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[gr8daynegb]

Now to see who people want to lose this WS the most(or which city/team do people think has the moral high ground) .........the city that lost the ASG or the city of the garbage can scandal.

The Braves don't have anything to do with voter-suppression laws passed by the state of Georgia, so I'll root for them over the team that actively cheated.

Well they are playing in the state that passed them......and just remember these laws are less strict than laws for this in Delaware.  If anything people might be rooting for Braves to pile on Biden/Brandon at this point lol

[Henry]

At this point I'm recusing myself from picking a winner, but if I had to choose, I'd probably go with the Braves as well, as everybody hates the Astros for their cheating in their championship season of 2017. Besides, trash cans ought to be banned from the dugout...and you know what I mean by that.

[Alps]

I'll bang it out on a trash can lid:    --. ---    -... .-. .- ...- . ...

I had to translate that because I thought it meant something else than what you intended it to be. Whew! Go Braves!

I assumed it was Fuck the Red Sox. Nice chant I enjoy.

[Flint1979]

I wonder if I took a trash can lid to the ballpark if Alex Cora would sign it.

[Henry]

The Braves steal Game 1 in Houston, but lose Charlie Morton to a leg injury for the rest of the series. This is shaping up to be a fun Fall Classic already.

[Roadgeekteen]

I'll bang it out on a trash can lid:    --. ---    -... .-. .- ...- . ...

I had to translate that because I thought it meant something else than what you intended it to be. Whew! Go Braves!

I assumed it was Fuck the Red Sox. Nice chant I enjoy.

Unfortunately for you the only team more hated than the Red Sox is the Yankees.

[Max Rockatansky]

I'll bang it out on a trash can lid:    --. ---    -... .-. .- ...- . ...

I had to translate that because I thought it meant something else than what you intended it to be. Whew! Go Braves!

I assumed it was Fuck the Red Sox. Nice chant I enjoy.

Unfortunately for you the only team more hated than the Red Sox is the Yankees.

I dislike both equally.  Throw the Cubs in there as probably as something of a tier below.

[Flint1979]

The teams I hate I hate them equally.

[jp the roadgeek]

I'll bang it out on a trash can lid:    --. ---    -... .-. .- ...- . ...

I had to translate that because I thought it meant something else than what you intended it to be. Whew! Go Braves!

I assumed it was Fuck the Red Sox. Nice chant I enjoy.

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[kurumi]

I'll bang it out on a trash can lid:    --. ---    -... .-. .- ...- . ...

I had to translate that because I thought it meant something else than what you intended it to be. Whew! Go Braves!

I assumed it was Fuck the Red Sox. Nice chant I enjoy.

..-. ..- -.-. -.- / - .... . / -.-- .- -. -.- . . ...

Here's two cents from a bicoastal NE/SF homer:

in the Before Times: Wow, being a die-hard fan in NE is for suckers. Enjoy the good times, disregard the bad, because in the end, it's always someone else's favorite team. Fair weather fan forever! (PS Fuck the Yankees)

1999 NCAAM Championship: Huh. That's cool.

2001 Super Bowl: seems like the clouds might be parting a little

2004 ALCS: with this and the Pats and both UConn teams, actually, the weather's pretty damn sunny now

"Fuck the Yankees" is still a thing, but more amicable (as "1918" has lost its sting) and "Fuck Eli" pops up a couple times; but even the Bruins and Celtics get one. The Red Sox reputation as scrappy underdogs kind of fades too, as they're also a high-payroll team in the Northeast with obnoxious fans. Image: spidermans-pointing-at-each-other.jpg

2010, 12, 14: Hey, non-New York Baseball Giants!

2015: Warriors????

2018: People are sick of the Warriors? For winning??? We were sick of them for losing (and still being the topic on sports talk radio 12 hours a day)

2020: hmmm, the Pats may be done for a while. And UConn's 4(!) championships seem like from another era. Nice run, though

[KCRoadFan]

Astros beat the Braves today, 7-2, to tie the World Series at one game apiece. Game 3 is Friday night in Atlanta.

[CoreySamson]

Kinda what I expected to happen over the first two games. I think the Astros completely underestimated the Braves in the first game because they were distracted by the fact that the Dodgers weren't going to play in the WS and because they were fooled by the Braves' comparatively low winning percentage. Also, I don't think people realize how similar these two teams are in terms of stats. But now I think the Astros are on track. I'm predicting Astros in 6.

[kevinb1994]

Congrats to the Braves for winning the World Series. 4-2 baby!

[Henry]

Back to Houston tomorrow night for Game 6; too bad the Braves couldn't clinch in their home park like they did in '95.

[I-39]

Kinda what I expected to happen over the first two games. I think the Astros completely underestimated the Braves in the first game because they were distracted by the fact that the Dodgers weren't going to play in the WS and because they were fooled by the Braves' comparatively low winning percentage. Also, I don't think people realize how similar these two teams are in terms of stats. But now I think the Astros are on track. I'm predicting Astros in 6.

You should never be so confident in a team managed by Dusty Baker

Congrats to the Braves!

[Flint1979]

Kinda what I expected to happen over the first two games. I think the Astros completely underestimated the Braves in the first game because they were distracted by the fact that the Dodgers weren't going to play in the WS and because they were fooled by the Braves' comparatively low winning percentage. Also, I don't think people realize how similar these two teams are in terms of stats. But now I think the Astros are on track. I'm predicting Astros in 6.

You should never be so confident in a team managed by Dusty Baker

That is so true. I have seen this guy ruin the careers of several players, especially pitchers.

[NWI_Irish96]

Back to Houston tomorrow night for Game 6; too bad the Braves couldn't clinch in their home park like they did in '95.

I looked it up last night and no team has won the World Series at home since 2013.

[ET21]

Last time a team clinched a World Series on a shutout win: Game 4 2005, White Sox 1, Houston 0.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

As I expected, the Astros are now cursed. I congrat the Braves for their "World" Series win, and thus the supposed curse over Atlanta is now broken (it may have been broken by MLS's Atlanta United FC in 2018). I predict others will follow, such as the Cleveland Indians Guardians.

[Flint1979]

Last time a team clinched a World Series on a shutout win: Game 4 2005, White Sox 1, Houston 0.

I remember that game well.

[Henry]

Last time a team clinched a World Series on a shutout win: Game 4 2005, White Sox 1, Houston 0.

It's also ironic that the '91 and '95 World Series ended with that same score (Game 7 and 6, respectively). The Braves were on the losing end of the former, but went on to win the latter.

And on yet another note, for the second time in three years, the Astros have lost the Fall Classic to a team that had a losing record at the All-Star break. You remember how the Braves' NL East rivals, the Washington Nationals, lost 31 of their first 50 games, and then started heating up late in the regular season before ending their red-hot postseason run with their city's first World Series championship in 95 years? It just goes to show that in the MLB postseason, payroll and the number of wins you had over the 162-game schedule don't mean a thing.

I'm glad I could see Atlanta get its second World Series title; hopefully the Falcons will win a Super Bowl, and the Hawks an NBA championship (that is, to go with the one they got from their St. Louis years).

[CoreySamson]

Hey, I'm happy we've managed to make it to the WS 3 times in the last 5 years, and at least we didn't have to lose at the hands of the Dodgers.    I feel really bad for Dusty, though. Congrats, Atlanta!

[ran4sh]

Go Braves!

Five decades of major league sports in Atlanta and this is only our 2nd championship (3rd if you include MLS)

[I-39]

Kinda what I expected to happen over the first two games. I think the Astros completely underestimated the Braves in the first game because they were distracted by the fact that the Dodgers weren't going to play in the WS and because they were fooled by the Braves' comparatively low winning percentage. Also, I don't think people realize how similar these two teams are in terms of stats. But now I think the Astros are on track. I'm predicting Astros in 6.

You should never be so confident in a team managed by Dusty Baker

That is so true. I have seen this guy ruin the careers of several players, especially pitchers.

Not just that, but he's one of the biggest managerial chokers in baseball history. He has a whole section on his Wikipedia page describing them all. The "˜93 Giants, the "˜02 Giants, the "˜03 Cubs, the "˜12 Reds, etc, just to name some of them.

[Flint1979]

Kinda what I expected to happen over the first two games. I think the Astros completely underestimated the Braves in the first game because they were distracted by the fact that the Dodgers weren't going to play in the WS and because they were fooled by the Braves' comparatively low winning percentage. Also, I don't think people realize how similar these two teams are in terms of stats. But now I think the Astros are on track. I'm predicting Astros in 6.

You should never be so confident in a team managed by Dusty Baker

That is so true. I have seen this guy ruin the careers of several players, especially pitchers.

Not just that, but he's one of the biggest managerial chokers in baseball history. He has a whole section on his Wikipedia page describing them all. The "˜93 Giants, the "˜02 Giants, the "˜03 Cubs, the "˜12 Reds, etc, just to name some of them.

Yeah I remember when he said that putting guys on base isn't important and just clogs up the bases. I remember the first year he managed the Giants they won 103 games but missed the postseason because the Braves won 104 games.