Man, this place sure has it's share of sore whiny losers...
Cheer up!
Posted on 11/01/2010 8:00:31 PM PDT by rivercat
Go ahead, say it. It's no longer mere fantasy or sheer folly to do so. A rare mix of veteran rejects and budding stars completed an unlikely ascent to the Major League summit Monday night, allowing all to repeat a five-word phrase never before heard:
World Series champion San Francisco Giants. The Giants made franchise history with a 3-1 triumph over the Rangers in Game 5 of the World Series, ignoring their underdog status to capture the 106th Fall Classic, four games to one.
An unlikely hero combined with a likely one to elevate San Francisco to new heights.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com ...
Not to mention San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
PS - Congrats! :-)
“Hard to believe you can get frostbite in San Francisco.”
Mark Twain said: “The coldest winter I spent in my life was a summer in San Francisco.”
Enjoy it, San Fran, tomorrow is NOVEMBER 2nd, and you WILL get your A!! handed to you, politically. Enjoy the ride.
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I've been going to Giants games since the mid-70's.
The 2002 Series was horrible. Five outs away, with a five run lead, and a solid bullpen waiting. Yet they let it all get away.
As the years went on, it only got worse. It took me until tonight to get over it.
“Not to mention San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.”
Considering year round weather, the city itself, and the area withing 100 miles it is indeed beautiful.
Big Basin State Park, Monterey Bay, Half Moon Bay, the bridges, the bay, the Great Highway, Golden Gate Park, the city skyline, etc.
I thought when they built the new park the weather was still gonna suck, but I was at one game sitting in the nosebleeds along the left field line, and from there you can see the stick, and I was amazed as I sat in a t shirt and watched a massive fog bank roll over that hill and dump right down into Candlestick. That place needs another earthquake.
Remember Atlee Hammaker, “Buffy” LaCoss, “Caveman” Don Robinson, Will “the Thrill” Clark, Matt Williams and the Crazy Crab?
We Giants fans have suffered for many, many years. We finally got our championship!
Man, this place sure has it's share of sore whiny losers...
Cheer up!
Can’t stand anything that comes out of that liberal bastion.
Hard to believe that picture’s not photoshopped.
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Agreed. It reminded me of Tommy Lasorda choosing to pitch to the Cardinals' Jack Clark in the 1985 NLCS with first base open. Clark took the slowest home run trot I ever remember.
Still a fond memory from a dark era in Giants history, when we got our thrills from seeing the Dodgers lose.
The bitter memories of 1962, 1971, 1987, 1989, 1993 and 2002 are gone.
I,too, spent many a cold day and night at The ‘Stick in my younger days.
AT&T Park is nice, but the atmosphere in the Candlestick bleachers on a Friday night Dodgers game remain unrivaled.
As for that Giants pitching staff, simply amazing.
TX only got one runner past 2nd base in the last two games - both in TX
And they shut them out 2x and allowed only 1 run tonight.
I am still trying to figure out if this is a guy, gurl, or calitrannie with that haircut.
And yes, hopefully voter turnout will be suppressed tomorrow in SF
When we worked there, my former boss used to say: “San Francisco is the most beautiful city in the world...from ten feet above the ground on up.” :)
“I thought when they built the new park the weather was still gonna suck, but I was at one game sitting in the nosebleeds along the left field line, and from there you can see the stick, and I was amazed as I sat in a t shirt and watched a massive fog bank roll over that hill and dump right down into Candlestick. That place needs another earthquake.”
I was there one August, out walking in cutoffs and T-shirt in the afternoon. We were up high on the hills.
In comes fog and wind and we almost froze before we got back to our hotel for better clothes.
But I have lived within a mile of the Pacific Ocean in Calif. for 44 years and you get used to it. Always have a jacket or sweater nearby even in summer.
I also remember Candy Maldonado's lost fly ball in the lights in 1987 to lose a Dravecky gem in NLCS game 6. Getting blown out by the A's and the quake in 1989. Winning 103 games and losing to LA on the last day of the season in 1993. Getting swept by the Marlins in 1997. Losing the one-game playoff to the Cubs in 1988. Dusty not pinch hitting for Gardner in 2000. Losing the 5-0 lead in 2002 WS game 6. Jose Cruz Jr.'s dropped fly ball in 2003.
Tonight, all are forgotten! :)
Whoops, wrong team!
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