Game 5

Yep its starting to feel a little more like winter.

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With the base open...really Cliff?

Why would a manager leave it up to the pitcher to decide that? The manager needs to take that decision away from him. That's a young manager being afraid to tell the hired gun what to do.

BRRRRRRRRRRRR

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Originally posted by Three Bagger:
I'm starting to get that winter chill.

How many runs have scored in Texas not from a HR RBI? One ?? off the ground rule double.....

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"AND THEY ARE GOING WILD IN THE CITY BY THE BAY!"

And all of the others are watching the game!



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You either step up and hit the d a m ball or you go home and tip your cap. Giving up 3 runs over 8 is not bad at all. Unless you have had it shoved on you over and over again. Its time for the Rangers to wake up the bats or get ready for the off season. No excuses just fact.

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Wake up the bats? No problem!




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Does SF bring in Wilson or leave Lincecum in?

That 165 pound pitcher with SF on his cap has won 2 Cy Youngs. He is probably a better"pitcher" over the last 5 weeks than when he won the 2 awards.
The Rangers' hitters have to beat one of the very best in baseball.

Really smart Rangers fan there when Molina was trying to snag the pop up at the stands. If your team's player is moving to you to make the play, I think I'd give him as much room as possible.

...but, then, he was wearing his cap backwards, as well. What else can you expect?

Call him The Freak...The Filipino...The Franchise but Timmy is changin'it up! I think he will finish it on a short leash..

Will Los Gigantes pull it out?

Burrell wants this to end tonight more than anyone else in the world.

2 outs on radio.

Turn out the lights, the party's over.........

Great season Rangers. Congrats Giants.

Heck of a low, inside pitch to Guerrero.

I was wrong..Fear the beard!

Giants.

Mr. Lee.... Call from Mr. Cashman of the NY Yankees.. Will you accept the call?

Timmy out aced the ace--

Great story:
Mike Murphy has been the Giant's equipment man since they moved to SF in 1958.
This one is for him.
Ross plus Huff plus Uribe plus Renteria plus Lincecum= World Champs. Great, great stuff.

Lee is pretty good but I think Lincecum is better. This was the game everyone wanted to see in game 1, but I think this was even better than expected. Man the Giants pitched well...

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Lee is pretty good but I think Lincecum is better. This was the game everyone wanted to see in game 1, but I think this was even better than expected. Man the Giants pitched well...

Giants had the three best pitched games the Rangers saw this post season...and they saw some good pitchers. The kid lefty, Cain and Lincecum threw 3 gems that would beat any team in the league.

Best team won.

Well congratulations, Giants. They have a lot of guys I really like so this doesn't bother me that much. One of my pet peaves did surfaced when the on the field guy asked Posey, " How much better was Tim L. than ever before?" Just once I'd like a guy to answer this stupidly phrased question, " Well he was approximately 4.47% better than ever before!" Oh well, good game, good guys won.

So much for the "experts'" prognostications.

Way to go, Giants!

What a year for Buster Posey!

Although SF pitching was phenomenal, I got pretty frustrated with many of the pitches the Texas hitters took early in the count. Too many fastballs down the pipe taken with no strikes or one strike. They wound up having to fish at pitcher's pitches.

Oh well. Good series Giants.

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'You don't have to be a great player to play in the major leagues, you've got to be a good one every day.'

Huff, Ross, Uribe, Torres, Sanchez, Renteria, Lopez: a bunch of good ones everyday..and now champions.

With all the good young prospects in MLB (including a few in this series)if you had a choice of one player drafted in the past five years who would it be? Between Lincecum, Price, Strassburg, Posey, Tuliwitsky, etc, who will have the best career?

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I wish the Rangers would have had a little more life to 'em. And they could have done without those absolutely horrible couple of innings in the first two games in San Francisco.

Congratulations to the Giants. They played like they wanted it more than the Rangers...and they won it all.




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Hate to see it end but good job Giants! And Rangers, you're a lot of fun to watch. Can't wait until next year.

The Giants illustrate how quickly good drafting can turn a team around. 54 years wandering in the wilderness and then a string of good drafts from about 2006 and the drought is quickly over.

Years ago MANY!!!, as a pre-teen, i used to travel from the Bronx , NY to Alameda County, Ca to play summer ball with my cousins.- all summer!

All summer of watching them getting their hopes up with Marichal, Bonds, Cepeda, McCovey and company... and then the other shoe would fall.

their sad faces delivering their newspapers on their bikes with headlines that often taunted them with KOUFAX BEATS GIANTS

So... now those cousins are in their late 50's or early 60s and out of touch with me...

Wherever you may be -Tommy, Billy,, Congrats!! Your Boys finally got it done for ya!

Your cuz

Congrats GIANTS fans.... Great series!!! GED10DaD

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Originally posted by Tx-Husker:
The kid lefty, Cain and Lincecum threw 3 gems that would beat any team in the league.

Didn't they do that to get to the WS?

Really good drafting, but more impressive was really good acquiring of those castoffs. Great chemistry (and kharma) came together with all of those decisions.

Good job Giants, you made the NL proud!

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Didn't they do that to get to the WS?

In either league, including an All Star team.

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No excuses now...the series is over. Everyone get out and vote tomorrow if you haven't already. Thanks.




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Happy Torture...and simply a magical run...young pitchers, and a "castoff of characters"...worrysome little offense all year...very shaky middle relief...only 37 days in first place (least of any playoff team)...make up 10 games in August/Sept...a win on the last day of the season to squeak in...counted out by virtually every pundit every series, even the bay area media...underdogs to Atlanta...one run games to win...Big underdogs to Philly...one run games to win...Big underdogs to Texas...and then this with contributions from all...then the win and they all made a point to reference past Giants...pretty cool. IMO, Giant fan or not, this is a pretty remarkable sports story.

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Self belief is an enormous contributing factor to championship.

Passion
Dedication
Self belief
Champion