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Leghorn21

(13,731 posts) Thu Oct 12, 2017, 11:48 PM Oct 2017

The game lasted 13 hours, but so what? CUBBIES WIN!!!!!

OH MY NERVES!!!

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The game lasted 13 hours, but so what? CUBBIES WIN!!!!! (Original Post) Leghorn21 Oct 2017 OP

What game lasted 13 hours? PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #1

Apologies - but Cubs and Nationals seemed to last...well, 13 hours! But its over now Leghorn21 Oct 2017 #2

Guess I had to have been there. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #5

Obviously, I know little about baseball, eh? - I actually have hated it all my life till I Leghorn21 Oct 2017 #7

There was a feeling that everything Eyeball_Kid Oct 2017 #6

Oh good, so it wasnt just me (a total rookie!), it WAS sloooo mo, and then my sons Addison Leghorn21 Oct 2017 #8

Cubs-Nats. It was actually only a little under 5 hours. :-) Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2017 #3

"The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory. Off we go!" Xipe Totec Oct 2017 #4

That was somethin' dhill926 Oct 2017 #9

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,640 posts)

1. What game lasted 13 hours?

Reply to Leghorn21 (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2017, 11:52 PM

Oct 2017

What am I missing here? How many innings did it go?

Leghorn21

(13,731 posts)

2. Apologies - but Cubs and Nationals seemed to last...well, 13 hours! But its over now

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 12, 2017, 11:55 PM

Oct 2017

and those Cubs WON!

9 looooong innings!

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,640 posts)

5. Guess I had to have been there.

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 12:01 AM

Oct 2017

I mean, really, it was only 9 innings.

Try reading the book "Bottom of the 33rd" if you want to know what a genuinely long baseball game is all about.

Leghorn21

(13,731 posts)

7. Obviously, I know little about baseball, eh? - I actually have hated it all my life till I

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 12:11 AM

Oct 2017

ran into Game 5 or so of last year’s World Series, and I just got such a feel for them!!! Addison and Javier and Contreras and of course that Ant’ny Rizzo and Mr. Bryant and Mr. Heyward...

Watching last year’s series was the ONLY break I have gotten from the abysmal pre and post election agony...so...hate baseball, LOVE CUBS!!

Eyeball_Kid

(7,566 posts)

6. There was a feeling that everything

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 12:08 AM

Oct 2017

was moving in slow motion.

I also had a fleeting notion that both teams were playing to lose. And some of the dramatic flash points were perfectly timed for emotional effect. Great game.