Official 2012 MLB Thread

My mom went to the game in '84 that sealed the deal. Kurt Gibson with a grandslam homer, she said shit was wild. Over like 8,000 people got arrested it was so rowdy in the D. probably wont be the same outcome but I'll be stoked as hell if they win it all.
 
Something I don't get... your a Giants AND a Raiders fan? That's about as backwards as you can get in the Bay Area, haha.
 
Raised in Placerville. I didn't live on either side of the bay so I basically got to choose. I liked the A's but I liked watching Giants games more. I still pull for the A's but I'm a Giants fan. My dad is a huge Raiders fan so there was no choosing there,

Also fuck Niner fans. I hate them
 
Don't pull for the A's. Pick a side. like in football. I hate that type of Giants fan. Just says 'bandwagon' on it... as if to hypothetically say if the Giants turn into the Red Headed Stepchild and lose like the Pirates, and the A's build a new crazy stadium and flip the fanbase, One can say 'oh, I always liked the A's, now i wear green and gold because the Giants are 'meh'.

This is one of the biggest reasons I dislike the Giants' fanbase. They are totally for division of fandom in football and other sports, but are all for pulling for two teams in baseball.

Pick a fucking side and stick with it.

 
Dude honestly...who cares? Don't take it so personally haha. Nothing wrong with just enjoying the game and watching some playoff baseball. Everybody likes to root for a team, whether or not they piss their colors.
 
Haha fair enough I guess. I have found it just as fun to watch playoff baseball once my team is eliminated (Yankees, smh) as it is to root for my team. I enjoy and appreciate watching good games/rivalries. I think I'm the exception though, I play baseball and probably watch 150 games a year.
 
There are certain teams that I dislike watching... No team still alive is any fun to watch in my opinion...

If a team like the Orioles or the Nats were still in it, I'd be far more inclined to pay attention.
 
This is an important argument. I'm in the same boat. I played baseball from age 5 or so to the end of HS. In the long run, I'm a fan of the game in general. Where others find baseball boring and drab I find it strategic and nerve racking. I also find myself rooting for certain players despite the team they play for, just because watching good baseball is a thrill.

I was born and raised in the bay. My earliest memories of baseball were Barry Bonds, Jeff Kent, JT Snow. I grew up on Giants baseball, so my allegiances will always lie there (I still defend Barry Bonds for heavens sake..).

I moved to Chicago for HS and became a fan of the White Sox (I can't stand the Cubs/Cubs fans, they support a failing franchise with diehard support and it's pitiful sometimes). I never lost interest in SF, it's just difficult to be able to catch Giants games in Chicago.

I then moved to CO for school, and still cheer for the Giants whenever I can catch them on my limited cable access. I've watched more Giants games this fall than I was able to all summer long. I'm not however a "bandwagon" fan. I guess my argument is that I'm sure lot's of people have reasons for not bleeding their teams colors all season long, while still respecting their allegiance to that team. I have an AL and an NL team. I'm sure most others do too.

Playoff sports tend to spark the disinterested's passion for bragging about their city. It's something I've gotten used to and kind of embraced.
 
^this is not a bandwagon fan, least from what I can tell.

If you know names of the likes of Glenallen Hill, Stan Javier, Rich Aurillia, Rod Beck, or remember that Deion Sanders used to play in San Francisco - and not just for the 49ers, then I won't disregard you as a Giants fan.

If you don't know any of those names, then either you're too young and haven't learned SF Giants History Pre-Balco, or I'm more knowledgable about a team I dislike than you are about your favourite team.
 
Of course I remember names like Glenallen Hill, and Rich Aurillia. I wasn't trying to debate the history of my team, just merely draw names from an era I remember best. I was born in 1991, so the first team I remember best was the 97 team with Mueller and previously mentioned players. Including Estes and Rueter in the bullpen. Kirk Rueter had them big old dumbo ears too, shit used to make me laugh.

Hockey and baseball are the only two sports aside from skiing that I stay current in. Well, I guess just Baseball and skiing now (*curses the NHL lockout*).. I won't even begin to argue football allegiances with you, because frankly I could care less. Don't worry though, I don't hop aboard the NBA/NFL bandwagons when their championships come. I'll drink and watch the games, but I don't pretend to be passionate.
 
Cheering for the Tigers....may seem weird since I am a Twins fan....but atleast after the pathetic back to back season the Twins have put together we can say our team got their asses kicked by a World Series Champion......plus the Cards and Giants have won in the past two years...I hate seeing same champs.

It would also be the icing on the cake for Verlander into the HoF to get a World Series, he is also the guy with the best chance to pitch the second perfect game in WS history.

No matter who wins tonight it will be a fun game to watch Game 7 winner goes to the world series loser goes home always makes for a great game.
 
Cardinals, wake the fuck up! They are playing like they don't give a fuck if they make it or not, the past 2 games were pitiful.

At least the Tigers will be in the World Series. Tigers vs Giants?
 
Did you see the replay of Pence hitting the ball 2 times? I bet that's why it got past the shortstop, some kind of deceiving spin
 
There was the first hit which deadened the ball in midair, then he used the bat to sling it. Did it hit more than 2? I don't know that it mattered, it was just the 2 different directions that made it wicked. Imagine a new form of hitting is born? Like when the dude threw the first curve ball
 
Madison bumgardner is from a rival school ten minutes away from where I live, and I have actually hit against him in high school...granted I struck out..but idc..he is ballin..look for him to redeem himself in game 2 or 3 of the world series with a win!!! CALLIN THE GIANTS TO WIN ERRRTHING
 
Yeah, they changed it to 3 hits and showed the replay using their "3000fps" camera to back it up. 3 small separate contacts with the shattering bat caused that ball to go where ever the fuck it wanted.

That was by far one of the awesomest things I've seen in baseball in a while.
 
I wasn't saying you weren't. I was saying you were. lol.

Real fans remember players from the bad times as well as the good. Real Giants fans would remember 'Woody', not just Bonds.

As an A's fan, I remember guys like Matt Stairs, Ariel Prieto, Geronimo Berroa, John Jaha, Scott Brosius, Terry Steinbach, Ernie Young... It's not just McGwire, Canseco, Henderson, and the Eck.

 
As a Doyer fan I hate the Giants, but they killed the end of this series. It's going to be an interesting series with Detroit.
 
Feel like Detroit is going to handle this series pretty well. Their rotation is on schedule/well rested, meanwhile Giants just wrapped up game 7.
 
Even if they weren't rested, those starters should eat SF for breakfast... and both Bullpens are pretty equal - neither being that impressive.

Verlander's starts account for what's basically an automatic 2 wins, if he even has to pitch twice in this series. Guy's a fucking nightmare to face, and gets even better once he gets over about 80 or 90 pitches. He's unreal. Once you think you have him figured out, and get a hit or two, he turns it up to 11 and his fastball begins clocking 101.

It's like he needs to pitch 70-80 pitches to get legitimately warmed up - and by then he's already K'd 5 or 6 guys. He then pitches 40-50 more 'ludicrous speed' fastballs, and strikes out the final 3 frames as if he's some sort of hybrid of Tom Glavine, Dennis Eckersly, and Randy Johnson.

Giants fans will be screaming at foul balls and popups, because the majority are going to be groundouts and K's.

and then Sanchez, Scherzer, and Fister are all staff Ace material in their own right, rested, and likely to go upwards 120 pitches if Leyland feels inclined to send them.

The Giants haven't faced anything like that. Neither STL, nor Cincy have pitchers even in the same dimension as Detroit. The only way to beat the Tigers so far this playoff is get a shutout from one of your own pitchers (Detroit's allowed the least shutouts this season in all of baseball), or knock out a starter and tee off on their average bullpen (especially Coke, who's like their only southpaw, and he's pretty shaky out there)

The only real weaknesses Detroit has are poor defense and an average bullpen. They make up for it with the best corner infield hitting duo in the league, crazy fast baserunners, and 4 baseball cannons.

If you want to say history, then maybe that could also be a weakness? Last time Detroit mowed down a team in 4 straight to get to the WS, they fell flat against an 83 win Cardinals team that decided not to suck all of a sudden once they won their pathetic division.
 
^Lol Tom Glavine? I meant Greg Maddux. Though, in my mind, the only team that's had this solid of starting pitching would be those Atlanta Teams of old... and perhaps the Moneyball A's ;)
 
I don't know if I'd call it a mistake. I mean it was but not deserving of a homerun. Did you see the slow motion replay? That pitch was high and kind of in. Watching the swing in slo-mo makes you think it should have been a pop fly
 
I'm all about an unhittable pitch on 0-2, especially against someone like Panda. I can see where you're coming from though. Makes for exciting baseball non the less. Yay October!
 
My dad is an A's fan. I don't actively pull for the A's, only when they make the playoffs. I watch maybe 3 A's games a year. You always have a team you want to win after your team gets bounced. Mine is the A's. In football it used to be the Colts because of Peyton (I lived in Tennessee when he was a Volunteer) but now he's with the Donkeys. Basketball I like the Thunder. I don't seek out those teams. Definitely not a bandwagon fan, I mean I stuck by the Raiders when Russel was quarterback and I'm one of the few remaining Sacramento Kings fans, I just have A's fans in my family and they're my secondary team. Don't lump me in with the rest of the bandwagon San Francisco sports fans. They are the worst. I'm not from there, I just root for the Giants

Also I would never pull for the Niners. I hate them
 
got 20 bucks on this game, i aint even mad.actually, yes i am!! if giants win ws guaranteed this sandy guy will test positive for roids in summer!!!
 
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