Of course, the World Series blog post falls to me. Among the team, I seem to be the only one who knows that the World Series starts this week. The Rockies play the Red Sox in what should be a good series. Am I excited? Yes. Can I share my excitement with anyone else here? No. And so I’ll share with you…
I’ve been a baseball fan my whole life. My team is the Giants and I follow them with something bordering on obsession. I think of the 2002 World Series almost every day. The Giants entered the seventh inning of game six leading the Angels 5-0, and they had a 3-2 series lead. They lost that game and the series, and still haven’t won a World Series since moving to California. One of my earliest memories is going to Candlestick Park with my dad and sitting just off first base, and being transfixed by Willie McCovey (my all-time favorite player). It’s like it was yesterday. I go to Spring Training and act like the games count. Enough said…
So of course I use My Yahoo! to follow the Giants and baseball in general. During the season, I check results and schedules using the Scoreboard module. But mostly, I use My! to aggregate baseball content from across the Web. I’ve picked my favorite sources (Yahoo! Sports, ESPN, and MLB.com) and feeds and have them scattered across my page so that I can check them in the morning and throughout the day.
To track the series, I’ve even added Red Sox and Rockies team modules to my page, and my Giants modules are, temporarily, near the bottom (and yes, that feels strange).
I hope you enjoy the series! And I hope your team wins! Because if they don’t and you’re like me, it will be a very, very long winter…
-David
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The boston red sox have a good team. There are good players on the team. The boss at boston has always teach the players the right way to play baseball. That is why they have been to alcs many many times.
prediction : boston 4-0
Only a Giants fan would bring a Zebra to a baseball game.
World who what now?
You’ll really love the Sox next year when Barry Bonds is swinging at the Green Monster.
i hate baseball but the sox have pretty good chance this year!
Oh i wish the sox didn’t make it!! But they did good and i SUPPOSE they deserve it… (lol) but i am a hardcore Yankee fan and I wish they were in instead but what can you do right?
Have they fixed the scoreboard module so that you can track your teams during the regular season, and then track the Playoffs and the World Series separately? Or would I have had to add 4 teams whose regular season I don’t care about to my scoreboard to follow how the playoffs are going?
There should be playoff modules for every major sport.