Giants/Brewers Series Preview
by Grant Brisbee on Jun 25, 2009 11:28 AM PDT
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PrintRemember 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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CAIN 4 FIEDLER
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by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
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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
Fiddler performed at Cain Park
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gesundheit
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Rest in peace, Farrah.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
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?
Zito and Sanchez against the Brewers?
Keep it almost respectable please
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Sanchez could be skipped
they’re thinking about moving Lincecums start to Sunday
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
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
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
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
take a number
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
or read
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
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.
I know one team that enjoys it
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I believe it’s “mind-bottling”.
I like cats. Wings is the greatest show of all time.
by Norm Median on Jun 25, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
For all intensive purposes it might as well be.
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It's feast or phantom.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the Brewers but not for the next three games.
FUCK ’EM!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
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
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.
It is one of the all-time great logos.
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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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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
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.
What happens when Cain faces Fielder? Does the world end?
by deuce deuce on Jun 25, 2009 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
I have a feeling the last thing ever see will be cain winding up…
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
It opens up a wormhole sending us into a parallel universe. Wacky hijinks ensue.
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by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Wacky hijacks?
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Wacky flapjacks
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by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
but can they outrun the sausage?
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Maybe if they tackled them and wrapped them up.
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Mascots are yummy
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Who puts Cheez-Its on flapjacks?
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jun 25, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Xanthan, is that your grand papi?
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
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.
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.
Oh dear god
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
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Grant…how do you sleep at night?
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By being perfectly frank.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s furter than I would have stretched.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, coming soon to a minor league near you.
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.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
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.
Also, found this while youtubing today. (Giants related).
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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
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Cain….High and Tight Balls of Fire
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Balls of fire, buns of steel.
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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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That wasn’t a real game, was it?
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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
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
That
is the funniest thing (and most pathetic) thing I have read in a while
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 26, 2009 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
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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
I think the entire world can hear it.
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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
Amazingly, this was on another SBN site. I’m not sure what that means.
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or maybe they just die easy.
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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
MAYBE they were just in cahoots with the Emperor!
by satyricrash on Jun 25, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
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
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.”
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
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
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.
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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Yeah, but it wasn’t finished yet.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 26, 2009 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Probably should have been completed & installed before the Emperor’s plush swivel chair.
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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
This is one of the nerdiest things I’ve ever seen you write.
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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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I’m not sure how this meme caught on, but I don’t mind.
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Has there ever been logic to how MCC memes catch or don’t?
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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
It was an internets meme first. I dont know how it happened, but it still makes me laugh.
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Ah, I think I’ve only seen it here.
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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
I think it might actually baseball primer (no BBTF)
but FARK might predate it.
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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
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
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
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
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.
Maybe Scooter got him confused with Corey Hart.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jun 25, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Braun and Longoria combined like Voltron
by SoFa King Mike on Jun 25, 2009 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
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
That’s how you know you aren’t a douchebag.
by AndOnTheDrums... on Jun 25, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
That is one weird looking group, and Braun fits right in
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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
Douche uniform, not a douche.
He’s the balldude for the douches.
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Reminds me of those airbrushed shirts you find at street fairs. Either that or this:
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by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I get mine at the van conventions.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
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!
Bret would only wear the sweatshirt version, though.
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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
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
And look at the word "microcsm"
I dont actually know what it means, but it sounds really cool
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microcosm
a very small scale representation of a larger whole
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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.
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lol
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh crap, I remember that episode. I don’t know how or why.
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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.
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.
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.
Speaking of bad TV/movies, this cracks me up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Y3hvd0bFQ
I love the UNDEFEATABLE clip
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.
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I can’t believe that most of those were from sequels.
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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
...
What did I just watch? I like how that one kid’s head exploded Scanners style.
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According to IMDb, it’s a movie where kids are kidnapped and brainwashed by a “troubled teen.” Sounds like a quality flick!
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I read the synopsis on Wikipedia. It makes even less sense.
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Oh man, Troll 2. The green goo and the terrible everything.
Joe Martinez: My fingers are crossed and my palms are together for you.
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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
lol Threshold
That episode was hilariously absurd.
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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.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
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.
Yeah, I meant to say that a really bad episode of Voyager was somewhat redundant.
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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.
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Glorious enough to derail an entire Senate campaign.
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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
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
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
don’t get political.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
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).
Adoptive parent of Noah Lowry.
:-(
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
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.
Adoptive parent of Noah Lowry.
:-(
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.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
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
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.
Adoptive parent of Noah Lowry.
:-(
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.
are you Amity Shlaes?
..because that would explain a lot.
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.
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.
You might say that he doesn’t suck as much as people think.
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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.
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.
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Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
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.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
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.
I tried one, and had the other forced upon me.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
some choose abstinence, others have abstinence thrust upon them
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
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
Yes, it was.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
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.
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Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
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.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
yiminy, my mistake
There I assumed they were all the same Ryan.
Both perfectly understandable impulses.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
The doctor was awesome.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
a very small cosm
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
obscure star wars character, you say?
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
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
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
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
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
But we will be once Sabean trades Villalona and Alderson for Mark DeRosa!
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Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Yeah, but there's still that nagging voice in the back of your head...
saying, “Fuck You Keith we are going to shove those words down your throat and after we’re done we’ll make you ask for more.”
I have problems don’t I?
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.
I like Keith Law a lot
But he also has a point; results to this point are not predictive of results going forward and as much as we rail against BTB or anyone who points that out, it doesn’t change the underlying facts. For example, our bullpen has been magnificent – but if you think Affeldt will maintain a 1.65 ERA all season and that our “worst” reliever will have an ERA of 4.15 (obviously better measures), I think we’re smoking something.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
He’s thinking critically about the team and what has happened so far to get them into this position. I’m glad he took the time do to this, and not just look at superficial stats and standings and declare ZOMG BEST TEAM IN BASBAL
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
exactly
I’m thrilled we are where we are, but the bullpen in my mind is the prime candidate for regression. Aaron Rowand isn;t really likely to maintain an OPS of .860 all year (which he’s done once in his career); and I love Pablito, but a .930 OPS seems pretty damn unsustainable (and I really really hope I’m wrong). There’s a lot of potential rabbit holes here, and it behooves not to sweep them under the rug because we don’t like them. I’ll be thrilled if we contend despite all our flaws and we don’t have to give back wins already earned, but regression can be a bitch.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
And even with all this, we’re over-performing our run differential. Second best record in the NL, but like 5 teams have better differentials.
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Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
The run differential thing is real, but I don’t really think the team as a whole has underperformed. For every Sandoval there’s a Burriss.
that's fair
but for example, BTB points out that we’ve been the most “clutch” team in baseball (I know, shocker)? A good bullpen can help that, but our bullpen has been lights-out good.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
Yeah, Rowand and Sandoval coming down to earth should hopefully be balanced by Winn and Renteria returning to numbers closer to career averages. The bullpen, though (as Aadik points out) is pretty much all meeting or exceeding career norms at this point, and that could really fall apart.
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I dunno
Considering their respective ages, I wonder if Winn, Renteria, and Molina are just not very good anymore.
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Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
i thought that last year
but then Molina and Winn decided to go nuts in the second half
I’m glad he took the time do to this, and not just look at superficial stats and standings and declare ZOMG BEST TEAM IN BASBAL
Really? Take the time? How about explaing it a little more than “they’re not that good.” Unless I’m missing something outside of the quote posted here.
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Kevin Frandsen, come back!
I chatted with him a bit on it, though per our agreement it’s just Facebook friends shooting the shit.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Obey the KLaw
He’s right.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
thing I learned today from Fangraphs about Matt Cain
He has the fourth-best fastball in the majors this season among qualifying starters in terms of run value per 100 pitches. Fourth best. In the majors. I mean, I always liked his fastball, but wow. Just, wow. Unfortunately, he also has the worst slider in the majors. The very worst. At least for those starters who throw it. Yikes.
Also, those of you who like to hate on me, please do not look at the name attached to the third-best fastball in the majors. It’ll only make your brain hurt.
SSS is a smaller issue for FB than for any other pitch type
It is, after all, the single most-common pitch around.
Tallet is at #7 on the per-100 list, and that might well be a small-sample effect, though his has registered a positive for most of his career. Not all the outliers are flukes.
Vincente Padilla and Brian Bannister are pretty high on that list.
Also, Dr. Drew has a test he would like you to take . . .
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
mostly Jason Heyward
Porcello was just the icing on the cake
Mr. Bochy, Please..
Skip Jonathan Sanchez’ spot for the Sunday game and let Timmy pitch on normal rest. I do not want my two nephews’ first Giant game experiences to be that of the Giant pitcher dyijng of whiplash.
I would much rather their experience be 42,000 disappointed drunks witnessing the Glory of Lincecum, and going home extremely upset in the 90 degree, 85% humitidy heat.
And Erwin Schrödinger. He gets most of the blame for inventing physics, or something.
Well, he does and he doesn’t.
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THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
Don’t ask Heisenberg. He’s very uncertain of the answer to this question.
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.
And you know Mr. Feyman is probably joking
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
Like Einstein said, it's all relative
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And Hawking.....uh......uhhh......is in a wheelchair?
I’ve got nothing.
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.
Wormholes!
Or maybe not.
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 thought he invented LOLcats…?
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thank you
Always makes me laugh, or never
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Say Hey! Say Who? Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
Oh that is rich.
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.
Geovany Soto
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:26 PM PDT reply actions
THE INTEGRITY OF THE GAME IS CALLED INTO QUESTION
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The need to legalize this, it is really a joke, now.
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Performance Enhancing Drug...
for eating 100 bags of Doritos
by SoFa King Mike on Jun 25, 2009 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
From what I understand they don’t penalize positive tests for marijuana.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I think actually it counts for one of his positive tests for banned substances. So it’s treated as a first positive and he’s warned and tested more.
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I found an article on the suspension/penalties for using it on Baseball America in my research for a fiction story I’m working on. I was disappointed to find it doesn’t carry a suspension in the minors, because I was going to base a portion of the story on such a suspension.
Under the rules of MLB’s joint drug treatment and prevention program, a player suspended for 25 or more days has failed at least two drug tests after being entered into the program and was using a "prohibited substance’’ deemed by MLB more severe than marijuana. Under the rules, players cannot be suspended for use or possession of marijuana.
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/news/040218hamilton.html
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions
If you can stomach crude language and deplorable sentence construction, check out this email my friend sent me:
TRUE STORY: A friend of mine, she had a real shitty day the other day, her piano is broken and it’ll cost a lot to fix, and she got some other bad news, and then she was riding her bike in central park and a motherfucking dog bit her on the leg, like it broke the skin and also ruined her juicy couture velour trackpants (prolly for the best, about the pants). So to cheer herself up she decided to buy herself an ice cream so she went to the bodega and got a hagen dazs vanilla almond toffee bar from the freezer case and went to pay for it, the counterman said it’s $3.75, she was like fuck that I’m too broke for a $3.75 ice cream bar, she went back and put it in the case, there was a man leaning over the freezer case but she didn’t see his face, she headed out of the bodega and was getting on her bike and out of the bodega walks Alec Fucking Baldwin and he hands her the fucking vanilla almond toffee hagen dazs bar
Legend.
"El once, chico. Eleven."
He's performed Shakespeare, so the connection to this site is...
2b or not 2b? That is the question.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:47 PM PDT reply actions
We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.
Jackson had 13 number one hits during his solo career.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, man, if that’s true, things are going to go crazy at work (I work for a company that does online obits, including obits/guestbooks for celebrity deaths…Michael Jackson would be absolutely nuts).
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Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
SF Gate is reporting that he’s been hospitalized. No death confirmation… yet.
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.
Weird guy, creepy guy. But he and Quincy Jones made some straight up art.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
I was never in love with his solo work like most people are, but the Jackson 5 is some of the best bubblegum pop ever made.
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.
Truth
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.
Way to upstage Farrah, you drama queen.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
wow
That came out of nowhere.
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?
by rightcenterfielder on Jun 25, 2009 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
DDDDDDD:
I’m officially creeped out
I watched Moonwalker yesterday
Watch out Sanchez... uncle Pucetas is comin' for you.
by Sammy Danger on Jun 25, 2009 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry. I’m trying to hold back the laughter.
by SoFa King Mike on Jun 25, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Quick favor: watch some footage of Bud Selig.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
No way.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe not quite yet...
NEVER TRUST TMZ
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Farrah, MJ...
These things happen in threes…hope that isn’t true in this case.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jun 25, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Ed McMahon too. There’s your threes.
Sad.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
They’re playing clips of his videos on CNN.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
LA TIMES and CNBC reporting that he's died
CNN is trying to confirm
LOL CNN
I just get the image of some lamebrain reporter who can’t get the story.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
CNN: “confirmed with twitter and facebook…”
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Here come the pre-written obits…
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jun 25, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
BTW
Does/did MJ still own the bulk of the Beatles catalog?
Judgment Day is coming
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I think he had to sell the publishing rights due to his financial problems.
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.
Yeah, he sold them…that’s why you hear even more Beatles songs on commercials over the past few years.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jun 25, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Y’all notice the Dodgers and White Sox are into the 12th inning now?
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.
Go South-siders!
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.
OZZIE GUILLEN IS A NICE, EVEN-KEEL KINDA GUY WHO HAS NEVER SAID AN UNKIND WORD ABOUT ANYONE!!!
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.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
that's his son
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Its the not kiss that makes it so creepy
its the arm wrapped around him drawing him closer….makes it look like a make out session
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Say Hey! Say Who? Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
Also, why are Ozzie’s eyes open?
"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."
MLBN is inside the park right now
Watch out Sanchez... uncle Pucetas is comin' for you.
by Sammy Danger on Jun 25, 2009 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks! Go Racist Sox!!!
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Sox orgy
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Sox fiend.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jun 25, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
NEVER MIND HOORAY
SUCK IT MATT KEMP
Watch out Sanchez... uncle Pucetas is comin' for you.
by Sammy Danger on Jun 25, 2009 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Suck it Russel J Martin
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 25, 2009 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
best
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 25, 2009 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
saved
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.
i love those uni’s
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jun 25, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
scrappy obp players remind me of adam kennedy, darin erstad, and david eckstein. i hate them all with the fire of a thousand suns! and yes i hate craig counsel too
No one here gets out alive.
Past scrappers that I hated:
Lenny Dykstra (before ’roids)
Walt Weiss
Steve Sax
Mark Lemke
Jeff Blauser
"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."
Oh, and Chis Fucking Sabo.
"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."
another near worthless player that always seemed to kill us.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
Had a cat named Sabo, got her during the ’90 series
Tommy Lasorda HATES GIANTSBOARD.COM
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Goggles?
"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."
"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."
THAT’S HER!!
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i am just praying the giants don’t trade for adam kennedy. i can’t handle bengi and kennedy both on the giants. one is almost too much to handle.
No one here gets out alive.
What about trading Bengie FOR Kennedy?
"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."
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