'Tis the season....

Hey, you misspelled "Ratatouille". I want to see No Country for Old Men, but for the time being, the rat cook movie is tops in my mind.

That Giants/Mets game is my number one l;jaslefjal;xe '07 moment because I actually watched that game and saw the look of pain on Cain's face as the ball went over the fence. It's etched in my memory, and I won't soon forget it. Sigh...

Durham popped out with the winning run in scoring position here, too.  At third, with one out.

This was the Pedro Feliz at catcher game.

The 96 HR's that Scott Hairston hit against us sure sucked.

This one was pretty damn brutal, and it counted as the end of the season for me:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN200706290.shtml

Here is what I wrote in an email to friends the day after:

Went to the Giants-Snakes last night. It was a great game with a terrible ending. Miguel Montero's 5th-ever HR counted for more than Barry's 750th, as the former won the game in the 10th, after the latter had tied it in the 8th. Livan and Matty Mo were excellent, Omar Vizquel did ballet on a couple of double plays, Ryan Klesko may have murdered some fish with his screaming splash hit, and "savvy" veteran Dave Roberts just plum forgot how to catch an easy flyball. Oh, and a shoeless fan ran on the field to shake Barry's hand, and Barry gave him a little hug and calmly escorted off the field. Seen it all from the LF bleachers. The Giants are toast. I love baseball.

August 21 vs. Cubs was brutal.  Lincecum pitched great through 8, then for some reason Bochy sent two guys down to the 'pen while Lincecum was warming up in the 9th.

I don't even want to remember all those games that Cain pitched with either no run support or with poor relief.

i was at the matt cain one hitter. i almost cried. i probably wont be going back to petco though. i dont like people throwing things at my bonds jersey, and spitting at me.

This is the worst fucking piece of shit you ever wrote. Waking the dead is a mortal sin.

I was just beginning to get my evil, dark and profane self under control and you had to bring up those five games.

If you pick up the local fish wrap in the morning to discover Pac Bell Park surrounded by yellow tape and swarming with dorks in windbreakers that say CSI Frisco, then you'll know that Bad E got over on Good E.

Thousands of Coven and erstwhile Giants fans will hold you responsible.

July 14th. The 5 run comeback against the Dodgers started by Winn's 8th inning GS only to lose the game in the 12th? Good comeback, shitty ending.

the second game of the yankees series was good! the a-rod MONSTER homer and then the giants comeback.

I was really trying to get over 2007 until you kicked me in the nuts with your top 5.

Grant, since you've submitted some moments that sucked away not only time I can never get back, but part of my soul as well, I would like to submit my Top 5 good memories:

#5 July 31, 2007

Dave Littlefield is bamboozled by Brian Sabean.

#4 September 08,2007

Orty's walk-off against the Bums. 'Nuff said.

#3 June 17, 2007

BLB knocks 748 into the Giants bullpen @ Fenway . It went dead silent after all the boos from the Boston faithful. I think I was the only one cheering in that place.

#2 May 6, 2007

Timmy's Debut. First time I ever said "electrifying" in the middle of a baseball game.

#1 September 25, 2007

The young stud versus the slack jawed thug and his band of sisters. Though we lost, my eyes opened up about good old Matt. "It's something you'll think back on. I'll get excited when I face him next time, and he'll probably feel the same way."

Didn't you feel that Ratatoullie and No Country For Old Men were basically the same movie?

The above picture captured Javier Bardem's initial reaction when told it was likely Kevin Frandsen would start every day at 3rd base.

Thank you for the music reccomendation!
Screw you for reminding me of all those choke jobs!

May your Stutz Bearcat stall out in front of a runaway dung wagon. Piloted by Armando Benitez.

Comment starter: Are there any brutal games that I missed?

There were 157 others by my count.

I heard "Centerfield" by John Fogerty on the radio this morning driving into work, it got me really, really excited for next season.  Now I'm not, thanks for killing the enthusiasm (even though I had remembered the Giants stunk, I had forgotten just how bad).

Good bye 2007, you were a cruel cruel year.

Of all the 1-0 games the Giants lost, the one where Cain pitched crazy out of his mind in Boston was the one that makes me most blind with rage. I just wanted to line everyone in that game up and knee them repeatedly in the junk. Both Red Sox and Giants. Except Cain. He'd suffered enough.

one of the Hairston games, Zito pitched alright, a blown Hennesave, and Spicoli won it on a walkoff in the 10th.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SDN/SDN200709140.shtml

Bonds homered and Cain pitched a CG, 3-hitter on my birthday (yes, I was there)

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN200704220.shtml

the kids (with some old guys chipping in) blew out the Rockies in Denver 15-2. Fred Lewis had the cycle.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL200705130.shtml

The team decided that it needed to get Cain all of his season's worth of run support in one game.

I'm not dwelling on the shitty games...

Agent Jack and Correia weren't must use either.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PHI/PHI200706030.shtml

ok, so I'm dwelling a little.

On the night of THE Mets game I was with the wife and kids for a two-night stay in Monterey to do all the aquarium/bike-rental type things, and merely saw the final score at the bottom of the screen while the TV was providing background noise. Upon learning later how that score was reached, I hugged them all and told them I loved them very much.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN200708080.shtml

I hope no one picked this one yet. Well, even if they did, it was my favorite game of the year. Day after 756, Bonds hits 757, Cain hits #1 and pitches 6 great innings and I was there! It was awesome! Whoo!

And the album of the year... well, I've been partial to In Rainbows but I'm starting to think Lupe Fiasco's The Cool might eventually overtake it. And + MF1 to Dexter. OMG I am at the point of just keyboard smashing (I'm not quite done with season 2 yet) because I can't properly articulate how awesome it is. akdj;aflkdjsal;jdsfklaj;!!!

Cain and Lincecum.
Lincecum and Cain.
Ask me what's best
And I'll say it again.

That's the biggest no-brainer in the history of the Giants 2007 season.

Another Andrew Bird fan out there? And its Grant? I feel cool by association.

just a quip.

Andrew Bird, though good in his own right, was no match for Sunset Rubdown's album.  I'd also second the In Rainbows nomination.

Dexter is leaps and bounds better than absolutely any other show, I'd say.

Also, I was at that first game in San Diego.

It confirmed all the worst I feared and really foreshadowed everything to come.

Best tv show:  'The Shield'

Best movie that I saw: 'The Simpsons' or 'Superbad' (I haven't seen any of the, you know, good ones yet.)

Favorite sore spot of the 2007 Giants season, the one that would not leave me for weeks, the one that for days afterward would creep into my mind upon waking, the one that would slime onto my mental desktop when working for about two weeks afterwards:  The Cain vs. Rockies game. DAMMIT. DAMN.  DAMMMMMMIT.  FU%#!!!

Best album of 2007: N/A because I don't buy CDs. I was really excited for Kenna's second album Make Sure They See My Face and it is good, but it just not as great as New Sacred Cow.
Best movie of 2007: Ratatouille was A+ in everything that appeals to me; fine cuisine, cute little animals, Paris (the city, not the celebutard skank), and Pixar.
Best TV show: Chuck was a very pleasant surprise. I'm a Josh Schwartz fan since he gave us The OC and of the two shows he debuted this fall, Chuck was not the one I was interested in. But I gave it a shot. And it was good. When Chuck got the full season pickup I danced a jig. (Not really.)
Greatest cat moment of 2007: adopting Misty from animal rescue in January. We almost adopted a stray, a big black cat we named Bonds, but he turned out to like the feral life a lot better. So when we went to the adoption event at Petsmart and met Misty, we knew she was the one for us. I'm very happy to have her in my life.
Best baseball moment of 2007, not necessarily big league Giants related: Either the California/Carolina League All Star Game in Stockton, or my AFL trip. The CAL/CAR game was special because it was the last big to-do for SF Dugout, and I think the AFL trip goes without explanation.
Worst Giants game: I explained above why the Cain 1-0 loss in Boston made me want to kill myself and everyone around me.

I've got the audio of this game on my MP3 player - I listen to it when I start to feel good about life just to remind myself that it sucks!

Armando Benitez's "It Ain't Easy Out Here For A Blimp."

As my first post, and a resident of San Diego, I should point out that the #5 on Grant's list was not even the most brutal Matt Cain experience at PETCO this year, IMO.  His referenced game sure did suck, but I found the September 15th game to be worse.  In April, he allowed one hit and walked five.  In September, he allowed only ONE BASERUNNER and lost.  It was the pseudo-triple that Barry ended up dancing with the stars on near the fence and injuring his toe.  You and I could have caught that.

That whole game, I just wondered in what strange way would Cain lose, and that was it.