Giants win, cowboys lose

I'm talking about the baseball Giants winning the world series.  I think the football Giants beat the Cowboys but I understand that was a sloppy game of mistakes.  The final game of the world series went into extra innings and was a thriller. 

I love baseball.  Some claim the pace is too slow but football only has 11 1/2 minutes of actual play to the average game.  Baseball has intensity from the first pitch until the last one.  Unlike other sports there is not a certain score or certain time limit.  One plays until the game is finished.  Basketball is about tempo and shot selection and being tall or quick.  Football is about being fast or strong.   There comes a time in football and basketball when the losing team has no chance to win.  Not always but often enough.  In baseball a team is always in the game until it is over. 

A team can be down 9-0 and it could be the bottom of the ninth with two out and an 0-2 count on the batter and that team can still win.  A game can change quickly with a swing of the bat or the wrong pitch selection. 

The Giants were only behind once the entire series which they won by winning the first four games of the best 4 out of 7.  Their fielding was superb , their pitching almost flawless, and their offense was potent. 

I've been a Giants fan since I was 11 and Willie Mays played center field and the team was still in New York.  I haven't enjoyed watching a particular player play since Willie as I have watching Buster Posey.  Like one of my all-time favorite players and definetly favorite baseball character, Yogi Berra, Buster is a catcher.  Still only twenty-five, he is one of the big reasons the Giants are winners and if he stays healthy I believe he will go down in baseball history as one of the all time great catchers, along with the likes of Roy Campenela, Yogi  Berra, and Carlton Fisk, to name of few of the great. 

What makes him so great?  He is a good hitter, has a good arm, and catches balls most cathers can't.
Not only that but he knows how to call a game.  Even most baseball fans believe that the pitcher controls the game but that isn't so.  It is important for the pitcher to know the opposing batters and to know what they can hit and what they have trouble with   but it is also equally important that the catcher knows such things too.  The catcher calls the pitch selection, the speed, and the location.  The catcher also controls the pitchers tempo .  Buster is really good at what catchers are supposed to do.

Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants for their victory, their second World Series championship in three years.