In the fourteen game stories I’ve written during the San Francisco Giants’ playoff run in the last two and a half weeks, I haven’t written a word about 2010. 2010 was a dream. It was the culmination of year after year of heartbreak (& 808s). The franchise had last won a World Series in 1954 as the New York Giants, but for the San Francisco version of the Giants, they’d never won it all. They’d come close, like in 1962. They were in […]
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Sweet Chin Muzak – Ryan Vogelsong Is Too Sweet To Be Sour
Former pro wrestler Superstar Billy Graham had one of the greatest raps of all-time. One of them could be used to describe Ryan Vogelsong tonight. “I’m the man of the hour, the man with power, too sweet to be sour.” And while Vogelsong may not eat t-bone steaks (we know he eats enchiladas), lift barbell plates, and I’m not sure if he’s really sweater than a German chocolate cake (Cardinals hitters would disagree), the man known as Vogey to Giants […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Giants Get Even In Game 2
If you want to find a turning point in game two of the NLCS, look no further than the top of the first inning. Maybe it wasn’t really a turning point. Maybe it was a starting point. With Matt Holliday on first and one out, Allen Craig hit a slow chopper to Brandon Crawford. Crawford fielded it and quickly threw to second to get the force. Holliday waited to start his slide until he was on top of the bag, […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Giants Show Life
Early Tuesday before the Giants tried to hold on to their playoff hopes for dear life, there were whispers that Hunter Pence delivered an inspired speech to the team. After Pence struck out in the second inning, I joked on Twitter that Pence’s speech sure didn’t work on himself. My joke would turn out to be wrong. While no single player would say they played the best game of their life, the team did what they usually do – they […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Journeyman
This week’s Sweet Chin Muzak column looks at the long and winding career of San Francisco Giants pitcher Ryan Vogelsong.