When did your favorite MLB team last win the World Series?

[LynneSin]

(or lets make Red Sox & Cubbie fans feel really really bad and pour more salt in their wounds)

My favorite team is the Cincinnati Reds and they last won their World Series in 1990. I still have the entire WS and Playoffs on VHS and I was actually in Cincinnati for Game #2 of the playoffs.



When did your favorite baseball team last win the World Series?

[GOPisEvil]

1. 1982. St. Louis Cardinals.

They should have won in 1985 (thanks umps!) and in 1987 (stupid alternating home field!)

But, at least they've won in my lifetime.

Oh, and in 1967 they prolonged the Red Sox misery by beating them in the Series.

[LynneSin]

8. We extended it in 1975

That homerun by Fisk was memorable but counted for squat.

The homerun that counted the most in 1975 - Perez connecting off the spaceman Bill Lee - that won us a championship!

[5thGenDemocrat]

52. Right. And in 1968, you guys ran into Mickey Lolich

Who beat the Cards three times and who Bob Gibson (his own self) says belongs in the Hall of Fame, though it'll never happen.
As the self-proclaimed World's Biggest Mickey Lolich Fan, I think that stinks (hey, I was 12 in 1968 -- how important is it that your baseball team wins it all when you're 12?).
Mickey isn't Baseball God, exactly -- but, to me, he is His Big, Fat, Lefthanded, Jug-Earred, Donut-Eating Messenger.
John
The Tigers, of course, won again in 1984. But that's discussed below.

[GOPisEvil]

53. You Tigers just HAD to ruin my first World Series!

OK, I was just a few months old, but still! :P

If Bob Gibson says it, who am I to argue. Bob would just plant me like a tulip if I argued anyway. :-)

[wakfs]

2. 1988 LA Dodgers

And boy have they been pitiful since then. At least I have the glorious memory of Kirk Gibson's famous home run in Game One of the 1988 World Series.

[robertpaulsen]

42. Kirk Gibson = Roy Hobbs!

What a great day! I won $20 from a friend gloating over Canseco's earlier grand slam that the A's had it in the bag. What an amazing turnaround.

[Don_G]

3. 1908

And I'm still PO'd watching Bartman blow it...in person....

That ticket wasn't cheap!

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Hmmm....not sure, really, but they won a lot of 'em in the last decade

Go Yanks!

[fryguy]

5. 1986

Thanks to the best first baseman the Mets ever had - Bill Buckner....

[trogdor]

17. That's gotta hurt.

You're mean.

[fryguy]

28. it was only game 6.....

....they could have pulled it together the next night....

1986 notwithstanding, Mets and Sox fans are brothers-in-arms. If there is any team in baseball that has more loathing for the Yankees, its the Mets. And for what its worth, my heart dropped when Aaron Boone crushed that pitch last year

[Reverend_Smitty]

18. Lets go Mets!

I'm personally too young to remember 1986 (born in 84) but I still get goosebumps every time I see that play.

btw welcome fryguy!

[fryguy]

25. Ever the "Amazin's"

'86 was a good year, I remember it fairly well, my memory didn't start leaving me until my graudtion from high school in '89....can't wait to be in the stands for April 12, not to mention a few times when the Spankees come to our side of the river....

[DenverDem]

6. Never. Houston Astros.

I've been a fan since they were the Colt 45's. I saw Sandy Koufax get beat by the Colt 45's when they played in the outdoor stadium they had before the now abandoned Astrodome.

[felonious thunk]

7. 1980. The only one in 121 years

But they were also there like 3 other times, in those 121 years.

[Donkeyboy75]

9. 1908

I remember it well...

[stopbush]

10. Yankees fan here. I only need to wait, oh, every other year or so

for a WS win. And the years they don't win, they're usually in it anyway...

[jobycom]

11. Never even won a playoff game. Damn Bush for that, too.

Rangers, you know.

[Mrs. Venation]

12. Baltimore Orioles -- 1983

Anaheim Angels -- 2002 :party: :bounce: :yourock:

Anyone who plays the Yankees -- various



Edited to correct date of Angels championship.

[JohnKleeb]

49. I have a joke, you know ABB for Bush and all right

I am ABY.
Anyone but the Yankees.
:grr: I hate em so much but lol gotta lot of buds on this here board who like em. Go Orioles!

[flakey_foont]

13. 1980

Phils

[trogdor]

16. You mean the '80 Phils with Pete Rose?

Had to say it.

[TheDebbieDee]

14. 1985.........

Kansas City Royals hung around and won it all after the Cards were unable to put them away in 5 games.

[trogdor]

15. The '75-'76 Reds were better.

I couldn't get up the same enthusiasm in '90. Baseball was all about money by then.

[LynneSin]

21. Yeah, but they were the "Little Engine That Could" that year

everyone figured that the 'Powerful Oakland A's' would roll right over the ragtag team of the Reds. And yet we swepted them.

I'll take any WS win for my beloved Cincinnati Reds

:bounce:

[THUNDER HANDS]

19. 1986

In the most memorable series ever.

[Gato Moteado]

20. 1908

along with all the other cub fans in this thread.

[XNASA]

22. 1908 Chicago Cubs

But it won't be long now.

[SaveElmer]

23. 1991 - Minnesota Twins Baby...Greatest Series of All Time!!!

Vs. Atlanta Braves

[grannylib]

31. I was gonna say Twins in 1987, forgot they did it again a few years later.

[mac56]

38. Amen to that, SE!

Greatest Series ever = Puckett!

[marigold20]

60. Kirby Puckett!

We saw him throw from the outfield and get a guy out at home. He was great!

[x-g.o.p.er]

44. That Series was AWESOME

Puckett in game 6, Black Jack Morris in game 7. I still have that series on VHS and watch game 6 and 7 every now and then.

Awesome with a capital A, baby!!

[SaveElmer]

46. Don't believe me...check out ESPN's 100 greatest World Series

http://espn.go.com/swf/mlb/anniversary/worldseries_100.html

Look what's #1

[Whitacre D_WI]

24. Damn straight, LynneSin. 1990.

[sybylla]

26. Never - In fact I quit watching baseball years ago

MLB has become a race of the monied. Teams in small markets cannot compete - never will - until a system of revenue sharing like the NFL uses is put in place. The money problems of MLB are cancerous and growing. If the commissioners don't get their heads out of their backsides soon, there won't be much for baseball fans left outside of major metro centers. Contractions are inevitable. Traditions will die. Fans will at best become apathetic and at worst become angry.

IMHO. Not that anyone asked for it or anything.

[mac56]

39. (cough)*buzzkill*(cough)

:eyes:

[BringEmOn]

27. Hopefully, 2004

Go Mariners!

[ronnykmarshall]

29. SF Giants - ????

[GOPisEvil]

40. The Giants have never won a World Series in SF.

Their last Series win was 1954 (think Willie's famous catch) over Cleveland. Edit - of course they were still in New York then.

[wakfs]

43. I can tell you why

As a Dodger fan, the reason for the Giants' lack of World Series victory is simple - the Giants are EVIL!!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[Bertha Venation]

30. 2002 Anaheim Angels

and I still can't believe it. It's one of the sweetest things I've ever experienced.

[VOX]

34. Me too, BV. Spiezio's HR in the 6th game was unbelievable!

It was the backbreaker for S.F.

The Giants were leading 5-0, and were 8 outs from winning the Series. But Spiezio -- with two strikes, I believe, hit a 3-run HR to right.

The Angels rally for the win and then take Game 7 as well.

It took 41 years, but it was well worth it!

:hug: to a fellow Angel fan!

[Bertha Venation]

35. Sigh.

Great memories. The only thing that sucked is that I was in Maryland.

Did you hear Frank deFord on NPR this morning? His rant was about mascots and how badly they suck. I was SHOCKED that he did not ONCE mention the rally monkey. Of all people, Frank deFord has restored my faith that there is a God.

[GOPFighter]

32. <sigh> 1948

The Cleveland Indians. I just got back from spring training watching them work out. I had a blast, but I don't see anything more than a .500 season for them this year.

:-(

[bif]

33. 1984

Detroit Tigers. I don't follow them anymore. In fact, I couldn't name one player on the current team.

[5thGenDemocrat]

50. Well, let me help you, my disillusioned friend

C-Ivan Rodriguez/ 1b-Carlos Pena/ 2b-Fernando Vina/ SS-Carlos Guillen/ 3b-Eric Munson/ LF-Rondell White/ CF-Alex Sanchez/ RF-Bobby Higginson.
Rotation: Jason Johnson, Mike Maroth, Jeremy Bonderman, Nate Cornejo, and either Nate Robertson, Gary Knotts or Estaban Yan.
Bench: Craig Munroe, Mike DiFelice, Brandon Inge, probably Andres Torres and Greg Norton (it's too early to say).
Relief: Franklin German, Fernando Rodney and, again, the Tigs haven't left Lakeland yet. We'll button down the last few slots in the next week or so.
John
Loves, loves, LOVES his Detroit Tigers. Went to seven games last year and the Tigs lost six of them (though only one by more than two runs AND three of them in extra innings). And, after a season in which the boys lost 119 times, everything is looking up for 2004.
But, win or lose, it's STILL Tiger baseball.

[Paragon]

54. I'm in Cincinnati, and I know all those guys

I grew up in Michigan, and it's something I've done since I was a kid -- memorize the rosters of the Tigers, knowing who plays where, where they usually bat in the lineup, etc. -- because I love 'em so.

Even through the lean years. No fairweather fan here.

[MaineDem]

36. 1918, I believe

:(

[SiobhanClancy]

45. yeah,1918 here too

Nice to be reminded..lol.

[BurtWorm]

55. I'm surprised there aren't a lot more 1918s.

:hi:

[Champ]

37. Never-Rockies fan here

[Mr. Brown of MD]

41. Baltimore Orioles - 1983

I was actually not yet born when they took the title, though I popped out before the end of the year... heh.

Maybe I'll get to see them win one in the future.

-CollegeDude
Then again, maybe not

[JohnKleeb]

48. dude looks like the year

always a pleasure btw.

[camero]

51. I hooked school

To go to the parade after they won it. It was a great time. Had a hard time telling my teacher about my sick note the next day when I was wearing an Orioles shirt I bought there. :)

They'll get one again, the Evil Empire won't last forever.

[JohnKleeb]

47. 1983

Baltimore Orioles.

[MAlibdem]

56. 1918

don't worry, it's coming...best pitching staff in baseball, baby!

[mvd]

57. 1980 - Phillies

Which wouldn't be so bad if all the other Philly pro teams weren't also in a drought. :-(

[UrbScotty]

58. 1984 and 1908. Go Tigers and Cubs!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

59. 1918

Avatar speaks for itself.

[camero]

61. 1983

Orioles (see playing hooky post above)