<p>Congrats, Giants fans! Definitely the better team in the Series.</p>
<p>Timmy, Timmy, Timmy, Timmy. I LOVE YOU!!!
I knew you could do it !!!</p>
<p>I am the only one I know – or heard – that was sure it would be “Giants in 5.” People are pouring into the streets and traffic is at a standstill in places.</p>
<p>This is the sweetest, most lovable team ev-er!</p>
<p>And thank you to the Rangers Fans for being very good sports down there! Again, I thought that Ron Washington’s comments last night and tonight were generous and insightful. Last night he said that he had to hand it to Madison for his unbelievable cool and command; tonight he said that he always says to his own team, “It’s not the best team that wins, it’s the team that plays the best ball game who wins.” </p>
<p>The Giants also realize this; they were lucky, and helped, by their ability to be so interconnected and exploit each other’s strengths so well.</p>
<p>Memorable plays: Rangers’ Cruz’ save catch on that long hit; Aubrey Huff’s sacrifice bunt.</p>
<p>Thanks, epiphany. I’m still floating from beating the Yankees! And very happy Renteria won MVP. Great story there, just like some of the guys on the Rangers. I think we both had wonderful teams with great chemistry and no primadonnas.</p>
<p>I was also very impressed by Cliff Lee. What a difference - his performance tonight vs. Game One.</p>
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<p>Amen. That’s what turned me off during some earlier times – the primadonnas. There have been years – no names – when I know our team had theirs.</p>
<p>But the primadonna make it easier to hate a team!
So if you’re not sure which one to root for–you go for the one w/out the primadonna!</p>
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<p>Thanks! And, of course, many congratulations to the Rangers and their fans as champions of a very talented American League.</p>
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<p>What about Renter</p>
<p>Congrats to the Giants and their fans. I have been so busy I didn’t even get to see the game. Just found out via Sports Center.</p>
<p>I moved to the Bay Area as a little kid the same year the Giants did. Willie McCovey was Rookie of the Year that year (or perhaps the next) as I recall. I loved and suffered with the Giants for decades. When they finally won last night I was verry happy, but I was also sad for the sake of my older brother who was even a bigger Giants fan but didn’t live to see this day.</p>
<p>Parade down Market Street on Wednesday!!!
Northern California has 3 of the top 10 cities with the highest foreclosure rates in the country…WE NEEDED THIS WONDERFUL DISTRACTION!!!</p>
<p>Thanks Giants…from a pretty devoted A’s fan.</p>
<p>"“Oh, by the way,” he said, “all the pundits that talked about Mr. (Cliff) Lee … he got his butt out-pitched by Mr. (Tim) Lincecum.”</p>
<p>Will Clark said this.</p>
<p>I thought the whole Lee thing was strange too. Lee is a great pitcher with a great post season record, but Lincecom is a two time Cy Young Award winner. Lincecom can pitch too.</p>
<p>The Giants pitching staff is fantastic. </p>
<p>Obviously, I enjoyed the series. </p>
<p>I like the A’s too. Not as much as the Giants, but I am happy when the A’s do well…except in 1989. ;)</p>
<p>Coureur, sorry to read about your brother.</p>
<p>The first person I called was my middle brother. Then I called my youngest brother. We waited a long time. </p>
<p>My daughter lives a few blocks from AT&T Park. She said it was a litttle noisy in the area after the game. :)</p>
<p>Very enjoyable game–I liked most teams very much (especially for knocking out the two teams I least like!) and thought both played really, really well. In the end, I had to root for the NL, and I do enjoy the chemistry of the “misfits” team. I’ve become a big Jeff Francouer fan, though, and wished he’d gotten the ball over the fence in the 4th game.</p>
<p>The Series really exemplified the old saw “great pitching beats great hitting”, though both sides had some of both.</p>
<p>I’m very happy for the Giants. (I usually root for the American League in the Series, but the Rangers and their fans and executives were way too obnoxious for me to want to root for them.) </p>
<p>Anyway, 56 years is a very long time to wait. I’m old enough to remember some of those pennant races in the 1960’s, when the Giants were always finishing second to the Dodgers or Cardinals despite having so many amazing players like Mays and McCovey and Marichal.</p>
<p>And I’m glad that the organization does acknowledge the continuity of the franchise. For whatever reason, there isn’t the same kind of nostalgia for the New York Giants as there’s always been for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but, after all, they were Manhattan’s team for 75 years. The Polo Grounds weren’t so very far from where I live now – a lot of people don’t realize that the park was directly across the river from the old Yankee Stadium; in aerial photos they look like they’re right next to each other.</p>
<p>So that leaves the Cubs and Indians now as the only teams waiting more than 50 years for a championship. Of course, with the Cubs, it’s more than 100!</p>
<p>Got home from bringing son back to college after fall break just in time to watch the entire game.</p>
<p>Wow, what a game!</p>
<p>I loved the Lincecum bowtie. I have been trying to place who he looks like, and I finally got it! A long haired Pee-Wee Herman!</p>
<p>Such a great game and great fans. Loved seeing Aaron Rowand with his son before the game.</p>
<p>And the devotion of the Rangers fans, even after the loss, cheering, Let’s go Rangers!</p>
<p>After the win, my thoughts immediately turned to Barry Bonds. I know he is not well liked, but because of him, all of America became a fan of the Giants, like the Cubs, since even the South got to see Giants games during his home run record breaking season.</p>
<p>Excellent World Series by two great teams: The Giants and The Rangers!</p>
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<p>Indeed. I find it quite lamentable that, for some franchises, generations of fans depart without experiencing the thrill of first place. I personally believe that Cleveland is the most unfortunate major sports market in the United States. Cubs and Red Sox fans are/were substantially vocal in grumbling about the World Series absence, but it’s also important to acknowledge that both Chicago and Boston have had many triumphant franchises in other major sports. In Chicago, the Cubs have their 102-year drought (the most extensive in North American sports), but as a diversion, the Bulls have had some of the NBA’s most legendary teams, the Bears won a Super Bowl, the Blackhawks won a Stanley Cup, and the White Sox won a World Series. In Boston, the Celtics have won titles, the Patriots have won Super Bowls, and the Bruins have won Stanley Cups. However, in Cleveland, it’s a entirely more desolate scenario. The Browns regularly rank among the worst few teams in the NFL, the Cavaliers have been left devoid of much of their prior talent and dynamism, the Blue Jackets (the NHL team set in Columbus) are newly established and largely unproductive, and the Indians are riding a 62-year drought. </p>
<p>Nonetheless, baseball is often unconventional in a sense from other North American sports. Major League Baseball isn’t one of those sports that easily lends itself to power distribution, given the absence of a salary cap. As such, it was quite pleasant to view some unique contenders and original story lines. </p>
<p>I watched the entirety Wednesday’s victory parade in San Francisco, which was perhaps the largest civic get-together in the city’s history. The excitement after winning something so coveted and so frequently elusive entails so much significance to the city, the organization, the players, and their fans. November 1, 2010 certainly ranks as perhaps the best day of my life.</p>
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<p>The Red Sox won a World Serires not too many years ago.</p>
<p>Hence the use of the “are/were” alternative (with the “were” corresponding to the Red Sox). I had a sense that that could possibly be misunderstood. My point was that due to the 86-year interval between World Series wins, many Red Sox fans had come and gone without experiencing a title.</p>
<p>I think that the Red Sox should thank my D–as soon as she shows up in the Boston area for college, the team wins the World Series and then goes on to win another before she leaves.</p>
<p>She now lives in Minneapolis, so I expect to see the Twins win the Series again soon.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, she wasn’t much luck to the San Diego Padres, her home team…</p>
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<p>Well, so long as the Yankees are present in AL playoffs, the Twins invariably don’t progress very far.</p>
<p>But you’re not counting the “D effect.” It surely helped the Red Sox overcome the Yankees in the 2004 playoffs–which was a real miracle, having been down 0-3!</p>