If I have any regular followers (God forbid), it's been ages since I posted anything, but then I don't like to write if I have nothing to say. Tonight, however, the Giants have won the sportsball and Halloween is just around the corner, so I took these two great cultural mainstays and mashed them together with all of my usual sensitivity. You're welcome.
I'm from San Francisco. I'm an Orioles fan. Fuck perennials and the Giants. Oh and the Yankees. ButterflyEffect, who were you rooting for? flagamuffin, did you root for the Royals because Missouri bros or resent them for it? Also my sincere condolences about Oscar. What a tragic loss to the world.
I was rooting for they Royals because it was too good of a story to pass up and I'm sad whenever the West Coast wins at anything.
America mourns. That damn landlubber with eye sockets that betray iodine deficiency destroyed joy. Seriously, f*ck Hunter Pence. Had the Cardinals beaten them, Oscar Taveras would still be alive. Giants fans are like a disease when you see them at your ball park. Now they're tearing apart the closest city we have to the future. Meanwhile Kansas City folk are saying shucks and went to bed. San Francisco: so lovely, so rational, such a flagship... and then you win another World Series and it's Montreal when the Habs make the playoffs. Now we have to suffer four months without a baseball game and Giants fans being insufferable. I'm lookin' at you, Hunter. I picked your right eye, since I can follow it with my dominant one.
I won't comment on Giant's fans but man...that game was epic. You Will Never See a Pitching Performance like That Again Also, this too-long interview the NYTimes did on Bumgarner's dad is awesome and full of amazing quotes. It fully captures the personality of the crazy old guys I met at baseball games in NC - and it fully captures the way my dad talks about my brother. Right down to comparing the pride he felt when my brother threw the complete game shutout in Greenboro to a not-even-comparable session he did back in high school. Dads are funny. “Here’s the secret to living in a log house: You got to love the color brown,” Kevin said. “But you can hang a picture anywhere.” LMFAO!You are not supposed to be able to throw five shutout innings on just two days of rest, in the World Series, in Game 7, after throwing over 50 postseason innings, after throwing over 200 regular season innings. Madison Bumgarner just did something truly insane. Did Bruce Bochy ever think of pulling Bumgarner? Nope. "The innings were easy," he said post-game.
"I didn't know if he had enough left tonight," Kevin said. "But I did know that boy would try to steal a steak off the devil's plate."
He grew up in a log cabin that Kevin built with his own hands.
On where Madison got his name: "“I saw a headline saying the sheriff of Madison County was in trouble,” he said. “I said, That’s it; I like that name Madison.”"
"Sometimes you're the pigeon, and sometimes you're the statue."
No you're not supposed to pitch like that! There have only been a handful of pitchers who have thrown that many innings recently. Most have had injury problems in the next season. The notable exception is verlander, who threw 250+ two years in a row. He has never been able to gain his velocity since then. Who knows if there's a causation there, but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Godspeed StJohn, take care of yourself and your loved ones. Wear protection.
2B pencils are almost impossible to find. If the Giants knew you had one.... In any event, your post is hilarious. If you in fact live in San Francisco, it's even funnier. All this time I thought you were a carp-fisher living in St. John's, Newfoundland. I just thought that. I'm sorry. I'm often wrong.
... pssst... lil... it's Saint John, New Brunswick, and St. John's Newfoundland. It's not actually a big deal imo, but some people get right cross about it. <3