***World Series Thread Texas Rangers v San Francisco Giants*** (1 Viewer)

[GOB]

Brain Wilson The noise he made after setting up Chris Rose into telling him Renteria won the MVP was

What is it he said? I rewound it 3 times; couldn't make it out.

I think he said:Huh...an oracle.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Ok the super gay Joe Buck monolouge there really killed the mood. Hopefully they didn't play that in the locker room, guys would just go back to their lockers and act like they lost after hearing that mess.

 

[Eephus]

Ok the super gay Joe Buck monolouge there really killed the mood. Hopefully they didn't play that in the locker room, guys would just go back to their lockers and act like they lost after hearing that mess.

Oh c'mon, i misted up a little. If Liev Schreiber had narrated it, it would have been

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Ok the super gay Joe Buck monolouge there really killed the mood. Hopefully they didn't play that in the locker room, guys would just go back to their lockers and act like they lost after hearing that mess.

Oh c'mon, i misted up a little. If Liev Schreiber had narrated it, it would have been

If Tony Danza had narrated it, it would have been

 

[Eephus]

Ok the super gay Joe Buck monolouge there really killed the mood. Hopefully they didn't play that in the locker room, guys would just go back to their lockers and act like they lost after hearing that mess.

Oh c'mon, i misted up a little. If Liev Schreiber had narrated it, it would have been

If Tony Danza had narrated it, it would have been

If Ozzie Guillen had narrated it, it would have been

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Ok the super gay Joe Buck monolouge there really killed the mood. Hopefully they didn't play that in the locker room, guys would just go back to their lockers and act like they lost after hearing that mess.

Oh c'mon, i misted up a little. If Liev Schreiber had narrated it, it would have been

If Tony Danza had narrated it, it would have been

If Ozzie Guillen had narrated it, it would have been

Chew knew what um sayin?

 

[badmojo1006]

Sweet Relief

 

[GOB]

Ozzie Guillen is just awful. FOX must have the easiest screening in the world to get a job. They let anyone get behind the mic and start spewing crap.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

JUST A CITY BOY!

BORN AND RAISED IN WEST DETROIT!

 

[Tremendous Upside]

No baseball for 5 months

 

[Doctor Detroit]

No baseball for 5 months

CFB and hockey bridge the gap, but I always miss it by the end of November until we have the winter meetings and the hot stove stuff in early December.

 

[coolnerd]

Congrats Giants too pitching and too much beard.

 

[Bogart]

Congrats to the SF fans.

Numb right now.

I about threw something at my TV at the end of the game. Not so much because SF won, but because that worthless piece of #### Pat Burrell was in every single celebration shot. Yeah, you ####er, you really contributed.....you over celebrating son of a #####.

 

[Eephus]

Congrats to the SF fans.Numb right now.I about threw something at my TV at the end of the game. Not so much because SF won, but because that worthless piece of #### Pat Burrell was in every single celebration shot. Yeah, you ####er, you really contributed.....you over celebrating son of a #####.

w/out Burrell, the Padres probably win the Division It's a team game

 

[Bogart]

Congrats to the SF fans.Numb right now.I about threw something at my TV at the end of the game. Not so much because SF won, but because that worthless piece of #### Pat Burrell was in every single celebration shot. Yeah, you ####er, you really contributed.....you over celebrating son of a #####.

w/out Burrell, the Padres probably win the Division It's a team game

Old man, don't try throwing logic into my rant right now. Just walk away and get you some prune juice.Was this Giants victory better or worse than the last one that you attended in person?

 

[commisholio]

I'm stuck in a hotel room in Maryland. Need someone to hug

GB

 

[commisholio]

Unbelievable. I thought I'd never see it. I can't stop smiling.

 

[Dickies]

Ok the super gay Joe Buck monolouge there really killed the mood. Hopefully they didn't play that in the locker room, guys would just go back to their lockers and act like they lost after hearing that mess.

Oh c'mon, i misted up a little. If Liev Schreiber had narrated it, it would have been

If Tony Danza had narrated it, it would have been

If Ozzie Guillen had narrated it, it would have been

 

[Disco Stu]

Well, that was disappointing. Glad I was there though.

Congrats Giants fans. One of the three in my section got arrested within seconds of the final out. Big m'fer but none too bright.

 

[Jambi]

Congrats Giants fans. Great story. If asked where I ranked the Giants coming into this season I would have said no better than 15th in the league. I usually see something like this coming but I was blindsided. That said, I did lay down quite a few units on the outcome.

Serious question though. How many times did they show that last pitch sequence? 20-25 times?

 

[Michael Brown]

Wilson's a good dude, but I wish he wouldn't turn his back to do the little arm gesture thing. Poor Buster Posey had to wait to jump on him to celebrate!

Congrats Giant fans, anytime you have a 1-2 like Lincecum-Cain you can win a playoff (and World) series so you guys are set up for many years to come.

 

[Guest]

Two gritty teams. Would have liked to see it go the other way, but hard to really root against the Giants. Congrats fans.

 

[belljr]

Congrats Giants fans

#### you

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

JUST A CITY BOY!

BORN AND RAISED IN WEST SOUTH DETROIT!

????

 

[Darth Cheney]

Congrats to the Giants and their fans. Didn't realize it had been that long. With that pitching staff, there's a good chance this won't be the last time that team sees the World Series.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

JUST A CITY BOY!

BORN AND RAISED IN WEST SOUTH DETROIT!

????

I'm from West Detroit, that's how I sing it.

 

[commisholio]

Very sorry Rangers fans, you're some good dudes. I know how disappointing it is to make it this close and fall a little bit short. I hope you guys make it back and win it sometime soon (as long as it's not against the G-men). The Rangers had a great season and hopefuly after the sting ebbs a bit you can enjoy it for that.

 

[sjslacker]

Wilson's a good dude, but I wish he wouldn't turn his back to do the little arm gesture thing. Poor Buster Posey had to wait to jump on him to celebrate!Congrats Giant fans, anytime you have a 1-2 like Lincecum-Cain you can win a playoff (and World) series so you guys are set up for many years to come.

Wilson does that after every save. It's a sign to his dad who passed away from cancer. I <3 Wilson! Such a character!

 

[sjslacker]

Fun fact. In the 3 games in Texas 13 of the 14 runs scored were because of HR.

Before the World Series began, ESPN sports nation polling showed 49 states picking Texas to win. Only Cali picked SF.

On such a high right now, cant wait for the parade!

GOOOO GIANTS!!!!

 

[sjslacker]

Congrats to the SF fans.Numb right now.I about threw something at my TV at the end of the game. Not so much because SF won, but because that worthless piece of #### Pat Burrell was in every single celebration shot. Yeah, you ####er, you really contributed.....you over celebrating son of a #####.

w/out Burrell, the Padres probably win the Division It's a team game

He had a horrible world series no doubt but no way they make the post season without Burrell. In Aug/Sept he had 12 HR and 35 RBIs!

 

[Disco Stu]

Very sorry Rangers fans, you're some good dudes. I know how disappointing it is to make it this close and fall a little bit short. I hope you guys make it back and win it sometime soon (as long as it's not against the G-men). The Rangers had a great season and hopefuly after the sting ebbs a bit you can enjoy it for that.

I'm getting the impression that most of us are already at that point. It was an amazing ride, tough to complain about your season ending on Nov 1st. The last major league game of the season was played in Arlington! That's crazy.Some have said they hated seeing the Giants celebrate on our field, but I thought it was kinda cool. I've never gotten to see a professional team celebrate a title before.

 

[oso diablo]

congrats to the Giants fans here! The Giants were awesome when it mattered, and are very deserving champions.

Had a great time at Game 4, despite the outcome and despite sitting in the very top row of the upper deck, down the left field line. Such an electric atmosphere. First pitch from W. After so many, many years of seeing my hometown team struggle along, of having my June hopes crushed by August, of having the local media ignore the team once the Cowboys started training camp, it was wonderful to see the city so fired up for the Rangers.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Congrats to Chris MadDog Russo. He'd be hysterical with Mike today.

Didn't see this result coming at all. Amazing Series by the Giants. Great World Series all around with two fun teams to watch. Already miss baseball and can't wait for reporting day.

 

[Dr. Awesome]

If Oakland couldn't win, at least a bay area team won it all. Congrats, Giants fans.

 

[Lehigh98]

Wilson's a good dude, but I wish he wouldn't turn his back to do the little arm gesture thing. Poor Buster Posey had to wait to jump on him to celebrate!

Congrats Giant fans, anytime you have a 1-2 like Lincecum-Cain you can win a playoff (and World) series so you guys are set up for many years to come.

Wilson does that after every save. It's a sign to his dad who passed away from cancer.

Kinda, but not really...

One of the features I hoped to make semi-regular on this blog is an offer to take your questions for Giants players. If it’s an intriguing one, I’ll go and ask it for you. (See the Ask a Giant! tab at the top of this page.)

At the end of May, reader Bruce Chiang wanted to know why Brian Wilson crosses his arms after he records the save. One hand makes a fist (inside his glove) and he points his index finger with the other hand.

Wilson was evasive. He wasn’t ready to let it be publicly known what it meant. He pledged to tell me, but only on his terms and only when he was a little more confident that his season was going the right way.

Well, now he’s an All-Star and is likely to pitch an inning today at Yankee Stadium. So he promised to sit down with me on this last road trip and divulge the whole story.

One problem: He works out like a madman. Every time I tried to track him down at Shea Stadium or Wrigley Field, he was running stairs, lifting weights, running the warning track or perspiring on the exercise bike.

I got to the park massively early to track him down Sunday…and walked in the press box to see one player running on the track. Wilson, of course.

He took the loss in Saturday afternoon’s game and was doing his penance.

“I’m punishing myself,” he said.

When he switched to a stationary bike in a dank little storage space off the clubhouse, he finally agreed to talk to me.

(Some of you figured out it’s a mixed-martial arts reference and there’s a clothing company called One More Round that uses the slogan. Others thought it was a symbol of his devout Christian faith.)

Short answer: You’re both right. It goes a little deeper than that, though.

I promised Wilson that I would allow him to describe the personal significance of the gesture in his own words. That’s what follows, straight out of my tape recorder:

“One More Round is a clothing line. It has to do with the drive and determination that certain fighters have when their backs are against the wall. It’s, `No matter how deep I am in this fight, no matter how badly burned I am, I’ve got one more round in me.’ That’s basically the motto, the creed, of One More Round. No matter what it takes, I’ve got one more in me.

“And to me, that relates to what I do on the mound. In the ninth inning, your back is against the wall and you’re probably facing the meat of the order. Whether it’s bases loaded, no outs, you’re only up by one, whatever, you’ve got one more round left in you. You can’t back down, you can’t give in, and that’s exactly how I portray my inning — as a war, as a battle. So when I go out there, I’m fighting for my team. I don’t care about any personal statistics, giving up runs or whatever. As long as I preserve the win, everything’s OK.

“Now, one of the main things I do after a game is the crossing of the arms. That’s on a T-shirt I wear underneath my jersey when I pitch. (He wore that T-shirt in an ESPN interview last month.) That’s just respecting the fighters and their commitment and determination and the hard work they put in.

“And also it’s taking into consideration my own walks in life. For instance, when I cross my arms, I have my left hand in the fist and my right hand goes underneath pointing with my (index) finger. What I’ve taken into my own belief is that this finger represents one man. I’m that one person. And I can only go so far in life leaning on my own understandings and my own strength. The fist represents the power of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The fist is symbolic of a circle. It’s never-ending. This strength will only continue to grow. So here’s the strength of God and the strength of man. And without him, I am nothing. I can only go so far in this life. But when I cross, I now have this one person with the strength of Christ, and I can do anything through Christ who strengthens me. I can get over any battles in life.

“So I basically give respect to the ultimate fighting world and I also give respect to Christ, the audience of one that I play for. I don’t play for anything else. I play to impress Him and only Him and I must honor Him through defeat and also successes because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for the strength that He gives me. Talent only goes so far. But faith gets you a little farther. So that’s what it is. It just represents my faith and trust in him, and letting him know and the world know that any believer that walks with Christ, or any walk of life you have, no matter where you are, I’m showing respect to you for your hard work, too. Because it’s not easy living in this world.”

I asked him why he decided to make the gesture at the end of a game.

“I just thought it would be a good time. It shows no disrespect toward anybody. It’s all positive praise. It’s not for showboating. It’s not to start an epidemic. It’s just me getting a quick message out to the world and to Christ and that’s it. I just thought, `What more perfect time to display my faith than at the end of a game?’”

I knew that Wilson came to Christianity later in life. His father died of kidney cancer when he was 17, and for a long time, he was disillusioned.

“I had to go through my struggles in life. My alienation towards Christianity was very prominent through my adolescence. One day it hit me. I felt I needed to start correcting my life. This happened when I was 23 years old. I was in Augusta, Ga. (playing for the Giants’ low-A club), and I was just playing cards, going about my business, and every Sunday a group of guys would go with the team chaplain. I didn’t even know what `chaplain’ meant.

“Well, my father passed away when I was 17 and you know, I was praying he wouldn’t die. And he was taken away from me. I didn’t understand. It had nothing to do with your prayers not being answered. It was just his time to go. But me being 17 years old, not a very mature kid, I just took that as Him turning his back on me, so I turned my back on Him. When I put my cards down and went in the dugout to speak to the team chaplain, I soon learned that wasn’t the way it worked. No matter how many times I turn my back on God, He’ll always be in front of me. I could stray away from Him for 90 years but as long as I know Him for one day, He’ll honor me in heaven. So I thought that would be one heck of a life-altering change that I should make.”

I asked him about teammates dropping the X, including Omar Vizquel who does it every time. (Omar doesn’t know what it means. “I just like him because he’s crazy,” Vizquel said.)

“Yeah, we’ve got the first baseman doing it, too. Usually you cross your arms when you’re playing behind the runner, every once in awhile they’ll throw it up for me just to ease my mind. (Rich) Aurilia does it jokingly, but I take it as a reminder of why I’m out here. It’s, `Remember what kind of gift you have, and most of all, don’t let your team down.’”

 

[badmojo1006]

Wilson's a good dude, but I wish he wouldn't turn his back to do the little arm gesture thing. Poor Buster Posey had to wait to jump on him to celebrate!Congrats Giant fans, anytime you have a 1-2 like Lincecum-Cain you can win a playoff (and World) series so you guys are set up for many years to come.

And the way he pitched in Game 4, you can add Madison Bumgarner.

 

[culdeus]

Very sorry Rangers fans, you're some good dudes. I know how disappointing it is to make it this close and fall a little bit short. I hope you guys make it back and win it sometime soon (as long as it's not against the G-men). The Rangers had a great season and hopefuly after the sting ebbs a bit you can enjoy it for that.

it happens. I'm still not really over the Heat finals thing. This one would have been pretty unexpected. I thought this was perhaps the season to get that series win thing over and maybe make a run at the AL, but getting what amounted to a 6 game sweep of the AL maybe worked against this thing short term in a few ways. Long term it gives a lot to build on. The window here is probably at least open for 2 more years with this core. I have no idea what it's like for SF really. stay hard

 

[culdeus]

Thanks to Houston crapping the bed Monday night this series just barely squeaked out a ratings win over the Philly/TB series.

 

[Fullback Fro]

GIANTS WIN

GIANTS WIN

GIANTS WIN

holy crap - this really happened. It was fun celebrating in the city the night they won. Crazy. Electric. Loads of people in my neighborhood out in the streets, singing, honking horns, celebrating. My neighborhood pub 'Finnegans Wake' people were chanting. Lots of Journey' MC Hammer' and WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS been spun in the jukebox. Loads of high fiving. Heading to the parade in a bit with my boy.

Life is good.

 

[Leviathan]

Dear Jesus,Please let the Giants win this World Series.Your pal,Leviathan

Something is so wrong with this.

Suck it....

 

[Eephus]

Earlier this week Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos had a summit meeting. As recounted in this BBC report, the meeting was interrupted so Santos could call national hero Edgar Renteria and congratulate him on winning the World Series. Chavez, a huge baseball fan, spoke with Renteria too. And yes, that’s actually a picture of Chavez on the phone talking to Renteria.

What didn’t make the BBC report, however — but which did make it into Daniel Lozano’s report in the Spanish language paper Publico was this: “The two leaders joked over the phone with baseball player Edgar Renteria, the star who just won the baseball title for the San Francisco Giants after 56 years. Chavez challenged him to a Caimanera (a casual game) and confessed his joy at the victory: ‘We beat Bush’s team!’”

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/...eat-bushs-team/

 

[Michael Brown]

Wilson's a good dude, but I wish he wouldn't turn his back to do the little arm gesture thing. Poor Buster Posey had to wait to jump on him to celebrate!Congrats Giant fans, anytime you have a 1-2 like Lincecum-Cain you can win a playoff (and World) series so you guys are set up for many years to come.

Wilson does that after every save. It's a sign to his dad who passed away from cancer. I <3 Wilson! Such a character!

No you misunderstood. I don't mind the gesture, a lot of athletes have little things they do. It's cool. I just meant I wish he would continue facing the catcher while he does it instead of turning his back to Posey and facing the outfield.