Everybody said "THESE GUYS ARE GOING TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES!!! THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!! GET ME SOME OF THAT GIANTS BRANDED CHAMPAGNE AND LET'S POP IT NOW!!!!"
No, nobody said that. Everybody said this team sucks.
Today, Dan Uggla is sitting in a man cave somewhere looking down at his hand and picturing a World Series ring on it.
It is hard to describe how improbable this whole thing is. On October 1, me and a friend agreed that it would just be better to lose the wild card play-in against the Pirates than have to endure the grim reality of getting ground up in the playoffs. The Giants winning the World Series this year is like Matt Damon just hanging around Boston and sticking with his construction job at the end of Good Will Hunting.
So after getting genocided 10-0 on Tuesday night, things did not look good. The Giants were sending out Tim Hudson, a retiree from Georgia who broke into the big leagues before players used mitts and has a postseason record of 0-132. Tim Hudson managed to carry the ball to the plate for about an inning and a half. Thanks, Tim. You can hit the early bird now.
The Giants cobbled together a couple of runs in the top of the 2nd and then in the bottom of the 2nd Billy Butler, who I'm sure is a nice man with a good family, singled and then Alex Gordon doubled and then Omar Infante sac flied and Gordon scored and it was 2-2. Jeremy Affledt came in and calmed shit down. Now the Giants just needed a run. HAVE NO FEAR, BRUCE BOCHY IS KISSING SOME BATS.
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| The side-eye is tremendous. |
Everybody knew what was about to happen. Madison Bumgarner was coming in. Based on what I understand, Madison Bumgarner grew up in a log cabin HE BUILT WITH HIS OWN HANDS AS AN INFANT and invented cows. He is as strong as rhinoceros on androstenedione and as calm and placid as a 37th-level yogi. Despite having already pitched in 2 other games, he came into this one on 2 days rest and threw 5 innings. Poor Royals.
Afterwards, Chevy Man passed from mortal to legend. And the Giants have won another World Series. Prior to the start, The Wife said that whoever scored first would win. She is an oracle, I'm telling you.
Prepare to be hated, fellow Giants fans, for we are now basically Yankees fans. Oh well.
They've already got the banners up. That was fast.
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this story, we reported that Kansas City Designated Hitter Billy Butler "looks like chromosome damage and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome got together and had a party." After further consideration, this was unnecessarily mean and not in the spirit of being a good winner. 40 Going On 28 regrets the error.
4 comments:
Your descriptions of Billy Butthole just keep getting better!
I teared up when I read the NYT article about Bumgarner's ancestral home and saw the big picture of him that his father has over the fireplace. So I guess now it's time for me to take a step back and reconsider my entire identity.
I had no idea that Bumgarner literally lived in a log cabin as a kid! In the parade, all the other players were on fancy tour buses. Bumgarner was on the back of a totally non-descript, industrial flatbed. It was so perfect.
I'm pretty sure most of the people walking around in their brand-new, unsoiled, "World Champions!" gear have no idea who Dan Uggla is. WE ENDURED DAN UGGLA.
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