The 2006 World Series Was Painfully Uninteresting

[@sirstewartwallace3917]

I'd say the 2007 World Series was worse. The Rockies didn't even show up.

[@joshfriedman7099]

No, they were outclassed by a really good Red Sox team.

[@Marco11-e1k]

2023s sucked ngl

[@joshfriedman7099]

@@Marco11-e1k Yeah, but at least it had a fantastic first game and saw a long-suffering team hoist the trophy.

[@rvm8315]

they were a buzzsaw until they got to the big show, remember the play in game against SD? Holliday's headfirst slide home was epic

[@gforce97]

2012: am i a joke to you?!

[@Kasper8421]

I *was paid* to be at this World Series. I was a vendor walking up and down the stands. I was there when Magglio hit that game winner in the ALCS. Best job I ever had!

[@kushclarkkent6669]

I was so confused after the first sentence lmao.

[@JustinVerlander35]

You’re right about the World Series being very “mid” this year. But you’re dead wrong about this team being a “bleh” team. You have to realize that three years prior the Tigers went 43-119 and looked forever doomed, not making a playoff appearance since 1987. That Tigers team came out of nowhere. It was loaded with talent. Verlander won the ROY, Joel Zumaya was hitting 105 before a guy named Chapman did that on a regular basis, the line up was loaded with talent. Pudge, Chris Shelton with his amazing one month, later replaced by Sean Casey, one of the best pure hitters I’ve ever watched in Placido Polanco, Carlos Gullien, that bum Brandon Inge had his best season ever, Craig Monroe - who hit 17! 17! Home runs in the 7th inning or later that season, 27 on the year, Granderson, who was a budding star and the always dependable Ordonez. That was not just some “meh” team. That was a great squad filled with young and the right vets. They needed Leyland to bring it all together and they did. And that’s another thing, Leyland hadn’t managed in SIX YEARS! In his first year back he takes a team that hadn’t won anything in almost 2 decades to the World Series. Good video, but man, you got that part wrong.

[@wm_9640]

If you’re not from Detroit you wouldn’t understand. 06 was one of the most magical years ever. Complete turnaround from being one of the worst teams ever assembled in the early 00s. The 06 team had great chemistry, tons of characters, comeback wins and just exciting baseball all year. That 06 summer has some of my most cherished memories watching the Tigers.

[@tylerbrown9302]

Counterargument: The series is really interesting in its display of perhaps the most favored team in World Series history (to that point) systematically imploding one game at a time. Anthony Reyes (the worst World Series Game 1 starter of all time?) beating a future HOFer, and then Detroit's comedy of errors in St. Louis make things more interesting than, say, the 2007 World Series a year later

[@ArlecchinoSB]

I put this on in the background and 12 seconds into the video I started thinking... "Why do I hear Dick Gumshoe's theme?" I'm not playing Ace Attorney right now.

[@umad2292]

This tigers team wasnt boring at all

[@ChicoSuaveMang]

As a Mets fan, any mention of the 2006 season gives me a sudden urge to cry. 🙂🙃

[@itsmealex8959]

Tbf to the Cardinals regular season record, they had dominated the two previous years with essentially the same team. They just had a lot of injuries during the 06 season, but had their dominant lineup fully healthy for the first time all season once the playoffs started.

[@DaFloove]

Little late here - I totally understand where you’re coming from! I am a Birdinals fan and I believe that if you make October baseball, you’ve got a shot. I’m pretty certain this ‘06 team was the worst record to ever win a WS, but bargain ball is still how the Birdinals do it (sorta) - stay in contention, make playoffs, maybe pull something out your ass. Cardinals have money but act like they don’t. Idk, I just love baseball and hope it does well hahaha.

[@hydrangeatallant7391]

I watched the official film at least 100 times as a little kid. This series made me fall in love with baseball, it's fun to see it in a broader context.

[@itsmealex8959]

Yo I did that too. I watched it a billion times on road trips in the back seat 😂😂

[@Hacksaw_HIM_Thuggin]

Izzy married our cousins neighbor so we always chatted him up. Kinda cool finding southern Illinois channels

[@user-by6wf6lz9u]

6:18 the greatest 12-6 changeup in mlb history

[@MrPBGM]

The 2006 NLCS had total 1988 NLCS vibes. Poor Mets.

[@jarrettwashingtonjw]

I enjoyed every second of it. It was my generations first time seeing the Cards win the World Series. I will never forget the night of Game 5 🎉

[@Adamwinters]

As a Tigers fan, this one still hurts so much.

[@fumpr84]

I shake my head at how the Tigers teams from here til the mid-10s never won a title, they were so stacked.

[@godbacks09]

The Tigers’ bullpen cost them the AL pennant in 2013.

[@jmafc98]

Not getting swept in 2012 would've been nice

[@johnhenderson7611]

As an Astros fan; the Pujols homer off of Lidge still haunts my soul. Almost 20 years later and the ball still hasn't landed yet.

[@Dvg920]

Why? They won the series anyway

[@danzemacabre8899]

I think I'm pretty sure the mars rover has sent back pics of it imbedded in the Martian soil

[@TheBadBaseballFan]

Awesome video, I'm a huge Tigers fan and was 13 during the 2006 season. Mags walk off will always be a core memory for me. It was fun to relive some of it. Unfortunately for us we had a great season that ended with a whimper. Earned a like and subscribe from me! 👍🏻⚾

[@sfcSpidey]

Good video man as a fellow St. Louis Cardinals fan I appreciate the good times I don’t think we will be getting to a World Series anytime before 2030

[@gabrielwendell8382]

the NLCS mets vs cards was awsome though came down to an exciting game 7 win

[@generogersve]

this was really great, keep making stuff

[@chriscarrow1044]

2 most random points? 2 first ballot hall of famers that were just starting their careers

[@scottlowman.1044]

My Tigers were a flop in 06 & 12.

[@Monsiemage]

I remember my mom always had good morning America on in the morning before I went to school and all they had to say was "Detroit and St.Louis" had the highest crime rates in the USA and they were playing in the world Series I was and always have been a cardinals fan, I've grown up through the best era in cardinals history can't complain.

[@lanz_a_lot]

Dropped a like for the ace attorney music, youre so real for that

[@TheLucasValone]

That series between the Tigers and Yankees was so special, it could be a video of its own. Love that you included the clip of Leyland kissing his wife through the screen and a fan going for a peck, too.

[@rollercoasterfweak]

Tadahito Iguchi was on the field for 2005 White Sox. So Taguchi wasnt the first Japanese player

[@Nolan33177]

Settle down with the best curveball ever thrown in history. And so on etc

[@Womper1992]

Cubs fan here, but you got my subscription. Great video!

[@coreyrowe4119]

An 83 win team winning the World Series will probably never happen again.

[@razkable]

The d backs almost proved you wrong lol

[@FayoThinks]

Funny enough that was the World Series that made me fall in the love with the game when I was a kid.

[@justinedse8435]

Anytime Verlander is involved in ANYTHING it is BORING!

[@TheChosennn]

2012 WS as well. Tigers just got demolished by the Giants except in game 4 it was close

[@Slayer-Josh]

That to me is the worst WS of all time. Its the only World Series I straight up can’t remember a single moment from.

[@stevep2380]

That Tigers team was on fire during the first two rounds of the playoffs. Sitting for a week they went completely cold. You'll never convince me Detroit doesn't win if they'd gone right into the series. Detroit's lineup went from hitting almost .300 as a team to under .200 in the series. That wasn't because of an all star pitching lineup by the Cardinals.

[@dpapescaofficial]

As a Mets fan if Beltran swung the World Series woudlnt have been any different

[@razkable]

cards a legacy franchise in the nl at the time winning after 24 years with prime albert was special since the past couple nl winners since the mid 90's were new teams marlins twice even the braves were not an atlanta specific legacy team until they won it all and the fact pug and jv were on the tigers makes it iconic looking back with two great managers...

[@Janthdanl]

This World Series broke my young heart. I was 9 and the tigers were my team.

[@joshuapatrick682]

Nah, Pujols owned Lidge’s soul til about 2008… then he got it back by besting the… Tampa Bay Rays? And was on the mound for the final out of the World Series. And he made 53,000,000 in salary over 600 innings pitched in ten seasons. Yeah Pujols is one of the best players of all time but Lidge got paid and got a ring.

[@blakehendo9102]

sean's magical commentary mixed with brett's stylish editing makes for one great video

[@Bwhits]

You know it 💪🔥

[@youwereprettylasttimeisawy1227]

love the little dad lore you threw in there

[@jaredfreeley8283]

I wouldn’t say both teams were “terrible.” They both made the playoffs and didn’t the tigers have 95 wins?

[@a.grimes4202]

83 wins IS terrible, or did you miss the part where he literally said St. Louis had the worst ever record for any team making the playoffs?

[@jaredfreeley8283]

@@a.grimes4202 terrible for a WS team, sure. A terrible team, absolutely not

[@SCSAsJorts]

Damn, even as a lover of baseball I straight up forget this WS happened

[@joeleicht5764]

My take on the 2006 Cardinals and this series is different. Their margin of success was so slim that individual performances by role players were vital. If Ronnie Belliard hadn't made the magnificent play he made in the San Diego series. . .If Taguchi hadn't hit the homer in the Met series. . .If Spiezio hadn't tripled in the Met series. . . If Eckstein hadn't been johnny-on-the-spot during the Series. That is what makes baseball great. (At least it was great until recent, idiotic rule changes that have ruined the game.)

[@danzemacabre8899]

If Albert didn't hit that home run vs San Diego to halt the losing streak they don't win the division

[@playdiscgolf1546]

Watching the pitchers throw the ball all over the field and puke the series away l, was brutal. The fact you don’t know the reason the tigers were so good that year, is questionable

[@vtvt0133]

You made a not so interesting World Series sound interesting

[@danzemacabre8899]

Besides game 6 in 2011 ,this club gave me the most improbable and memorable win in game 7 vs mets

[@Mad_ox8]

As an Oakland A’s fan suffering through the current relocation, getting swept by the tigers for the AL pennant doesn’t seem that bad now

[@wizardoferror9942]

The White Sox World Series from the previous year was MUCH more exciting. Especially Games 2 and 4. EDIT: It is worth mentioning that I wish baseball fans watched the World Series regardless of which teams. They need to be more committed.

[@YouGotHere]

Go check out our video on that series if you haven't already!

[@wizardoferror9942]

@@YouGotHere Thanks!

[@YoureNotReet]

Thanks for commenting, Scott Podsednik

[@wizardoferror9942]

@@YoureNotReetI’m not Scott!

[@justinedse8435]

@wizardoferror9942... We all know you are.

[@voicevitality7197]

What does "literally no reason" mean? Based on how you used it, I will just say ..... GRAB A FRICKIN DICTIONARY!!!

[@themiddlecase]

Man, need to settle down with the narration, you had almost as many errors as the Tigers. (solid video, I'm just a long-frustrated Tigers fan)

[@AWorldofKayos]

I don’t know who had more errors the Tigers in the series are you in this video? Lol

[@a.grimes4202]

Definitely the narrator lol.

[@forextrader7594]

O I’m sorry was Verlander, Pujos, Pudge, Rodgers, Ordonez, Rollen, I could go on. Along with 2 historic teams with World Series history together. Along with both being underdog stories wasn’t exciting enough for you.

[@jerzeys2finest89]

Wow you did an awesome job! And your father went to school with the cardinals pitcher? You must be really young

[@sporer_]

full disclosure: i'm a bitter Tigers fan, but maaaaannnn we were SOOOO much better than y'all that year... just melted down in the World Series. GG, Cards!

[@tonyc8752]

Cardinals were way better

[@devonbrooks246]

I was rooting for you guys in 2012. What the heck happened in that year?? Verlander, Sanchez, Scherzer and Fister and still nothing??

[@carl5381]

lol if you say so

[@Scoutmann1975]

Cards only do well if they’re underdogs.

[@devonbrooks246]

So true! Every time they do pre-season rankings and place the Cards as favorites, I assume it will be a long and disappointing summer.

[@Striker42Six]

I literally only watched this because I saw David Eckstein. I absolutely loved watching him play in Pawtucket and wished we'd kept him around in Boston. Loved his hustle.

[@briancandler8636]

I watched the World Series movie MLB made about the 06 Cardinals approximately a 1000 times as a kid it’s what got me into baseball I still love So Taguchi because of it

[@tDADDY09]

I remember my dad having to come tell me and my friend to watch the last 3 outs becuase we could care less about the games, and the sad thing is we lived 30 miles away from STL.

[@spinlok3943]

I think its fair to say the 2006 NLCS very much overshadowed the World Series from the sheer epicness of game 7. The WS wasn't that bad though. At least it wasn't a sweep. Now the Cardinals in the 2011 world series is probably one of the best series of all time.

[@peytonfree3522]

I actually remember watching this World Series

[@brianarbenz1329]

But this World Series made up for my childhood trauma the ‘68 Series.

[@CC-rb1yf]

The 2004-2009 world series was a 6 year stretch in which the result was 4-0 or 4-1. '04 was exciting for Red Sox fans ending the title drought but obviously the ALCS was much more memorable. I don't watch much baseball during the season- just highlights- but like to catch a couple world series games. These matchups were dreadful though. Now I don't really even watch the world series until game 4 and that's only if it's 2-1

[@Cam_briggs]

As a 2000s Detroit this is my favorite baseball team of all time

[@UncleVatred]

You're not allowed to say this when the 2012 World Series exists. In terms of on paper win/loss the Cardinals were the biggest Underdog of any Wild Card Era playoffs and won it all. You can't fault them for winning, fault the teams who apparently were so much better yet lost to Anthony Reyes and Jeff Weaver lol

[@MrCoats]

Hall of Famers everywhere on the 06 Cardinal team!

[@devonbrooks246]

Great video. As a Cards fan I do agree is was boring but I was 29 yrs old and waiting for so long to see another championship from them. I will take this. You did mention even though Cards season was bad, 2004 was a year that they should have won and 2005 slipped away from a hot Astros team. Either way you look at this, between 04 - 06, Cards were bound to win at least one. Add 3 future Hall of Famers (Molina will get there soon) with Rolen and Pujols, a HOF manager with LaRussa and a should have been Hall of Famer with Edmonds, that’s a really good team. If you ask my opinion, I forget the 2013 WS. Hated that series. We all knew Red Sox were going to win again and Matheny did not know what the heck he was doing.

[@scoop8529]

Absolutely INSANE name drop on your dad going to school with Jason Isringhausen. From the heavens. Fucking wicked dude

[@baldeagle7155]

Piasa Southwestern HS in Brighton IL?

[@brandonrosales4217]

If you Thought the 2006 World Series was bad, the 2007 World Series was even worse.

[@wiovelli]

Mets fan here knew that if things went differently we would have three rings still hurts to this day and will hurt forever even if we win another ws how easy that series would have been if we beat st. louis

[@jordaninktv6538]

Yeah, even as a fan of the Cards and seeing my first Cardinals WS victory in 2006 (not old enough to have been around in 1982), even at the time, I thought "This World Series was kinda lame" lmao. But hey, we got 2011 five years later, so it's okay.

[@spencerburkard]

Subbed from the opening line found my people

[@SuperGalaxy]

I love the usage of ACE ATTORNEY MUSIC!!!! Didn’t think anyone who watches the MLB has also played ACE ATTORNEY!!! Just for that alone Like and Sub from me 👍

[@Koshea69]

I look at this series as Cardinals getting payback for whatever voodoo the Red Sox were using two years before. Seriously being down 3-0 to the Yankees then coming back to win 8 straight, don't tell me someone didn't make a deal with the devil on that team.

[@bstove24]

I remember the Mariners signed Weaver the following season and he ended up being such a letdown.

[@aunch3]

In the 2000’s baseball had an aging player problem. There were all these old guys who were playing into their 40’s, possibly w help of steroids.

[@BrotherJoe96]

How is that a problem

[@aunch3]

Because they’re boring and lifeless. Younger players bring energy and swag to the game.

[@BrotherJoe96]

@@aunch3Nothing boring and lifeless about winning the MVP at age 39 and batting .362 on the year.

[@aunch3]

Well when you’re on the juice anything’s possible

[@devinbannish1469]

Nice music choices.

[@CoachKendoSlice]

As a Cardinals fan finally getting to see them win a World Series, it was a great series. 2011 was better though.

[@strawhatgoose7719]

as a horrifically biased Cardinals fan, this series ruled 2nd best world series ever

[@bradenborman4396]

Who made more errors Det pitching or the guy making the video

[@geraldZ07]

If you think that series is terrible, the 2007 World Series was so fun that you end up with kidney stones.

[@zcorpalpha2462]

That’s your view My family enjoyed it deeply 🥃🔥

[@wynnpetsovich34]

This was the last World Series I watched live I was so disappointed the tigers lost.

[@cyberpimp29]

Sounds like bitter grapes to me... how super intetesting would it had been if the Tigers won it in three as the east coast media proclaimed? So the proverbial David sleighing Goliath in five games is boring, but the giant stomping out the man is exciting? The east coast media was embarassed by this World Series, as are you...

[@damonlegereit1247]

This must be uploaded by a cubs fan.

[@covertoptzz]

As entertaining as this video was in general, the continued use of corrective subtitles were hilarious.

[@chicagodude8888]

As far as World Series entertainment goes the final out to clinch the best of 7 if you’re a cardinals fan makes going 7 irrelevant. As a Cubs fan I’d have greatly preferred a clean sweep instead of the stress of being down 3-1 and the emotional roller coaster of game 7.

[@devonbrooks246]

Me too. You never want to see Game 7 when you are on the losing end. Give me a clean sweep and let’s celebrate.

[@iamhungey12345]

There was one reason for people to watch it, to see if Pujols finally get one.

[@tylerrigdon6795]

Ehh it wasn’t a great series but it wasn’t that random. Sure Cardinals snuck in but they always do. Tigers were on year #1 of a ten year run of being debatably the best team in baseball of this century so far with rampant all stars and several future hall of famers seeing several playoff berths and two pennants during that time. 2007 WS was worse as well as a few between 2014-2020

[@baseballworldwide9439]

the lyons comments lmao

[@MrCoats]

This was a Great World Series!

[@kapo2012fb]

The cardinals weren't supposed to even be there

[@billycausgrove9657]

Tell that to the Padres and Mets who couldn't beat the Cardinals.

[@kapo2012fb]

@@billycausgrove9657 83 wins a joke

[@alwillk]

So was the 2023 World Series. Arizona was awful and their luck finally ran out in the World Series.

[@PoeticProphetic]

As a Mets fan, this one hurt

[@a.grimes4202]

Try being a Tigers fan in 2006.

[@jonjanson2]

YESSS! GO Cardinals! 2 seconds in

[@markjamison6286]

id say its a matter of opinion. and as a cardinals fan it wasnt uninteresting at all. your take on the wins loss records show just how much better baseball used to be.

[@mattcravens2473]

Is it mid af though? Thats the real question. Gotta hood it up and dumb it down a bit more.

[@stevenstocker7425]

As a cardinals fan, I don’t care that this is considered the worst World Series ever. As a fan of them, I would have rather taken a sweep.

[@JessicaWerner-xf2mn]

We still won 🥇

[@BearIslandComics]

Agree to disagree. This Series had a lot of things going on

[@Struzzzmann]

I’m sorry to disappoint but I’m a Cubs fan……. There I said it please don’t kill me!

[@christianchellis9057]

But best World series logo though