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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 20:33:29 GMT -5
Noted slugger, Kolten Wong, strikes again. Hell of a rookie you've got there. That's a few times now that I wished we walked him. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 20:38:49 GMT -5
He's looked A LOT better lately, but man last year (and a few stretches this year) was brutal. Also, I hate him because Descalso gets even less playing time now.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 15, 2014 22:43:44 GMT -5
As a Yankee fan, I have mixed feelings for the Orioles demise. I did want to see Buck Showalter finally get into the WS. I'll always appreciate what he did as a Yankees manager in setting up the team to be winners under Joe Torre. Showalter is a class act. Conversely,I know too many O's fans and now they'll keep their mouths shut for the winter
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 23:45:07 GMT -5
Glad to see the Royals in, and have no strong prefernece between the Giants and Cardinals, though an all-Missouri WS would be cool (though unlikely after the Giants comeback tonight).
-M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 0:05:58 GMT -5
Huge win for the Giants tonight, and what an exciting series this has turned out to be. It astounds me how the Giants find ways to score as opposed to runs batted in. The Cards made one too many errant throws reminiscent of Game 1 tonight.
Now we got Snot Rocket coming to the mound in Game 5 tomorrow. Crazy. My Dad just texted me saying if the Giants win this series, we're going to a World Series game. Mind blown!
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Oct 16, 2014 0:09:15 GMT -5
Madison Bumgarner has been money in the playoffs thus far. Can't wait to see how it all goes down. I'll be out and about here in Austin though since this is a mini vacation. I'll have to keep up with my phone app. Dang.
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Post by berkley on Oct 16, 2014 1:36:34 GMT -5
As the years go by I find myself more and more fascinated by the games and sports events I watched, or even just heard about, as child. Here's the sports clip I've been most riveted by the last 48 hours or so: The great comeback by the Montreal Canadiens in Game 2 of their quarter-final series against the heavily favoured, record-setting Boston Bruins in the 1971 Stanley Cup Playoffs:
This playoff run by the underdog Canadiens was what made me a fan of the team. I was 9 years old, and had just started getting interested in hockey the previous year or two, lagging well behind not only my older but even my younger brother - I can still remember keeping on at Dad to turn on the Johnny Cash show on Saturday night when everyone else in the house (well, probably not Mom) wanted to watch Hockey Night in Canada. But soon I too caught the bug, and after a brief infatuation with the Toronto Maple Leafs - mainly induced by the solid blue uniforms they wore at the time, as far as I can recall - the Canadiens' 1971 Cup run made me a Habs fan, which unfortunate mental condition appears to have every chance of lasting the rest of my life.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 1:47:49 GMT -5
Speaking of memorable sports events from one's youth, I was lamenting just yesterday on Baseball Think Factory about Arkansas' epic 15-14 loss to Texas on 12/6/69, my first truly indelible sports-related memory, & one which in many ways set the tone for not only my subsequent adolescence but also, hell, existence in general. (I was 10 when that game was played; we beat Texas two years later, when I was 12, & again when I was 20, so my teens were nothing but an unending series of defeats at the hated hands of what was by far our most loathed rival in those days .... though we were no more than their 3rd-fiercest rival at best, after Oklahoma & Texas A&M. The demise of the Southwest Conference more than 20 years ago means we no longer really have a chief rival, which is a bit deflating, really.) I'm not exaggerating when I say that the seeds of even my political orientation were sown in the aftermath of that game. The previous fall, when I wouldn't have known politics from a hole in the ground, I'd pulled for Nixon in the presidential election. When I saw him in the Texas locker room, though, handing over the trophy symbolic of being the nation's top team to the Longhorns' coach, Darrel Royal, I immediately recoiled from not only him & his party, forever. (Which undoubtedly would've soon happened anyway, of course, as I attained even political semi-consciousness. Heck, my mother was a yellow-dog Democrat. But still.) That epic contest is the subject of a very good book, as it happens. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 1:52:29 GMT -5
And not that I realized it until yesterday, when a BTF poster made note of it, but over on the West Coast that very night, Altamont happened. It's enough to make one think that 12/6 in general isn't a very good day. Probably I shouldn't have had my 2nd wedding on that date in '86.
Also didn't realize it at the time, but it was also the day my mother's father died in 1953, nearly 6 years before I was born, & that my great-aunt in 1963 of injuries suffered in the car wreck I've mentioned before in which my mother was driving & I was riding in the backseat.
Hmmmm. I generally take care on the day before my birthday, since my mother & the aforementioned great-aunt died one day before their respective birthdays. I think I'll start taking every 12/6 off work ... just in case.
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Post by Jesse on Oct 16, 2014 20:43:33 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 22:15:20 GMT -5
Congrats Giants.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Oct 16, 2014 23:03:54 GMT -5
!!!!!!!!! We're going back jack!!! Can't wait to get back to the bay area from Austin.  Does Bruce get in the Hall of Fame for taking three teams to the World Series? Two of them wild cards? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2014 23:48:24 GMT -5
World Series!!! Holy Smokes!!!
Gotta give credit to the Cards they hung in there pretty good this game, and what a series this was! Classy and talented team all the way.
And then the stories:
Michael Morse, who had been our big bat during the season (but injured his oblique last month), comes in to pitch hit the game-tying HR in the 8th.
Then Travis Ishikawa, released by the Pirates in April, hits the game-winning HR in the 9th. Just amazing.
Crazy to think we're going to a WS with Hudson and Peavy instead of Cain and Lincecum. Two vets that have never made it to the big one either.
Going to be a great World Series. Can't wait!
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Post by The Captain on Oct 17, 2014 7:01:54 GMT -5
I'm hoping Duper isn't out long. He's a big part of the team, and he was definitely missed last year when he blew out his knee. This team just doesn't have tons of depth (due to having big money contracts with Crosby, Malkin, Letang, and Fleury), so losing Dupuis for any length of time is going to be rough. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Oct 20, 2014 0:58:45 GMT -5
Bad loss for the 49ers. Not a shock though. At some point you need players. We're missing like 10 or so starters. Our offensive line has been a joke all season due to the shuffling around. And now we have more players that got hurt in tonight's game. Our backup left guard had to play center at one point because our first two starters got hurt. It was like musical chairs on the line as the game progressed. I had never seen anything like it. And we had only three healthy corners to finish the game. Crazy. I expected this to be a loss at the beginning of the year, but not a blowout. Unfortunately it is what it is. We've had a blowout before and went to the Super Bowl (2012 at Seattle). I'm not that worried heading into the bye at 4-3, although I didn't think the Cardinals would be leading the division. At least we're ahead of the Seahawks. We need to get Bowman, Aldon Smith, and Willis back as soon as possible. Also we need our corners to get healthy. Tramaine Brock clearly wasn't ready to come back. Chris Cook is hurt, and Chris Culliver didn't play. Time to regroup and prepare for the Rams at home. By the way the receivers might actually want to work on, oh I don't know, catching the ball. Especially Vernon Davis.
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