The World Series thread

[Thunderbird is the word]

for the baseball fans among you, vote!

[tmthforu94]

Royals (obviously)

[bagelman]

KC

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

KC

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Mets all the way!

[The Other Castro]

Obviously the team from the hometown of Atlas' favorite ballerino.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Obviously the team from the hometown of Atlas' favorite ballerino.

That would technically be the Mets if you mean "hometown" in its true sense (of at least his American raising)

Like all good Yankee fans, I too will have the same rooting preference. Kansas City just so happens to be my (and ironically my parents') favorite non-local team. A beautiful "underdog" city that you can't help but love.

[RI]

Royals, very reluctantly.

[pikachu]

Royals (Phillies fan)

[DS0816]

The 2015 New York Mets may be doomed.

Since the best-of-seven league championship series format started in 1985, nearly every team which won their league's pennant in a sweep of four games to none … lost in the World Series.

The past teams which did that are Oakland Athletics (1988, 1990), Detroit Tigers (2006, 2012), Colorado Rockies (2007), and Kansas City Royals (2014).

All of them lost in the World Series.

There is one exception to this: Atlanta Braves, which swept Cincinnati Reds four games to none, in 1995. They faced Cleveland Indians, in the World Series, after that team won their four American League Championship Series games by Game No. 6. But, a contributing reason as to why the majority of these Championship Series-sweeping teams lost in the World Series is with the downtime and deconditioning that those off days allowed their players. (By comparison, their opponents' bodies were still conditioned to game mode.)

The 2015 National League Champions New York Mets are going to want to break this pattern and essentially duplicate the Atlanta Braves of 20 years ago … or they will join the list of the screwed.

[NewYorkExpress]

The 2015 New York Mets may be doomed.

Since the best-of-seven league championship series format started in 1985, nearly every team which won their league's pennant in a sweep of four games to none … lost in the World Series.

The past teams which did that are Oakland Athletics (1988, 1990), Detroit Tigers (2006, 2012), Colorado Rockies (2007), and Kansas City Royals (2014).

All of them lost in the World Series.

There is one exception to this: Atlanta Braves, which swept Cincinnati Reds four games to none, in 1995. They faced Cleveland Indians, in World Series, after that team won their four American League Championship Series games by Game No. 6. But, a contributing reason as to why the majority of these Championship Series-sweeping teams lost in the World Series is with the downtime and deconditioning that those off days allowed their players. (By comparison, their opponents' bodies were still conditioned to game mode.)

The 2015 National League Champions New York Mets are going to want to break this pattern and essentially duplicate the Atlanta Braves of 20 years ago … or they will join the list of the screwed.

Just like the 1995 Braves and their Maddux, Glavine, Avery trio, the Mets have four aces (or ace-like) pitchers in Harvey, Matz, Syndgaard, and DeGrom, which should shut or slow the Royals superior hitting.

Doomed is not the wording I would use by any means.

[DS0816]

The 2015 New York Mets may be doomed.

Since the best-of-seven league championship series format started in 1985, nearly every team which won their league's pennant in a sweep of four games to none … lost in the World Series.

The past teams which did that are Oakland Athletics (1988, 1990), Detroit Tigers (2006, 2012), Colorado Rockies (2007), and Kansas City Royals (2014).

All of them lost in the World Series.

There is one exception to this: Atlanta Braves, which swept Cincinnati Reds four games to none, in 1995. They faced Cleveland Indians, in World Series, after that team won their four American League Championship Series games by Game No. 6. But, a contributing reason as to why the majority of these Championship Series-sweeping teams lost in the World Series is with the downtime and deconditioning that those off days allowed their players. (By comparison, their opponents' bodies were still conditioned to game mode.)

The 2015 National League Champions New York Mets are going to want to break this pattern and essentially duplicate the Atlanta Braves of 20 years ago … or they will join the list of the screwed.

Just like the 1995 Braves and their Maddux, Glavine, Avery trio, the Mets have four aces (or ace-like) pitchers in Harvey, Matz, Syndgaard, and DeGrom, which should shut or slow the Royals superior hitting.

Doomed is not the wording I would use by any means.

I used the word doomed because of the feeling sweeping with those 4-and-0 [American or National] League Championship Series must have meant to the 1988 and 1990 Oakland Athletics, the 2006 and 2012 Detroit Tigers, the 2007 Colorado Rockies, and the 2014 Kansas City Royals.

There's a message in there somewhere.

It reads like this: "Congratulations, [MLB Team], for having won your league's pennant in a fantastic sweep of the championship series. Thanks to the greed of MLB's pursuit of more profit, your players' bodies are going to get cold, over the next several days, while your opposition-league's pennant-winning team will still be playing with warm athletic bodies and will remain very much in game mode. That other team will whip your team's asses in this year's World Series. But, once again: Congratulations, [MLB Team], for having won your league's pennant in a fantastic sweep of the championship series."