I know I still don’t feel like talking about next season yet unless the words “defending World Series Champions” are involved.  So I’ll reconcile these feelings by talking about what mix of players will help the Giants defend their World Series title.  It may still feel strange to be able to say that finally,...
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One of my earliest memories as a kid is my first Giants game at the age of four.  It was a day game at Candlestick Park, and the Giants lost to the Pirates.  I remember asking my Dad all manner of Giants-related questions over the course of the game. What happens at the end of...
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I woke up this morning hardly believing that last night happened. It really, truly happened. The Giants won the World Series for the first time in 56 years, effectively ending the San Francisco drought. The heartbreak of three previous attempts at the title was erased in one swing of the bat...
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There’s no moment in my life that can compare to right now.  In dramatic fashion, the Giants have won the first World Series since the Giants came to San Francisco in 1958.  1962?  If only McCovey had hit it a little higher.  1989?  The earthquake delayed the Athletics’ dominate sweep.  2002?  The god damn...
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Following a game that had some weird Halloween juju, it’s hard to believe this is really happening.  Andres Torres hit a ball that caromed off first base for a double that was followed by an Aubrey Huff home run.  Freddy Sanchez made some of the greatest defensive plays this postseason had to offer.  Jeff...
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When I first used the term “Postseason Weirdness Theory,” I thought I had a pretty good grasp of what it meant.  I thought it meant that because the postseason is a small sample size of at-bats, it’s impossible to predict.  Game 2 of the World Series redefined the term completely. It was a game where...
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It may come as news to the folks over at ESPN, but Cliff Lee is not a Herculean demigod sent to smite the Giants into World Series oblivion.  He is actually a real, living, breathing, very fallible Major League pitcher.  If Roy Halladay’s Game 1 of the NLCS wasn’t enough of a lesson, this...
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Anyone who’s excited for the World Series to begin raise your hand.  Now keep your hand up if this excitement is accompanied by a familiar feeling of both dread and hopefulness that has come to define the way you feel about this team.  Now leave your hand up until the first pitch tonight.  Your...
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With Game 1 of the World Series fast approaching, the analysts have spoken.  ESPN’s so-called experts who were quick to say the Phillies would stomp the Giants into oblivion are more tentative in their predictions now.  Keith Law, a man who was completely and utterly convinced the Phillies would be National League Champs, is...
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The scene in Auto Battery was electric.  It’s the 1st inning, and every Giants fan in attendance is cheering every strike and every out.  Each time the umpire calls a ball on a close pitch, the room groans in frustration, screaming all manner of obscenities at the TV.  Jonathan Sanchez decides that Game 6...
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