After the St. Louis Cardinals eliminated the Mets last year, they went on to defeat the Detroit Tigers to win their 10th World Series. However, this year is a different year. The 2007 MLB season started with the Cardinals vs. Mets matchup in St. Louis. In the 3 games series against the Mets, the Cardinals scored a total of 2 runs and was swept. Has this ever happened before? Has there been any defending champion team losing the first 3 games of the season at home while scoring only 2 runs? Any baseball fanatics? 🙂
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I cannot answer the posted question. However, I counted 14
teams in MLB history who repeated
as World Series champions. More
specifically, the NY Yanks did it 6
times, Toronto once, Cincy once,
Oakland A’s once, Phil A’s 2 times,
NY Giants once, Red Sox once, and
the Cubs once. The Yankees won the
WS 5 years in a row from 1949-53,
the best streak ever.
My Cardinals have been unsuccessful
at defending WS titles 9 times so
far…
You guys have no idea how good you have it… I live in Washington, D.C. and so I am forced to root for the Nationals. Remember folks, this is the team that replaced the MONTREAL EXPOS (one of the worst teams ever assembled), so it is hard to have any faith, or pride in them. That said, I am going to watch them play the Diamondbacks tomorrow night. Go Nat’s!
Take heart James try being a Cub fan. The last time they won a World Series I think Lincoln was President LOL.
“My Cardinals have been unsuccessful
at defending WS titles 9 times so
far… “
Your Cardinals. I’d sell the team after that performance, if I were you.
TFK, you can thank Steve Bartman for that…
“TFK, you can thank Steve Bartman for that… “
Nah. Any team that would fall apart over a missed foul-out didn’t deserve to be champs anyway. They would have found a way to blow it no matter what.
Well I thought the Cubs won just a few years before World War I. HaHa.
My sympathies to all Loyal Cubbie Fans. Almost 100 years of Wait Until Next Year.
Susan Polgar is probably a Met’s fan and you know NYC they love to run salt into Chicago and Boston.
I heard a story where God said he has tried like hell to help the Cubs win but they just do not cooperate and He has about given up Himself on the Cubs.
I’m a Mets fan, and believe me I’d trade those 3 wins for game 7 of last year’s NLCS.
It’s too early to get excited about a 3 game sweep of the defending World Champs. Baseball plays more games then any of the other major league sports. Too much can happen over the course of the season.
Having said all of that, I hope this is a harbinger of things to come for the Mets.
I gotta question for youse Mets fans :-). I am the e-mailer “KWR” quoted in this Thu. July 13, 2006 entry of the MLB.com “Daily TRUM”, which is analogous to Susan’s blog for fantasy baseball :-).
In that e-mail, I laid out my real-time observation that David Wright tweaked his shoulder during the Home Run Derby that week. It is my only such e-mail ever published—but you know my “SELL! SELL!” advice sure came true! Wright had 20 HRs before the All-Star break, but only 6 afterward (2 in Colorado).
And yet I’ve only seen the barest rumor or speculation—nothing connecting it to a concrete observation like I saw on my TV. Googling sets of words like David Wright shoulder injury home run derby now turns up some people noting his extreme 1st-half/2nd-half “splits”, such as inJeff Frank’s 2007 NY Mets Preview, or this 3/28 StatsFox SportsTicker preview: “3B – David Wright (Home Run Derby hangover? 6 HR and 42 RBI after All-Star break)” And here is a March 29 CBS message-board comment, “David Wright-His 2nd half, many believe, was because of the Home Run derby. Whether or not you buy into that doesn’t matter, we’ve seen what he could do for half of a season…”
But that’s easy to say after-the-fact. The difference is, I made a specific observation and prediction beforehand, and got it published in the most central place! For science this distinction is vital. I contend this makes my “data” a prima-facie consideration in re-evaluating the Home Run Derby. Maybe it should be set up with fewer swings in succession—and more like a round-robin chess tournament! 🙂
Reactions? Lack of notice has even made me joke professionally that I’ve proved the “Many-Worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics without needing Max Tegmark’s quantum-suicide experiment, since I must be in a different branch of the universe from baseball’s beat reporters :-).
why would anyone want to be a met fan,when you have the greatest team in the game in the same city?