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Congrats to the Giants, and UW’s own Tim Lincecum!
The Giants’ history of torturing their fans is very underrated; the Game 6 loss in 2002 would be legendary if it had been Boston. Good for them. More thoughts later, but it was great to see. Especially with the Bushes watching.
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I believe this frees up Lincecum to play quarterback for the Huskies this Saturday…
I’m betting Bush sold his Ranger stock before the series started.
The Machine is in for a rough night, and Tim’s bong will be glowing red…
God, that’s a great rant.
terrific post-season by the giants, who fully deserved the win.
and i’ll have more to say on this, too, but just for the record: in 32 post-season games altogether, we had 35 quality starts. the record of the team with those starts? 24-11 (and to parse it one step further, there were 9 games in which both starters threw quality starts; eliminate those and of the remaining 26 starts, the record of the team with the quality start was 24-2).
we had 29 non-quality starts, with a record of 8-21.
(and for those who question how good a quality start is, in those 33 quality starts: 244.2 innings with an FIP of 2.70; in the 29 non-quality starts, 136.1 innings with an FIP of 4.74.)
that all said, i didn’t give the giants pitching enough credibility coming into the post-season, and i most assuredly didn’t think they could hit enough to win it, but they did both….
sorry, i mis-stated something there: eliminate the starts in which both starters through a quality start and the winning record for QS is 15-2.
I’ll only say that I kind of feel sorry for the real Rangers fans, suffering through years of obscurity in the hell that is Cowboy country. Of course, the Bush thing doesn’t help, but the Rangers have been so bad for so long that I kind of wished they won.
That said, while the Rangers had 38 years of shit before this year, it had been 56 years since a Giants title, so it’s hard to complain.
These Rangers seem like a decent bunch of guys, too. Much was made of the castoffs-misfits Giants, and it wasn’t wrong, but the Rangers had their hard luck stories, too. Unfortunately, those ex-Presidents tooling around the field in their golf cart and the support of Tom Maguire made it impossible to root for them.
However, they can take some small comfort in that they are more likely to be contenders again than these Giants. Congrats to S.F.
Too bad the Series didn’t go all the way, though.
The Giants’ top four starters are all locked up with the team through 2012, and none of them are older than 26. Next year they’ll have Brandon Belt playing first base; he looks very good, and if Pablo Sandoval hits somewhere between his 2009 and 2010, they’ll have a very respectable young core of position players as well.
The Rangers have a good lineup, but they’re going to need to resign Cliff Lee to have a team as good as this year’s. Given the Yankees’ open wallets and the fact that the Red Sox missed the playoffs entirely, I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that Lee will be pitching for the Rangers next year.
The Giants are at least as likely to be able to make a repeat appearance in the playoffs as the Rangers are.
Go Giants!!!
I never thought this day would come.
As an A’s fan, I can’t say I’m really happy about this, but the Gnats totally deserved to win. A great example of a team peaking at just the right time.
As a Giants fan, I find being able to ask if the A’s will ever win another championship [1] the icing on the cake.
1. The last untainted one was back in ’72, giving the A’s the third-longest drought after the Cubs and Indians.
What was tainted about 89? Drugs? That’s sorta controversial around here, cause I know the baseball fans here are very pro-substance abuse, at least when it comes to MLB.
McGwire and Canseco’s success depended on steroids far more than The Worst Person in the World’s did. Admittedly, neither of them combined using steroids with the further crime of being dismissive of sportswriters.
I suspect credit really should go to the Rangers fan who put the chimp in the seats visible in (what seemed like) every shot of someone in the on-deck circle. The outpouring of loathing, animosity and general bad vibes generated by his face time, while pleasing to the Fox execs, no doubt accounts for the muddleheadedness leading to the decision to pitch to Renteria with first open and Rowand on deck; and that hanging breaking ball Lee floated to him.
“the decision to pitch to Renteria with first open and Rowand on deck”
This is a weird thing to complain about. It’s not like Renteria was any good this year, aside from his awesome World Series. That home run was his fifth of the year, regular season + post season. Rowand was even worse this year, of course, but Cliff Lee had no particular reason to fear either. He just threw an unusually bad pitch and Renteria took a very unusually good swing. I’m a Giants fan, and I think the better team won, but that specific at bat? Nothing much more you can say than, shit happens.
I would have agreed with this until the recent supplement to Ken Burns’ “Baseball” came out. It made a huge deal of the Giants’ history in San Francisco. It made the 2002 World Series all about this, which was a strange narrative decision. The story could at least as well have been about Gene Autry’s legacy and a long-suffering expansion franchise and Donnie Moore’s suicide. The narrative decision was clearly made because the film talked so much about Barry Bonds, and therefore had San Francisco talking heads.
The larger point stands. The national sports media talks about the suffering of Cubs fans, and until a few years ago about Red Sox fans, and is generally clueless about sports history in other cities. It is group-think narrative construction.
Right. I get tired of hearing about the cubs and Red Sox. I salue all fans who stick by their teams through years and decades of futility.
i haven’t had time to check around: does anyone know offhand if renteria is the first player to have two world-series-deciding hits in his career?
Howard,
According to the news, there were three others; Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig.
thanks, the bobs, i’ll look into it: i do have to love seeing edgar in that company….
Should also be noted that Renteria also made the last out in the 2004 World Series (for the losing team, of course), and the last out (again, for the losing team) in the 2005 ALDS.