5 years

[Brian]

because i feel this October hasn't been depressing enough.

 

October 14, 2003

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200310140.shtml

[erik316wttn]

They showed Game 6 on ESPN Classic earlier today.

[B]

:cry:

[sneakypower]

i had a fun time watching that game again; Prior was making Fins look like fools and the crowd was raucous

 

wasn't able to catch anything after the 8th inning though, so i'll assume they held on

[BCVM22]

wasn't able to catch anything after the 8th inning

 

Neither were any of the Cubs playing defense at the time.

[UMFan83]

i had a fun time watching that game again; Prior was making Fins look like fools and the crowd was raucous

 

wasn't able to catch anything after the 8th inning though, so i'll assume they held on

 

I think by the point the crowd expected the Cubs to win the game and go to the World Series, unlike this year's crowds who expected a Cubbie occurance to happen. I doubt it has any tangible effect on the performance either way, but its nice to see a Cubs crowd that isn't scared and tentative. You could cut the tension with a knife in game 1 this year. Not enjoyable at all.

[bukie]

Oft forgotten fact: the winner of that frightful game 6 was none other than Chad Fox.

[KingCubsFan]

i had a fun time watching that game again; Prior was making Fins look like fools and the crowd was raucous

 

wasn't able to catch anything after the 8th inning though, so i'll assume they held on

 

I think by the point the crowd expected the Cubs to win the game and go to the World Series, unlike this year's crowds who expected a Cubbie occurance to happen. I doubt it has any tangible effect on the performance either way, but its nice to see a Cubs crowd that isn't scared and tentative. You could cut the tension with a knife in game 1 this year. Not enjoyable at all.

I think the difference was that the Cubs actually played well that year, whereas they were pretty awful from start to finish this year. Can't cheer when there's nothing to cheer about. I agree the crowd was a bit tentative in Game 1 after the grand slam, but that's a big difference when you have a lead in Game 6 of the NLCS.

[UMFan83]

i had a fun time watching that game again; Prior was making Fins look like fools and the crowd was raucous

 

wasn't able to catch anything after the 8th inning though, so i'll assume they held on

 

I think by the point the crowd expected the Cubs to win the game and go to the World Series, unlike this year's crowds who expected a Cubbie occurance to happen. I doubt it has any tangible effect on the performance either way, but its nice to see a Cubs crowd that isn't scared and tentative. You could cut the tension with a knife in game 1 this year. Not enjoyable at all.

I think the difference was that the Cubs actually played well that year, whereas they were pretty awful from start to finish this year. Can't cheer when there's nothing to cheer about. I agree the crowd was a bit tentative in Game 1 after the grand slam, but that's a big difference when you have a lead in Game 6 of the NLCS.

 

I agree. We split the road games in the NLDS, but we were very much in both games, so we had something to be excited about. I think its possible the NLDS could have gone much different had we been in a 2-3 format. If we were away from the pressures of the home crowd and we won even 1 of those 2 games, the fans wouldn't have been so nervous, the players wouldn't have felt the pressure and things could have gone differently. At least in theory. As I said earlier, I'm not sure how much of a tangible effect the crowd could have. Ultimately its up to the players to ignore the outside factors and play.