NLD XXXVI - The Fun Continues

Joe, you could have been a little nicer to me on my birthday! I thought you were going to score in every inning in Game 4.

LOL I didn't know til AFTER the games!

Yeah that game 4 was a crazy first 4 innings. Our series has been just brutal on the pitching. Big A's team wouldn't even recognize our games as a baseball game!

Joe, you could have been a little nicer to me on my birthday! I thought you were going to score in every inning in Game 4.

LOL I didn't know til AFTER the games!

Yeah that game 4 was a crazy first 4 innings. Our series has been just brutal on the pitching. Big A's team wouldn't even recognize our games as a baseball game!

No, we wouldn't. I wasn't going to say anything about that, but since you mentioned it ... REAL baseball was only played in the Renegades-Braumeisters series. The other series ... well, must be some kind of hack-a-shack competition.

Joe, you could have been a little nicer to me on my birthday! I thought you were going to score in every inning in Game 4.

LOL I didn't know til AFTER the games!

Yeah that game 4 was a crazy first 4 innings. Our series has been just brutal on the pitching. Big A's team wouldn't even recognize our games as a baseball game!

No, we wouldn't. I wasn't going to say anything about that, but since you mentioned it ... REAL baseball was only played in the Renegades-Braumeisters series. The other series ... well, must be some kind of hack-a-shack competition.

LOL, maybe we're playing slow-pitch softball!

Well, we finally played a game more resembling baseball tonight and the SOM gods smiled on us.

Crisp hit 2 HR, Venable hit a 2 run shot and Wainwright got us to 7th with a shutout. However, Wainwright left with the bases juiced and one out. Jansen got a DP from Gomez to end the 7th, but struggled again, loading the bases with 2 out in the 8th. Farquhar came on to whiff Carp (not sure why Avilan wasn't used) to end that threat.

Farquhar gave up a leadoff single and a balk to Beltre, but k'd Gomez and Byrd to finish off the game.

Stoney, I think we just had better timing on our hits in this series. I mean, your slash line was .326 .356 .508 where ours was .266 .338 .495 We did hit three more HRs (which mattered in this last game), but we were even through the first four games. We're very happy not to have to see Fernandez in game 6! I'm not sure we're a better team, but I do know we had better timing than you did in this series. Just the luck of the dice with two teams that were 6-6 against each during the regular season

Lucky to get by Stoney, hoping our luck will continue like the Giant's has so far this postseason. We're going to need it against Big A we were only 10-14, 5-7 in both parks so it's not like our park made much of a difference against Big A!

Joe, I agree, timing of hits was everything in this series. In the last game I got a number of hits in the later innings but couldn't capitalize.

Good luck in the Finals.

Joe, I agree, timing of hits was everything in this series. In the last game I got a number of hits in the later innings but couldn't capitalize.

Good luck in the Finals.

Thanks Stoney, yeah, leaving 5 on in the 7th and 8th was brutal. I think we dodged some bullets there for sure.

Unbelievable, my Giants are going to the World Series for the third time in five years.

Wow!

Congrats on the Giants victory. It's been a good run for you guys.

I was pretty accepting that the Phillies would come down from winning their division from 07-11 with a couple of World Series appearances. It's hard to sustain that level of performance but it was great fun while it lasted. Unfortunately Ruin Tomorrow is trying to make sure we don't get back for another 20 years.

Thanks Stoney. That was one heck of a series. What a bunch of drama and weirdness.

You're completely right about how hard it is to mantain, the Giants had a good run from 97-04 and then were horrible for four-five years. I wonder if it's easier to maintain if you only do well in even years

This run, of course, is even better. I never thought I'd see the Giants do anything like this. EVER. As much as I doubt Sabean some times, he's done a pretty good job of keeping them competitve. I'm surprised Amaro has kept his job this long.

Unbelievable, my Giants are going to the World Series for the third time in five years.

Wow!

Congrats Joe!!!