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Padre Steve’s World Series Prediction: Tortureball Continues Giants in Seven
We Baseball fans it is that time, time to pick the winner of the World Series. This series is very interesting because no-one saw this series coming. Perhaps it is the bias of many sports writers to the East Coast … Continue reading
“Experts” Wrong, Padre Steve Right: Giants Win the Pennant! Defeat Phillies in Six to Advance to World Series
Ryan Howard looks as he is rung up on a called third strike as Buster Posey celebrates (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) The Philadelphia Phillies and their fans looked on in stunned disbelief as a team of no-names, cast offs and some remarkable … Continue reading
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Texas Lawmen Win: Rangers Win ALCS Dump Yankees in Six
Ginger Ale Celebration: Rangers celebrate after defeating the Yankees 6-1 (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images) The Texas Rangers defeated the New York Yankees on Friday night in Arlington Texas. I have to say up front that I predicted the Yankees to … Continue reading
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Lemony Snickets: Phillies Double-up Giants to Force Game Six in Philly
Roy Hallady gutted out his first win against the Giants of the season (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) It was a pitchers’ matchup on a soggy San Francisco night when two of the most feared pitchers in baseball faced each … Continue reading
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Giants Defeat Phillies in 9th 6-5 go up 3-1 in NLCS as Posey and the Panda have big nights
Aubrey Huff raises his arms after he scores the winning run in Game 4 of the NLCS (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) The San Francisco Giants keep finding ways to win and of befuddling the experts in their NLCS matchup with the … Continue reading
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Cain is Able: Matt Cain and Giants down Phillies 3-0 Take NLCS Lead
Cain is Able: Matt Cain shuts down Phillies to win NLCS Game Three Expert after expert picked Phillies ace Cole Hamels to master the San Francisco Giants while giving faint praise to Giants starter Matt Cain in game three of … Continue reading
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Phillies and Oswalt Down Giants 6-1 Even Series
Roy Oswalt shut down the Giants givig up just three hits in 8 innings (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) The Philadelphia Phillies smarting from their game one loss against the San Francisco Giants evened the NLCS with a 6-1 win on … Continue reading
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Tortureball: Lincecum and Giants Shock Phillies 4-3 as Ross Homers Twice
Tim Lincecum defeats the Phillies in game one of the NLCS Saturday (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) The underdog San Francisco Giants went into Philadelphia with all the experts predicting them to lose. Instead Tim “the Freak” Lincecum, Giants relievers and … Continue reading
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Giants down Braves 3-2: Advance to NLCS
The Giants celebrate their first playoff series win since 2002 at Turner Field (AP Photo/Dave Martin) Once again there was a pitcher’s duel between the Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants. Once again the Giants were the team to come from … Continue reading
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