World Series/LCS Redux (This Weekend) Notes

This weekend I cite some baseball “semis” or final round/World Series rematches, as I have and will do regarding such in (big time) pro football.

There are 3 World Series repeats going on now.

One is the Phillies vs Royals, Philly vs K.C. as was the case in the 2022 season Supe and K,C, (0-3)(0-3) in “Pre,” is not going to get #3 in a row, but first off again I was “away,” and next who knows for sure?! Certainly not I (me).

In the ’80 World Series, the last between two teams that had never won one (now each franchise has 2 crowns), it was the Phillies in 6 games.

The Minnesota Twins won their first “Minne” crown and second franchise crown (the original Washington Senators, the Twins’ “ancestors,” won it all 100 years ago in 1924), 7 ing the St. Louis Cardinals in 1987.

Finally among W.S. encores, the B.S. bubble L.A. Dodgers 7th franchise crown was won in 6 games vs the Tampa Bay Rays in 2020 when a pandemic was in evidence all over this fragile world.

LCS or “semis” rematches this weekend are a redux of 2003 when the Florida Marlins, down 3 games to 1, 7’d the Cubs and of the 5 such between those ’70’s great hitting, even great teams, the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Cincy won in ’70,’72, and ’75 while the Pirates on their way to their last crown won in ’79.

Thus far, in what are all 3 game series, the team that lost more often in the previous, won 4 of the 5 series openers, as only the Dodgers, among the previous entity winners, won last night.

The Reds tie #5/’72 NLCS on John Bench’s “solo” and then win it on a wild pitch, each called brilliantly (this and certainly not his much publicized US Olympic hockey semi win in ’80, is his finest moment/hour (ode to Mr. Churchill), by Al Michaels.