Mary and GG podcast about the 2013 San Francisco Giants season, including thoughts on Brian Wilson signing with the Dodgers.
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Sweet Chin Muzak – End Of The Season Rants Plus Giants World Series DVD Review
Via Bleacher Report It’s been just over a month since the San Francisco Giants won the World Series for the second time in three years. And it was pretty darn good timing that this was also the year that I gathered a few of my friends to periodically write about the team. We called those check-ins, the SF Giants Heat Check . For those of you who followed our posts, we gave you a deep and inside look at the club through the eyes of […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Giants Are The 2012 World Series Champs
In my last post, I talked about how I felt really good about game three because even after winning the first two games, the “experts” were saying that the Giants were lucky and they were getting all the breaks. And most of them picked the Tigers to win game three. Before game four I read a quote from Jim Leyland about Miguel Caberera ducking out after game three and not answering the media. “I will deal with the situation and […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Must Be Nice To Be Madison Bumgarner
Must be nice to be Madison Bumgarner. Two years ago, when he was just 21 years of age, he was the starting pitcher for game four of the World Series against the Texas Rangers. He picked up the victory, tossing eight innings, giving up only three hits and no runs. Last night, he was back on the mound in game two of the 2012 World Series against the Detroit Tigers. He picked up the win again, going seven innings, giving […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Sweat Equity
The thing I liked most about the NLCS match-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants was that it was a duel between the two previous World Series winners. To win a championship is hard. To defend that championship is even harder. You want to raise the level of difficulty? How about doing so with several injuries to key players? How about doing so by losing your best player to free agency? The Cardinals should be commended […]
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 – #RallyZito
After I wrote many words about Tim Lincecum and his alarming regression in 2012, I added a couple paragraphs about #RallyZito . At the time of my writing, it was a fun little Twitter meme that Giants fans were using to try to stay positive about their chances in the NLCS. Game four was a chore to sit through and it didn’t even look like the Giants were supposed to be on the same field as the Cardinals. Giants fans were upset, but some creative fans decided […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – On Tim Lincecum And #RallyZito
Before I mention the Giants loss on Thursday night, I wanted to tell a story. It’s about a man named Tim Lincecum. After blazing through Pac 10 hitters at the University of Washington, this man named Tim Lincecum was the 10th pick of the Giants in the first round of the 2006 Amateur draft. He made minor leaguers look like little leaguers for a short while before being fast tracked to the major leagues. He was a 150-pound fire breathing […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – 7 Hours Later, The Cards Upend The Giants In Game 3
Game three of the NLCS between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals started at 1PM Pacific time and ended a bit before 8PM Pacific time. No, it wasn’t a seven hour game. There was a three and a half hour rain delay in the middle. October baseball! Before the rain delay, the Cardinals took advantage of a Matt Cain mistake and the Giants couldn’t take advantage of any Kyle Lohse mistakes, or Cardinals’ unlucky breaks. Cards’ slugger Carlos […]
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 – Cards Hold Off Giants In Game 1
The Cardinals and Giants have played in the NLCS twice before. Giants fans remember the team being up 3-2 in 1987, only to lose the next two games in St. Louis. There was the 1-0 John Tudor vs. Dave Dravecky masterpiece and the Atlee Hammaker implosion . The Giants got payback in 2002, beating the Cardinals in five games. The last three games in that series were all determined by one run. This year’s Cardinals weren’t supposed to be back in the playoffs. They lost franchise player Albert Pujols to […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – Buster Hits For Us All
Giants fans have been accustomed to Buster Posey’s theatrics all season long. The probable National League MVP hit a league leading .336 (thanks Melky Cabrera) with twenty four home runs and seemingly a big hit in every important game. Yet, in the postseason through four games, Posey’s swing looked tired. He hit a home run on a hanging breaking ball off Mat Latos in the game one. But other than that, he had only two singles, though, one of which […]