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    Do you have a second MLB team that your root for?

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    3 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

    I'm sorry your dad passed before seeing the halos win it all.  

    I remember the entire stadium shaking in 86 like there was a massive earthquake.  You could feel the 300 level vibrating to the point that it actually made me nervous.  100 plus ushers lined the wall between the fans and the field.  

    During game 6 of the WS, we were at the dinner for the reception and my dad updated me that is 5-0.  More scotch please.  Then a few minutes later he came over and said that spezio had hit a hr and it was 5-3.  Ok.  time to go watch.  Most of the wedding piled into a room two floors up from the main reception that had an old school big screen tv.  you know the type.  It was on a huge pedestal and you couldn't see it when looking from the side.  The audio was awful.  I shoved my way to the front and before I know it, I turned around and there were over 100 people in a room that was probably fire safe for about 50.  People were bringing chairs from the reception two floors down.  Then Erstad.  Then Salmon and Anderson.  Flashbacks of 86.  I was sure that my heart would be broken once again.     And then Glaus.  I was 1000% sure that Percy would blow the lead in the ninth.  Not because I didn't have confidence in him but because I'm an Angels fan.  

    Trying to be objective, I'm not sure there are many WS games better than game 6 of that series.  

    I get that...experiencing 86 and having the Cubs as a second team meant we both knew how tenuous any leads can be in baseball, and how much heartbreak is involved when you follow teams as closely and passionately as we do. 
    My GF at the time put her hand on my knee @5-0 and asked if I would be OK... I said "Yeah, I'll be fine....because they will come back and win... like this team has all year"
    For once I was right...but I just knew it was going to happen..

    Do you have a second MLB team that your root for?

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    11 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

    I was at the the Dave Henderson game in 1986 as a 14 year old and cried in car on the way home.  

    I was there also. Flew in from Denver where I was working, just for that game. My Dad was an exec at Knotts and had Angels season tickets for 3 decades ( sadly, he died in 2001)
    The thing I remember most about that game was how wearily silent everyone walked out of the stadium...It was stunning..
    I went to every home game of the 2002 WS....Game 6 was the best baseball game I ever attended...and I cried like a baby after game 7. Still get emotional when I think about it..

    Do you have a second MLB team that your root for?

    in LA Angels | MLB Daily

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    Most here already know..

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    I grew up in Huntington Beach, but spent part of every summer with my aunt who lived in walking distance to Wrigley. She worked and would leave me money to go spend the day at the game...Williams Santo Banks Jenkins and the friendly confines. Started going to Anaheim when it opened in 66 but it was SO much different from the rowdy, intense game experience that I was used to at Wrigley. WGN and daily Cubs games were soon available and so I kept both teams as lifelong loves...and now have had the experience of both teams winning it all.
    Baseball has been berry berry good to me!   

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