RUN IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now the Royals are back in the playoffs!

The Cubs were fools for not keeping Chapman and Fowler.

16:14 Most exciting baseball play in Camden Yards history

Watching this with a week to go in the 2024 season. Currently getting blown out by Philly. Needed something to remember the good times🥲

Fun fact, one of the games in angel stadium, the big bang theory filmed a scene there.

Still hurts

The Bumgarner Posey “ I Love you “ is one of my favorite moments of the 2010-2014 giants . You can tell those two humans really did appreciate everything they did for each other . Bumgarner best World Series pitcher ever

Go Tigers 🐅👀

How many of these are Kershaw getting blasted

Que linda serie mundial

Thank you. Awesome!

How the Mets played this well, then go on to sweep the Cubs and go out to lunch in the WS - is just the Mets for ya.

Perez Timothy Hernandez Edward White Barbara

I’m here because the Royals And O’s are gonna have a rematch in the postseason this year

Thank god Heyward can give speeches. Because he was completely useless on the field

I always felt like the Cubs won the World Series in spite of Joe Maddon. He made some very questionable decisions in that postseason.

Royals and Orioles are back.

Absolutely classic series. David vs. Goliath. de Grom took out two assassins that series in Kershaw and Greinke. So damn classic.

Utley should not have been allowed to return to game 5

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Me acuerdo perfectamente, cuando perdieron los azulejos lloré como un niño.

White Richard Gonzalez Jeffrey Hernandez Betty

14:19 David Wrong with his noodle arm throw to first base caused Hosmer to dash for home. David Wrong = Black cloud 😂

Loss couldn’t have happened to a worse fan base, this was amazing

Hall of fame shit. Didn’t even look. Knew he got him. Insane. 9:09

I miss that rogers centre postseason buzz

Affeldt doesn’t get enough credit for his game 7 performance. Did the same back in 2010 against the Phillies

Listen to the bias; they were praying Toronto won

I absolutely fucking hate the Mets so much. Because I am a Mets fan. LGM!

Letting Chapman pitch to start the 9th a good example of mismanagement

Bringing Andrew Miller out for a second inning was pretty awful managing by Terry. He looked very shaky and was giving up hard contact in the first inning he pitched so I don’t understand the decision at all. Imagine if he never gives up that HR to Ross what could’ve happened.

Royals had a better lineup 1-9 defensively and offensively but not more powerful. Mets far and away had better starters, but definitely not the pen. Three of the games were lost late by the Mets due to lack of bullpen and defense, and two were blowouts by either team.

1:45 cubs lester cards lackey, the future world series aces

Me = Did you beat Kansas City in the World Series? San Francisco = Yes Me = What did it cost? San Francisco = We lost to Kansas City in the Super Bowl not once but twice in 54 and 58

2014 was a special year for me. Baseball ⚾️ and the Giants kept me together. I lost two friends and my Mom. I still can’t quite say what it meant for me, but thank you 🙏 so much.

Imo this is the greatest game that's ever been played

Oh boy, can’t wait to see all the great Mariners highlights

What an absolute gem by Cueto sheesh

2017 was the official emergence of the Houston Astros. They had their first winning season in almost a decade in 2015, then some injuries and unfortunate setbacks led to a disappointing record at the end of the 2016 season at a couple games worse than 2015, but a lot of belief in this young core’s ability to turn into elite big leaguers. Then 2017 everything clicked for them, and all the question marks going into October about their young players being legit were answered emphatically as they toppled the Empire that was the Dodgers that season which started with a game 1 win against a Clayton Kershaw that was arguably the best he’d ever been at that time. They had Keuchal at the top of their rotation who would be Kyle Bradish for the Orioles had he not gone down for Tommy John surgery. McCullers who would be Grayson Rodriguez, they brought over Justin Verlander, the same way Baltimore brought over Corbin Burnes and their #4 was Morton who they signed as a free agent, the same way the Orioles traded for Zach Efflin. So Houston’s starting 4 was Keuchal, Verlander, McCullers, Morton and Baltimore’s will be Burnes, Efflin, Rodriguez, Rogers or Kremer without Bradish, who will be back next year making the Orioles a Burnes contract shy of the biggest four in the AL, hands down, and yes I’m including Seattle, especially if Efflin keeps pitching the way he has of late. Then you have Correa, heard of Gunnar Henderson? Altuve, *cough* Jackson Holliday *cough*! Alex Bregman, Jordan Westburg. George Springer, Colton Cowser. Josh Reddick, Cedric Mullins. Brian McCann, Adley Rutschman. Evan Gattis, Ryan O’Hearn. Gurriel, Mountcastle. Gonzalez, Santander. And while Santander is HEAD AND SHOULDERS above Gonzalez and Evan Gattis only hoped to hit like O’Hearn, but never did, as well as Gunnar and Adley being noteworthy improvement upon their counterparts, the Orioles also have players like Jimenez, Slater, Kjerstad and Mayo on the bench in this scenario which is as significant an improvement upon what the Astros were featuring as you’ll find. The difference that favors Houston in this breakdown would be the difference between Efflin and Verlander at the #2 spot, but not only is Efflin more than capable of pitching in dominant fashion throughout October, Grayson and Kremer/Rogers are noticeably better than McCullers and Morton. The Orioles are also missing their big closer Felix Bautista in the back end of the pen compared to what Houston was throwing out there, but there Orioles have substantial talent in the bullpen that is incredibly capable of getting hot at the right time in October and dominating, especially since guys like Dominguez and Kimbrel have already experienced postseason success, as well as having the chips on their shoulders to go out and shut the media and public up by throwing up scoreless frames. My point here is that the 2017 Astros were as dominant a team as there ever was in the 2017 playoffs, and you’d be a fool to think that the world saying they couldn’t do it because they were too young and missing those one or two key pieces in certain areas, didn’t play a huge role in their success. They had the clubhouse vibes turned all the way up, and this Orioles team has more vibes than anyone could ever hope to have since they’ve all not only come up through the minors together, and played together before that in a few cases, but they also have experienced championships together having won the IL Minor League Championship last year, and have never lost as a team aside from the divisional round last year. Which they sat in the Texas visiting dugout for north of 30 minutes after the final pitch as an entire group, watching the Rangers celebrate, with a look of disappointment, but also of anger, and something that is clearly going to be a factor in this October’s games. And not in the way that’s going to be helpful to anyone unfortunate enough to have their postseason journey run through Baltimore. All I’m saying is, if you spend your afternoon running through World Series winning rosters over the last 25 years, you will see a lot of similarities in the Baltimore Orioles, especially if you look at the 1998, 1999 and 2000 New York Yankees. After the Orioles sign Corbin Burnes and Kyle Bradish and Felix Bautista returns, and Mike Elias goes and gets a couple super elite bullpen arms to match Bautista, AND these young rookies turn into young veterans in their prime as the final few join the big league club everyday like Basallo, Mayo and Kjerstad to compliment the current young group of Cowser, Westburg, Henderson, Rutschman and Holliday, this team is going to be super ridiculous for a very, very long time, and 2024 is looking like their Postseason Coming Out Party. That’s how it always happens right? You get all the talent together, they start to break into the minors, you have your first winning season showing the baseball community you might be a new era of baseball in your city, and then you have a strong season, win some things, announce your permanent presence in the baseball community, but don’t make the October noise to capture the world. So you get that taste in your mouth and then announce yourself to the world and they act like you came out of nowhere, but the baseball community is saying, “what are you talking about, these guys have been good for several years now, you haven’t heard of them before this World Series win?” And then you return to a handful more World Series over the next 5-7 years and win a few, and lose a few close ones, and the world is treasuring you as the current baseball dynasty. Since that’s how it’s happened in baseball, and every other sport in America, why is everyone not realizing that everyone else is playing for second place because the Orioles have the Fall Classic all but sewn up at this point? First it will be a team like Houston so they can down the team of the old guard to begin the transition of a new guard. And all the media personnel will say things like, “yea but this wasn’t the 2022 Astros or 2017 Astros” and at home we will all say, “no s*** they didn’t win the World Series so how could they be those teams? And it’s also 2024 ya dingbat”. Then it will be the absolute best team in the AL, where they’ll be the underdogs, and they will win a semi-close series like a close game 6 win or a blowout game 7 win. Then it will be the heavy favorites of the National League where Baltimore has, “played really well and they clearly are here to stay so expect great things from them in the future, but this Phillies/Dodgers team is just too stacked and has way too many weapons for this Baltimore club that narrowly squeaked by the Guardians in the ALCS whereas the Phillies/Dodgers dominated arguably the best team in baseball, the Phillies/Dodgers in the NLCS. So it’s been a great run Orioles fans, but the fun stops in Philly/LA for your birds, I’m sorry”. And it will wind up on the walls of the Baltimore clubhouse and tunnel, along with all the other people favoring the opposition and the Orioles will come out and win over 6 or 7 games strictly by doing the things everyone said they couldn’t do, while not doing the things everyone expected them to do. So their ace will get knocked around and their #4 will pitch a gem, their big relievers will get hammered, but their bottom of the order guys will drive in all their runs. And, in the end, the depth of the Orioles and their young talent getting pitches they’ll never get again because everyone will know who they are in the future, and the Orioles will take home the Commisioner’s Trophy in 2024 for the first time in 41 years.

Continued…It’s not about how much of a Baltimore fan I am, it’s the baseball Gods and the way of baseball. There’s so many World Series story lines. The young guys becoming full blown elite big leaguers, the Rule 5 Pick Santander winning MVP of the World Series, the big offseason/deadline trade players coming up with the biggest performances, Jackson Holliday being the first player to wear #7, the number of Cal Ripken Sr who is widely known as the father or Patriarch of Baltimore baseball and pioneer of Orioles baseball aka The Oriole Way, since Billy Ripken decades ago(the unretired number of the Orioles for decades), the players that were DFA’d by another team only to become huge parts of the World Series win Ryan O’Hearn, the change of ownership in Baltimore ending the Angelos Curse, the list goes on and on. All the way down to the race for the AL East where the division title doesn’t matter nearly as much as the season series, and hopefully playoff series, so we can finally get our redemption for Jeffrey Maier. That’s why we lost in 5 games in the 2012 ALDS, it was all leading up to this season, these moments and this team. Every other time we’ve made the playoffs since that Maher series we didn’t have a chance to go through the Yankees and redeem ourselves. In 1997 the Orioles went wire to wire and didn’t have any kind of race with the Yankees who made the playoffs with a 65-66 record. So we lost to Cleveland, then in 2012 we lost to the Yankees because we weren’t ready, and in 2014 the Yankees were irrelevant, but did beat us on the last game of the season when Derek Jeter hit a walk off single where a win might have determined a different 2014 October. After that we had a wildcard game against Toronto and didn’t get a chance to face NY and last year got swept by Texas because the Yankees were again, irrelevant. This year we get to beat them out in a tight race where everyone believes they’re the better team. Then, if we get Houston in the divisional round, you’ll know right then and there that we are winning it all because they’re the old guard and that’s how you have a change of guard. The same way Mahomes had to beat Brady in the AFC Championship. Then you get the best overall team in the AL aside from Baltimore with Cleveland who is one year removed from a losing season with a rookie manager so no one will say that had anything less than an incredible season with an ALCS loss. That sets the Orioles up to announce their presence to the world the same way the Houston Astros did in 2017 and every other baseball dynasty has in every generation of baseball. The only question will be whether they’ll be a Yankees type dynasty or a Braves type dynasty, but that requires an opposing dynasty and I don’t see any other teams loaded with young home-grown talent in all of MLB, let alone just the National League. The Astros beat the Dodgers which led to multiple Astros titles and a massive exhale in LA after finally winning ONE, likely to be their only one this generation. Why Houston instead of LA? Home. Grown. Talent. You can’t buy dynasty’s. Many have tried, all have failed. You feel bad for a team like the 90s Braves for timing their dynasty in coordination with one of the greatest sports dynasty’s in history, the 90s Yankees. The Orioles have all the home grown talent in the world. What Mike Elias achieved in a couple years of draft picks will never be done again. 2019- Adley Rutschman, Gunnar Henderson 2020- Heston Kjerstad, Jordan Westburg, Coby Mayo. With Colton Cowser, Jackson Holliday and Samuel Basallo(international signing)coming coming over the next two years. That’s 8 players that have shown themselves to have the ability to be Hall of Fame caliber talents and they’re all going to be on the same lineup card in the very near future. Mike Elias might wind up being the first modern day GM to be elected into the Hall of Fame. You might have to make exceptions for something like that, if they all have Hall of Fame careers, or at least close to it. Ultimately, I hope you’re all able to enjoy the 2024 Baltimore coming out party this October as much as I am, I’m sure you will because these kids are mighty fun to watch. You’re going to see a lot of long, long fly balls disappearing into the night, along with some miraculous defensive gems and some seriously dominant pitching performances. So strap in, it’s a new baseball world, and it’s allllll Oriole Orange. See you at the parade!

Such great memories. ❤❤

I’ve never heard a crowd get so quiet so fast

Holy shit it’s aramis ramirez

Cleveland sports version of Christmas Day. A championship banner raised and game 1 of a world series. If only if there wasn't a rain delay...................

God, I hope we get October baseball in Queens this year….This fucking crowd is crazy

It seems Posey often got tagged out at home plate 😂 during post season games.

Joe Maddon made some of the worst manager blunders I’ve ever seen just in this game. It still bothers me that he took Hendricks and Lester out that soon to put in Chapman whose arm was probably dead.

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It's 2024 and I still watch these videos. That was such an unbelievable year. My grandpa passed away before this but I know he would have been overjoyed to see them finally win it all.