“And where has that brought these Giants? It’s brought them within two games of winning a World Series that just about nobody thought they would win. That’s where. And they’ve gotten there by riding a powerful convergence of forces that opponents seem to know how to stop. Not the Braves. Not the Phillies. And now, for these past two days, not the Rangers.”

“This baseball team has carried these people halfway to the stars. Now it’s up to the whacked-out, spliced-together, who-ARE-these-guys 2010 edition of the San Francisco Giants to finish the journey — and life in their golden-gated city will never, ever be the same.”