Destiny Calls

It must just be the Giants' year. I'm not knocking the Rangers here because I have been pulling for them all postseason long, but there's no denying how well the Giants have been playing. The Giants weren't favored to win the division, then they did. The weren't favored to beat the Braves, then they did. They weren't favored to beat the Phillies, and then they did. And now they are beating the favored Texas Rangers 3 games to 1 in the World Series. The Giants have the kind of motivation to win that could turn someone like me into a fan(it really hasn't, but I'm going to pretend it has). I hold fast to my opinion that Barry Bonds is the worst person to play the game of baseball and that since the Giants traded for him, paid him, and hoisted him on their shoulders for being selfish, I can't stand their franchise. This season the Giants are playing to destroy those demons that they are Bond's team and I really respect that. They are letting rookies like Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner play crucial innings and getting great results as of that risk.
If the Giants win game 5 tonight they will emphatically put their stamp on the game as the best team this year. You can get lucky enough to win the first two series' of the playoffs, but then to go out and play so well and dominate the best team in the American league as easily as the Giants have, that takes something much more than luck. The Giants are clearly outlasting their opponents.
They aren't as skilled of a hitting club as Texas is, and their pitchers are comparable, but the Giants are holding together when the Rangers are falling apart. Aside from the game one shootout, both pitching staffs have been competitive enough to win any of the games, but the Giants just aren't letting the Rangers get the offensive edge. So far they have kept Josh Hamilton in check along with Vladimir Guerrero. Nelson Cruz was tops in the league in homers this postseason, but the Giants pitchers have quieted him too. The only meaningful hit for the Rangers came from Mitch Moreland who has been practically anonymous all year long.
If the Giants are to keep winning and close things out tonight they need to continue what they are doing. The Rangers aren't losing necessarily, the Giants are just winning. You can't discount what good teams are doing and this time I think it just is the Giants' year.

-Joey D