Giants VS Cardinals

[alanu]

Should be a good WS, hope the giants can hang with the tigers big bats.

Hunter Pence really needs to lose his beard

[cards01fan]

congrats to the giants, hated to see my cards lose but they didnt deserve to win after laying down like it was over after game 4. Its like they thought the giants would quit.

[barrysloate]

What do you say about a team that faces six elimination games in the first two rounds and wins all of them? That's unprecedented....and I'm a lifelong Giants fan (since 1962) and I've never seen a group as clutch as these guys. The last three games against St. Louis weren't really even close.

Should be a great World Series.

[yanks12025]

I think giants beat tigers easily. Tigers could barely beat a yankee team that hit .188(talking about scores of games).

[cubsfan-budman]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

I think giants beat tigers easily. Tigers could barely beat a yankee team that hit .188(talking about scores of games).

Barely beat? Tigers swept the yanks....

[sportscardpete]

Cain is a flat out machine...

Verlander has been fantastic this postseason, but he was pretty off in his previous two postseason attempts.. Lets see if he keeps it up. If he continues to be fantastic then I think Detroit gets it. They have a lot of power in the middle order..

[freakhappy]

Originally Posted by sportscardpete

Cain is a flat out machine...

Verlander has been fantastic this postseason, but he was pretty off in his previous two postseason attempts.. Lets see if he keeps it up. If he continues to be fantastic then I think Detroit gets it. They have a lot of power in the middle order..

Cain a flat out machine? Let's not get crazy. He had a good year, but he definitely overachieved. He slowed down as the year moved forward as was expected. Verlander is a machine. Watch both pitchers and you'll figure this out very quickly.

Cain pitched a paltry 5 2/3's innings with 4 k's in game 7...not great stats by any means. He's been a consistent pitcher for the past few years, but just emerged this year as the Giant's guy....He's good, but far from great.

[yanks12025]

Originally Posted by cubsfan-budman

Barely beat? Tigers swept the yanks....

That's why I said score!!! Tigers beat us 6-4, 3-0(should have been 1-0 but ump blew a easy call) and 2-1 with final game being the only blow out. If the Yankee team even had hit alittle they would have easily taken the first three games. In game 1 they loaded the bases THREE times and didn't score once. Another team in that same spot would have scored runs and won that game. Game two they left more men on base and didn't get hits with runners in scoring position.

Game three Verlander had nothing(he even said it) and left pitches right over the plate, yet Yankee hitters did nothing but pop them up. When going good they normally kill the pitches he had thrown them.

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

That's why I said score!!! Tigers beat us 6-4, 3-0(should have been 1-0 but ump blew a easy call) and 2-1 with final game being the only blow out. If the Yankee team even had hit alittle they would have easily taken the first three games. In game 1 they loaded the bases THREE times and didn't score once. Another team in that same spot would have scored runs and won that game. Game two they left more men on base and didn't get hits with runners in scoring position.

Game three Verlander had nothing(he even said it) and left pitches right over the plate, yet Yankee hitters did nothing but pop them up. When going good they normally kill the pitches he had thrown them.

Verlanders comment was made about the 9th and he let one hang and gave up a HR. Also, the Yankees starting pitching was fantastic even if the bats sucked. Cabrera and Fielder have had a sub-par post-season, but neither stay cold very long. The timing factor will be more of a hinderance for them, hopefully its a good series.

[deebro041]

Originally Posted by alanu

Should be a good WS, hope the giants can hang with the tigers big bats.

Hunter Pence really needs to lose his beard

Pence is not your prototypical ball player in all ways: swinging the bat, running, throwing. But he seems to be able to put it all together.

[Boomer]

Why is Zito starting and not Bumgarner?

[glenv]

Too bad the Cardinals didn't win. It's bad enough that MLB expanded to 10 playoff teams. Just missed having the teams with the 11th and 12th best records play each other in the World Series. Looking forward to the 16 team playoff in the future...

[Dan Carson]

Originally Posted by glenv

Too bad the Cardinals didn't win. It's bad enough that MLB expanded to 10 playoff teams. Just missed having the teams with the 11th and 12th best records play each other in the World Series. Looking forward to the 16 team playoff in the future...

Seems to me the Cards were a wild card team the last two years?

[Runscott]

Buying a team capable of winning a lot of games over a long season isn't enough to get through the playoffs, where it generally takes something more (heart, passion, whatever you want to call it). The Braves didn't have it during their run, and the Yankees don't have it now.

So say 'Hello' to the Tigers and Giants - the best playoff teams this year in their respective leagues. I doubt either of these teams could care less what any of us have to say about their 'poor' play, or the sub-par play of the other playoff teams they had to beat to get to the World Series.

[tbob]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Why is Zito starting and not Bumgarner?

1) The Giants have won the last 13 games Zito started.
2) In 9 post season games he has an ERA of 2.96.
3) Zito is coming off one of the best games of his career and Bumgarner has stunk his last two playoff starts.

[alanu]

Originally Posted by deebro041

Pence is not your prototypical ball player in all ways: swinging the bat, running, throwing. But he seems to be able to put it all together.

Don't get me wrong, I like Hunter Pence as a ballplayer, he just needs to lose his beard. He's been on my fantasy team for many years, those wild eyes when he's batting makes him fun to watch.