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GIANTS' MADNESS!!!

"He's so smooth. I say he's cold-blooded. When he's on the mound, he dominates everybody. Everybody."

      ---Juan Marichal on Madison Bumgarner

1  A thing of beauty. It was a thing of beauty.

2  Here are some Notes and Quotes:

3  "Sunday night, walking into the batter's box against Madison Bumgarner was a little like walking into Camp Crystal Lake during a Friday the 13th film, where the masked guy shows up and, ahem, eliminated all visitors."

                                     ---Mark Purdy, San Jose Merc News

4   "When Madison Bumgarner strode onto the field with three outs to go, he went out alone.

      First among Giants. Right then, the only one who mattered. 

      Behind him, Bumgarner's teammates stopped, held back

in the dugout for a few seconds before taking the field and gave their ace the stage by himself. 

      This was Bumgarner's moment, his game, his stadium and--at least in part--his World Series. 

      Bumgarner owned all of it, and nobody else was even in the picture or wanted to get close."

                                 ---Tim Kawakami, San Jose Merc News

5   "It's just pretty cool how you can sit there and watch him, and he never lets the pressure get to him, never lets the moment get too big."

                                                                ---Brandon Belt

6   "No big deal--just hanging out here with a shutout in Game 5 of the World Series."

                                                           ---Brandon Crawford

7   "Would he be available if that situation came up? Yeah. He'd have two day's off---I can answer that better if we got to that point. But I have a pretty good feeling for Madison and all  these starters." --Bruce Bochy on using Madison Bumgarner in a potential Game 7. From Mark Purdy article in this morning's Merc.

8   "Giants in Six."

                       ---Some moron. = )

9   Gottago.

10  See you again.

11  GO GIANTS!!!

12  Wooooo-hooooo!!!

13  Peace.

~H~