Youk Of The Nation

2004 Lenny DiNardo 2007 Eric Gagne 2004 Pokey Reese 2013 Rubby De La Rosa 2007 Julio Lugo 2018 Sam Travis 2004 Ramiro Mendoza 2013 Joel Hanrahan UNSTOPPABLE! Seriously, I don't think I could construct this theoretical team. No matter how you do it, a dozen incredible seasons by a dozen incredible players are going to be left out.

I wonder how much of the dropoff is due to people accessing games illegally and not being counted. There are a lot of unlicensed sites online providing TV coverage of blacked out sports games. Also, does this include radio listeners? I listened to the entire WS on the radio because that's how I prefer baseball.

Devers hit the 3-run homer in game 5, not JBJ. And they weren't tied, they were leading 1-0 at the time.

Yeah I think we have to make the distinction between "best" and "most memorable". 2004 will always be the one that we compare all others to, but this season is the most dominant from a baseball point of view. Nothing will ever be better than that 2004 championship for Red Sox fans, but the 2018 Red Sox are a much, much better team objectively.

Just think, there are newborn babies who have grown up the past few minutes never knowing what a Red Sox WS championship feels like. So sad.

Imagine growing up a die-hard Sox fan, and then making it to MLB, being traded to the Sox, hitting three HR in a game against the Yankees and then winning WS MVP in the Sox uniform. Pearce must be pretty happy right now.

Hey guys, what's up? Did the Red Sox win?! Seriously though, that was amazing.

And you probably weren’t being paid as much as an MLB umpire, and had a lot less job security too.

He's probably exhausted from shouting the fight into the rest of the guys.

I happened to be skimming the Wikipedia article for this World Series and came across a hilarious tidbit of information: Game 3, at 7 hours and 20 minutes of playing time, was 15 minutes longer than the combined playing time total (7 hours and 5 minutes) of the ENTIRE 1939 World Series.

Mookie might be the first guy ever to win season MVP and WS LVP in the same season. Amazing that a 108-win team that includes Betts, JD Martinez, and Chris Sale is being propelled to a WS win by Steve Pearce, Nathan Eovaldi, Eduardo Nunez, and Mitch Moreland.

3-1!

Manny Machado is going to be my least favorite Yankee ever, and that's saying something considering the monumental douchebags that have worn pinstripes in the past.

I wonder if Eovaldi can pitch right now.

Okay so that's probably not great.

According to the strike zone on MLB Gameday, three of those were strikes and one was borderline.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen jacko go off on someone like this. Congrats, Slasher, you've finally pushed him past that line. Now, for the fiftieth time, lay off him already.

Every one of you who lamented the end of the World Series and the end of this game need to go sit in a corner! I LOVE THIS f***ING TEAM.

Steve Portiz

Betts still being walked intentionally haha

I thought the game and the WS were over?!

My dad was telling me the other day that one of his friends used to tape every World Series game starting around the time that taping TV shows was possible. Good thing he's not doing that now, he would've needed four VHS tapes for this one game.

As frustrated, stressed, angry, and sad as that game left me, an 18-inning World Series game is an instant classic and an awesome game from the perspective of my baseball fandom rather than my Red Sox fandom. A lead and then a tie in extra innings, a walk-off home run, a gutsy and honestly incredible 100-pitch, 6-inning performance by a starter out of the bullpen who would probably have gotten the most incredible win in World Series history had his team been able to push across just one more run, a memorable defensive error that allowed the tying run to score...I mentioned Game 7 of the 91 series before, and that's what this will look like 10-15 years down the road. It sucks they lost, and I hate it, but I'm not going to lie and say that it wasn't a good game.

Even if they only deducted a dollar for each bad call, Angel Hernandez would still owe MLB about ten million dollars at this point.

Baseball probably lost as many fans last night as they did after Game 7 of the 1991 series. That is to say, none. No one is going to stop watching baseball forever because of one 7-hour game with little offense. I can understand some of your points, but most of them are either personal opinions or straight-up conspiracy theories. If MLB is trying to drag out the series for ratings, why didn't they do that with the Sox-Yankees ALDS? Why didn't they do it in 2004 when the Sox were in their first World Series since 1986? Why didn't they do it for a dozen other series over the last few years that ended in sweeps or 4-1 series victories? It was a bad day for the Sox offense, that's all. Mookie continued his postseason unreliability, and a few other guys had equally frustrating days at the plate. It happens. It's unfortunate that it had to happen in a WS game, but you can't predict that sort of thing. Put it behind you and win the next one, that's why it's a 7-game series. Blaming the length of the game on some grand conspiracy by MLB and acting like this is the death knell of baseball is silly. People have been claiming baseball is "dying" for the last 15 years and it's not going anywhere.