Series 3-1 in favor of the giants.
As much as I should be happy just to have made it here, I'm raging on the inside and I want to drive to SF and punch someone in the face!! There's been a ton of missed opportunities and with the exception of game 3, we havent even shown up. After taking down the Rays and the Evil Empire in style, we're now struggling against a team of no names that are making themselves known at our expense.
Lets first talk about the media and how they forecasted the series before it began. A majority of them picked Texas because of the offense and the arms. So theres 2 questions to ask yourself based on what we've seen so far:
1. Is the SF pitching really this good? And if so, the media has been "pitching wins championships" for years, so why didnt they see this coming?
or
2. Did the Ranger offense choke with the pressure of the big lights and have they completley forgot how to hit? Was the fact that the media picked them too much for texas
I'll go with a perfect mix of both.... But why is it that it takes a meeting with the Rangers for the giants to start hitting like the all stars?
Secondly, how many f$%king breaks are the giants going to get? I mean really? This is getting ridiculous. The giants fans back home have to be wondering why these wins are coming so easily. Did they sell their soul? Lets go through a list of breaks these clowns have recieved......
1. Game 1. After going 7-0 in the postseason with numbers threatening the greatest post season numbers of all time, Cliff Lee promptly goes and gives up 5 in a game 1 loss.
2. Sanchez's gets his first double of the night with a hit down the right field line that hits the chalk. Posey then gets a blooper over Kinsler to bring in the first run. Oday comes in and opens the flood gates and gives up 11 total runs to a team that didnt score more than 5 in a game all postseason!!!!!
3. Game 2, Kinsler hits a shot to center that goes off TOP of the wall and comes back in. Im still trying to figure that one out. I paid attention in physics class, and that doesnt make sense.
4. Derek Holland comes in with a 2-0 sf lead. Then proceeds to throw 12 out 13 pitches for balls. Walking in 2. Then Lowe (who hasnt thrown all post season) gives up more. The game by this time is out of hand. 9-0 giants. Refer to the no-more-than=5 runs in a postseason game stats above.
5. Game 3. Rangers hitting into 4 double plays that kept the game closer than it shouldve been. We made Uribe and Renteria look like Mike Schmidt and Cal Ripken Jr this series.
6. Game 4. Sanchez snow-cones a definite RBI chance by Francoeur in the 3rd. Dont know how.
7. giants player called safe at first on a could-be double play by texas but the ump blows the call. He doensnt score thanks to a Hamilton play in cf, but it effects the pitch count and makes hunter work.
8. Torres hits a ball down the right field line and off the base making it unplayable for Moreland resulting in a double. Huff then delivers a shot to right field making it 2-0 giants.
9. Shot down the line for Renteria goes off the webbing of Youngs glove at third. Getting a runner on that promptly scores a few plays later.
10. Torres hits a ball to right center that misses being a ground rule double by 2 inches. If it wouldve bounced over, renteria wouldnt have scored.
9. In the 8th, Andrus gets called out at first when he was obviously safe. Ump blowing one earlier in sf's favor, blows another in....well....sf's favor.
10. Our best righty in relief, Agando, goes out with a muscle strain. Done for the post season.
11. Posey goes deep to CF. Hamilton starts a casual jog backward thinking its an easy out, but the ball keeps floating and makes it out of the ballpark. But Francouer jacks one to left the next inning that looks gone. But a magical gust of san francisco wind hits it dies into Ross' glove. Couldve been a huge HR.
12. Not so much a break, but we make a f$%king rookie look like Sandy f$%ing Koufax out there in the WORLD SERIES! Are you telling me that we couldnt get at least one rally together vs. this guy? We let him come into our house and dominate? Unbelievable!!
Yea, Yea, Yea, its great that we made it this far. But dont hit the f$%king brakes just because we made it to the World Series!!! We look like Rookies out there. But not san fran rookies, Texas rookies!!
Another Dallas team bites the dust in extraordinary fashion. After the opportunity to finally give the city of Dallas a team that can actually come through, they collapsed. Theyve failed to show up and have only challenged the giants once in a series where a majority of the national media picked us to win. Im not saying its over and Cliff Lee may go out and get a win tomorrow. But going back to san fran looks dreary. And by the looks on the Rangers faces and the bats, they're done. I would love to congratulate them on a great season, but its just too hard to do that right now. I'd love to be eating Crow next week if we come back and win this thing but it's unlikely.
Lets take a look at the past few season of Dallas sports and how we've collapsed:
2006: Romo botched fg hold in Seattle.
2006: Mavs collapse in the finals after being up 2-0. I could talk about this one all day but Im already pissed enough.
2007: #1 seed Mavs collapse to a golden state #8 seed. I dont think Baron Davis missed a shot in that series.
2007: After sweeping the giants in the regular season, the Cowboys lose to NY in the playoffs after going 13-3.
2008: Mavs first round exit to the Hornets. David West slaps Dirk in the face and we just sit there and take it, Dallas style.
2008: Cowboys play Philly in the play in game for the playoffs. We get crushed 44-6. This after getting beat by Baltimore the week before in the So-Long-Texas Stadium game. Way to pay your respects Cowboys.
2009: Mavs lose in Playoffs to the Denver Thugges. Game 5, carmelo hits a dagger 3 after an obvious foul when we had one to give.
2010: Mavs lose to a lesser Spurs team in the first round by letting a rookie, George Hill, torch us all series. We were the #2 seed losing to a #7 seed.
2010: Cowboys are 1-6 after being a preseason favorite to go to the superbowl.
2010: These Rangers. After beating the 2nd and 3rd best teams in baseball to get to the World Series, we dont even show up vs. the Giants. Done.
Now on to the NBA season. I'm interested in seeing how the Mavs will blow it this year. Im sure by either a first round exit to a team not as good as them, or in the conference finals by getting pummeled.
Its the Dallas way....... But I love my teams, thats why it sucks so much!
