games starting at 9:30 p.m. CST.
I’d love to watch all of their games.
But, as I said, I’m a baseball fan and basketball is just something to watch until baseball season!
And I will!
How about you?
