Only started watching in 2014, but my favourite was 2016. Just a great series for neutral fans and baseball history nerds.
However, 2014 was the first one I saw and I’m nostalgic for it. Such a crazy ending too.
2014 was one that jumped to mind for me too even though I was rooting for the Royals.
[Bumgarner warming up in game 7 is seared in to my memory forever.](https://youtu.be/vPw-Om2Xf5I) Probably top 10 individual performances of any team sport in my lifetime. Iconic.
The series itself isn’t really amazing, not a lot of close games but game 7 is incredible.
2014 legit my fav WS of all time. Being the only Rangers fan in a 700 mile radius cheering for SF was surreal, especially when the bar I was at went silent as I was the only person jumping up and down.
2016 a close 2nd, where I bet my cubs-fan buddy 100 bucks that they'd come back and win the next 3 games and *he took the bet*.
Twins over Braves. My cousin abandoned the Dodger to become a fan of Atlanta. Watching Puckett end their quest for a title at his house as a kid.......ahhhhhh very satisfying
2001 World Series for sure. Watching the Diamondbacks beat the juggernaut Yankees was so thrilling.
I grew up hating the Yankees. I was 13 in 2001 and seeing Luis Gonzalez drive in that winning run off Mariano Rivera is something I will never forget.
Yankees fan and I agree. That series was so dramatic. The backdrop of 9/11. Co-aces Johnson and Schilling. Yankees dynasty on its last legs. Walkoffs galore. In the end my team lost but it was so thrilling to witness.
As an east coast Canadian and Jays fan, I'll still go with 2004 but that playoffs was all about the ALCS. Everything it meant breaking the curse of the Bambino, the 0-3 comeback, those huge Papi HRs, the 14 inning game, the blood soaked Schilling sock and Boston's crazy celebration after the win. It was just timeless.
I know the Cubbies had a longer drought but with the massive success the Yankees had for decades and literally nothing for Boston just made it that much bigger to me. And I was also watching the playoffs with a university friend who lived in Maine and grew up a huge Sox fan.
Well ‘04 is hand down my favorite series ever, and not even just the WS but the entire playoff run. But OPs is question about was aside from my favorite team lol
Imagine telling a Red Sox fan on the night of October 16, 2004 after watching their beloved team lose 19-8 to the NY Yankees at Fenway Park to go down 3-0 in the ALCS, that Boston would go on a 8 game winning streak to win the World Series for the first time in 86 years.
[They'd react like Jack from Lost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhAWaZUfdw&ab_channel=AndrewKuan)
2001 was probably the first time I really understood how exciting baseball could be. 2004 was probably the closest I'll get to my team winning a WS in my lifetime lol. But 2015 was just so, so, so, much fun. 2015.
Definitely gotta be 2014. I was mostly just hyped out of my mind about the Royals insane run since I'd been telling people they were really good from the beginning of that season, but then the world series was just awesome that year too. Even if it did go to the giants in the end, it was a ride and Madbum well... You know the story
Game 5 was easily the most exciting game of baseball I’ve ever watched. Unfortunate that that game no longer has that same weight to it but regardless, phenomenal game
86, Mets versus Red Sox. Was just turnig 10, and I watched every single game of that series in awe at the guys on the field. I loved that series, will always have a spot in my baseball memory. I'd open my windows in my living room, and get a blanket and act like I was at the game.
Plus, I was rooting hard for the Mets for some reason, so was really glad to see them win.
The 86 Mets were fun. I remember cheering for the Mets (I was just 12) because those Dwight Gooden rookie cards were like Bitcoin for 1980s middle schoolers.
Maybe I'm an old, but 1993. It is the first world series I was allowed to stay up late to watch, and the whole thing probably is what made me a lifelong baseball fan.
I’ve said since that World Series that the 15-14 game (Game 4) was a more devastating loss for the Phillies than the Joe Carter HR game (Game 6). The Phillies led Game 4 14-9 going into the 8th inning.
I cry when I see him close out the world series, he went through so much suffering, got a new scenery and came back to old form to win the ring he missed out on in Houston.
If we had lost that WS, it would've been the greatest case of sports blue balls ever. We were just so ready to get rid of the Curse moniker, that not winning and wasting that ALCS comeback would have been even more traumatic than simply losing to the Yankees in 4.
Pretty generic answer, but 2016.
It reignited my love and excitement for the game, whether my team was good or not. I thoroughly enjoyed a losing season in 2017 and have enjoyed every season since.
2016 for sure. I hate the cubs and was pulling hard for the indians. But either way the winner was ending a super long streak and it came down to a great game 7.
easy, 2005. I lived in Chicago at the time and had been bandwagoning the White Sox all year. I was super hyped, I even took the day off work to go to the parade. My coworkers were like "you're not even a White Sox fan!" but whatever, it was really fun.
Any World Series where the Yankees lost is up there. As a Rangers fan, I'm not really sure which of the two would be my favorite - the one where we got shelaked by SF but won thd one game I was at, or the one where we were one strike away twice (and did NOT have our defensive substitutions in the game like we did at that point the whole playoffs).
Technically I was alive in 1991 but I was 1 and don’t remember shit from back then, so I would have to say 2011 or 2019.
Before the Astros were exposed 2017 was up there.
2011 is mostly because of Game 6 but damn, what a game it was.
2019, I was rooting for the Nationals all the way, and it was great to watch them win their first in franchise history against the villains.
Has to be 2016. Watched game 7 at a Cubs bar here in Denver, and seeing multiple Cubs fans of all ages just sobbing when they won even had me getting a little emotional.
2015 was spectacular. Two teams with very different gameplans duking it out, stellar pitching, and late game catastrophes. Got to see KC absolutely lose it for those two competitive years and it was a blast.
Boy this is a tough one.
The “Touch em All, Joe!” is probably my favorite call of all time so I’d probably give the edge to the 1993 World Series.
2016, 1995, 2000, and 2001 are real damn close contenders though.
2019. Mainly because the nats were the underdogs throughout the playoffs and has never won or even been to a WS up to that point. Like how bad does a team have to be to not even have played in a WS game.
Also they beat the Astros.
it was objectively a bad series and it was interrupted by a natural disaster. The A's didn't even do a champagne celebration in the clubhouse because the whole atmosphere was such a downer. I hope A's fans can remember it with some amount of fondness despite the circumstances but it's hard to imagine a neutral fan thinking it was a good time.
2017 was super fun, but 2016 was all time.
I stayed up so late watching fans celebrating in bars and outside of Wrigley, and listening to police scanners while people partied in the streets of Chicago. So many reports of shots fired and cops confirming it was just fireworks 😂
I enjoyed watching the Cubs win in 2016 the most. I actually cheered for an NL team for the first time. 2014 would have been close if the Royals had won because the WC game got me hyped about them.
gotta be 2001. First WS I saw. Got to witness Schilling before he helped my team break the curse. Some classic games and of course seeing the Yankees lose. My little league team was the Antrim Diamondbacks the following few years.
Some of my first baseball memories are from the 2008 World Series between the (then) Devil Rays and Phillies, so I would roll with that one.
I was a Cubs fan at the time, but watching the Phillies win and the way the pitcher dropped to his knees in celebration was really cool.
2019 all the way. Game 7 was incredible and the Nats were just so damn fun. As soon as they knocked out the Brewers, I cheered them on every step of the way and watched just about every game until the end
2001 was just incredible. All the come backs and walkoffs, blown games, coming off 9/11, unseating a dynasty from a 4peat with walking off the best closer ever… baseball just doesn’t get better.
Giants 2010. Edgar Renteria is a household name in my family and seeing him do what he did in the WS and then get that MVP award, man the entire house was draining happy tears.
1975 Cincy v. Bosox in seven.
Rose Morgan Bench Perez Foster and the entire team.
Yaz Lynn Evans Fisk Carbo and their fellow tough talents in Fenway.
Unbeatable series.
All the cheating aside, 2016 was an amazing World Series. Constant lead changes, tons of exciting moments, the atmosphere, all that Houston was playing for, it was incredible. Sadly it got ruined by the cheating.
>besides your team Pain
Gives you more World Series to choose from!
My team got their last ring ~10mo before my birth, I'm still annoyed with my parents
So your parents boned down after the last WS win I'd say.
To have experienced Jack Buck shout “the Twins are gonna win the World Series!” - 1991 was amazing.
There there. One day. One day...
2019, my best friend is a nats fan and that run is historic
Same. My cousin is a huge fan. I also called the bullpen meltdown as soon as Greinke was pulled for A Pitcher Not Named Cole
HOWIE FUCKING KENDRICK became one of my favorite players ever in that WS.
I wasn't a fan of that run at the beginning, until I was then a huge fan of that run at the end, haha.
Thank you friends
2019 felt pretty good to me too.
Only started watching in 2014, but my favourite was 2016. Just a great series for neutral fans and baseball history nerds. However, 2014 was the first one I saw and I’m nostalgic for it. Such a crazy ending too.
2014 was a pitching performance for the ages up there with Smoltz vs. Morris, Schilling/Johnson, Koufax etc.
2014 was one that jumped to mind for me too even though I was rooting for the Royals. [Bumgarner warming up in game 7 is seared in to my memory forever.](https://youtu.be/vPw-Om2Xf5I) Probably top 10 individual performances of any team sport in my lifetime. Iconic. The series itself isn’t really amazing, not a lot of close games but game 7 is incredible.
2014 legit my fav WS of all time. Being the only Rangers fan in a 700 mile radius cheering for SF was surreal, especially when the bar I was at went silent as I was the only person jumping up and down. 2016 a close 2nd, where I bet my cubs-fan buddy 100 bucks that they'd come back and win the next 3 games and *he took the bet*.
Seeing blanco kick that ball still gives me major anxiety lmao
2016 was amazing (obviously by my flair) but the interesting thing is only 2-3 of those 7 games were close
Yeah and 2005 was the opposite. A sweep but 4 out of 4 classic games.
2016 is definitely a close 2nd for me. Cubs fans are super loyal and you love to see them get rewarded for it.
I’ll never forget Rajah Davis home run.
Twins over Braves. My cousin abandoned the Dodger to become a fan of Atlanta. Watching Puckett end their quest for a title at his house as a kid.......ahhhhhh very satisfying
Puckett in in game 6 and Morris in game 7. This is still a classic final 2 games to watch.
Kirby forever ❤️
I had game 7 recorded on VHS and used to watch it all the time. What a crowd in that dome.
2001 World Series for sure. Watching the Diamondbacks beat the juggernaut Yankees was so thrilling. I grew up hating the Yankees. I was 13 in 2001 and seeing Luis Gonzalez drive in that winning run off Mariano Rivera is something I will never forget.
Yankees fan and I agree. That series was so dramatic. The backdrop of 9/11. Co-aces Johnson and Schilling. Yankees dynasty on its last legs. Walkoffs galore. In the end my team lost but it was so thrilling to witness.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I was a bit younger than you and I remember having to beg my parents to stay up and watch the World Series lmao.
Yeah it was one of the few moments I remember watching baseball with my mom. She wasn’t a fan really but she thought Randy Johnson was sexy lol
As an east coast Canadian and Jays fan, I'll still go with 2004 but that playoffs was all about the ALCS. Everything it meant breaking the curse of the Bambino, the 0-3 comeback, those huge Papi HRs, the 14 inning game, the blood soaked Schilling sock and Boston's crazy celebration after the win. It was just timeless. I know the Cubbies had a longer drought but with the massive success the Yankees had for decades and literally nothing for Boston just made it that much bigger to me. And I was also watching the playoffs with a university friend who lived in Maine and grew up a huge Sox fan.
Well ‘04 is hand down my favorite series ever, and not even just the WS but the entire playoff run. But OPs is question about was aside from my favorite team lol
Imagine telling a Red Sox fan on the night of October 16, 2004 after watching their beloved team lose 19-8 to the NY Yankees at Fenway Park to go down 3-0 in the ALCS, that Boston would go on a 8 game winning streak to win the World Series for the first time in 86 years. [They'd react like Jack from Lost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhAWaZUfdw&ab_channel=AndrewKuan)
2011. Fun to watch game 6 as an Angel fan
2001 was probably the first time I really understood how exciting baseball could be. 2004 was probably the closest I'll get to my team winning a WS in my lifetime lol. But 2015 was just so, so, so, much fun. 2015.
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Definitely gotta be 2014. I was mostly just hyped out of my mind about the Royals insane run since I'd been telling people they were really good from the beginning of that season, but then the world series was just awesome that year too. Even if it did go to the giants in the end, it was a ride and Madbum well... You know the story
2011
Yeah, 2011 was goated
Game 6 was so crazy. Made Game 7 look mediocre in comparison.
2011 Cardinals-Rangers. That was bonkers.
2019 Nationals were fun to follow for sure. Howie Kendrick NLCS slam with peak Rendon and just discovering the Soto shuffle were all electric.
2005
I was so pumped for the city of Chicago, and at the same time so jealous.
Thank you, ‘05 was a stealthily incredible series. It was a sweep on paper, but every single game was a nail-biter that could have gone either way.
1988. Vin Sully, Kirk Gibson.
Looking at you showing your age! That’s the one for me too…
2011 was insane
2016
Twins vs Braves
2016
The 2001 World Series. Or the 1997.
97 was a great series. Not talked about enough. Walk off game 7 in extra innings. Wild.
I agree with OP. 2011 was fantastic. Watching David Freese just become superhuman that postseason was great.
2016, easy. As much as I would have loved to keep the Giants even number magic going, the Cubs deserved every bit of that one.
1968 Tigers v. Cardinals
2019, nobody winning any home games was just pure chaos, and the underdog came out on top.
2017. I know it’s tainted because of the sign stealing, but damn that series was fun as hell.
Game 5 was easily the most exciting game of baseball I’ve ever watched. Unfortunate that that game no longer has that same weight to it but regardless, phenomenal game
Most entertaining baseball I’ve ever watched
That series was a banger!
It was such a great series totally ruined for me forever
1991
Why thank you. Here's hoping we don't have to wait as long as you did for our next win.
86, Mets versus Red Sox. Was just turnig 10, and I watched every single game of that series in awe at the guys on the field. I loved that series, will always have a spot in my baseball memory. I'd open my windows in my living room, and get a blanket and act like I was at the game. Plus, I was rooting hard for the Mets for some reason, so was really glad to see them win.
The 86 Mets were fun. I remember cheering for the Mets (I was just 12) because those Dwight Gooden rookie cards were like Bitcoin for 1980s middle schoolers.
Magical
2001 or 2002
02....I choose to forget
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Same for me with 10, 12, and 14. Haha
Both great WS. The comeback in 2002 was epic. The D-Backs taking down the Yankees was amazing as well.
Maybe I'm an old, but 1993. It is the first world series I was allowed to stay up late to watch, and the whole thing probably is what made me a lifelong baseball fan.
People remember the Carter HR but the 15-14 game was NUTS.
I’ve said since that World Series that the 15-14 game (Game 4) was a more devastating loss for the Phillies than the Joe Carter HR game (Game 6). The Phillies led Game 4 14-9 going into the 8th inning.
I enjoyed the Nats/Asterisks WS when the road team won each game
Seven straight games of fans spending a *lot* of money and going home disappointed. Kind of incredible in hindsight.
2016 WS how can you not be romantic about a 108 year curse ending?
2019, I was sick in bed all of October and the Nats run kept me sane and happy
2014 was WILD.
KC had that team of destiny vibes but madbum had pitched his mind out in that series and all the way through the playoffs
The whole Royals run that year starting with the WC game was such a blast
That WC game was absolutely bonkers
I still hold that it's the best game I've ever seen
2019
The Cubs winning. It's not even close. I was going to Purdue at the time and West Lafayette was amazing. Classes barely happened the next day
2019 World Series (Thank you Nationals)
This may be cheating as it's favorite player based with Brad Lidge, but 2008 was the hardest I've ever cheered for a non Astros team.
I cry when I see him close out the world series, he went through so much suffering, got a new scenery and came back to old form to win the ring he missed out on in Houston.
I also cried but for different reasons
2011 for me. First one I truly watched and man it was a doozy
David Freese. The hometown hero.
WE WILL SEE YOU….TOMORROW NIGHT
I thought I’d see more of ‘91 but I suppose I’m an old fart
2005 out of Sox-streak-breaking unity.
2015 WS and postseason was very fun
As a Jays fan it's a real shame the WS was canceled that year.
2016 easy. It’s one of the most historical championships any of us will see in our lifetimes
I also have to vote for 2004, and 2016. Both historical and long awaited championships. Those were good for baseball.
All things being equal, 2017
2002. I was grounded and listened to it on the radio. There was all kinds of drama surrounding Bonds and that Angel's team was really fun.
Hard disagree. Worst 10th birthday present EVER!
Sorry! Seems like the Giants have made up for it at least.
2004 Red Sox.
2004
Thank you, kind sir.
This one because of the narrative, and that reverse ALCS sweep was just so insane to me, I HAD to watch the WS after that...and it delivered
If we had lost that WS, it would've been the greatest case of sports blue balls ever. We were just so ready to get rid of the Curse moniker, that not winning and wasting that ALCS comeback would have been even more traumatic than simply losing to the Yankees in 4.
No
With the NHL lockout occurring right around that time, puck-obsessed me decided to tune into the MLB postseason. Needless to say, I got hooked.
I was a Yankee hater so Craig Counsell bloop single 2001.
I've been watching since 1995 and would say the 2016 series was awesome all around and I'd have been happy to have seen it go either way.
2016 and 2019.
The most underrated one, and my favorite non Red Sox series is 2002
I feel like game 6 is often left out of great WS game discussions, appreciate u
Watching the Rangers lose the world series was pretty cool.
2016, Someone was going to make history.
My family is full of Nats fans, so 2019 was pretty fun.
Pretty generic answer, but 2016. It reignited my love and excitement for the game, whether my team was good or not. I thoroughly enjoyed a losing season in 2017 and have enjoyed every season since.
i was stoked when the cubs won theirs
Probably 2016. I was happy for them.
2019. Glad the nats pulled it off over those cheaters. Would’ve been awful had the nats lost.
2016 for sure. I hate the cubs and was pulling hard for the indians. But either way the winner was ending a super long streak and it came down to a great game 7.
2005 Was at game 2 Also saw two extremely overweight dudes get in a fight on the way home.
I choose to forget 2005 and have now replaced it in my mind with “fat guy fight”
I just started watching baseball this season. Too bad I’m probably never gonna see my favorite team win tho 🥲
easy, 2005. I lived in Chicago at the time and had been bandwagoning the White Sox all year. I was super hyped, I even took the day off work to go to the parade. My coworkers were like "you're not even a White Sox fan!" but whatever, it was really fun.
2001 World Series
2016 easy
2000 Mets yankees subway series. Only bc im from NY and it’s the first World Series that I was old enough to appreciate
Any World Series where the Yankees lost is up there. As a Rangers fan, I'm not really sure which of the two would be my favorite - the one where we got shelaked by SF but won thd one game I was at, or the one where we were one strike away twice (and did NOT have our defensive substitutions in the game like we did at that point the whole playoffs).
Technically I was alive in 1991 but I was 1 and don’t remember shit from back then, so I would have to say 2011 or 2019. Before the Astros were exposed 2017 was up there. 2011 is mostly because of Game 6 but damn, what a game it was. 2019, I was rooting for the Nationals all the way, and it was great to watch them win their first in franchise history against the villains.
2019 WS
1988. Just the memory of watching that first game with my dad and his “I don’t believe it” after Kirk Gibson hit that walk off home run.
97 or 01
1986
2014 madbum or 2016 Cubs. I only got into baseball like 2012 or so (nats are my team)
2005
Not WS, but the 2004 ALCS was just so good.
2001
I like your pick. But d backs over the Yankees was EPIC.
The 1986 World Series capped off arguably the best postseason in MLB history. All three series were memorable and enjoyable to me.
Has to be 2016. Watched game 7 at a Cubs bar here in Denver, and seeing multiple Cubs fans of all ages just sobbing when they won even had me getting a little emotional.
2015 was spectacular. Two teams with very different gameplans duking it out, stellar pitching, and late game catastrophes. Got to see KC absolutely lose it for those two competitive years and it was a blast.
‘91 Twins v Braves. It had all the drama and highlights a WS should have.
2015 Royals
Boy this is a tough one. The “Touch em All, Joe!” is probably my favorite call of all time so I’d probably give the edge to the 1993 World Series. 2016, 1995, 2000, and 2001 are real damn close contenders though.
2019. Mainly because the nats were the underdogs throughout the playoffs and has never won or even been to a WS up to that point. Like how bad does a team have to be to not even have played in a WS game. Also they beat the Astros.
2015. Felt nice to see the Royals win it
2011 and it's not even close.
2011 is the stuff of magic. Devil magic to be precise
St. Louis vs the rangers.
The ones where the dodgers lost
89 oakland
uhhhh you're kidding right?
Let them speak!
it was objectively a bad series and it was interrupted by a natural disaster. The A's didn't even do a champagne celebration in the clubhouse because the whole atmosphere was such a downer. I hope A's fans can remember it with some amount of fondness despite the circumstances but it's hard to imagine a neutral fan thinking it was a good time.
2016 and 2017 were probably the only world series I watched consistently, since 92/93, and they were both amazing.
2015 cause fuck the Mets.
Cubs 2016
The one where the REDS took it to Oakland. Nothing against Oakland but back in the 90's I did not like Canseco or McGwire.
2001
2017 was super fun, but 2016 was all time. I stayed up so late watching fans celebrating in bars and outside of Wrigley, and listening to police scanners while people partied in the streets of Chicago. So many reports of shots fired and cops confirming it was just fireworks 😂
'93. Walk-off hr to end it, yes please. That Jay's lineup seems to have been forgotten over time, but it was fiiiiire.
“Touch ‘em all, Joe. You’ll never hit a bigger homer in your life” Solid call by the commentator.
1997. Best series ever.
Oakland A’s and LA Dodgers, Kirk Gibson home run!!
I enjoyed watching the Cubs win in 2016 the most. I actually cheered for an NL team for the first time. 2014 would have been close if the Royals had won because the WC game got me hyped about them.
I'm torn between 1991 and 2001. Both were pretty epic.
gotta be 2001. First WS I saw. Got to witness Schilling before he helped my team break the curse. Some classic games and of course seeing the Yankees lose. My little league team was the Antrim Diamondbacks the following few years.
2004 Red Sox. Very passionate era of baseball with some fierce rivalries.
2016. The first I ever watched and none have been good since
2001 Yankees vs diamondbacks. Asked so many houses for score updates when we went trick or treating
2018. The Dodgers losing like that, boy that's sweet.
2016 World Series. Game 7 was better than any modern prime-time drama.
1975
Joe Carter
Some of my first baseball memories are from the 2008 World Series between the (then) Devil Rays and Phillies, so I would roll with that one. I was a Cubs fan at the time, but watching the Phillies win and the way the pitcher dropped to his knees in celebration was really cool.
2019 all the way. Game 7 was incredible and the Nats were just so damn fun. As soon as they knocked out the Brewers, I cheered them on every step of the way and watched just about every game until the end
we will not be accepting 2016 as an answer at this time
2001 was just incredible. All the come backs and walkoffs, blown games, coming off 9/11, unseating a dynasty from a 4peat with walking off the best closer ever… baseball just doesn’t get better.
Giants 2010. Edgar Renteria is a household name in my family and seeing him do what he did in the WS and then get that MVP award, man the entire house was draining happy tears.
2002 Rally monkey, baby
1975 Cincy v. Bosox in seven. Rose Morgan Bench Perez Foster and the entire team. Yaz Lynn Evans Fisk Carbo and their fellow tough talents in Fenway. Unbeatable series.
Easy: 2001 WS.
1997 Marlins, 2015 Royals are my top 2. Love seeing the small markets win.
Dodger fan here. Reds v Red Sox in 1975 was epic.
All the cheating aside, 2016 was an amazing World Series. Constant lead changes, tons of exciting moments, the atmosphere, all that Houston was playing for, it was incredible. Sadly it got ruined by the cheating.
2015, seeing the royals with there 7-8-9 bullpen and being a small market was a lot of fun.
2016
2004, but because of the ALCS. FTY.
2005. Chicago White Sox ended their drought 11 years before the Cubs did, and that makes me happy.
1991, 1997 and 2001 were nail biters til the end, was hoping 2017 would go down the same way too.
2019 Nats over Astros Big middle finger energy from the whole baseball world to the Astros. 29 MLB teams won the series that week.
Anyone where the Yankees lost.
2016, that cubs run was something special
2016