San Francisco Giants ballpark: A glimpse of America.
First off, how ’bout that World Series game last night? WOW! Can you believe the SF Giants have scored 20 runs in the first two games? Who woulda thunk it…
Watching the game in my living room, I whooped and hollered at the TV because the Giants were doing so well, especially Matt Cain. I was giddy—until the bottom of the 8th inning—with two outs.
What followed next was kinda fun at first, but then painful. The Texas Rangers bullpen had a meltdown: four consecutive walks, three hits, seven runs—in ONE inning!
Sure I was gleeful—at first. Then I started to feel sorry for the pitchers. Walking in a run—when your team is behind—in the World Series?! Doesn’t get any more embarrassing.
Ye ol’ hubby man had been yelling “Ball!” “Ball!” like eight times. Then it wasn’t fun for him anymore because then he was cringing.
The dejected look on the Rangers manager’s face said it all. Standing at the dugout railing, he put his head down. Couldn’t watch.
Immediately after Nate Schierholtz caught the fly ball to end the game, my friend called me—screaming about the Giants win. Then she said she felt bad for the Rangers playing so terribly and getting shut out.
On my way to work today, I ran into my postal lady. She’s a HUGE Giants Fan. She said she was praying in the ninth inning for Murphy to hit a homer so the Rangers didn’t have to hang their heads all the way back to Texas.
A guy at work expressed the same “I felt the Rangers pain” feeling. He said he wished the score hadn’t been so lopsided; that he could relate to the bad playing—been there, done that.
So there you have it: Five out of five Giants Fans took pity on the Texas Rangers.
I thought about what the Phillies Fans would have felt if their team had dominated the Rangers. I doubt they would have been as compassionate.
Based on dealing with a random sampling of Phillies Fans (who blasted me for a blog I wrote about their boorish behavior), I think they would have liked the score to be 20-0! AND they would have held up offensive signs and thrown salt wads at them, too.
Don’t get me wrong: ALL Giants Fans want them to win. But we all don’t want them to smash the opposition into oblivion.
Driving to work, I listened to KNBR—sports talk radio. A guy on the show (a Phillies media man) said that the Phillies Fans are still “broken and bitter” about the loss to the Giants.
But the better team won.
