{"id":18068,"date":"2011-10-29T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=18068"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T19:37:45","slug":"world-series-2011-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/world-series-2011-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"World Series 2011 Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The 2011 World Series will be remembered as a great one despite an anti-climactic Game 7.&#160; Before that there were 4 nail-biters plus Albert Pujols epic game and an unforgettable game 6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If ever there was a team of destiny, it&#8217;s the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals. Future regular season and World Series comebacks will be measured against what the Cardinals did this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The only time the Cardinals were ahead in game 6 was at the end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Game 6 had 6 home runs and 5 errors and the Rangers had 3 pitchers charged with blown saves.&#160; None of their 7 relievers escaped unscathed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hunter Pence would have caught the ball that Nelson Cruz should have had on David Freese&#8217;s game tying triple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Where would the Cardinals be without Lance Berkman?&#160; He could possibly join Albert Pujols (and former teammates Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell) in the Hall of Fame.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Aside from his 5-hit game, Pujols had only 1 hit in the other 6 games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I can&#8217;t recall seeing so many right-handed batters hit to right field as in the post season this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In game 6, Joe Buck talked about Jaime Garcia as a potential pinch-hitter for two innings before he realized Garcia had been the starting pitcher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Young is a better designated hitter than a first baseman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Will Ruth Ryan still be this pretty when she is 75?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I thought it was great that no Eastern Division team, including the three biggest spenders were not in the World Series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the 17 years of Divisional Play, 10 wild card teams have played in the World Series and the Cardinals are the 5<sup>th<\/sup> team to win it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How drunk do you have to be to get tattoos on your neck?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The state of Texas came within one pitch (twice) of having the best and worst teams in major league baseball this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 World Series will be remembered as a great one despite an anti-climactic Game 7.&#160; Before that there were 4 nail-biters plus Albert Pujols epic game and an unforgettable game 6. If ever there was a team of destiny, it&#8217;s the 2011 St. Louis Cardinals. Future regular season and World Series comebacks will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[796,1998,395,17089,17085,871,13389,3243,212,4575,17087,3240,191,17083,3571,1818,17086,502,17084,17082],"class_list":["post-18068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-albert-pujols","tag-craig-biggio","tag-david-freese","tag-end-game","tag-epic-game","tag-first-baseman","tag-game-7","tag-hunter-pence","tag-jaime-garcia","tag-jeff-bagwell","tag-joe-buck","tag-lance-berkman","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-nail-biters","tag-nelson-cruz","tag-pinch-hitter","tag-ruth-ryan","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-team-of-destiny","tag-world-series-comebacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}