Mayer: A Giant Success

The San Francisco Giants are really good. As a Dodgers fan, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. There aren't many things in this World I despise more then those orange and black #HalloweenIdiots, who played follow the leader many years ago traveling westward behind the Dodgers. Sorry, but if I'm going to write a positive blog post about the Giants some insults need to be thrown in.

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I tweeted before game one of the World Series that Detroit had a better team on paper. San Francisco has the superior defense and bullpen, other then that it's Tigers all the way. Before the season began you would put a check mark next to the Giants starting pitching, but not coming into the World Series. Detroit's rotation has been stellar through these playoffs while the Giants have relegated Tim Lincecum to the bullpen and pulled Madison Bumgarner out of the rotation.

Obviously Bumgarner got back into rhythm last night, but that doesn't change my opinion. The Giants are simply executing better. In fact, San Fran may be playing the best baseball of any team all season. I mean, it's almost comical how fundamentally sound the Giants are. They make every play. Every. Single. Play.

Some have pointed to multiple breaks going San Francisco's way, which is true. In baseball, when a team is playing so flawlessly, this tends to happen. No one, including the baseball Gods, are handing out a championship. The orange and black are playing immaculate defense, hitting every cutoff man, stealing every crucial base, making every pitch, moving every runner over, hitting every sacrifice fly just far enough...you get the point.

High school coaches are giddy watching these guys play baseball. When you pay attention to details and hustle on every play, good things happen. Beyond their on field performance, what a great group of players. The Giants have fun and just won't go away. They truly work until the last out and seem to have a Charlie Hustle at every position.

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They have already written themselves into the history books coming back from the brinks of elimination in the NLDS and NLCS along with Pablo Sandoval's three homer performance in Game 1. Simply put, San Fran does it the right way. The coaches coach it the right way and the front office builds the roster in the right way. Heck, even the fans do it the right way, setting an example for every other club on what building a beautiful ballpark that is well maintained can do for attendance and enthusiasm.

By no means is this series over. The Giants and Tigers both know that. Detroit still has Justin Verlander, Miguel Cabrera, and  Prince Fielder returning home for three games. However, the Tigers will have to overpower the Giants. Meaning, the pitchers will have to dominate and the hitters will have to knock some out of the park because San Francisco won't be out executed on the smaller stuff.

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I hope the Tigers stars turn it around and I expect the series to get back to the West Coast. Although, at this point, I'm preparing to see another parade in San Fran. It's disgusting and makes me envious in so many ways, but as a baseball fan, it's nice to know a deserving franchise is having success.