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The San Francisco Giants Moniker
To call them castoffs or misfits seems almost condescending now. It makes the Giants sound as if they’ve been scraped from the bottom of a bin at the local Dollar Tree. But Bruce Bochy likes the cute nickname he hung on his team — his eyes certainly shine whenever he says the words — so even if the players have outgrown the moniker, they’re stuck with it, from now until China Basin runs dry.
“Fair enough. But there’s still not a single guy in here who’s a stud,” Brian Wilson, the Giants closer who had nothing to do Thursday night but join in the wild revelry, was saying in the home clubhouse once the chaos cooled. “We’re just a bunch of average guys doing some pretty remarkable things.”
That explains as well as anything the spasmodic events that have converged at just the right time, for just the right team. Pardon the hyperbole, but if what took place for the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park in Game 2 of the World Series wasn’t remarkable, the word to describe it hasn’t been invented yet. Read More >>
Giants Pitcher Brian Wilson Entertains
Maybe we don’t have the sexiest World Series matchup this year, with the Yankees and Phillies both rolling over to the Rangers and Giants, respectively. But from a baseball perspective you can’t deny the many storylines. You have the premier pitching matchup between Tim Lincecum and Cliff Lee, the great Josh Hamilton “comeback” story, young talent like Buster Posey and Elvis Andrus, an unlikely hero in Cody Ross, and Bengie Molina being guaranteed a World Series ring regardless of the outcome.
Quite possibly the coolest story, however, is the emergence of Giants closer Brian Wilson as a mainstream cult figure. Giants fans know all too well just what a great personality Wilson possesses. He may be the most entertaining player in baseball. And with the Giants taking their game to the main stage, Wilson is starting to become popular among even the most casual of baseball fans.
Wilson remains as one of the top trending World Series topics on Google as we head into Game 1 on Wednesday night. It’s not because fans want to know more about a closer who led the majors with 48 saves this season. People want to know more about the beard, the ninja lifestyle, and, of course, “The Machine.”
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