Did we set a record for Asian players tonight?

by Timlincecum.com on Sep 20, 2008 11:11 PM PDT

Besides noticing how much Randy Winn spits like a high-powered sprinkler every time he gets up to bat and also how utterly disgusting the gunk that has accumulated on Manny Ramirez' batting helmet has become in a relatively short period of time, I was observing, "Hey, this game has an unusual amount of Asian players in it".

Hiroki Kuroda

Chan Ho Park

Keiichi Yabu

Travis Ishikawa

Takashi Saito

Dave Roberts

Chin-Lung Hu

Geno Espinelli

Billy Sadler (part Japanese according to Natto)

Dodgers reliever Hong Chih Kuo probably would've made it into this game if he didn't strain his tricep on the 15th, and if Tim Lincecum would have started, he is part filipino.

Do you think it might be a record?

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Actually

Actually the record for most Asian players used in a game is held by several teams — all in the Japanese League. :) Bats are really large chopsticks, aren’t they?

by sharksrog on Sep 20, 2008 11:17 PM PDT reply actions

Good Point...

LOL…but I meant in a MLB game, bro.

"It kind of gives everybody else out there who is not a big person the motivation and the inspiration that they know they can do it, too."--Tim Lincecum

by Timlincecum.com on Sep 20, 2008 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Sep 20, 2008 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Also Sadler is a fourth Japanese or something like that. One of his grandmothers is Japanese.

by Natto on Sep 20, 2008 11:41 PM PDT reply actions

Billy Sadler = "Death" to the opposing batters!

My wife and I affectionately nicknamed Billy Sadler “Death” based on actor William Sadler’s Grim Reaper—

"It kind of gives everybody else out there who is not a big person the motivation and the inspiration that they know they can do it, too."--Tim Lincecum

by Timlincecum.com on Sep 20, 2008 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions

I like this.

by rotorueter on Sep 21, 2008 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Taschner is Walkenese

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus.

by oldjacket on Sep 20, 2008 11:47 PM PDT reply actions

This watch, this watch, it’s your grandfather’s watch. . .

Mischievously implosive purple pitching staff.

by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 21, 2008 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions

tell the angels in heaven you never saw death so singularly personnified as you did in the face of the batter who struck you out…

"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"

by The Gene Hackman on Sep 21, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions

could i have fucked that up any worse?

"ever so cynical yet whimsical giants related signature"

by The Gene Hackman on Sep 21, 2008 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions

It's an uncomfortable hunk of a posting.

"Ain't got a hope in Hell - that's my belief." - Bon Scott

by victor frankenstein on Sep 21, 2008 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Do the Asian women know this?

maybe they will show up to the game in droves

by wilriv21 on Sep 21, 2008 11:19 AM PDT reply actions

In Liu of the usual?

"Ain't got a hope in Hell - that's my belief." - Bon Scott

by victor frankenstein on Sep 21, 2008 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions

Asian women aren’t into asian guys. Or maybe just not me.

by Natto on Sep 21, 2008 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions

HAW HAW…Oh wait I’m Asian too…

Make me proud again Hen

by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 21, 2008 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions

You’re not into Asian guys?
Which implies…oh , wow.
Damn this sig ambiguity , anyway.

"Ain't got a hope in Hell - that's my belief." - Bon Scott

by victor frankenstein on Sep 21, 2008 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions

Hear ya

Asian women resent their status in Asian culture vs. American culture. I remind them of their Dad or brother and that’s hardly ever good.

"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002

by achiappanza on Sep 22, 2008 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions

the gunk on manny's helmet

is called pinetar….welcome to baseball

Rafael Rodriguez: More tools than Home Depot.

by BrianBokake on Sep 21, 2008 11:26 AM PDT reply actions

It's obvious

that Marvin Benard is Manny’s hero.

by StickRat on Sep 22, 2008 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions

Needs more Lincecum

Make me proud again Hen

by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 21, 2008 11:35 AM PDT reply actions

Nonsense. Everybody knows Geno Espinelli is Italian.

your 2008 SF Giants: this isn’t totally insane, just really stupid

by Lyle on Sep 21, 2008 1:58 PM PDT reply actions

and both Presidential candidates (McCain and O’bama) are Irish

by wilriv21 on Sep 21, 2008 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions

Uh...you mean Gino Vanelli?

"It kind of gives everybody else out there who is not a big person the motivation and the inspiration that they know they can do it, too."--Tim Lincecum

by Timlincecum.com on Sep 22, 2008 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions

We have a new gameday picture.

by Natto on Sep 22, 2008 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions

by Natto on Sep 22, 2008 6:22 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow...

I haven’t seen that much chest hair since Robin Williams was on the beach…

"It kind of gives everybody else out there who is not a big person the motivation and the inspiration that they know they can do it, too."--Tim Lincecum

by Timlincecum.com on Sep 22, 2008 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions

I haven’t seen that many Asians since my last trip to Fry’s.

I haven’t seen that many Asians since I took the light rail to south sacramento.

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus.

by oldjacket on Sep 21, 2008 8:25 PM PDT reply actions

This fanpost fails on pretty much every level

Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
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by S.F. Giangst on Sep 22, 2008 3:31 AM PDT reply actions

Nah

by Natto on Sep 22, 2008 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions

If it completely failed...

no one would have posted anything in response, so I guess I got THAT goin’ for me, which is nice.

“So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one – big hitter, the Lama – long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the 18th and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice." —Carl Spackler (Bill Murray), Caddyshack

"It kind of gives everybody else out there who is not a big person the motivation and the inspiration that they know they can do it, too."--Tim Lincecum

by Timlincecum.com on Sep 22, 2008 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Was the full quote and picture really necessary?

1. I know what character said that line.
2. I know the actor who was playing that character.
3. I know what movie that character was in.

(tweet) THROWS FLAG.
Excessive use of copy/paste feature resulting in needless shtick…..On the offense.
10 yard penalty from the spot of the foul, loss of down.

Omar...I'm done with you. Hello Darren Ford! Come to papa.

by PacBellBoozer on Sep 22, 2008 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, it’s not like you would ever do something like that.

..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.

by Cookyman on Sep 23, 2008 4:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Norwegian Heritage Night!

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 22, 2008 7:54 AM PDT reply actions

Pass the mead horn!

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 22, 2008 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Apropos of nothing, I really hate it when people tag fanposts because then I can’t use the sidebar to navigate to other fanposts.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on Sep 23, 2008 5:26 AM PDT reply actions

it’s better than fagging tanposts

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 23, 2008 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions

Or shagging manposts.

..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.

by Cookyman on Sep 23, 2008 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions

I can.

Travis Denker can hit a little. That's why I drive his bus.

by oldjacket on Sep 23, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions

Me too.

by Natto on Sep 23, 2008 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions

I just noticed that and now I feel dumb.

Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

by jponry on Sep 23, 2008 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Oh so that’s why the fanposts disappear on the sidebar. I was wondering about that. It is highly annoying.

"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 Sep 23, 2008 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions