Don’t Stop Believing in…..Ugly
I continue to force myself to not have any expectations about this post season. Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying the ride. I just don’t understand the ride. But I absolutely BELIEVE in the ride. And when it comes to *magic* that’s about all you really need, right?
What do the Giants do best? Before this series started, I said “they compete.” And while I still believe that, what they really do best is “whatever it takes.” That’s not a very sexy quality to have until you realize that you can make up for a lot of shortcomings when you do “whatever it takes.” In some ways, it’s all you need.
So I accept, without reservation, the imperfections of the 2014 San Francisco Giants. I celebrate their heart and soul. And I honor their innate will to do….”whatever it takes.”
And whether they lose 3 straight or win 5 more games this year, or do something in between, this is one of my favorite teams of all time. Make no mistake, it’s certainly one of the ugliest. But it’s the easiest one in the world to believe in…..
#heartofaGiant
#whateverittakes
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Dig that for Ishi.
Screws up earlier on that fly ball, lets in a run.
Makes up for it, in spades…
Nice. I remember I used to think he was saying “Jeremy’s broken–clear as the day”
What a game. I still don’t think it has fully sunk in—and then you throw the home run ball deal on top of that. Too much.
From the True Blue L.A. blog, after Ishi’s HR:
Of course.
Fuck everything.
by Catherine the Blue on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:12 PM reply
Can’t believe this shit.
by koufaxrules on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:12 PM reply
Go Royals
That is all. That is very, very, very much all.
by MarshalltheIrish on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:13 PM reply
We get to watch the Giants
😦
by Hollywood Joe on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:13 PM reply
hahaha this game man, this fucking game.
by HabemusPuigam on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:15 PM reply
zum, LOVE that stuff!
Hilarious…
Zumie, how can you not post there?
🙂
Those are great!
Can you spell Walk off Win? I S H I K A W A
Ishi nearly retired at one point while in Fresno. Unreal, just unfucking real.
This season was beyond torture. I’m still in disbelief. The whole thing was just get to the playoffs. In y mind I believed that, but in my heart I didn’t think they’d get past Washington, After that? Shit. I did think we stood a shot after taking them down. I picked 5 BTW!!! Unfuckingbelievable. Unfuckingbelievable.
I have no idea how we’ll do vs KC. This series was a fucking rollercoaster on every goddamn pitch.
5 days off though seems pretty ludicrous.
You know, I really don’t know shit about the Royals but they do wear blue and white, so I hate em already.
Yup
No shit. It was kinda weird watching the Os and the Royals as they looked like the AL versions of the Dogs and Giants
Sometimes the females in my life just crack me up.
Morse hit the bomb and while he’s celebrating in the dugout my daughter goes”wow, he shows off a lot”. A fan is born
The Giants win and the wife “oh, no. Again!?” such a German.
Humm baby, boys. Humm baby!
Today’s our 10 year anniversary. My present was getting to watch the entire game on the big screen, as she took the kids to bed…Best present ever!
Happy anniversary my man. See you in SF for game 3? 🙂
It’s a possibility. Would love to treat my Dad to a World Series game or at least be able to watch it close by.
Shit, my wife and son were screaming. I lost my voice for this game. Jeeeeeesus.
Bumgarner going to torpedo a dozen brews tonight?
I think he’s going with a keg.
Glad to see espn is showing the Giants post game press conference instead of regurgitating every play in the Pats-Jets game.
Catching the CSN feed. What a moment for Ishikawa.
Sleep eluding me.
Yeah pawlie, I think it’s going to be a long night. I’m fired up right now.
Ishi rising. He had his biggest career hit the other day. Just topped it. More to come. And… nothing ugly about this, my friends. Winning beautifully. And yet another “better” team heads home, shaking their heads, wondering “how the hell did we lose to those guys…. again…”….
you said it so well, my man.
So the last time two Wild Card teams made it to the WS was in 2002. I’m thinking If Russ Ortiz throws out the first pitch for us, no way does he get to keep the ball.
Listened to the KNBR post game en route for more booze. Miller pointed out that Ishikawa had 7 RBI in the series and the series winner. He could have just as well brought home the MVP.
I’m thinking about that grounder in the 9th that Panda deflected over to Craw and Craw with the quick throw to second for the out. Should have known right there that something good was going on…
it really was a sign, right? Just like the 3 hit base hit from Pence in 2012.
And the Kinsler “homer” that bounced back into play off the top of the wall for a double in 2010…
Agree, that was an awesome play.
Where the hell is James???
And ted
I can’t believe Chi missed this game for a Jimi Hendrix tribute show. Somehow I don’t think the dots were doing it for him.
I warned him…
Couple factoids for the upcoming Series:
This is the first time, not including a strike season (’81) or war-shortened season (’18), that both World Series teams did not have 90 wins.
The winner will set a new single postseason record of 12 wins.
If Matheny had pulled Wacha to bring in a LHP, Bochy would have pulled Ishi for Susac or another RHB pinch hitter. Matheny must have figured Ishi was the easier out. Matheny will get hammered for bringing in a guy under super pressure who hadn’t pitched in over two weeks…
As good and exciting game that I’ve seen. Heroes galore. Feel badly for Wacha, though. Just unfair to put him in there having not pitched in 3 weeks..
But I’ll get over feeling sorry for him.. OK, I’m over it ;- )
Ah, there you are.
I still can’t believe this game.
Panik rips an HR off Wainright. On the radio, Blanco said Panik before the game was watching old video of Bill Mueller hitting an HR off Mariano Rivera’s cutter, because Wainright threw a tough cutter — so he was ready for it, and kept his arms in as he swung, like Mueller did.
Morse rips a tater. No clue how he did that, he looked pretty bad his last few ABs. Just crazy.
Then, Ishi with the mind blower pennant winning walk off…
Flav mentioned it earlier, but it’s worth repeating. Twin has to be feeling pretty good right now. He was probably Ishi’s biggest supporter thru the years…I can’t wait to hear his next post. It might be Pulitzer worthy.
I’m workin’ on it, Joe. Truly a great story. Cut by 5 teams since 2011- after TWO at bats by the Yanks last year. But what a great game with so many contributions from so many guys.
Happy anniversary, Joe.
Thanks!
I wonder if we’re favored in the series…
I doubt it.
At some point someone might figure out that you shouldn’t bet against Bochy in the playoffs
I hear Royals and I think Oscar Robertson and Connie Dierking…
I asked Pav about Ishi when Sabean signed him to the minor league contract. Alex said it was just for depth if there were more injuries. When he did come up the consensus was that he’d just be up for a few days until Belt was back. Then he surprised everyone- including me, by becoming an instant contributor. Travis, Susac, and Duffy instantly turned a weak bench into a very good one. Then this. Awesome
that summary says so much; it encapsulates a turning point (or points) in the season, when you think of it
I just watched a replay of Ishi’s homer for the 387th time.
We East Coasters be all hypercaffeinated adrenalinized.
Slacker-I’m at 400 😉
The Cards SB blog is too funny.
Matheny is taking a major major beating. The Wacha move into the 9th, naturally. The Redbird fans are lamenting the Giants “black magic”…
http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/st-louis-cardinals-2014-game-threads-discussion/2014/10/16/6991445/nlcs-game-5-overflow-1-gamethread
Well we’ve got a few days to debate what to do with Tim and Strickland. Gutierrez?
I can’t even remember who Morse replaced…
Brown, I think.
Wow. 2 ABs for the Yanks. Storybook.
Struck out both times. Must have been epic K’s.
KNBR asking a good question of where this walkoff event rates in the history of the Giants.
I’m going top 5, easily, in my lifetime. Could be top three. And, that’s without thinking about it…
certainly top 5 for SF, and maybe for franchise…idk…who’s counting, really, right?
Joe Panik faved my tweet.
Just spectacular! Matheny pulling Wainright an epic fail. Worse than Wacha. Ishi homer the best possible ending. Can’t believe we won with Morse and Ishi homers. You can’t make this shit up!!!!!
House money my ass.
Palace moolah??
@ Pawlie…NICE!
All together now: you. can. not. make. this. up.
Just heard Bochy give a Harbs shout out to the fans: “Nobody’s got it better than us!”…
Ishi. Walk. Off. Jack.
Giants. Win. The. Pennant.
This. Is. No. Dream.
Why. The. Fuck. NOT?…
poetic
Bochy was playing expert level Sodoku.
Matheny was playing Wonderword.
gold gold gold gold gold, Loo
Yep. Matheny was a step behind throughout the series. Wonder if it costs him his job?
Ron Washington needs work.
Harold Reynolds gets a lot of flak but he nailed it on Ishi’s AB. Wacha had thrown 6 straight balls and I think Buck was talking about taking a pitch. Reynolds said no- be aggressive and look for his pitch. And that he did. That was right in his wheelhouse, no way you let that go by..
I had a Fox feed on with KNBR, but I did catch that from Reynolds later on as I did a replay. As William Carlos Williams of Paterson, NJ put it: “…so much depends.” So much depended on swinging rather than taking. Well, everything depended on it, at that point. (I may not be making any sense at 1:42am.)
Goodnight guys. I was late to the party because I pret near scared the hell out Merna, Zeke, Mickey,and 8 feral cats when I was screaming. I’ve revived them all…
Goodnight Oracle.
Your Ishi came through in the most memorable way imaginable.
Good for him…
I stink with the sweat of WorldSeriousBound emotion pouring out of my pores. But will I shower and go to sleep. Hardly.
Rest well, dream well…
I can’t. Is this a dream? And what time was the HR? If Oct. 16 still, my mom’s birthday. Well, it certainly was Oct. 16 in your time zone.
I think per some tweets it was around 8:10 pm. Certainly still on the 16th East Coast time…
Ishikawa spiking his helmet as he rounded third, grown men from different parts of the world embracing. Won’t see that anywhere else in life. It’s why I love baseball.
No matter what happens in the WS, Bochy has to be a lock now for the HOF…
Yes.
Yup, pour the concrete pad and cast the bronze for a prime spot at 3rd and King.
You have to.
(insert joke about amount of bronze needed for his head) 🙂
I just read that Peavy was one of the dudes out there between 2nd and 3rd almost grabbing Ishi. I saw a couple guys in Giants unis out there and wondered WTF? Peavy said he thought it was just a double, and was about to tackle Ishi, and Ishi told him to get away, it was an HR!…
Is that who? Imagine if it ended up that Peavy prevented Ishi from making his appointed rounds. No, let’s not imagine that. No. Let’s not. Let’s celebrate instead. Maybe if I take out the garbage, read a book, take yoga, I can become a normal human being. But maybe not.
Yes, to all above. And goodnight, Oracular Fan de Twin.
5 years ago. on October 13 I had my lung cancer surgery., It was the 49th anniversary of Maz’s walk off HR that beat the Yanks. Now 54 years apart I get to see another incredible moment in the game we love. I’m a lucky man.
I’ve never seen that movie but always loved the title. Tnx.
Sadly, no one would ever make a movie today with such unalloyed optimism not tinged with irony or satire (not knowing the context, I’m concluding that it is indeed portraying joy).
From the True Blue L.A. blog:
Man, there’s not one thing on tv worth watching, tonight. The movie channels are all showing crap. The news channels are full of moronic Ebola freakouts. The sports channels are all talking about . . . well, you know.
by urbino on Oct 16, 2014 | 9:33 PM reply
Again, absolutely Hilarious, zum.
As a Giants fan, it doesn’t get better than this…
Oh, yeah, definitely.
When the Dodgers won that 17-0 game, and they had that bubble machine going in the dugout, and the Dodger fans were at the height of their cock-of-the-walk (no Rooster pun intended) attitude, those were some tough times. Oh how things have changed! 🙂
I have no words. I had to DVR the game and OH WOW!!! LUCK THAT!!! See you in KC!!
Gnite Flappers.
A huge salute to the Giants…
Some of the Giants players made an obstacle course for Ishi as he ran around the bases, but that pales in comparison to what Chambliss had to go through to get around the bases after his big homerun. Unreal! Talk about a different era:
Interesting to read the posts on that Cardinals blog. Some of them, of course, could have been lifted from the Flap (allusions to drinking, heart attacks, etc., universal baseball maladies in tight games). My favorite was this one, posted by someone just as the 8th inning was starting: “Could someone please kidnap Matheny for about the next 45 minutes?” Ah, we’ll never have to deal with that, having Yoda Bochy at the helm. A lot of references to “devil magic” (the devil himself directing the deflection from Pablo’s glove to Crawford’s). Mostly, I feel for those fans, they seem genuine. And then there are arseholes who said things like this: “They’re a mediocre franchise that’s 4 wins away from fluking to a THIRD FUCKING WORLD SERIES TITLE IN FIVE YEARS I CAN’T EVEN FUCKING BEGIN TO EXPRESS HOW FUCKING ANGRY THAT MAKES ME FUCK THOSE FUCKING FUCKS…”
Huh, I suppose that also could’ve been lifted from the Flap under different circumstances… 🙂 And most of them will be rooting for KC and they’re saying they think the whole country will also be. Well, game on, gentlemen (?)…… KC obviously has some mojo going on, but no way will the Series be like those 3 games the G’s lost in KC this past summer….
Video of the Giants’ 9th inning, at Finnerty’s. Ishi’s HR is at the 7 minute mark.
Too…fucking…cool!
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I don’t know if zum was going to post any more of his Dodger blog capture stuff, so here’s a little more, right at the time immediately after the Ishi HR last night. Good stuff, zum. Hilarious. I often accuse Doghair fans of not giving an S, really, about their team or baseball, but these guys are obviously into ball and the rivalry, I’ll give’ em that…
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Of course. Fuck everything.
by Catherine the Blue on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:12 PM reply
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I think it was pretty incredible. I showed it [the highlight] to my wife and said, “if this would’ve happened to us I’d still be running around the house”
by kinbote on Oct 17, 2014 | 8:41 AM up reply
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Can’t believe this shit.
by koufaxrules on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:12 PM reply
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If this POS of a major league baseball player wins the game for the Giants I am done with this game
by Phil Gurnee on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:12 PM reply
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Go Royals
That is all. That is very, very, very much all.
by MarshalltheIrish on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:13 PM
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I’m done slamming them. they are good. fuck!
by kinbote on Oct 17, 2014 | 8:42 AM up reply
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hahaha this game man, this fucking game.
by HabemusPuigam on Oct 16, 2014 | 8:15 PM reply