World Series 2010
 

Who's going to watch the Giants win this?


I am.


Fear the beard!


KT

I'll be watching a little later. I'm going to look at a Jaguar in a few minutes.

http://www.edmunds.com/pictures/VEHI...52-300x189.jpg

Game three starts in 20 minutes.

Giants have already scored 20 runs in the first two games!


KT

Dude, don't temp the fates...life long fan. Be vvewwy quiet...

Same here.

It's time!


KT

Ughhh! Two out jimmy-jack...


KT

You must not like 4 to zip.....

I'm in San Fran. most of next week with my boss. He insists on going to Wed. night's game, but I doubt he'll let me expense it.

Ugly!!

See you tomorrow!

KT

Back again.

Hope to see a better outcome.


KT

Good lookin' Ford there, Milt...;)

He was OUT at first, close call but out!

Two run Giants, BOMB!!!


KT

Nice win!


KT

But nosebleed/bleacher seats are only $500 each! Kinda makes $10 beers and $7 hot dogs look cheap.

(As a Giants fan however, I'm really hoping there isn't a game on Wednesday :eek:)

Nice win tonight Giants, now get it done with The Freak tomorrow!

The whole umpire thing seems rather subjective. I mean balls are strikes and strikes are balls. I think the runner was safe. There's no reason to not have sensors in the base to aid the ump while he watches the glove. I've been told the ump watches the bag and listens for the ball hitting the glove.

With all that racket from the fans? It needs to be all visual. But not with the plate ump. A laser system would do that job. And if you don't think a horizontal laser field is plausible, certainly a vertical one from above would eliminate bad calls as to over the plate or not.

I saw a ball get called that was over the outside. So, what's the ump do? 2 pitches later he calls an outside ball a strike to "even up the count." What's a hitter to do with umps like that?

In my mind, bad calls affected last night's game.

what's with texas fans booing giants players, same thing with phillies fans.
I don't get booing the opposing team.


We just go to a few Giants games each year and never noticed booing until the phillies and texas games.

I guess you haven't followed sports in some time. Booing is the norm now. Probably started big time with NASCAR back in the hey days of Jeff Gordon. They booed him because he won so much. Now they just boo Kyle Bush who deserves it if people have to boo someone.

Stevepaa, is that supposed to be in green? Would you expect cheering? It didn't seem to hurt the giants players feelings.

I expect it started with the resurgence of wrestling. Unfortunately, wrestling IS big around here...

I'm sure booing has been a part of sports for decades if not centuries. What I'm talking about is the fans voicing their displeasure of anything opposite their views or team. And in chorus. I think it's OK to boo a bad call or bad move. I don't think it's OK to boo while the line up is being announced.

Putting on the pop psychologist hat now, I think booing by the crowd is a uniting experience, probably relating to the urge to feel a belonging to something.
I suspect the Romans probably booed the christians so this behavior is not a recent happening.
Booing during the lineup intro is a perfect time to boo IMHO, then the boo can be pin-pointed.

We think it's very disrespectful and our kids know better than to boo. Petco Park (Padres) is pretty laid back and rarely do fans boo anyone - well except for a few years back when Barry Bonds was to town with the Giants. They only high profile MLB player we (as a family) really dislike is A-Rod and still we would never boo him.

At a Giants home game against the Dodgers...

Well, let's just say there are some rather disrespectful chants!

I think that's where "Beat...The... Bums!!" originated.


I was at the last night game against the Dodgers at Candlestick park.
Tommy Lasorda was doing that two handed, over head, hero's clasp gesture while being driven around the field in a yard cart. Totally loving the attention. Laughing and smiling while the fans were offering straight, FUNK!!

I seem to remember the stadium music was "That's Amore' ".
( Giants won that night )

Sports booing is not mean spirited, in my opinion.

Like with Bonds in opposing parks, fans were watching the best player in the history of the game, statistically. There's no booing that.

It's like when a traded player returns for his first game against his former team...Boos!


It doesn't mean anything.
It's all part of friendly rivalry, which the Giants/Dodgers may have the longest in sports!


KT

The Giants and A's are almost within sight of each other.

Hard to say which team I've watched more.
With inter-league play, the Giants get booed in Oakland and the A's get it in San Fran.
From there own fans...


It's just for fun.


KT

Growing up pretty much in SoCal, I saw more Giants games at Chavez than I did at the 'Stick.

Going to college in Berkeley, I also went to a lot of A's games...it was a roast trying to get to a Giants weekday game.

I do have a favorite story, a bit Rockwellian, but true:

I was twelve and, like most Little League teams in the greater LA area, we made a trek to Chavez Ravine to see the Dodgers. They were playing the Giants.

I sat next to an older gentleman decked out in Dodger blue. He asked me my favorite team.

Giants!

Really?

As the game progresses, he ribs me about the Giants (always.
the bridesmaid, never the bride). Good stuff, well intentioned...he was one of those guys.

I don't remember if it was Bonds or McCovey who was at bat, but the old gent said to me: "If you're a Giant fan, bet me 50 cents he hits the next pitch out".

I had the coins and the stones: Ok.

Next pitch was jacked like cheese...touch'em all.

A Dodger Dog never tasted sweeter.

No, no green. I particularly noticed booing from the phillies fans at Buster Posey. I think it had to do with him being up for rookie of the year. And their candidate not doing much.

I don't boo. I will chant Beat LA.

Game 5 starts in just a few!


KT

I'm sitting at the 4th St. Bar& Grill at 4th& Mission, if anyone is in the neighborhood.

Izzat a straight bar?

I'm not moving.

Sitting here, bumping multiple forums, tilting a barley and watching the game!

I'm listening to the game on radio and watching the game on TV.
I have DirecTV, so the game is about 4 seconds behind live.

That's OK, the TV announcers are just jibber-jabbering.


KT

San Franciso...aren't they all? SmileWavy

Yeah, I just turn the stool upside down.

Is baseball still going on?

Hockey season has started you know....

It's turning into the pitcher's dual they predicted for game one...


KT

Yep...pitchers duel. The Fox affiliate is talking up the SF pitcher and ignoring the other guy....Fair and Balanced my ass....

Texas has to be bummed.
They are 0-13 at SF.


KT

WTF....pitch to Renteria with 1st open....idjut....

3 run bomb, GIANTS!!!


KT

On to the top of the ninth.

3-1, Giants!


KT