Ken Piercy of Dallas thought it would be fun, it being Halloween and all, to dress up as a Giants fan with a huge knife embedded in his chest for Game 4. The problem with this plan was that Ken obviously wasn’t dead; he was clapping and moving about and scarfing peanuts … not at all acting like someone who’s been impaled with large cutlery. So according to Ken, the Giants are Michael Meyers from Halloween II; shot 12 times, impaled and set on fire, they simply will not die. And that’s appropriate; the baseball “experts” are being murdered one by one down by the lake, and SF is one win from its first World Series title since 1954.
Those Giants, by the way, were also heavy underdogs; the Cleveland Indians boasting a starting pitching staff of Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike Garcia. But the Giants swept — helped by a pretty nifty catch by Willie Mays on a drive by Vic Wertz in Game 1 — including a 7-4 win in Game 4. Because I don’t care to mix my political chocolate with my sports peanut butter, we won’t discuss who threw out the first pitch in 2010′s Game 4 in Arlington. But in 1954, it was actor Jeff Chandler. Yay!
So to the surprise of just about everyone, it’s the Rangers who are The Walking Dead going into Game 5 tonight in Texas. Let’s get it done, guys. Speaking for myself and the staff of the Third Street McDonald’s, we do not want this thing back in San Francisco.
ABOUT LAST NIGHT
What you missed while carving your pumpkin …
- Behold the firepower of this fully armed an operational 10-barrel T-shirt Gattling gun!
- Ben Affleck to star in two upcoming movies about sports. Hey, don’t shoot the messenger.
- Tony Kornheiser as Cigar Guy? As usual, you’re about two weeks too late to be cutting edge, Tony.
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TODAY IN MARK TRAIL …
Whoa … what? Cell phones in 1949? Even the beavers are confused.
