The Tenth Inning

[TransMonk]

Frayed Knot wrote: And while their WS win over Houston might have been 4-0 they were all, IIRC, 1-run games and it wasn't a bad series at all.

4 complete game wins in a row during the ALCS is nothing to sneeze at either. Pitching DOMINANCE.

[Willets Point]

Frayed Knot wrote: Mike Barnicle is a longtime Boston Globe writer - politics mostly - and is certainly a member of the east coast media's inner circle.

Barnicle actually left the Globe in 1998 after a plagiarism scandal and is writing for the Herald now. From what I understand from people who've lived in Boston longer than I, Barnicle once was a good columnist who wrote from the perspective of the "little guy" but became more of a lazy hack as he grew older.

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: even in their own part of the world they're overshadowed in the minds of 'Big Media' by the Cubs

And it would appear, to them, that the majority of Cub fans, or at least those showing up every day at Wrigley are of the casual or tourist variety and the media's constant calling of Cub fans as long suffering die hards rings hollow.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hey, Steve's back!

Steve, looks like I owe you some money, honey.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: Hey, Steve's back! Steve, looks like I owe you some money, honey.

I'd be wondering if Project Children gives box sets with donations, that is a lot for a single album!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bottom of the tenth for the Metskis here.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Bottom of the tenth for the Metskis here.

I don' t think this will make it into a Ken Burns movie either.

[G-Fafif]

metirish wrote: I was going to say that one reason why the 2005 W Sox were not so celebrated in the documentary is that they played in a terrible WS , then I remembered that the 2004 WS was just as bad.

Have to disagree. '05 WS was tense as could be -- four great games. But it was a sweep, which will put a different spin on things. Game Two: Astros tie in top of ninth, White Sox win in bottom; Game Three: Fourteen-inning affair won by little-used Geoff Blum. Game Four: A 1-0 nailbiter. Throw in the 88 year void, the breaking of the Black Sox curse, a powder keg of a manager (who happens to be Latin, per another Burns theme) and the presence of Roger Clemens and it could have been a great story.

Not that the Red Sox weren't essential to telling the story, but Burns overdetailed those two series and indulged his fetish with too much rehash footage of Sawx history. He also over did the 1996 Yankees, I thought.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Also the near constant presence of Barbara Bush in the front row.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy DC wrote: Also the near constant presence of Barbara Bush in the front row.

Not two months after she suggested the Astros' former home was an upgrade over people's homes in New Orleans.

I want to remake Burns's film. We all (more or less) want to remake Burns's film. It's a tribute of sorts to his compelling storytelling ability that so many people want their team and moments given proper Burns treatment. It's not like there haven't been portrayals of 9/11 that didn't give Piazza and the Mets their due, but there is a sense that this is the documentary of record. It feels wrong that it (for us) is left out; I'd mention the Grand Slam Single probably deserved at least interlude treatment. I've seen MFY fans complain the '98 team didn't get enough screen time. I've seen fans of every team ask, in essence, where's ours?

Burns has a point of view, as do all documentarians. I grudgingly have to say it's his film, though we all feel we have a stake in it.

(Which isn't to say that some of it doesn't kind of suck.)