By Dallas McMurry
Wednesday night I had the
opportunity to go see my favorite team play for the only time all year long. I
was pretty happy to go to the game seeing as how I wouldn’t be able to make any
trips to AT&T all year long due to school in San Diego. I figured the day
would go as most Giants games I attend: I’d go there, root hard, and watch my
team play a game against the Astros, nothing too special, as the Astros have no
real star power. The most exciting thing for me going into the game was “hey,
I’ve never seen Matt Cain pitch in person, so I’m excited to see him, and the
Giants better not bench Posey tonight.” Strange I had never seen Matt Cain
pitch, I’ve seen Livan Hernadez, Russ Ortiz, Jason Schmidt, Lincecum, Zito,
Bumgarner, Todd Wellemeyer, and Jonathan Sanchez, over my travels to San
Francisco, but never Matt Cain. Cain was
always my favorite Giant pitcher since he was called up Yes, Lincecum was “the
Freak”, but Cain came up in a year where the giants really needed to find a new
pitcher, and his personality was one that makes you think he’s just a normal
guy who just wants to win games.
However, my
thought process for this game was that it’d be one of those close games where
the Giants can’t hit a lick, and Matt Cain had to do everything for the team. I
love my Giants but I think you can’t be a real Giant fan unless you’re a
skeptic, good stuff isn’t supposed to happen to us. Maybe that’s all changed
since 2010, but I doubted I’d ever be able to shake my doubts.
