Giants Midnight Replay

See You Latos

Giants win 6 to 4….. BUT I don’t care what happened the rest of the game. We got Latos for four runs in the first. And that makes me happy. 

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Last year while working at my old place of employment I had a running dialog with one of my co-workers Sinclair, who just happened to be a Boston Red Sox fan. It was around this time last year and the Giants were killing it in spring training. I was listening to all the games since it had been a long off season. Every day I would trudge through the snow on my way to serve skinny lattes to god-awful Carroll Gardens dwellers. But every day I had one more victory to goad about when I got to work. Finally when spring training was almost over I was once again rubbing the Giants spring training record in Sinclair’s face…. I remember him saying… ” You know they don’t hand out rings for winning the Cactus League” ……”Don’t they……” I said “Don’t they”… At that point….sure…. I was full of shit. But I did add…”we’ll see”. 

I quit that job, it was a nightmare. My boss was am overbearing lady with no real experience with running a coffee shop. I left for greener pastures, my friend Sinclair stayed there and eventually became manager. I came back to visit him after the Giants won the world series, naturally and reminded Sinclair of our conversation. 

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The Tony Soprano Award goes to: LBR OK OK, I know that I debated a nickname for Fontenot last week, but man he CRUSHED that ball tonight. So I will call him Little Babe Ruth….. just for today
 
The Mikey Palmice Award goes to: Mat Latos because Palmice acted like a whiney bitch and so does Latos sometimes. 

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    The Omar Vizquel Award goes to: Pablo Sandoval

I know he was charged with two errors but he was PICKIN it tonight!

    The Eugenio Velez Award goes to:

Burriss….. Sorry Burriss, I know the ground is hard and the hops in spring training are weird, but you gotta make one of those two plays. 

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A couple of players broke out of their slumps tonight. Good for you cabbage patch kid!

Rowand: “Yeah… I think this strange appendage hanging out of my right shoulder is what is wrong with my swing”

Bochy: “uuuuuhh……. I think that’s your arm”

Rowand: “ya that thing”

dude…. look how short Fontenot is compared to the ump…. thats crazy!

They Finnerty’s in NYC where my girlfriend and I watched the game, I thought it would be cool to snap a screenshot when they showed it on TV. Turns out that both of us are in it. I’m wearing the Giants hat on the lower left corner with the beard, and my girl is in front of me in the beanie. Yay, that about 1:30 of my 15 minutes already used up.

Bobbles:

Pablo get eaten up at the hot corner

Daigle is killing me, he always comes in late and blows meaningless games, which I don’t really care about, but it makes the game drag on and on! “Dude… You forgot the ball”

Raj “So you got a hit….. That’s good”

Rowand ………………………..(crickets)……………………

Brandon Belt, snaps out of his “slump” with this hit. 

Kevin Frandsen is a cute puppy who wants to snuggle in your armpit. 

Here’s to you skinny Pablo

Yeah… Little Babe Ruth…… just for today. 

After hitting a ball to the fence in dead center Brandon Crawford tries to bolster his chances at the coveted KFGPA (Kevin Frandsen Memorial Golden Puppy Award)

NY Love, At Dos Toros.

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I guess this is at Dos Toros Taqueria….. which is about the closest thing that us new yorkers have to a Mission style burrito. When I went in here after watching one of the World Series game in Finnertys the guy making my burrito asked me about the score and gave me a high five. Us San Francisco ex-pats have a couple places that make us feel at home…. even though it’s still 35 degrees and snowy here. 

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Trophy Tour: Finnerty’s in The East Village

This is the line to get into Finnerty’s which was around the corner and about 100 more people away. 

I had gotten in about an hour and a half early so I wouldn’t have to stand in the snow….. Ya thats right, there were “Let’s Go Giants” chants going on in the fucking January snow of New York. Beautiful thing. 

They had “The Magic Inside” playing inside the bar along with a bar-shot film that showed that last out of the World Series and the reaction at the bar. It was mayhem, unfortunately I was not there, I was next door because at that point Finnerty’s was a fire hazard. 

Love the guy on the left (security) who is not impressed with this overly excited Giants fan. Surprisingly I had very little time to actually LOOK at the trophy, I got my picture taken with it, but I had all of 10 seconds where I could have looked at it up close. 

But I did have time to thank Larry Baer and get my picture taken with him. He was the only recognizable Giants figure there. I heard that Posey showed up at the Hilton this morning. No such luck, if Posey would have wandered in here he would have been absolutley MUGGED. 

Ya Ya Ya, I have a big beard…. You have no clue how M-Fing cold it is out here. And no I didn’t grow it after the bullpen, I started in July. 

This is a close up of the pin we got after the picture. 

One final note here…… I wasn’t gonna say anything cause I thought it might sound ungrateful. I am VERY happy that I got to see the trophy and hang with other Giants fans in January. BUT… I am not going to lie and say that when my photo pops up on the Giants website and they ask me to pay $10+ for it I will not be very happy. Sorry.. I know that you have to pay the bills, but PLEASE, you’re the San Francisco Giants…. I am a barista who makes NO money. With all the money that you squeeze me for, PLEASE don’t ask me for another $10+ just for a photo. That would make you seem cheap. You just won a World Series, you have my lifelong devotion, don’t kick me in the balls.

UPDATED: Man they totally are making LOADS on these pictures. A 5X7 is $14.99… ya you heard a 5X7 is $14.99. Even worse…… a digital download is $39!!!!!!! WTF. seriously!!!