Best Game of the year?

by Mr. Clutch on Aug 10, 2008 1:11 AM PDT Comment 29 comments

Jesus Christ Tyler. And you get the win? Figures. Feels good to have a walk off win against the bums, on an extremely special day with legends and heroes at the yard. Rowand with the game winning hit to keep the LA blue out of first. Sadler with the emotion, Kent with the jack and the ensuing glare into the SF dugout. It's only fitting that Rowand's single just squeaks by the outstretched arm of Kent to clinch the contest for the G-men. Best Game of the year?

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Best Game of the Year?

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Yea

but only until we knock the dodgers out of the playoffs on the last weekend of the season.

by superk1ng on Aug 10, 2008 1:21 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

This.

by Hobbes2d on Aug 10, 2008 3:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I so hope that

is true. I have tickets to the last Sunday game. If that were to haapen it would almost make up for the results this year. I have enjoyed however getting to see the youngsters. Fred, “Bowk”, Burris, and even Ochoa have given me some joy this year.

My adopted son Matt Downs. Bill Mueller without the two-flap helmet .

by nvsfg on Aug 12, 2008 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, wish Barry hadn’t left early :P (as if anyone expected him to stay the full 9)

If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)

by GiNgiNxbOi on Aug 10, 2008 4:02 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yes, for beating the Scum in extras, but also...

... the great feelings left over from the outfielders ceremony, seeing Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, even Brett Butler (18 years and counting since we had a legitimate leadoff guy…) It was a great evening and a great game.

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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 10, 2008 8:42 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I gave up after the Dodgers took the lead. Had to go walk the dog. Sob.

by jcb9 on Aug 10, 2008 9:24 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I did too!

I was at a friends, and left to come home. Popped on the internet and had to double take on the score…

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Aug 10, 2008 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Your dog is an S. O. B.!

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Aug 10, 2008 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There are a lot of smack talking Dodger fans in section 101, but even they make fun of fat, fat Jonathan Broxton.
I tried to psyche out Kuo by taunting him in mandarin, but that cat still owns us.
*Billy Sadler can suck for the rest of the season and still be one of my favorite Giants.

you can't block the Bocock

by oldjacket on Aug 10, 2008 10:39 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I heard the baseball rerun on the radio… Fleming: “Broxton… he’s like a refrigerator on the mound.”

If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)

by GiNgiNxbOi on Aug 10, 2008 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Great stuff

I thought the play at the plate on Manny Burriss’s chopper was one of the most exciting I had seen. Amazing convergence of runner, ball, catcher, plate. By the way, I think Manny should have been given a hit on that play, since I don’t think there was any way any Dodger was going to beat him the the vacated first base.

And while it at first appeared Jeff Kent won the Cal victory over Tyler Walker, Walker went from goat to winning pitcher, while Kent went from hero to the last guy who had a chance to save the game for the Dodgers.

Clearly Walker pitched just well enough to win, just like all the great pitchers. :)

by sharksrog on Aug 10, 2008 10:47 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Beat LA

by wilriv21 on Aug 10, 2008 10:55 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I’m pretty sure Dodger fans see Broxton as their Walker.

by Hobbes2d on Aug 10, 2008 11:25 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

i liked the one where wilson loaded the bases on purpose, but still got the save

oh, wait. which one am i talking about..?

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by lmaozedong on Aug 10, 2008 12:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

oh this is OT, but could someone give me the explanation on Kevin Mitchell’s “one flap down” thing? What does it mean..? I tried looking it up but I couldn’t really find an explanation except that it had something to do with his home run trot?

If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)

by GiNgiNxbOi on Aug 10, 2008 12:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Jeffrey Leonard’s one flap down thing. He’d take his home run trot with one arm straight. Don’t know why.

you can't block the Bocock

by oldjacket on Aug 10, 2008 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it started because some sort of injury, but I can’t source that right now.

Bonds stands alone.

Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal

by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 10, 2008 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was a fake injury

I heard Hac Man talk about it once, and the idea was that he had hit the ball so hard it hurt his arm—not really, but just to show off and have a laugh. Most people think it started during the ‘87 playoffs vs. St. Louis, when he did it in 4 straight games and drew the ire of Cardinals fans, but he had already done it earlier in the ‘87 season. In fact, if you watched the last Giants Classic Game on Comcast, you saw Eddie Milner imitating it after a long HR (and kind of grinning) during the ‘87 regular season. IIRC, Leonard came up with it to amuse his best friend on the team, Chili Davis.

This was typical Leonard. I’m kind of surprised he’s not more remembered/talked about by Giants fans, as he was kind of an infamous character. The papers called him “Penitentiary Face”, or “Jeffrey ‘Don’t call me Jeff’ Leonard” because of his nasty disposition, and during three straight seasons (‘85-’87) he got into fistfights with teammates (Jim Gott, Dan Gladden, and Will Clark) while reporters were present. Plus, he answered questions by saying wacky shit like, “Shoot fire rock” (To this day, I have no idea what this means), and caught a ton of flack for “disrespecting the game” by constantly wearing his hat backwards before games (Even though Junior Griffey got praised for “boyish enthusiasm” when he did the same thing a couple of years later).

"I been waitin' a long time for this! I been waitin' since the f**kin' amateurs!" --WILL "THE THRILL" CLARK

by Josh from Hollywood on Aug 10, 2008 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good knowledge

Thanks for the info. I had also always wondered why.

by faust10 on Aug 10, 2008 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

He was basically Barry before Barry was Barry.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 11, 2008 8:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Id say

More Manny before Manny was Manny.

Bonds didn’t do that kinda stupid childish stuff.

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Aug 11, 2008 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’ll always remember a quote from Bonds a few seasons ago. A reporter asked him a question in Spanish and he just replied, “fastball.” The article didn’t list the context. I just thought that was amusing. Though if I got that sort of quote from a guy now I’d be annoyed. And there’s the Barry chokes Kent thing that we all know and love.

Was Manny involved in that ridiculous dugout brawl in Boston? There’s so much media wank about that team I just tune it out now.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 11, 2008 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think he started it.

Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.

by groug on Aug 11, 2008 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh yeah, and Walker vs. Jones is the fattest sweatiest fail-off in the bigs.

you can't block the Bocock

by oldjacket on Aug 10, 2008 12:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Nope

today’s game—best game of the year.

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by lmaozedong on Aug 10, 2008 5:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Most entertaining, maybe.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Aug 10, 2008 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yesterday’s game had Bonds in the house. You can’t top that.

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by Natto on Aug 10, 2008 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah man, would have been a shame if we let jeff kent have the last word last night ;)

If my head is full of white hairs by the end of this season.. I blame Brian Wilson. (I'm only 22, dammit!)

by GiNgiNxbOi on Aug 10, 2008 6:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

YES...

but I’m biased. This was the 5th game I’d been to this year and the first time they won while I was there. The pregame stuff was great. Great to see Barry back. Fxck Walker and fxck Kent. Felt good to leave the yard after a win though.

by faust10 on Aug 10, 2008 11:50 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs