Post-Game Mourning Thread
by Grant on Aug 20, 2009 12:24 PM PDT
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Awful. Just awful. I'll write more after the head-against-desk concussion clears.
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Cutting my wrists right now
Welcome to the Warriors, Stephen Curry, the 2009 NBA Rookie of the Year.
Panda's and Curry in the Bey Area. Who would've known?
Conductor of the "We're Back!" Bandwagon!
by ejdacanay on Aug 20, 2009 12:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
lol forgot how to win
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 12:25 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
And I fucking woke up for this? Ugh.
Cy Lincecain FTW
by ramin on Aug 20, 2009 12:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
since we are on the west coast, this was a mourning game…. get it? morning? mourning?
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 12:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
no swingthru stuffs
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Giants hitters have swingthru stuffs
by younghutch on Aug 21, 2009 5:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah. Ha. Right. The team that never loses.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You mean the Dodgers...
…oh wait…that was a month ago.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
by EliminateMe on Aug 20, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd be so happy with 2-2
I guessed 6-5 road trip. 2-2 Mets, 2-1 Reds, 2-2 Rockies.
If we can spit this next series then you have to think of this trip as a success.
by OTTOMATIC on Aug 20, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1
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
by bondslegend on Aug 20, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
we have to take atleast 3-4 from the rockies..... period
by Carmelballin on Aug 20, 2009 12:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Ahhh, but do you agree PERIOD?
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
End of story, period.
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
(chuckle)
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
MUST WIN SEREEEZ
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not really
The worst we’d be is two games back if we split the series. Obviously a winning series would be better but we don’t have to win it…….period
Proud parent of Waldis Joaquin!
by GiantFan on Aug 20, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
More like we have to win it, semicolon.
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I just can’t get over how many chances the Giants had to score and how much they fucked each and every one of them up.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 12:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
You still aren’t used to that even after 3 consecutive years of the same old shit?
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think it’s something you can ever get used to.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ask the Pirates. They would know.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
But now they have Alderson!! They will be World Series favorites in 2012!!
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 20, 2009 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I actually kind of expect and wait for it now. Now it trips me out when they DO score in situations where they should.
by The Double Deuce on Aug 20, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Heading to Denver for first three games of the series. Now it’s gonna be a long ass drive…
Everyone's running
The whole field bursts to life, man
Best play in baseball
-Buck O'Neill describing a triple
by Traylude on Aug 20, 2009 12:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
We need more roids.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:27 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
hemmorh(roids)
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 Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
so painful
I need a spoon to dig my eyeballs out.
by Roadie on Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Thanks Bob Howry. Another stellar outing!!!
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 Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Don’t blame Howry – if the frickin batters came through just once in the clutch it wouldn’t have gone into extras – this loss is squarely on the offense.
by APGiantsFan on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
my bad bro!
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 Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Completely right. Pitchers held opponent to TWO RUNS in TEN INNINGS.
I hate to use the phrase, but they truly did their job. Offense, not so much. Or at all.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
right
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
How many walk offs has he given up this year?
by shaolinironlion on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
3 That I can think of off the top of my head... 2 to rookies.
Please do not feed the Panda
by prnkmonkie77 on Aug 20, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Three
All of them ended in 2-1 scores.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
by EliminateMe on Aug 20, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
“utter frustration and futiity”
—Jon Miller
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Please make him manager.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
NOOOOOOO
J.T. or F.P. or Bip as full-time announcers would be worse than Bochy as manager.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dear god, as if he’s not boring and monotone enough on the pre-game.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wasn’t being particularly serious through any of it either, y’know.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Get fucking Paula Abdul, I don’t care. I’m tired of Bochy.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly – Miller’s too valuable in the booth.
Duane Kuiper: Hall Of Fame broadcaster.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
should be the new tagline for the site
McCover Chronicles: Utter Frustration and Futility
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis.
by j14 on Aug 20, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
McCovey Chronicles
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis.
by j14 on Aug 20, 2009 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Updated sig
Utter frustration and utility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i'd be happy with utter utility
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am not a good typer.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
there's nothing at steak
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You guys are going to milk this for all it’s worth
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
until we tear a calf.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
They need to start taking the bull by the horns
by iammclovin on Aug 20, 2009 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
"I hate cows more than coppers!"
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 20, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
great movie
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 6:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
it is actually in my DVD drive right now.
by toofruss on Aug 20, 2009 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don't Laugh
True story, I named my show animals (Jersey cows):
- Ima Jersey (Inspired by Ima Hogg)
- Milkyway
- Udderfinger
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Horrible. But to err is human, to forgive, bovine.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I see you have tried the de-calf.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
CAIN 4 HARDY
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
GET R DUNN
66-54 - Giants Series Record: 21-12-5, 15-4 at home
Adopted Giant: Daryl "Dealio" Maday - Not reassigned after all. Still a mediocre AA pitcher.
by rhys on Aug 20, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When this long road trip started most reasonable prognoticators said that if they win 6 of 11 it will be a good trip – so, we have to at least split in Colorado. It can be done.
by APGiantsFan on Aug 20, 2009 12:29 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
not at this point in the year
should have gotten at LEAST this game
Dear Mr. K Dilkington,
You are one of our most valuable customers.
by Remember Noah Lowry? on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Seriously,
Can someone explain pulling a guy who’s spot is certain to come up again for a guy who Bochy doesn’t trust against lefties?
He leaves Garko in, and he leaves himself with the option of bringing in Ishikawa if a righty is pitching, and then leave him in for the 8th/9th.
Is Garko that damn bad in the field?
by NHL84 on Aug 20, 2009 12:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
he is not bad in the field
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No.
Bochy is just that damn bad of a manager.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He’s a good manager like Roger Craig. The only reasonable explanation for the team’s success this season as opposed to last season is Bruce Bochy.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
by howtheyscored on Aug 20, 2009 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, Bochy wasn’t here last year!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Where did this “good manager like Roger Craig” thing start? I’ve seen the phrase a couple of times today but I seem to have missed the origin story.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That manager fanpost, I think it was Mr. Army who started it
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
“player’s manager.”
[golden girls theme song]
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 Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
There's no explanation.
Bochit happens.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
by EliminateMe on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pulling Garko set off a bad chain of events. Bochy was managing not to lose.
by baybruin415 on Aug 20, 2009 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And leading the league in suck.
by TimLincecumIsGod on Aug 20, 2009 12:49 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Ed was .423 in his 7-game hit streak.
He had a better average than Sandoval over that stretch.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/5602
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/8326
Bochy forgot Edgar’s about scoring runs (1133) not driving them in (857).
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
WOAH 7 GAME HITTING STREAK
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
by CB30 on Aug 20, 2009 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
.635 OPS
.2 WAR
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
by CB30 on Aug 20, 2009 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
How about R+RBI-HR?
Ed’s total during streak (8/10-18) was 5.
Pablo’s total over the same period was 4.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Huh?
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by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m pretty sure you can’t win an award for that stat.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
70% of the public knows that.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The other 30% want to know what a “stat” is.
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
by ResDog on Aug 20, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If R+RBI-HR was so important, they’d put it on the scoreboard.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
by EliminateMe on Aug 20, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s reality not statistics.
Pablo only had 2 multiple hit games since the last road trip.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOL ILLITERACY
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
So using multiple statistics from multiple games to calculate another number isn’t statistics!
They world is so much clearer now.
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
[Oops, posted before I was finished writing]
His actual hands/feet-on production in terms of runs been anemic for a while now.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
His actual hands/feet-on production in terms of runs
This one intrigues me.
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ahh...
any time a run scores due to one’s actions in an AB, that’s using one’s hands — however, what if one enters the game as a pinch-runner then scores because of something like a stolen base on a wild-pitch followed by an errant play at third which allows one to score all the way from first? Is that not producing a run by feet alone?
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
IAWTC
You can’t create runs without hands & feet.
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
by ResDog on Aug 20, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
body bias!
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
by SF Pete on Aug 20, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jim Abbott is offended. :(
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
oh man rofl that is so bad but i can’t stop laughing
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hey, he was trying to prevent runs, not score them.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
by groug on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Brother had 3 career RBIs!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pete Gray would like a word with you.
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
WP to score a run needs the batter's feet, how?
Technically, the batter needs to hold a bat and stand in the batter’s box. You don’t need actual feet for that, I played softball once against a guy who had pegs on top of small skis.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 21, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
How about
[(R+RBI+WEIGHT-BENGIE WEIGHT)PA-AVGBB]/[SWINGS-K+PA-AB+(Height x waist) – 1.33+HBP-SB+CS]
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
you left out the correction for deviation from the vernal equinox
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
an actual quote from a phillies fan
“OBP and SLG don’t win ballgames, HRs and RBIs do”
Dead serious.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Scoring RUNS wins games.
That WP/K that scored Uribe would have been enough had it happened last night.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I swear to god I totally remember this stat from an issue of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly when I was a kid. It was called something like “Run Production” and it was used to make the argument that Bonilla was better than Bonds.
by AngelWillSaveUs on Aug 20, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This post brought to you by
selective end point and small sample size
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And no fair tricking us with this “Ed” nonsense.
For some reason it’s harder to be angry with Ed Renteria.
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It is “Ed’s” fault that he’s garbage and barely produces at any acceptable level. How many people called “6-4-3 DP” when they saw him PH for Ishikawa? I did.
by speckops on Aug 20, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Me too.
But everyday players are usually bad pinch-hitters (need time in the field to get psychologically acclimated), and Ed’s not a fly ball hitter. So, I don’t know what Bochy was thinking.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 21, 2009 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Note the assumption.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
by EliminateMe on Aug 21, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is the dumbest loss of the year. Until the next one.
by oneflapdown on Aug 20, 2009 12:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Can we finally get Gene Velez out of the lineup now?
by joe t on Aug 20, 2009 12:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
+1 It won’t happen but it should – Velez is working his way back down to his usual performance. IMO he needs to be back on the bench.
by APGiantsFan on Aug 20, 2009 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hope Fred starts tomorrow night.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would like to see another cycle from Fred
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 20, 2009 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah... a doping cycle.
Hey-o.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d expect him to. He “hits good in Coors” so he’ll be in there.
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Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We hate Fred Lewis.
Seriously, if that guy goes missing in Denver suspect foul play.
by Rox Girl on Aug 20, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nah I’ll suspect Bochy play.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol eternal optimism
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
by groug on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It truly is amazing
The tortured “logic” behind Velez getting an extended look, and Bowker not. Also, WTF are we paying Lansford for, exactly?
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
by hairball on Aug 20, 2009 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dude
He only swings at the first pitch with a runner on third and 1 out because he is so talented
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 20, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sould we be holding out any hope at all the the Nationals can win tonight?
66-54 - Giants Series Record: 21-12-5, 15-4 at home
Adopted Giant: Daryl "Dealio" Maday - Not reassigned after all. Still a mediocre AA pitcher.
by rhys on Aug 20, 2009 12:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Our only hope is the game goes 19 innings.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That would be a good result.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
WALK-OFF WALK!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Aug 20, 2009 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m guessing today’s postgame threads will NOT be featuring a spirited back-and-forth on the merits of Eugenio Velez.
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 12:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
You Don't See The Little Things He's Does In The Field And At The Plate, But The Giants Braintrust Does
/GRM
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, I saw the little things he did in the field and at the plate today.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOL HE HAZ A LITTLE THING!!!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He should get a penis of the month subscription.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
by howtheyscored on Aug 20, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Apparently, the Goofus penis contains a spring.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think he thinks he’s an outfielder now and playing middle-infield makes hit like one.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I won’t even look at potatoes. They’ve let me down for the last time.
by TheLetter2 on Aug 20, 2009 12:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Just made a dentist appointment, b/c the pain is so bad
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 12:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I just got my wisdom teeth out, and if you don’t mind me saying, FUCK THE DENTIST
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 20, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eli failed bunt was a killer also. If he takes that pitch it’s 3-1. Just an ugly attempt at a ball in his eyes. They keep inventing new ways to strand runners…
Everyone's running
The whole field bursts to life, man
Best play in baseball
-Buck O'Neill describing a triple
by Traylude on Aug 20, 2009 12:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That was particularly awful.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That was terrible
Compounded by the fact that Lewis hit a soft single to left the next AB
by NHL84 on Aug 20, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ayup
(hey, buddy)
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
hey man hope all is well in SF. Won’t be going there, going to Denver instead. One of these years, eh?
Everyone's running
The whole field bursts to life, man
Best play in baseball
-Buck O'Neill describing a triple
by Traylude on Aug 20, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
certainly hope so!
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I watched the last 4 innings during my lunch
The only positive thing to say is that I didn’t have to watch the entire game. Let’s hope for a 14 inning, rain delay filled game in Washington tonight.
by AngelWillSaveUs on Aug 20, 2009 12:35 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow, I love it when they’re just plain old harsh like that.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Aug 20, 2009 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You mean honest?
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Kruk: “O-fer-fundamentals.”
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
absolutely
Timmy is my Man-crush
by Fan from Sac on Aug 20, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
They swung at SO many first pitches today.
It was absolutely the low point of major league situational hitting.
I just don’t get how the hell you can have 3-5 get on base 8 times and have none of them score.
by NHL84 on Aug 20, 2009 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
They were batting in the wrong order. Winn should have hit #2 in FRONT of the 2 guys with power.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, their problem today was not enough runners in scoring position
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 20, 2009 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
it’s almost impossible to get eight hits out of the heart of your order and only score one run. To make it worse, if not for a wild pitch they get shut out
embarrassed father of over the hill Edgardo Renteria
by rxmeister on Aug 20, 2009 12:38 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs
Why am I listening to the post game wrap? It’s just making me more depressed.
by baybruin415 on Aug 20, 2009 12:38 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
commiseration
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’d love to hear Jon Miller off the record.
by baybruin415 on Aug 20, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also, the clip of Russell Martin falling on his ass cuz of Gene’s slide.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sometimes I wonder if anyone connected to the team even sees what’s been going on with this team. Yes, the Giants are eleven games over .500. But the absolute incompetence of the offense for three years running now….
It makes me feel a little bit better to know that people who are connected to the team see at least some of what I think I’m seeing.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
by tobias on Aug 20, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
More offensive wonderfulness
Scouting report from Stark column:
ON PEDRO FELIZ: “He’s the unsung hero of that [Phillies] club. He’s going the other way. He’s hitting close to .290. He’s playing terrific defense. He’s a much better player this year than he was last year. He’s become a very reliable player.”
Great. NOW he decides to hit for average and go to the opposite field consistently.
Anagram of "knowing how to win" = WOW, I KNOW NOTHING
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 20, 2009 12:40 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
good thing we signed Rowand to fill the “swing at slider in the dirt” hole
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Enh
-6.0 offense, +4.7 defense.
Better hitting than when he was a Giant, but…
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He’s a good player to have if you can afford to carry his offense at third base.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sure. But “unsung hero” is a bit much in my opinion.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, nobody’s singing about him… he got it partially correct.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, you came and you gave without hackin’
But I sent you away, to Philly
Well, you struck out and stopped us from scorin’
And I need you today, oh Pedro
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I messed that up
What I meant to say:
Well, you came and you gave me slop hackinâ
But I sent you away, to Philly
Well, you struck out and stopped us from scorinâ
And I need you today, oh Pedro
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ahhh, Manilow.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And the other thing about Feliz
His power has really fallen off a cliff since he left. He’s barely slugged .400 as a Phillie.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He's much skinnier too
Not that that means anything.
by FireBrianSabean on Aug 20, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pedro
He’s a better all-around hitter now (I base that on no factual evidence), but he doesn’t look as strong – looks like he’s lost weight. That’s not to imply anything other than a reduction in strength may be a reason for the reduction in power. He had four straight years of 20+ homers in a pitchers park, but hasn’t approached that in a bandbox. Then again, he’s 34 now, so it could just be age.
by FireBrianSabean on Aug 20, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is BIG in Philadelpia right now
The sun is shining, come on Pete Happy
The Lord is waiting to take your hand
Shout Hallelujah, come on Pete Happy
We’re going to the Promised Land
by Chub Feeney on Aug 20, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Of all the things...
Wishing we had kept our old third baseman????
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
by hairball on Aug 20, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Two towns down and one to go
Split in NY
Series win in Cin
So far so good. Yeah, they should have won this game but thems the breaks.
Now change your collective underwear and get back to work.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 12:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
you and your being reasonable
Everyone's running
The whole field bursts to life, man
Best play in baseball
-Buck O'Neill describing a triple
by Traylude on Aug 20, 2009 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lars with the pep talk. Will wonders never cease?
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
he's hopped up on PEDs
Pie Enhancing something, I’m tired and cranky
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
NATTO GOES COMMANDO
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i LOLD
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Collective underwear really does not seem like a good idea to me.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
by EliminateMe on Aug 20, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
SOCIALISM
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
thats a bad band name, for sure... Collective Underwear
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m done working, my love’s complete.
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
by ResDog on Aug 20, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
GOOD THING MANAGERS DON'T AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF THE GAME
Like, for instance, hitting a GIDP machine in a huge spot in the game
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
by bondslegend on Aug 20, 2009 12:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
So I spent a leisurely morning enjoying the ballgame at home, at 11:30 I have to leave for work with and the Giants are leading. By the time I park, it’s 1 to 1. By the time I get a chance to check the score, we’re losing via the walkoff. Not a good start to the workday…. now I have to go to a damn meeting.
I should have called in sick.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
lol, Jon is basically refusing to pick a player of the game.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Cain kicked ass.. Again….. Without getting the win…… Again.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
already picked
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's Cain for sure
Nobody else deserves a mention, other than maybe Panda, but he wasn’t all that great either, committed another error.
by NHL84 on Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nobody scored, doesn’t really count.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also, I’m beyond tired of this equation:
IF Opposing Pitcher X has ERA > 4, AND X Faces Giants, THEN Opposing Pitcher ERA vs. Giants < 2
Aaron Harang 2009 ERA: 4.21
Aaron Harang 2009 ERA vs. Giants: 1.93
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 12:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I've been getting a lot of use out of this lately
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Brandon Backe
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
by groug on Aug 20, 2009 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Backe
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Two Questions
Wasn’t watching or listening to the game so not sure about these but:
-Why did Garko not hit when Renteria came up?
-Is F. Sanchez so hurt he couldn’t pinch hit? I’m guessing this is an obvious yes but wanted to make sure.
by AngelWillSaveUs on Aug 20, 2009 12:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Or, why was Ishi in the game not Garko?
by AngelWillSaveUs on Aug 20, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He's got to be injured right?
I mean, looking back at the game log Ishi went in during the 7th, when it was tied.
by AngelWillSaveUs on Aug 20, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dumb Bochy is dumb.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That confused me too, but I think it’s wrong. According to the McCoven masses, Ishi went in in the bottom of the 6th.
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well to be fair, we did have a massive lead at the time, so we could afford to give up a little offense for a little defense
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 20, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
IRONY
the real reason Boch pulled Garko is that he struck out on a WP! Can’t have that kind of abject lack of pitch recognition, no sirree!
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game currently in early planning stages.
by zenbitz on Aug 20, 2009 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Garko was pulled for Ishikawa as a defensive replacement. In like the sixth inning.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Even Molina would have been better than Renteria.
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Still too early in the game for Molina when you only carry two catchers. That won’t happen in September.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sandoval could head behind the dish in a pinch and anyone can play 1B in a pinch.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
For those keeping score at home
Here’s the status for the two players the Giants traded for at the deadline:
Freddy Sanchez: Did not play, injury
Ryan Garko: 0 for 3, 2 K, pulled for defensive purposes, 6th inning
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
OMG BAD TRADE GNAITS BRZZZ
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 Aug 20, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Frustration right now is cool
But this evaluation method is not logical.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
by hairball on Aug 20, 2009 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Being illogical
is my Grant-given right as a commenter on this site.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Garko had 4 hits in the 2 wins and 0 strikeouts.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
So much fail
Cant process
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
by CB30 on Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Kruk: If they don’t come to play, they’ll get their ass handed to them.
by Natto on Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
warms the cockles of my black heart
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yep
He actually said ass.
Anagram of "knowing how to win" = WOW, I KNOW NOTHING
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 20, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You’d be angry too if your job was to watch this incompetent wreck of an offense and try to say something insightful about it.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If the 1985 team had this pitching staff...
…they might have lost only 99 games.
That was only offense I’ve witnessed worse than this one.
by hokysmksbw on Aug 20, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
on the flip side
if they had even an average offense, like say, the Diamondbacks, they’d have the best record in the NL.
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game currently in early planning stages.
by zenbitz on Aug 20, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that's what's killing me
There are just too many holes of pure suck.
by DrStankus on Aug 20, 2009 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Telling Damon Bruce to go fuck himself seems to help, apparently.
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He said insightful.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
by Cookyman on Aug 20, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Kruk is all kinds of awesome
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
by Goofus on Aug 20, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
this
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If we could just get some decent fill-in guys, our announce team would be pretty much the best possible.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Shane Snow FTW!
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You’re Lisa Stevens!
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Who was that guest announced during Dirty’s no-no. Bring that guy back.
by High_On_Lincecum's_Godliness on Aug 20, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think there was a guest announcer that night.
I remember Kruk describing Sanchez as the Spaniard in Gladiator. That was so bad ass.
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 20, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Didn’t Darren Lewis stop by the booth that evening?
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Igot my first green comment!
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 12:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Why can’t we have one decent winning streak going? Is a 10 game win streak too much to ask?!?
by Natto on Aug 20, 2009 12:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Yes, I think it is too much to ask
I think the Giants would actually have a team that can consistently score runs to be able to mount any kind of lengthy winning streak.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
by tobias on Aug 20, 2009 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Arrrrggghh
HAVE TO have
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
by tobias on Aug 20, 2009 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
sad
this is sad, but oh so true
Timmy is my Man-crush
by Fan from Sac on Aug 20, 2009 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
POOP PIE
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 20, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is the offense Brian Sabean gave us,
managed by a man who couldn’t manage a good team anyway, with a hitting instructor who has done nothing to earn his check for several years now.
This isn’t a major-league offense, and Sabean and the rest of them should be ashamed to back up to the pay window.
Responsible for the last great homegrown Giants team.
by Al Rosen on Aug 20, 2009 1:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Anyone have a conversion chart handy?
How many years in a several?
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sabean, Bochy and Lansford (Dunston?) picking up paychecks...
I’d like to see that situation remedied.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
by tobias on Aug 20, 2009 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why is Dunston in our dugout and not Dusty’s?
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why is he in any dugout?
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
by CB30 on Aug 20, 2009 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Seriously, what exactly IS Dunston's role?
He’s supposed to be an infield instructor/coach, not a hitting coach. Does he actually do any coaching of Giants’ hitters? Do Bochy and Lansford allow that? Does anyone actually listen to this idiot? Reading McC, I sort of imagine him in the dugout telling everybody to swing at every pitch, and not “cheat the game”. That’s not what actually happens, is it?
Has Henry or Baggs ever said anything, or asked, about what Dunston is supposed to be doing in the Giants dugout?
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
by tobias on Aug 20, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The funny thing is, he wasn’t even a good defensive shortstop (despite having a ridiculous arm).
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He was pretty great when he was young. It was all athletic ability, though — nothing coachable.
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He’s lived in the Bay Area for years (Fremont, as I recall), so he probably wanted to stay local. You know, with the vast number of teams bidding for his services.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
b/c dusty likes to leave legacy
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
legacy of broken arms
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hensley Meulens for hitting coach, please.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Giants LOLffense contributes to the release of a pitcher!
Livan got dumped to make room for Billy Wagner
by NHL84 on Aug 20, 2009 1:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
countdown to fanshot suggesting we should pick him up...
by WTF on Aug 20, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He could probably hit cleanup for us.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
SUCK IT RUSSELL MARTIN!!
Timmy is my Man-crush
by Fan from Sac on Aug 20, 2009 1:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Did anyone hear today's Baseball Today podcast?
Peter Pascarelli, usually the most pessimistic man alive, said Sabean has been one of the best GMs of the last 15 years! What say you, McCoven?
by yogidogi on Aug 20, 2009 1:07 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
What’s the “meaningless game” tally up to nowadays?
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m glad I don’t listen to Baseball Today anymore.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rooting for this team is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
This is the most random statement I have read today.
Congrats!
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
if by nibbled to death by ducks you mean kicked in the fucking nuts over and over again, I agree.
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think that might actually be less painful at this point
Timmy is my Man-crush
by Fan from Sac on Aug 20, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rooting for this team is like getting a hamburger patty thrown on your windshield while driving on the freeway!
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rooting for this team is like painting your earlobes green and hopping up and down on your left foot!
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rooting for this team is like when you try to like a cigarette on a stove and you end up catching your hair on fire instead.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Aug 20, 2009 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
My friend once described Bio-Stats (which I am know taking again) as being more painful than watching a quadriplegic swim
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
like drinking a yoohoo on jupiter!!
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Like singing the national anthem backwards while eating cheerios
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
by CB30 on Aug 20, 2009 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ducks eat for free at Subway.
And on the 6th day, God created base-ball, and Barry put one in the water, and it was good.
"I think I just experienced my first Lincegasm."
by bigboneded on Aug 20, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Rooting for this team is like meeting the girl of your dream, then see her making out with your uncle.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
What was the absolute worst part of this game?
Was it….
1) The Renteria pinch hit into the double play
2) The Panda getting caught stealing second
3) Velez dropping the fly ball
by MbahABako on Aug 20, 2009 1:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
He wasn't really caught stealing
Well, technically was. But it was a stupid, botched hit-and-run, not a steal attempt.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
velez running into Nate Territory and then failing.
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
mostly because i knew what was about to happen before it did
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
It’s like entering Bear Territory and failing, only slightly less deadly.
by quincy0191 on Aug 20, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
with that beard, nate is a bordering on being a Bear I agree. needs a big gut and a leather vest 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!
by zodiac_chiller on Aug 20, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
But wait, there's more
Garko swinging a ball 4/wild pitch with bases loaded
Whiteside’s failed bunt attempt
All the first pitch swinging
by Gobi65 on Aug 20, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and with every 30 dollars of purchase
We’ll throw in a Uribe not running home on a Winn single
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eli's bunt pop-bunt backwards to the catcher
by OTTOMATIC on Aug 20, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
THIS
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I second that.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pause...deep breath...
This scoring 1 or 2 runs a game crap is hard to take, but let’s keep a little perspective:
- At the begining of the season we would have been collectively happy with a .500 season
- On June 2, we were still complaining because every time they’d get a game or two above .500, they’d lose a game or two and fall back
- When they stumbled out of the gate following the ASB, we collectively decided any success they had to that point was a fluke and the house of cards was collapsing
- When the Dodgers mandandled the Giants in the last series, we decided we’re not worth
- When we dropped the first two to the Mets, we were convinced the road trip was going to be a disaster
And yet, we’re 11 games over .500, we’re even on the road trip and still, most importantly, “We’re in this thing!”
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
by Goofus on Aug 20, 2009 1:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
My expectations have risen
I wouldnt be happy with a .500 season anymore
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
by CB30 on Aug 20, 2009 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Stop with your logic.
You are right, of course, but none of it is making me feel better about scoring two runs in two games.
by the guy on Aug 20, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lunch curbed some of the anger, so here goes nothing....
At the beginning of the roadtrip, I thought to myself :
Best case Scenario for the Giants — 7-4, Split the Rockies series
Goal for the roadtrip — 6-5, splitting both 4 game series
Not so good but acceptable — 5-6 roadtrip
Terrible Roadtrip — 4-7
Disaster, out of playoff contention — 3-8 or worse
With the loss today, the Giants can still manage to meet the goal of the roadtrip with a split agains the Rockies.
If at the start of the Reds series a wise man told me : Lincecum will get bombed for 5 runs, and you’ll score 2 runs the next 2 games, I would have been like OMG we’re getting swept by the Reds. Season over.
The fact that we came out of this thing 2-1 and winning the series, I’m ecstatic.
Yeah today sucked, but if you believe clutch hitting is (mostly) a myth and (mostly) luck based, this game is a statistical fluctuation.
Breath in, breath out, let’s go get ourselves a split with the Rockies. And Suck it, Russell Martin.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn you with your “reason” and “rationality.” I bet you’ve set up a death panel to decide my fate.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pretty sure Xanthan is handling that portion of the business
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This season is expecting a $10,000 bonus, actually getting $50,000 but then accidentally setting $25,000 of that on fire.
by AngelWillSaveUs on Aug 20, 2009 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions 7 recs
LOL
Post of the Day.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hate it when I accidentally set money on fire.
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
by Goofus on Aug 20, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
someone should so that he’ll at least be out of the cleanup spot
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
WINNER
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Aug 20, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He’s trying to trick us! We didn’t drop the first two to the Mets (although it did feel that way).
by baybruin415 on Aug 20, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I butchered the current road trip. I said we’re even too, and we’re up a game. Makes my point even stronger.
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
by Goofus on Aug 20, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
mandandled.
sounds sexxy
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also importantly...
We need to stay in this thing!
See ya next week too man. And seriously the girl I’m bringing isn’t like 12.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
How many years until she reaches that age?
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
oooooooooooh burn
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, she’s 12 all right. She’s just not “like” 12.
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
She looked like she was at least 19 – I swear, officer!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
mature for her age
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
pre-calc!
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Her teachers say she may be able to skip the eighth grade!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
head of her class!
(did that make any sense?)
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Her library card clearly shows that she’s 28.
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Poor WalrusMan
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jeez I go away for a while trying to do laundry and I come back to this. THANKS EVERYONE.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just hope this alleged girl doesn’t see all this!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
She’s already commented that she thinks we’re all crazy. But then she identified Timmy by sight so I guess I have to give her a pass.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You know the ban hammer is coming sometime.
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Of course
This is why I have to act now.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
So what you're saying is
She likes ’em young, too?
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
meanest meme ever.
Grant’s going to get another phone call from the police about the crazies on his website.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
by oldjacket on Aug 21, 2009 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
All true...
But you’re speaking to a different topic than what I think is frustrating many of us.
I agree that this season, on balance, would qualify as a pleasant surprise. But (for me at least) it’s not just that today’s loss was particularly disappointing. It’s what losses like today’s keep saying, over and over, about this team and its management—that we’re good, but because of our glaring, ridiculously deficient areas of weakness—from the fail offense, to the lack of power hitting, to the relentlessly bork-headed manager, to the first-pitch hacking (and the coaches who only advocate same) to the ever-sloppy execution, station-to-station hitting and base-running, and poor fundamentals (from a team that supposedly was going to EXCEL in those things), to the head-scratching trades and free agent signings—that we will NEVER be good enough. Games like today’s just leave me with a cold, solid-as-granite sense of certainty that the Giants will never win a World Series with the current cast of characters running things.
The Giants have two top-notch, dominant pitchers. Any team would kill to have just one pitcher with the talent of either Lincecum or Cain. The bullpen is competent-to-very good. With ANY kind of offense in place, this team could win not just one, but MULTIPLE World Series. But my fear is that, sooner than we think, we’ll see that window rapidly close. Brian Sabean will keep making foolish trades and signings. Lincecum and/or Cain will tire of waiting for the Giants to provide some real help in the lineup—or even just a cleanup hitter—and when free agency approaches, they’ll be open to going elsewhere. When that time comes, Sabean will not want, nor will he be willing, to pay the kind of big bucks necessary to keep pitchers like Cain and Lincecum on the roster for years to come. He will over-confidently and arrogantly believe that he can simply keep drafting and developing pitchers who are every bit as good as Lincecum and Cain. He’ll let one or both of them walk, or he’ll trade them for bats that are past their prime, and who never were that good in the first place.
Since 2003, being a Giants fan for me has been like being on a long journey to a destination that is so far away…well, it almost seems mythical. The destination is so distant—so unreachable, really—and the vehicle we are in seems so ill-suited to get us anywhere near where we’d like to go, that we quit worrying so much about reaching that destination, and we just try to enjoy what parts of the ride we are able to enjoy. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, we round a bend, lurch over a rise in the road, and…we SEE it! We can actually see that destination. It does exist! And…it seems so close. “We can get there!”, we cry! “We can do this!”.
But then, as we pick up our pace and attempt to breach those last few miles between our vehicle and that promised land, the vehicle abruptly coughs and sputters, veers badly off course, and finally grinds to a halt. It’s only then that we realize that the vehicle that we had imagined was a powerful vehicle—strong and hardy, yet nimble and quick, and designed to get us over difficult miles and tough terrain—well, that vehicle isn’t a powerful Humvee or Range Rover. It’s not a Ford Ranger, a Pathfinder, or a Jeep. In fact, it isn’t even a car, really. It’s actually…well, it’s a bunch of 2X4’s nailed together with wheels that were last used as training wheels on your sister’s bicycle. The guy that built the car keeps kicking the tires and saying things like, “I could’ve gotten that shiny, expensive car you all wanted; but then I couldn’t have afforded all these nice new bottle caps we just added to the rear bumper.” The driver…he’s not actually even human. He’s just a big friendly dog with an enormous head, who slobbers and poops all over everything while steering the car left when he sees a cat or another dog on the left, and right when he sees anything of interest on the right.
It’s now that you realize the horrible truth; that, as close as you may be to that destination you’ve so longed to reach, and happy as you are to be this near it, you have absolutely no chance of traveling those last few miles of road between where you are now, and where you want to be.
…That is what is bothering me right now.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
by tobias on Aug 20, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wow
I was really surprised when I scrolled down and saw this wasn’t from OGC.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Only one word capitalized in the header.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
GRM Capitalizes Every Word
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have trouble keeping my three letter ranters straight.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 20, 2009 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have not read the post or seen who the poster is, I’m going to guess OGC
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Speaking long posts
Sharksrog hasn’t been commenting since June. :(
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s one of the down sides of meeting people on the interwebs… Sometimes people just seem to disappear. You hope that he won the lotto and bought himself a nice tropical island somewhere.
by Merope on Aug 20, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Long post is long
Maybe I should make it a Fanpost.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
by tobias on Aug 20, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree with some of that. What’s driving me nuts now are all the egregiously bad decisions that keep dragging the team down: the extra starts for Sadowski, the burying of useful players like Lewis and Schierholtz and Bowker and Frandsen, the incessant Velez, the inability to swing a salary-dump trade for a guy like Harang or Cristian Guzman, the inept in-game tactics …. The team is trying to make it to the beach, and the Bochean undertow keeps dragging them out to sea. It’s depressing.
by Evan on Aug 20, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No margin for error.
This is getting so old.
The futility would be fine if we could just average a HR/game like more than half of MLB.
And on the 6th day, God created base-ball, and Barry put one in the water, and it was good.
"I think I just experienced my first Lincegasm."
by bigboneded on Aug 20, 2009 1:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
May not be the time to discuss it, but how about Sugar for Matt’s nickname?
I'm thinking but nothing's happening.
by JRPhillips on Aug 20, 2009 1:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
If it’s anything like my Chevy Nova, it’s gonna light up the sky!
I'm thinking but nothing's happening.
by JRPhillips on Aug 20, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was thinking more along the lines of “Mark of”
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
sounds like dining at a Waffle House.
“can I take your order, sugar?”
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
you might have to explain the waffle house to westerners, I have seen but never entered
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not sure if i can explain it myself to be honest..
.. a chain of greasy spoon diners with hick waitresses and cooks and shitty food?
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
except the food is great.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
haha?
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
the eggs & cheese with the hash browns scattered & smothered (and raisin toast) is one of life's simple pleasures.
It is not haute cuisine, but their egg dishes are great examples of the genre. Vast light years greater than Denny’s or the like.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Biscuits and gravy are usually outstanding.
As is my subsequent cardiologist billing.
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I've only been a couple of times
But when I went, the food was barely edible.
But my wife went to college and high school in Virginia and loves the place.
Different strokes, etc.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
+1
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
by rotorueter on Aug 20, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No. No it’s not.
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
by ResDog on Aug 20, 2009 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Think of a trailer park that serves food.
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No, they don’t offer child “care”
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
When he starts flipping out and hitting the batters in the nuts in the showers after these punchless games where he does great
will be called the Cain Mutiny.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Twist of..
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 Aug 20, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’ll always prefer “Big Daddy” Cain
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
by Goofus on Aug 20, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
or “Candy” Cain
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
by Goofus on Aug 20, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Pork Bun Cain
Jesse Foppert: I Still Believe. Maybe a little less now.
"I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen." ~Bob Lemon,
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 20, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why have we never considered this?
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
come to think of it, I have known multiple struggling college students named Sugar.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The most frustrating thing about these last two games is:
We scored 1 run each game in the GREAT AMERICAN BANDBOX !!!!
It’s obvious our hitters saw the close fences and thought they were homerun hitters.
by OTTOMATIC on Aug 20, 2009 1:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
One more positive...
Nate got two hits in consecutive games after being sat for four games, making it harder for Bochy to not put his mae on the lineup card.
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
by Goofus on Aug 20, 2009 1:42 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Mmmm... Mae West
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ya, dont worry though
Bochys a tough guy, he’ll manage not to do it
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 20, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hazel Mae.
(sigh)
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 20, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not as attractive as Mae Young, certainly.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
she's not bad
for a weird oval face
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I guess I am in the minority. Maybe because I am Asian I do not find her facial features attractive at all, but she does have much better sports knowledge than most other sports anchors, male or female. That works for me.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i feel you
not my type (fake rack etc), but she doesn’t repel me either.
And as we know from Comcast, sports knowledge makes you 2 tiers hotter
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Any thoughts on Nicole Manske (from ESPN)? I saw her last night on SportsCenter, she has nice legs.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
never heard of her
but cursory internet research suggests she is not unattractive
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You know who's pretty good?
Tony Clark.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i'd hit it
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
self-reply
i realized she looks like a crypto-Asian Valerie Bertinelli, for whom I had a thing in my younger days
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
gtfo my lawn
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOLOLD
Jesse Foppert: I Still Believe. Maybe a little less now.
"I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen." ~Bob Lemon,
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 20, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
born 1960. That’s one generation ahead of me man.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
(i also did not move to the US until 1990 so maybe that has something to do with it)
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
One Day At A Time. The one who wasn’t Mackenzie Phillips.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
(I’ve never seen that show, but for some reason I know that!?)
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eddie Van Halen's wife
the one who wasn’t drugs and booze
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ex wife, now… i think
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
She got single and then she got sklinny.
Coincidence? I think not.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 20, 2009 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
SLIMFAST
hanging out with lasorda i guess
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
er, the other one! hanging out with kristie ally
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
MY EYES!!!!!!!
She hadn’t worn a bikini since before i was born……………………OLD!
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 20, 2009 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
i’d probably hang out with valerie, to be honest about it
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 Aug 20, 2009 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd clinch her division
"I would've been here sooner but I had to shake the Veleasels"
by The Gene Hackman on Aug 20, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Got no problem with hazel mae’s looks.
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 Aug 20, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
pfft… I’d totally kick her out of bed.
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
by ResDog on Aug 20, 2009 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mets release Livan
The Mets released Livan Hernandez to make room for Billy Wagner, according to Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post. Hernandez signed with the Mets last offseason for $1MM plus incentives, and took the hill 23 times this year. His numbers aren’t impressive, but they’re not much different than expected; in 135 innings he allowed 164 hits and walked 51, striking out 75 batters.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 2:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Livan Hernandez and Russ Ortiz reunion! That’d be a beautiful disaster.
by gvp914 on Aug 20, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If the Giants release Aurilia, they can reunite the 2002 team and go on tour.
by Natto on Aug 20, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think I’d rather see the Limp Bizkit reunion tour… and that’s saying something
by gvp914 on Aug 20, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sombeody call Shinjo!
And Tom Goodwin.
by FireBrianSabean on Aug 20, 2009 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If Shawon went on this tour, he wouldn’t be coaching the Giants anymore!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's a great point
I wonder where is Chad Zerbe is these days.
by FireBrianSabean on Aug 20, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
POOR, POOR CHEESEBURGER
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Aug 20, 2009 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't like games the Giants lose
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
by groug on Aug 20, 2009 2:03 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
watching a journey video on you tube, and for some reason I feel like posting this:
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:06 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Luv ya, Steve, but moustache fail!
by younghutch on Aug 20, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
yeah, i couldn’t decide if it was a fail, or epic
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
he shaves it laster in the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajM85IIb8hI
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
*later
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
CUZ HE'S FUCKING AWESOME
perhaps that’s why
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
the barron of journey!
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He struck out with Jonathan?
The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Kevin Frandsen, come back!
by WalrusMan on Aug 20, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
why u poopstach steve? awwww
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
sports pickle lol
TONY LARUSSA BRINGS IN CAPRICORN
TO PITCH TO A LEO
IRL LOL
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 2:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Bruce Bochy counters with a Gemini double-switch.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
by Kitspool on Aug 20, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
hahah
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
by ringleader3 on Aug 20, 2009 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
In case anybody here actually get this, give me a shout out
BURN! MY COSMO!!!!!!!!
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
according to google – you have pubic hair shaving rash.
Eugenio "Skinny Panda" Velez post All Star OPS 1.108
by cybermaldonado on Aug 20, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I can’t resist the chance to point out that his post-All Star OPS is more than 200 points lower than that now. :)
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes. I really should update that someday.
Nate's RISP w/2 Outs OPS: 1.242
by cybermaldonado on Aug 20, 2009 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
So I had to leave in the ninthm inning
and I heard we lost 2-1, my first thought
Bob Howry
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 20, 2009 2:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
offensive failure.
then howry failure.
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 Aug 20, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don’t forget the Bochy failure.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
by jcb9 on Aug 20, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
ya
unfortunatley I did get to watch 5 innings of offense
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 20, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Onion strikes again
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/mets_retaliate_for_david?utm_source=a-section
Not sure if this was posted already
NEW YORKâAfter a 94-mph beaning last weekend landed Mets star David Wright on the 15-day disabled list, his teammates retaliated Monday by ruthlessly stabbing San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval to death. “Hey, it’s just part of the game,” blood-soaked pitcher Mike Pelfrey said at an evening press conference. “If your pitcher is going to hit one of our guys, we’re going to react. And we’ll do that by cornering one of your guys in a dark parking lot at night, slamming his head into a car door, thrusting knives repeatedly into his chest and stomach, and leaving him there to bleed in silence until he’s found dead the next morning. That’s baseball.” As of press time, both teams had been warned by home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi.
by jctGamer on Aug 20, 2009 2:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
ahahahhahaha
funny
but creepy
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 20, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
last line is the winner
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
by delorean on Aug 20, 2009 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Panda’s a part of pop culture now! SELL HIGH SAEBS!!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Aug 20, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
wow...
we scored our only effin’ run on a strikeout/wild pitch….just, wow….
by HawkInExile on Aug 20, 2009 4:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I can safely say
I am glad I missed this game.
It Is Their Ignorance That Keeps Them From Recognizing The Truth
by SFGuy on Aug 20, 2009 4:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Dude it’s over……even Krup and Kuip were tearing the offense a new one on the post game show. Pathetic.
by RoInSM on Aug 20, 2009 5:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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