And I'm on the fence. I like the Giants as a second, or NL team, and there is a lot to like about them from their ownership, GM, manager, coaches, players, announcers, fans, park, everything. But, I like the Red Sox having the most titles in this [SIZE=13.63636302948px]century/[/SIZE]millennium. That's it. I couldn't care less about the Kansas City Royals and their 29 years going without, any more than I'd root for the Cleveland Browns or the Detroit Lions if they got deep into the playoffs. You get out what you put into something, and maybe they haven't been. Put all that aside; with Peavy on the mound, has to be go Giants.MakMan44 said:Gaelgirl is sitting on pins and needles.
Peavy starts Game 6 of the World Series in Kansas City on Tuesday, with the Giants one victory from the championship. If a duck boat is the quintessential Boston souvenir, then a cable car would be the San Francisco treat.
Not that Peavy wanted to say so, not just yet. The Giants players and their families arrived in Kansas City late Monday afternoon, and Peavy invited two of his sons to join him at a news conference. The boys wore plaid dress shirts. Dad wore a blazer, and he artfully ducked the issue of the San Francisco equivalent of the duck boat.
"We kicked around some options on some memorabilia possibly to take home to commemorate this," Peavy said, "if we are fortunate enough to make it happen."
That would have sufficed if his son, seated next to him on the podium, had kept his mouth shut.
"We picked out a trolley car," Wyatt said, quietly.
"I'll get into that if and when this thing happens," Jake said, laughing.
"I think we already picked out our trolley car," Wyatt said, loudly.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It would have been a cruel ending to his renaissance when San Francisco Giants starter Jake Peavy feared his season could be over three days.
A foul ball caromed into the Giants dugout Friday night in Game 3 of the World Series, and Peavy foolishly stuck out his right hand to catch it.
The ball skipped off his right thumb, bending it all the way back and tearing off skin. Peavy has been undergoing treatment, wrapping his thumb in ice each day to calm the swelling.
"Fortunately, it's a non-issue now," Peavy tells USA TODAY Sports. "If it had kept me from making this start, and not being part of winning the World Series, that would have been just devastating."
Peavy 1-6 in 8 starts at Kauffman Stadium, 6.50 ERA (33 ER, 45 2/3 innings) is highest among active pitchers (minimum 40 innings). #sfgiants
Peavy 1-4, 7.05 ERA (29 ER, 37.IP) in eight postseason starts, 0-1, 6.00 in two World Series starts (6 ER, 9 IP). #sfgiants
Instead of hopping on a plane right after a playoff game, as ball clubs have traditionally done -- and as the Royals have done in this Series -- the Giants now send players to bed for the night and head out late the next morning. It's a subtle change the Giants made a few years ago after consulting with Dr. Chris Winter, the medical director of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Sleep Medicine Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.
But Posey did not discount the pillow talk.
"I really like it,'' the catcher said in the clubhouse after a Game 5 victory on Sunday. "I don't know what time it is right now, but I figure if we left tonight we'd get in at 3 or 4 a.m. -- maybe.
"I know flying later kind of eats up the whole next day, but it's nice to get a full night's sleep."
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Giants head athletic trainer Dave Groeschner was among the first to embrace the change in travel plans. In consultation with Winter, along with general manger Brian Sabean, assistant G.M. Bobby Evans, manager Bruce Bochy and director of team travel Bret Alexander, the team decided to abandon all those all night flights in favor of a more natural rest.
They found it incredibly helpful in 2010, when they opened against two East Coast opponents -- Atlanta in the first round and Philadelphia in the National League Championship Series.
Rasputin said:So if the Giants catch up to the Red Sox in rings this century, they're a dynasty?
I dunno about that.
Not a corporate sounding crowd like AT&T was for game 4, huh?ThePrideofShiner said:Oh, man. The K is absolutely rocking. A Game 7 would be so glorious.
Al Zarilla said:Not a corporate sounding crowd like AT&T was for game 4, huh?
That's shockingly one sided.E5 Yaz said:Stark: Since 1982 home teams are 22-3 in Games 6 & 7 of the WS.
Is that a prediction? Or do you have a real early broadcast.soxhop411 said:Hosmer!
E5 Yaz said:
3 rings in 5 years would be pretty impressive
soxhop411 said:Hosmer!
Prediction?Al Zarilla said:Is that a prediction? Or do you have a real early broadcast.