So what does the San Francisco Giants pitching staff have to do to get a little respect from Major Legaue Baseball and its staff writers, win another National League Championship against the Philadelphia Phillies with Cliff Lee in their rotation? No Problemo!
Now that the Phillies have reacquired pitcher Cliff Lee from the American League champion Texas Rangers, all the talk is focused on how great the Phillies rotation of Halladay, Oswalt, Hamels and Lee will be in 2011.
Must we SF Giants fans remind MLB of our pitching staff's domination over all four of these pitchers in the 2010 league championship and world series games? I suppose those outside of San Francisco are still having a hard time believing what they saw the Giants accomplish in the post season. It's okay, we fans of the 2010 World Series Champion Giants were also guilty of doubting the Giants ability to beat your so-called best. But now that they've beaten your best, we consider the Giants pitching staff of Lincecum, Caine, Sanchez, Bumgardner, Wilson and all those in-between to be the best.
Now that the Phillies have reacquired pitcher Cliff Lee from the American League champion Texas Rangers, all the talk is focused on how great the Phillies rotation of Halladay, Oswalt, Hamels and Lee will be in 2011.
Must we SF Giants fans remind MLB of our pitching staff's domination over all four of these pitchers in the 2010 league championship and world series games? I suppose those outside of San Francisco are still having a hard time believing what they saw the Giants accomplish in the post season. It's okay, we fans of the 2010 World Series Champion Giants were also guilty of doubting the Giants ability to beat your so-called best. But now that they've beaten your best, we consider the Giants pitching staff of Lincecum, Caine, Sanchez, Bumgardner, Wilson and all those in-between to be the best.
San Francisco Chronicle writer Gwen Knapp points out in her rebuttal article on the Phillies "fearsome foursome," that only ONE has won the ultimate prize of a World Series while the younger Giants rotation owns bragging rights with FOUR.
So go ahead and ignore or overlook the accomplishments of our Championship Giants pitching staff, we'll forgive you your lapses of judgement in recent MLB playoffs forecasting. Its not everyday that a team of miSFits comes along and proves all the experts wrong. See what ESPN and other so-called experts wrongly predicted about Cliff Lee and the Texas Rangers before they faced the NL Champion Giants. Careful what you read and believe folks:
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