2014 World Series: San Francisco Giants vs Kansas City Royals

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

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/p480x480/10636112_892799327411434_8367340437442719500_n.jpg?oh=d026044defa8634533e106c1768db61d&oe=54F1123D&__gda__=1425047651_8a1fc0c5314b5759be58829ec0c5f608

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/hunter-pence-gets-wwe-title-belt-from-daniel-bryan-at-giants-victory-parade-203652125.html

Bee that 127m figure means sabean is going to give Sandoval a megacontract

shouldn't bryan be a mariners fan tsk

Bee that 127m figure means sabean is going to give Sandoval a megacontract

Only after we give 3 / 40 million to Ishikawa.

paying that much for travis ishikawa is dumb as fuck for many reasons

But totally keeping in line with Sabean's history.

i honestly had no idea sabean was still the giants' guy after those many years of being a laughing stock

It helps that they stopped throwing away their high draft picks every year.

they did throw Wheeler away

According to ESPN’s SportsNation, literally every state in the union was rooting for the Royals over the Giants, including California, where the Giants’ own fan base was no match for Dodgers Hate and A’s Envy.

don't know if anyone saw that from grantland's column on the series by rany jazayerli, hashtag just sayin

*hears bee's head explode from rage 3,000 miles away*

good thing i live in a province in a parliamentary constitutional monarchy!

isn't canada technically a dominion?

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070426223122/memoryalpha/en/images/d/d3/Female_Changeling.jpg

??

ah, i see it is no longer technically called the dominion of canada

wtf is that lee

Sorry I'm letting my nerd show.

haha i got no bones with sci fi just have no clue what that is since it's not BSG, original trek or TNG

DS9!

daniel bryan looks like a typical sf street person kudos to him

http://mlb.mlb.com/assets/images/4/2/8/100348428/cuts/yostcostume_eq0nf7wa_mv4k5n7n.jpg

In trying to figure out how the Giants manage to do what they do, something like this is helpful:

http://www.billjamesonline.com/giants_defensive_positioning_a_big_assist_in_game_7_victory_/

Since all teams have that data, wouldn't most (except the Phillies) be doing something similar? or shouldn't they?

Beating an extremely flawed team 4 out of 7, hmmm, i guess i'm still not overly impressed at what they do, aside from picking the right month to get hot every other year.

Just caught up with this Rob Neyer column (I don't check him regularly, even though I should).

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/alex-gordon-world-series-game7-mike-jirschele-royals-third-base-coach-103114

Ancient history, but the thing that caught my attention was that Neyer's mental calculation on Alex Gordon's triple was identical to my own--like word for word:

But something did bother me about the whole thing. I’ve seen a lot of baseball games. I don’t know how many, but I’ve been pretty obsessive about baseball for about 35 years, and we had two super-stations on our cable package in 1977 or ’78. My very rough estimate is that I’ve seen at least 45,000 innings of baseball. When Gordon’s liner got past Gregor Blanco, I thought triple. When Gordon’s liner then got kicked along the warning track by Juan Perez, I thought holy shit he’s going to score.

He doesn't question the coach, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7IgTE593oA