Pain and the San Francisco Giants: Historical Perspective
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 24, 2009 12:22 PM PDT
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PrintIf the Giants lose tonight, it would be extraordinarily tough for them to make the playoffs. The race wouldn’t be over. The remaining games would still have a lingering odor of contending about them – Polo’s Runner Up!, now with more anise and sulfur! – but the odds wouldn’t be good.
Hey, that has 75% less irony since the first time I posted it. So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
But let’s assume the worst. Heck, let’s go beyond the worst, and let’s pretend that the Rockies go on a five-game winning streak, and let’s pretend that the Giants go on a five-game scoreless streak. Season’s over, Freddy Sanchez is put on the DL with a pulled everything, Randy Winn loses playing time to John Bowk…hahahaha, okay, I couldn’t keep a straight face with that last one. Seriously, though, if the end were to come swiftly and mercifully, how would we feel?
This isn’t 2003. This isn’t a 100-win season ending in a four-game stretch of pain.
This isn’t 2001, in which a team that was expected to contend fell short, wasting historic performances from Barry Bonds and Rich Aurilia.
This isn’t 1998, when Neifi Perez neified the Giants for the first time.
This isn’t 2005, when it was miserably apparent that the Giants weren’t going to make our autumns interesting for a loooong time.
This isn’t 2002, in which a very good Giants team wasn’t allowed to compete for a championship because of the famine caused by locusts.
On the pain scale, a collapse this season wouldn’t rank too highly. As a midpoint in a rebuilding process, a lot of us wanted only to see some progress. Posey’s doing well in AAA, Lincecum and Cain are fantastic, Jonathan Sanchez is stringing together some good starts, and Zito looks as if he’ll be able to contribute to future Giant rosters, salary be damned. Where the Giants were once a complete overhaul away from respectability, now they’re only a few tweaks away from something more.
This shouldn’t be taken as a eulogy for the season. I’ll watch today’s game as if it’s the seventh game of the NLCS, hopping up and down and swearing when it’s appropriate. The season is still very much alive, and as a staunch Anyteamcanwinelevenoutofnineteenist – we light incense in front of a Jeff Weaver picture before each service – I’m desperately hoping the Giants make the playoffs. Tonight’s game is the most important game in years. We’re in this thing. Kind of.
But to use a cliché, it feels like I’m playing with house money. As the Giants were getting pummeled on Saturday, I had a blissful kind of acceptance. The bullpen is filled with pitchers with ERAs under 4.00, even though none of their peripherals suggest that’s their true talent level. The offense would have been historically awful without Pablo Sandoval; as is, it’s just awful. Randy Johnson didn’t provide much value. This isn’t a team to live and die with. It’s just too flawed of a roster.
Yes, if the Giants don’t make the playoffs, they’ll have wasted two fantastic starting pitching seasons, and they’ll have wasted some fluky bullpen work. It will be disappointing. But it won’t be a soul-smelting disappointment, if that makes any sense.
The best way to put it is probably this: If the Giants lose tonight, I will not kill a baby duckling. I will only maim one. So go, local sports team. Make us proud.
Comment starter: Is the house money analogy appropriate? Is that how you feel, or are you completely invested in this season?
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That’s sexual harassment, Juan Uribe – and it’s wrong!
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Surprise me, Giants
I dont expect you to do anything, but it would be cool if you did
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situation zito
"I would've been here sooner but I had to shake the Veleasels"
by The Gene Hackman on Aug 24, 2009 12:27 PM PDT reply actions
As I posted in another thread:
What is making this season for me isn’t Tim, Matt or Panda that are making me the most happy.
Its the fact that Zito/Sanchez’s starts went from,
OMG HOW AM I GONNA BE PRODUCTIVE AND NOT WATCH THIS GAME
to
OMG HOW AM I GONNA WATCH THIS GAME AND NOT BE PRODUCTIVE.
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 24, 2009 12:35 PM PDT reply actions
To finish my thought...
If Zito/Sanchez starts continue to bring hope to my heart, I will love this season no matter what. Sure, I want a playoff spot, but in the end we are out of this thing I will remember this season as one hell of a trip.
Now, if Zito/Sanchez starts return to the dreadful, self-harm inducing behavior from earlier this year, I will want a playoff spot!
I R 5
by say hey nation on Aug 24, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I expected OMGDISASTER before the season started
I still am expecting complete and total failure. Even with our record 10 over .500, I don’t buy it. So if/when they collapse, I will be very disappointed, but not crushed.
I want the team I root for to do well. I want to watch my baseball team play in the playoffs for the first time in 5 years. But, at the beginning of the season I thought there was no shot in hell that would happen. Now there is. So I’m slightly more “in” than I was to start the season, but I’m still expecting abject disappointment and failure, because that’s the Giants.
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Most fans clamored for a .500 record this year
2010 has always been in my mind as the year the Giants really put things together. We will still have an unreal staff and hopefully some young hitters who can be useful. We need to separate out who will stay with the big league club and who needs to move on. (Nate, Fransden, Lewis, Downs, Bowker, Guzman, Ishi, Burriss) All these kids still have something to prove and it will be interesting to see who sticks around
People were saying those kids had "something to prove"
before this year started. IDK why we should expect next year to be any better in RE: them, unless Bochy isn’t back (opleaseopleaseopleaseopleaseopleaseopleaseoplease)
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by bondslegend on Aug 24, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I know it’s mostly gravity but Pablo’s belly in that picture is making me lol.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I don’t think it’s gravity.
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And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
by can of corn on Aug 24, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
THE POST WHERIN I AM A BAD FAN
AT THIS POINT: I would rather this team tank now than on the last weekend of the season. I KNOW IT’S WRONG. I would find being a spoiler in the month of September much more satisfying than biting my nails and smoking a pack a game wrought with anxiety over the Giants place in the standings. I KNOW IT’S WRONG. I want to enjoy watching the Dodgers choke in the first round. I KNOW IT’S WR…wait, I guess that’s not at all wrong.
2010!!!!!!
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I'm with you on this
For partially selfish reasons, though, since I’m getting married on the last day of the regular season and would rather not be distracted by a Giants team that could potentially make the playoffs with a win in their final game.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
Poor timing
Plan your Important Life Events around the actions of your local sports team!
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ll be back from my honeymoon for the World Series!
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
, the Giants lost 8-7 to the A’s. Despite Octavio Dotel giving up FOUR RUNS in relief. Geez.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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on my wedding day (and I just looked this up) a short haired timmy lost 13-3 to the pirates:
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So you guys are saying I should expect that on my wedding day the Giants will lose 1-0 on a walk-off homerun by David Eckstein while Kevin Correia and Luis Perdomo combine on the shutout?
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
sounds plausible
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the Giants will lose 1-0 on a walk-off homerun by David Eckstein Willie Venable, Everth Cabrera, or Mat Latos
take your pick. Bob
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Also, Tim Lincecum
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 24, 2009 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably
On my wedding day , The Rockies scored two runs in the 10th off Hennessey to beat the Giants. The games notables include Lowry throwing 98 pitches in four innings and an HR by some guy named Bonds.
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
On my wedding day, they lost to the Mets, but who cares because they were still 9 games up and the Braves would have to end the season on some kind of insanely hot streak to have any chance at all to catch up.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
When I get married, I should make sure that the Giants are either really far ahead in the standings or really far behind before setting a date.
You could always get married in the offseason.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
no..no..no…offseason is when we get divorced!
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Aug 24, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I’ll just get married on opening day or during spring training.
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by Useful_Idiot on Aug 24, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
On my wedding day, the Giants beat the Cubs at Wrigley. Leonard hit his 11th double of the season, future Giants Shawon Dunston committed his 17th error, Brenley hit his 6th HR, and Scott Garrelts got his 8th win.
My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
This a fun one. On my wedding day, the Giants beat the Marlins 2-0 behind 7 shutout innnigs from Osvaldo Fernandez.
Waiting for Giants and Niners to contend once more.
On my wedding day. They lost to Brandons Webb and Medders. If we have children, they will not be named Brandon.
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
On my wedding day the Giants beat the Padres 2-1. More interestingly, The Giants beat the Padres 8-0 the night before behind a pretty good complete game shut out from Jonathan Sanchez. I missed it while I was at my rehersal dinner.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
It’s not considered taboo to call it a no-hitter after the game is over, y’know.
Oh, and congratulations.
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you're a bad fan
and it’s wrong. I have never, nor will I ever, understand this thought process.
Nailbiting, chainsmoking, alcoholism induced sports-fandom is what makes sports awesome. Even when it ends badly, and I’m depressed for the 5 months between the end of the season and spring training, this is what sports is all about and the reason we keep coming back. Without the heartbreak, the highs don’t feel nearly as good.
by scottishgiants on Aug 24, 2009 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
75%
Had Grant been any of the other posters, he would have put 109%. But he went with the "Barry Zito’s Number" reference and not the "Website’s Weird Inside Joke That Doesn’t Kind of Make Sense OK Maybe a Little but Who Cares Because It’s Ours or Something lol" reference to pander to the masses.
Panderer.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
I'M NEVER REFRESHING THE PAGE
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by bondslegend on Aug 24, 2009 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Well then neither of you will ever know when I delete your comments. Sucks to be you!
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 24, 2009 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Ha!
I would have just forgotten that I posted anything!
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
+1!
Suck it, howie!
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I will say
I’m somewhat amused by the fact that a post with “Historical Perspective” in the subject line only goes back as far as 1998.
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lold
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by bondslegend on Aug 24, 2009 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I by that I mean LOL OLD
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by bondslegend on Aug 24, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
And doesn’t even mention 2000, which was one of the toughest ones, at least for me. That may have been the best team the Giants have had in my lifetime, and they lost 3-1 to a Mets team that wasn’t anything special in the first damn round.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
WHY DON'T YOU START UP YOUR OWN BLOG THEN? I WASN'T TRYING TO GIVE AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 24, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
1993 was the best Giants team in your lifetime dammit!
El Presidente Larry Baer's epitaph
"Nothing important ever happened without me."
Sigh.
2000 was the last time I really believed the Giants would win it all.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
I believed the Giants would win it all in the sixth inning of Game 6 of the 2002 World Series.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
+1
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
I believed they were going to win the World Series that year from the moment they beat the Braves in the NLDS.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I blame the kid in my Calculus class who, after that Braves series, said “Who’s gonna beat us? The Cardinals? The Twins? The Angels? No way!”
GROUGTHINK ALERT
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Considering how flagrantly Fox (and Buck & McCarver) were rooting for the Cardinals and their Win It For Kannon Kile storyline, I suspect they put some sort of voodoo curse on the Giants.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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Kannon Kile was Darryl Kile’s young, cute son. Darryl Kile was the guy who died.
Throughout the NLCS, Fox was constantly showing videos of Kannon, talking about him, etc., to the point where it really made me uncomfortable because it seemed really exploitative and emotionally manipulative.
Immediately after the Giants won the series – like, the very next thing – they aired a tribute video to Darryl Kile, featuring said video footage of his son. And hey, paying tribute is great! But, dude, THE OTHER TEAM JUST ONE. There’s a time and a place. How about actually talk about the winning team!?
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I gave Cards fans the Billy Mays treatment
just because the coverage of the Kile thing was so over the top.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 24, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
God, and those Cardnal trolls, so awful that series with their page long signature images of every single player on the roster and Jesus weeping and all that. Bacci was in rare form that series.
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so they played the tribute at the end of the series?? why didn’t they just play it before the series or something? But i agree, it’s just something to get people all pumped up over, kinda like what happened with the Angels
Oh, they “paid tribute” before the series, during the series, and after the series. It was pretty much non-stop.
Jack Buck had also died shortly before, and, uh, Joe Buck’s loyalties were rather clear.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Yeah, I remember the Jack Buck tribute right after the Giants won that series. Redic.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Aug 24, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
This sort of reminds me: has anyone else noticed how, when YE Yang won the PGA Championship, all the stories the next day were about how Tiger Woods lost?
If Tiger Woods appears in and finishes anywhere in the Top 10 of a golf tournament, but doesn’t actually win it, the actual winner should just forget about receiving any media coverage.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
This reminds me of how the Giants were playing the Mets a few years back, and they won on the strength of a brilliant outing by Matt Cain – his first start in NYC, I believe – and in the postgame the announcers were joking about all the puns that would be in the New York papers the next day – Cain is Able, The Cain Mutiny, etc.
Then, at the end, one of them – I think it was Krukow – said, “Aw, who’re we kidding, they’ll just write about Barry Bonds.”
I checked the New York Times article the next day, and yes, in fact, the lede was about how Bonds went like 0-4. Cain wasn’t mentioned until the fourth paragraph.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Yeah, I know
Caps lock lowers your IQ. Even if you’re doing it ironically.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
He named his kid Kannon?
That’s as stupid as Roger Clemens giving all his kids K names in ‘honor’ of his strikeout abilities.
I mean, really, Kannon?
/eye roll
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
According to Wikipedia, his other son is named Ryker.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Rrrrrrrrrrrrred alert!
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Lt. Wyrf
Diana Troy
John Luke Pikard
Commander Dayda
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Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Well, yeah, me too...
…but I didn’t really believe it much before then. Maybe after they beat the Cards. I definitely didn’t feel the same confidence going into the playoffs that year that I had in 2000.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
The 2002 game 6 debacle occurred on my birthday, forever ruining it!!!
"The big thing people say to me is, 'Why don't you ever smile?' Well, I'm too interested in trying to beat somebody right now to smile." Will Clark
"I'm close to six feet, I like to think." The Freak.
Game 6 2002 ? I don’t remember any World Series during 2002. Wasn’t there a plague of locusts or something ?
My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
I believed the Giants would win it all in the sixth inning of Game 6 of the 2002 World Series.
How did you expect them to win it all in the 6th? Rain out?
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
Smart Alleck
Which is better than being a dumb alleck, I guess.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
The 03 team was a good playoff type team, too.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
That whole series with the Marlins just didn’t feel right, though. I’m the sort of optimist who goes into every season expecting my team to win it all… But even then, my thought was “the Giants are the better team, but there’s something about the Marlins…”
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 24, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm more confused
By the random non-chronological order.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
I need Villa to stop scoring now for a win in the predict-the-score league!!!
I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused
benitez is gonna quit before christmas
by scottishgiants on Aug 24, 2009 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I can’t believe Liverpool only scored once, with all the opportunities they had. Also, Fernando Torres looks like some one ran over his face with a lawn mower
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by Useful_Idiot on Aug 24, 2009 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Armando Benitez?
He signed with the Astros a few days ago. Which (in his heart of gutless hearts) means he’s already quit.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
this team sounds like it’s running out of gas. I haven’t been able to watch any game but one game on this road trip, so I wouldn’t really know, but that’s what it seems like.
After we fail, I’ll be able to just shrug it off and marvel at the progress that most of the team has made. Until then, I’ll feel the horrible sting of every loss.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
. . . and if you let it out, it might be a little more solid than vapor.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Or solid.
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 24, 2009 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Or plasma.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Or magic.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Or the ether
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Raised expecations
I started the season saying .500 was my line of demarcation. Anything more and I’m happy, anything less and I’m bummed.
My expectations have been raised and now I’m hoping that we stay in it until the virtual end. I want meaningful games in September, but won’t be crushed if we miss the playoffs.
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
Raised Expectations?
Another patented dick joke, care of Goofus. Man, that guy never takes a day off.
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 24, 2009 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
He's hard at work, as usual.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
boning up on the latest developments
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and his penis is erect, too
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Also, Tim Lincecum
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 24, 2009 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Or so I hear.
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 24, 2009 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I heard it from a very reliable source
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 24, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
a solid lead?
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
House Money analogy is appropriate but I reserve the right to rant on about how much I hate Coor’s field. I don’t have stats to back it up but it seems like we have played a few soul crushing games there over the years. I hate their mascot Barney and the fact they let him sit right behind homeplate some innings. I hate the conspiracy theory that came out yesterday about them dialing down the radar gun to try and get Timmy to overthrow on his fastballs (I really don’t believe in this one because that would be absolutely shameful, I would expect it from the bums but not the Rockies)
oh wait, this isn’t a hate thread so I’ll stop now.
by CrispinGloversBalls on Aug 24, 2009 12:57 PM PDT reply actions
Quien es Coor?
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Zito and this offense?
Think I’ll go back to work.
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 24, 2009 12:58 PM PDT reply actions
The KLaw disapproves of the Giants
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by theghostofjasonellison on Aug 24, 2009 1:01 PM PDT reply actions
I hate to sound like a Cubs fan, but I don’t think the Giants will ever win the World Series.
/depressed
49ER16 LINKED TO CUBS!!
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 24, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Jon Stewart is a Mets fan. Perhaps not quite as stupid, but certainly pushing it
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by Useful_Idiot on Aug 24, 2009 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
He was at one of SF's games in NYC.
They put him on the jumbotron. I felt bad cheering against him. Momentarily.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
He comes across as sort of a jackass. I mean, he’s funny, but there’s a snarkiness to his humor and he doesn’t seem to get the irony when he makes fun of fox and msnbc
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 24, 2009 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I lack the appropriate perspective.....
…because I really just want to jump out of my skin right now. That this is against the Rockies has much to do with it. The Astros. I wish we were playing and falling out of it against the Astros. Because the Astros are as likely to drive any jump in emotion as…..generic white bread.
Plotting the ultimate demise of Gore51 (never met him, I dunno he could be swell) so as to adopt Kyle Nicholson.
by Whiteteaandpoptarts on Aug 24, 2009 1:08 PM PDT reply actions
No way, I despised the Astros when I was younger, Biggio and Bagwell KILLED us back then
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by theghostofjasonellison on Aug 24, 2009 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Brewers, Reds?
Plotting the ultimate demise of Gore51 (never met him, I dunno he could be swell) so as to adopt Kyle Nicholson.
by Whiteteaandpoptarts on Aug 24, 2009 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Ha. I was 1.
"This season is expecting a $10,000 bonus, actually getting $50,000 but then accidentally setting $25,000 of that on fire." - AngelWillSaveUs
I was twenty eight. Thanks for that scout.
/ feels bones creaking
My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
I was -6
beat that
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 24, 2009 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
1986, btw, is probably the best historical analogy for this current team
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
this season has all the makings of …
Cody Random ………… starring Eugenio Velez
Dustin Hermanson …………. starring Brian Wilson
Steve Finley ……………… Starring David Eckstein
…and Aaron Rowand as The Beaver Squirrel
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Touchdown.
Well done.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I like that the ball is already on the ground.
"This season is expecting a $10,000 bonus, actually getting $50,000 but then accidentally setting $25,000 of that on fire." - AngelWillSaveUs
Clank!
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
that’s true. I’m being a bit optimistic.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
House money is certainly appropriate, but there is a certain amount of bittersweet mixed in. To me, it’s like winning the jackpot, then gambling that money away.
Proud father of Barry Zito. As long as he keeps throwing strikes, that is.
It's a little different to me
It’s more like walking into a casino with $5 in your pocket, hitting a small jackpot and dreaming that this could lead to the big one. But after losing some of your winnings you come to your senses, cash out, hit the buffet, few brews and leave the casino with a buzz, a full stomach and $10 in your pocket.
Not a life changing day, but you’ll certainly take it.
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis.
AngelWillSaveUs had the best analogy to describe what this seasons feels like.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
Yes, yes that is far better
I must have bailed on that post game thread before that one came up
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis.
the only problem with the house money analogy
is that it was only good up to the trade deadline. You had a nice run, maybe you feel like you can play this game… so you take out a little home equity lone on Ryan Garko and Freddie Sanchez?!?!?! WTF!?
Now, it’s all-in baby.
I will say that these Giants give me good practice for Steeling myself against the inevitable disappointment. Go Giants! Exceed my meh expectations of you!
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.
I think of Freddy Sanchez thus far as more of a foreclosed home that we thought we got a good deal on. Then we found out that meth-addict squatters had been living in Freddy’s shoulder.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
Plus the whole part about how we thought we were getting him for a few AAAA players and instead it was Alderson.
Oh, wait, I forgot. Now that Alderson’s ben traded, we’re supposed to think he sucks. Right!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I hated this idea from day 1 TBH
before I even knew he was injured. He isn’t a great offensive player, and isn’t THAT much better on defense. And to get him, WE GAVE UP THE SECOND BEST FUCKING PITCHER IN OUR SYSTEM.
The fact that he’s so injury-prone takes it from bad trade to AJDP-esque
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
Prove me wrong
Finish with more tha 80 wins.
I DARE YOU!
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 24, 2009 1:12 PM PDT reply actions
And that's not possible
Too much Bochy.
"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit." - Coach John Wooden
Still working on a video project
Need good MCC photoshopped meme type pictures for the players. I have so far :
- Randy Winn Tuxedo Juggernate
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— The Gark Knight
Looking for links to (higher res the better)
- Aaron Rowand Cape FBAL
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— Bowkermania
And any other suggestion you may have. Please, positive ones, not LOL ZITO.
Thanks!
Freddy Sanchez in a full body cast or something. Or Lewis dropping a ball and being not clutch at the same time.
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Seriously though
Panda
Big Money Molina
Rally Gar
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Ibn Battuta
Not a Giant, but belongs there
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 24, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Aaron Rowand’s “I’m Poopin’” is always a good one. It comes highly recommended.
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 24, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh sorry. Positive ones. I dr that far.
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 24, 2009 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
fast black abe lincoln
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Baron Pickoff von Ironglove
my old nemsis… we meet again. I see you have perfected your steam-powered groundball muffer… do you also have the errant throw perfected yet??
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.
This one's good
also, rally Ibn Battuta and rally mokey-eating rally leopard for the old timers
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
oh yeah forgot about that one. Will add it.
Also, don’t laugh when you actually see the video. This is my first go-around using After Effects. I"m ok with Photoshop and Premiere but I’ve never used AE before.
I'm lookin foreward to it
I’m a super basic video editor myself, I love watching other people’s projects
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
Don't mind him
he’s a bit of a dick
/don’t ban me!
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
Yeah, but then they went and got pregnant and threw their life away, so WHO’S LAUGHING NOW??
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 24, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
What about the Rowand flying squirrel pic?
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
I thought Frandsen was the flying squirrel.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
there was a picture of a squirrel that had the exact same body position as Rowand on another picture.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
I think of Rowand as more of a Bullwinkle
Bullwinkle: “Hey Rocky, watch me try to pull this slider that is a foot off the plate”
Rocky: “Again?!?”
Bullwinkle: “Nothing up my sleeve….PRESTO!”
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 24, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
he kinda looks like him too
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
He always reminds me of JOB from Arrested Development.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
“And now, for something we hope you’ll really like…”
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
The Rowand meme is in this thread, along with sayheybk’s excellent (if disturbing) image.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
he is now ‘stopgap’ officially, 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
This has been a pretty cool season, but I was always sure that it wouldn’t last. So, I was prepared. The ultimate irony that everyone’s talking about is that being 10 games over .500 is somehow more disappointing than being .500. But, I think this roadtrip has shown the real Giants, and the real Giants are not a playoff team.
That being said, this season has been delightful. So many great moments: the no-no, Nate’s inside the park HR, Lincecum’s 200th strike out coming against Manny, Whiteside’s grand slam. Plus, more sustained things: Cain’s success, Pablo’s numbers, Affeldt/Medders/Miller/Romo surpising all of us.
Because I started working about 1 block from the Phone Booth last July (that’s what all the cool kids call it, right?), I have lived and breathed Giants baseball this year. And, it has been a pretty great ride, all things considered. So, yeah, I’m invested, but it still feels like I’m playing with house money.
I'm sort of in this boat
I rediscovered Giants baseball late last year. After the 2004 season, I went on a 4 year World of Warcraft raiding binge in which I went to, I think, 3 Giants games in that span. It’s not easy raiding 4+ days a week, farm for raid material, AH camp and work full time job at the same time.
So to me, the frustration is a little bit less I guess, since I was never invested in the 2005-2007 season. Nevertheless, I want that 2002 magic again.
I’m going to cherish this season, and eagerly await the arrive of Buster, The Beast, Posey.
Your mention of Neifi Perez made me realize something
Namely, that I really hate Neifi Perez.
But I wondered if they had defensive metrics from back when he played for us. So I looked them up. He was 22 runs above replacement on defense in 2003. So, as it turns out, his 2003 season would be a huge upgrade on Renteria.
Now I just want to strangle someone.
Thanks, Grant. Thanks buckets.
/sobs
Still the loving, adoptive father of Hector Sanchez. And who doesn't love switch-hitting catchers with power and patience?
According to whom? Fangraphs has him +12.4 Fielding, -15.2 hitting for 2003.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
omfg
15.2???? JESUS
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
Fun Fact
Perez’s 2002 is arguably the worst hitting (full) season in the history of anything. He hit .234/.260/.303 in 585 PA’s. Also, he was caught stealing 9 times, while successfully stealing only 8 times.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
Thanks!
now I don’t feel as bad.
Still the loving, adoptive father of Hector Sanchez. And who doesn't love switch-hitting catchers with power and patience?
Of all the terrible multi-year contracts Sabean’s given out over the years, that has to be my leas favorite.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
What about the guy that kept playing him?
It’s just our luck to have to put up with both Dusty Baker and Bruce Bochy’s special brand of veteran lust and lineup ineptitude.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
Neifi was a Giant in 2003-2004
His playing time is Felipe’s fault, not Dusty’s.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
...really?
Well, geez.
Still, Dusty was annoying in who he decided to play.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
Barry Zito
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
Oh yeah, huh.
I was thinking more of the two-to-three years for mediocre-to-bad veterans-style contracts of which he’s so fine. Neifi, Tucker, Roberts, that kind of thing. But yeah, Zito stands alone.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Does Benitez count? That was way worse.
Man, I can’t believe we’re still paying Roberts.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
I liked the Benitez signing at first, and didn’t think of him as mediocre-to-bad, so while some people could put him in that category, I have no right to.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I don't remeber what I thought at the time
But Benitez was 33 y-o, fat, and was coming off one of the flukiest seasons in recent history – while he had a 1.29 ERA in 2004, his FIP was a pedestrian 3.29. His BABIP was an insane .182. He wasn’t mediocre, he was pretty good, but nothing special. I don’t know if that counts.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
I bought the 2004 Flavor-Aid.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I did not like the Benitez signing one bit.
I remember thinking he was a bad closer back when he was a Met. I always had hope when he came into a game against the Giants.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
You know why you thought that?
Because he was a bad closer as a Met.
And Met fans felt the same hope when he came in to face them.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
My favorite Dave Roberts Giants moment
I was at Fenway when he made his first post-2004 appearance. Sox fans gave him a standing ovation that just went on and on. It gives me chills just thinking about it now.
And that, of course, was the last true emotion Red Sox fans ever displayed. (/buys pink hat)
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Random:
I was Pike Place Fish Market this year to watch the Sox series in Seattle. Lo and behold, Dave Roberts was standing next to me at the counter buying fish.
I had my SF cap on at the time and I said, “Doc, what are you doing up here?”
He said, “I’m up here with the family and going to [broadcast] the Sox game.”
I was like, “Damn, you’re getting paid, huh!”
He said, “How do you think I could afford this fish?”
We chuckled. And in my head I thought, damn whoever, decided to give you that Giants contract was a moron.
BTW, Doc has a hot wife.
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 24, 2009 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Did he say to you, “Why are we speaking in italics?” ;)
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
That same day, me and the fiancee sat at an adjacent table to Dustin Pedroia and his very pregnant wife at the time, at the Crab Pot. He pointed to my cap, and gave the Giants a compliment.
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 24, 2009 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Yay-ah!
WOODLAND!
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
He said, "How do you think I could afford this fish?"
I don’t know, how about the $6.5M we’re still paying you?
I liked him though.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
That was the little jab I was making when I told him he was milking the Giants getting paid
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Aug 24, 2009 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
/gets hit with thrown fish
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry...
+23.1 at 2B and +22.1 at SS = UZR/150.
Your numbers are correct. Neifi was a 1.2 WAR player in 2003 & Renteria is 0.3 WAR so far this year.
Still the loving, adoptive father of Hector Sanchez. And who doesn't love switch-hitting catchers with power and patience?
This season has been a rollercoaster, up and down but a blast every time. I take each loss painfully and rejoice from the rooftops with the wins. However the recent trend in timmy and cain starts is leading me to a terrible conclusion,
Giants = Murphy’s Law.
:(
Prove me wrong.
We’re clearly playing with house money, but on the other hand, I would have preferred that the 2nd half of our season (so far, .500 baseball) had occurred in the first half, and we had ended the year with our surprising, overachieving 1st half. Then Jonathan Sanchez would have no-hit the Dodgers at home, or something, to kill their playoff chances.
Side note: today is the one month anniversary of Matt Cain’s last win. Since that time, Brian Wilson, Sanchez AND Joe Martinez have each won two games. I know wins are a meaningless stat, but…c’mon.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
The season is far from over, and that’s even if we lose tonight. Four games out is not the end of the world, especially when you have six more games with the team in front of you, and they’re all at home. Take 4 out of 6 (very realistic when you consider how well the Giants’ play at home and how the Rockies play away from Coors, and you’re back to two games out. Take 5 of 6 and you’re tied. Outside of Coors the Rockies are just a good heart of the order and a bunch of .220 hitters. The rotation is good, but the Giants’ is better. I still like our chances.
embarrassed father of over the hill Edgardo Renteria
If I didn't have rampant and unwarranted optimism
I couldn’t be a Giants fan.
I’m in!
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
It's not that easy
because there are games that aren’t against the Rockies that we have to win, too
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
so do they
they’re good, but they’re not THAT good. Maintaining this pace they’ve been on since Tracy took over can’t continue forever, can it? (at least I sure hope not!)
embarrassed father of over the hill Edgardo Renteria
House money is right
prior to the beginning of the season I thought .500 would be a stretch, but at this point it’d be a disappointment due to the developments of the season. This season has already been a success. Players have developed. Pitchers have improved. Bullpen was better. Minor league system is showing a lot of promise. The future is brighter and sooner than we think. That’s all something to be excited about even if the team doesn’t make the playoffs. No one here thought they would anyway and you were high if you did.
With that said, I still think this team will be in the WC until the near end of the season. Colorado still has to come to our place two series and they rarely play well in AT&T. If we can win tonight, that’d be a split in Colorado, which we all would have settled for. If we don’t, we’d still be ok. Of the 37 games renaming after today, 22 are at AT&T. That’s an advantage for our team and an indication that we probably won’t fade quickly, if at all, as long as we can play well there, as we have all year.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 1:39 PM PDT reply actions
I fucking hate locusts. :(
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
wearing a dodgers hat to look cool is like wearing a durian to smell good
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQj-hFfmYkQ
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
I love that 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
IDRK
I don’t even own the game. I’d assume they are, since it was so popular.
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
Is it called left 5 dead?
LOLOLOL
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
So, did anything news worthy happen yesterday? I blacked out during the 7th inning.
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 24, 2009 1:44 PM PDT reply actions
The Giants are doing the best that the can.
I really want to think this way. I really do. But..but..but….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvzIw7fyA2k
Your best? Losers whine about doing their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Related note
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTLtJTdaOjA&feature=related
How about you cut the CHIT CHAT, A-HOLE!
Was he ever a good actor? Sheesh
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
High school with ashtrays? Priceless.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
BIRDY!
"I would've been here sooner but I had to shake the Veleasels"
by The Gene Hackman on Aug 24, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Con Air!
Used to despise it with all my soul, came around to appreciate such epic cheese. What a cast!
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
BTW
I came here for the Rick roll. WHERE IS THE RICK ROLL?!
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
This is the first game in a week and a half that I am able to watch on TV. I’m somehow assuming that that means tonight will be a painful loss.
Wisconsin: Famous for dairy, Ryan Rohlinger and not much else.
I’m completely invested in this season because I love baseball, I love winning, and I love the Giants. And when those three things come together, I can’t help but be excited. Sure, the season has been a success so far. Unbelievably so. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be disappointed at a late season collapse. I don’t think this team will collapse, as it is almost impossible to go on a prolonged losing period with our pitching, but the offense will prevent us from ever distancing ourselves in the right direction from the Rockies. I think the Giants will hang in til the end.
I wrote this for a fanpost comment
But since I spent so much time on something so ridiculous, I’ll repost it here, on a post people are still paying attention to:
The Future: Bruce Bochy edition
Give me back my veteran grit
my hit and run, my double switch
it’s lonely here,
there’s no lefties left to pinch hit for
Give me absolute control
over every boulder skull
And don’t take pitches, baby,
that’s an order!
Give me Ks and slop-hack bats
Take the only Fred that’s left
and stuff it up the hole
in your lineup
Give me back Eugenio now
give me Bengie and Edgar
I’ve seen the future, brother:
it is veterans.
Pitchess are going to slide, slide right at your ankle
Won’t be nothing
Nothing you can’t swing at anymore
The boulder, the boulder of my skull
has crossed the clubhouse
and it has overturned
the order of the lineup
When they said DON’T SWING DON’T SWING
I wonder how they’ll win rings
When they said DON’T SWING DON’T SWING
I wonder what they’ll wing rings
When they said DON’T SWING DON’T SWING
I wonder what they’ll win rings
You don’t know me from Felipe
That’s okay, I’ll be extended anyway
I’m the giant head
who hit-and-ran Bengie
I’ve seen the standings rise and fall
I’ve heard the prospects’ stories, heard them all
but Aurilia’s the only engine of survival
Your Bowker here, he has been told
to swing in Fresno, I’ll say it cold:
You’re over, your chances ain’t going
any further
And now the wheels of Carney stop
you feel Shawon’s riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is veterans
There’ll be no releasing of the ancient
Aurilia, no
His fake injury will suddenly explode
There’ll be phantom bunts
There’ll be double plays on the road
and the Whiteside catching
You’ll see Fred Lewis
hanging upside down
his UZR covered by a fallen popup
and all the lousy aging outfielders
still playing
tryin’ to hit like Neifi Perez
and the Whiteside catching
Give me back Eugenio, now
Give me Bengie and Edgar
Give me Shawon
or give me no backup catcher
Destroy another prospect’s development now
We don’t like fresh blood anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby:
it is veterans
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I have no idea what that means!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I’m not sure what the “c” is for, but usually td;dr means “too long, didn’t read.”
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
i still dont get it
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
I also make music, please check it out
It’s a rewrite of a song called “The Future” by a gentleman named Leonard Cohen. So: too leonard coheny, didn’t read.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
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oh, i thought that was a joke! whoops
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
I also make music, please check it out
I read this
The Future: Bruce Bochy edition…
it is veterans
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by say hey nation on Aug 24, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
nicely done.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
The 2002 Season?
I think somebody who frequents this site needs to start a Wikipedia page or something to cement the happening of the end of the 2002 season. Now, my memory isn’t so good, and I don’t really remember what happened (thank you Mr. Daniels for your anti-memory juice) at the end of the 2002 season, but there seems to be a lot of disagreement about it – often the same person (starts with a “G”) will recall completely differing events!
Now, I know that this is only a website dedicated to Pie that purports to cover baseball periodically, but it would seem that we could get our facts straight. The best I can recall was something about a mass of rampaging yetis. Haven’t seen ’em since – go figure.
Anyway, if it was really locusts, great. But will this mystery never end!? Why can’t any of us remember what happened?
Young Studs for Old Bats: The Brian Sabean Story
FREE KEVIN FRANDSEN!!! Member of the Frandsen 5% Club.
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Aug 24, 2009 2:19 PM PDT reply actions
I thought lightning struck the stadium midway through Game 6, killing everyone within.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Unfortunately
A ligament in Nen’s shoulder broke, shooting across the stadium, killing thousands.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
With the unfortunate demise of the LA Angels the WS was canceled.
This is the last known picture of the LA team
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by say hey nation on Aug 24, 2009 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
LOLPWND
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
“Don’t steal my Bandwidth
Thank you
”http://www.braineater.com" target="_blank">http://www.braineater.com"
and thats the website I got it from
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by say hey nation on Aug 24, 2009 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
this website is also about the supergroup RUSH!
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
What's gettin' me
To think that the Giants lost these last two games when they scored 11 runs and when Timmy was pitching…
How often have they given up more than 11 runs in a game? I know it’s not very often. And they managed to do it during a game when they scored 11 runs against their main competition for a playoff spot. That’s frustrating, right there.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
Adoptive father of "Poncho" Villalona: This Angel don't fly. Nothing about him is light.
Regression sucks
Especially when the upward kind doesn’t happen….
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!!!
You should tell your son to regress upward and at least match his ZiPS ROS projection. Por favor?
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!!!
Maybe you need to be a little more forceful because he’s not listening to you. Or maybe more loving?
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!!!
Funny thing, I’ve been doing the same with King. I’d be happy if he settled into a LOOGY role though.
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!!!
OT: F* Jeff Kent
Sure he won an MVP with us, but he’s also a grade-A douchebag.
prolly referencing this:
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I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
I also make music, please check it out
i like him still for the work he did for the giants. Still not a fan of the jabs he made about living in NorCal of which I am a staunch supporter (30 years born and raised bay area kid)
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
And if you read the above Baggs link, you’ll see that he seems to have enjoyed living here. I have never understood the vitriol Giants fans bear towards him.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
if he enjoyed living here, why did he rip on the area when he was a dodger?
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
Gotta play to the base, you know?
Seriously, though, it sounds like both sides had some sore feelings. We’ve all been harsher than we should’ve during or just after a breakup, you know? But time wounds all heels, or something like that.
I was always a big Kent fan, and since the Dodgers never did jack shit while he was there, I remain so. I for one am glad to have him back in the fold.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Exactly
Something about his teammate-shoving, injury-lying, Fodger-playing attitude doesn’t sit well with me.
Honestly, I know he was fantastic with the Giants, but I can’t accept his attitude.
Wait, I don’t get it. He’s nothing but gracious and conciliatory and positive in that Baggs post. What about that makes him a douche?
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t root for the giants to field a team of role models
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by say hey nation on Aug 24, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
BUT HE LEFT HIS HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO!
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 24, 2009 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
as a major Bonds fans, I can’t justify hating Kent because he’s an asshole or not media friendly. that’s not what is important. He was a major all-star/MVP/stud for the Giants and I wish he never left. Sure, he played for the Dodgers, but so did Juan Marichal and I don’t hate him. as for all that other shit, who cares? it’s water under the bridge as far as I’m concerned. I only care about what guys do on the field, so long as they aren’t violent criminals off it.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
For some reason, this thread reminded me of the old Sega Genesis game: Flashback.
It is strange how the brain connects things together.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 24, 2009 2:34 PM PDT reply actions
Sega Saturn anyone? Eh, eh?
/awaits flogging
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!!!
it’s a shame they went bankrupt, the 2k series was awesome with dreamcast, i remember the day i got it, 9/9/99 best day of that year
Power Stone
was FTW
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
This
Plus Sonic Adventures and Hydro Thunder.
Now I really wish I brought my old Dreamcast to college.
"I think I realized after the second or third punch, I should have taken his helmet off sooner." - Ryane Clowe
Proud member of the "Don't Trade Marleau" Club
Fools and Sages
I played some Virtua Tennis during the comeback in the Lincecum game against the Reds
Maybe that’s why the Giants haven’t been playing well in Colorado: not enough groug playing Virtua Tennis.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
This road trip was a huge bump as we all knew, since they seem to flop on the road. I know most of us were happy with a 6-5 roadtrip and a win tonight cements that. Giants hasn’t played as well in the 2nd half but they are still playing .500 ball – which is a far cry from the 05-08 seasons.
I know I’ll be disappointed if they miss the playoffs but the worst thing is that this year’s success will give the team as well as the fans expectations to contend next year and if they failed to do so, oh boy. However, I will look forward to win #82 to finally get back on the winning side again (LOL Pirates and Reds).
Win the inning.
Velez at 2b again in tonight's LOLineup
velez 2b
winn lf
sandoval 3b
molina c
schierholtz rf
garko 1b
rowand cf
renteria ss
zito p
With malice towards the Dodgers
At least he’s in the 8 hole.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Even with Sanchez hurt and Velez thus not clogging the outfield, Fred Lewis still can’t get so much as a start a week. :(
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I believe this would be the equivalent if earlier in the season the Padres wouldn’t start Scott Hairston once in a four game series against us. Rockies fans must be happy.
by CrispinGloversBalls on Aug 24, 2009 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, Sanchez is up to a week without a single plate appearance. WHY DO WE NEVER PUT VETERANS ON THE DL WHEN THEY’RE HURT!?
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
pretty sure sitting on the bench does him no good… so our so called future left fielder from last year is now relegated to bench duties?
Well, he had a cold stretch earlier this year and he dropped that fly ball a while ago, which means he’s worthless.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
His defense isn’t actually bad. Or, at least, it’s debatable that it is. In Giants Land, perception trumps reality.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Is it that he just makes a bad play at the wrong time? because all them make mistakes, like Rowand and Nate
The thing about Lewis is that his screw-ups are really noticeable and blatant.
Also, he doesn’t have something obvious to casual fans to cover his flaws up: Schierholtz and his cannon of an arm, Rowand and his gritty fence-running-into, and all that.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Yea, so Schierholtz has something to bring to the field, contact hitting, and a cannon, Rowand has yea that gamer type, and Lewis K’s and makes blatant errors
Well, he’s also second on the team in OBP, but nobody cares about that.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
you don’t really see that.
The things he’s good at it don’t really make an emotional impact, whereas the things that he’s bad at make the worst kind of emotional impact.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
well i’m still pulling for the guy, were people just holding high expectations for him at the beginning of the season??
Carney Lansford was.
(There was an article pre-season quoting Lansford talking about how, because they were going to hit Fred third, he would now become an aggressive power hitter. It made me want to smash my head into a cinder block)
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
yeah, I think that was part of the problem. He’s always been a leadoff type hitter with some XBH pop, and it was a little silly to expect him to turn into a power hitter.
I’m not the biggest FLEW guy, myself. Plate discipline or no, anyone who has that much trouble making contact with pitches inside the strikezone is going to be a marginal contributer. I just think he gets a disproportionate amount of flack relative to what his contributions (or lack thereof) are.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Random thought
If Lewis isn’t a starter next year, who, exactly, is our leadoff hitter?
The best I can come up with off the top of my head is Freddy Sanchez, and he doesn’t walk.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
yes!
Yes!
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 24, 2009 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Eugenio Velez
Or Maybe they’ll teach Burriss to play oufield and he’ll be the new left fielder.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
Who's our leadoff guy now?
Eugenio Velez, that’s who.
If not him, there’s always Aaron Rowand again.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
I really, really hope Eugenio isn’t starting next year. I may cry if he is.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I really, really hope Eugenio isn’tstartinghere next year.
Fixed
My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!
The funny thing is
While now I’m considered a Lewis apologist, if you’ll go to the projection thread from spring training, you’ll see I had a more pessimistic projection than anyone there. I think three things happened:
- People expected him to develop power because he’s athletic. The problem was that he had never shown power at any level during his entire career.
- People expected him to decrease his strikeouts in his second year in the majors, with more experience. The problem was that, second year in the majors or not, he was already 27, and his K’s were completely in line with his numbers in the minors.
- People expected him to improve his defense with more experience. The problem was that, again, while he was new to the majors, he had already played like 6 seasons in the minors, all in the OF, and had seen thousands and thousands of balls hit at him. He was who he was.
Seriously though, Iook at his numbers this year. They’re very very similar to the ones he put up last year. Slightly worse, yes, but nothing dramatic, especially in only 300 PA’s. I’m still not sure where’s the huge drop off everyone is so upset about.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
Looking at that thread
I overestimated his power – I thought he’d have a couple more HRs and a slightly higher slugging percentage than last year. His OBP is almost exactly what I predicted, though.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I was going to make a joke about how your prediction was actually really positive but even you were thrown off by the frowny faces in your signature, but you didn’t have that signature yet.
I don’t know why this matters to me, but it does, dammit.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
I only had the frowny face for a month or something.
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
I think you added it after Noah Lowry’s arm fell off
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I thought that happened before the season started last year.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
It's really his first half that was the huge drop off
.250/.332/.387 before the break is not what anyone was hoping for.
He’s been hot since then – .365/.459/.519 in limited duty – and it’s pulled his numbers close to last year’s.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
If you want to get specific
Through the first two months of the season Fred was hitting a cool .276/.376/.423, slightly better than his line last year, and better than anyone on the team except for Sandoval. But people weren’t happy at all, and everybody was talking about what a disapointment he’s been. The Giants weren’t happy either, and after starting 43 of our 49 games in April and May, Lewis only got to start 6 of our first 15 games in June. He hit terribly during that stretch, and from there on, he’s been a bench player (only started 17 of the 61 games we’ve played since).
So yes, Fred did have a some rough stretches, but the point is that the criticism started before that. When Lewis lost his job, he was still putting up very similar numbers to the ones he put up in 2008.
And just as importantly, if his numbers are now back to normal, why are so many people still convinced that he’s fallen of a cliff? Why doesn’t he ever get to start against RHP, when Randy Winn is OPSing .690?
HA HA HA LOOK AT ME I'M ALL HAPPY AND STUFF NO REALLY CAN WE STOP WITH THE COOKYMAN IS SAD JOKES?
:-) :-) :-)
If it was so important, they’d put it on the scoreboard.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
He sure didn’t look it.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
We might see him get a cup of coffee late next year, depending on how things go.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
but you know what i’m saying though, the giants need another LF, and if it comes from FA that’s great, but from the minor leagues that’d be awesome, but who’d be ready now? Bowker?
I’d like to see Schierholtz, Lewis, and Bowker engage in an all-out Battle Royale for the corner OF spots next year. The two who do best start, the third is our fourth outfielder. I don’t know if that’ll happen, though, since it’s the Giants and they’re all left-handed hitters and they lack grit and all. I fear we’ll end up signing someone crappy to a 2-year deal. I used to think it would be Endy Chavez, but now apparently he’s hurt for a while.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
How do we feel about going after Matt Holliday? Too much payroll tied up into one guy?
Waiting for Giants and Niners to contend once more.
I’d rather we spent the money on a corner IF, if there is one available.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
OOOH
Endy (his shoulder, specifically) went splat a month or two ago crashing into his shortstop.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh, Velez’s magic eans have worn off. He needs to ride the pine or go back down to Fresno to heat up again or something.
Waiting for Giants and Niners to contend once more.
not a single start from lewis this series
i guess i have to kill xanthan!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
/rest of McCoven joins the mob
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!!!
I promised to kill someone after the first game if Lewis didn’t get a single start this series.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Must uphold your integrity. A lot more of us may die in the future.
"This season is expecting a $10,000 bonus, actually getting $50,000 but then accidentally setting $25,000 of that on fire." - AngelWillSaveUs
Many Bothans died, etc etc.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Many Xanthans died to bring us this Fred Lewis.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
I haven’t been able to watch games in the past week or so, and now I’m wondering – what the hell did Velez do to merit a start a second base? Besides Sanchez being hurt of course, but still. It would seem as though there would be a better option.
"I think I realized after the second or third punch, I should have taken his helmet off sooner." - Ryane Clowe
Proud member of the "Don't Trade Marleau" Club
Fools and Sages
But he’s not hot anymore. He’s like 1 for his past 20 and 5 for his last 45.
Waiting for Giants and Niners to contend once more.
HE'S 1 FOR HIS LAST 1!
Kruk said his slump was over yesterday after he got one hit
therefore, his slump is over.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
1-21 looks a lot better than 0-20! Yep
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Aug 24, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I was sure he was going to run that single into an out at second. But Speed, as the old-timers say, doesn’t slump.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Because the alternative is Uribe
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
What's strange (or not strange):
With the way this management has made decisions based on SSS, you’d figure that his splits for hitting at Coors, especially this season, would help Fred at least get some decent PT during this series…
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!!!
You’d think the fact that he’s hitting well would get him some decent PT ever but no…
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
The Giants don't need players who are hitting well
How could that help them?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
yeah, I figured that given the Giants’ fondness for making decisions based on SSS splits, we would definitely see some FLEW.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Baggs agrees
No lineup surprises, but I expected Fred Lewis would start at least one game at Coors.
With malice towards the Dodgers
Velez-4 starts
Lewis- No starts
I hate everything
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
What I don’t understand too is that Velez’s D at 2b is just as bad, if not worse, than Lewis’ D in LF.
With malice towards the Dodgers
So you're suggesting...
…we should start Lewis at second instead?
Might just work…
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
I believe Velez only got three starts
He did get into that other game though. So that was good.
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The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
is complaining about Molina hitting cleanup in the beating a dead horse category yet?
I’d prefer every one else in that lineup except Zito to hit 4th instead. Jeez.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
It seems to be a permanent part of the lineup this season (despite rumblings to the contrary from the front office a few weeks ago – makes you wonder just who is in charge there), so I try to pretend it doesn’t exist. But it’s really really really horrible.
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Ugh….
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 24, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Reply:
“I think you have the wrong person. Sorry.”
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!!!
/jctGamer blocks pictures, status updates, interests, activities, work info from wife seeing it from her account
With malice towards the Dodgers
I'd like to mention that my cousin updated her facebook today
The last time she did that, we came from 5-1 down and beat the Reds.
by jctGamer on Aug 24, 2009 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
did she post pictures?
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
Why is this a problem?
Has your girlfriend already done the same?
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
A relative of my dad who I couldn’t pick out of a crowd added me.
I felt a little bad about it, but I think hitting “Ignore” was justified.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
I found it weird when I was friended by the teenage kid of some real life friends. Here was a social quandry we never had to deal with back in the 20th century.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
It’s worse when your mom wants to be your friend.
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Both my parents, my grandmother, six of my cousins (including three who’re under 18), and two aunts and an uncle are all facebook friends of mine. But my family is…well, they’re nuts, but not in a way that worries me on that front. And I don’t go around writing about stuff I wouldn’t want people to see anyway, so.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: Fred "OBP and UZR, Dammit!" Lewis
I have a ton of aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. on there. I don’t feel weird about friending them. But my mom? That’s just weird. And it’s not like I’m a kid. It just makes me uncomfortable. But of course I accepted the friend request.
I didn’t accept my former CEOs request, though. I don’t use Facebook as a business networking site. I save that for LinkedIn. Potential business contacts don’t need to know about my little girl’s interest in how boy underwear works (and why).
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
I thought that once your mom is on FB, it really isn’t that cool anymore…but I added her anyway and still use it.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
my wife hates FB and refuses to use it, for which I’m glad.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 24, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
My mom asked me what facebook was and how to use it
And I told her that she didn’t need to join it.
/hides partying pictures, etc. if she does
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!!!
Do your homework. Your education will never fail you. Mostly.
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 24, 2009 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, that's an amazing picture.
I’m going to pretend you said nothing about its relation to the Giants and just enjoy it for itself.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
The cursed season marches on, even as the orange and blue voodoo doll runs out of space for more pins.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 3:50 PM PDT reply actions
So, 11 players on the DL adding Santana makes 12. I am pretty sure the Mets could hold a promotional day where their current roster plays the Mets on the DL, and would no doubt be slaughtered.
"This season is expecting a $10,000 bonus, actually getting $50,000 but then accidentally setting $25,000 of that on fire." - AngelWillSaveUs
A slaughtering that would put them on the DL.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
What is this "DL" of which you speak?
It almost sounds like something you could do with injured players other than just leave them on the bench…but that’s just crazy talk. I’m sure the Giants would make use of such an option if it really existed!
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
New Rule
I thought you couldn’t put veteran’s on the DL … can you? really?
I mean without a special dispensation from the pope or something…
I really don’t understand the team’s reluctance to use the DL. I’d rather have a guy rest and bring up somebody who might actually be able to play if needed.
Of course, on the other end of the spectrum, see Aurilia and his infected toe or whatever.
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Note to Mets:
If the guy you’ve invested huge somes of money oover a long-term contract has an arm that’s so sore he can’t throw between starts and your season is list, you might want him to, at the very least, to skip a start or two, since, like pitchers arms tend to get hurt and, like, when they do, their careers can be in, like jeapordy.
And people think Sabean is an idiot?
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
Minaya’s failings distract people from Wilpon’s
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Is SBN being a little schizo for anybody else? It is marking posts as read and not read in a willy nilly manner. I just read this whole thread, shift-A’d it, came back 20 minutes later and it was all orangey again. The first time it happened I thought it was me, but it’s happened 3x now.
Every time I click a link that takes me to a new page in the same window, all the unread ones are marked read when I hit ‘back.’
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Right Click → open in new window?
"This season is expecting a $10,000 bonus, actually getting $50,000 but then accidentally setting $25,000 of that on fire." - AngelWillSaveUs
I have a MacBook, and I can never remember which button I hold while clicking to make it a right-click equivalent.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
two finger click on the touch pad
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
owned!
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
Ah, so.
Merci.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Then Tony Bernazard challenges the entire DL team to fight him.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
Reply FAIL
That was meant for the Mets thread above.
"He is Tim Lincecum...the Most Interesting Pitcher in the World."
/tears off shirt
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Tonight's Fresno LOLineup
Downs 5
Frandsen 4
Posey 2
Bowker DH
Guzman 3
Rohlinger 6
Borchard 7
Copeland 9
Timpner 8
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
Its sad that I would rather have Bowker hitting cleanup than Molina
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Or pretty much anyone. Seriously, where does Bengie fit in this lineup? Can’t go 8th, too slow, 6th?
Insanity is just a state of mind.
Hmm. I’d only want a third of that lineup over the actual Giants lineup. That’s not bad.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 24, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that IF right?
Frandsen at 2nd, Rohlinger at SS, Downs at 3rd?
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
OT: I find it creepy when Ralph (Razor) talks about how nice Lincecum's physique is
With malice towards the Dodgers
OT: I find it creepy when Ralph (Razor) talksabout how nice Lincecum’s physique is
Fixed.
"This season is expecting a $10,000 bonus, actually getting $50,000 but then accidentally setting $25,000 of that on fire." - AngelWillSaveUs
I think the giants will win tonight
Why?
What would bring Giants fans the most pain?
A win, of course. It would raise our expectations all over again and make the eventual loss hurt all the more.
And the Giants always do what brings fans the most pain.
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
Well, I know they will win tomorrow night, I have class starting at 6pm.
It’s always amusing when your books cost more than the actual class did. Three units at a community college ~$80…. books? astronomical.
High school with ashtrays? Priceless.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Not to get all pokemonz! on y'all here...
But only four Giants hitters are owned in my 12 team fantasy league, three by one team (the delightfully-named California Penal), and two of those are Bengie and Rent. He is not doing well.
Also, Barry Bonds is owned in more ESPN leagues than Juggernate or Juan Uribe, and only .1% less than Ishikawa.
Giants wins feel better than Dodger losses, but it's darn close.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Aug 24, 2009 4:51 PM PDT reply actions
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