Giants!

Exhilarating. It's way late after the winning game of the World Series.

Old 'rent-a-wreck' as some Red Sox fans unmercifully called him in his one season in Boston came through. Edgar Renteria...
'I want to be the guy." He said later describing his approach to the Series.
Of course... as Tim Lincecum the Freak said. 'Everyone stepped up to be a hero'
again and again. This team got in the post season by winning the last game of the year against the Padres. Tip your hat to 'the Guy'... Jonathan Sanchez whose last two starts in the post season were flops but whose effort on that last Sunday of the season brought them the pass into the great baseball post season drama and into the winner's circle.

I read back when the postseason began. ESPN polled 30 (or was it 32) sportswriters as to who would win it all.
Two of them picked the Giants. I was amazed at that. Who would pick the Giants unless you had followed them this season
and knew what this team was about? I think a lot of fans in the Bay Area were believers from the first game on. I was really hoping that the Yankees would make it just so they could get slapped by the Giants.

San Francisco Vs. Texas. What a cosmic match-up. With The George Bushes behind the batter's box witnessing the Glory of Texas going down so decisively to the rebellious Bay Area. Fear the Beard indeed who could have seen anything as nutty as Brian Wilson with his Beard dyed black and his sidekick Sergio Romo with his 'Fidel Castro beard' as announcer Mike Krukow described it just dominating. In fact it was all rather insane for all the talk of 'Torture' which broadcaster Duane Kuiper was the responsible voice who aptly described Giants baseball as Torture. A team who could hardly ever score more than 3 or 4 runs whiteknuckled it through July, August and September. From what were they... a game over .500 at the midpoint? This team Powered there way through the Braves, the Phillies and then the Rangers. A dominant confidence was there and baseball with it's momentum that can shift 180 degrees at one swing of the bat... it prevailed.

Torture. They provided the Torture and their opponents writhed and swung emptily.

I just had a picture of the Israelites marching across the Red Sea as the Waters parted. It seems like the waters parted for the Giants. Of course every game they executed.. it wasn't a gift, they had to perform at the highest levels of their career and they did.

Fantastic pitching by Tim Lincecum I think the MVP could have just as well rested in his lap. Then you read about the underlying force that was Edgar Renteria in his veteran leadership.

Cain, Bumgarner, Uribe, Ross, Huff, Torres, Posey a 23 year old rookie catcher! Hats off to them all and the guys unmentioned who didn't get to contribute as much as they would have wished, they contributed by their support even from the bench.

A special salute to their Manager Bruce Bochy who guided them so steadily and made so many prompt and efficient moves. Awesome job! To the great Giants fans that rocked Peri's for three weeks and all over the Bay Area what a great ride to share
with you. Luther you rocked. I can't imagine a better place to be then at Peri's watching this unfold. Luther back and forth from the patio to the barroom. Let's Go Giants!! Bum Bum... Bum Bum Bum!!! The infamous Rally thong. I didn't think I had any words in me when I finally started to write something tonight.

Another tip of the cap to the Giants fans I heard calling in to Giants Talkshow guy Marty Lurie. There were a good number calling to publicly apologize, this after the Phillies series, for ripping the Giants management for all their bad moves early on in the season over the air. Common practice in most sports towns with sports fans but I had never heard fans calling to apologize to say 'That was me. earlier this year. I was wrong. '

Great fans in the Bay Area.


One more time send us out smiling Ashkon!