To #2. If the playoffs ended today, we’d play Game 1 at Fenway.
Author: Tim Russo (Page 75 of 89)
During this Sunday’s Browns-Colts game, you’ll probably hear a lot of talk about the Colts’ new stadium, which broke ground yesterday…a retractable roof, 63,000 capacity, multiple use facility. How’s it paid for?
Taxpayers in Central Indiana will pay for most of the project through tax increases. Marion County increased its hotel, car rental, and food-and-beverage taxes. Also, Hamilton, Boone, Hendricks, Johnson, Shelby and Hancock counties voted to increase their food-and-beverage taxes to help pay for it. The Colts will kick in $100 million.
I think it’ll be cool to see the Colts play outdoors at home…I move they keep that dome open in winter.
How funny is it, that when our sports teams are doing well our city instantly becomes a better place to live.
When the Browns were hot in the mid-80’s this town was pretty damn cool. I believe it also coincided with the height of the Flats era. Wasn’t Cleveland “the comeback city” during those Indians years in the mid-90’s? I got a feeling Lebron is going to make winters a bit more bearable.
Agonizing loss tonight. Games like this just wear me out. Extra innings. Base runners all the time. And a walk off homer in the 10th for Chicago. All those semi-gloating posts right before this one…..never mind.
With historic baseball chokes becoming topic of the month for sports writers, it inevitably brings up my favorite baseball lore of all time…the 1951 pennant race. In the Rosenthal column quoted below, he draws on it for comparison to today’s White Sox.
The 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers blew a 13 1/2-game lead on Aug. 11 when the New York Giants went 38-8 down the stretch, forcing a one-game playoff that the Giants won on Bobby Thomson’s home run.
Two things I love about this story. First, one of my alltime favorite MASH episodes used the 1951 pennant race as a vehicle for a year-in-the-life episode, wherein Klinger convinces Charles to bet the house on the Dodgers, the entire rest of the camp bets on the Giants, culminating in the epic radio call, “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!”
Second, the mystery of how the Giants could possibly have gone 38-8 down the stretch got even more fantastic when the Wall Street Journal did a story a few years back detailing how the Giants stole the signs for the last two months of the season at the Polo Grounds, through an elaborate binocular, wire, door bell and signal system. There is nothing better than old school baseball chicanery, and if the Giants did in fact steal the signs to win the 1951 pennant, that is old school baseball chicanery at its finest.
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