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Sunday, October 21, 2012
In this corner, the defending champions of Major League Baseball, sending out Kyle Lohse… THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS!
And in this corner, the National League West champions, sending out Matt “Perfect Game” Cain… THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS!
8 O’Clock. FOX. Game 7. Winner to the World Series, loser goes home.
Game 7.
Tell your friends.
Gamingboy
Posted: October 21, 2012 at 11:08 PM | 778 comment(s)
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Can't decide which is worse: Beltran working the count or Bochy going to the pen.
Big names, big storyline, majestic filming this is Inception but with Tom Hanks.
Well, he may need Lopez on Wednesday. Looks like the rain is starting to ease, at least where I am 8 or 10 blocks from the park.
Conradian Play [X] (Kozma/Jay play that later devolved into a COLLECTIVE CONRADIAN CATASTROPHE)
Web Gem [X]
It rains. [X ] (Rain delay [])
Stolen Base [X]
Caught Stealing [ ]
1-2-3-4-5-6 [ ]
Deja, Deja, Deja Vu [X]
Pitcher gets a hit [X ] (Pitcher gets an RBI [X ])
Strikeout of side [ ] (a 1-2-3 inning strikeout of side [])
Play at the plate [X ]
Replay review [ ]
Baserunning blunder [ ]
Blown call [ ] (Blown call costs game [ ])
THIS TRAIN! [X]
2+ pitching changes in single half-inning [X ]
Dramatic late-inning homer [ ]
Idiot runs on the field [ ]
Regular-season starter warms up in bullpen [ ] (Playoff starter warms-up in the bullpen [])
Game goes into extras [ ]
Shapeshifting strikezone [ ]
Inning-Ending DP [ ]
NON-PITCHER Bunt [ ]
Bases loaded, nobody scores in the inning [ ]
Balk [ ]
Buster Posey does something awesome [ ]
WILD BRIAN WILSON APPEARS [X ]
Pujols mentioned [ ]
Stan Musial mentioned [ ]
"X outs" away [ X]
Carlos Beltran is a October Hero [ ]
Carlos Beltran's backup is an October hero [ ]
Carlos Beltran's worst October moment came in a Game 7 of the NLCS [ ]
FREESE! [ ]
Cardinals second only to Yankees in WS titles [ ]]
McCarver's singing career [ ]
Matt Holliday enters the game somehow [ X]
NFL reference (other than NFL on Fox promotion) []
Pence's big speeches [ ]
2006 WS flashback [ ]
Game 6 2011 flashback [ ]
Deja, Deja, Deja Vu [X]
Pablo Sandoval referred to as "Panda" [ ]
FOX gets photobombed [ ]
Mention or reference to Jack Buck [ ]
McCarver was on the Cardinals [ ]
Willie Mays mentioned [ ]
1968 WS mentioned [ ]
Mention that the Giants and Tigers have never met in the World Series [ ]
McCarver mentions words he doesn't like []
Ken Rosenthal's bow-tie charity mentioned [ ]
HR ball goes into McCovey Cove [ ]
Barry Bonds mentioned by name [ ]
Reference to the debate [ ]
Tony Bennett shows up or is referenced [ ]
Deja, Deja, Deja Vu [X]
Kozmania ensues [ ] (Well, there was Bizarro-Kozmania)
Matt Cain Perfect Game clip-show flashback [ ]
The Giants have never won a Best-Of-Seven Game 7 [X ]
1987 NLCS mentioned [X ]
Flashback to 2010 WS [ ]
Will Clark mentioned [ ]
Lincecum trade rumors mentioned [ ]
Ozzie Smith NLCS homerun shown [ ] (would almost certainly mean a Jack Buck reference)
"All the marbles" [ ]
AT&T gets so loud that somebody makes an ill-advised earthquake joke []
Game 7s called "the greatest events in sports" or something similar [ ]
If the Giants win, Buck, McCarver or somebody like that says "The Giants Win the Pennant" [ ]
If the Cardinals win, somebody says "St. Louis will defend it's title" or something similar [ ]
You can be found.
haha.
They really ought to just call it.
These were three of the worse baseball games I have ever seen played. Most of that I blame on Kozmania.
Awesome!!!
I'm scared now.
Man, that's weird.
I didn't get anything close to bingo today, had to waste my powers somewhere else.
They should. At least Brian Wilson should.
Been a coach with the Giants for quite a while now.
Totally stifled the Birds and won going away...
Now kick some Tiger tail!!!
And was Musial not mentioned once in the series???
That's pathetic.
That is really cool. Thank you.
Next year Guapo. 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.
He'd been treading water for half an hour.
I can't tell through this keyhole...
Is playing every original team from the other league in the World Series rare? How about beating them?
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.
Will it stop him from making dumb moves? Because he went out an made a couple headscratchers right after winning the last one.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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