then the Giants really are a team of destiny this year. Watch as Hunter Pence’s bat shatters and hits the ball not once, not twice, but three times.
Congratulations to the Giants. As Bob Timmermann reminded me on Facebook earlier today, this means that there actually will be a Giants – Tigers World Series. There’s never been one. The closest was in 1908, but Fred Merkle committed his “bonehead play” which cost the Giants the pennant. The Cubs won and beat the Tigers for the World Championship; it was the last time they won one.
Build it and they will come, goes the classic line about a stadium in the cornfield.
Now, apparently the big question is whether they’ll be sober once they get there..
http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/10/23/mlb-hall-of-famer-carlton-fisk-charged-with-dui/1653089/
Should we go after the hard throwing Japanese teenager?
http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121022&content_id=39978616&vkey=news_la&c_id=la
John, see below. Moriyama and MSTI have written about him too.
Good news on Kenley Jansen http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/8544013/kenley-jansen-los-angeles-dodgers-undergoes-heart-procedure
What a nightmare.
Marlins fire Ozzie Guillen. Any real surprise there?
Not to me. It’s an expensive firing, though. $7.5M left on the contract. Luria is becoming as quixotic an owner as Charlie Finley or early Steinbrenner.
Move along, nothing to see here.