Giants hoping to give fanbase their version of Mets’ magic
NY Post
The Mets have captivated that part of the city that does not belong to the Yankees, and they will be playing Game 1 of the NLCS in — against the (Dodgers-Padres winner) — at the same time as the Giants will be hosting the Bengals on Sunday night at MetLife Stadium.
For the 2-3 Giants, this miracle Mets run out of nowhere can serve as a reminder of how New York will wrap its arms around and love a winner like nowhere else.
Or come Monday night, when the Bronx is burning, they will have a chance to watch Game 1 of the ALCS when the Yankees continue their quest for that elusive 28th World Series championship against the Tigers-Indians survivor.
Daniel Jones, who can tell his many teammates who were not part of the Giants’ surprise 2022 playoff run how the town embraced them, watched Francisco Lindor’s grand slam that carried the Mets to their NLDS Game 4 clincher over the Phillies at Party Citi Field.
“Just an awesome atmosphere,” Jones told The Post. “Obviously the grand slam was a really cool moment. Think it was just kind of cool he hit the home run, just kind of ran around the bases and kept it cool, and yeah, a lot of respect for Lindor, that whole team really — have the season they’ve had, battled back from it not looking so good at the beginning, and then catching some momentum and building that in the playoffs. It was a fun game to watch.”
The Giants, 0-2 at home without a touchdown, need to give their fans a fun game to watch. Micah McFadden was a rookie in 2022.
It feels right that on the day we celebrate Aaron Judge joining an elite pantheon of athlete — the multi-time winner of the Most Valuable Player award — that we take a walk back to the beginning, when Judge was little more than a 6-foot-7, 280-pound curiosity who mostly specialized in striking out.
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PHOENIX — Jalen Brunson didn’t want to comment on the NBA looking into his father’s promotion and contract as a potential salary-cap circumvention, but the point guard certainly had a message to anybody questioning Rick Brunson’s coaching credentials.
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The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.
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