Welcome to the final week of the 2006 World Series! The Fall Classic is always a good time to sit back and watch the hottest two teams in Major League Baseball do battle. This is also a time to start mourning the last days of partial-warmth and readying oneself for the white fluffy stuff (for us northerners, anyway).
While my team, the Oakland Athletics, did not make it into the World Series, they still did pretty well in the post-season versus the Minnesota Twins, before totally collapsing offensively against the Detroit Tigers in the ALCS. As the Cubs fans here in the Windy City constantly say... "There's always next year!" *sigh* Currently, in the World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals are leading the series 3 games to 1. Even though I seriously do not care who wins, I still have to cheer for our intra-league rivals. Go American League!
My main rant in this writing has to do with the rally cap. C'mon, folks. We realize that the rally cap is a good ploy to ask assistance from the "Baseball Deities", but please don't pull it out in the first five-to-six innings, or while you're in the lead (of the game or the series). It looks ridiculous and the people sitting near you will most likely make fun of you.
Lets examine this term:
rally :n
1: a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm
2: the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort
Example: "He singled to start a rally in the 9th inning."
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about the use of the Rally Cap and I'm pretty sure I should have been using mine for a better part of last week, but don't be "that guy".
In a final note to this article, I'd just like to say... Detroit... break 'em out, because it's not looking good at the middle of the 8th inning, being down 2 runs to 4, trailing 3-1 in the series.
/breaks out Detroit cap, turns it inside out, parks it on head
To the other baseball fans, whose teams didn't do so well this year, here's to April 1st, 2007!
P.S. My friend Travis Schaffner clued me into the following hilarious baseball parody: The Dugout. You've gotta check it out!
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