Blogger's World Series Bet
October 18, 2003 | 
14 Comments
So to add a little interest to the worst World Series in history, Paul and I have decided to make a little wager. The winner gets to place a banner ad on the loser’s site for a week after the Series is over.
Thing is, I feel a bit bad, I mean Paul obviously isn’t a sports fan. I mean, come on, the Marlins are going to be lucky if they win one game. And, yeah, I feel a bit strange actually rooting for the hated Yankees, but hey, sometimes you got to say “what the fuck?”
Anyway, it’ll be really fun to adorn his usually stark site with the most gaudy, garish, flashing, blinking, scrolling piece of crap I can come up with. Yeah, that’ll be great.
Look for it here, a day or so after game 4.
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Comments
1. Scrivs said:
Your right, I must not be a sports fan. I mean I picked Anaheim and Arizona the last two years and look how bad that ended up…MARLINS ARE TEH WIN SUX0RZ!!!!
Top of the 5th Marlins 3 - Yanks 1…so far so good.
Posted on October 18, 2003 06:46 PM | #
2. Matt said:
You’ve got to give the Marlins more credit! I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if they pulled this series off.
Of course, now Willis is burned for next game. But they will at least split in NY…that is HUGE.
Posted on October 18, 2003 09:16 PM | #
3. Dan R. said:
Marlins: 1
Yankees: 0
Posted on October 18, 2003 09:35 PM | #
4. Scrivs said:
:)
Posted on October 18, 2003 09:42 PM | #
5. Mike Steinbaugh said:
Damn, if only both these teams could lose. Worst series ever indeed.
Posted on October 18, 2003 10:52 PM | #
6. Keith said:
Well, I guess I’m a bit surprised. I didn’t think the Marlins had it in them, but they looked pretty good. Even though they had to use two starters in that game. I don’t think they’re going to win the series, but they’re making it interesting.
One thing I don’t get, and maybe Dan R. can help me out here, is why they drew less than 20,000 fans all year? I mean, they’re a young, scrappy, likable team – I just don’t get it…
Posted on October 19, 2003 10:35 AM | #
7. Matt said:
Terrible management I think. They managed to win a world series, and then completely dismantled the team. I wouldn’t be showing a whole lot of support either. Not to mention that they brought in Loria, who is pretty much evil incarnate. Rooting for his team is still better than rooting for the Yanks though.
Baseball just isn’t very popular in a lot of cities, and it hasn’t had a chance to gain roots in Florida the way it has in cities like St. Louis, Chicago, or NY. So when your home team is fielding a crappy team, what is there to put you in the stands?
Posted on October 19, 2003 01:17 PM | #
8. JC said:
“when your home team is fielding a crappy team, what is there to put you in the stands”
Overpriced beer and hot dogs, of course!
And the chance to win a free gallon of gas at bob’s jiffy lube.
Posted on October 19, 2003 03:18 PM | #
9. Scrivs said:
Keith: What the hell did you do to my team yesterday man? Conspiracy I tell you. Frickin conspiracy.
Oh well three games in Florida equals Marlins Series victory by the end of the week. Nice.
Posted on October 20, 2003 11:37 AM | #
10. Keith said:
We’ll see…
Posted on October 20, 2003 02:52 PM | #
11. Mark said:
Why don’t you Cubs fans grow up and get off Steve Bartman’s back. He was not on the field when the Cubs subsequently failed to get ANYONE out. He did not misplay a routine double play ball that would have gotten them out of the inning. He did not give up the successive hits that resulted in eight runs scoring in the 8th inning. He was not the one who blew the lead in game one, a loss that by all accounts was equally as damaging as the game six loss. Had they held on like any playoff worthy team should have, the series would have been over in 4 games. Steve Bartman was nowhere to be found when the Cubs tightened the noose around their own necks and their on-field play resembled anything but a divisional winner. It’s sad when people will seek whatever scapegoat they can to blame for the team’s own shortcommings. Leave Steve alone and let this man get some semblance of normalcy back into his life. Want someone to blame?…spread it around the playing field where the players exposed their own deficiencies and inability to make a play when it counted most. Poor Steve’s life has been wrongfully changed for the worse, what a shame!
Posted on October 21, 2003 10:28 AM | #
12. JC said:
Mark, I think I speak for everyone when I say:
“dude… like… chill….”
This isn’t some asanine sports forum, it’s a web design site with a friendly lighthearted wager over who will lose between the marlins and yankees, neither of which are teams the participants particularly care about. And besides that… maybe I’m missing somethign, but I don’t see anything about that steve guy here.
Or am I feeding the troll?
my apologies. bad troll. bad bad bad.
Posted on October 21, 2003 08:45 PM | #
13. Scrivs said:
Okay…ummm…yeah all I have to say is I wish Beckett could start every game and go all nine innings. That would improve my chances.
Posted on October 22, 2003 07:29 AM | #
14. Sean said:
Looks like he did it for you. Keith, where’s that banner?
Posted on October 27, 2003 11:17 AM | #
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