The Giants win the pennant!
Oct. 22nd, 2012 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Against the odds, in the rain, with Pence's Bat of God moment...
Wow.
It wasn't the way I would have drawn it up, kids, but what a way to get to the World Series. Don't stop now.
(I had hoped for some Zito/Lincecum celebratory mud-wrestling on that sloppy field, but alas.)
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Date: 2012-10-23 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-23 12:53 pm (UTC)(Also, there was a ton of Zito/Lincecum hugging after Game 5 -- deservedly so! -- so there should be pics around somewhere?)
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Date: 2012-10-23 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-25 05:21 am (UTC)Not bad so far for a "not good enough" team, eh? ;)
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Date: 2012-10-25 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-23 02:40 pm (UTC)*What a series.* I didn't think anything could top 2010, but this postseason run has already been even more amazing, satisfying, and wonderful.
I'm glad we have a day off today to just savor it all.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2012-10-23 02:57 pm (UTC)At this point I'm all HOUSE MONEY BABY. We'll see if that lasts. God, Zito/Verlander is gonna be epic, though. There are only two realistic outcomes:
(1) Verlander goes all All-Star game, Giants score five early, Zito pitches a CGSO
(2) Zito gets shelled, pulled with two outs in the 2nd, Lincecum comes in.
Either seems pretty fantastically awesome to me.
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Date: 2012-10-23 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-25 05:26 am (UTC)As the score crept up, and up, and up, I was like ...making progress towards 11-0!
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Date: 2012-10-25 05:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-23 03:52 pm (UTC)Man, I remember a couple of weeks ago being bummed at the thought of Zito finally being picked to start a playoff game and perhaps not even getting to play if the Giants had lost Game 3 of the NLDS.
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Date: 2012-10-25 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-23 09:37 pm (UTC)(We also set off sparklers. I even found it in me not to immediately post something to facebook to make my St. Louis side of the family feel bad.)
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Date: 2012-10-25 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-25 01:48 pm (UTC)(I also nearly committed parracide when my St. Louis aunt's first comment to me when arriving was, "Oh, the Nats? Don't they spell that G-N-A-T-S?" Seriously, there was almost straight up murder. I have never savored tears so delicious as those of my St. Louis family when the Giants kicked the crap out the Cardinals in the last two games.)
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Date: 2012-10-26 04:38 am (UTC)*facepalm* Oh wow. How long did it take them to come up with that one?
I'm glad you were able to exact some measure of retribution, in the end.
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Date: 2012-10-23 09:57 pm (UTC)that's all i got. i love him.
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Date: 2012-10-25 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-24 08:22 pm (UTC)“It’s just complete retribution,” Lincecum said. “I’m really close to him and I know he’s helped me through what I’ve gone through. He’s so selfless. He’s always going about his work, trying to be better no matter the situation. This has been a big week for him and it’s been fun to watch. I look up to him like he’s a big brother. It was pretty emotional for me to watch him pitch in St. Louis. I’m just really, really proud of him.”
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Date: 2012-10-24 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-25 04:09 am (UTC)The poststructuralist in me thinks there's monsters from the id here - this is a kid who uses the word 'exacerbate' correctly. But still. And tonight, the two of them, and the rest of the team -
It doesn't get any better than this.
Thanks for passing it on - I would have missed it.
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Date: 2012-10-25 05:28 am (UTC)a big brothermy sophisticated older lover."That's a great quote, though. I don't know if I've ever heard Lincecum gush quite so obviously.
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Date: 2012-10-25 01:50 pm (UTC)a big brothermy sophisticated older lover."I just know the word "daddy" figured into this originally before you made it all classy and shit.
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Date: 2012-10-26 04:33 am (UTC)I was sitting there for the longest time, thinking "there's some sort of clearly superior alternative to 'big brother' in this situation, why does it elude me?"
I never thought of it at the time, but of course now it's the only thing I can think of.
*ahem*
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