2014 World Series: San Francisco Giants vs Kansas City Royals

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

damn i was sure that was about 70 years ago