World Series:
The best thing
money can buy
Decades ago, a fan could buy a hot dog
at a professional ballpark for less than a
dollar.
The taste was unique, the smell was
unique.
Today, a hot dog costs up to five dol
lars in some stadiums.
The mustard is runny, the color of the
dog is green and the taste is bad enough
to give a person heartbum.
For those baseball fans that braved the
sob stories daily
broadcast by NBC
to watch this year's
World Series one
thing was evident.
The game has
changed.
Now, let's
John
not
sit
and
ponder
Thorburn
why the game has
Sports Editor
changed like every
other sports analyst
is doing around America.
Lets look at what the game has lost, or
betteryet, what the FloridaMarlins' Game
7 victory over the Cleveland Indians sym
bolizes.
During the 1996-97 off-season, the
Florida Marlins played the arbitrary field
sacrificing an estimated $80 million dol
lars in acquiring big-name players like
Moises Alou, Bobby Bonilla, and Alex
Fernandez. The Miami area was granted
a major-league team five years ago, and
struggled their opening seasons as do most
expansion teams.
The Marlins unloaded a large number
of players and cash to rebuild for their
championship run, which is evident in
having only one player on the roster that
was a Florida Marlin during their inaugu
ral season.
Now, while some critics say that the
Marlins oiganization should be shunned,
I applaud their multi-million dollar deals
that enabled them to
win this year's World
Series.
But what about the
small market teams like
the Milwaukie Brewers
or the San Diego Pa
dres that don't have the
capital to obtain big
name players?
Who plays for those teams again?
I bet they've got great hot dogs in San
Diego.
It seems these days that the only teams
that carry some history with them are those
teams that can't lure the superstars of base
ball.
The Seattle Mariners, playing in the old,
grey Kingdome, are currently building
their new outdoor ballpark for both eco
nomic and community reasons. The new
stadium is expected to enhance the feel
ing that baseball is a family sport and will
hold some private boxes for fans but not
nearly as many as Jacobs Field in Cleve
land or Pro Player Stadium in Florida
contains, a
Yankee Stadium, perhaps the most
well-know park in sports, is full of
history. You can't miss it when you
walk into the grandstands, it hits you
in the face. If it doesn't, some Yan
kee fan will.
The game is changing. Maybe some
day "Take me out to the ballgame" will
be replaced by "Whoomp there it is" or
that ever annoying "Jock Jams" song.
With the addition of two more teams,
the Devil Rays and the Diamondbacks,
we can only look forward to more changes
in the upcoming years.
I can't wait to see me color of the hot
dogs in Arizona.
4
Wednesday, October 29, 1997
Marlins rally to win first title
but managed to come back in four of
the games. In Game three, Florida
trailed 7-3, but scored four runs to tie
the game and then scored seven in the ninth
to record a 14-11 win. In Game five, the
Marlins were down 4-2, when Moises Alou
hit a three run home run to put Florida ahead
5-4. Florida went on to win 8-7, taking
two of three games in Cleveland.
Gamesevenwasonefortheages. Qeve-
land rookie pitcher Jaret Wright held
Florida to one hit through six innings and
took a 2-0 lead into the seventh inning.
Bonilla hita solo shot in the bottom half of
the seventh to cut the lead in half.
Cleveland went to closer Jose Mesa in
the ninth. After retiring the first hitter, Mesa
gave up back-to-back singles to Alou and
Charles Johnson. With one out and run
ners on the comers, second baseman Craig
Counsell hit a sacrifice fly to right field,
tying the game up, 2-2.
After a scoreless 10th, the Indians
threatened in the 11th, but came up
empty. In the bottom half, Bonilla
hit a single up the middle to start the
inning. Catcher Greg Zaun popped
out to pitcher Charles Nqgy on a bunt
attempt, leaving Bonilla at first with
one out. Counsell hit a bouncing ball
towards Tony Fernandez at second,
but the ball went right under
Fernandez's glove. Bonilla raced to
third, putting runners at first and
third with one out.
After an intentional walk to Jim
Eisenreich, Devon White hit a
ground ball to Fernandez, who threw
ADAM CRUM
Staff Writer
The Florida Marlins proved that money
can buy happiness.
After Florida’s exhausting win in Game
seven of the World Series, the talk of the
town is not about the Marlins champion
ship, but rather that they could be under
new ownership next yean Wayne
Huizenga, the Marlins' current owner, has
threatened to sell the team after losing $33
million this year. Huizenga spent over $80
million on flee agents and he brought in
manager Jim Leyland.
Huizenga hasn’t said for sure that he is
going to sell the team, but he did make ref
erence to it during the playoffs. With all
the talent Florida brought in this year,
Huizenga expected to fill the seats all year.
That did not happen. Now, with the possi
bility of new ownership, the Marlins could
lose key free agents like Moises Alou,
Bobby Bonilla, Kevin Brown, Jeff Conine,
Robb Nen, Devon White and Al Leiter.
Gary
Sheffield and Alex
Fernandez are two players that will
definitely be back next year because
they have a no trade clause in their
contracts. If Huizenga does sell the
team, Leyland, who won his first
World Series in 34 years of coach
ing, could retire. Although Huizenga
basically bought Florida a World
Series, he may have hurt the team and
city more than anything else.
It wasn’t easy for Florida in the fall
classic. They trailed in every game,
home to get the force. The bases
remained loaded, but with two outs.
Shortstop Edgar Renteria, who
struggled at the plate the entire se
ries, stepped up to the plate. Renteria
lined the 0-1 pitch up the middle, just
over the glove of Nagy. Counsell
came home to score the winning run
and gave the Marlins their first world
championship in only their fifth year
of existence. It was Renteria’s sixth
game-ending hit of the year.
Cougars struggle at championships
ADAM CRUM
Staff Writer
It wasn't exactly what Clackamas' cross
country teams had in mind.
Both teams struggled this past weekend,
when the Cougars competed in the South
ern Region Championships at Chemeketa
Community College. The women ran a
very disappointing race, with only three
runners finishing. Because they failed to
finish five runners, the Cougars ran an in
complete race.
Mt. Hood won the championships, with
Lane, Clark and Chemeketa finishing sec
ond through fourth, respectively.
The women were led by Ty ana Moralez,
who finished 10th overall with a time of
21:08. Emily Schmierer wasn’t far behind,
finishing 13th at 21:30. The only other fin
isher was Anthea Dejamette, who finished
23rd at.22:12.
Both Moralez and Schmierer earned sec-
ond team honors for the Southern Region.
- Coach Jack Kegg was extremely pleased
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with the performance of Schmierer.
“Emily had a particularly good race. It
was one of her best times of the year and
this course wasn’t that fast.”
The men fared a little better than the
women, however, they did not run to their
potential. The Cougars finished fourth with
102 points. Lane edged out Mt. Hood for
first place, with Clark finishing third. Andy
Bradley finished 13thwithatimeof27:16
to lead the Cougars. Bradley's finish was
good enough for second team All-South-
em Region.
Other top finishers for the Cougars in
cluded Jason Bennett, 19th at 27:53, Tim
Winter, 22nd at28:00, David Lemarr, 24th
at 28:21 and Jay Hawkey, 30th at 28:52.
Winter and Hawkey cracked the Cougars'
top five for the first time this year. Despite
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