why the hell did our team even HAVE to play cleveland, we WON our division yet had to play a road series against a team that won 100 games in a 144 game season, while the yankees and mariners were spared this even though the red sox had a far better record, only atlanta and cleveleand had better records, it is despicable lets see seattle or NY play the 95 indians with one of the best batting lineups of all time and see them get swept too
Amen bro. Home field advantage was jacked up in the playoffs when they first rolled out the new divisional alignment. Completely unfair that the Indians didn't have home field advantage in the World Series that year too.
@@poshko41 good point I didnt even think of that, they had a better record than atlanta, the indians, they should have had home field, maybe glavine doesnt throw that 1 hitter in game 6 and win 1 to 0, maybe cleveland wins in 7 games. That was the best team cleveland ever had or will have, other than maybe the 1948 team. They got porked harder than anyone
@@IncantationNYDM I think home field advantage gives them a decisive edge. That team was young and inexperienced going against one of the best pitching staffs of all time. The Indians were a special team at home in '95.
1998 was mercifully the end of both rotating HFA and the 2-3 wildcard playoff structure (so the Red Sox actually technically did have home field advantage in this series, despite winning 14 fewer games).
how about this for curious..........Mr. Brown the (acting AL president for this series) and Kevin Kennedy had dinner and drinks the night before this game at the team hotel. There is no doubt in my mind that Belle's bat could have been x-rayed plenty of machines available but Albert didn't have nice things to say about Mr. Brown and this was all payback.
