PHOENIX PHIL
AH ambassador
So on a completely non-hunting topic....baseball! I love baseball, truly love the game. I can watch football, basketball, hocke and my RSA friends even have me watching Rugby but nothing does it for me in the world of sports like baseball.
I moved to Arizona between games 5 and 6 of the 2001 World Series. My wife, older son who was just a toddler at the time and I watched those final 2 magical games from our hotel room just down the street from my new office. I thought I was going to get us kicked out of the hotel when Luis Gonzalez hit a soft single to score the winning run in the bottom of the ninth against the NY freaking Yankees. I went nuts and the Dbax became my second favorite team (will never turn my back on my beloved Orioles).
It has been a long ride with these Dbax. Poor ownership following the sale of the team by Gerry Colangelo has led to some truly dreadful seasons. And here in Phoenix where most everyone is from somewhere else we have to put up with more fans of teams like the Cubs, Red Sox, Yankees attending ballgames than there are Diamondback fans.
Even this year as things were looking brighter I was at few games where you could hear the players talking there were so few fans in attendance. And then the July to mid-August swoon came and I wasn't even sure we'd make the playoffs when not but a few weeks before we thought we'd win the division.
But they backed into the playoffs, even with losing their last 4 games of the season. The biggest culprit was pitching, especially their bullpen. But something was happening there and the BP has simply been amazing in the playoffs.
A sweep of Milwaukee, the Dodgers (with their ridiculous payroll) and then falling down 3-2 in the series against Philly they came back and held the Phillies with their tremendous lineup, to just three runs in Philadelphia over the last two games....and on the road.
So go Diamondbacks!! Congratulations to the Rangers too. These are likely the two last teams anyone thought would been the WS. It will be entertaining.
I moved to Arizona between games 5 and 6 of the 2001 World Series. My wife, older son who was just a toddler at the time and I watched those final 2 magical games from our hotel room just down the street from my new office. I thought I was going to get us kicked out of the hotel when Luis Gonzalez hit a soft single to score the winning run in the bottom of the ninth against the NY freaking Yankees. I went nuts and the Dbax became my second favorite team (will never turn my back on my beloved Orioles).
It has been a long ride with these Dbax. Poor ownership following the sale of the team by Gerry Colangelo has led to some truly dreadful seasons. And here in Phoenix where most everyone is from somewhere else we have to put up with more fans of teams like the Cubs, Red Sox, Yankees attending ballgames than there are Diamondback fans.
Even this year as things were looking brighter I was at few games where you could hear the players talking there were so few fans in attendance. And then the July to mid-August swoon came and I wasn't even sure we'd make the playoffs when not but a few weeks before we thought we'd win the division.
But they backed into the playoffs, even with losing their last 4 games of the season. The biggest culprit was pitching, especially their bullpen. But something was happening there and the BP has simply been amazing in the playoffs.
A sweep of Milwaukee, the Dodgers (with their ridiculous payroll) and then falling down 3-2 in the series against Philly they came back and held the Phillies with their tremendous lineup, to just three runs in Philadelphia over the last two games....and on the road.
So go Diamondbacks!! Congratulations to the Rangers too. These are likely the two last teams anyone thought would been the WS. It will be entertaining.
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