2014 World Series: San Francisco Giants vs Kansas City Royals

xp ok I had to check that - not exactly, but p close!

speak now released 10/25/10, giants won on 11/1/10

red released 10/22/12, giants won on 10/28/12

so we can add royals fans to the list of fanbases who are gonna be pissed at TS for ruining their seasons - right next to the knicks, she attends last night's game, bulls blow 'em out

cuz it's not like the knicks would've lost otherwise #jokes

if crawford's throw is on target, gordon is easily out at home. and even with two outs, i don't think you can send him without an outside chance of beating the throw. a better option would have been for sal perez to stop swinging at pitches over his head.

also thank god we were spared a play-at-the-plate replay to decide the world series

also thank god we were spared a play-at-the-plate replay to decide the world series

cmon this wouldve been amazing, esp if they got it incorrect

who the fuck am i kidding i have no idea when the sox will be legit competitive again

― and also pointsman, octopi don't bark (slothroprhymes),

pablo might help..

That was one of the coolest pitching performances I've seen. Can't believe how good Madison was on short rest. He looked unhittable even in the ninth. That bloop triple wasn't really his fault.

Also, do people really think Alex Gordon could have scored there? I thought he would have been out by like 60 feet.

Also, watching Kings and Warriors fans celebrate the victory together made me nauseous haha

http://instagram.com/p/uw0kWQnO2k

the escobar bunt was more egregious than gordons' totally justifiable baserunnin

pablo might help..

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand)

i feel like they'll splurge on pitchers first, though i'm not exactly opposed to panda

but what a game it would've been if he went home

it was pretty good as is, no?

Calling the Royals season in any way 'ruined' is hilarious. Maybe they'll win it all in a year where theyre not 30th in several offensive categories.

the only argument vs the 3b coach holding him is if you think the chances of him scoring on a subpar play are greater than those of Bummy giving up a tying hit.

Maybe they'll win it all in a year where theyre not 30th in several offensive categories.

Offensive, indeed!

ba-zing

at bat just prompted me to do fan votes on all the GIBBY awards so I did it for the hell of it

for anyone who votes, y'all are out of your gourds if you choose anything aside from the kershaw 15K no-no (its up against madbum's 1-hit CG and timmy's markedly-inferior-to-clayton-but-still-dope no-no, among like two others)

(for pitching performance, clayton is up against those #evenyear outings as well as the combined phillies no-no (ewwww) and no-nos from beckett and jordan zimmerman)

kershaw would have had a perfect game if he didnt have hanley friggin ramirez at ss

Are we sure Timmy didn't sneak into the game somehow? http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/32/76/33/7071456/3/920x920.jpg

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/alex-gordon-barely-had-a-chance

There's an argument that he might have had a chance if he was running hard all the way, but he wasn't so it's irrelevant.

So the only consistently great/topshelf performer on 2 of the 3 teams has been Posey...

But consistency is not the only way or the ultimate way to demonstrate ability.

I don't think the Giants' success this year is a mystery. They have a very good starting lineup, an ace starting pitcher, and a really good bullpen.

Team reg-season leaders in WAR:

Amazing how much WAR Cabrera put up in half a season, geez.

It was more than half a season; remember, they had to negotiate taking the batting title away from him.

Neyer: Giants are "semi-dynastic"

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/giants-2-world-series-are-impressive-but-not-quite-a-dynasty-103014

Madison Bumgarner is the second best pitcher in the MLB.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 8:56 PM (4 weeks ago)

remember when i wrote that good time. has a fantastic time this post-season. thanks ILB for keeping me sort of sane throughout the whole thing.

glad u r alive

I saw Bob Dylan last night in Oakland and when the game ended, a large portion of the audience starting cheering and shouting "go giants" in the middle of a song. it was so lame. Then when Bob finished the song some tool decided to yell "the giants won the world series!", like wow thanks for letting us know. These idiots were worse than Hitler, imo

oh i just remembered, the 2014 Giants thread title was suppose to jinks them this year. i guess Leee owes me lunch or something. i'm not going to be the one who makes the thread for next year however, going back to the bullpen along with Timmy.

if crawford's throw is on target, gordon is easily out at home. and even with two outs, i don't think you can send him without an outside chance of beating the throw. a better option would have been for sal perez to stop swinging at pitches over his head.

also thank god we were spared a play-at-the-plate replay to decide the world series

― mookieproof, Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:03 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it would've been awesome tho that's what matters

i mean any time you have a chance to do something super stupid weird with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of game 7 of the world series you take it

Don Larsen pitched a perfect WS game, he's probably the second-best pitcher after after Clayton Kreayshawn.

it's not THE mlb. Bee

and Bumgarner is maybe the 8th-12th best

gonna have a lot of attention on him next yr

gonna have a lot of attention on him next yr

A nice prob to have, all things considered

52 million viewers for Game 7

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/10/30/7135421/world-series-tv-ratings-giants-royals-game-7

madbum is prob like...15, tbh.

hadn't read this in a while, couldn't remember who the prime dick was but now i know i have a better reason for hating hosmer other than just his face

ofc ball players everywhere are probably huge dicks but i don't have proof of anyone else so

tbf i have interviewed hosmer (albeit before he was a 'star') and he was quite pleasant. i did not, however, mistake him for someone else or open with 'hey i'm (ethnicity) too'. i'm not even a good interviewer, but i do try to have a clue

eno definitely fucked up but hosmer followed him around the clubhouse to snicker behind his back which is exactly what a person with that face would do and continues to do at every opportunity

did you see the francoeur prank this spring? it's a tough crowd

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2005/10/28/93CmhKrq.jpg

what a jackass

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1KpoiMIYAAfPpM.jpg

I have no idea where SBN got that 52 million viewership figure; it's crazy, I'm not seeing it anywhere else. Game 7 averaged 23.5 million, peaked around 28m.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/sports/baseball/world-series-2014-game-7s-ratings-surge.html

also, it escaped me that KC only stole one base in the WS.

If somebody knows what they're doing, the only guy to lead off a Halloween WS parade is Pence.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/10/31/7135679/giants-parade-world-series-2014-schedule-map

i did think it was strange how little they ran vs the giants.

I think there's a Cameron piece about how long the Giant pitchers held the ball.

Roger Angell:

I don’t know what it felt like watching Mathewson pitch, but watching Bumgarner is like feeling an expertly administered epidural nip in between a couple of vertebrae and deliver bliss: it’s a gliding, almost eventless slide through the innings, with accumulating fly-ball outs and low-count K’s marking the passing scenery. It’s twilight sleep; an Ambien catnap; an evening voyage on a Watteau barge. Bumgarner is composed out there, his expression mournful, almost apologetic, even while delivering his wide-wing, slinging stuff. Sorry, guys: this is how it goes. Over soon.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/best

http://imgur.com/Dmo2zNX

MLB San Francisco 2015 commitments:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t4r9nky1EouVJsFXQlv3FKQ&output=html

they look to be in great shape with only $127,277,777 committed so far.

4 more years of bumgarner, sick

can we now call buster The Captain y/n

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