New Year's Resolutions
I resolve to enjoy the little things in baseball. Like, oh, a 23-year-old pitcher pitching a fantastic game -- run support be damned. An unexpected call-up making the most of limited time. A 14-run shellacking of a division rival. A doubleheader sweep. Those are the things to appreciate in what is likely to be a losing season.
Conversely, I resolve not to worry about petty things, like winning.
I resolve not to take a fast start too seriously.
I resolve to give Dan Ortmeier a chance.
I resolve to stop spending my life savings on cocaine and seedy massage parlors.
Just kidding. I'm not really going to give Ortmeier a chance. Also, I have no savings. I found a dealer who takes credit cards, and danged if I'm going to let that go.
Your New Year's resolutions -- baseball-related, or otherwise -- if you would.
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well said, sir. My New Year's resolution is to care less about baseball. Watch? yes. Learn? always. But just careless about the outcomes of the games. I'm more worried about Chef's Cook finishing higher than 8th in my fantasy league than I am about the Giants losing 81 or 120 games.
Happy New Year!
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After a while though, it gets old. It's not so much the losing...but the way we lose. Bullpen collapses, ugly ABs in clutch situations, Cammie Blackstone, etc.
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Really, it's more like I'm going to bottle up my feelings and just have a good chuckle when Matt Cain's first no-hitter results in a 1-0 loss in the 10th. It'll be hilarious!
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by E Ticket on Dec 31, 2007 9:34 PM PST up reply actions
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"Just kidding. I'm not really going to give Ortmeier a chance. "
I like Danneh. I feel like he's the kid who got picked last for Kickball the whole time, when really he wasn't so bad.
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Dan Ortmeier: under-rated kinda-okay talent.
by SoFa King Mike on Dec 31, 2007 1:45 PM PST up reply actions
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I think my memory could be off, but I'm not sure.
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN200409250.shtml
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Jan 1, 2008 2:20 AM PST up reply actions
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by howtheyscored on Dec 31, 2007 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Dec 31, 2007 6:39 PM PST up reply actions
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 31, 2007 1:45 PM PST reply actions
We did learn something from Rondell White.
by howtheyscored on Dec 31, 2007 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
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Maybe he writes that on all his checks. Sure would be funny though if you were looking through them...
bought dinner
bought Muffy some pet food
bought some new loafers
bought something
bought cheese...
Now which one could have possibly been for the drugs?
Succumb to the Enchanted t-shirt! Adopted dad of Minor Izzy
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by VidaWantsYourCar on Dec 31, 2007 2:34 PM PST up reply actions
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by VidaWantsYourCar on Dec 31, 2007 2:35 PM PST up reply actions
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By the look of the way things are currently going, please stay away from me at all costs in '08.
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by VidaWantsYourCar on Dec 31, 2007 2:36 PM PST reply actions
I'm going the opposite direction
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P.S. Chief , can't we reassess that "fast start" resolution after it happens?
by victor frankenstein on Jan 1, 2008 2:21 PM PST up reply actions
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Other baseball goals for the New Year: work hard on covering the draft for SF Dugout before I go on sabbatical for summer semester. I plan on keeping up with the minor league happenings even if I'm not contributing content to the website, too.
I don't make resolutions. I make goals for the upcoming year. I have a slew of personal goals for 2008 and I'm already making progress on a few of them. For starters I passed my driving permit test on Friday so I am closer to have my California driver's license. Yay!
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 31, 2007 2:43 PM PST reply actions
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 31, 2007 3:47 PM PST up reply actions
Now wait a minute here...
Now you're not even of a consensual age?
by victor frankenstein on Jan 1, 2008 1:17 AM PST up reply actions
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by howtheyscored on Jan 1, 2008 2:16 AM PST up reply actions
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jan 1, 2008 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
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Oh , how the mighty have fallen.
by victor frankenstein on Jan 1, 2008 2:25 PM PST up reply actions
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jan 1, 2008 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
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I have it on good authority that he's "shooting" for the Baker's dozen.
by howtheyscored on Jan 1, 2008 4:50 PM PST up reply actions
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Well, maybe.
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For the Love, and Money of the Game
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by Grant Brisbee on Jan 3, 2008 4:57 PM PST up reply actions
Same here.
by howtheyscored on Jan 3, 2008 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
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On second though, my resolution is to care less what the Giants are doing in the standings, and root for at least one youngster to have a break out campaign.
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Oh, shit. These are last year's resolutions.
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I resolve to spend more time on the Double Play Ticket Window trying to get club seats WITH a parking pass (they should be a LOT cheaper this year which will over compensate for the 300 bucks in gas I'll spend getting up to the park)
I resolve to not think once about Zito's contract as he gets pounded in the first three innings of every outing.
I resolve to start the first Aaron Rowen Fan Club in Fresno.... Anybody want to join?
Lastly, I resolve to pay more attention to what Kype and Krukow say this year... Obviously they'll be more entertaining than the actual team!!
Happy New Year, Fellow Giants Fans!!
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by howtheyscored on Jan 1, 2008 2:43 PM PST up reply actions
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Howie 341 - da Bears 2
by E Ticket on Jan 1, 2008 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 2, 2008 9:47 AM PST up reply actions
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