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- June 4, 2015
The Giants are going to the White House
By Grant Brisbee@GrantBrisbee
The Giants are going to the White House, and the Warriors are in the NBA Finals. That is a sentence that makes sense to us now, but when would it made the least amount of sense?
- February 5, 2015
How worried are you about Madison Bumgarner?
By Grant Brisbee@GrantBrisbee
Very worried, unless not worried at all, though I might fall somewhere in the middle. How about you?
- January 27, 2015
That time when Brandon Belt beat the shift
By Grant Brisbee@GrantBrisbee
It was glorious, and here's hoping he gets to do it a lot more before they take away defensive shifts.
- January 2, 2015
Naming the Home Run Trolls
By Bryan Murphy
The Giants trolled the world with another championship and trolled the teams in the postseason with some highly troll-y home runs.
- December 8, 2014
Madison Bumgarner named SI's Sportsman of the Year
By Grant Brisbee@GrantBrisbee
Probably because of that one-hitter in August, but I'll have to read the article to find out.
- November 18, 2014
Vote for the best pitching performance of 2014
By Grant Brisbee@GrantBrisbee
Or, because you know which one you're going to pick, just watch a bunch of videos again. This job is easy.
- November 4, 2014
Watch Madison Bumgarner on Jimmy Fallon
By Grant Brisbee@GrantBrisbee
The show. Watch Madison Bumgarner on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon". He's holding a trophy.
- November 3, 2014
The way it was before the Giants won the World Series
By Grant Brisbee@GrantBrisbee
Before the Giants won three championships in five years, there was some question on if they would ever win one. Here are some results for "World Series" on McCovey Chronicles dot com before 2010.
- October 30, 2014
World Series parade route, time
By Grant Brisbee@GrantBrisbee
It's at noon, and it will go down Market Street. Also, the Giants won the World Series.
- October 30, 2014
The Double Play
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Throneberry Fields Forever
That was a clown dismissal, MadBum . . .
Grumpy Old Men Dept.—It’s tough to determine which stung Madison Bumgarner more, Victor Robles hitting one over the fence and savouring it visibly on his dollar or Robles responding with a classic troll when Bumgarner dismissed him as a clown: Perhaps if MadBum wishes not to be clowned, he might ponder the thought that surrendering 24 homers a year on average goes a long way toward denying such wishes. Earth to MadBum: that was a clown dismissal, bro.
Busted Dept.—I’d like to go on record yet again as saying and believing that a player who’s sent from promise to unfulfilled promise because of injuries incurred while he actually plays the game isn’t a bust. I’d also like to go on record in that regard as saying anyone who claims otherwise and matches such players to those who either can’t cut it after all or squander their talent (drugs, too much high life, too little conditioning and work ethic, etc.) should be dismissed as a damn fool.
Glove Story Dept.—Amidst most of the high-fiving among Yankee fans over the team acquiring left fielder Andrew Benintendi from the Royals in exchange for a pitching prospect trio, maybe 99 percent of the chatter pointed to Benintendi’s on-base machinery this year and maybe one percent pointed to his equivalent gift for preventing runs.
I get Yankee fans trying to swallow that this guy was once a rival on the Red Sox, but they should be very mindful of Benintendi’s ability to break the other guys’ backs with his legs and glove in left field. Their Yankees may yet need him to save a pennant the way he helped do for the 2018 Red Sox:
Giant Steps Dept.—That was then: the Giants not looking to deal away veterans. This may be now: the Giants may order about face! to the rear, march! on that. Various reports indicate the recent Giants fade has “other teams
Throneberry Fields Forever
Postseason legend Madison Bumgarner takes flight and gallops in Arizona now.
Picture the next time Madison Bumgarner surrenders a hefty home run in his home park and snarks over the bomber having fun with the blast. The bomber’s mates will be inspired to produce T-shirts saying not, “Get it out of the ocean” but, rather, “Get it out of the pool.”
Bumgarner has signed for five years and $85 million with the Diamondbacks, and the nearest body of water into which the opposition can hit is the pool behind Chase Field’s right field fence. Until Bumgarner gets to face the team for whom he served so well, mostly, for the first eleven years of his career, in his former playpen, that is.
A few years ago, Bumgarner’s asking price wouldn’t have been as low as $85 million for five years or more. A few injuries and, more important, a heavy workload have taken their toll, though at 30 years old Bumgarner isn’t exactly ready for Retirement Row. But yes, it does feel a little strange that you’ll see him for the next five in something other than Giants’ fatigues.
And, yes, Bumgarner really did prefer going to Arizona if the Giants weren’t going to be that interested in keeping the greatest postseason pitcher in their history. The Diamondbacks, admirably, have continued remaking/remodeling themselves without even thinking about tanking, and Bumgarner is nothing if not a competitor no matter how much his left arm doesn’t always obey his orders lately.
But The Athletic‘s Bay Area scribe, Andrew Baggarly, says it was personal as well: “Bumgarner told me in July that he and his wife, Ali, loved Arizona and he’d be interested in playing for the Diamondbacks. He gets his preferred destination from a life perspective, he’ll play for a team with way more near-term upside than the Giants, he still gets to hit (in a lively ballpark where he loves to take BP) a
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I've apologized before for the options Giants fans have in the new SB Nation MLB awards. Best defensive play? The Game 7 double play, dummy. Most important hit? The one that sent them straight to the World Series, sheesh. It's been fun writing them all up, though, even if the winners were probably forgone conclusions.
Today's is the worst/best yet. The goal is to find the best pitching performance from a Giants pitcher in 2014.
And done in one. People still talk about Pedro Martinez coming into Game 5 of the ALDS 15 years ago, and that was to get the Red Sox to an ALCS that they would lose. Bumgarner did that in Game 7 of the World Expletive Series. It's the best pitching performance in baseball this year, much less the Giants. If you vote for something else, you're just being ironic or some such.Or, perhaps, you can make a case for something else. I'll try. We're talking about five scoreless relief innings, after all. The bonus points for the two day's rest factor in, but there were more scoreless innings thrown by pitchers this year. Bumgarner's is the best when you account for that pesky context, but there were other fantastic outings. For example:
Tim Lincecum's no-hitter
Right. There was another no-hitter this year. In most of the seasons in Giants history, San Francisco or otherwise, this would probably win. Would have won last year, possibly. If the Giants were knocked out of the Wild Card Game, are we suddenly more fond of this achievement, as if it's a delightful consolation prize? Are we more fond of it, regardless, because it's a chapter in the weird page-turner of the 2014 Giants? Or is it something of a footnote now, considering everything that happened afterward?Nah. It's still as beautiful. It's just about the trollingest no-hitter possible, too, which fits the theme of the season. It's just hard to pit a June game vs. the Padres against Game 7 of the World Series, regardless of what happens. My heart would vote for it, but my heart doesn