Open Revolt Thread

by Skaldheim on Mar 27, 2008 8:28 AM PDT Comment 21 comments

Everybody has their breaking point. No man is strong enough to bear repeated disappointments, failures, indignities, and abominations before eventually feeling some deep primal darkness well up from the depths of his soul, burst into angry fruition and shout "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I QUOTE MOVIES TO PROVE IT!"

For me, the final straw were a few words posted at the top of a completely innocuous box score: Fresno 4, San Francisco 3. Then, for added insult, that "L" next to Barry Freaking Zito's name in the pitching line.

This cannot be happening. I can read the most horrifying of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction about how man is a completely irrelevant dot in an uncaring universe and feel hardly a frisson of dismay. This, though...this has me ready to load the silver bullets and the crosses and the garlic fries into my knapsack, and to go looking for pods in the basement.

Many of you know me as a fairly upbeat, positive individual not given to frothing and raging. Well, I'm passing out tar and feathers now, and lighting the pitchforks and handing out torches.

Post your most ridiculous ideas for protesting the dismal state of 100% Bonds-Free San Francisco Baseball Club. Who's with me? It's time to storm the Bastille!!! RHUBARB! RHUBARB! RHUBARB!!

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Well, we know that in the mid fourteenth century the Plague wiped out almost half of the population of Europe and England. Symptoms included parched throats, little purple dots around the the neck, back and chest, eventually followed by bleeding from the nose and the mouth. An excruciatingly deadly, terrifying and painful demise. I'm sure one of us could crack the vaults of the CDC in Atlanta and grab a few petri dishes.

I thought of this because from a certain angle 24 Willie Mays Plaza could pass for a medieval fortress, and Dave Roberts reminds me of a court jester except for missing the little bells on the toes of his cleats.

by E Ticket on Mar 27, 2008 8:52 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

war

I'll be hiding out at Orlando's BBQ with a gas mask and a shotgun.

Democracy is lovely but baseball is more mature. BVCE supports Manny Burriss and SF Dugout.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 27, 2008 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't like the French Revolution example

Because you know what happens to the leaders of the French Revolution, right?

Only 972 games until the end of Zito's contract.

by thehavenot on Mar 27, 2008 9:15 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

They got a two year extension?

I looked up Steve Kline in the dictionary. He wasn't there. If he was, it would have said "pretty okay"

by groug on Mar 27, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

they got a neck extension

feliz gone, team still bad

by oldjacket on Mar 27, 2008 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

More like, they were victems of contraction

Only 972 games until the end of Zito's contract.

by thehavenot on Mar 27, 2008 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

All I can say is that I really have none interest in spending any money on this team. I might even not watch the commercials on FSN.

by zenbitz on Mar 27, 2008 9:35 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That might be a great idea -- rent a helicopter, fly it over the ballpark...then start lighting dollar bills on fire and throwing them at the owner's box. That would be a far better use of our cash this season.

by Skaldheim on Mar 27, 2008 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

you guys are obviously not gamers.

by WTF on Mar 27, 2008 9:55 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

IT'S MY MONEY AND I NEED IT NOW!!

Seriously though, I love baseball. Going to the ballpark and spending 9 innings in the sun with the wife watching the Giants, no matter how awful they may be, is one of the great joys in my life.

Happiness aside, my anger lies mostly with Dish/Direct TV. Apparently with both, I am not in the FSN Bay Area region. I get the damn dirty Bums and the Horrible Halos. However, my parents 30 minutes away get it no problem. I hate, hate the satellite companies right now. I'd go Comcast, which gets Bay Area, but then I don't get DVR service.

Sigh. This means maybe 20 games of watching the Giants, which with my luck breaks down to 16 starts by Zito, 2 of the fifth starter, and 1 each of Timmy and Bobby Hill if I'm lucky. Sigh.

Giant Expectations

by UnleashTheGore on Mar 27, 2008 9:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I got one word for you

MLBTV

You deserve to be struck out, when your first name's a verb.

by Cookyman on Mar 27, 2008 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Have heard lots of complaints from you guys about it...

Or are they overstated? Also it seems a bit silly but I don't want to be watching the computer when I watch TV. I likey my bigger screen.

Giant Expectations

by UnleashTheGore on Mar 27, 2008 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's got it's problems

But definitely worth the 90$. And it makes it easier to post on gameday threads.
Plus, if you're really lucky, you might get the Cosby Show.

You deserve to be struck out, when your first name's a verb.

by Cookyman on Mar 27, 2008 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Or at least..

Gameday Audio if you can't get the radio. There's just nothing like hearing the Giants broadcasting team.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Mar 27, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Except, if you get MLBTV you cannot also listen to MLB audio. This means, for about half the games you are stuck with the other team's announcers. It's usually painful, especially when we play SD.

by allfrank on Mar 27, 2008 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not to incite a platform flame war, but only in case there's interest among Mac users: actually you can do this on a Mac. On a Mac you have to install Flip4Mac to listen to Gameday audio or watch MLBTV, but you can configure it to open all Windows Media loaded by the browser in QuickTime Player instead. Which means that if you close a page that embeds a Windows Media stream and open a different one, the previous one stays open in QuickTime Player. Mix and match at will.

by 2X2L on Mar 27, 2008 5:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs