Back to Philly
It would have been great to close it out in front of the hometown crowd but it just wasn’t going to happen. Philly played great, Madson was especially sickening in the 8th.
If Philly can beat Lincecum and Dirrrrty and Cain in three consecutive games, my hat is off to them and good luck in the World Series. But I don’t think for a second that that’s going to happen……
Last night I just kept thinking how COOL post season baseball is. I’m living and dying on every pitch, every hit. As I watched the game at my friend’s sportsbar last night it was great to feel the camaraderie in the room. Of course there were tons of jersey’s worn but there were guys with fake freaking black beards on. In a bar. 40 miles away from the park….Everywhere I go, almost everyone I pass on the street is all about the Giants right now. Bandwagon jumpers? Of course. But a community has come together and that’s the best part of all this…..
So I wasn’t sweating last night’s loss for a second. The totality of all of this is just too delicious to not enjoy. I’m loving every single second of it, before the games, during the games, after the games. It’s all good right now…….
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Like Dennis, I was emotionally depleted last night after Game 4 and the martinis at dinner did not help.
But as a true Giant fan, I can’t help but think of 3-2 playoff leads in ’87 and ’02…please Dear Buddha don’t let that happen again (I prayed to God before for Giant playoff victories, if this does not work, I may have to turn to Satan!)
6 runs in Game 6 on 5 homers…
Is Oswalt going Game 6? We will crush him…
Pat the Bat is due.
there are only two places I’ve ever seen total strangers high fiving each other. 1) Vegas 2) sports events. The “stranger high five” is a pretty cool thing if you trip on it long enough….
Burrell is due big time and his swing is there….many wins at Candlestick involved the total stranger high 5…
Anyone know why we chose not to leave for Philly until 11 AM this morning? The Phils left last night. If the Yankees win tonight, and they will, we get the day game tomorrow. I don’t like our travel arraignments one iota. Who the hell is our asst. to the traveling secretary, George Costanza?
Anyone having a good morning is on a helluva lot better medication than I am. Fuck you.
I think it makes sense, Dennis. The Phils were pumped up, eager to get home. The Giants need a night of rest in their own environment, get things in perspective, and get ready for the trip to Philly.
It’s commonly referred to as Denial.
This team has roared back after this sort of loss all year long. They have no need to rush to the airport now.
the whole pyschology of bringing the bags to the park “in case” is just bad mojo. the phils were going back win or lose.
Why don’t you communicate with Soph. She’s worrying herself to death, Dennis. Perhaps she will send you a Huggy Bear.
Pretty impressive Yankees win tonight, eh, pony? Stay thirsty
Man, I’m driving to LA with the gang later today, and I have no idea where I’ll be to watch the game tomorrow, if at all. Of course Sunday I’ll be on I-5 somewhere. Game or no . . .
Just ONE breakout game for the offense. We are due a 10 run outbreak.
So are the Phillies. I hope we have ours first.
The Giants couldn’t score 10 if we spotted them a touchdown. Ditto for our Niners.
Tough loss last night but we are gonna go back to Philly and take it in their own city! Check out the SF Giants 2010 playoff anthem and get pumped! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOtD6ZpRzp8
That hung-over feeling after a bad loss. We been there, done that so many times that it’s become second nature for Giants fans. In the past SF teams have gone into Game Six with a good head of steam, a lot of confidence and not much experience dealing with torture. This one is different. The current model team has demonstrated time and again that they can absorb punch after punch and then bounce back and do the impossible.
It’s not quite so impossible,though, when you lead 3 games to two, have Sanchez and Cain slated for the (if necessary) two next starts and also have a Sandoval and Huff with some atoning to do and Burrell and Posey due to make a statement or two. Expect more torture along the way, but we’re gonna see the Halloween Machine win this in an Orange and Black October.
It IS a fecking hungover feeling, and I’m sober [more like abstinent] over 30 muthafeckin years. Magnus, you have more equanimity than I do. I’m in Dennis’s camp, Camp Uber-Anxious-Quasi-Suicidal High-Anxiety.
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beuatiful day to be neighborly, would you be my, could you be my neighbor
sure
I don’t understand how some of you guys can be so damn confident at this point in the series. These are our SF Giants, after all, and it seems like they are duty-bound to gut their fans when they get this close to something good. I wish I could be so Pollyannish. That park is going to be a frothing madhouse this weekend, and I’d literally be shocked if the G’s pulled it off.
Let’s just bury our head in our arms and cry for eternity. Baseball is misery. Life sucks
Wow, how original.
Well, I’m just not worried about it. All the talk about Cain and Timmy- Dirty has been the guy, not those two. They’ll win it tomorrow afternoon.
Yeah worrying is a waste of time and effort.
But a community has come together and that’s the best part of all this…..
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I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday. As I was walking around the financial district in S.F., as usual, one overhears snippets of conversations here and there and at least 3 times I heard a variation of:
Person 1 “Okay, well, gotta get back”
Person 2 “Yeah, me too. Take it easy”
Person 1 “You too. Go Giants”
Person 2 “Go Giants”
I agree the big difference with past history is the starting pitchers we can put out there in Game 6, and Game 7 (if necessary.) If a Game 7 is needed, Cain is far better than pitchers we’ve put out there in Game 7s before. The depth of thiis starting staff is the best ever for the SF Giants.
It’s never easy. We wouldn’t watch or follow this stuff if it were.
No to trading Pablo. He’s not perfect but he’s our guy for better or worse.
I find Kach and ewisco and a few others nice new faces in this neighborhood.
why thank you kind sir. charmed i’m sure.
Fuck the community. Just win the damn series.
Yeah just win!
I never knew that torture could be this fun. I’m having the time of my life right now. As I’ve said before I missed the last trip to the ws because I was in basic training. In 89 I was only 11 and couldn’t completely grasp the totality of the situation. Now, I’m enjoying every minute of this. I have full confidence in this team. This is our year!! I know this deep down in the deepest parts of my soul. Dirrty will be just that tomorrow. Oswalt is gonna come down from his adrenaline high and get lit up. Let’s get it!
Incredible to me that tomorrow’s game time won’t be known till about midnight eastern time. How fucked up is that?
It’s fucked up on so many levels. My restaurant buddy has his entire staff on hold until they know what time the giants gm starts. I hope the Yankees win because I want to face them in the ws but if they lose it’s probably better for our guys to start later in the day with the time difference
In a way, we share something remarkable with Cody Ross. Did he expect to be here, in the fucking playoffs? Did we? We’re unbelievably lucky fans to be on this ride. Anybody who bails now is a wimp. They’re giving it everything they’ve got. As fans, we should too. Win or lose, it’s gonna be great.
I’ve read a couple times today that “mentally” it’s a good thing the Giant are going to a game 6 up 3 to 2 after having just *lost* a game as opposed to winning. Could be.
I think they, you, and especially me, would feel better “mentally” going to a Game 6 knowing we’d be facing Phat Joe Blanton again and not Roy Oswalt. I wonder if the team has a psychiatrist on staff to handle all the “mentally” challenged. I know a few if they need one.
Bounces went the phillies way last night and they pulled out a W by the skin of their teeth. This season has been a roller coaster of constipated emotions. No reason it should be easy now.
You want to be the NL champ you gotta beat the NL champs.
5,6,7 games. I don’t give a shit. Just get one more.
Exactly!!
“Win or lose, it’s gonna be great.”
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Gotta disagree, Xoot. As the players themselves say, you never know if you’ll be in this position again. As a Giant fan since ’63, I know how rare these opportunities are. So, even though I didn’t expect them to get to this point, losing now would be a grave disappointment.
Well, I really don’t know how I’ll feel when this weekend is over, either way. I just feel somewhat calm and confident right now. I’m looking forward to what happens next.
Couldn’t agree more Loo…Being this close to the brass ring and not able to grab it would stink.Winning is the only option now!!The Giants need to come out blazing , Dirty needs to come out throwing strikes,no 35 pitch innings to start the game like last time,force the issue, have Torres going instead of the stop sign that Bochy is giving him. Steal, hit and run play smart defense and get the Phillies obnoxious fans out of the game early,by putting a cripple number up some how.
It’s probably the other things going on with me, I thoght it would make winning more important to me but hasn’t. It seems quite low key, I hope they win but I’m OK with anything. Sorry..
That makes perfect sense to me. It is just a game. Your health is putting that into perspective.
Well, this might explai Sandoval’s somewhat sluggishness in last night’s game. From Leah Garchik’s column in today’s SFChronicle:
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Kostas Sakellaropouloswas coming home from work and stopped at El Farolito in the Mission at midnight Wednesday. In line ordering “a pile of tacos to go,” another customer chatted up the taco-maker. Finally, a fan recognized Pablo Sandoval, who “jumped in his black Escalade and drove off with his tacos, leaving a bunch of stunned fans in his wake.”
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A pile of tacos at midnight the day of a possible pennant clinching game?
Oh Pablo, Pablo, Pablo
Nice to know we have the Oscar Madison of Venezuela playing 3rd…
I put it all on his Mom. He was doing great until he went home last winter. My mother has done it to me with her Lithuanian cottage cheese dumplings. Sounds tame enough unti the bacon and sour cream are heaped on… when I would return from Arizona , Lisa had new trousers purchased and waiting for my “fat Phoenix belly” to swaddle into…
And some Lysol in the head, I hope…..
Wow, The Yankees just had their own clusterfuck inning.
Yankees are getting their asses handed to em in the Fifth. Texas has plated four more runs and now leads 5-1. Unless the Evil Empire gets to the softer parts of the Texas BP, it would appear that the upset is happening and that the DeRangers will represent the Junior Circuit next week. I know some posters would rather the Giants face the Yankees because Giants pitchers could stifle their offense. However, NY has been in enough W.S. contests to last them for the next hundred years or so. They richly deserve to lose.
After all these years they can face the Topeka Turdlocks for the title, I can’t imagine giving a shit who they go up against…
Were they chicken or beef? That could make all the difference in the world when trying to get back and tag third base. I was having a heated discussion this morning with a pal of mine about who is the better player/who do you want on your team “going forward” (I hate that fucking term)/ who would end up having the better career—Pablo or Alex Smith? That incident isn’t going to help my defense for “Taco Boy.”
Dennis: Agree completely on “going forward”. It is newspeak to the max. It’s a totally meaningless catchphrase highly favored by politicians, media Poobahs, bureaucrats, functionaries and other careerists advanced in positions far beyond their creative mental capacities.
Well if we make it, it looks like Bengie will be waiting for us as he was in 2002. His knowledge of the Giant staff is a nice lttle edge for them…
His knowledge of the staff and his clutch postseason production, that is…
Were any of you listening to the turd announcers on TBS? I don’t know who made the gaff but he said “Now if Philly does their job…we will see Lee against Halladay”. and then the other anouncer covers for him and says or Lincecum. What an ass the first guy was!!
I don’t care who announces the fucking games- I’ve watched as many muted as with sound. Maybe the only announcer ever I couldn’t listen to at all was Harry. Papa is close, though.
Giants-Rangers was the first interleague game ever as I recall. And I believe the Rangers SP was Darren Oliver, who they now have again.
I don’t mind facing the Rangers—preferred the Yankees for several reasons. Let’s fucking get there and worry about the Rangers then. Otherwise we are in the same boat as the reds and the Cardinals and the Dodgers and the Padres and the……….
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA
BTW, once again, FP Pantangellinorenoclytastimo is the biggest fucking moron who’s getting paid to be an idiot. Driving around at 7 and no choice but to listen to KNBR.
He spent the first 20 minutes of his show tonight saying how if the Yankees won, the Giants game started at 5. If the Rangers won… starts at 1. Some wanker finally calls and corrects him.
Love the Giants. Like Miller, Kruk and Kuip. Kinda like Tom Tolbert. But the rest of the freaks at KNBR?
Fucking embarassing.
I’m too stressed.
Goodnight, gentlemen (question mark)
Bring me the head of Warren Oates…
That’s one of the reasons I love you, twin
Tomorrow’s game is THE game. We need to win Game 6.