First and foremost let me say that game 1 of the World Series was terrific baseball theater. In the bottom of the 10th, while the Dodgers were in the process of leading the bases, one of the people I was watching with said, “Isn’t this a great game?” And I replied, “I’ll let you know in a few minutes...”
After all, even an apparently great game only qualifies as such if the Yankees lose. Even before Nestor Cortes and his 80’s porn mustache served up a walk-off grand slam to “the other gimpy Dodgers slugger,” game 1 featured many quirks rarely seen.