If four things don’t go exactly right Sunday, a team called the Giants will be done being defending champions. I’ll be sorry if/when they are eliminated from playoff contention, though mostly because a Super Bowl run is a great way to kill time en route to Spring Training. But while the halo above the New [...]
 
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 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Football, Giants, Hunter Pence, Marco Scutaro, Odd Man Out It seems more than a trophy and some t-shirts should be at stake when you wear the title “World Champions”. I wanna see some real consequences, some real responsibilities. So, San Francisco Giants — if you are indeed championing all of us in this world, what the hell are you going to do about this [...] You could’ve used the phrase, “The Tigers will meet the Giants in the World Series” in 1908, but Fred Merkle didn’t touch second, Johnny Evers pulled some shenanigans with the first baseball handy and the powers that be got suckered into calling a Giants win over the Cubs a tie, thereby compelling a makeup game [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Giants, Marco Scutaro, The Shawshank Redemption, Tigers, World Series I’ve mostly followed the ongoing National League Championship Series via peripheral vision, not having fully sat down to gaze directly upon the Giants and Cardinals very much given that for their first five games I’ve mostly been doing something else, thinking about something else or literally mostly watching something else (the full power of P-I-P [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Barry Zito, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Giants, Hunter Pence, Marco Scutaro, Pablo Sandoval The beginning of a postseason series, when your team isn’t involved and you feel no automatic rooting interest, is a baseball fan’s awkward professional networking cocktail party. You show up out of obligation, you don’t really feel as if you belong, you scan the room for any familiar face and you overcompensate for your discomfort [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Bruce Bochy, Giants, Joaquin Arias, Marco Scutaro, Xavier Nady Somehow, I imagined that seeing my favorite team play a doubleheader that included two big-league debuts and began with David Wright poised to claim the club record for RBIs would be more fun. After 10 days far from home, the idea of my own couch and the Mets on my own TV was pretty close to [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Giants, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jordany Valdespin, Sean Ratliff, The Holy Books, Tim Lincecum Nothing makes you dislike a team you normally barely notice than being surrounded by a surfeit of its followers. Who knew the San Francisco Giants had enough followers in New York to constitute a dislikable surfeit? It must be because every 23-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area packed his or her belongings and moved to [...] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Legacies, New York Giants Some games are taut testaments to the majesty of baseball when it’s played at the highest possible level by the best players in the world. And other games are just fun. Tonight’s opening tilt with the Giants certainly wasn’t a taut testament to anything, not with balls being misplayed and dopey stuff on the bases and grousing [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Michaels, Bob Costas, Brian Wilson, Bruce Bochy, Giants, Ike Davis, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston Isn’t it nice when the Mets behave as we prefer them to? Pelfrey slick instead of sick; Beltran boasting upper body strength and no discernible knee problems; Reyes on the fly; Rodriguez setting off anxiety attacks but giving up no runs. We can accept all that and we can enjoy the results. The atmosphere surrounding a [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Giants, Let's Go Mets, Mets Fans, Shouting, Silence I love Tim Lincecum, I really do. I love that perfect motion of his — my description of it last year was “the equation that solves a knotty physics problem, and leaves you smiling at the elegance and beauty of the answer,” which I’m not going to improve on. I love his God-given talents, [...] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Giants, Ike Davis, No-Hitters, Tim Lincecum, Willie Harris |
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