Freddy Sanchez: One Last Post....
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 30, 2009 1:14 PM PDT
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PrintAcceptance. I will root for my contending San Francisco Giants Baseball Club, and I will root for them heartily. They’re a better team than yesterday’s group of misfits, and that’s a good thing.
On the first of July, Kevin Goldstein wrote this about Tim Alderson:
Scouts still find it difficult to warm up to Alderson, however. "It's not an insult at all, he's a for-sure, big-league starting pitcher for me," said one scout who saw him recently, "but it's strictly back of the rotation for me," he added, while explaining that Alderson's backwards style of pitching is not one that is usually conducive to major league success. "That plus breaking ball is his calling card, and he's a guy with plus-plus control and average command, but he can't pitch off his fringy fastball, and you don't really see many changeups out of him."
At the time it was written, that passage was obviously untrue. Alderson did not have any flaws at that time. Now that he’s been traded away, though, the passage is certainly true. Alderson was obviously flawed. Schrödinger’s flaws! A month ago, I was rationalizing Alderson’s declining K-rate as a product of his youth. Now it’s obvious that his fastball will never allow him to be an All-Star. Having opinions is much easier when you don’t mind being inconsistent or hypocritical.
But my main point of discontent – that Alderson could have been used to acquire a more productive hitter – might be inaccurate. Brian Sabean might have used Alderson as bait for a guy like Victor Martinez, only to be told flatly, "No. We will not accept Alderson as a centerpiece." Maybe there are 15 teams who still believe Alderson is a top-50 prospect, and maybe 14 of them are within a couple of games of the wild card/division lead. The second wave of reaction to the deal, in which a couple of learned folks tried to soften the "top prospect"-hyperbole surrounding Alderson, is undercutting a lot of my argument. And that’s fine with me. I don’t want to be filled with rage.
What’s still killing me, though, is that Bengie Molina is our cleanup hitter now. He was our cleanup hitter last season. In between, Alderson probably could have helped the situation. Going over the offseason trades and a list of teams that probably considered themselves non-contenders, there really isn’t an "I wish the Giants were in on that" potential deal. Maybe Dan Uggla could have been a Giant if Alderson were available in November, but Sanchez has been better than Uggla this year. In retrospect, trading for Alderson for Miguel Tejada probably would have been a solid move, especially if it meant avoiding the $18M S.S. Renteria boondoggle, but I think blood would have shot out of my eyes if such a trade went down. So maybe it’s a little unfair
Another thing that still kills me: I’m one of the 5% who still think that Kevin Frandsen will have a couple of Freddy Sanchez-type years yet. I would have liked to have been proven wrong. About seven people thought Manny Burriss could be an acceptable MLB hitter as soon as this year: two of them cash checks with a Giants logo on them, and most of the rest share DNA with Burriss. The best in-house option for second base was playing shortstop in Fresno (you know, because he didn’t have the defense for second), and the best outside options for second base weren’t really considered. Not to mention, Freddy Sanchez could have been had for a bag of Tim Alderson's fingernail clippings last offseason.
I’m not as upset as I was yesterday. I’m not sure I’m even still upset. The main points stand, and I’ll keep repeating them until they revoke my soapbox:
- The Giants have problems scoring runs because they don’t get on base and they don’t hit for power, and they traded for a player who doesn’t address either of those needs. Well, he does, but only in the sense that he’s replacing a series of comically overmatched hitters.
- The Giants probably overvalue Freddy Sanchez because he usually has a high batting average. That just shouldn’t happen in 2009. It’s like planning a vacation around the sun’s rotation of the Earth. Maybe I’m wrong with this assumption, but judging by the number of times ".300 hitter" came up in yesterday’s press conference, I don’t think so.
- I would have rather have traded for Felipe Lopez or Marco Scutaro, holding on to Alderson while his stock is down. Teams willing to eat salary usually aren’t paying retail.
- Freddy Sanchez is a good player, and I’m glad he’s on the team both this year and next.
There’s still a day left before the deadline. And, hey, lookie here: more rumors. I’ll take Kevin Correia as a cheap fifth-starter option, but only if we give up Luis Perdomo in a one-for-one swap.
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Hence the missed word.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Scary thing is, the trade deadline is not up yet.
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Lost In Extrapolation
- or -
Rationalization FTW
NL West TempestTeapot
Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Jul 30, 2009 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Dodgers get Sherill
I don’t think they are in for Roy Halladay anymore. There goes all of Richardi’s bargaining chip. He’s going to look really stupid if the Red Sox get V-Mart and pull out of the Halladay sweepstake.
Yeah, I wonder if this gets him fired? Seems like he really screwed the pooch, holding out for too much— it’s like he forgot that there might be other options out there for buyers.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn't mind seeing him there
if it means they have to give up Kemp, Ethier and Loney.
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I have moved on
Let’s see some baseball now. Someone needs to tell Bochy that Molina isn’t required to bat cleanup.
Still enough time before the deadline to trade our manager for somebody else.
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by Li on Jul 30, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I appreciate the intellectual honesty of your post.
and yes, we need to get bengie out of that 4th slot. he ends all chances of a rally if he gets a hit, and he grounds into an insane amount of double plays. i wouldn’t bat him anywhere above 6th.
by HOLDEMUPwuzzBANNED on Jul 30, 2009 1:24 PM PDT reply actions
don't you just love twitter
3:22pm: Via Twitter, Kovacevic says Grabow and Gorzelanny to the Cubs is almost done, while Chris De Luca of the Chicago Sun-Times says they closed the deal for Grabow.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 1:25 PM PDT reply actions
@fakemlbtraderumors Willingham hurts neck, Giants doctors flying to Milwaukee to evaluate
OMG, Willingham!
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I’m not sure Grabow is going to help the Sun-Times. Does he even know how to write on deadline?
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
spelling points to someone else
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
right
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that third overflow thread worth going through?
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
naked pics of Natto
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
you and Krukow
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
THE LID IS STILL ON
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Someone please create a username:
Freddie Sanchez’s Achy Knee
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:26 PM PDT reply actions
Freddy Sanchez's Meniscus
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We should just rename this site “The Sanchez for Alserson Chronicles”
by CrispinGloversBalls on Jul 30, 2009 1:27 PM PDT reply actions
without the misspelling of Alderson
by CrispinGloversBalls on Jul 30, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re making an alse of yourself at this point.
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 30, 2009 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
when are you going to update the boof blog
I’ve been waiting years now
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I understand the point of view that this team really needs a power hitter and that Sanchez doesn’t get on base enough. However, I would counter that with the idea that the best way to improve a team is to upgrade your worst position. Getting Sanchez at 2B is a bigger upgrade than something like getting Willingham to play LF.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 30, 2009 1:27 PM PDT reply actions
point
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I think that the best way they could have upgraded at 2B
would have been to have just stuck Franny (or, better still, Downs) out there every day for two or three months, and stopped yo-yo-ing them around. I feel like either one of them would have come around eventually.
I think that there are two reasons why the Giants don’t develop position players well:
1. The organizational philosophy on hitting instruction emphasizes hacking-at-slop aggressiveness over patience
2. Young players that come up to The Show always know that they are on a reeeaaally short leash, and it fucks with their heads. They know that they need to get dramatically hot immediately and sustainedly to not be sent back to the bench/Central Valley.
I don’t buy the whole “AAAA” meme. If someone has consistently hit in AAA, they usually just need a solid chance for a job in the bigs to continue the trend (see “Cust, Jack”).
I think that if we had just given Todd Linden a starting job in 06, told him he had half a season’s chance with no questions asked, he would have relaxed and eventually bloomed. Same with Bowker or Nate this year, or, to get back to my point, Fransden or Downs.
Anything but the Syndrome. He was an absolute black hole in the lineup and was not even taking quality ABs. I don’t think time was going to cure his suck.
My Sig would like a few words with you.
My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
Forgive me for being a dumb dumb, but what is the difference between control and command?
Billy Ripken is not a fuck face
I think this is it. Feel free to correct me.
Control=throwing strikes
Command=throwing the right pitch in the right spot each time (throwing good sliders each time instead of hanging 2/3 of them)
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Good question
I didn’t know either.
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Command is about your doing what you mean to with your pitches.
Control is about your temper, like one certain current SF Giants who, as a minor leaguer, threw most of a no-hitter, but then got angry about something and punched a wall with his pitching hand and broke it, missing the rest of the season.
He’s gotten better, but that’s definitely the difference.
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by BruteSentiment on Jul 30, 2009 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions
My nephew, a Dodgers fan, said he thought the Giants make a good deal. He asked me “Do you like (Orlando) Hudson?” I said “yes”. He then went on to say then I would like Sanchez.
What I do question is the Giants pitching depth. The Giants have drafted only one starting pitcher in the top 5 rounds the last two drafts and have yet to sign that pick (Wheeler).
Your comment regarding pitching depth is correct.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
Wheeler turns into a must sign, in my opinion (not that I ever thought he shouldn’t be signed). I imagine his agent is thinking the same thing.
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@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
2009 1st rd pick as compensation to DBacks
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Keep Bowker. He’s going to be a good one.
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 30, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
INTERNET SITE REPORTS BOWKER IS DEALBREAKER IN A TRADE FOR HALLADAY
Wilber Bucardo: Carlos Silva with a younger brother.
GIANTS ASK BOWZER FOR HALLADAY STRAIGHT UP
NINTENDO QUESTIONS GIANTS’ RIGHTS TO BOWZER; TRADE TALKS CONTINUE.
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Jul 30, 2009 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
SHA -NA-NA REPORTEDLY ON THE TRADING BLOCK!!
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Turned out to be an extremely sad story
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4334671
Wilber Bucardo: Carlos Silva with a younger brother.
Yeah, after I read this, I couldn’t make jokes about it anymore. It just seemed wrong.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember hearing about the trade, but I didn’t realize he had been in the giants system, and so recently.
VOTE SANDOVAL
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I think I read somewhere that Lincecum crashed on Odom’s couch in San Jose, and he was shaken by Odom’s passing.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
throw in Frandsen
See if we can get David Purcey as the needed 5th starter.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I think we should use the Franchise tag on Timmy
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Renteria is going to be a valuable expiring next season.
Wilber Bucardo: Carlos Silva with a younger brother.
Tejada:
Scouts hated this guy too at the beginning of the year; said he had zero power left, was washed up, not even worth having on a fantasy team. Shows what they know…
Sabean would indeed have been roasted for trading Alderson for him. But, so what. It’s Sabean’s job to make good trades, and if he made that one he’d be looking like a genius now.
Do not meddle in the affairs of GM's, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
He wasn’t supposed to be driving in any runs either. He’s has 60 rbi and is batting .328.His stats are close behind in a comparison with someone like Sandoval.
Do not meddle in the affairs of GM's, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Even though my main goal as a hitter was always to knock in runs, RBI are more indicative of how many baserunners are on when someone is batting than the quality of the batter.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Sabean made the trade for next year, with the added bonus of 2 months rental this year. Totally different situation as Tejada.
Sabean traded for Sanchez for next year? I thought it was for this playoff race… Wouldn’t Freddie have been a lot cheaper to pick up in the off season then?
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by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
What?
Isn’t this the last year in Sabean’s contract? Why would he be setting the team up beyond this year, if he may not even be here himself?
It’s a do or die for him. Would the Giants give him an extension if he doesn’t make the playoffs 7 years in a row?
2010 club option for both FS and BS apparently
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by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m hoping the trading isn’t done yet. Willingham and Dye are still available and will serve better as cleanup hitters than Molina. It’s just, well, if Sabean was willing to give up Alderson for Sanchez, other teams are going to think they deserve Bumgarner and Posey for those types of power hitters.
Sabean told us in the off season that players will come cheaper at the trade deadline, so he would wait until then to make a deal…, well he did wait… but it doesn’t seem like we are getting anything “cheaper” than before.
I like Sabean, but I think he’s lost his ability to make rational deals with other GM’s. I feel like they probably think they can walk all over him and get exactly what they want.
Dye=rental. I wouldn’t want him more than this season and if he has no other takers, maybe… JUST MAYBE, we can pull off a trade that actually makes a little more sense… cuz I don’t care what you guys say about his age… .284 BA, 24 HR’s, 63 RBI’s is a shit ton better than what we have been using for a cleanup hitter.
BUT WE WUDDNT BE GETTIN HIM FER HIZ DEFENCE
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
How is Fred Lewis doing out there in the outfield for us? Not too good. I cringe every time I see a ball hit out to him.
Hmmmm… what would the White Sox want for Dye?
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t believe the computer Evan. He hates you and the Giants!
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
That Fred Lewis has been getting a free pass for far too long
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Yeah, it's bullshit
Does no one remember how he caused The Great Depression?
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Was a free pass part of the new deal?
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Bailout
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
This is true. My glove was EpicGenio-like.
Of course, I pitched so it really didn’t matter.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
STRAWHATS!
I thought we were beyond BA and ribbies.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Well now you have. Let’s never speak of your crappy post again.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
its all about
((RBI*TB)/((BA+OBP-SLG)^0.5)))/(HBPSH+SF-IBB))
or RTBOSSCHSSI for short
but to get a real idea of value
(((RBI*TB)/((BA+OBP-SLG)^0.5)))/(HBPSH+SF-IBB)))/PA
or RTBOSSCHSSIPA
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I have ((RBI*TB)/((BA+OBP-SLG)^0.5)))/(HBPSH+SF-IBB)) tattooed on my penis.
But when it is cold, it ’s just RTBOSSCHSSI
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions 8 recs
TWSS
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by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Small sample size.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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by jcb9 on Jul 30, 2009 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don’t think the rest of the baseball world (non-Giants fans) saw yesterday’s trade as Sabean getting fleeced
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 30, 2009 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions
and the non McCoven Giants Fans are doing Oy yoy yoy! all last night for acquiring a 3 time all star!
by jctGamer on Jul 30, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
the internet fan part of the baseball world seems to have thought that, but most of those more closely connected to baseball seem not to
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yet another example of the Internet baseball world’s over-valuing of prospects
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 30, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Baseball Primer
full of the phrase “Sabean taken to cleaners”.
But that could have just been all the over-reped-on-the-net Giants Fans …
acceptance is hard to swallow (TWSS)
It’s posts like these that make me love all of you. We collectively lost our shit yesterday. We propped one another up, laughed, cried, fought, and lived to tell about it.
Thank you.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:34 PM PDT reply actions
gamer!
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Grrr...
I hate those lyrics and I hate how catchy the tune is.
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/fights Lars
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
/gets into an early 20th century pugilist stance
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
it's amazing how McCovey Chronicles works
It’s like clock work. The Giants make a move and everybody thinks it’s the worst thing in the history of the world. Then they have a day or so (sometimes just half a day) to think it through and they end up coming around to think it’s actually a decent move after all. The drafting of Posey, the drafting of MadBum and Alderson, the signing of Renteria, etc…
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 30, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
hate the sin, love the sinner
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
What’s the point in rioting and throwing ourselves down the stairs if we can’t do it together?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Very “professional” of you, “Baron.”
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by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
if that is in fact my real name
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
“Tap” is very “professional.”
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/extrabaggs/2009/07/30/two-opposing-views-on-the-sanchezalderson-trade/
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 1:34 PM PDT reply actions
I just read that. It was epic.
He definitely reads McCC
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
/waves to Baggs
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Yeah that’s so us.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
everywhere!
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
Farm farm farm Giants Way farm prospects farm.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
No! Alderson is peaceful, we have no weapons. You can’t possibly–
So much win
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WTF Is Dantooine?
I assume its a planet, but they never told us.
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Yep. Dantooine’s a planet.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean what does it do? Who lives there, Bothans?
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http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dantooine
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
How do you get there without Warp drive?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess you take one of them new XJ7’s.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
My unsuccessful attempt at starting a Trek vs. Wars fisticuff.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Dantooine (pronounced /‘dæntuin/) was a pleasant world of grasslands, rivers and lakes. The planet was located in the Raioballo Sector of the Outer Rim at an endpoint of Myto’s Arrow, the other endpoint of which was in the Obtrexta Sector, though Dantooine itself was still far removed from most galactic traffic. It hosted a small population spread amongst single-family settlements and small communities with large land holdings. Its sentient population consisted primarily of simple Human farmers, though Dantooine was also home to the primitive Dantari race. Native wildlife included the kath hound, the iriaz, the kinrath, and the graul. The planet had no industrial settlements or advanced technology by the time of the Galactic Civil War.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
spread ugly rumors about Jermaine Dye’s personal hygiene so he’ll get through waivers in August.
McCoveyism
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jul 30, 2009 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
hygiene and/or drug use
Or do the two go hand-in-hand?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
hes a pro, he can’t be saying drug use, he might get fired
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jul 30, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
still funny, even if he didn’t go the Ackley route.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Baggs was on KNBR this morning
He was eloquent and insightful on all things Giants (including the trade) without ever coming close to falling into that gimmicky sportswriter-on-TV/radio habit of having “takes.” Two big thumbs up.
I heart Baggs.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
Which one of you is Andrew Baggerly?
Still the loving, adoptive father of Hector Sanchez. And who doesn't love switch-hitting catchers with power and patience?
me
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I am Baggerly.
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I am Baggerly.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
We were doing the Spartacus bit, Captain Bitstomper.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
suddenly, I make the Monty Python connection
Daily Gameball and Joker at GIANTSBOARD.COM
Say Hey Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
Sorry, better question:
who do you predict is Andrew Baggerly? I say jponry, because there are no girls on the internet.
Still the loving, adoptive father of Hector Sanchez. And who doesn't love switch-hitting catchers with power and patience?
BAGGS FTMFW
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Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
He's possibly Mexican
So it’s mole, like the yummy chocolate sauce.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Freddy the Mole
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
“When you refer to my mole, call it Winnie Cooper.”
by CrispinGloversBalls on Jul 30, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
mmm...
Winnie Cooper…
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
sigh
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
He looks more like Ben than Fred anyway.
by The Double Deuce on Jul 30, 2009 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
so everyone named Michael is out?
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions
1. What is it with official photos that makes everyone so ugly/molester-y?\
2. The MOLES … they’re BACK …
MR. F!
I’m going to keep making this reference because it amuses me. It looks like they used the same uniform template that they used for Garko.
I’m calling him Mr. F from now on.
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Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
it's like kissing a peanut
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you saying "Boo" or "Boo-urns?"
I was saying “Boo-urns”
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this one is worse than garko, for sure
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
I also make music, please check it out
Are we sure that this is the last post about Sanchez?
‘Cause I’m not so sure.
I don’t think it will be the last post about Sanchez this hour.
by CrispinGloversBalls on Jul 30, 2009 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
i lol’d
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm becoming more OK with the deal
I just cant believe we couldnt get more for Alderson, despite the question marks. And if he became almost worthless in less than a year, maybe we should admit we effed up a draft pick? And that might be a bigger problem. Mix that with the MadBum Meltdown the other night and maybe nothing has changed.
Meet your 2009 Farm System – Same as your 1995-2008 Farm System.
by projectmayhem713 on Jul 30, 2009 1:38 PM PDT reply actions
Even a broken clock is right twice a day...
by projectmayhem713 on Jul 30, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
and now once with posey.
BOOM, twice. Did that blow your mind??
by projectmayhem713 on Jul 30, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Having opinions is much easier when you don’t mind being inconsistent or hypocritical.
+109
I am El Person and I ¢¾ this message.
That, and yelling
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
That's what an opinion is really.
bq.a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty
Do not meddle in the affairs of GM's, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
blockquote FAIL
Do not meddle in the affairs of GM's, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Last year, Sanchez had a .298 OBP, drawing 21 walks. He’s already up to 20 this year. I expect he’ll draw two more walks the rest of the year, at best.
I'm thinking but nothing's happening.
Holy deviled eggs! Bengie has a .278 OBP and an OPS of .696??? I’m feeling ill now!
I'm thinking but nothing's happening.
4EVER
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions
before we move on...
read the Alderson draft thread
memories.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 1:43 PM PDT reply actions
btw in your article you got Wheeler's first name wrong.
Computers make mistakes too, I guess. :)
Wilber Bucardo: Carlos Silva with a younger brother.
we’re pretty good at that.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Hilarious Article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/30/SP241912VE.DTL
Ostler had to be wasted when he wrote this
Suddenly the Giants’ batting order looks, if not imposing, at least competent.
It’s still going to be a scratch-and-sniff offense. The Giants have turned their ballpark into the world’s largest singles bar. But if they’re going to specialize in three-hit, one-run rallies, it’s good to have hitters who can deliver those singles.
“scratch and sniff” and “singles bar” in the same paragraph is kind of yucky.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s still going to be a scratch-and-sniff offense
What does this even mean?
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
I am going to make an macro for "scratch and sniff offense" when I get home.
Status: Feels so broke up. Wants to go home. || Still boycotting Johnsonville and Giants souvenirs or ballpark foods for repossessing my K Wall in right field.
I'm still Surprised Sabean hasn't used the Michael Tucker defense yet
“Other team’s 2007 draft picks are still toiling away in AA, ours is a 3 time all star already”
thanks for giving him ideas
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
I’m not the only one watching Maury Povich Nerd To Knockout makeovers, am I?
Billy Ripken is not a fuck face
I’m watching the Cubs beat the shit out of the Astros.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I have Bourn, Carlos Lee, and Ramirez in fantasy. At least I got a homer out of Lee.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Go for it
I could use some uncouth humor today.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Want to see my player evaluation formula?!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I like this one.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you see the blind guy’s new haircut?
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
First, I’ll need the definition (and perhaps visual aid demonstration) of exactly what a “homer” is.
going all the way
Trust me, neither of those three are on my “fantasy” team.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Why was Helen Keller a bad driver?
Because she was a woman
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
Because he was dead
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
What do you call a guy with no arms and legs in a lake?
Bob
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
I agree with whoever said yesterday that the Cubs are our most likely competition for the WC
Billy Ripken is not a fuck face
I think Fish / Colorado has got to be the favorites still. The Cubs and the Cardinals are gonna battle it out for the Central.
Um
Yeah, but the loser of that battle will be a contender for the wild card.
it’s not like you have to pick whether to contend for the central or the wild card.
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
ah
gotcha
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
after the trades the Cardinals have made, I dunno about that. Especially if Carpenter remains healthy down the stretch.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I wondered why it went quiet in the last thread.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
You got Natto’d.
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Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
via twitter @injuryreport (Will Carroll from BP)
“Pirates aren’t done dealing …”
Last one out of Pittsburgh please turn out the lights.
Well. It looks like the Pirates are really HAVING A FIRE
…sale.
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Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Everyone left in the Pirates dugout has to be wondering if they have bad breath.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
worst
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s terribly catchy. I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse… I have a feeling I’d LOVE it if I were from Chicago.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not quite at acceptance yet
More like bored resignation. From this point forth, I will try to never acknowledge the trade ever again. I’ve heard and said too much about it in the last day. And maybe this way I can make myself think it never happened.
VOTE SANDOVAL
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
Go Gianst!!!
Go grako! Go sanches
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
OT: Your favorite underrated movies
Rules: If a sequel was made it’s not underrated.
Wilber Bucardo: Carlos Silva with a younger brother.
Waking Life
"I would've been here sooner but I had to shake the Veleasels"
by The Gene Hackman on Jul 30, 2009 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
+ Mayor
Fantastic movie.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I Flove Network.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Everytime I try and tell someone about the movie, they have no clue what I am talking about.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
By the critics and the Oscars.
Oh… wait….
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
raucous, boorish golf clap
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Head of State
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Singles
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Travis?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I love Slackers. I didn’t see it until last year, which is a shame as it just might have changed my life if I had seen it when it came out.
Yeah, Steve Zahn and I were roommates in the early oughts – could have avoided that.
Young Studs for Old Bats: The Brian Sabean Story
FREE KEVIN FRANDSEN!!! Member of the Frandsen 5% Club.
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
cool ethan cousin of nick cage
Daily Gameball and Joker at GIANTSBOARD.COM
Say Hey Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
The song at the end is on my ipod.
“I love you, but… I hate you”
by The Double Deuce on Jul 30, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
little locked room on itunes?
Daily Gameball and Joker at GIANTSBOARD.COM
Say Hey Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
I don't think so...
Somebody I knew recorded it off the dvd and sent it to me.
“He’s filed under cocksucker in my little black book…”
by The Double Deuce on Jul 30, 2009 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
'Tin Men'
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Try this right now wherever you are: shrug and say "enh"
There. I just saved you 2 hours.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Everyone I knew in college had seen it and almost all of them thought it was amazing.
I thought it was okay.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
High Fidelity
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
+1
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
THIS
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I was under the impression that only girls enjoyed this movie. The entire time I was watching the movie all I could think about was “this would be way better as a book” (before I knew it was based on a book)
I liked it. It’s one of the few relationshippy movies that I enjoy.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I was going through the exact same thing as Rob when this movie came out on DVD. Except I never slept with Lisa Bonet
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
She was pretty crappy in that movie.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Gah, don’t remind me about her covering Peter Frampton
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Funny, I always thought it was one of the few romantic comedies that’s aimed at men.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Is Fear and Loathing really underrated though? I love it, but I think everyone else does too.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
I can quote the shit out of this movie
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
STOOPID
YOURE SO STOOPID
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
SUPPLIES!!
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Reservoir Dogs goes with Fear and Loathing for me (see above)
UHF was just freaking awesome.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Clue
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
great pick
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Awesome movie
made awesomer by the multiple endings
by RougeGorrila on Jul 30, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the part where they all die
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
dude…. I just saw that movie…
Daily Gameball and Joker at GIANTSBOARD.COM
Say Hey Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
NO
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
LOVE Bound
Love love love love love it. Gina Gershon is mind-blowingly hot in the film.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Great film but who is underrating it?
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Just not mainstream, I think?
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jul 30, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
It was a critical darling.
In addition to wearing out the pause button on my remote.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I was young when it came out. So I don’t remember any of the hoopla about it. I found it last year in a used book store an watched it
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jul 31, 2009 6:26 AM PDT up reply actions
great film
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Walk Hard
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Great pick.
There’s somethin’ happening here. And what it is ain’t exatly… obvious.
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
In my dream you’re blowin’ me…..some kisses
That’s one my favorite things to do=
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
and shanhai soccer
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
that would be God of Cookery!
try finding that, though.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
I haven’t looked in every shop, but I’ve never seen it.
Plenty of the Fight Back to School movies (meh).
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
I so need to see that
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
here's a little taste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtYNu8LV50c
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
that and the “who’s throwing handles?” scene from KFH are two of my all time favorites.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
All of the fights I ever saw in China (4!) involved those chairs.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
I swear Iron Chef rips off the camera work from this movie
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
wasn’t Stephen Chow in a sequel to that?
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
Saw CJ7 a couple of nights ago. Disappointing. I want to see Steven Chow’s earlier work like this Cock of Dookery movie everybody is so hard-up about.
Young Studs for Old Bats: The Brian Sabean Story
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
CJ7 is a kid’s movie. I wasn’t warned before I saw it.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
I knew it would be kid-friendly, it just didn’t feel finished. I still love Chow’s style.
Young Studs for Old Bats: The Brian Sabean Story
FREE KEVIN FRANDSEN!!! Member of the Frandsen 5% Club.
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Superman II
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Backdoor Sluts 9
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
House Party (I know they made House Party II, but let’s forget that for the moment)
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
Class Act is actually my favorite of the Kid and Play movies.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Jul 30, 2009 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t love that movie.
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
I’ve never seen it.
I’m not a big movie buff, though. There are a stunning number of incredibly famous/acclaimed movies I’ve never seen.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
- in our queue! It got delayed a bit by some stuff that just came out – new seasons of This American Life, Torchwood, and Flight of the Conchords.
We just started the last batch of Dr. Katz DVDs, though.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
FUCKING SBN AUTO FORMAT
Number 32 is what I goddamn typed.
SBN BRASS!!!!!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I don’t know if you can call it underrated, but I love Blue Velvet and not many people I know have seen it.
I saw it and was not impressed. Sorry xanthan.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
praise so faint it cannot be detected.
Gonorrhea— the most desirable sexually transmitted disease!
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Which reminds me of “Gomorra”. Anybody seen it? I was waiting for it to show up at Blockbuster.
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
Haven't seen it, but the book has been humping my coffee table for about 4 months.
Looked great in the bookstore, but less so in my hand.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
omg hdu
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
OK, I felt stupid so I googled “hdu.”
HDU High-Density Urethane
HDU High Dependency Unit
HDU Hose Drum Unit (air to air refueling)
HDU Helmet Display Unit
HDU Hard Disk Unit
HDU Harley-Davidson University (service school operated by the factory)
HDU Hydraulic Drive Unit
HDU Hot Death Uno (game)
HDU Heat Dissipation Unit
HDU Hose and Drogue Unit (air to air refueling)
HDU Head-End Distribution Unit
HDU Hazardous Device Unit
Now I feel stupider.
how dare you
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Hose drum unit.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
/knife fight
I think we discussed this film before. I feel it is weird for the sake of being weird, and I didn’t get into it.
But I love David Cronenberg films. Dead Ringers is freaking awesome.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Blue Velvet is weird for the sake of being weird and Dead Ringers isn’t? (fwiw, I liked Dead Ringers too.)
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
That’s why I threw that in there. It’s strange that I can’t embrace the weirdness. I don’t know what it is about Lynch’s stuff. I just can’t get into it.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
IMO Dead Ringers is Cronenberg’s worst film.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
My favorite Cronenberg film is a History of Violence followed by Videodrome. I really enjoy almost everything he’s done.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Excellent choices. I’ve seen them all, outside of Naked Lunch and Fast Company. I am very partial to the weirder horror ones, like Shivers, the Fly, the Brood (and Videodrome)—-but I do love HOV. Eastern Promises was good too, but like Dead Ringers, I thought it was weak relative to his other stuff.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Of course I dig M. Butterfly. It was a huge bonus when we had to read the play for my Asian American lit class.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
/forgets about M. Butterfly and quickly adds to his netflix
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Speaking of DVDs, I found your Flight of the Conchords. I can send it your way. :)
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh, don’t sweat it. It’ll cost you nearly as much to send it as it would for me to buy a new one. I appreciate the offer, though.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Yuk.
But Lynch isn’t my cup of midgets.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Mullholland Drive
is one of my favorite movies, definitely my favorite Lynch movie, and underrated.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
You know what’s REALLY underrated? Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. It’s really a pretty amazing movie.
I haven’t seen it yet, I need to finish the actual TV Series first. But I’m looking forward to it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I know, but my friend who’s in the know said I should watch the whole series before watching the movie.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I want to watch Twin Peaks, but the DVD set – or at least the version Netflix has – doesn’t include the pilot for some reason. Um, that sort of seems like a problem.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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hmm, my dad’s DVD set has the pilot.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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I believe it was reissued with the pilot, but Netflix is annoying about upgrading their DVDs to special editions/reissues.
Oh wait! I just looked on Netflix, and it appears that they have the edition with the pilot – two version of it, actually. I’m pretty sure that didn’t use to be the case last time I checked.
I’ll add it to my queue.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Also, anyone who likes weird tv should watch The Prisoner.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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Never saw it. I only made it through the first season-and-a-half of the Twin Peaks TV series. (The 2-hour pilot remains one of the greatest programs ever broadcast on a major American television network. Watch it again, you’ll be blown idea by the idea that ABC agreed to air it on a Sunday night in 1990.)
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
I’m about halfway through Season 2 and it’s gotten so boring that I haven’t watched an episode in months. I think it’s supposed to get good again by the end, but I just can’t bear to watch anymore of James and Donna whining.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I loved the series, but didn’t get the film. I bet someone could talk me into liking it more, though.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Better Off Dead
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I think most of my faves are rated highly by some people, just not the academy awards. So I’ll go with movies that I’m surprised I can’t NOT watch if they’re on:
Spy Game
The Truman Show
Wyatt Earp
U571
And I was cracking up hysterically at “Observe & Report”. Am I the only one?
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
Big Trouble in Little China
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait. that’s me!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, how about King of Comedy? I know, I know, it’s a DeNiro movie, so it’s hard to be underrated, but it’s such a great movie that gets overshadowed by most of his other work. I think it’s got some great commentary in it.
Since this has sort of turned into a “great movies that aren’t particularly well known by the masses” list, I’ll throw out Withnail & I.
Der Himmel Uber Berlin
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Love it... but also kind of an arthouse darling. Not sure it's underrated.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I love Lola Rennt
That started my red hair obsession.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Excellent.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
HowTheyScored on the right.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Needs more mint jelly.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
my wife gave me the super deluxe box set for my birthday. Alas, most of the features didn’t have subtitles.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
Little OT:
Andy is cousins with my girlfriend.
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
One of my teachers is also named Liu De Hua. I can get him to sign something for you.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
I’ll throw in one uncle Joe Junior autograph
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Andy Lau = Justin Timberlake.
I like cats. Wings is the greatest show of all time.
Tyler Graham is my favorite San Jose Giant because he has smart balls.
I like Timberlake’s (post boy band) music better.
Lau’s a better dramatic than comic actor, too.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
Sorry, but The Departed was a MILLION times better.
I like cats. Wings is the greatest show of all time.
Tyler Graham is my favorite San Jose Giant because he has smart balls.
Fortunately, we will never know.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m trying to comprehend how this opinion can be possible.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
I really detested the Departed. I feel like the only one.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Infernal Affairs was mediocre at best. Apparently I am the only one who feels that way, so I know how you feel.
I like cats. Wings is the greatest show of all time.
Tyler Graham is my favorite San Jose Giant because he has smart balls.
When I watched the Departed, I felt gipped.
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t like it, and i didn’t even realize it was a version of IA until the last scene.
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
Neither is very good.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
You are 50% correct.
I like cats. Wings is the greatest show of all time.
Tyler Graham is my favorite San Jose Giant because he has smart balls.
I thought they were both good
What was bad about the Scorsese one?
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I really loved Withnail & I. I should watch it again some time.
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Dark City
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
sorry
Gark City
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Pitiful. I see the deadly hamburger has done it’s evil work.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
+1
Boy it was sure stupid in some parts but I couldn’t stop laughing
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he scares me
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Carl Hubbell’s number. D:
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
instructional video?
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh. Lindsay Crouse's performance was putrid.
So is every one of Rebecca Pigeon’s. Can’t that guy marry a decent actress? Or at least omit his wives from his movies?
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Velvet Goldmine
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Dunno if this qualifies, but I just love Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Both for the innocent humor, and as a tribute to The Bicycle Thief.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Out of Sight
I never got why it wasn’t a big hit. Big stars and Soderbergh directing.
I’m nutty for noir-ish movies, though.
I like Out of Sight very much.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
outstanding. And why only Brian Wilson gets coffee.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
this.
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Made
Every time I bring this movie up I get, “Swingers is better.”
Proud parent of Frederick Charles Merkle.
abysmal.
the only positive thing about this movie is that the title is accurate.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
The Imposters
Charming retro screwball comedy with Oliver Platt and Stanley Tucci and lots of amusing cameos.
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Ishtar!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:21 PM PDT up reply actions
it really is much worse than people give it credit for being.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 6:22 PM PDT up reply actions
what the lineup should be
LF – Lewis
RF – Winn
2B – Sanchez
3B – Panda
1B – Garko
CF – Rowand
C – Molina
SS – Renteria
P
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:28 PM PDT reply actions
I like it, but I would do
RF-Winn
2B-Sanchez
3B-Panda
1B-Garko
CF-Rowand
LF-Lewis
C-Molina
SS- Renteria
P
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I could definitely live with that.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
This is exactly what I said yesterday. This lineup looks legit.
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
the lineup that should not be
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I would also change Uribe and Rent
Minor White > Ansel Adams
by say hey nation on Jul 30, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Meld them… Uribent
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
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by S.F. Giangst on Jul 30, 2009 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
4:23pm: Jack Curry of the New York Times has additional comments from Ricciardi on Halladay:
“We’ve got nothing going on. We expect him to be with us.”
The Phillies are out, and the other suitors failed to wow Ricciardi.
HUGE NEWS OUT OF HOUSTON!
According to Alyson Footer via Twitter, the Astros released pitcher Russ Ortiz. Ortiz’s nine earned run drubbing today was apparently the last straw, as his ERA rose to 5.57.
Poor Russ Ortiz. I was always fond of him.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
We need a 5th starter, right?
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
banned
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Leads all active pitchers in HR… in Candlestick Park.
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
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by S.F. Giangst on Jul 30, 2009 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions
TWITTER STRIKES AGAIN!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow
So he got shelled today and the Astros were all, “GTFO”.
Cold stuff, man.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d like to think that I was one of those who saw the rationale before needing to sleep on it..
I think a big part of why I accepted it earlier than some was because I was away on business and hadn’t heard the Frandsen/Bowker rumors or whatever they were. Had I heard those, I might have been more upset when I learned it was T2.
I’m still ok with this trade and look forward to watching a team with a better chance of reaching the post-season with Garko and Sanchez as part of it.
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
But that's the trick of perception I have found so interesting on here
People are comparing the deal to other possibilities— some realistic and some imaginary— and then evaluating the deal based on this fictional standard. I don’t think it is valid to say “Gee, it wasn’t as favorable as this other thing that didn’t happen and probably wasn’t going to, therefore the deal itself is a poor one.” NO! Either the deal that actually occurred was worth doing or not worth doing based on the negotiables that were ACTUALLY TRADED, not some extrinsic thing.
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
stop it
you’re making too much sense
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I think your post yesterday calmed a lot of people down.
And I also think Baggs took Grant’s post and your post and made it his post for today.
Nice side-effect of Sanchez pickup
Uribe resumes his utility role, in which he was excelling at, so this essentially strengthens two positions.
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
I hope Rent finds the bench comfortable
and Uribe starts at SS.
Wilber Bucardo: Carlos Silva with a younger brother.
Someone tell Renteria we don’t need his Warrior Spirit and playing through pain. All we want is to make sure he doesn’t aggravate his injuries by playing.
Billy Ripken is not a fuck face
yes please
I’d rather see Uribe than Renteria at SS at this point.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
Law
Exactly what he said this morning:
http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4365281&name=law_keith
I’m assuming the Giants will use Freddy Sanchez at second to replace Juan Uribe, who has had a surprisingly good season, meaning that Sanchez is just a small upgrade for them for the remainder of this year. If, however, they choose to bench injured shortstop Edgar Renteria, who has been a replacement-level disaster, playing Uribe and Sanchez in the middle infield, it would be a much more significant upgrade. The move would be worth at least a win and likely more over the rest of this year, and a couple of wins through 2010 if they keep that middle-infield combination together.
I can’t agree w/ this^. It makes the assumption that Uribe will continue to play well. Also, that next year he will still be playing better than Renteria. Given the unknown effect of Rentaria’s current injuries and the dubious possibility of Uribe continuing to play decently, I find that opinion from Law somewhat shakey. Either way Giants are screwed at SS unless they come up with another option.
On the bright side: we are not talking about Neifi Perez in the lineup.
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by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
+1
Neither one of them should be hitting higher than 7th, but Uribe makes me a lot less uncomfortable there than Renteria.
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by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
There’s one more move I’d like to see the Giants make, and that’s to trade/release Kevin Frandsen right the fuck now and let him try to resuscitate whatever is left of his baseball career, because it is obviously not happening within this organization.
I don’t know why things turned out the way they did with him. He didn’t do himself any favors with his published comments about the FO this season, although I certainly understand his frustration. I doubt he’s going to have a Freddy Sanchez-like ML career, but I’d love to see him get the chance. Keeping him in Fresno for another month is frankly cruel.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
I was disappointed that he wasn’t traded for Sanchez because he’d get a chance to play everyday in the majors.
At this point, I would like to see him traded if only so we can see what he really can do playing every day at the major league level
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Do the Pirates have someone else they want to play 2b? Or, did they not want Frandsen? Or did the Giants not want to trade Him? I just would have thought Frandsen would be a player that the Pirates would have wanted to get to try and fill their new hole at 2b.
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by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
This Frandsenbation has gone too damn far on this site if we start capitalizing "Him"
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Frandsenbation or Frandsturbation?
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions
performed by Frandsvestites
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 6:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I was going to combine Frandsen and Frankenberries [used to be a cereal along with Count Chocula] but I decided against it.
a wise decision.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Frandsen for Travis Buck
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
[dancing / watching self in mirror]
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
My sig.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
So true, so true..
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by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
If anyone deserves a mercy trade, it's Kevin Frandsen.
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Schulman update
I just got off the phone with general manager Brian Sabean after I asked him for a brief update.
While the Giants might want to trade for a starter, Sabean does not seem optimistic about a deal.
“The list of potential names isn’t very enticing against what the cost of doing business is,” Sabean said. “Unless something happens that I don’t anticipate, I don’t see that being an option.”
Sabean also downplayed the possible acquisition of another bat, saying, “The people we are interested in are not available as we speak.”
I’m assuming that includes Washington outfielder Josh Willingham, who is not available for reasons I described in my last post.
Given that the deadline is less than 24 hours away, it’s less likely they’ll become available.
I asked Sabean if he might try to trade unhappy Triple-A shortstop Kevin Frandsen, who has been promoted and demoted three times this season. Sabean said no, suggesting they need him in light of Emmanuel Burriss’ season-ending injury and still see him as one who can help the Giants.
But Sabean did not sound pleased with Frandsen’s attitude in light of the infielder’s struggles in the at-bats he had here.
“Frandsen is on the roster and has value as a utility man,” Sabean said. “He should mind his business in Triple-A and see what happens.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexn?blogid=22#ixzz0MmpPHhIY
once you kick the tires, you have to go into the dealership, and do business, no?
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someone just took a cost accounting course!
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Jul 30, 2009 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
No deals by the deadline
Once Sabes kicks a tire, it stays kicked!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
this has been complete mismanagement of a useful player. just dumb.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I finally saw Barton Fink a few weeks ago, and I really liked it. My wife hated it. Anyone else seen it?
My favorite Coen Bros. movie, and thus, one of my favorites period.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
What’s that one with George Clooney in it again?
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:24 PM PDT up reply actions
O brother
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excellent and Hudsucker Proxy is underrated as well
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yes. as is O Brother Where Art Thou
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by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions
love em all…. except Fargo…. strangely enough
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Fargo = inaccurate
no one here is anything like anyone in that movie.
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I've never been happier to have Crabs
I love O Brother, Where Art Thou? My gran used to sing me the folk songs in the movie when I was little.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
So...
[tangent]
….I have this ungoing dialogue with this dude who is really hung up on morality and the fairness or life (bleeuagh) and is always commenting about how he saw so-and-so and they seemed like a dick or whatever… always going off on weird tangents about what an asshole someone (presumably) is (since I’m guessing he’s never actually hung out with said players)…
so my question is: how much does someone’s attitude factor in to whether you enjoy how they play the game (any game: soccer, football, basketball, etc)? i feel like baseball is the one sport left truly hung up on it being a good-guy sport but maybe i’m off base.
personally i don’t care what anyone does off the field unless it involves rape or just straight up murder. but see shit like Michael Vick, I dunno, have a hard time with that kinda stuff. but if i thought he could get the job done and wasn’t going to be hounded by cameras and drama non-stop, would i want him on the niners… hmm… jury is out. probably though, even though i think what he was doing was beyond despicable.
[/tangent]
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
I only care if their dickery interferes with the game (for example, Jeff Kent’s exploits in truck washing).
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
This is what's called a Type 1 sampling error in statistics: picking the wrong crowd
We are all Barry Bonds fans. We totally dismiss off-field douchery.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
unintentional pun: using “hounded” when referring to michael vick.
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
His payback will literally be a bitch.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah i’m not even talking about dudes like Bonds and shit (or even Vick for that matter) but dude will be like “Frandsen in an arrogant douchebag” and follows it up with the fact that he looked at him with an “air of condescension” or something bizarre.
but yeah who cares? i’m just saying, what kinda person really thinks these jocks are radical dudes that wanna hang out and talk philosophy or watch your favorite movie with you?
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Of course we don’t want to hang out with these people (or at least I don’t.) I think it’s just human to notice and comment on what makes us the same, and that is our emotions. We do it with people on the street, we do it with people in our families, we do it with the stars of the day and our leaders. It’s a human thing.
I have adopted Brian Sabean as an ironic hipster joke.
I guess it’s a case-by-case thing for me. I’ve had encounters with some athletes that have confirmed them to be flaming dillholes at best. When it comes to a guy getting into hot water legally like Plaxico Burress, I just find that to be boneheaded behavior. Vick did something that is completely disgusting and unacceptable to me. He wasn’t my favorite person to begin with, having a record of boneheaded behavior, but he secured his status as Asshole of the Year with the dogfighting thing.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought I didn’t care… then I fell in love with Panda and now I’m not so sure anymore.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
This sounds like a romantic comedy plot!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
To be precise:
This sounds likeaevery romantic comedy plot!
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
NOTICE: I'm making this post my sig
…but I’ll quote you :)
Proud parent of Frederick Charles Merkle.
Trade rumors are making me delirious
I saw this headline on rotoworld "Sanchez to open camp behind Clemens " and automatically thought we just signed Roger Clemens.
With malice towards the Dodgers and Maria Shriver
Breaking News!
Update 3:09pm: The Giants have announced there will be a special ceremony before tonight’s game to honor Freddy Sanchez, who becomes the first player in team history to generate more than 25,000 comments on McCovey Chronicles before even making a plate appearance.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
LINK PLZ
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Seriously… how crazy would this place go if we actually made a really BIG trade… like a multi-top prospect swap for Adrian Gonzalez or something (in this world, we didn’t already trade for Garko).
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
If the Giants traded for Adrian Gonzalez
I’d drive around screaming and honking my horn. He’s one of my favorite non-Giants and a great hitter.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT ADRIAN GONZALEZ
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I can’t stop thinking about Edgar Gonzalez. I think there’s something wrong with me.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Oh how much I wish for this...
If only he grew up in San Francisco…
Status: Feels so broke up. Wants to go home. || Still boycotting Johnsonville and Giants souvenirs or ballpark foods for repossessing my K Wall in right field.
Per Rosenthal:
“In addition to targeting the Orioles’ Mark Hendrickson as a possible second left-hander for their bullpen, they also are interested in Nationals first baseman Nick Johnson, according to FOXSports.com’s Tracy Ringolsby
Johnson would serve as a late-inning left-handed hitter off the bench."
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9871032/MLB-trade-deadline-buzz:-Thursday%27s-edition
OH NO WITH HENDRICKSON THE ROCKIES WOULD BE UNSTOPPABLE
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Looks like no Willingham for us (From Schulman)
I do believe the Giants made a push for Nick Johnson or Josh Willingham from Washington, but I heard that the Nationals decided they wanted to hold on to Willingham and Adam Dunn because, really, the only solid thing they have moving forward is their middle-order trio of Ryan Zimmerman, Dunn and Willingham. The source also said the Nats were demanding a ton for Johnson, which surprised the source given that the first baseman is a pending free agent.
With malice towards the Dodgers and Maria Shriver
in other words
WTF are you thinking, Nats?
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Jul 30, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
They control Willingham for 2.5 more years, I think, so it makes sense to hold onto him but Johnson? WTF
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
You wouldn't understand...
It’s a guy thing…we like to hold onto our Johnsons
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
by Goofus on Jul 30, 2009 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
News from yesterday that gets overlooked
The Giants reclaim the Wild Card lead.
OPTIMISM!
Aurillia starting rehab assignment for Grizzlies today
Batting 2nd
(Grizzlies Twitter)
Surprise! Rich Aurilia rehabs tonight: Timpner 8, Aurilia 5, Posey 2, Bowker 3, Borchard 7, Rohlinger 6, Downs 4, Horwitz 9, Ortiz 1 #TGFT
With malice towards the Dodgers and Maria Shriver
gotta be in the doghouse…unless a trade…more likely doghouse. Seemingly ruined things with management up in SF and now down in Fresno
With malice towards the Dodgers and Maria Shriver
Kevin Bannedsen
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
this seems like a bad idea, can’t you only let them rehab for a specific period of time?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
btw
I swear to god, if they bring back Richie before Sep. 1, I’ll punch him in the face
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Per Schulman
Torres CF
Velez RF
Sandoval 3B
Molina C
Garko 1B
Lewis LF
Renteria SS
Uribe 2B
Sanchez P
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/giants/index?#ixzz0MmgTfO3i
velez rf????
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Young Studs for Old Bats: The Brian Sabean Story
FREE KEVIN FRANDSEN!!! Member of the Frandsen 5% Club.
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 30, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, despite his disappointing season, Lewis has been better than Winn this year in terms of OBP, SLG, wOBA, and DINGERZ.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
A cogent and well-reasoned reply!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Lewis gets called out on strikes. Get your memes straight!
Also, you’ll note I said Lewis is having a disappointing year. But Winn’s been pretty thoroughly awful himself.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Strike three on HBP?
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Two trades later, and it’s still a LOLINEUP
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
J. Sanchez will need to throw a perfect game if the Giants are going to win this one. Maybe two perfect games.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
whiteside isn’t catching him tonight… won’t happen
Adopted Giant: Eli Whiteside
The real genius behind the no-no
by BleedBlackNOrange on Jul 30, 2009 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m pretty sure you if you put 100 monkeys with lineup cards in a room they will come up with something better then this
Adopted Giant: Eli Whiteside
The real genius behind the no-no
by BleedBlackNOrange on Jul 30, 2009 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I miss Rowand
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jul 30, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Who?
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:45 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants have a fifth starter. He’s in Double A. His name is Madison Bumgarner. Call him up. Now.
/twitch
Zorak is going to be hilarious in RF. I am setting my DVR!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
miss scherholtz
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thats missy
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I also make music, please check it out
This will be Bengie Molina's 84th start batting clean-up.
DAMN YOU BOCHY!
Status: Feels so broke up. Wants to go home. || Still boycotting Johnsonville and Giants souvenirs or ballpark foods for repossessing my K Wall in right field.
I thought we got sanchez to play second base though!!!
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
He’s not supposed to be ready until Sat or Sun.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
the replies made this weird but i was making that crack because it said P Sanchez. FAIL for me.
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
The one on the bottom left corner and top right corner make me giggle
Adopted Giant: Eli Whiteside
The real genius behind the no-no
by BleedBlackNOrange on Jul 30, 2009 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Outstanding effort, but I suggest darkening the mustaches a little—-they’re a little hard to make out.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
LOL
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I see what you did here
All Philles are victims of the Dirty Sanchez!!
"A foghorn blowing out wild and cold." -Dire Straits
gave up and shift-a'd
did i miss anything aside from us trying to smoke out baggs?
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Sanchez is too hurt to play tonight lol
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
of course he is
gamer knee is a 3 day affair at least
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Mostly a thread hijack. We were discussing our favorite underrated movies.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
/removes Alderson and Barnes from his top prospects list. Sniffle.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
The RAGE had to subside before I could bring myself to open the file.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
you have a file of this?
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Just a text file where I copied and pasted the various lists that came out last year, and then at the end I made my own.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
maybe i need a file
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
I also make music, please check it out
It’s weird having a list of Giants prospects with only 2 pitches in the top 10.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I would have Sosa in there too except for the injuries.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Also
I’ll be really interested to see how our community prospects list goes this offseason. There have been a lot of players whose seasons have been kind of hard to parse. Plus a few departures now.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Put otherwise: "My initial reaction is ‘no,’ but I’m getting a ‘yessy’ aftertaste."
New hope or false hope, its a sensation I haven’t experienced in years. i can feel the early symptoms of playoff hysteria.
Choppin' broccoli
“My initial reaction is ‘no,’ but I’m getting a ‘yessy’ aftertaste.”
what is that from?
Randy Winn is in time out until his OBP gets back over .330.
the movie run ronnie run, andy richter and sarah silverman as tv execs considering a pitch for new reality show.
Choppin' broccoli
by SimpleJaquez on Jul 30, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
ooh: news!
no f shanchez tonite, maybe rehab knee during phillies series for roster reasons, but cliff lee also not debuting in sf.
Choppin' broccoli
uh, yeah dunno why not
baggs didn’t cite source for that
Choppin' broccoli
by SimpleJaquez on Jul 30, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
BREAKING NEWS!
FREDDY SANCHEZ PULLED FROM LINEUP!! TRADE IMMINENT?
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
my favorite Giant since Paulino
Daily Gameball and Joker at GIANTSBOARD.COM
Say Hey Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Jul 30, 2009 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
anyone see that video on sfgiants.com?
“Harold (Reynold) discusses freddy sanchez”
A couple seconds in: “If you are a giants fan, this is a great trade.”
sigh
VOTE SANDOVAL
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
WWHD
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions
anything with two legs ?
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Jul 30, 2009 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
no that's WWHH
Who would Harold Hug?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Did anyone ask Joe Morgan yet?
Daily Gameball and Joker at GIANTSBOARD.COM
Say Hey Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
unnecessary
No worries guys! Harold Reynolds says Sanchez is clutch!
VOTE SANDOVAL
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
wasn’t he supposed to go up against timmy?
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DAMMIT!
If Lee had gone on Saturday, that would’ve been just the third time in the history of the majors that two reigning Cy Young winners would’ve faced each other.
That would’ve been awesome.
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by BruteSentiment on Jul 30, 2009 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL Sabean RE: Frandsen
“Frandsen is on the roster and has value as a utility man,” Sabean said. “He should mind his business in Triple-A and see what happens.”
With malice towards the Dodgers and Maria Shriver
p's and q's, thanks
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QWNED
as well
Daily Gameball and Joker at GIANTSBOARD.COM
Say Hey Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
daaaaaaaaaaaaaamnnn
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Am I the only one more concerned with the Cubbies than the Rockies with the wild card?
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
If Sabean was a little less arrogant he’d be a lot more likeable. He seem sto think he is more important than the guys actually on the field.
Do not meddle in the affairs of GM's, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
So? Is there a correlation between likeability of GM and success of the team?
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought this was appropriate for this past 24 hours
see more Lolcats and funny pictures
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
KITTY!
awwwww
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Say Hey Say Willie, that Giant Kid is Great!
:(
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Looks like the tranks are kicking in.
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:50 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
6:22pm: So just how much do the Blue Jays want for Halladay? Marlins president David Samson told 790 The Ticket that J.P. Ricciardi wants “two left legs, a right arm and a left cerebellum” for Doc, according to the Miami Herald.
DAMN! Hazel Mae is at AT&T Park right now-- and I am not going to tonight's game.
MLBtv BRASS— EXTEND HAZEL’S ASSIGNMENT THRU WEEKEND
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
I have met the lovely Ms. Mae at Fenway
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you get the impression that she digs mayors?
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Jul 30, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
idk
All I know is she gives me a boner
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 30, 2009 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
This
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions
What's the problem?
We were already not going to win Sadowski’s start. It’s not like we can lose it twice.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
We could lose twice
if the entire team jumped into a time machine after the game.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
from yahoo
The Bucs got a better pitching prospect for Freddy Sanchez than the Indians did for Cliff Lee.
Tim is good enough for 2
Alderson, Bowker, and Frandsen for Lee?
Do not meddle in the affairs of GM's, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I love the Phillie’s trade because they didn’t do the expected (like just focus on Freddie), by trading their farm system to Toronto for Halliday. Instead they looked around and got a pitcher who is pitching just as well as Halliday atm, for a much cheaper price.
Do not meddle in the affairs of GM's, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Lee's been OK
but nowhere near Halladay. That said it IS a good move for them unfortunately :(
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
JINX!!
He will be hitting against the Giants. I smell homerun off Sadowski now.
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by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions
congrats!
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Congratulations.
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by cybermaldonado on Jul 30, 2009 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
congrats!
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Sadler DFA'd
to make room for F dot Sanchez
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 5:06 PM PDT reply actions
sadowski and sadler – the saddest pitchers :(
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
by zodiac_chiller on Jul 30, 2009 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Lolineup
CF Torres
RF Velez
3B Sandoval
C Molina
1B Garko
LF Lewis
SS Renteria
2B Uribe
P J. Sanchez
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 5:07 PM PDT reply actions
that’s what I get for searching “lolineup”
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions
/runs into brick wall
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.
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 30, 2009 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions
.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
If Dustin Pedroia played in Seattle, not many people would be talking about him.
GET THAT VORP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
.
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a feeling Velez in RF at AT&T is going to be … fun.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Velez at every position!
I look forward to his day as catcher.
Bowkermania has been put on hiatus for retooling.
by rightcenterfielder on Jul 30, 2009 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Vs. Lopez
Lolina .067
Faileria .125
Lolribe .375 with a dinger! YAY!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Lewis in left, Velez in right... yikes!
thank god for Andres Torres in center
by crazedcrustacean on Jul 30, 2009 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Fuck you, Curt Schilling
Now he’s saying this shit
Should any of the Sox’ accomplishments in ‘04 or ‘07 be judged differently because of this?
This makes me laugh. I have already seen the bandwagon fans start the *04 and *07 threads and remarks, people with teams who are far deeper into this than most other teams — as if this makes it all OK. Every team going back 10-15 years needs an * if you want to consider giving it to anyone. The hard part is that it’s turning into a situation where we are seeing every single GREAT player in the past 10 years caught, and they’re dragging what we thought were the majority, and are now turning into the minority, down with them.
The rationalization going on in Red So land is pretty funny. I have to admit to taking a tiny bit of pleasure in watching them squirm.
They were (and still are amazingly enough) some of the biggest Bonds haters on the planet. When it is their guy “it must be a mistake!”
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Say it ain't so Papi!
Status: Feels so broke up. Wants to go home. || Still boycotting Johnsonville and Giants souvenirs or ballpark foods for repossessing my K Wall in right field.
The post-game press conference was really an eye-roller
Ortiz wouldn’t answer any questions directly saying stuff like “I have to find out what is going on”.
Well, Mr. Ortiz, you know what is going on. According to the Mitchell report, players testing positive in 2003 where notified of their positive test. Of course, none of the press followed up on that. This is the deference you receive when you spend your career kissing reporter’s asses.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 30, 2009 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s why I’m enjoying it so much.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006, and bringing you all your California League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2009 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
As someone who lives outside the Bay Area, when I wear my Giants gear I will occasionally get asked by store clerks, grocery baggers, etc. how I can root for a team with cheaters like Bonds.
The hypocrisy in that question will never cease to amaze me.
You heard it here first: the bloody sock was from hitting a vein while shooting up ’roids.
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 30, 2009 6:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Fail Sox
Lester gets roughed up by A’s 8-6
Adopted Giant: Eli Whiteside
The real genius behind the no-no
by BleedBlackNOrange on Jul 30, 2009 5:33 PM PDT reply actions
oops read the score wrong, I’m an idiot
Adopted Giant: Eli Whiteside
The real genius behind the no-no
by BleedBlackNOrange on Jul 30, 2009 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions
man, i hope the rockies get doublebeat today
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
I also make music, please check it out
I wish he was on the Giants
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER
7:47pm: Ken Rosenthal and Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports hear that the Giants still have some interest in Mark Teahen.
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 5:52 PM PDT reply actions
I'm starting to really hate the combination of McCoveyChronicles, Twitter, the MLB Trade Deadline, and sports "investigative reporting"
My nerves can’t take much more!
Status: Feels so broke up. Wants to go home. || Still boycotting Johnsonville and Giants souvenirs or ballpark foods for repossessing my K Wall in right field.
it’s exciting!
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
like a car crash!
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
I also make music, please check it out
make it happen giants brasszz
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
I also make music, please check it out
Von Hayes
by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Soooo
we trade a top pitching prospect for a guy who’s so injured he can’t even play in his first fucking game here.
Brian Sabean everyone!
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
Guessing we'll give Madbum for him
would make sense in Sabes’ world
“but he’s only a minor-league pitcher!”
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
GO CARDS
Also, why no series preview grant?!?!?!?!?! GIT R DUN SBNASHUN BRAZ
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
grant’s too busy working on his next Freddy Sanchez post.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
We got Sanchez?!?!!?
Jeez I hope we didn’t give up too much for him
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
METS SUX0RZ
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
THE METS CAN GO FLY A KITE
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
SRYS
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
Casey BLOLAKE
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
TATIS HR WOOOOO
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
MATT HOLLIDAY CELEBRATE!!!
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
WE SHULDA TRADAD FOAR HALLODAY SABZ
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
LOLDGERS
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
trade rumors.........
"Of all the things in the world losing isn't so bad; it just starts to feel like it does when you do it for so long"
lol
Zito, Sadowski, Bowker and Velez for Roy Halladay.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 30, 2009 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions
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