GIANTS CLINCH NL WEST!!!!!
The Daily News
1 GIANNNNNNNNTS!!!
2 For the record, our 2010 San Francisco Giants CLINCHED the National League West championship on the 59the anniversary of Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World."
3 Almost as impressive: The San Francisco Symphony had an intermission yesterday. This amazing Giants' fan called in to radio station KNBR that she had expected the Giants to win on Friday night, so she decided to buy tickets and enjoy the San Francisco Symphony's performance of The Marriage of Figaro.
4 Evidently she hasn't endured the TORTURE. Giants lost Friday AND Saturday.
5 AnywayZ...she reported that during intermission, Buster Posey had hit the home run that pretty much put an end to the San Diego Padres' dream of post season.
6 And no, it wasn't nearly as dramatic as Thomson's 1951 walk-off, but it certainly was something someone with that much class would appreciate hearing.
7 The Symphony announced Posey's feat to an appreciative crowd.
8 Still, there was one more inning to go.
9 When the last pitch was fired, and our Boys of Summer finally ended the TORTURE, and Figaro was just ending.
10 This, my friends, is right out of The Godfather, I swear to you.
11 The Company of Figaro came out to thunderous applause for curtain call.
12 They wore Giants's hats and Number One foam fingers.
13 AWESOME!!!
14 Only in San Francisco, my friends!
15 Only in San Francsico. The San Francisco Fire Department had an engine flying up and down the Embarcadero with a HUGE Giants' flag, causing cheers from literally thousands.
16 Meanwhile, the GIANTS are the best team in the National League Western Division!
17 I had thought about saying "Hats off to the Padres," but realized that the hats were clearly off in the Giants' clubhouse, where the Gigantes had champagne showers so lush that leadoff sensation Andres Torres wore swimming goggles, and then let the swaggering Jonathan Sanchez wear them!
18 The Boys of Summer stepped up yesterday!
19 What a FUN game, and what a TORTUOUS season!!!
20 "And we're not done yet."
21 Ah, the immortal words of Christine McVie in the grand, grand perfomance that you could catch on Fleetwood Mac's incredible video called quite elegantly, The Dance.
22 That video filmed in L.A. features an amazing clip of the USC Marching Band joining the venerable Mac on both Tusk, an awesome percussion piece, followed by a rousing rendition of Don't Stop (Thinkin' About Tomorrow). Saturday Steve Perry was in the Yard, and they played the other Don't Stop, the Journey one. The whole yard whisper-sang it, but we were losing badly. They pulled the JumboTron on Perry, but Saturday it just wasn't going to happen. Those of us who have experienced Giants' TORTURE this year understood that it HAD to come down to yesterday.
23 All that and then some swirled through my frabjous being yesterday when I watched as this crazy, stupendous, tormentous team reached into the insanity of this baseball season and brought it! After the game, the entire team garbed in oversized grey Championship shirts walked the perimeter of ATT Park, high-fiving their glorious fans.Some refused to let go.
24 GREAT moment, especially watching the absolutely astounding Tim Lincecum high-fiving everybody.
25 I called my Dad instantly, and we watched together as Lincecum tried to get in an interview with the absolutely charming Amy Guirerrez, only to be interrupted with a huge "ArrrrYEAAAHHHH" from reliever Brian Wilson <not of the Beach Boys>, out of his mind with insanity and mirth.
26 AHHHHHHHHHHitwuzsomuch fun!!!!
27 At one point in the game, the camera went to a Giants' fan who held a sign that read, "Who's your Padre?"
28 Mean, yes, but nothing the Padres wouldn't have done to us.
29 That being said, as a good sport, I must acknowledge the 2010 San Diego Padres, who were picked to have finished like 25th or 26th in the entire National League when the year began.
30 So Padres' fans, I feel your pain. Thank you for being a classy, talented organization that gave us the fight of our lives.
31 But WHAT a day! This morning a woman called in to KNBR's Murph and Mac Show and said that she and her husband HAD to get from San Rafael to the City, just to share the joy. They got on Chestnut Street, but had no idea how to navigate San Francisco <by foot!> and so pulled off and popped into some hole-in-the-wall bar, where a few people were sipping beers. She and her husband ordered some beer, and started talking and sharing, when the door swung open and in walked Dan Runsler, Tim Lincecum, Aubrey Huff, and Pat Burrell, and the party began!!!
32 Moving on, Part the First: For the record, none of it was easy for this Old Brown Shoe. I struggled all summer watching this team suck, then get better, then acquire some new players, and then move from 7 1/2 games out just a month or two ago, to becoming the National League West Champions.
33 I also had school stuff getting in the way. One wonderfully nice student came to me on Thursday requesting that I write a recommendation for him. I asked him when he needed it, and he said, "Oh, October."
34 Turns out he needed it on Friday, almost an impossibility with my sched. I tried to assure him that I would scan his application form and have the recommendation to him by Sunday, which was yesterday!
35 Well, my daughter Caitlin also asked if I could go to my sister's house and pick up a sofa for she and her fiance's apartment, AND bring it to Sacramento.
36 Since Caitlin takes precedent over anyone else maybe on this planet, I agreed to do that.
37 So Saturday we took off to Gayle's house to pick up the sofa, and then proceed to Sacto.
38 AND my students wanted to get their magazine assignment back in their hands, graded and lovely with post-it notes from me.
39 Oy, vey!
40 All bets were off on that, so we went to Sacramento, delivered the sofa, took their old sofa out to the dumpster, enjoyed laughs and love, and an awesome dinner, and somehow got it all done.
41 So amazing!
42 When I returned home yesterday, all I needed to do was to scan the kid's recommendation, and then return to correcting and commenting on the magz.
43 Naturally, BOTH my scanners refused to scan, so during the game I spent much of my time writing that recommendation and trying to scan it so that I could send it to him!
44 To make a long story hopefully short, I somehow made it to Kinko's, and shot it off so that the guy got his recommendatiion.
45 Got it done.
46 But not 'til AFTER I called my Dad the instant the Giants' clinched.
47 HIS response?
48 "The Giants just did the 49ers a HUGE favor!"
49 Dear ol' Dad.
50 Anyway, it's getting late as I try to channel all this nonsense, but the bottom line is that Our Giants are now the National League West Champions!!!
51 I truly think that's about it, y'all.
52 Life's good.
53 You guys have a GREAT Monday!
54 There's so much more, but I'm done.
55 Love everyting, okay? And Giants' fans, today is OUR day!!!
56 See ya soon!
57 Peace.
~H~
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