Giants/Brewers Series Preview
by Grant on Jun 25, 2009 11:28 AM PDT
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Remember when the Giants faced the Brewers in the first series of the season? And the Giants took two of three, and we were all, "Maybe this team isn't so bad after all?" And then the Giants lost every game on their next road trip, and we were all, "This team is so bad after all." And then the Giants started winning, and we were all, "Maybe this team isn't so bad after all?" And then the Giants scored .5 runs on a road trip through San Diego and Seattle, and we were all, "This team is awful." And then the Giants started winning, even sweeping the A's in the first interleague series, and we were all, "Maybe this team isn't so bad after all." And then the Angels swept the Giants at Mays Field, and we were all, "This team makes my liver hurt." And then the Giants swept the Rangers and took another series from the A's? I remember that last one as if it were yesterday.
Point being, it seems like the Giants have played seventeen distinct seasons since the last time they played the Brewers. Heck, the last time these two teams met, everyone was wondering if Tim Lincecum was alright. Whoa, what's up with Tim? Fastball velocity, Verducci Effect, and sophomore slump, all rolled into one foul-tasting enchilada! He couldn't get out of the fourth inning against the Brewers! Everybody panic!
When the Brewers came around the first time, I was impressed with their offense, but to date the offense is just a shade under the league average. It's a very imbalanced offense, with Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder whomping on everyone, and Jason Kendall and Bill Hall hitting like Jason Kendall and Bill Hall. J.J. Hardy is having a rough season, and, man, I wish Jonathan Sanchez were having a good season so the Brewers would consider a swap. Of course, that would mean that Bochy would move Renteria to third and Sandoval to second, but that's a post for another time.
Hitter to watch:
Did you know that Craig Counsell has only hit .232/.320/.267 against the Giants over his career? Seriously. I would have guessed .400/.500/.500. Scrappy, OBP-dependent gritmasters always kill the Giants. At least, I thought they did. Maybe I just hate the whole sub-genre of scrappy, OBP-dependent gritmasters, and I assume that hate is rationally based on members of that sub-genre destroying my favorite team.
David Eckstein's career numbers against the Giants: .231/.279/.298. I...words fail. Scrappy, OBP-dependent gritmasters hit worse against the Giants than they do against the rest of baseball. At least, the two most annoying examples from recent history do.
Of course, you see what I've done. The scrappy, OBP-dependent gritmasters previously existed as quantum superpositions, simultaneously existing as players who killed the Giants at the same time they were ineffective against the Giants. By peeking under the hood and observing the statistics, I've forced the scrappy, OBP-dependent gritmasters into a definite state -- almost certainly, that state is one in which scrappy, OBP-dependent gritmasters will murder the Giants for the next decade. I can't apologize enough. I'm kind of embarrassed.
So Craig Counsell's upcoming four-triple game is brought to you by McCovey Chronicles. And Erwin Schrödinger. He gets most of the blame for inventing physics, or something.
Pitcher to watch:
I always wonder if Brian Sabean did a "shadow draft" after intentionally punting the 2004 draft pick for Michael Tucker. Part of me wants to think that there's a spiral-bound notebook somewhere filled with doodles, aborted diary entries, and something that reads "1. Dustin Pedroia 2. Yovani Gallardo 3. Hunter Pence", and that's what's behind the Giants newfound commitment to player development.
Gallardo is one of the nastiest pitchers in the game, with a goofy fastball/curve combo. He does have a weakness, though: he struggles against teams that don't chase pitches outside the strike zone. Ahem. So, yeah. Pitcher's duel! This should be a fine opportunity for Cain to showcase himself for his future team.
Prediction:
After the apocalypse, the sausages from the sausage race will initially band together to survive. When things move from desperate to unsustainable, the unthinkable happens: brother eats brother to survive. Only the bratwurst will remain, and his final days will be filled with regret.
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DO IT!!
Cain 4 Felder
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
CAIN 4 FIEDLER
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?
by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
o_O
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This image seriously killed my browser
It froze and I had to restart, all with this image half loaded so I couldn’t even see what the o_O was about.
by paboperfecto on Jun 25, 2009 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fiddler performed at Cain Park
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
gesundheit
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Great show!
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by ResDog on Jun 25, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rest in peace, Farrah.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
for the first time in my life that poster gives me a sad.
Yes, This is still a 79 win squad.
Where is my beer & chili dog?
by daveinexile on Jun 25, 2009 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And Michael Jackson apparently. RIP dude, even though you were pretty strange and liked little boys
by m34josh on Jun 25, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Zito and Sanchez against the Brewers?
Keep it almost respectable please
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 11:36 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Sanchez could be skipped
they’re thinking about moving Lincecums start to Sunday
by superk1ng on Jun 25, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d rather save him for the Cardinals series… I fear what might happen in 3-4 Zito v. Pujols matchups.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jun 25, 2009 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
oh please let this happen
i’m going to the july 3rd game (fireworks night) and if sanchez gets skipped then tim pitches that game… one time plz let it happen…
by TimLincecumIsGod on Jun 25, 2009 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well I'm going to the July 4th Game
So I would like this not to happen
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jun 26, 2009 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hope Sanchez can build off of his last start and keep the momentum going in the positive way. Not too worried about Zito (feels really weird to say…)
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Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right
by Giant among Angels on Jun 25, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
take a number
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
or read
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Prediction
Pain
On 5/7, the best part of waking is up LOLDGERS in my cup.
by GameSix on Jun 25, 2009 11:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
You spelled Cain wrong.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
So, are the Giants at the point where other teams and their fans say: “Damn, the Giants are coming to town. This could be a rough series.”
Are the Giants actually scaring other teams?
Because that would be a mind-boggling thought for us Giants fans.
by deuce deuce on Jun 25, 2009 11:39 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Not when they see Sanchez in the series.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know one team that enjoys it
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by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This morning’s Wisconsin State Journal warns that the Brewers are about to face “quality teams,” with the Giants specifically put in that category. Boggle! boggle! you hesitant minds.
by campanari on Jun 25, 2009 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I believe it’s “mind-bottling”.
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by Norm Median on Jun 25, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
For all intensive purposes it might as well be.
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by EliminateMe on Jun 25, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
McCovey Chronicles is apart of my daily routine.
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by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's feast or phantom.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
McCovey Chronicles is apart DIE IN A FIRE of my daily routine.
by quincy0191 on Jun 25, 2009 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like the Brewers but not for the next three games.
FUCK ’EM!
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by jponry on Jun 25, 2009 11:41 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah I like the Brewers too, for some reason. It’s probably just because I love beer.
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by Norm Median on Jun 25, 2009 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not a big fan of the Brew Crew, but I do enjoy their retro logo with the mitt on the hat and the yellow/blue color scheme.
by snafu on Jun 25, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It is one of the all-time great logos.
Joe Martinez: My fingers are crossed and my palms are together for you.
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by cornball on Jun 25, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Their hat logo is actually almost against baseball rules. There can be no baseball shaped objects on a player’s uniform because of the possibility of a player mistaking it for the actual ball. That’s why the Brewers and Phillies logos have only one seam on the baseball.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know this is true, but I wonder how the the Giants get away with the shoulder patch on the home unis.
by satyricrash on Jun 26, 2009 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The .200 clip that Eckstein and Counsell hit are usually saved up for close games. When Braun and Fielder are whomping on us, expect them to just get a walk and then steal a base or 6.
I expect Cain to get a No Decision but we will get a bullpen win.
I expect Zito to get Cained.
I expect Sanchez to pitch pretty okay and get a win that he probably doesn’t deserve, and I’m okay with that.
by Giant Voodoo on Jun 25, 2009 11:45 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
What happens when Cain faces Fielder? Does the world end?
by deuce deuce on Jun 25, 2009 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have a feeling the last thing ever see will be cain winding up…
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by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It opens up a wormhole sending us into a parallel universe. Wacky hijinks ensue.
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?
by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wacky hijacks?
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wacky flapjacks
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?
by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Creepy.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
but can they outrun the sausage?
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe if they tackled them and wrapped them up.
Status: So pissed that the Giants sold my wall of Ks to Johnsonville Sausages, that I'm boycotting purchasing anything at the park, or patronizing their sponsers.
by GiantBrass on Jun 25, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mascots are yummy
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who puts Cheez-Its on flapjacks?
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jun 25, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Xanthan, is that your grand papi?
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by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Does anyone actually want this trade to go down? I can’t tell if it’s a joke or not >.>. Personally, I would hate to see Cain go. Once you get into the playoffs, all you need is two really really good pitchers to win the championship.
by snafu on Jun 25, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No
It doesn’t make sense for either team.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It makes sense for the Brewers. Good pitchers are harder to find than good first basemen, and a single pitcher can have a pretty big impact. But Fielder over here would hit a few homers (although fewer overall because of the giant wall in right field), but he wouldn’t improve the offense all that much because offensively baseball is a team sport. Trading Cain for Fielder would be better for them than for us.
by quincy0191 on Jun 25, 2009 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh dear god
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
by Aadik on Jun 25, 2009 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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Grant…how do you sleep at night?
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 11:57 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
By being perfectly frank.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s furter than I would have stretched.
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by EliminateMe on Jun 25, 2009 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I got no beef with that.
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live - too rare to die."
by younghutch on Jun 25, 2009 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Alright!
Time to cane Fielder!
I believe that’s what all the kids are saying….
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
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by thehavenot on Jun 25, 2009 11:58 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Maybe we’ll get ridiculously lucky and Sanchez will pitch a 2 hit CG shutout and the pitching starved(that word might be an understatement) Brewers will be all “must have” and we can go Hardy for Sanchez and then Bochy will use that huge thing on his shoulders and go Sandoval-Hardy-Renty-Ishi and I’d like that. So none of it will happen.
by shawngf on Jun 25, 2009 12:00 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Also, found this while youtubing today. (Giants related).
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:00 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
that was my favorite of that year's commercials.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yea loved that one too. Actually came up on my rec’d videos, surprised me. Mostly there’s just Led Zeppelin and Rush on there.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Cain….High and Tight Balls of Fire
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Balls of fire, buns of steel.
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by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Man, he really has lost weight.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jun 25, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
New rally image.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hope it goes better than this game:
San Francisco Giants Band Together To Score Run
MILWAUKEE—The San Francisco Giants put aside their differences Sunday night, working together as a team in a common effort to score a run in a baseball game. The scrappy nine-man crew overcame daunting odds to cobble together the run, as each player used his individual strengths and skills to help string together an unlikely series of events—including a walk, advancement on a wild pitch, an infield single, and perhaps most selfless of all, a ground into double play—that ultimately resulted in a Giant crossing home plate. “This just shows you what a team can do when they put their mind to it,” said Giants first-baseman Dan Ortmier, who was swarmed by his celebrating teammates at home plate after scoring the run. The Giants lost to the Brewers 12-1.
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by Norm Median on Jun 25, 2009 12:02 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That wasn’t a real game, was it?
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quite possibly
But t’was The Onion
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Side topic: news stories you're amazed AREN'T from The Onion
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by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We saw article this morning. Only in San Francisco.
I can picture it now….
String Theory!!!
M-theory!!
You’re a P-brane!
I’ll brane you! /whack
by Merope on Jun 25, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Of course not. It was MANY real games.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No it wasn’t real. It’s making fun of the first week of the 08 season. The Giants were swept in Milwaukee. I believe they lost the first game 13-4 and the last game 7-0.
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by Norm Median on Jun 25, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That
is the funniest thing (and most pathetic) thing I have read in a while
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 26, 2009 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Brewers ERA in the month of June is 5.63. I hope it’s not a trap.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love this one.
I actually hear his voice when I see this.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think the entire world can hear it.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And another thing: Bothans... either not very thorough researchers, or maybe just gullible.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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by RDreamer on Jun 25, 2009 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Amazingly, this was on another SBN site. I’m not sure what that means.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s a metaphor for the meaning of life
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sheesh, talk about a sideways glance….
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by Juan Primo on Jun 25, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ITS CRAP?
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
or maybe they just die easy.
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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by zenbitz on Jun 25, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sure, they die easy; I don't mind that. But they gave crap information about the DeathStar & its defenses.
If the Bothans were intern spies, I would definitely not sign the certificate that gives them college credit. Just saying.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
MAYBE they were just in cahoots with the Emperor!
by satyricrash on Jun 25, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quick one there.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That possibility cannot be ignored. Stinking Bothans. Who hired them, anyway?
Nice image, b.t.w.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not bunk info
Emperor: “It was I who allowed the alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It’s quite safe from your pitiful little band.”
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by ResDog on Jun 25, 2009 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Right, and better spies would have figured out the source.
Always be skeptical of sources, and always vet the motives of those who provide information. Always. Stupid Bothans. It ended up working out ok, but only through the colossal ass-saving by others.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Basically because of teddy bears and a person who could make incredibly convoluted plans work but couldn’t see that torturing someone’s son to death would make him want to through him down a long shaft.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
by thehavenot on Jun 25, 2009 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And the hole in the death star big enough to fly a huge ass spaceship through to the main power core that if shot twice will blow the whole thing up. It’s like they said “You know that two meter wide hole we put in the last Death Star that lead to our downfall? That didn’t work out too well did it? Let’s make it bigger!” wtf?
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by ResDog on Jun 26, 2009 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, but it wasn’t finished yet.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 26, 2009 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Probably should have been completed & installed before the Emperor’s plush swivel chair.
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by ResDog on Jun 26, 2009 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
They had a shield around it while it was being constructed. The shield generator was taken out by the rebels on Endor. Also, the exhaust port was changed on the new Death Star!
The most important revisions to the Death Star design made by Lemelisk were made to take into account and eradicate the technical flaws of the original battlestation which had enabled it to be destroyed during the Battle of Yavin. The first major change made in this redesign was the elimination of the two-meter-wide thermal exhaust port that was used to ignite a chain reaction in the main reactor of the first Death Star, destroying it. This was greatly improved, from a defensive standpoint, in the new revision. Instead of venting gases out of a single port, millions of millimeter-wide exhaust ports were scattered over the surface of the station, each of which propelled a small amount of the excess heat and gases into the vacuum. The new system also took advantage of new highly-advanced protections and safe-guards that would seal the small exhaust ports in the event of any unexpected excess of heat or energy.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 26, 2009 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is one of the nerdiest things I’ve ever seen you write.
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by Natto on Jun 26, 2009 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Still, in terms of importance:
Closing up the large shaft leading to the main power generator >>>> Installing Swivel Chair
And you’re obviously the bigger fan than me.
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by ResDog on Jun 26, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, one of them would require you to basically finish building the damn thing.
The other involves taking a swivel chair upstairs.
Not really the same thing.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
by groug on Jun 26, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
you beat me to it
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by RDreamer on Jun 25, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not sure how this meme caught on, but I don’t mind.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Has there ever been logic to how MCC memes catch or don’t?
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s not as fun if there’s a logical explanation.
by deuce deuce on Jun 25, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It was an internets meme first. I dont know how it happened, but it still makes me laugh.
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ah, I think I’ve only seen it here.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
It’s an internet-wide thing.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
jcb9 doesn’t get out much.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The first I saw it was on Fark, like 2001-ish, but I’m sure it’s older than that.
by satyricrash on Jun 25, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think it might actually baseball primer (no BBTF)
but FARK might predate it.
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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by zenbitz on Jun 25, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, it’s from FARK, it just infected Baseball Primer at an early date in the meme’s lifespan.
On Primer, it was eventually replaced by the far more obnoxious “Behold!”
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by D.Szymborski on Jun 29, 2009 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When Wilson faces Braun, it’ll be doucheMANIA 2009!
Mo'ped Money, Mo'ped Problems
by Scooter Ellis on Jun 25, 2009 12:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I do too. I’m failing to see the douche connection with Braun.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Braun is one of my favorite non-Giant players
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Brewers are my second team behind the Giants. Braun hits good. It’s easy to like him.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not a diva, all business, hits dingerz. Whats not to like
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly. And I like the Jews so it’s win-win.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like Braun as well
I’d like him more if he were an SF Giant though.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
by Aadik on Jun 25, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Maybe Scooter got him confused with Corey Hart.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jun 25, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Braun = Lincecum’s hitter equiv. or is is Longoria?
by Giant Homer on Jun 25, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would say Longoria
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Braun and Longoria combined like Voltron
by SoFa King Mike on Jun 25, 2009 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Braungoria
Thats Badass
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lincecum hitter equiv = Braungoria
And can I throw in: with Vince Coleman speed?
by Giant Homer on Jun 26, 2009 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ive seen Braun play in about 200 games in his career
He’s a total douche.
by backtocali on Jun 25, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m guessing everyone missed the part about Braun’s side business. He designs t-shirts for douche’s to wear, therefore making him one…at least by extension.
http://deadspin.com/5277789/ryan-braun-would-like-to-help-you-grease-up-your-wardrobe
by AndOnTheDrums... on Jun 25, 2009 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hate those kinds of t-shirts.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s how you know you aren’t a douchebag.
by AndOnTheDrums... on Jun 25, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t know if that makes him a douche. Just weird.
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by Cookyman on Jun 25, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That is one weird looking group, and Braun fits right in
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh the fashion choices are suspect for sure, but that would be like classifying me as a nasty skank because I wear naughty underthings from time to time. Braun is not a douche, he just wears bad clothes.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Douche uniform, not a douche.
He’s the balldude for the douches.
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by merkin on Jun 25, 2009 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Reminds me of those airbrushed shirts you find at street fairs. Either that or this:
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?
by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bodacious!
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I get mine at the van conventions.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
OMG that shirt is the most awesome of awesomeness. It arrived 3 days before I even ordered it which is amazing in and of itself, and when I put it on, man females cannot resist me.
Thanks wolf T-shirt!
by jctGamer on Jun 25, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You’re irresistible to man females?
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by Cookyman on Jun 25, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
FRANDSVESTITES
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
it’s amazing what a missing comma does to your sentence….
by jctGamer on Jun 25, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
GRAMMAR
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This shirt is something Bret (Flight of the Conchords) would wear. Nice.
"El once, chico. Eleven."
by Juan Primo on Jun 25, 2009 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bret would only wear the sweatshirt version, though.
Joe Martinez: My fingers are crossed and my palms are together for you.
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by cornball on Jun 25, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s not design, that’s cut-and-paste.
by satyricrash on Jun 25, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good Lord, what’s up with MLB players and their obsession with the Affliction-like clothing?
by kimmyg on Jun 25, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ha! I like the term Jabroni-wear. I’m sure it will come to mind next time I see a db in an affliction shirt
by m34josh on Jun 25, 2009 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i love you guys sometimes…where else can i go to get a good fake motivational poster laugh about an obscure star wars character?
of course, there is also the lolcats nonsense, but nobody is perfect
Les Plack = more chicks
I am running roughshod over the dingerz.exe league. the dl is trying to jinx me, but im too guile-y.
by Headhunter Rollins on Jun 25, 2009 12:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If there were just a bit more fang showing I would say that is like the view from inside my TV after 3 or 4th double switch.
Yes, This is still a 79 win squad.
Where is my beer & chili dog?
by daveinexile on Jun 25, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This place is like a microcosm of the internet, without the eye burning images, and with a touch of baseball
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
CB! Look at you! Using commas correctly!
You crazy kid. I think you’re gonna be O…… K……
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And look at the word "microcsm"
I dont actually know what it means, but it sounds really cool
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
microcosm
a very small scale representation of a larger whole
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by RDreamer on Jun 25, 2009 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
(I actually did know what it meant)
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and here i thought i was using my vocabulary knowledge
for the good of my fellow man
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
by RDreamer on Jun 25, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You get nothing, you lose, good day sir!
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
by RDreamer on Jun 25, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There was a really bad episode of Star Trek: Voyager called “Macrocosm” where the ship was infested with giant viruses, the size of dogs. It was really stupid.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh crap, I remember that episode. I don’t know how or why.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Some of my least favorite Voyager episodes
- Favorite Son: Harry Kim finds his “true home world,” which reproduces by seeding children onto other worlds to be raised (never mind that Voyager is set on the OTHER SIDE OF THE GALAXY). The planet is really slutty, and they’re constantly screwing each other, so Harry Kim is like HELLS YEAH. But then it turns out that it’s a trap and they just want to eat his brains or suck his lifeforce or something.
- Threshold: Tom Paris invents a way to break the Warp 10 barrier (my Star Trek NERDZ know that warp 10 = infinite speed, so this actually makes no sense) in a shuttlecraft. However, doing so causes him to mutate and “evolve at an accelerated rate” (because that’s how evolution works!) until he becomes a frog creature. Then he kidnaps Janeway and takes her off on the shuttle, where she becomes a frog creature too. They land on a planet, spawn, and have frog children. Even though they’re travelling at infinite speed, they find the planet in like five minutes, magically cure Paris, and leave the frog children on the planet. My wife and I call this episode “Frog Fucking.”
- Virus (I think that’s the name): Harry Kim gets space herpes.
- The Fight: The ship enters a strange area of space which causes Chakotay to hallucinate that he’s boxing a spacial anomaly for some reason.
- Anything with Neelix as the central character.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
In Star Trek : The Next Generation — All Good Things… , Admiral Riker was commanding the 3 warp nacelle Enterprise and it was able to go warp 13.
by jctGamer on Jun 25, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, and there was a big NERD debate over that. Some saw it as a screw-up, which some assumed that, that far in the future, they had reoriented the warp speed spectrum.
There were also jokes about how they’d raised the speed limit.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
All last episodes are kinda meh…
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Speaking of bad TV/movies, this cracks me up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Y3hvd0bFQ
I love the UNDEFEATABLE clip
by xanthan on Jun 25, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Meg Ryan’s death in City of Angels should be on that.
She’s just fallen in love with Nicholas Cage, who’s an angel by the way, and she’s feeling so alive that she goes out for a scenic bike ride. She’s riding down an empty country road, and she lets go of the handlebars, closes her eyes, and lifts her arms up to feel the wind and the sun and the air….and gets crushed by a semi-truck.
It’s supposed to be all tragic and stuff, but I burst out laughing. What crap.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
GARBAGE DAY!!
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
OHHHH MYYYYY GOOOOOD
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I can’t believe that most of those were from sequels.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know. I really need to see the other two Shark Attacks.
by xanthan on Jun 25, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Did somebody say terrible movie deaths?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAt7eqmzxGU&fmt=18
little kids are really bad at death scenes.
Watch out Sanchez... uncle Pucetas is comin' for you.
by Sammy Danger on Jun 25, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh wow. What the hell? I liked how weirdly upbeat the music was.
by xanthan on Jun 25, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
...
What did I just watch? I like how that one kid’s head exploded Scanners style.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
According to IMDb, it’s a movie where kids are kidnapped and brainwashed by a “troubled teen.” Sounds like a quality flick!
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I read the synopsis on Wikipedia. It makes even less sense.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
by ResDog on Jun 26, 2009 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
by ResDog on Jun 26, 2009 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
UNDEFEATABLE
Best. Movie. EVER.
by SoFa King Mike on Jun 25, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Troll 2 is pretty effing good too.
I like cats. Wings is the greatest show of all time.
by Norm Median on Jun 25, 2009 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh man, Troll 2. The green goo and the terrible everything.
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by cornball on Jun 25, 2009 8:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
all in good fun
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x930vt_william-shatner-snl-skit-get-a-life_fun
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol Threshold
That episode was hilariously absurd.
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by groug on Jun 25, 2009 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Fight
I thought that was the one with the Rock. Until you gave the synopsis, that is.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
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by thehavenot on Jun 25, 2009 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Macrocosm was also the name of a bootleg of Cream’s reunion shows.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fixed
There was a really bad episode of Star Trek: Voyager called "Macrocosm" where the ship was infested with giant viruses, the size of dogs. It was really stupid.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, coming soon to a minor league near you.
by EliminateMe on Jun 25, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I meant to say that a really bad episode of Voyager was somewhat redundant.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I liked 7 of 9. She was pretty hot. And I was pretty young.
by jctGamer on Jun 25, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Doctor was good, and Seven was pretty good when they weren’t just using her for t&a, and when they weren’t just using her to “extract nanoprobes” as a magical solution to every problem because the writers were lazy.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
you have something against T&A?
It was glorious.
by jctGamer on Jun 25, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Glorious enough to derail an entire Senate campaign.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I believe that was the "let's go to the sex club" governor's fault
by wcw on Jun 25, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
using taxpayer money
I don’t give an airborne rodent’s posterior if these guys wanna stick their dicks in a watermelon. Just don’t spend taxpayer/public/campaign funds on hookers, trips to see your mistresses, etc. That’s what makes you an asshole in my book.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hypocrisy is always valid grounds for attack, always and everywhere.
If Bill Clinton has extramarital affairs, that’s one thing— he is well known to be a tough dog to keep on the porch. But when someone deliberately claims the mantle of righteousness and wants to cram his particular religious brand down your throat via public policy, then yeah, he gets the extra-hard kick in the nuts when he violates the standard he has ZERO hesitation to judge YOU by.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
YES!
Remember these people preach absentness as sex ed, or at least want to, and they can’t remain faithful. How many abortions “murders” you think he has paid for?
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
don’t get political.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love how it’s always OK to get political except when someone says something you don’t agree with (obviously by “you” I don’t necessarily mean you).
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:-(
by Cookyman on Jun 25, 2009 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
right. I’d like to avoid this being a place where that becomes a predominant mindset.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Which is why, of course, you never engage in political discussion around here.
Consistency is all I ask for. If you don’t want to talk politics, don’t. If you do want to, do it, but try to avoid flame wars (and make sure Grant isn’t watching). But don’t talk politics one day and then try to shut someone up the next just because you don’t agree with him.
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:-(
by Cookyman on Jun 25, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It is infrequent, and it is always a BRIEF detour.
Usually much shorter than discussions about whether anything in the non-baseball world in which we live should ever be mentioned.
And what is with outright prohibition of a topic, anyway? Seeing something with which one disagrees is simply too, too much to bear? Please. This site is devoted to a topic that engenders passions, rivalries, differences, conflicts, etc.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anyway, I think anything baseball or sports related is fair game, though once a discussion descends into namecalling, it’s probably over anyway.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
By the way, I once wrote a really long comment about this in some politics thread, and Grant deleted the entire thread about two seconds after I posted it. That sucked.
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:-(
by Cookyman on Jun 25, 2009 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's still there!
But only some people can see it.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh the responsibilities.
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by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have, like, an entire thesis on unemployment during the great depression that’s gone.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
by oldjacket on Jun 25, 2009 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
are you Amity Shlaes?
..because that would explain a lot.
by wcw on Jun 25, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hardly.
Though I agree with her that Hoover gets a bum rap, just for different reasons.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
by oldjacket on Jun 25, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
if that were her main thesis..
..she wouldn’t be wrong, but then she wouldn’t get all the juicy media appearances either. I can’t say I blame her for the choices she’s made.
by wcw on Jun 25, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
nailed it
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
by oldjacket on Jun 25, 2009 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You might say that he doesn’t suck as much as people think.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
As far as the defining moment of his presidency goes, all he did was listen to people who were experts at the time.
The rest of his life and career is very interesting and admirable. His work in China makes for some fascinating stories.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
by oldjacket on Jun 25, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’ve always said that his primary failing as president wasn’t really economic, it was that he was uncharismatic and that made it seem like he didn’t care.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not trying to shut anyone up (again, I hope you mean “you” as you defined it above.) I can engage in a political flame war with the best of them, but I’ve learned that it isn’t wise to do that around here. There are other places for heated political discussions on the web.
And I’m fine with what, Mayor calls “brief detours.” it happens. no need to get all upset, but if I see that a detour becoming the main route, I might say something or leave, neither of which I want to do.
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's actually one of the few criticisms of our community that I have
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
by thehavenot on Jun 25, 2009 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think you mean “abstinence”.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’ve tried both of those, though.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
by oldjacket on Jun 25, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I tried one, and had the other forced upon me.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
some choose abstinence, others have abstinence thrust upon them
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
by oldjacket on Jun 25, 2009 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Can’t abstain and thrust at the same time.
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"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
wow…this why I don’t go to work early and stay late
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, it was.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Governor?
I don’t think there was any governor involved. Jack Ryan, her ex-husband/the sex club guy, hadn’t held political office before running for Senate. There was a governor of Illinois with the last name Ryan, and he was a skeeze in his own right, but they’re not the same guy.
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Governor George Ryan was just a normal Illinois style crooked politician.
Senator Jack Ryan just wanted to do kinky stuff to his wife in public.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
yiminy, my mistake
There I assumed they were all the same Ryan.
by wcw on Jun 25, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Both perfectly understandable impulses.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The doctor was awesome.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006, and bringing you all your California League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
What is the nature of your emergency?
by jctGamer on Jun 25, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
a very small cosm
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
obscure star wars character, you say?
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No Star Wars character is obscure now. Phrases like “IT’S A TRAP!” and “OOO teel ee!” stay in your minds.
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, come back!
by WalrusMan on Jun 25, 2009 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anagram of "scrappy, OBP-dependent gritmasters"
RESPECT TOP GEMS AND BANDY STRIPPER
Anagram of "knowing how to win" = WOW, I KNOW NOTHING
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Jun 25, 2009 12:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
OUCH, my liver!
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
by can of corn on Jun 25, 2009 12:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Billingsley gives up a 3 run home run to give the whitesox a 5-4 lead!
by superk1ng on Jun 25, 2009 1:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Hawk Harrelson is pleased
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
YEEEEEEEESS!
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It was AJ though, ugh
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
As long as AJ gets beaned or punched in the head eventually, it evens out.
by SoFa King Mike on Jun 25, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was emulating Hawk Harrelson.
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by Natto on Jun 25, 2009 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know, I just looked at gameday and found out who hit it
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by CB30 on Jun 25, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When the White Sox won, Harrelson said “Yeeeeesss. Hell yesssssss!!!!” what a douche.
by SFGuy on Jun 25, 2009 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It Was Against the Dodgers Though
I’ll let it slide…this time
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jun 26, 2009 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
KLAW BURN
ravi (san francisco)
The Giants have the second best record in the NL! And the stupid, east-coast-centric ESPN staff (incl. YOU) refuses to give them their due. This is intolerable I demand you rectify it AT ONCE!!
Keith Law
I’ll talk about the Giants … they’re not that good.
Obviously reads beyond the boxscores
by jctGamer on Jun 25, 2009 1:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think we are this good, either.
by xanthan on Jun 25, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
But we will be once Sabean trades Villalona and Alderson for Mark DeRosa!
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.
by jcb9 on Jun 25, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up