Unreal Endings
The end of that Michigan game still blows my mind. As a young boy, my dad took me over to Berkeley for the Big Game. That’s the last game that reminded me of yesterday’s game. I still remember walking out of that stadium with my dad and having multiple Berkeley fans (students) screaming “fuck Stanford!” at us. And while I’ve been to many, many Big Games at Stanford, that was the only game I went to in Berkeley. No real reason other than no interest in being around fans like that.
Jim Harbaugh just seems to be involved in weirdo endings in big games, doesn’t he? The inexplicable Kyle Williams fumbles. Being first and goal on the 7 and losing the Super Bowl. Yesterday’s game at Ann Arbor.
So is Harbaugh just unlucky? Or does he feed into it somehow? How about Toronto? Goins and Bautista NOT catching that pop up is still inexplicable to me (despite all the excuses the talking heads gave). And we all saw what unfolded after that missed pop up.
Is it luck? Or in these cases, bad luck? Karma? Whatever that is. Or do these players contribute to these unreal turn of events? Had replay been around back in ’82, The Play would have been reversed 5 different ways. Still makes you wonder about so many weird plays happening in big games.
Eh, it’s probably just random. Still, weird…..
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Used to play softball with a guy who left our team to form his own. He called his team “Shit Happens” and put it on their caps. We played them and smoked them and he told me, “Hey sometimes shit happens to us.”
Chuck Hiller in 5 yrs with the Giants hit a total of 13 HRs, with BA of .241 and OPS of .613. But in the clip Loo shared pulled a grand slam into short RF at Yankee Stadium in the World Series of ’62.
Daniel Murphy is making jokes about suddenly hitting 3 HRs in postseason off LHP: “If I knew what I was doing I would have hit more HRs during the regular season.”
David Freese? Guy has bounced around ever since his heroics for STL who unceremoniously dumped him not long after he helped them win WS.
One argument against the OT rules in college football is that it mostly takes the special teams out of it by just giving each offense the ball at 25 yd line with no punts or kickoffs. I think this was M Gottfried’s take year ago, and it’s true you see wild and exciting stuff happen on special teams all the time.
Snarkk also had great post after his POTD about Lester, the guy SF offered $150 mil to.
A year ago he was on the mound for the A’s late game with the lead vs. Royals, who tied it up and later won the play in game in extras. A’s almost eliminated their ass right there, and of course no one else beat them til Giants did.
Heyman had a column on cbs site about how Mets could easily lose both Murphy and Cespedes as FAs–that’s your 3 and 4 hitters in the LU.
And of course going forward how many of the young stud SPs can they afford to keep as well
The late George Steinbrenner loved to sign ex-Mets. Cone, Straw, Doc, etc…
A lot of comparisons being made with The Fumble (or Miracle at the Meadowlands as Eagles fans call it). The Michigan play comes close, very close, but it’s still not as unbelievable as The Fumble. Mainly because Michigan had to run some kind of play, whereas all the Giants had to do was take a knee and the game’s over. But no question that was one crazy ending yesterday. I wish I had seen the play when it happened just to get the full effect, instead of seeing a replay after knowing what happened. My MSU grad wife, who will be in East Lansing on Saturday for Sparty’s next game, still can’t believe what happened.
A few days ago was the anniversary of Ishi’s legendary HR. A perfect moment from an imperfect player. I read that line in a thing about Larson”s perfect game in the ’56 World Series.
Harbaugh, at heart, is a Midwestern ‘3 yards and a cloud of dust’ guy, so even his wins are usually close games, and leaves more vulnerability for a fluke play to decide things.
Great pitching tends to stop great hitting, and I’m starting to believe the Mets can win it, and I mean the whole enchilada.
As I said yesterday, IMO this kind of ending is not just bad luck for Harbaugh. He may be a great motivator, until that schtick wears off, but he never proved to be a great game manager in histime with the Niners. They never had a 2 minute offense worth a crap, if one at all. He constantly mangled the time outs, and the penalty protests. Give Bill Walsh first and goal on the 7 and the same squad, and I guarantee the Niners would have scored and won the SBowl. The play calls were just silly in that sequence, you know the refs won’t call anything less than a tackle take down on the wide outs, so you’ve got to calls plays accordingly. Anyway, the M kid muffed the punt, it wasn’t a great snap, BTW, and he should have fallen on it, and reminded of that before the play. If he weren’t, bad coaching by Harbaugh. If he was, it’s mainly on the kid. Harbaugh really needs a guy like Wotus to help him, back him up, because Harbaugh gets amped too much, he LOOKS crazed like he can’t think when thinking is really needed. The guy may win a national championship in a year or two, then word will get spread out there by various sources including opposing coaches he’s a maniac in college too, and recruiting may get tougher. If I had a son, I wouldn’t send him to be coached by Harbaugh…
Well said.
Local bar was busier than usual last night with Met fans.
When I got home I threw up 3 times – not sure if there was any correlation.
Devils beating the Rangers today for their first win probably didn’t help.
At least my KC Chiefs are doing well…
The comment about “random” was surely put in for James, but he has yet to go for that piece of cheese.
Looks like a lot of empty seats at the Niner game. Not a good look.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/tv-newsman-mistakenly-reports-michigan-win-michigan-state-article-1.2401940
Yikes, that’s bad.
thank the lard there was no unreal ending to the 9ers game today. I was having flashbacks to the 83 hail mary from Bartkowski to Billy White Shoes Johnson. no such luck for Baltimore
The Michigan St. player who scored the winning TD was injured during the celebration. He’s out for the season with a dislocated hip. He was at the bottom of a dogpile.
Murphy again. Jake Arrieta looks more like Jake from State Farm right now.
The crowd-size blows my mind: there were 111,000 at the Michigan stadium.
that’s old school. Like back in the 30’s when no one had anything else to do except go to the Sat football game. Actually, Bay MEadows used to be like that back in the day….
Murphy!!
Lefty power-hitters like that low and inside ball.
Cubs self-destructing ..Can’t blame it on Steve Bartman this time..