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 […]
Posts tagged "World Series"
Sweet Chin Muzak – The Giants Are On The Brink Of Another World Series Championship
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 […]
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 – Live At Game 1 Of The 2012 World Series
Thanks to a lucky break and some fantastic co-workers , I was able to attend game one of the World Series at AT&T Park. The closest I’d come to being at a game of this magnitude was in 2010 when the San Francisco Giants were playing the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLCS. AT&T was rockin’ that day. But it was no where near as loud as it was on Wednesday night. It was rock-concert loud and the home crowd fans rarely stopped cheering. […]
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 – SF Giants Heat Check (End Of The Season Edition)
The SF Giants Heat Check crew has covered the San Francisco Giants in an in depth fashion from spring training (my favorite search term for the Spring Training Edition was “brandon crawford mormon”), all the way until now, the end of the regular season. It was a bit of an experiment for me personally to see if I could gather some very educated hardcore baseball fans and analyze the team from many different angles. I think we succeeded. It’s also […]
Sweet Chin Muzak: Remembering The World Series
I’ll have a brand new column next week looking at 2011, but I felt this was a perfect time to remember what 2010 meant to me and my family as San Francisco Giants fans. I first started following baseball closely when I was just 8 years old. The year was 1984 and the Giants were terrible. Just awful. I did get to go to the 1984 All-Star game which was played at Candlestick Park. Now THAT was a windy day. […]