Baseball

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Originally Posted by smc

The Giants slaughtered the Rangers tonight. More accurately, the Rangers bullpen put on one of the most embarrassingly awful displays I have ever seen in a professional baseball game, with four consecutive walks and more than a dozen pitches in a row called "ball"!

ESPN UK has moved live coverage of the World Series to one of their premium channels (that I cannot get) this season - so I listened to the game on the radio - better than nothing, but it's not the way I want to catch the Series next season.

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Originally Posted by dauls

ESPN UK has moved live coverage of the World Series to one of their premium channels (that I cannot get) this season - so I listened to the game on the radio - better than nothing, but it's not the way I want to catch the Series next season.

That's better than the cricket coverage we find on U.S. TV or radio!

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Originally Posted by smc

That's better than the cricket coverage we find on U.S. TV or radio!

But surely there's more demand for baseball in the UK than there is for cricket in the USA.


After England's glorious Ashes summer of 2005, the only way to now watch live cricket on TV in the UK is by burdening yourself with an expensive contract with the devil Murdoch and his damn Sky Sports channels.

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Originally Posted by dauls

But surely there's more demand for baseball in the UK than there is for cricket in the USA.

You thought I was being serious?! Get some sleep, my friend.

Most Americans would only know cricket if they heard one chirping outside their window.

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Originally Posted by smc

You thought I was being serious?! Get some sleep, my friend.

Most Americans would only know cricket if they heard one chirping outside their window.

That's me, sleep deprived, missing my girlfriend while she works out of town.

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The San Francisco Giants have just won the 2010 World Series, 4 games to 1. Tim Lincecum was virtually unhittable, and Edgard Renteria joined Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Berra as the only four players in MLB history to have the game-winning RBI in two different final games of World Series (Renteria did it with the Marlins in 1997).

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Originally Posted by smc

The San Francisco Giants have just won the 2010 World Series, 4 games to 1. Tim Lincecum was virtually unhittable, and Edgard Renteria joined Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Berra as the only four players in MLB history to have the game-winning RBI in two different final games of World Series (Renteria did it with the Marlins in 1997).

Who cares it's hockey season now

Flyersfan Jen

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Originally Posted by smc

The San Francisco Giants have just won the 2010 World Series, 4 games to 1. Tim Lincecum was virtually unhittable, and Edgard Renteria joined Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Berra as the only four players in MLB history to have the game-winning RBI in two different final games of World Series (Renteria did it with the Marlins in 1997).

It's been a bit of a pitchers' season:

- Two perfect games (Dallas Braden, Roy Halladay)
- Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game
- Three no-hitters (Ubaldo Jimenez, Edwin Jackson, Matt Garza)
- Roy Halladay's postseason no-hitter
- The lowest league batting average (.257) since 1999

So I suppose it's only reasonable to see, arguably the best pitching teams in the MLB, win the World Series.

And after playing only 72 games this regular season, who would've guessed that Edgar Reneria would come good in the Series?