Open Gameday Thread, 5/9
Philadelphia Phillies at San Francisco Giants, May 9, 2008 7:15 PM PDT

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Studs
F. Lewis lf
J. Castillo 3b
R. Winn rf
B. Molina c
A. Rowand cf
R. Aurilia 1b
E. Velez 2b
E. Burriss ss
P. Misch p
each and every one of ‘em
WTF?
no Timmy?
Screw this, I’m going to a movie. Lame. Cain then Timmy, not Cain then boring.
by positiveuphemism on May 9, 2008 6:56 PM PDT up reply actions
BLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
And now roomie doesn’t want to go to movie.
Curse you Bochy!!!
by positiveuphemism on May 9, 2008 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Anagram of the Day: Cole Hamels
Camel Holes
"You're all worthless and weak, now drop and give me twenty!"
he's adjusting.
I want the happy days of two to three weeks ago back again
by sweetjuxtapose on May 9, 2008 7:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Michigan = Misch again
Still in despair.
by Zetsuboushita on May 9, 2008 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Cole Hamels
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 7:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes, but I can’t be impressed by someone on the other team, no matter how good they are. It just pisses me off
true. it would be nice if there was something about the Giants that was worth watching.
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions
exactly
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions
His skull is really, really large.
It’s why he wasn’t in any danger when that foul ball shot into the dug out in Pitt.
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
His excuse for the Pittsburgh sweep is that their lefty pitchers shut down our running game. So I’m sure he’ll come up with something good.
give Misch some credit...
12 runs is unlikely.
Adopted papa of a bouncing new waiver wire 27 year old. Castillo hits doubles.
Will Lewis show Bochy that it is possible for lefties to hit lefties????
You won’t know unless you watch!
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
Well, I have two:
1) I’m a Giants fan and I like to watch baseball, even if it’s lousy.
2) I can’t complain about it if I don’t watch it.
Though truth be told, I’ll miss much of the game and I’m not exactly broken up about it.
1) is enough for me
Someone get Damon Minor's agent on the phone stat!
by fanofvanlandingham on May 9, 2008 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Also
What crazy things will Aaron Rowand and Eugenio Velez do???
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
thankfully chase utley and ryan howard are out of the lineup!
since we’re pitching a lefty and all.
wait… what’s that you say?
Lefty is probably only part of the equation here
They are facing the Giants. They don’t need them so why not give them an off-day.
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
haha. i was thinking maybe i was being obtuse?
by sweetjuxtapose on May 9, 2008 7:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe not, but he looked flat-out horrible in the last series. It doesn’t sound like he’s worked things out since.
51 K's through 36 games
That’s a 229.5 K pace.
He has looked bad so far. But I doubt it will last the whole season.
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
i could see 220 Ks if he also gets on pace for 50 HRs.
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Misch match
Pat Misch and Giants Lineup vs. Cole Hamels and Phillies Lineup – unfair.
we win this game maybe one out of every hundred times.
you can't block the Bocock
pedro
Does he get boo’d or cheered?
Someone get Damon Minor's agent on the phone stat!
by fanofvanlandingham on May 9, 2008 7:15 PM PDT reply actions
Why would he get cheered?
He wasn’t exactly BLB during his time here…but I don’t see why he should be booed either. He wasn’t a jerk or anything, just couldn’t hit low and away
they should start fining Burriss
every time he does that doublepump before he throws to first
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 7:17 PM PDT reply actions
Hey if you look just above the O...
In Wisconsin there’s where I live!
And stop bitching about Patrick Misch vs Tim Lincecum. There’s nothing you can do about it. If it were Hamels vs Lincecum and Moyer vs Misch we’d probably lose both. We probably will probably lose both, but Lincecum vs Moyer gives us a bit of a chance.
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some people log into this site just to bitch and try to come up with something funny. logic goes bye bye. maybe they are single and there was no room in the bowling league in their town. oh well. it’s their fun to overreact.
I like complaining and bowling
but I don’t really care what order the pitchers go in
you can't block the Bocock
I like Patrick Misch
He pitches 1-2-3 innings for the Giants.
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Look to see Ort in the field next inning.
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Lewis vs LEFTY!?
NOOOOOOOOOOO THE WORLD WILL END
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Castillo helping Lewis out
Now Freddie can say “Hey, Skip, see it’s not just because I’m a lefty.”
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
Why would you not start a player..
Pitching against the Giants?
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LOL@SHFT
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Hmmm...
Cheer or Boo Pedro?
I don’t know, I’d probably just do nothing.
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I am amazed at how well he has hit Giants pitchers
You’d think they’d know…
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
TERRIBLE
Pitching performance by Misch.
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Pedro hits a curve the opposite way?
Only vs us
Alright...
HEART of the order. In two ways.
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That pop-up barely got in the air at all.
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It’s one thing to suck against Hamels, but watching this offense against Moyer tomorrow will be doubly painful.
Whenever a former Giants player...
Plays against us again we never seem to follow the scouting report on him. Example: Pedro Feliz is a hacker, pitch it in the dirt and he’ll swing at it. Whereas when an new Giants player plays against his old team, they always get him out because they remember what would get him out.
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And so it starts...
Giants fans, grab a cold cool ::interference:: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale ::interference over:: it’s game time.
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Johnnie Disaster!
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 7:48 PM PDT up reply actions
LeMaster.
What a great player.
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FREDDY!
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i thoght it a great play on a really hard hit ball
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by The Gene Hackman on May 9, 2008 7:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Seemed to be good catch.
Had to reach back a bit but that was just because he ran head down and then looked up and the ball was a bit off where he thought it was.
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Haha...
Now batting, Number 10, Boo!
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Nastalgia.
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Phew..
Thank you Randy Winn for taking that and not Eugenio.
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Lemaster
Check out how awful his stats were.
by ned colletti's mustache on May 9, 2008 7:49 PM PDT reply actions
Highlight with the pirates jerseys..
They should go back to those. Great uni’s.
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I like that F.Lew flew.
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First I've heard it..
Judges?
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niiiiice
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by The Gene Hackman on May 9, 2008 7:54 PM PDT reply actions
C'mon Burriss
take Ruiz out!
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 7:54 PM PDT reply actions
FAST AND FASTER!
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MANNY IS
fasssst
Someone get Damon Minor's agent on the phone stat!
by fanofvanlandingham on May 9, 2008 7:55 PM PDT reply actions
Weakest collision ever.
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yah that was
rad. good to see those plays go the other way once in a blue moon.
Someone get Damon Minor's agent on the phone stat!
by fanofvanlandingham on May 9, 2008 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Righty in the box.
I’d make Freddie take off.
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Pretty sure also..
Castillo can be sent down to AAA. His contract has a major league and minor league salary.
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You know,
Jose Castillo was a smart pickup from a a GM’s perspective. He’s cheap, young and can stand near third base.
But I have to say that sitting through his at-bats is so unfun that I find it physically excrutiating.
But at least he worked the count on that one.
you can't block the Bocock
Bellarmine...
Never liked them since they beat us the only year I went to CCS.
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Who names their team...
The Bells anyways?
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also not a bellarmine fan. had to ride the train with those bellarmine guys every day going to school. also might be because i’m a st. francis guy.
St. Francis...
Never like them. They took back their speakers when they left Branham.
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I was there...
Class years of 2002-2005. In 2002 we had the old speakers in our gym that were there from St. Francis. Really nice ones. Then 2003 year they took those speakers and we had these speakers that looked like they were from the 70’s. Then 2004 year we got new ones.
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See?
My lineup of who should take a pop-up was right.
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Oh
I only knew about “Boo”
Jose Uribe will always be the Giants shortstop to me.
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That hit by Freddie
It shows just how much Tim Kawakami knows what’s up. He is so right that Freddie is more valuable than Barry Bonds this year. He can so hit lefties. Gamer.
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The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit
and the recipient , who doesn’t get it.
Aaron "Swag" Rowand
by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions
bring me the heads of Carls Jr's marketing folk
on a platter. please.
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by The Gene Hackman on May 9, 2008 8:07 PM PDT reply actions
IMHO
pardon me , but SUCK IT , VICTORINO!
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Before that ruuude interruption
Carl’s $6 burger is the best fast food burger around…but calling a burger that costs $6 a “Six Dollar Burger” isn’t going to be too appetizing…nor is calling it an “Eight Dollar Burger”...
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Would have been a triple Winn..
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I suppose
I should wait till the thread finishes loading to post stuff.
by UnstoppableTurtle on May 9, 2008 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I could have made a fortune
Had I bet someone that Aurilia would be intentionally walked more than once this season
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
GodEmperor Aurilia
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:12 PM PDT reply actions
Is it my imagination?
Or has Velez looked more patient at the plate lately?
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
Maybe it's just me watching certain games later on...
But he’s looked hopeless at the plate.
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Well it only happened to us twice...
Should at least get some reparations.
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Now that was funny
And even better that it wasn’t a Giants infielder doing that.
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
Welcome back , Jimmy.
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:15 PM PDT reply actions
Speed kills, baby!
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 8:16 PM PDT reply actions
smile
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jesus mary and joseph
a three spot!
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by The Gene Hackman on May 9, 2008 8:16 PM PDT reply actions
Velez looked like he was going to pass Aurilia there
by rightcenterfielder on May 9, 2008 8:16 PM PDT reply actions
Wow...
I happen to like Speed.
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Oh I didn’t get the Gameday thread image until I realized it was Misch tonight. Haw. Coincidentally I’m going to Michigan in september.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 9, 2008 8:16 PM PDT reply actions
Going for a week to visit my dad and his family. Going to a Tigers game with my dad and youngest brother, plus begging my dad’s in-laws for money for college.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 9, 2008 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm sorry for you.
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It’s only for a week. My dad tried to get me to go to U Michigan and I said hell no.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 9, 2008 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha...
Yea…winter here is hell. Except it’s frozen over. And it’s probably worse in Michigan with more snow because of the lake.
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I thought they at least worked up here..
Hearts don’t work in anywhere.
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Sure wish I could be seein' this
as it happens so damn rarely…
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:16 PM PDT reply actions
Also Geno and Manny! My boys! My babies!
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 9, 2008 8:16 PM PDT reply actions
Not an exciting game?
I think not.
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wait
Aren’t the Giants the ones who are supposed to do that?
Less arm, more talk. Raisingcain is a GAMER.
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
He's on a Mischion from God.
Haw haw , Hamels.
Jeez , we finally make an ace look like crap…usually we make crap look like aces…
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:19 PM PDT reply actions
I love Kruk
he says that Phils’ pitching coach Rich Dubee is one of the Dubee Brothers.
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 8:19 PM PDT reply actions
The Doobie Brothers?
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right
but here the spelling is “Dubee”
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha..
Flannery was at the plate when Velez scored.
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Over/under on that being our scoring sum total
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:22 PM PDT reply actions
Now that that exciting inning is over...
The base coaches’ helmets: They look like the little helmets I used to get with ice cream at the ballpark.
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I've got one of those...
I put it on my car dashboard. Gotta support the team.
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gameday has him around 85-86
Still in despair.
by Zetsuboushita on May 9, 2008 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
mrs omar
I do as well.
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WTF
Who ARE these guys in Giant unis?
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:25 PM PDT reply actions
Return to normal.
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:26 PM PDT reply actions
This makes me so pissed
He was THIS close to a 1-2-3 inning and getting his rhythm when Hamels gets a cheapie and then he throws a crappy pitch to Rollins. BS.
14-21...this sucks
Well...
I knew it wouldn’t be the end of the scoring…
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:28 PM PDT reply actions
OK...
NBC has strange music for the outro to comercial.
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He didn't touch it...
Went under the glove by half an inch or so.
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Yeah, but the Phillies have themselves some offense
We….not so much
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That's supposed to be a picture...
Anyone see it?
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His hair makes it quite obvious.
Still in despair.
by Zetsuboushita on May 9, 2008 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Ska , anyone?
The Special AKA
“It’s just the same old show ON MY RADIO…”
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by victor frankenstein on May 9, 2008 8:34 PM PDT reply actions
Wow...
Hit it all the way out of Candlestick on a foul? That’s quite a foul.
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Well
All balls hit in this game are out of Candlestick
Only 937 games until the end of Zito's contract
Way to stay with it Bengie.
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just logging on. . .
has anyone mentioned that the game is not televised tomorrow? no TV
Wah.
Ryan Paul: Two four-letter words are better than one.
No TV?
Well I work all day anyways. What time is the game?
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1:05. so no enchanter on tv
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by The Enchanter on May 9, 2008 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions
rupert murdock is what's wrong with everything
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by The Gene Hackman on May 9, 2008 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I prefer Jelly.
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rag-time piano time?
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by The Gene Hackman on May 9, 2008 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
nice pitch
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by The Gene Hackman on May 9, 2008 8:41 PM PDT reply actions
New thread.
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2008/5/9/506926/2nd-open-gameday-thread-5
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Don't we have the scouting report on Feliz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 9, 2008 8:43 PM PDT reply actions
special agent JT
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