Blast From The Past - 2006 Draft
The reaction to Lincecum being drafted was resoundingly meh.
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Drabek could still surprise us and win a Cy Young last year. Don’t judge me yet.
by Grant Brisbee on May 29, 2009 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Props to mxmob33 for his lamentation that we drafted Emmanuel Burriss instead of Joba Chamberlain.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
LOLuke Hochevar
Fischer-Price presents: Baby’s First Draft! That was the first draft I followed/covered. Memories.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 8:14 AM PDT reply actions
Confession: I was upset we didn’t get Parmelee or Marrero. WE NEEDED DINGERZ!
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"Nothing important ever happened without me."
I didn’t realize that Will Carroll called Lincecum out as a steal on draft day.
Randy Winn is going to catch that. And he'll do it real classy-like too.
It is Xanthan’s complete your own thread day
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on May 29, 2009 8:30 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL at freaking out about 8th round picks
Randy Winn is going to catch that. And he'll do it real classy-like too.
So he projects as a reliever?
color me disappointed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Even when he was tearing up the minors, people were talking about him like he would be a reliever. I never understood that. He had always started, never had problems starting or with stamina, and had crazy good stuff in his starts. Somehow, people added those qualities up and got reliever.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness. - Emo Philips
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I was concerned about his secondary pitches and for a brief time I subscribed to the reliever theory, albeit in a kind of lukewarm way. Glad it worked out better for him.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
My theory is it snowballs. First, a scout says he’s got great stuff, but with that delivery he might have injury problems and end up a reliever. Then, someone (BP, BA, etc.) publishes a scouting report that says he’s great but a scout thinks his future is as a reliever. Then, suddenly it’s scouts think he’ll be a reliever.
Anyways, at the time I understood that his future could be as a reliever, but I didn’t get why people wanted his present (at the time) to be a reliever. To me, there was no reason to make him a reliever until he had proven he couldn’t start.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness. - Emo Philips
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at second.
Purple monkey dishwasher
I guess it was just GIANTS BRAS and rosterbating. Neither makes a hell of a lot of sense and you should feel bad about yourself for doing it.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Rosterbating is ok, as long as you confess afterward.
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Re: Brian Bocock SS, Stetson U
Honestly, that pick was just about the name. I don’t know the first thing about the kid.
by Brian Sabean on Jun 6, 2006 5:15 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions 0 recs
Hey, that was my post look what Brian Sabean posted!
"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 May 29, 2009 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Lots of gems in there
this lincecum guy needs…
a nickname, no way in hell i can pronounce that.
Judgment Day is coming
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And right after that
Drabek may have gotten drunk during practice, but Lincecum clearly does mass amounts of coke before interviews.
“People call me a freak of nature,” Lincecum said. “It’s not unusual for me to just start dancing around out of the blue. I like to do back flips and walk around on my hands.”
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
He's young, he's weird, girls like that
One of the SJ Giants coaches said, “he could be a first round pick for the circus.”
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
ha ha. my former sig:
“Satan wears a Dodger cap.”
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 29, 2009 12:28 PM PDT reply actions
I didn’t even have a sig back then.
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nothing beats the 2007 draft reax (or overreax):
I’M GOING TO FUCKING KILL SOMEONE
ha ha ha.
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by nostocksjustbonds on May 29, 2009 12:36 PM PDT reply actions
KEITH LAW SHUT THE FUCK UP
I’m dying reading that thread.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Everyone was freaking out in that thread, but Slo’s freakout was especially epic.
I was freaking out at the same time, but I didn’t start regularly commenting on MCC until a few months later, so only my wife had to hear it.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
I can’t really post on draft day threads as we’re working frantically to get the picks and write them up, but I can present the last three drafts and our reactions:
2006: Who TF is Tim Lincecum…? Oh. Hey. He might be pretty good.
2007: Who TF is Madison Bumgarner…? Oh. Hey. This might suck.
2008: Oh shit it’s Buster Posey (not to be confused with Oh Shit! It’s Dr. Tran!)…
We’re basically piloting the Tim Wheeler bandwagon for now. In 06 I didn’t have a guy I wanted or cared about, but in 07 I was all about Beau Mills. And last year of course I was in the Smoak camp.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
In 2007, I didn’t really know the players available, but I wanted hitters so desperately.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
I did calm down a bit when they started drafting hitters. Who, ironically, were worse picks than Bumgarner and Alderson.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Great out-of-context quote
or fucking porcello who is a stud!!!
McCoven like fucking studs.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
and nostocks coined the nickname Mad Bum
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t make me break out my draft review as seen via the flux capacitor.
by Lars The Wanderer on May 29, 2009 12:54 PM PDT reply actions
I’m looking forward to completely overreacting over the Giants’ pick this year and being completely cool with it the day after.
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Psst
I quote that earlier in this post!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
I had calmed down by the bottom of the thread! :D?
Then I think I freaked out again with Alderson.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
lol
Like college closers? Try drafting a high school closer
Okay, I’m going to bang my head against the wall now.
But then later…
Actually now that the dust is settling, I kinda like this draft. (Moreso if Alderson can stick as a SP).
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I liked Alderson from the get-go and I had to warm up to mad Bum. Are you ready to crap yourself all over again and laugh about it a year later? :D:D:D:D
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
all of those over-reactions are nothing compared to the hilarity of the freakouts over drafting Posey. “We just drafted the best player in college baseball who was in the top 3 of everybody’s draft ranking?!?!?! I hate Sabean! I’m going to kill myself!”
by FluLikeSymptoms on May 29, 2009 5:49 PM PDT reply actions
I really, really, really didn’t get that at the time. I mean, good god. Smoak was my BPA at the time too, but I was thrilled with Posey.
by Grant Brisbee on May 29, 2009 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions
That was also when he was asking for 12 mil. That was my only knock on him. But it worked out okay.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on May 29, 2009 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
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