OtherPplsDrama;323938 wrote:
I only meant that they didn't get much of a break, where as the Tigers had almost a week.

That didn't work out for them in 2006 either.

Matty;323956 wrote:
I have no idea about tonight! Unless Bumgarner fixed whatever problem he had and rocks AT&T park like he is capable of, he's going to serve up some tasty homerun balls to Cabrera and Co.

I wish I had a ticker to count how many times Joe Buck said AT&T Park was impossible to hit home runs in. I don't think two of Sandoval's HRs would have been out in Comerica.

molds13;323978 wrote:
I wish I had a ticker to count how many times Joe Buck said AT&T Park was impossible to hit home runs in. I don't think two of Sandoval's HRs would have been out in Comerica.

AT&T Park is statistically the most difficult stadium to hit a HR in and Comerica isn't even close. The dimensions are a bit different than Comerica's though so different areas of each park are more difficult to hit to. His first homerun probably only reaches the top of the Center Field wall in Comerica, but the other 2 would have easily been homeruns in Comerica.

Local news outlets are reporting that three of the years the Tigers won the World Series, they lost game 1. They said "oh, I guess it's good luck to lose game one!" They neglected to mention 2006, where we also lost game 1 in extremely similar fashion to last night. And that series only lasted five games.

molds13;324017 wrote:
Local news outlets are reporting that three of the years the Tigers won the World Series, they lost game 1. They said "oh, I guess it's good luck to lose game one!" They neglected to mention 2006, where we also lost game 1 in extremely similar fashion to last night. And that series only lasted five games.

8 of the last 9 World Series were won by whoever won Game 1. The only one that wasn't was when the Yankees won in 2009.

Nightwolf;324024 wrote:
8 of the last 9 World Series were won by whoever won Game 1. The only one that wasn't was when the Yankees won in 2009.

Yeah, I don't think they did their homework.

Fox gets lowest World Series Game 1 rating ever

Fox drew 7.6% of U.S. households, down 13% from last year's comparable coverage of St. Louis-Texas in Game 1 and the lowest Game 1 ever. The previous low came for Game 1 of the St. Louis-Detroit Series opener in 2006, which drew 8% of U.S. households.

Bacchus;324039 wrote:
Fox gets lowest World Series Game 1 rating ever

Everyone must have been watching The Challenge!!

I had to do a double take on the score this morning. Another 2-0 game. The Tigers at this point are only playing for pride as no team has ever come back down 3-0 in the World Series.

Bacchus;324375 wrote:
I had to do a double take on the score this morning. Another 2-0 game. The Tigers at this point are only playing for pride as no team has ever come back down 3-0 in the World Series.

First team since the 1919 White Sox to be shut out two games in a row, and those guys werent exactly trying. This has been a very good series for me.

jbo29j;324376 wrote:
First team since the 1919 White Sox to be shut out two games in a row, and those guys werent exactly trying. This has been a very good series for me.

Not true. In 1966 the Dodgers were shut out in 3 straight games by the Orioles.

TheFeedMachi;324379 wrote:
Not true. In 1966 the Dodgers were shut out in 3 straight games by the Orioles.

So maybe it was the Last AL team.

Austin Jackson, how in the ******* world do you not lay out for that ball? What more needs to be on the line?

Amount of games Yankees won in ALCS: 0 Amount of runs Yankees scored in ALCS: 6 Amount of games Tigers won in World Series: 0 Amount of runs Tigers scored in World Series: 6

Awww dangit. That was not fun to watch at all. :(

OtherPplsDrama;324500 wrote:
Awww dangit. That was not fun to watch at all. :(

I didn't watch it because it was clear that the Giants were going to win after game 1.

TheFeedMachi;324504 wrote:
I didn't watch it because it was clear that the Giants were going to win after game 1.

I didn't watch because I had no interest. I didn't care who won or who lost. World Series Sweep - An Act of Greatness That Only One City Really Loved

In the end it might be the World Series that mattered only to those people in a beautiful, picture-postcard little city tucked between an ocean and a bay. Nobody in New York will care that the San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers the way the Tigers swept the Yankees. If you want revenge, you take it yourself. Los Angeles, Chicago, Texas, Florida, Boston -- only the die-hard purists there will really care. And Fox? Oh, Lord, are they probably happy this World Series is over.

In the end it might be the World Series that mattered only to those people in a beautiful, picture-postcard little city tucked between an ocean and a bay.

And that's fine with us, in our beautiful town as we indulged on wine and cheese and drifted lazily on yachts in the bay as we watched our beloved team win again. Not sure which was a better feeling-- the actual victory or seeing so-called experts and stats-spewers eat their words!

Giants' World Series win sweeps ratings into basement

The 2012 telecast of the Fall Classic averaged 12.7 million viewers, News Corp unit Fox said on Monday. That left the Giants' victory over the Detroit Tigers in the ratings cellar, according to Nielsen data. The previous World Series low came in 2008 when an average of 13.6 million watched the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays in five games. An average of 17.1 million watched the last-four game sweep, when the Boston Red Sox beat the Colorado Rockies in 2007.

molds13;325182 wrote:
Miguel Cabrera of Detroit Tigers voted top player by fellow major league players - ESPN

It is a shame that doesn't translate to a WS ring.