So Peter Happy ends up being the guy who gets the game winning hit in the clincher of the World Series, eh? That hurts worse than the beartrap that's attached to the canker sore on my tongue.
It is a bit reminiscent of The Polish Catcher Not To Be Named leaving for the White Sox and winning a ring the next year.
Scott Eyre is another former Giant who is dancing after last night.
In other news, Aaron Rowand is punching himself in the nads for following the money to the West Coast, but hopefully this team will take him to the Promised Land at some time in the 37 years left on his contract.
It ain't all bad: Big ups to Bay Area natives Jimmy Rollins, Pat Burrell (Bellarmine HS) and Brad Lidge (Sacto) for getting their first rings. All three are solid players and great ambassadors of the Bay Area way to play.
Comment starter: Any other notable Giants who left and went on to win a ring or have huge years immediately thereafter?
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Destiny Spits on the Giants
Monday, October 20, 2008
Lincecum Wins Player's Choice
In what is turning out to be a historic election season, our very own Tim Lincecum comes out as democracy's big winner today, collecting two player's choice awards: The Sporting News' Pitcher of the Year and The Players Choice Award for Outstanding Pitcher. A huge congrats to The Franchise for the first and second of what is hopefully many awards.
Before you start laying down your Cy Young bets, bear in mind that neither are necessarily a precursor to winning pitching's highest honor: only 4 of the last 8 recipients of the Player's Choice and 3 of the 8 Sporting News honorees went on to win the Cy.
Schulman, however, finds a couple votes for Timmy in his unofficial exit poll.
Programming Note: Speaking of elections, I'm sure many have you have noticed the relative radio silence of the blog since the season's close. That is a result of the blogupational hazard of actually having other employment - principally the kind that pays. Mine is linked to these here elections, so publishing may be uneven until then.
Democrat, Republican, Green or other, however, all partisans are welcome here, except perhaps for Lasordans.
Until too long, my friends. In the meantime, I hope you've all taken the time to check out the biggest Cinderella story, possibly, well, ever in these Tampa Rays. If you can displace your jealousy with the hope for our very own boys to pull off this kind of turnaround, it's actually kind of fun to live vicariously through them.
Just try not to compare the teams too closely...
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