Every Single Move Led Up To The Giants Winning The World Series

As fans, all we can ever do is react. React and predict and complain about the things we don't agree with. So much of our time is dedicated to discussing what's happened and what we think will happen next, and we do it all with one goal in mind - a World Series championship. It's all we ever want out of this, and so many of us think we know how to get it.

Giants fans are no different. They've spent years upon years of getting into arguments in bars and online about what the team has done, and what the team will do. At times, it wasn't quite clear that the team's leadership had a good plan in place. This caused a great deal of consternation. Was theirs a front office capable of building a world champion? If not, then what?

Whether by luck, by design, or both, the Giants have managed to achieve what so often seemed unachievable. And I leave it to McCovey Chronicles to say more:

Every roster move and every transaction was an attempt to lead to this. Every barstool argument about the merits of Mike Aldrete or Eugenio Velez, every guttural cheer in the close wins, and every expletive in the close losses was created with the implicit understanding that the San Francisco Giants could possibly, maybe, if everything broke their way, could conceive of having a chance to potentially one day win the World Series. Maybe. The Giants would win, and they’d hold the trophy up high as idiots ran around and sprayed each other with champagne.

That’s why we spent so much time trying to figure out if it was a good idea to trade Kirt Manwaring for Rick Wilkins, or hoping that Milt May really was the heir to Willie McCovey’s throne: the stupid, unrealistic promise that the San Francisco Giants could win the World Series.

Words fail.

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