2010 World Series, Pt. I

As the San Francisco Giants rode a tidal wave of dominant pitching and timely hitting to an improbable World Series championship in 2010, fans were left with a conundrum: whether to follow the games as they were broadcast on TV - complete with Fox's insufferable Joe Buck/Tim McCarver announcing crew - or to listen to them on the radio, as called by former Giants and beloved, longtime Bay Area broadcasting icons Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper. Happily, the championship box set solved the issue by offering the Fox telecasts with an option to switch to the KNBR audio. The DVDs are a must have for any serious Giants fan, offering the ideal viewing conditions for all 5 of the World Series games (even if the radio broadcast was rather choppily edited to fit Fox's visuals).

In the orange afterglow of October, the internet has been lit up with requests for someone to share copies of the original KNBR broadcasts. I'd like to offer the next best thing: the radio broadcasts as issued on the DVDs, ripped as mp3s and edited down to make them sound as seamless as possible. Interested parties can follow the link below for the broadcasts from the shootout in Game One and the Matt Cain gem in Game Two; audio from the two remaining wins will be forthcoming. [Contact me if you would like to access the files but the link doesn't work.]

Download here.

DISCLAIMER: These broadcasts are offered solely for the convenience and enjoyment of Giants fans, and the blogger makes no claims to the copyrights thereof. Listeners are encouraged to purchase the DVDs from which these files were extracted for themselves (see link at top).