Dodgers v. Angels

Let's have a Freeway Series. Of course, I'm a Californian so Yankee loses have never traumatized me.

Phillies vs. Yankees

 Go Phillies! Game 1 NLCS tonight at 8 from Dodger Stadium.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Yankees vs. Dodgers.

I remember the Yankees, Dodgers series in 1963. I've been a Yankee fan my whole life but the thing I remember most about that series was Sandy Koufax. He was the best pitcher I had ever seen and I haven't seen anyone since who comes close.

Yankees-Dodgers, A-Rod vs. Manny

The Underground Railroad

Angels v. Anyone, I see NL teams as barely legitimate anyway, being a mindless AL backer. This is because I can't run and throw like a little girl but I CAN hit so I have great emotional resonance to the DH rule. Also my team is AL.

And speaking of Teams, if the Twins had money and a management that did not function like the Bush White House (always promoting from within, no accountability, low intelligence) they would be the Angels. So the Angels are what I think the Twins could be if I were in charge and had a personal worth of Arte Moreno.

Yankees vs. Dodgers
I want to see Joe Torre back in New York. However Yankees vs. Phillies wouldn't bother me, since I go to school in the Philly area. It would be nice to have the games in close proximity to me, but Torre in NYC again is too good to pass up.

"Reality has a well known liberal bias" Stephen Colbert

I can live with Yankees/Phillies or Dodgers/Angels mainly on my dislike of how cross country travel can have a negative impact on players performances. But no matter, I've always been a Yankees fan.

I'll go with Yankees vs. Dodgers only because it will make so many people in New York so very, very happy. There are still a lot of Brooklyn natives who are not so much Yankees fans as Los Angeles Dodgers haters. The betrayal burns through the ages.

Phils-Yanks....and Phils in 5, making it hurt

fuck the fucking Yankees.....


"The invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people"---George Carlin

I just don't care. I think I've just about lost interest in baseball.

Okay, I really dislike the Yankees and the Dodgers, so the other two teams.

I have a hard time rooting for any of these teams, since they're four of the richest teams in the game and since my local team (Seattle) has never even been to a WS. No great sympathy for any of them here.

That said, I'd love to see Dodgers/Angels, just because it's crosstown. It also wouldn't hurt, after last year's Tampa-Philly matchup, to get the World Series out of the Eastern Time Zone.

On that score, Boo, your comment that the 48-year-old Angels are an "expansion" team, and therefore unworthy, is another way of saying that outside the Dodgers, Giants, and A's (all of which relocated from back east, A's with a stop in Kansas City) there are no legitimate teams west of St. Louis. Ahem.

From a baseball standpoint, though, any of the four possible matchups should be pretty good. It's been a while since the four final teams have all been this good and this playoff-tested.

Dodgers vs. Yankees. There's no glory in beating the Angels. There's a lot of glory in beating the Yanks! ;-)

That said, my second choice would of course be a Freeway Series. But I, too, live in SoCal, so my opinion re that should be automatically disqualified as territorially biased.

Btw - Dodgers closed the gap - 4 to 5 right now...

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

I love watching new teams in the Fall Classic. The past decade of playoff ball has been an excellent run, not only for new teams, but teams that hadn't been heard from in October for a while.

Personally I loved seeing these teams in the playoffs: Arizona (especially in 2001), Anaheim, Florida, Chicago (both), Colorado, Tampa Bay...and yes, Philadelphia.

Anything to break the Yanks-Braves stranglehold of the '90s.

mbr + dv + woyg

I just want the Dodgers in there. I live in LA and remember seeing them win the World Series (on TV) in 1988. It's been a long dry stretch since then. The other three teams playing have all won World Series in this decade.

Dodgers vs. Angels would be good for SoCal. But I'd love to see the Dodgers beat the Yanks.

I went to the game tonight. A real slugfest, good ballgame, but Phillies came out on top. Hopefully the Dodgers take tomorrow's game.

What say you?

Like any good American sports fan, I say "fuck the Yankees".

I say that more than anything I want USC to hang 100 on Notre Dame Saturday (it's sports and Southern California so it's kinda sorta on topic).

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Anybody but the Damn Yankees.

Yankees/Phillies would be an old time classic match up, but I don't know if I want to watch them trying to play Baseball dressed in Parkas! From that standpoint, I think Dodgers/Angels is a better match up, but being from Michigan, I don't think I would enjoy watching games to the wee hours of the morning. In other words, the extended schedule-playoff system, plus the moving of starting times to accommodate TV networks has pretty much ruined the "Fall Classic". But I'm an old guy who remembers only the good parts of the "good old days", so take it for what it's worth.

We need to push for Progressive change, now more than ever.

If you recall, 1981 was a complete reversal on the outcome of the 1977 series, where the Dodgers won the first two in Chavez Ravine, and then dropped the next 4. The three home run game by Jackson (on three consecutive pitches, to make it even more astounding) in NY will always be in the top 10 greatest baseball moments...