Four Runs. Two Wins. Your 2009 San Francisco Giants!
by Grant Brisbee on Apr 20, 2009 12:10 PM PDT
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PrintDang it. I like the series win, don’t get me wrong. I just wish it were done differently. The starting rotation just gave those people strength. Their argument was almost completely shot down. The first week of the season eviscerated it. After all of that hard work, those people are going to be louder than ever.
Oof. Just ooof. The Giants’ starting staff isn’t magic. It’s not like they’re going to throw 21 consecutive scoreless innings every series. This one time, though, they did. The Giants won a three-game series by only scoring four runs.
Stop that. Who let you back in? I’ll answer your points, but I don’t have to like doing it. Defense is important. All things being equal, speed is nice. Fundamentals are nice. But a team winning a three-game series after only scoring four runs is as much of an accident as it is a sign of strong pitching.
Aiiiiieeee! Stop it! Stop! What is this, blood? From my ears?
Aaaarrrrgh! I can’t take any mo…wait, I agree with all that. This season was always about a watchable team – the starting rotation is 80% interesting, and there are young players in the lineup to watch, even if there are no guarantees that they’ll play well. The first ten games of the season featured a watchable team playing unwatchable baseball. So while they’re not going to win like this every time, it’s nice to know that the vast, sandy wastelands of offensive nothingness will occasionally be punctuated by short spurts of brilliant starting pitching. That’s all I was really expecting before the season started, but the first ten games were so miserable that I started to dread watching baseball.
The Giants aren’t going to win like this often. But they shouldn’t make me dread watching baseball. If anyone has a direct extension to someone in the Giants’ marketing department, please leave it in the comments section. Giants Baseball: You Shouldn’t Dread Watching Them Play. That one’s on the house, Giants PR folks. On the house.
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doin it wrong
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by bondslegend on Apr 20, 2009 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
You should delete firsties only when we have a secondy
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Apr 20, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Everyone knows first is the worst, second is the best.
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Apr 20, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
When I was younger, I thought the chest referred to the area on the body, rather than a storage unit. I like to think that it is that way.
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Really
I always heard it as, “Third is the one with the hairy, hairy chest”.
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Apr 20, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember it being, “Third is the one with the treasure chest.”
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I’ve heard this one too. They work since they sync with the rhythm of the previous lines.
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I’ve heard both of those.
Never golden chest though. That’s just weird.
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This one time
in high school, I started that when I was chosen to pick people for teams, and the third person I pointed to was the hottest girl in school, so I said “Third is the one with the awesome breasts” and got in trouble.
She liked it though.
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by Gabafnerhagen on Apr 20, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I thought you were going here
One time…at band camp…
"One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women."-John McGraw, NY Giants Baseball Club
My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
I’m encouraged by Lincecum and Johnson, and by Sandoval starting to get hits. I just hope Ishikawa can start raising his batting average before Bochy abandons him in favor of Aurillia, never mind that Aurillia is almost certainly worse than Ishikawa.
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by UnleashTheGore on Apr 20, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I am sure this has been uttered before but....
If you stand Bochy and Aurilla side by side I would say that the above pic does a reasonable job of predicting the size differences.
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Apr 20, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
aurilia is greater than the greatest greatness that ever was great
Still defending Rich Aurilia, and the Niners' classic unis
And I was at Friday and Saturday’s games. The pitching was mostly awesome, but I am so disgusted at the Giants inability to get a run in from 3rd with less than 3 outs. I do not have enough hair left to keep losing it this way.
I agree. Though Ish had a sac-fly yesterday, the productive at-bats have been few and far between.
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Wronghanded Affeldt doing it right
by Giant among Angels on Apr 20, 2009 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
FIRST
year as a McC member! Yes folks, exactly one year ago today, drug day 2008, I made my way to this dark and lonely corner of the interweb and for some reason never left.
Also, I was one of those that said the pitching would be at least fun to watch 4/5 days and would give us hope for a victory every time they went out there. Looks good after this weekend, but we’ll have to see if it holds up against not the diamondbacks.
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bonslegend
Jinxing the Giants since 2008.
by paboperfecto on Apr 20, 2009 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
IN YO FACE
pabLoperfecto! That’s right, I went there!
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by bondslegend on Apr 20, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
And I'll have you know
my sleeping leopard brought on a couple rallies in its day. So there
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by bondslegend on Apr 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions
No worries, I don’t really believe in Jinxes anyway (or rally leopards for that matter).
by paboperfecto on Apr 20, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
You wanna know who’s jinxing the Giants? Fleming! The first game he ever called for the Giants was in ‘03 when Kevin Millwood threw a no hitter on April 27. And we all know what happened in the playoffs that year. He started broadcasting full time with the Giants in ’04 and it’s been down hill ever since!
He may be a nice guy…. he may be a great announcer… but if anyone’s a jinx: it’s David B. Fleming!
The Giants have also never had a winning season since Grant replaced Waiting for Boof with McCovey Chronicles.
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This offense makes me want to punch a baby. Don’t worry, it’s a Dodger baby.
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GIS result for 'punch a baby'
Aside from the apostrophe fail, that caption just doesn’t really make much sense. I mean, I guess it’s a joke, but I don’t know why it’s supposed to be funny.
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Adopted Giant: Fred "Ruthless Aggression" Lewis
However, it has inspired me to upload two pictures of my son to be used to symbolize RAGE:
And WTF/Do Not Want:
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What the hell do you do to your kids!?!
/sarchasm
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by SoFa King Mike on Apr 20, 2009 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
*reports to child services *
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen should be with the big team.
True story
My wife’s uncle was a social worker, and his younger daughter knew all the lingo and gritty details. When she was a kid, if they were out at the supermarket and wouldn’t buy her candy, she would shout, “HELP, I’M BEING ABUSED!”
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I’m laughing hysterically at the second image. I think it’s the DNW look on the baby’s face.
"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 Apr 20, 2009 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
How could you be upset with a lollipop!?
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
Why did you let Billy Corgan carry your child?
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Apr 20, 2009 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
never!
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Apr 20, 2009 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions
what exactly are you planning on doing with that pen?
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Apr 20, 2009 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Sounds less painful than watching the Giants.
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Stabbing his crotch
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To put how bad our offense is into perspective
The Toronto Blue Jays have scored 50 runs more than the Giants so far this season. This is a stat that makes me sad.
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game. -Rod Kanehl. Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis
They get to play in the New York lauchpad though
Proud adoptive parent of the set-up man.
This is Howry do it!
Lunch is the most unrated meal of the day.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Apr 20, 2009 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions
trade Lincecum for Rios!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Apr 20, 2009 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Only?
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Apr 20, 2009 6:30 PM PDT up reply actions
His last start was nice except for all the walks and runs allowed.
by paboperfecto on Apr 20, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
His last start was nice except for all the walks and
Fixed
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Apr 20, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Fixed with more precision
His last start was nice except for all the walks and runs allowed.
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
Extenze.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Apr 20, 2009 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions
The only thing this weekend taught us was that the Diamondbacks’ offense is worse than the Giants offense.
by SheboyganBratwurst on Apr 20, 2009 12:51 PM PDT reply actions
Everyone already knew that.
Joe Martinez: My fingers are crossed and my palms are together for you.
When it's all said and done, America will be remembered for three things: The Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
I’m laughing at the guy with his head in his hands.
"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 Apr 20, 2009 1:07 PM PDT reply actions
His Thoughts “Strip Club…Whiskey…Stripp Club…Whiskey…Strip Club…wait…aw shit….does SF have female strip clubs?…”
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Apr 20, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah the age-old quandary
The rotation… is it 80% watchable?
Or 20% Zito?
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Two things can be equally…. KABOOM.
Sorry, I couldn’t do it. It blew me up.
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by howtheyscored on Apr 20, 2009 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Cain is the best bat in this lineup
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by SoFa King Mike on Apr 20, 2009 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
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Speaking of Bats and Do Not Wants
I know it’s way, way early, but sample size only applies when it contradicts what you already believed, so I’ll mention Joe Crede’s strike out rates are way up so far this year. He’s striking out about once every four plate appearances, which, I suppose, means that he too is Pedro Feliz.
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I seriously doubt that Matt Cain would enjoy being sent to a dark cave.
"Just another ahahahaha... laugher."
bok bok bok... BOCOCK!
3 consecutive 2-0 games?
plus, only 6 runs combined in the entire 3 game series? that’s gotta be some kind of statistical oddity, no?
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by nostocksjustbonds on Apr 20, 2009 1:35 PM PDT reply actions
I’m actually pretty sure that any 3 consecutive 2-0 games had only six runs between the three.
by paboperfecto on Apr 20, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
But it's still a statistical oddity, right?
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Apr 20, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
there are probably
40 (that’s a biblical 40, as in “40 days and 40 nights”) instances in MLB of a 3 game series with all games decided by 1-0 scores.
2-0,2-0,2-0 is at best tied for 4th place.
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
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well, not if the 3 straight games occurred as parts of difference series…es.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Apr 20, 2009 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I know, I was being obtuse on purpose. :0
by paboperfecto on Apr 20, 2009 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
It would be nice to believe the Giants can play .500 baseball this way, but I don’t see it happening.
by AndOnTheDrums... on Apr 20, 2009 1:55 PM PDT reply actions
What's with all the off days, anyway?
Counting opening day, the Giants have FIVE off-days in April – a shortened baseball month this year to begin with. That seems like an awful lot (as do the two off days this week, ugh), so I check last year’s schedule, and by my count, from opening day on March 31 to the end of April, the Giants had only two off days. What gives? This schedule sucks. The consequent lack of off days later in the season can’t be a good thing.
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And I hate two-game series, like the upcoming one against the Padres. With all these off days (which I’m going to blame not on the WBC but on Yankee Stadium, because Yankee Stadium has already proven to be baseball’s version of the Death Star), you wonder if it was really necessary for the season to stretch all the way to Oct 4.
I can already hear the complaints from Kuip and Flemming about the schedule surrounding the All-Star Break, though. 20 games in a row without a day off, ending with a road series in Houston sandwiched between home series against the Phillies and the Reds. For whatever Giant(s) that make the All-Star team that is going to be an especially rough stretch, since they play for 17 consecutive days before the break.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Apr 20, 2009 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
The frustration will result in a 10 run outburst, mark my words. Then they will proced to be shutout the next game.
Proud adoptive parent of the set-up man.
This is Howry do it!
Of course, there’s also the #1 Google Image Search result for ‘A.J. Pierzynski.’
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You teases
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i was just typing this
but thanks for saving me the trouble! _
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
I was going to create a delorean-era motivational poster featuring Mel Ott and Lou Gehrig, which included a tasteless Lou Gehrig joke, but it’s not working for me. SAD.
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“Doctor, what’s wrong with me?”
“You’ve got Lou Gehrig’s disease.”
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
What are the chances of that?
- Lou
"[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
Same teams this weekend...
at Arizona and the same 3 starters will be pitching for the Giants but they will allow 1 unearned run this time around so AZ fans won’t kill themselves.
Mo'ped Money, Mo'ped Problems
I agree with this comment
and all it subtly implies.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
by natteringnabob on Apr 21, 2009 7:14 AM PDT up reply actions
No other baseball is on
I am watching the D’Bags and the Rockies. Darren Sutton just said that Lincecum intentionally threw at Conor Jackson and that is why Jackson struggled.
by Lars The Wanderer on Apr 20, 2009 7:29 PM PDT reply actions
Hmm, Lincecum should throw at Scott Hairston when the Pads are in town.
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Timmy should hit Scott Hairston. Every..single…time.
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My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
Darren Sutton should just stick to pushing the buzzer button and hawking seats. (Seriously, it’s like listening to 1/2 car salesman, 1/2 morning drive time sports jock. Hate Sutton, worse than Vasgersian.)
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by GiantsFanInExile on Apr 20, 2009 7:59 PM PDT up reply actions
He is a fucking abomination
teaming him with Mark Grace makes for the worst announcing in baseball, rivaled only by those douchtastic morons on the rockies’ crew
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by bondslegend on Apr 20, 2009 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
honestly
I’d rather listen to the Reds broadcasters rip their own players than watch a DBacks game with the sound on.
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by GiantsFanInExile on Apr 20, 2009 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
The Reds broadcasters honesty is what makes them OK. I hate to hear announcers out and out lie on the air or say the company line.
You must really hate watching NFL broadcasts, then.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Apr 20, 2009 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
OMG
does any sport have anywhere near the consistently awful announcing that the NFL has? Is there even a single good NFL announcing team? I guess I kinda sorta like Micheals, but more for nostalgia than because he’s any good. I can at least listen to a game he’s calling without wanting to shoot him halfway through. There are literally no other NFL announcers I can say that about. Where’s the Kruk and Kuip of football?
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Really gonna miss Madden.
He was as insightful as you could want , knew the product well and was known to announce things just before they happened , ex. Fitzpatrick’s midfield TD reception in the Steelerbowl.
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Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Apr 21, 2009 6:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
Madden got dissed a lot but he was the only NFL announcer I didn’t hate. The new MNF is absolutely atrocious and a disgrace to the franchise
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Tony Cornhole
I love his constant updates on his fantasy football picks
Seriously, who did he hoover to get that job? I know everyone hated Dennis Miller but at least he could be funny, as opposed to just whiny.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
by natteringnabob on Apr 21, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
NFL broadcasting is really disgustingly bad. It was from watching NFL broadcasting that I realized color commentators actually just make things up if they don’t know something about a player or a coach. Simple, frequent fabrication. Thank you Troy Aikman.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Apr 21, 2009 7:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Not every color commentator, mind you, but probably every NFL color guy.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Apr 21, 2009 7:14 AM PDT up reply actions
No,
it’s pretty much every color guy. Even Kruk’s done that before, and I think he’s pretty good. Something you’ll never here a color guy say: “I don’t know”.
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"In the second half...
they’re gonna have to stop the [insert team name] from running the ball, and put some points on the board if they want to win this game".
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
by natteringnabob on Apr 21, 2009 7:15 AM PDT up reply actions
I think Madden was the Krukow of football.
Ah well…enjoy retirement, big guy…
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by EliminateMe on Apr 21, 2009 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
There’s a difference between honesty and overwelming pessimism and I think the Reds broadcasters truly hate baseball 6 out of the 7 days of the week. (At least, that’s the impression that I’ve gotten listening/watching them over the last three/four years.)
Three examples that always stick out for me. First, Old Man Brenneman eviscerated Adam Dunn for almost his entire Reds career, despite the fact that Dunn was a) a pretty damn good player for them and b) their best player most years, mostly because Brenneman didn’t understand the value of a walk. Second, Brantley absolutely ripped Edwin Encarnacion – a promising young player – for not being clutch seconds before EE hit a walk off home run last year. Had to eat crow as EE rounded the bases, but took up the same theme the very next game. Third, the radio guys totally took apart one of the Reds starting pitchers – Belise, I believe – in the first inning of a game in which he only allowed two runs. Actual words spoken in the third inning of what was then a scoreless game: “why they’re running him out in the major leagues and not in AAA is beyond me.”
I’m all for honesty – hate the homerism of Hawk Harrelson – but geez, the Reds broadcasters seem to truly hate their team most of the time.
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by GiantsFanInExile on Apr 21, 2009 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Jason Marquis ≠ Sanchez/Lincecum/Big Unit.
by non sequitur on Apr 20, 2009 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions
(Garland breaks Tulowitszki’s bat with a good inside fastball.)
Daron Sutton: When it’s 100 degrees you usually don’t need kindling wood. There’s some.
ARGH
by non sequitur on Apr 20, 2009 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
seriously?
I might have to check these fools out
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
by natteringnabob on Apr 21, 2009 7:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Be prepared to spend a lot of time listening to ticket pricing offers. They actually missed a pretty important play last night hawking some all-you-can-eat seats, and they regularly let their ‘sideline’ guy continue with interviews even during pivotal game play. “So tell us more about why you decided to rent the party deck,” as a home run ball flies out of the park.
Proud parent of future rookie of the year, Gerald Posey!
by GiantsFanInExile on Apr 21, 2009 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
SaWEEEEEEEEEET
that’s the kind of viewing pleasure I want out of my MLB!
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
by natteringnabob on Apr 21, 2009 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
You made my brain explode
This would be a double blackout game for me. The thought of being able to watch a Rockies/Diamondbacks game just doesn’t compute….
by paboperfecto on Apr 21, 2009 7:12 AM PDT up reply actions
They just had a thing on baseball tonight talking about how the Nationals are “shaking up the roster” and I realized that things could be a lot worse
"I didn't know (after seeing a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch) whether to shit or go blind." - Former Giants Outfielder Harvey Kuenn on Willie Mays
Shake it up!
Uh well, dance all night play all day
Dont let nothin get in the way
Dance all night keep the beat
Dont you worry bout two left feet
Shake it up
Shake it up, oo yeah
Shake it up
Shake it up
by Lars The Wanderer on Apr 20, 2009 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions
go go go
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Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Apr 21, 2009 6:40 AM PDT up reply actions
get real low
NL West TempestTeapot
Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Apr 21, 2009 6:40 AM PDT up reply actions
get real hot
NL West TempestTeapot
Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Apr 21, 2009 6:41 AM PDT up reply actions
shake it up
all you got
(and it’s “Hoo – hoooo”)
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Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Apr 21, 2009 6:42 AM PDT up reply actions
FTA: “Lastings Milledge lasted all of one week as the Washington Nationals’ leadoff hitter.”This is certainly a message that we need for players to perform," Rizzo said. “We need for players to adapt to the major leagues, and we need players to succeed.”
This is why Manny Acta should be here instead of Bochy
FTA: "Saul Rivera, who gave up four ninth-inning runs in Sunday’s 7-4 loss to Florida, was optioned to Triple-A Syracuse, while catcher Josh Bard was also sent to the minor league club. In addition, pitchers Steven Shell and Wil Ledezma were designated for assignment.
The Nationals purchased the contracts of pitchers Jordan Zimmerman and Kip Wells from Syracuse and recalled pitchers Garrett Mock and Jason Bergmann from the Chiefs. "
"One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women."-John McGraw, NY Giants Baseball Club
My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
So are you saying Bochy should designate Howry, Affeldt for assignment and option Wilson to AAA?
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
No, I think he is saying that Timmy should be designated for assignment and
Sadler should be recalled. Why???
We have got one of the best rotations in baseball. Our bullpen could use some help. But, we have to get some offense from somewhere. Ishy and Burriss are struggling. Velez shouldn’t be here and we need another catcher. Send Ishy, Velez down and designate Uribe for assignment. Bring up Bowker, Downs, and Posey and give them a shot. Maybe Ishy can get things turned around at Fresno and we will see him later in the year. Let the hot bats get a chance to show what they got.
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Yeah
thats the point. Acta is willing to……FUCKING DO SOMETHING about his team sucking, rather than writing in Rich goddamned Aurilia and JUAN FUCKING URIBE every day. If his team’s gonna suck, it’s gonna be with unknown suck, not with known suck. Bochy is content with known suck
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by bondslegend on Apr 20, 2009 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Hasn’t Austin Kearns been getting starts with Milledge sent down?
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by GiantsFanInExile on Apr 20, 2009 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
shhhhh
yeah that kinda goes against my theory. BUT STILL
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions
***Ding,Ding,Ding****
thats the point. Acta is willing to……FUCKING DO SOMETHING about his team sucking
And we have a winner.
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so geniuses
if managers like Acta have some magical pixie dust they can sprinkle to make a bad team play better… why don’t they sprinkle it BEFORE the season?
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That has nothing to do with it
the Giants and Nationals both have crappy players. Bochy is content to keep running the same crappy players out there and keep getting the same crappy results. Acta has worse players, but instead of just slamming his head against a wall, he’s decided to use his crappy year to try and see what his young guys can do.
For instance, if Acta was managing here do you think Nate would have 0 ABs with the way our season’s gone at the plate so far? I would guess no, he’d probably have even started a couple games. There’s no reason we need to see what Juan Uribe or Rich Aurilia bring to the table- we already know this.
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I agree Nate should play more. However, I don’t think that the Giants winning or losing in April has a damn thing to do with it. Nate should play more because he’s one of their best hitters (probabilistically speaking). If we were 8-4 with the same lineup, Nate should STILL get more playing time.
I don’t think you can say what Acta would do with a bunch of proven vets, since he doesn’t have them.
In 2008 The Nats went 59-102, 3 games worse than their pythagorean record. Ron Belliard got over 300 PAs. Lots of old 1Bs played instead of Nick Johnson, but I guess he was injured.
In 2007 The Nats went 73-89, 3 games better than their pythag. record. Can’t tell if he benched any young guys that year… but sure saw a lot of Belliard and Dmitri Young.
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In 2007
Young had a .320 BA and a 129 OPS+. That’s not an example of a guy who should be benched, even for a younger player.
Besides, back then, who exactly did the nationals have that the old guys were blocking? Did they have a Nate sitting on their bench with NO REASON to be there? They really didn’t have anyone to replace the Belliards with. Now, they kind of do, and they’re seeing what works. Jordan Zimmerman made his first start and dominated.
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL at proven vets. Aurilia has grounded into three double plays so far this year, which leads the team despite the fact that he has been mostly a sub. That’s a full 25% of his at bats so far, and with only 1 walk close to 25% of his total PA as well. It is a small sample size but you’d think this would be enough to trot out Cain as a pinch hitter in front of Aurilia to see how he does in games he doesn’t pitch. There is absolutely no reason that Aurilia should be batting ahead of anybody when all he’s doing is hitting weak ground balls right now.
by paboperfecto on Apr 21, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
indeed
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think Acta has any magical pixie dust, but he is willing to make a move if a player is not meeting expectations.
bondslegend is correct in his statement about Nate. We do not really know if Nate would be sinking or swimming, and that is the problem. I really do not get the Velez experiment so far this year. What is the point? We all know that he is fast, has an iron glove, and can occasionally hit the ball well. He not showing anything different, and with Torres on the roster, he is somewhat redundant. Richie is one of my favorite Giants ever, but dude is blocking someone, anyone that needs major league bench time. Frandsen, Guzman, Bowker, Downs anyone. It would be nice to have a backup catcher as well.
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This
I don’t think Acta is Jesus Christ part 2, but something tells me he’d be playing Nate this year.
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
is that something
… perhaps a Pixie?
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Oh, when did Acta do this??
And really – it’s 12 games. No, I am in NO WAY in favor of seeing the dessicated corpse of Rich Aurilla on the ball field more than any of you – but exactly WHO is supposed be losing his job after 12 games?
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Lastings Milledge? ;)
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by GiantsFanInExile on Apr 21, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
So, wait...
…how is bringing in Kip freaking Wells any better than Aurilia? Just because he has yet to suck wearing a cap with a “W” on it doesn’t mean he’s any less of a known quantity of suck.
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by EliminateMe on Apr 21, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Again,
I don’t think everything the guy does is 1000% perfect. This is not my argument. What I’m saying is that he’s at least willing to let some young kids play- every major league team has to have a kip wells or 2 on their roster, even the really really good teams. Nobody has 25 HOF baseball players.
I don’t understand how what I said suddenly became “Manny Acta always plays young guys!! and never makes a mistake!”
Also, Wells has pitched fewer innings than Aurilia has played this season.
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
E-ME, I respect your opinion, you have certainly proven that know what you are tal. The point for me in posting the links was that the Nat’s are doing something rather than doing nothing , which is what is happening here to some extent with Bochy. No one has a crystal ball. The Nat’s players were not performing, and they took action.
I don’t think you can compare Aurilia and Wells. Richie seems to be on the roster due more to sentiment than to value. Older relievers can have situation value, look at Ray King and Barry Bonds. I am not comparing Wells to King, but it is an example of situational value higher than than the overall value of the player for a pitcher
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Fail
" that -youknow what you are tal"king about
I just don’t know what I’m typing about.
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lol
I so love that Barry’s only hit off King was a HR. I miss him.
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Doing something for the sake of doing something is worthless. Basing decisions on 12 games is stupid. If Acta thinks Saul Rivera needs to be on the team, than the fact that he gave up 4 runs this one time shouldn’t change his mind. Sending him down might have been a good political move, a good way to make himself look good and silence the lunatic fringe (kidding, obviously the Nationals don’t have any fans), but that doesn’t make it a good baseball move. Our history is filled with terrible decisions that were popular at the time they were made because people believed that “something has to be done”, or that doing something, anything, is better than doing nothing.
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Our history is filled with terrible decisions that were popular at the time they were made because people believed that "something has to be done", or that doing something, anything, is better than doing nothing.
It’s hard to disagree with this statement. I think that these moves were indeed just that. Political. Shake it up and see if they can raise the level of concern within the team whether they win or not.
The Nat’s fans have to be pretty f’ing pissed off right now. From what I’ve read, these moves were as much to “change the culture” of the team. Reports are that many of the players just don’t give a sh*t at this point.
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I’ve actually defended the Nats before when they cut veterans to make playing time for prospects. But dumping Wil Ledezma to make way for Kip Wells is like the Giants cutting Uribe to make way for Damion Easley – replacing one scrapheap signing with another. It’s not a difference maker in the short term, and it doesn’t do anything to help the team in the long term. And it doesn’t say much for their talent evaluation during spring training, either.
Sometimes, doing something is actually worse than doing nothing. Sometimes it’s a wash, which I suspect it will be in this case.
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The problem with the Giant is
They are reactive as opposed to proactive. The react (usually way too late) to stuff on the field rather then nip in the bud. They allow hitters (as long as they are veteran) to continue to suck thinking they’ll come out of it then to change things up and release that player when everyone else knows they don’t have it anymore.
Ironically
this may be the only smart thing they do.
I mean, small sample size and all.
But I actually think that they do the opposite with young guys.
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With old guys
you really don’t need a larger sample size. I don’t need to let Aurilia have 300 ABs this year to know he sucks. I already know that. Same with Rent and Uribe.
I would like to see Frandsen or Schierholtz get those ABs though, because I’m not sure they suck.
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
1 of your 2 defendents is worthy of your effort
and is making a comeback baby!
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by bondslegend on Apr 21, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
defending my adopted is getting harder and harder. And I came this close to throwing him back and taking a chance in the draft…
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by zodiac_chiller on Apr 21, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I would like to see Frandsen or Schierholtz get those ABs though, because I’m not sure they suck.
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