Fun fact from last night: all visiting teams won their games except for Toronto (who lost in Seattle). I finally got to see highlights from last night's LA/SF game and I'm hugely impressed. Ownership has let the fans of these team duke it out for far too long. I know that the Dodgers' side is mostly to blame, I went to a LA/SF game that was the third game in a sweep by San Francisco and that game was in the height of Barry Bonds' run at the All-time record so of course he hit one out.
I must've seen 9 fights that night and too many fans getting escorted out for my liking. I also heard some other Giants' fan talking about "getting his broom" while we were walking to the car and I just remember shaking my head thinking that he'd be better off taking his victory quietly before some idiot cholos knocked him out. It's very ugly.
I'm glad that they decided to give Juan Uribe his World Series ring in an on-the-field celebration (it was originally going to be private to avoid distraction), and I saw a quote in the paper from the Giants' owner that said something along the lines of fans thinking "[after the pre-game ceremony, that fan in blue] might not be a jerk." My girlfriend grew up in Marin County (just like Prosthetic) and she's a Giants fan, too. It really looks like the ownership from both teams are doing the right thing to remind people that it's just a game and that fighting over it is just plain stupid.
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On last night's game:
I was wrong about Matt Kemp getting thrown out at second, it was at third when he tried to turn a single + error into a triple (thank you for your inaccuracies, yahoo sports).
Rafael Furcal broke his left thumb sliding into third base and it looks like he'll be out 4-6 weeks. He was very emotional and started talking retirement, apparently he's sick of being hurt.
I'm almost positive that was just a temporary sentiment, but it got me wondering what that might mean for LA if he
did retire right now. Our short-stop of the future, Dee Gordon, is not quite ready for the Bigs yet so I looked around MLB to see who might be a good mid-season trade. Low-and-behold, the Mets are struggling and might be looking to move their expiring pieces at or around the trade deadline and that means one thing to me: Jose Reyes. His contract is up at the end of the season and we game them our other short-stop-of-the-future in Chin-lung Hu this offseason. If the Dodgers are seriously in the hunt and Furcal is seriously done, Jose Reyes might do well to spend the last half of this contract year in a contenders' uniform. Players tend to freshen up and hustle more when they move from a pessimistic team to an optimistic one, the fans here would love him, stealing bases with Matt Kemp and Davey Lopes would do wonders for his stats, and the team would have an explosive, experienced leadoff man to fill Rafe's shoes.
The question would be "what do we give up?" to get him. I don't know the Mets' needs, but I wouldn't hate it if we game up OF Jamie Hoffman and a pitching prospect the likes of John Link. Nothing more than that
I don't know why you take that defensively, a win is a win. 
John Ely proved why this was just a spot start after giving up three home runs to the Padres. He'll be back in AAA next week and Jon Garland should be returning after a setback-free rehab start. Our starting five will finally be in place. 
). Kershaw appears to be serving up another gem. So far only 6 hits, 1 BB, and 6 Ks for the Giants and none of those hits were for extra bases.
