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How the Guardians and SpongeBob finally made me fall in love with Cleveland baseball
10/21/2022 9:56:00 PM Cleveland s baseball team has not won a World Series since 1948 This year turned out to be no different except it is different in almost every way
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'Going to the ballpark for Game 3 of the ALDS helped me find my love of the Cleveland Guardians, a team I watched rally to win while I cheered and offered hope,' writes usatodayopinion columnist ConnieSchultz. Cleveland s baseball team has not won a World Series since 1948 This year turned out to be no different except it is different in almost every way My new team needed meWe scored one run in the first inning.In the fifth, the Yankees pulled ahead.My life could have been very different. Now I'm a voice for others.I grabbed my red rally towel and started to wave.For the first time in my life, I stood and waved that towel over my head like a shipwreck survivor hailing a helicopter, pausing only after I swatted myself in the eye. Opinion alerts:This was an unprecedented commitment.Enter SpongeBob SquarePants Read more:
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'Watching them win a World Series will be amazing.” Seventeen of the players made their MLB debut this year.Alabama Looking Into Jermaine Burton Incident With Tennessee Fan The first two games of the series are at the home stadium of the team with the better record.Published an hour ago Stores are being asked to batten down the hatches, shutter their establishments, and remove outdoor trash cans.Padres should reach the World Series because though the Phillies may have the better ace, the Padres have the better pitching staff. All of them are younger than our family’s youngest child, but watching these guys play made me feel too young to claim it. And that is the biggest difference of all, for me. Meanwhile, the Phillies and Padres played major spoilers to the National League with the 10th- and 11th-best records, respectively. I fell in love with this baseball team. No, it’s not a destructive storm, though we’re all bracing for a city littered with refuse (read: assorted Phillies fan swag tossed in the streets). On Saturday's chilly night, I was in the stands to watch the Cleveland Guardians pull ahead of the Yankees, briefly, in Game 3 of the American League Division Series. 28, at New York or Houston Game 2: Saturday, Oct. I’ve never experienced anything like it. He regrouped, escaping and throwing three scoreless innings. My new team needed me It was the kind of game that made friends of strangers and converted nonbelievers. 31, at Philadelphia or San Diego Game 4: Tuesday, Nov. In a letter sent Tuesday, the 15th Police District asked residents and business owners on Frankford and Cottman Avenues to pull down and lock grates and to remove anything outside their buildings such as trash cans and flowerpots on Saturday, the earliest that the NLCS series could wrap up (and potentially set off celebratory mayhem). We could forget about the news and political ads, all the bills and deadlines. Time and again we rose to our feet, not in celebration, but in anticipation. 2, at Philadelphia or San Diego Game 6 (if necessary): Friday, Nov. What next from our boys? It was so magical that, at one point, I witnessed an avowed vegan raise her hand in the air and yell to the approaching vendor, “Hot dogs!” (Perhaps that was me.) We scored one run in the first inning. 5, at New York or Houston How to watch the World Series All World Series games will be aired on FOX. Though Snell lacked his best breaking pitches until the fourth inning, he finished five innings while once again outproducing his counterpart. We scored another in the second. We tied in the third. In the fifth, the Yankees pulled ahead. For the next 45 innings, we waited. Or maybe it was four, but it felt like 45 because I was standing next to Sherrod and one of our best friends, Sue Klein, another lifelong Cleveland baseball fan. Bryce Harper and Nick Castellanos put nasty two-strike pitches into play for singles. Before my eyes and definitely within hearing range they morphed from fans to pallbearers. Simone Biles: My life could have been very different. Now I'm a voice for others. By the eighth inning, I was silently plotting an alternative way to get home because no way was I riding in the same car with those two. Then, I remembered my calling. All three showed better pure stuff than their Dodgers counterparts. I was a cheerleader raised by a cheerleader. (We are not talking about my dad.) I knew what I had to do. I grabbed my red rally towel and started to wave. “Where are your rags?” I yelled to my companions. Suarez may have thrown the game’s pivotal pitch when he faced a locked-in Harper with one out in the eighth. They scoffed. “It’s a towel, not a rag,” they yelled in unison, which was pretty rich coming from two people who had stuffed theirs into their pockets. Never mind. I was invested. My team needed me. “He’s a hidden gem for us. For the first time in my life, I stood and waved that towel over my head like a shipwreck survivor hailing a helicopter, pausing only after I swatted myself in the eye. At the end of the eighth, I had to up the ante. At 10:42 p.m., looking through my clear eye, I did the unthinkable: I tweeted a photo of Sherrod and me and wrote: “ ” Opinion alerts: Get columns from your favorite columnists + expert analysis on top issues, delivered straight to your device through the USA TODAY app. Wheeler averaged 97. Don't have the app? . This was an unprecedented commitment. I hate being wrong. Worse, I hate being proven wrong. Double-bad worse, I hate being proven wrong on Twitter. Hader’s explosive fastballs are beating the heat of Padres Hall of Fame closers Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers and Trevor Hoffman in their peak years and produced one of the great innings in Padres history Saturday night, when the lefty struck out Dodgers stars Mookie Betts, Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman to send the Padres into the NLCS. When you’re in love you do crazy things. Enter SpongeBob SquarePants Yankees: Three up, three down. Suddenly, the crowd, including the pallbearers to my right, came alive. Bottom of the ninth: Two outs, bases loaded. Oscar Gonzalez walks to the plate, and his chosen song begins to play. Everybody sings: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob! Absorbent Absorbant and yellow and porous is he. SpongeBob! .