2012 NLCS: Cardinals vs. Giants

I guess conventional rooting heuristics suggest I should root for the Giants now but in I don't think I can pretend to care

I can't bring myself to vote for Huey, so I'll take the Jefferson Airplane instead.

the Grateful Dead

the Giants match up very well against the Cardinals

Sylvester

but Creedence Clearwater Revival is the best thing to come out of the Bay Area

Chrome vs. J-Kwon

so anyways i need to break this down in my head.

Tim Lincecum needs to start game one. he has been the Giants worst pitcher this year, no way he should have even given a shot. then a funny thing has happened however, he has dominated. was the only thing the Giants fan got excited about during those first two miserable games...so why not bring him back, and at home nonetheless, for the first game.

Matt Cain is your ace and he goes second and can come back for game seven...

William Burroughs vs. Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Chuck Berry vs. The Zip Code Rapists

voting for meteordeath

I'm rooting for Detroit to beat one of these teams.

I can't believe I am going to be rooting for the Giants, but I really dislike all the other post-season teams intensely.

Too soon for Giants again, but like Alex I have no other choice.

Rooting Giants, but teams I have any actual rooting interest in are disappearing. Hoping for Tigers over SF in the WS now.

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Joe Buck to announce BOTH the Niner game and the Giants game.

Joe Buck to announce BOTH the Niner game and the Giants game.
--Bee OK

what has America done to deserve this

it watches football, is half of it

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i guess i'm the only nelly fan here

to hell with all of you btw

ok, i need a SIMPLE stream

what about the one that you directed me to last week?
(this)

it's working for me, at least

Preacherman Hunter Pence looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets.

i got it... little choppy

wait...why am i watching 2 fast 2 furious??

OH, it's on Fox, not TBS

yes

Fox is exclusive, no pstv

back when i had tv, it always annoyed me that the fox sports boxscore graphic in the upper left was always halfway off of the edge of the screen. i thought it was just my tv or something. but even now, watching the stream of the game, it's halfway off of the screen again. wtf?

it's time for the

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SCOUTING REPO

freese doing his thing

my feed keeps hiccuping, but it was kinda nice when it froze on this delightful image for about 15 seconds straight:

http://i49.tinypic.com/2gxpaax.png

i would root for the yankees vs. either of these teams

someone giant was making faces behind poor erin andrews

some giant i mean

Holliday flashin his wheel lol

i would root for the yankees vs. either of these teams

you are a well-known disgusting savage tho

booed beltran, got him mad

"Beltran now has 14 postseason home runs in 29 playoff games."

baseball = bananas

ufreetv has crapped out

6 run lead, the most dangerous of leads

my car broke down, what did i miss?

starters broke down too

Why is Panda warming up in the bullpen.

well fuck, that was a horrible two innings.

Vicious Holliday take-out slide.

:-/ that was ugly

I just got off work, what did I miss.

‏@ProfessorParks
I love Buster Posey's hands, and I love his baseball IQ, and I love the fact that he smells like baby powder and pureed squash

Btw, Cain is clearly Bobby Hill.

hi leee

pretty sure i saw this game already

knocked out their starter

now tact on runs, we all know what can happen

whew, stankonia

Kozma moves the wrong direction entirely, and Jon Jay casually lets the ball go under his glove. not much you can say for your team when that shit is going down.

Time to celebrate early.

lolzma

Went to a baseball game and a screening of On the Waterfront broke out -- hey look, there's the Cards

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AetfMQM-Hjo/T0lzkX4bAtI/AAAAAAAAgJ8/J-rNEQrirGo/s1600/Marlon+Brando+in+the+1954+film+of+On+The+Waterfront.jpg

needed that shut down inning as i thought Cain might have sat too long in that last inning.

RETALIATION

hmm, Cain didn't need to do that

what a performance by Cain

Our #1 pitcher!

I wanna dip my balls in it

jk, congrats to the giants, if we were going to lose to anyone it might as well be them!

i am grateful they killed the reds off

for real, fuck the reds for life

i'm sorry they killed the nats off, though. it would have been nice to see them in the WS

I have never seen rain like that in baseball.

but then, it's the 10th baseball game or so i'm watching

this board is here for you, i'm afraid

marco scutaro's nlcs: .500/.533/.607

i'm so happy right now

unbelievable

ESPN Radio online missed pitches all night, AND the final out, WTF?

getting cable again #lastdays

Just caught the beginning and very end. That's gotta be the worst 7th-game blowout since Joaquin in '85.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_National_League_Championship_Series#Game_7

Just finished the game. Yesssss! Lolzma had a nightmare of a game, poor guy.

(xpost) Don't remember that all...Cards on the losing end all three times. They made out better in '34.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET193410090.shtml

The Giants outscored the Cardinals 20-1 in Games 5, 6 and 7 and won a decisive seventh game for the first time in franchise history.

6-0 facing elimination in the postseason! Wow.

giants baseball is torture except all the winning and shit

The weird thing is that this was one of the most boring seven game series ever. None of the games were close and they were all decided in the early innings.

I mean it wasn't boring in the sense that you had a lot of great individual performances on both sides of the ball and the drama of the Giants' comeback from 3-1, but none of the games themselves were exciting.

TS: Boring seven-game CS vs least-dominant CS in which the swept team never led

Although three out of four games were close!

Both LCS's sucked, hoping the WS at least has a bit of drama (though Giants coming back from down 3-1 vs. the king of comebacks was pretty cool)

I didn't watch Game 5, but Neyer wrote that Zito pitched okay and got a lot of help from his defense and/or the Cards hitting balls right at people. I'd still feel better with Lincecum out there, but Bee OK would know better.

Physicist Alan Nathan analyzes super slo-mo clips, including that nutso Pence bat shatter:

http://webusers.npl.illinois.edu/~a-nathan/pob/HighSpeedClips.html

Nah they'll need Timmy to pitch innings 4 thru' 7.

xp

that link is awesome, morbs. look at yadi's bat wobble, that's amazing! i had no idea bats did that, to that degree.

I love watching those high speed clips, there's a physics gold mine in there.

i wish i could get access to the raw footage (besides the clips in the link morbs posted, i mean).

I am so mesmerized by that camera, watched the game on DVR and kept rewinding all these and trying to get my wife to care. LOOK AT THAT, THATS SO COOL as she rolled here eyes, etc.

Sam Miller in BP:

Now that it’s over, let’s be honest: That was probably the worst seven-game series of our lifetimes.

The average margin of victory was 4.9 runs. The average game reached a 90 percent win expectancy with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning. There was one lead change in the entire series, and it took place in the third inning. There were two saves. No game was tied later than the fourth inning. There were few true heroes -- imagine the Cardinals had won the series, which they very nearly did; now tell me who would have been the series MVP? Can you?

Furthermore, it was a matchup between two teams that had just won the World Series, two teams whose fans could elicit no sympathy from the general population, two teams with top-10 payrolls. One team had Brian Wilson's beard in the dugout; the other had, somehow, become the villains of the National League. It was almost impossible to get into this series.

And yet it was incredibly fun. Baseball can’t be ruined. That’s the takeaway here. Baseball can’t be ruined. Gosh, we’re lucky.

would like to thank the sf giants for ending the game in time for me to watch most of the debate, thx

As if the Game 7 triple-double wasn’t strange enough, Hunter Pence revealed Tuesday that the magical bat had a name.

“Fryer,” Pence said. “I name all my bats. Whatever word comes to mind, I write it on them.”

Fryer?

“F-R-Y-E-R,” Pence said.

So now we know, Fryer was the hero that died for a great cause Monday night. Fryer was also the bat that hit a baseball deep into the St. Louis night in Game 4. Pence said he has no idea what happened to Fryer, but Andrew Baggarly did some digging and found that a season-ticket holder bought it at the team store and later called the Giants and said Pence should have it back.

This story may have a happy ending after all for Pence, who thought the bat was long gone.

“He will always be Fryer to me,” Pence said.

Fryer might be coming home, and with the way Pence breaks bats, surely will soon be joined by another named bat. What are the other names?

“Man,” Pence said, smiling. “You all are getting personal.”