It's ONLY Day One!!!!!

by Carmelballin on Jul 6, 2009 12:35 AM PDT Comment 34 comments

Hey guys, I feel like today was a great start for our push to vote Pablo "Panda" Sandoval in for that final spot. However, we still have until Thursday. If we can all put up the same effort that we put in today, I have a good feeling about Sandoval.

After today, I feel like Panda is right up there from reading the comments here on McCovey's Chronicles. In addition, major props to the person who posted on Lone Star Ball (Texas Rangers) to vote for Sandoval while we try to push Ian Kinsler in to help them out. I read the comments from the Rangers website and it seems like they are just as dedicated to vote in Kinsler as we are with Sandoval. I feel like if both fan bases do their part, we will get this done.

Bottom Line: Let's keep this up, do not diminish your efforts before Thursday. Pablo and Kinsler, but more inmportantly Pablo for that final spot!!!!

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Now I’m not saying that we should stop voting for Pablo to get in, he certainly deserves it, but whats with ther serious freaking out. He is only 22, he will have plenty of time to be an all star and I think if he does make it, which he should, it wont be his only mid summer classic. But there have been like 40 fanshot and posts about this.

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by jbowl on Jul 6, 2009 1:11 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It’s a travesty that he didn’t make it, but I agree that it’s a game we normally don’t care about, and we usually want our own players to have those days off. Not only that, but snubbed players in the past have been known to go on an absolute tear when they don’t make it to show everyone what a mistake that it was. Maybe Pablo will hit .500 with 10 homeruns the rest of this homestand. That being said, I voted for him about 50 times myself.

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by rxmeister on Jul 6, 2009 5:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe not getting in via the Final Vote will piss him off and he’ll have MVP like second half, leading the Giants into the playoffs, which is much more important than the All Star game.

by SFGuy on Jul 7, 2009 1:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

If he makes it

It will mean the giants farm system produced an allstar position player for the first time in 9,000 years.

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by The Thrill on Jul 6, 2009 8:23 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

/votes at a more exhausting pace

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by CB30 on Jul 6, 2009 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I've cast over 50 votes for Pablo easily... but truly wouldn't mind seeing him get 4 days rest

He’s been banged up lately (now it’s a knee; couple weeks ago it was a shoulder), and has had a sensational first half. Yes, he deserves to be on the NL squad, but he is a Giant first and foremost, and the Giants and their fans deserve a Panda as rested and recuperated as possible.

The All-Star schedule kind of sucks— would get to St. Louis after midnight on Sunday, then workouts and press obligations and promo stuff all day Monday (and I NEVER want to see a Giant in the HR Derby; guys who go far in that thing don’t swing right for a damn month, for some reason— Abreu is Exhibit A.). The game itself is pretty cushy, but then Wednesday becomes a travel day rather than a pure rest day.

Yes, Thursday is an off-day for the Giants, but compared to 4 solid days off for a guy who’s been banged up and doing great… I would just as soon have him miss the ASG than go.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.

by Mayor of 311 on Jul 6, 2009 8:24 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Logical intelligent post. Missing the “Mid-Summer Clusterf*ck” wouldn’t be the worse thing for Pablo.

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by nvsfg on Jul 6, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think the rest stuff is really important for a pitcher, but for a position player (and the last man off the bench in Panda’s case) You’re probably only playing 3 innings and 1 AB tops. Not much strain for a 22 year old kid.

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by norcalnick on Jul 6, 2009 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's not about strain; it's about the missed opportunity for good rest.

Those 2.5 days are really a whirlwind for All Stars. As opposed to staying around here 4 days, hot tub, massage, sleep, rest, hang out, take care of the knee, and so on.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.

by Mayor of 311 on Jul 6, 2009 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wonder if there’s still cake?

Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.

by cheno on Jul 6, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pie

Definitely just pie

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!!!

by baetown415 on Jul 6, 2009 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Either way

I’ll be proud of him.

I’ve voted maybe 25 times yesterday. Looking for triple that number today….

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by jtoj on Jul 6, 2009 9:52 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I just voted 30 times

ill do more throughout the day

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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 6, 2009 10:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I was looking at the Rangers SB site

and this could be a problem

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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 6, 2009 10:44 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

We are aware of that.

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by Natto on Jul 6, 2009 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ok

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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 6, 2009 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Please Rec the McC fanshot on Lone Star Ball though.

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by The Enchanter on Jul 6, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I really want to see Pablo in the home run derby

Fan of the Kung-Fu Pandaval, even at the hot corner

by jordanovich on Jul 6, 2009 11:21 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I don’t really.

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by Natto on Jul 6, 2009 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

why not?

Fan of the Kung-Fu Pandaval, even at the hot corner

by jordanovich on Jul 6, 2009 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess it can mess up a guys swing after. I dont really know.

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by CB30 on Jul 6, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah when a guy aims for the fences too much, it’ll mess up his swing.
i think bobby abreu a couple years ago was a prime example when he fell off the map in the 2nd half after the derby.

by sharpness609 on Jul 6, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think it’s a little overblown, but I’d still rather he didn’t do it.

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by jponry on Jul 6, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It might be overblown, but I kind of blame the Venezuelan HR Derby for Pablo’s early season struggles (to the extent that he can be said to have struggled). I think he is less of a true HR hitter and more of a line drive hitter that will get his share of home runs… swinging for the fences won’t help his production.

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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 6, 2009 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Or you could blame the youngness. But ok.

Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.

by cheno on Jul 6, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

NO!

Messes up swing, very tiring, requires a lot of work from knees— the very thing he needs to rest.

Skip cheap, false glory. Pay attention to what matters. A rested and recovered Panda is more important for our purposes than a cheap exhibition.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.

by Mayor of 311 on Jul 6, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, he’s young. Let the guy have fun if he wants to.

Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.

by cheno on Jul 6, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

for the “major props” Carmelballin, I’ll take it. haha
but yeah, this panda/kinsler mutual agreement is working out nicely, apparently.

by sharpness609 on Jul 6, 2009 11:44 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

This was just posted by SFGiants on facebook:

Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants leads after the opening 24 hours of online fan voting in the 2009 All-Star Game Final Vote. Help keep “Kung Fu Panda” in first and on his way to St. Louis with teammates Lincecum and Cain. Vote now at sfgiants.com.

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by fwoty oz on Jul 6, 2009 2:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

ya

KNBR said he has a slim lead over the Flyin Hawiian

and Kinsler is leading the AL

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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 6, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

pablo y. kinsler

I voted for kinsler on the original allstar ballot. No reason not to vote for him now. The Panda deserves to be an allstar. They both have my 25 votes.

by bradleybear on Jul 6, 2009 5:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs