A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball

I thought it would be fun to go back and look at some of the immediate reactions we all had after winning in 2010 and then 2012:

First, let’s go back to 2010 in the moments just after Bee Wheezy pointed to the sky:

alleykat said, on November 1, 2010 at 7:33 pm (Edit)

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG IAM COMPLETELY NUMB THIS TEAM IS UNBELIEVLABLE 56 YEARS OF TORTURE IS OVER.GOD I LOVE THIS TEAM!!!! And All of the FLAP NATION!!!!!!!!!!!

delmardennis said, on November 1, 2010 at 7:35 pm (Edit)

I can’t believe we’re the World Champs having to trot out shitty lineup after shitty lineup each and every day.

And oh yeah, we did it with NO Whitey. I love this team. I love all you guys and gals.
I’m so happy for everybody.And I’m so happy for our beloved “Blockhead.”
Plain and simple; Bochy is the goddamn man.

snarkk said, on November 1, 2010 at 7:36 pm (Edit)

I can die happy now. There are NO WORDS…

twinfan said, on November 1, 2010 at 7:55 pm (Edit)

These men will be heroes in SF for as long as they live- and beyond…

ferrethead said, on November 1, 2010 at 7:57 pm (Edit)

Woo-Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nipper said, on November 1, 2010 at 8:10 pm (Edit)

Just downed my last Old Milwaukee and it was nice and cold! Damn World Champs! Kinda nice! Gotta get one of those Tee shirts!

Sportdude said, on November 1, 2010 at 8:29 pm (Edit)

What a team!!!!!!!!!!

Unreal. So happy, but don’t know how to act!!!

willied said, on November 1, 2010 at 8:30 pm (Edit)

Fuuny thing…buddy of mine who was there Wed had a line on tickets for Game 6. Tough break, homeboy

ferrethead said, on November 1, 2010 at 8:34 pm (Edit)

Thank you, Giants!
Thank you, Flappers!
Thank you, Flav!!!

So happy…..

PawlieKokonuts said, on November 1, 2010 at 8:39 pm (Edit)

Yes, warrior heroes in the annals of history, as Twin rightly said it. I am numb and speechless. As I said in the new thread — lovely video by Magnus — our hearts can never feel that same hunger again. Ever. Our hearts are wild with joy, and some of that wild joy will always reside within if we choose to tap it. I mean that. And thanks again, Craig, for this cathedral.

I feel vindicated, relieved, validated, whole, serene, humbled, moved, grateful. I used to think it would have to be a letdown after all these years (I’m 62 on December 18). It’s not.

stixwiz said, on November 1, 2010 at 9:11 pm (Edit)

In case you didn’t notice: My comment was #256. It’s been 56 years since i fell in love with Willie Mays as a ten year old kid. World Champs for the sixth time, along with 19 NL Pennants. Last time was the New York Giants in 1954, 56 years ago. It’s been a long wait. Feeling on toppa the world.

Now for the years of the Giants Dynasty, based on the best Rotation of the 21st Century. There’s this old baseball adage: Good pitching trumps good hitting. Giants proved it over and over again in the Post Season. Confirmed it tonight.

Giant Head said, on November 1, 2010 at 8:39 pm (Edit)

No coincidence that the birth of the Flap leads immediately to a World Championship!

Where were you 10 years ago Flav? Well done and I am really speechless…Go Giants!

Some golf tomorrow, some boozing and cigars heading to a wipeout on election day, life does not get any sweeter in a 48 hour period!

xootsuit said, on November 1, 2010 at 8:57 pm (Edit)

Okay, I’ll repost a bit:

When Wilson blew that last pitch past Cruz, my 13 year old son came running across the room screaming, arms wide, like some sort of supercharged Posey headed for the mound. What could I do? I caught him in mid-air and and hugged him. Few moments later my older son called.

The Giants are the Champs.

JBat said, on November 1, 2010 at 9:05 pm (Edit)

What a season. The San Francisco Giants are World Series Champions. I am so happy.

delmardennis said, on November 1, 2010 at 9:06 pm (Edit)

Flav, thanks to you, and thanks to one and all here on the Flap for making this season one for the books. I’m numb, I’m completely numb at the moment. I don’t think it’s sunk in yet. Bruce Bochy just told Jaymee Sire he feels numb as well. I know how ya feel skip. I know how ya feel.

Thanks skipper, and thanks thanks to you all. I just heard Flem’s call of Rent’s HR.
He had a Peter Brady voice change moment when he said it’s “gaaaaawnnnn.” You guys gotta check it out. It’s a winner. Goddamn. We won. We really, really, won. Let’s start the parade!

Macdog said, on November 1, 2010 at 9:10 pm (Edit)

Thank you too, Craig. It’s been over an hour and I’m still shaking with joy, speechless and ecstatic all at the same time. I may not sleep tonight and don’t really care. Congratulations to every one of the great Giants fans here. What a special team. Long-suffering no more: World Series champions!

ewisco said, on November 1, 2010 at 10:17 pm (Edit)

i’m just now starting to come down. the boys and i went busting out onto the street and just howled.

bless the flappers (and the splashers).

the giants are the world series champions.

i burst into tears when i first said that (surprised the boys! heck, it surprised the shit out of me).

snarkk said, on November 1, 2010 at 10:28 pm (Edit)

San Francisco Giants. World Series Champions. I’ve been waiting to say that for over 45 years. It looks and sounds even better than I ever imagined. I called my best friend since we were in second grade. Giants fans together. He saw my number on his phone. He picked up the receiver and greeted: “Fucking Giants – World Series Champpppppppsss!” Priceless…

zumarust said, on November 2, 2010 at 12:57 am (Edit)

The World Champion San Francisco Giants.
I’m still trying to absorb that. That’s going to take some time to sink in.

Bozo said, on November 2, 2010 at 7:27 am (Edit)

Woke up this morning on the North East coast of North Carolina and the SF Giants were still the World Champions. Went back and watched the highlights and started tearing up all over again.
Thank you Flav, thank you Flappers and most of all, thank you the 2010 World Champion San Francisco GIANTS.

bigSarge said, on November 2, 2010 at 8:34 am (Edit)

Like I’m sure many of you did, I had to check the interwebs again when I woke up this morning to make sure this wasn’t some cruel, sick joke. It’s not! The San Francisco Giants are World Series Champions! Getting teary eyed again just typing this.

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Ok, there were a million of them from 2010 so I’ll stop before the thread gets too long and now I’ll do some of the 2012 comments:

blade3colorado said, on October 28, 2012 at 8:50 pm (Edit)

Flappers, we are the Champions again.

Giants rule the World once more!!!!!!!

chipower9 said, on October 28, 2012 at 8:50 pm (Edit)

TWO TIME World Champions in the last three years!

Alleykat said, on October 28, 2012 at 8:51 pm (Edit)

We Are The World Champions!!!!!
Nothing better!!!!
Dynasty!!!
Nobody has it better then us!!
Black&Orange Forever!!
Swept their Asses!!!!

eddacker said, on October 28, 2012 at 8:52 pm (Edit)

GLOAT – /GLOAT
BASKING FULLY ON

Macdog said, on October 28, 2012 at 8:53 pm (Edit)

We score, we SWEEEEEEEEEEEP!

WORLD SERIES CHAMPS!

eddacker said, on October 28, 2012 at 8:57 pm (Edit)

flavor is somewhere quietly weeping with total knowing dude heart

Bozo said, on October 28, 2012 at 8:59 pm (Edit)

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

Every two years like clock work – Fuck you, all and GO GIANTS

chipower9 said, on October 28, 2012 at 8:59 pm (Edit)

Flavor is not the only one weeping…I am crying like a baby! So proud of this team. Six elimination games could not stop destiny!

wswin said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:06 pm (Edit)

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!! WHAT A FEELING

zumiee said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:12 pm (Edit)

At some point in our past, we all chose to be Giants fans. We chose very well. All the years of adversity were leading up to this era of excellence and glory. 2 championships in the last 3 years. Incredible.
Congrats to the Giants and the fans. And congrats to all the Flappers. You all are an awesome group of fans, intelligent and interesting, passionate and intense, and bringing your A-game every day to this blog.

PawlieKokonuts said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:16 pm (Edit)

I’m in love. with destiny. With fate. With reality. With the Giants.

SanDawg said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:16 pm (Edit)

Congrats Flappers! 2 rings in 3 years!!

PawlieKokonuts said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:17 pm (Edit)

Giants keep saying they are “blessed.” They are. We are. A waterfall of blessings. A TEAM. Heart. Soul.

eddacker said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:18 pm (Edit)

154 days until opening day.
I will be basking every one of them

ewisco said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:23 pm (Edit)

always hard to come up with actual, you know, words. but after celebrating with the boys, and the mrs. it comes back to you all. congratulations to the giants. congratulations to us, the fans. proud to be a flapper.

stixwiz said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:28 pm (Edit)

Several minutes ago an incredibly fast moving object was briefly tracked by radar scopes bearing WSW from Sweep City. Knowledgeable observers have surmised that it is indeed Broomhilda tracking from the scene where her boys and their Halloween Machine responded perfectly to her smallball blessings. She appears to be making a beeline for a well-known bay on the West Coast of the continent.

Broomhilda will appear in full-drag as one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, but with one alteration to the habit. Instead of Black and White, her colors will be readily identifiable as Black and Orange, a more seasonal look and fully calculated for one Helluva party she is expected to hold an undisclosed location in the near vicinity of China Basin.

Keep your eyes to the skies, gang. Following Broomhilda’s flight a slower-moving flying craft will track a similar flight-pattern and the occupants are expected to make various public appearances to “Hallelujahs and Hosannas”. As is her wont, Broomhilda will be present, though that presence will only be known to the cognizant.

snarkk said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:34 pm (Edit)

2010 was incredible, unbelievable, a lifetime of frustration released.
Coming back from such depths, this one is fantastic in its own way.
Like choosing between Snarkkettes, I cannot pick either as the better.
They are both precious, to be cherished forever…

paulinasia said, on October 28, 2012 at 9:52 pm (Edit)

So sweet. Giants rule…. the Flap rules… Flappers around the world RULE….. oh happy day. Thanks for being here all season, Flappers, what a joy.

Flavor said, on October 28, 2012 at 10:06 pm (Edit)

Man. I got a call around 7pm and it was a call I couldn’t miss. Obviously the game was taped but as the call went on I finally put the tv on live in the room I was taking the call in (volume off). It was the 8th inning (I left in like the 6th I think), there was a man on and no one out and MIggy was coming to the plate. Now, I can’t impress upon you all the importance and seriousness of this personal call so I could not give off any kind of emotion that would disrupt or interrupt the call. But I watched those 3 strikeouts and gave 3 quiet, monsterously enthusiastic Ewisco fist pumps for each one of them. I finished the call, then turned off the tv and my phone (since I knew the texts would rain down upon me later if we won) and went and tried to have a normal dinner with my daughter who was hungry and not interested in talking about Game 4. Sadly.
After dinner I was probably about a half hour behind and I went back to the tape and watched the rest of this unfold. My daughter hates baseball and that reality has officially ruined me. But after dinner she fiddled around and found a camera and decided to take a pic of me at the end of the game without me knowing, Her independent decision to do this while she hid in our hallway near the family room (on crutches with a sprained foot from her soccer game yesterday) makes me love her more than I ever thought possible. I’ll try to post later…..
I have no message to impart tonight, I just wanted to share a summary of the 2 hours or so that I experienced before we won this thing. I can feel from all of your posts what was going on with you guys tonight the moment we won—the moment we won AGAIN. It is impossible to not swell with pride if you’re a Giants fan……..
Before I started writing this post, maybe 10 minutes ago, I turned my phone back on and it sounded off like a fucking July 4th fireworks show, at least in terms of *pings*. I’ll check them all later. There are so many Giants fans who are so happy tonight………

tedspe said, on October 28, 2012 at 10:12 pm (Edit)

My apologies, lads, for the appearence of absence. I was driving me mum home in the 10th inning.
And then..Romo DID IT!!!!
I dropped me mum home, horn blasting all the way, and just spent the entire couple of hours driving around San Francisco, again, horn blowing, people on and in the streets, screaming, drunkards, horns honking, fucking San Francisco is fucking insane right now from (by my driving around perspective) Union Square to SOMA to the Richmond District to Civic Center to Pacific Heights to…(BTW, I skipped the Mission)…to Fisherman’s Wharf to back home just now to Pacific Heights.
I’m fucking spent.
I love baseball and I love the Giants. And I love that Chinese girl I saw on Mason Street with the orange and black mini-skirt

Bozo said, on October 28, 2012 at 10:29 pm (Edit)

Flav – Yeah Buddy!
Thanks man.

sfsarge said, on October 28, 2012 at 10:32 pm (Edit)

Hells yeah, I’ll be at the parade with two of my little ones. This is fantastic! I’m speechless. On top of the mountain we stand again!

ferrethead said, on October 28, 2012 at 11:48 pm (Edit)

Long stupid story, but I’m finally here, for the last time in the 2012 Season:

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love the Flap, love the whole lot of you Flappers, but mostly I LOVE MY GIANTS!!!!!!!!!

Macdog said, on October 29, 2012 at 12:34 am (Edit)

1905
1921
1922
1933
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2010
2012

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It was fun for me to run through those old posts from 2010. There were some that were so long I couldn’t re-post them in this thread. This one is gonna be so long anyway. I’m looking forward to compiling the comments immediately following the 2013 world series win. 🙂 🙂 🙂