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Baseball

Eyeball_Kid

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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.

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The game lasted 13 hours, but so what? CUBBIES WIN!!!!! [View all] 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