Go SF Giants!!

Not in a million years did I expect to get hooked on the SF Giants baseball team. I mean, really? I lived in Chicago with 2 baseball teams and I don't have a clue about either team, but move to SF and start dating a baseball fanatic and you too will become obsessed. The Giants are an interesting to team though, and they make it easy to get hooked. Unlike the Yankees, the Giants are not constant winners. They are kinda like a bi-polar baseball team. You have a great game one night and the next night you are making mistakes left and right. For instance, Sunday night we loss...big time, and I hate to say this but we loss for good reason, imagine a batter hitting a fly ball, then imagine 3 Giants player running to catch that fly ball, then imagine all 3 Giants standing in a triangle and the ball goes right in the middle with not one of them actually trying to catch the ball! yes, on nights like that, we deserve to lose. But then you take last nights game and it gets me so excited! I suppose this season is a good season to become a Giants fan since they are in the playoffs and if we win tonight, fingers crossed, we go on to the world series! Maybe they are doing so well because I became a fan ;)

AT&T Park- where the Giants play

Paul and his whole family are die hard fans. The bug was easy to catch since him nor his family miss a game. I suppose its their family bonding, maybe comparable to my family and theater? Paul is becoming pretty superstitious though. Now that the Giants are going so far and doing so well he is participating in the "Fear the Beard" challenge. His favorite player, Brian Wilson, is the closing pitcher. Wilson is pretty amazing, we have watched interviews with him and he is super corky and odd but hilarious and one of the most talented pitchers! He closes the game because his pitches are fast and furious and RARELY do men score off his throws, in fact it is a rare occasion when one even gets a hit. The ninth innings are usually pretty fast on our end because of him! "Fear the Beard" though is for Wilson. He has a crazy huge bread, which is dyed black and pretty ridiculous, like him, so those die hard Wilson fans are not shaving their beard till the Giants are done. Therefore, Paul is participating, boy is he participing, his beard is getting crazy thick (and itchy he claims) but he refuses to shave it, not even the "neck beard" that is growing, his exact words "if I shave at all they could lose, so neck and itchy beard are getting touched!"

I can't seem to find a good picture of Wilson's current beard but go to this link and you can see it: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5709384


If you want to get a sense of his strangeness, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf0j1rmZVbM

Wilson and Posey (Paul's favorite and My favorite)

Now my favorite player is #28 Buster Posey. My attraction to Posey may have started with the fact that his number is 28 but my love for him has expanded. He is one of the youngest players (23), an amazing catcher and one of the BEST batters on the team. He rarely disappoints and I appreciate the consistency of him. I mean the team fluctuates enough so knowing that Posey is pretty darn consistent I can relax every 8th batter and when he is behind the plate catching those balls!

Good ol' Buster hitting it out of the park :)