I'm scared now.

I didn't get anything close to bingo today, had to waste my powers somewhere else.

The Giants should celebrate by flopping around on the basepaths a la Rick Dempsey.

They should. At least Brian Wilson should.

Vogelsong?

I see the winning team hats continue to maintain their miserable trend downwards.

Guess I won't need to buy a NL Champs hat. Wow are those ugly.

Posey looks like he is about 14 years old.

Buster Posey sounded exhausted.

Was that Shawon Dunston?

Been a coach with the Giants for quite a while now.

Congrats, Giants, and Giants fans... you earned it.

Totally stifled the Birds and won going away...

Now kick some Tiger tail!!!

Stan Musial mentioned [ ]

And was Musial not mentioned once in the series???

That's pathetic.

The Giants finally get a World Series matchup with the Tigers. They've now played every original AL team in the series except the Browns/Orioles.

The Giants finally get a World Series matchup with the Tigers. They've now played every original AL team in the series except the Browns/Orioles.

That is really cool. Thank you.

The Giants finally get a World Series matchup with the Tigers. They've now played every original AL team in the series except the Browns/Orioles.

Next year Guapo. Next year we will have the ultimate Orange-And-Black Series.

Next year we will have the ultimate Orange-And-Black Series

And I will get to add to my viewing of Teams that Have Eliminated the Rangers :)

Congratulations Giants fans. It looks like an excellent World Series ahead.

Buster Posey sounded exhausted.

He'd been treading water for half an hour.

Is Erin Andrews in a bikini and rain coat?

Is Erin Andrews in a bikini and rain coat?

I can't tell through this keyhole...

Well, if the Reds don't win the National League, I'm glad it was the Giants. Congrats to all San Francisco fans, and good luck in the Series.

I think the Giants used up all their luck and then some just getting to the Series. They might have to rely on talent, and that doesn't bode well.

The Giants finally get a World Series matchup with the Tigers. They've now played every original AL team in the series except the Browns/Orioles.

Is playing every original team from the other league in the World Series rare? How about beating them?

Is playing every original team from the other league in the World Series rare?

Yes it is. Only the Yankees have done it. The Giants, Dodgers and Red Sox are all one opponent short of a complete set.

This information was all covered in today's Dugout, courtesy of a fantastic quiz from Eric.

I'm going to go ahead and assume this won't stop the Sabean jokes...

I'm going to go ahead and assume this won't stop the Sabean jokes...

Will it stop him from making dumb moves? Because he went out an made a couple headscratchers right after winning the last one.

I'm going to go ahead and assume this won't stop the Sabean jokes...

Well, Sabes now has three WS teams in 16 years. He's shown that he's flexible and quick on his feet. He's also shown a propensity to avoid superstar players in favor of the latest mediocrity, and he has a serious talent at picking older guys who are undervalued. When he's wrong on a guy, they typically collapse, though.

He's been a poor drafter until he drafted excellently the last 7 years or so. He almost always has a good bullpen. He hires good managers and seems to work well with them. The most frustrating part about Brian Sabean is that some of his moves are really obviously bad ideas, and they turn out terribly. He also leaks truly awful proposed deals to the media (Lincecum for Rios).

He seems to get lucky a lot by having moves that he was ready to make not happen (Gary Matthews Jr., Carlos Lee). He's terrible, just terrible at signing guys not named Bonds to big money deals, but great at finding year to year guys.

Will it stop him from making dumb moves? Because he went out an made a couple headscratchers right after winning the last one.

Name one GM that doesn't make dumb moves.

You can laugh at "a couple headscratchers," or you can focus on stuff like trading for Scutaro, trading for Pagan, signing Vogelsong, picking up Mijares and Lopez for nothing, drafting Posey, Sandoval, Belt, Lincecum, Cain, Bumgarner, Romo (in the 28th round), etc.

775, yep, you're right. Some failures, but more successes = good job and winning team.

The Vogelsong signing can't be anything other than luck. Anyone would have traded for Scutaro, and he played better than could have been predicted. The drafting has been excellent, but teams have scouts for that. Granted, the GM hires the scouts. Sabean is, as far as can be told from the information we have, very good at player development, and not very good at major league decision making. If I were picking a GM for my team, I'd rather have that package than the opposite one, because developing as many quality players as possible seems to be the single biggest driver of team success..

The Vogelsong signing can't be anything other than luck.

Well, he had the balls to put $8.3M on a dice roll, then. And he acquired Scutaro for... Charlie Culberson? And he apparently knew when to punt on Andres Torres. And he didn't give Lincecum $100M.

The Vogelsong signing can't be anything other than luck. Anyone would have traded for Scutaro, and he played better than could have been predicted.

I understand what you are saying- any team could have signed Vogelsong or traded for Scutaro, but Sabean was the only one who did...just like anyone could have signed Huff, Ross, and Burrell in 2010 but no one else did. He's made many, many mistakes. I just find it odd that when he does something right it's "luck" or an "obvious move" no one else happened to make, and when he drafts a good young player it's the scouts that deserve the credit. But when he makes a bad move it's all his fault. I'm sure you could say the same thing for most GM's- people focus on the mistakes more than anything else, no matter how much success they have.

people focus on the mistakes more than anything else, no matter how much success they have.

People focus on their perception and use the moves to confirm their perception. If he's a good gm then they see the good moves, if he's a bad gm then they see the bad moves.