Madison Bumgarner won the World Series for the Giants. His performance is the stuff of legend: Three appearances, 21 innings, just one run, a preposterous 0.43 ERA and just 17 strikeouts while allowing only 11 batters to reach base. His 0.25 ERA across three World Series is a record for the best all-time. With three stellar outings in just eight days, he earned his World Series MVP and his place in Giants lore.
Madison Bumgarner fails to chug beers, is a huge disappointment
Sure, Madison Bumgarner’s incredible World Series performance will go down as one of the best in history. But when the fans needed him most, he failed us.
Ezra Shaw
But what’s disappointing is what happened after the game.
As you might remember, Bumgarner chugged four beers after the Giants’ wild card win. He chugged five after their NLDS win. He chugged six after their NLCS win. Every baseball fan on the planet expected to see Bumgarner lift seven beers to his face and pour them into the vague region of his mouth, spilling them mainly over his shirt while consuming only a few sips. Twitter was in a frenzy:
Bumgarner is going to chug a brewery now.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) October 30, 2014 Bumgarner deserves to shotgun a keg after that
— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) October 30, 2014 Can't wait to see Bumgarner chug a 30 rack after the game
— Jeff Lepine (@jeffreylepine) October 30, 2014 Madison Bumgarner is insane, I hope he closes the game, and his arm doesn't fall off so he can chug 7 beers
— Jeffrey Shmurda (@Jeff_Hall_Jr) October 30, 2014 Kinda wanna see San Francisco win just to see how many beers bumgarner will chug this time
— ZACH CAL (@zachcal7) October 30, 2014 I wanna see Bumgarner chug 12 beers if they win
— Dustin Warren (@D_Warren21) October 30, 2014 Man, I just want to see how many beers Bumgarner can chug at once...
— Wheels (@Senor_Wheels) October 30, 2014 Torn between wanting the Royals to win because they haven't in so long and wanting to see how many beers Bumgarner will chug at a time
— Caelan Brady (@caebra1) October 30, 2014 How many beers is Bumgarner gonna chug at once when he single-handedly brings the trophy to San-Fran? I'm setting the over-under at 10
— Albert Minnis (@minnis33) October 30, 2014 How many bud heavys will Bumgarner chug at one time tonight. Over under 7.5
— Mike Tauchman (@MTauchman) October 30, 2014 The world is dying to know how many beers Madison Bumgarner will chug at once this time...
— Johnny G (@JohnnyG_012) October 30, 2014 But the game ended ... and no Bumgarner chugging pictures came. The only evidence we have of Bumgarner consuming any beverage after the game is this image of him calmly sipping on a Budweiser:
It is only one Budweiser, and he seems to be enjoying it, rather than pretending his chin is on fire and beer is the only substance that can put it out.
Bumgarner’s performance was masterful. But his postgame effort was a shadow of the greatness we were expecting. For as clutch as he was on the field, Madison Bumgarner failed to show up when it counted most off it.
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