Freaking Out About Division Rivals
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 26, 2009 11:43 AM PDT
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PrintIn 2001, the Giants didn't make the playoffs for a lot of reasons. The starting pitching was inconsistent, there was a revolving black hole at third base, and Barry Bonds was only on base 52% of the time. The team won 90 games, but it was a bitter finish. And I spent the entire season worrying about the Padres.
The Padres didn't even finish above .500, but their organizational depth chart woke me up at night, and gave me emotional wedgies during the day. The '27 Yankees had nothing on what was to be the 2004 Padres:
C - Ben Davis (Power-hitting backstop for the next decade!)
1B - Tagg Bozied (Good gravy, what power!)
2B - Jake Gautreau (Newly drafted middle infield monster!)
SS - D'Angelo Jimenez (Former Yankees top prospect!)
3B - Sean Burroughs (Ten-time batting champion! Maybe!)
LF - Bubba Trammell (They should lock him up long term!)
CF - Mark Kotsay (As long as he stays healthy!)
RF - Xavier Nady (Dude's name starts with an X! An X!
The young pitching was similarly terrifying, with neo-Maddux Brian Lawrence, Wascar Serrano, OBP-master Adam Eaton, and some goof named Jake Peavy. I remember thinking, man, if only 50% of the young players develop, the Padres will be a dynasty. And all that talent would have been capably managed by strategic mastermind Bruce Bochy. The only saving grace was that the Giants weren't in the AL West, where teams would have to deal with a Kotchman/Kendrick/Wood/McPherson infield starting every All-Star Game until 2015.
My point is this: Sometimes prospects don't pan out. Thank you for your time. You can PayPal mccoveychronicles@gmail.com if you feel obligated.
Wait! I had another point. The reason for this trip down early-decade Memory Lane is that I didn't learn. I kept a very detailed Excel spreadsheet of how many eggs other teams had, and I was surprised when the omelet would fit in my shirt pocket.
Years later, the Diamondbacks started amassing talent like there was a shortage coming. Every position had five-tool goofs who were also translating the tools into results. An outfield of Chris Young, Carlos Quentin, and Justin Upton? An infield with Chad Tracy and Conor Jackson at the corners? A couple of offensively capable catchers to rotate in and of the lineup? They had so many good young players, they could afford to send entire minor league affiliates to the A's for Dan Haren. The worst part: They were already good, winning the division in 2007. This decade was going to be ugly.
While I was soiling myself thinking about Justin Upton and Chris Young combining for 1,000 steals and home runs over their careers, the Dodgers were lactating impact players. Even worse, the Rockies were building one of the best offenses in the league exclusively with homegrown talent. Most nights, the Rockies are able to start eight homegrown players. Eight! To find eight Giants worth starting over the past thirty years, you'd probably have to put Jack Clark at shortstop.
The Diamondbacks still have a lot of young talent; it isn't time to relegate them to the Nady/Bozied abyss. But my other, more relevant, point is this: Worry about yer own damned team. Seriously. I'm through getting caught up in prospect lists and under-25 superstars-in-the-making, forecasting doom for ten years in the future. If the Diamondbacks do become an elite team, they'll probably use guys like Stephen Drew and Justin Upton, but they'll have to supplement the roster with guys who weren't even close to the team picture a couple of years ago. The next contending team probably isn't going to have a lot to do with Micah Owings or Chad Tracy. I did a lot of worrying about a specific collection of talent for nothing.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go think about the 2011 infield (Posey/Villalona/Noonan/Crawford/Sandoval) for a while. They should really rip the place up, especially when Madison Bumgarner is yet another perennial Cy Young candidate. Mmm. That's going to be a tasty, tasty omelet.
And, yes, I'm quite aware that this post will be responsible for the three home runs hit by Chad Tracy tonight.
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Just so there is no mistake from anyone who doesn't regularly visit this site
I do not believe Grant really has an omlette in his shirt pocket.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 11:51 AM PDT reply actions
Yes, I do! And, scandal of scandals, IT’S A DENVER OMLETTE omg.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 26, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I was going to say that this would make your shirt a runny mess. However, I am sure you are wearing a pocket protector.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
TWSS
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Long ago they came west over the mountains, and I have rooted for them years uncounted; and together through many ages of this world we have fought the long defeat.
by shanghaijim on Aug 26, 2009 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
What did the omlette say to Grant's shirt pocket?
We’re in this thing!
by jewbacca on Aug 26, 2009 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions 8 recs
LOLAW
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by EliminateMe on Aug 26, 2009 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes. That's exactly what I was thinking
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by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 26, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
WELCOME!
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Posey/Villalona/Noonan/Crawford
I’ve got my money on Posey and Crawford. I’m not sold on Villalona…anytime someone says “they’ll -develop- power”, I’m skeptical. (see Carl Crawford)
Villalona doesn’t have to “develop” power. He’s got it. He needs to “develop” an approach at the plate.
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He has the power. He needs to develop virtually every other part of his game
by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 26, 2009 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
He has the power?
I choose to watch the Giants try to score runs. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
He may have the power
but he needs a better sword sharpener.
NL West TempestTeapot
Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Aug 26, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Or he just needs to pee on his hands less.
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Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Aug 26, 2009 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
First he got zee money. Then he got zee power. Now he will get zee women!
by VizquelQuest on Aug 26, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
In America, first you get zee sugar…
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Aug 26, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh man
that would really be a drag if he turned into carl crawford
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Angel Villalona becoming a Carl Crawford type player is one of the more hilarious things I’ve ever thought about.
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Tagg Bozied
Wasn’t he the one who severely injured his knee celebrating a walkoff homer?
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by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 26, 2009 11:54 AM PDT reply actions
Really, I hadn´t heard that before
I am a graduate of USF as is Tagg, and he was the first guy in a while, if I remember correctly, in a now strong line of talented draft picks, Aaron Poreda and Jessie Foppert being the other two who come directly to mind. Tagg was actually a really nice guy too, sucks he never made it.
OBP-master Adam Eaton
QUIT TWISTING THAT KNIFE IT HURTS.
Also, if you were new to this blog you may believe that Adam Eaton is an actual OBP master (it’s like a dungeon master) instead of probably the worst pitcher to throw a ball in the major leagues this year.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
I think Grant’s learned how to cook, so he could probably hook you up.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
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You get used to it after a while. It’s really coppery, bu pretty good.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 26, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
And dripping with uninformativeness
that drives those in the habit of quality control and correcting mistakes over the sachasm
by Giant Homer on Aug 26, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
He can cook the fucking shit out of a fucking scallion.
"If you want to walk, watch a mailman."--Shawon Dunston
"If you want to bunt, bake a cake."--Bruce Bochy
fucking scallions didn’t even know what hit ’em.
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by The Gene Hackman on Aug 26, 2009 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
SUCK IT SCALLIONS!
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate eggs.
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Too young even for WalrusMan.
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I hate eggs too
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
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Why would anyone ever want to eat eggs? Their texture is horrible and they don’t really have a good taste. The only egg items I will really eat are french toast and egg whites.
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I’m having an omelette for lunch whoohoo
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I had eggs, bacon, and rice with hoisin sauce for breakfast.
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by say hey nation on Aug 26, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not really sure what we have to put in the omelette but there’s gonna be some onions and there’s gonna be some cheese and maybe some turkey or ham and oh fuck yeah
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NEEDS MORE FUCKING SCALLIONS
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FUCKING SCALLION ORGY!!!!!
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For starters, eggs can have many different textures, depending on how you cook them. They’re probably the most versatile foodstuff in existence.
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Them or soy.
Soy, the egg replacer.
co-dad of IshikaBOOM w/AfDC.
Ishikawa, let the boy hit against lefties.
And honestly give me a good easy egg recipe and I’ll try it, but I really just am not an egg guy.
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Scrambled
It doesn’t get any easier or tastier. Throw some eggs in a pan and scramble that shit up. Throw in whatever you want to eat with them.
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I prefer fried or poached to scrambled, myself.
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I’m still a kid at heart. Sunny side up fried eggs with sourdough toast to dip in the yolk > all
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I’m not a big fan of the uncooked yolk.
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.
@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
agree
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But it IS cooked yoke. It’s just not cooked-until-solid yoke.
It’s also delicious.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
by howtheyscored on Aug 26, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Part of it is cooked, the bulk of it really isn’t though.
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@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
That’s pretty much what I had for breakfast, but also with bacon.
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Crack that shit open
And drink it
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cook bacon
saute apples and onions in bacon grease
then cook your scrambled eggs on top
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
OK, so just making sure I have this right...
You AREN’T the egg man.
You ARE the Walrus?
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
by tobias on Aug 26, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
He’s right, eggs are gross.
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
NO U!!
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YOU MUST AGREE WITH THE GROUP
AGREEEEEE WIIITHHHH THHEEEE GROOUUUPPPP
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US
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I bet you’re also a cereal waterer.
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I was going to call you a sad little eggless man, but then I remembered I don’t like seafood. Glass bricks and so forth…
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Hate scrambled eggs. Only way I can eat them are drenched in ketchup.
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EW
EW
My wife puts ketchup on eggs. I think it’s nasty.
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I like them with or without ketchup. I prefer a little ketchup.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
or cock sauce!
Wait…you know what I mean.
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I like them with salsa.
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It’s delicious.
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 26, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
HOW DOES SOMEONE HATE EGGS?!?!?!
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I once knew a guy who hated cheese and pasta.
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Old computers like waffles!
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McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
DUDE…GTFO
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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IAWTC
Guac is pretty overrated.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
You are worse than Hitler.
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Worse than Fred Lewis, even.
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Hitler to watch!
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s all mucky and bland. I just don’t get the attraction.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Do you like plain avocado?
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I do, though not in massive quantities. There’s just something about it being pureed that makes it gross.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
You’re just looking in the wrong places.
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 26, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Good guacamole is chunky, not pureed!
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It’s not bland if you make it right and use quality ingredients!
Hot peppers + garlic + onions + avocados + lime juice + cilantro != bland.
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Well, OK. Fill it with enough non-guacamole stuff to hide the flavor, and I’d probably like it.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Here's the ghetto guac recipe my family knows:
pour salsa into a bowl, peel and avocado and toss that in, and then stir with with a spoon to desired consistency. Eat it with nacho Doritos and it is fantastic. Works with all chips, too, but if you’re gonna go ghetto, go ghetto.
my secret ingredient
is a little dash of curry powder. gives it a little extra kick that I like. And I usually go sans cilantro, just because.
Still defending Rich Aurilia, and the Niners' classic unis
boo! cilantro is awesome!
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Cilantro is a sin against humanity.
I thought I didn’t care… then I fell in love with Panda and now I’m not so sure anymore. - Smoke On The Water
Cilantro is interesting
It has a chemical that most people can’t taste – but for people who can taste it, it’s awful and tastes like soap. So, it’s a very divisive ingredient.
Personally, I can’t taste the soap-stuff and I love it.
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I must be a soap taster then
I wish people would be more cognizant (sp?) of how awful it tastes to others and not put it in everything.
I thought I didn’t care… then I fell in love with Panda and now I’m not so sure anymore. - Smoke On The Water
Harry Turtledove wrote a series of alternate-history sci-fi novels in which lizardmen invade earth but immediately get addicted to cilantro, which it turns out is like lizardman crack. Pretty terrible books, but the cilantro thing was nice.
What about Coriander seed?
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I cannot speak to the coriander seed question. Maybe he got to that in the later volumes, after I stopped reading.
I was thinking the would crush them and snort the coriander at the dance club while wearing bell bottom pants, large open collars and tacky jewelery.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
OMG
THERE IS ANOTHER!!
I got quite the bit of flack during the Vote-4-Pablo threads for speaking ill of guacamole.
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Aug 26, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
AND YOU DESERVED IT.
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i actually bought the ingredients to make guacamole but i forgot about them and they went bad. now i just have no desire to try again.
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by UnleashTheGore on Aug 26, 2009 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
French toast > waffles > pancakes
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Come on! Waffles trumps French Toast!
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
LIES!
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
FREEDOM TOAST! BRUCE BOCHY APPROVED!
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Fried eagle and waffles?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Fixed.
French Toast > Crepes > Waffles > Pancakes
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Fixed
Pancakes > Crepes > Waffles > French Toast
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You can eat fried chicken with waffles and not have it taste bad
Case closed
Although in that case:
Biscuits > Waffles > the rest
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
I still want to try this, I never made it to a Waffle House when we were in Georgia.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
If you're ever in southern California
There’re a bunch of places. Or at least Roscoe’s.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
there are a few great places in SF right now too. ther is a place called Little SKillet 3 blocks from AT&T park
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
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I lived in Florida for five years. Never once went to a Waffle House.
I’m going for a week next month and have decided I need to go, if only to see what all the fuss is about.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
There’s this all-day breakfast restaurant here that serves pancakes with this almond butter and it’s heavenly
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
MCCOVEY CHRONICLES: WE LIKE FOOD.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Brownies > cake
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Whoa whoa
I thought pie = greatest thing ever?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
I’ve been wanting to make pumpkins scones or pumpkin bread or pumpkin muffins lately. I don’t know why I suddenly have this urge for pumpkin flavored baked goods.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Pumpkin Bread around the holidays from my mom. It is AWESOME.
Sorry, everyone else’s loses.
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There’s a place in our neighborhood, Bakesale Betty’s, that makes incredible pumpkin bread. They haven’t had it in months and months, though. Maybe come Autumn…
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Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
Agreed...
But the sandwiches are overrated especially compared to Genova’s.
I LOVE AND MISS BSBs
fried chicken sandwiches and lemon raisin scones ftw!
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
also
rockridge cafe.
citrus zest ricotta cakes MMMMMMM
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Do you oaklanders know a bar called The Graduate near Rockridge BART?
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
I’ve walked past it many times, but I don’t drink, so.
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HOW DO YOU MAKE IT THROUGH THE DAY?
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heard of it, never been. not in oakland anymore anyway, had to move to stupid fremont. i miss the foooood!
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
If I had to move to Fremont, I would miss the everything.
(I did spend a couple of years in Hayward, actually)
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well, i work in hayward, so, i get the best of both worlds!!!!
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I spent a lot of time in Hayward. Val’s is in Hayward and that’s still pretty good. All the other places we used to go to are either completely gone, or have changed ownership and now suck.
never been to val’s. i like vasiliki’s for breakfast once in a while.
everywhere else sucks.
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
One of my random food dislikes
I hate bananas. Uck.
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Me too. Even raw. Yum.
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 26, 2009 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I don’t like onions either.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m with you in onions. Most things I hate are texture based. Onion texture…
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not even if they’ve been, like, caramelized?
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im at the pizza hut
im at the taco bell
im at the combination pizza hut and taco bell
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by ringleader3 on Aug 26, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Pickles...GAH!! Keep 'em away from me!!
When they get put on my burgers by mistake, I have to ask my kids to take them off so I don’t have to come in physical contact with them.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
NOT MORE VEGGIE TALES!!!
/ bangs head harder into desk
That’s it! Katie bar the door for this 79 win team is star crossed! And I am loving it.
by daveinexile on Aug 28, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Kosher Dill pickles are the shit. All other pickles are shit.
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 26, 2009 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Xanthan’s bowels are like a pipe filled with cement.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Bananas every day? You must spend a week at a time on the crapper.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
The only food that I really can’t eat are olives. Even cucumbers, which I used to hate, have grown on me lately.
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Most of the stuff I actively dislike is stuff with a strongly bitter taste – and that’s actually a taste sensitivity issue rather than just a dislike.
Otherwise, there are a few – bananas, eggplant, spinach. That’s all I can think of right now.
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Thinking of things I don’t like, the only thing I can think of right now is black liquorish flavor (anise). That stuff is just gross to me.
Have you ever had anything flavored with star anise? That’s pretty good.
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oh god yes
this.
my friend LOVES that kind of liquor and it’s the most horrible thing I have ever tasted in my life
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Sometimes I can even enjoy a little black licorice. Butter flavored jelly belly’s on the other hand. blech.
About the only foods i dislike are a handful of manufactured flavors, but even then I’m a junk food junkie and love a lot of it. e.g. Mountain Dew.
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Ishikawa, let the boy hit against lefties.
Buttered popcorn jelly belly’s make me physically ill.
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Any jelly beans that aren’t fruit flavored are probably going to be terrible.
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Buttered pop corn jelly belly fails epically.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
It's always,
‘Yum! Lemon flavored, sweet and tangy and fruity and (pops in mouth) OMG I want to vomit. Damned “butter”’
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Ishikawa, let the boy hit against lefties.
I hate eggplant, bittermelon, and fish. I’ll pretty much eat anything else.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Other than store-bought guac: raw tomatoes. I actively hate hate hate them. I eat most everything else.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Tomatos. Love good tomatos. I can’t buy them from a store though, so it’s only seasonal.
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I hate tomatoes in general.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
All fish?
This is the sort of dislike I have trouble understanding – people who dislike, say, all beans, or, in your case, all fish. There’s so much variety wihtin the category!
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Yea, pretty much all fish. I do like sashimi though for some reason. I didn’t like seafood for the longest time but I’m coming around on it.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
eggplant is so good though.
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Not normally a fan of eggplant either...
But whenever I’ve been in China and had it, it was awesome.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
TOFU SHOULD BE EATEN WITH MEAT PEOPLE!!
IT’S PEOPLE!!!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 5:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Shellfish I kind of agree. Slimy and briny. Yick.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I love shrimp and shellfish.
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I especially love shrimp. It’s such a good way to add protein and meaty deliciousness to a meal without making it unhealthy.
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Shrimp and shellfish might be my favorite kinds of food.
I think we might be having lobster this weekend. /drool
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I was thinking of making spicy shrimp pizza next week.
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I really like bananas, but HATE banana flavored foods.
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IAWTC
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Grape candy is usually awful, but I like grapes.
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Agreed.
To recap:
Grapes= good
Grape candy=usually bad
Banana=good
Banana candy= almost always bad
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
There have only been a few times where grape flavored candy tasted awful. Otherwise, it’s one of the best flavors for candy there is.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Grape drink is wonderful.
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I disagree
Banana taffy is amazing.
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@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
I think I hate sweetbreads.
But I’ve never actually tasted some.
co-dad of IshikaBOOM w/AfDC.
Ishikawa, let the boy hit against lefties.
I hate Cavendish bananas, the kind that’s become standard. Back in the old country there are these tiny bananas with these bright floral notes to the taste. Although ultimately the mushiness still undermines them for me.
--
Long ago they came west over the mountains, and I have rooted for them years uncounted; and together through many ages of this world we have fought the long defeat.
my mom makes good zuchini bread
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I just made banana bread today. It is AWESOME!!
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Can of Banana just made cornbread. Odd.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Cornbread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> banana bread
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Can of Corn >>>>>>>>> Can of Banana
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
No, but as discussed earlier, I hate bananas.
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Hard to keep track – it’s a mega thread.
You’re excused from the banana bread love.
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How does it feel to be so incredibly wrong?
I’m having a hard time imagining what it must be like.
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Banana bread rules.
I like to add chopped pecans which make it even better.
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I would have, but I was out of pecans. Walnuts instead.
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I don’t like pecans or walnuts either!
Best nuts ever = cashews BY FAR
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Do you prefer filberts or hazlenuts?
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Whenever I think of those, I think of what my mother-in-law from Texas calls them. //shudder
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Dare I ask?
I know that when my dad was growing up in Montana, Brazil Nuts were referred to with a racial slur that shan’t be repeated here.
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It may be the same one. Something-toe?
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Nope. It was The One Racial Slur To Rule Them All.
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(You should substitute another word (“The One Racial Slur to Rule Them All”) in place of “something”)
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I don’t know if I’ve ever had filberts.
I’m not a big nut fan except for cashews, really.
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Just sliced me a second piece. Mmmm…..
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Anything with pumpkin wins. I can’t wait for fall. I haven’t spent a fall in the Bay Area in six years. Yippee!!
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Four years for me! I’m excited. /high-five
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HELL YES
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
jporny wins
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Pancakes are the worst out of those four.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
U R
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Over the weekend I had an Okonomiyaki for the first time, and it was amazing.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
What is that?
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Savory Japanese pancakes. The one I had was heavy on the cabbage, and doused with teriyaki and japanese mayo. It sounds utterly bizarre (it took me several visits to this restaurant before I worked up the nerve to try it), but I am now totally obsessed.
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That sounds fucking amazin.g
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Nutella crepes, you mean.
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
So was I!
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Totally. The joint downstairs in my building is one of those snooty (but great) creperies and though they mainly focus on “dinner” type savory crepes, they have a couple of dessert crepes, and the most popular is the Nutella.
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This specific food is something that I’ve never had, but I am 109% sure I’d like it.
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Yeeeee, I don’t ever think of crepes as breakfast food, I have this creperie downstairs and they don’t even open until five pm.
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Savory crepes > Sweet crepes imo
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Your opinion is incorrect.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
obviously both are superwonderful.
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
YES
Crepes are amazing any time, and for any meal. I love breakfast and dessert crepes the most. I got ridiculed for calling them like “crApes”, they’re supposed to be called “crEPs”. Delicious either way.
ironically
craps are intrinsically linked with breakfast crepes for me
Yes.
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Made from boxed stuff like Bisquik, or also including made from scratch?
Boxed mixes, I can understand disliking. From scratch, though, are the simplest and most delicious cakes.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I can live without cheese but man these things are like impossible to hate.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn't be surprised
He was in his early 20s and lived on his own, but drove two hours back home every weekend for his mom to do his laundry. Definitely had the makings of a serial killer.
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They actually make me really, really sick. I can eat mayonnaise and that’s it. BUT PEOPLE HERE HATE MAYONNAISE SO NOW I AM IN THE LINE OF FIRE.
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by satyricrash on Aug 26, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Brother, I am with you. Eggs don’t like me, but I like mayonaise – I mean, I don’t just eat it alone… all that often, but sometimes you get a craving.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Aug 26, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I love how quickly posts diverge into food-based side topics
Food is the only thing that can compete with my love for the Giants
He should’ve known not to mention omelettes.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup
Granted, this time, this one is on Grant. Our masses don’t need an excuse to bring up food in a conversation anyway.
Oftentimes, I start reading a thread after there are already 400 or more posts. It’s intimidating to think that I’d want to read through all of that, and be late enough to the party that any comments I make will just look stupid.
So imagine my delight to find that I just got to skip 2/3 of this thread by not bothering to read all the omelet stuff. Hooray!
I'm thinking but nothing's happening.
I’ve been scanning the thread, and am actually amazed at the quantity of food talk. Well done, McC.
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Grant--tell us you have yet to concede the season....
This is in reference to your post after Monday’s loss and today about prospects.
Just sayin’
No, we’re sorta kinda in this thing. We’ll twist in the wind for a while, miserable and grumpy, not expecting a late-season miracle, but knowing that it wouldn’t be mathematically impossible, watching every game with a morose and sullen dejection, knowing that if the team had a handful of even average hitters there would have been a chance to have a tremendously special playoff run with two of the best homegrown starting pitchers in franchise history, getting angrier and angrier throughout the offseason until our rage and disgust spills over into some sort of violent outburst at an orphanage that puts us at the mercy of a judge who happens to be a Dodgers fan.
I can’t believe I just came up with that!
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 26, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
You want a prediction about the season? You’re asking the wrong guy.
I’ll give you a season prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.
"I would've been here sooner but I had to shake the Veleasels"
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Shawon Dunston sez:
You want a prediction? Go watch a meteorologist.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Predictions are just cheating the universe.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions
DID YOU KNOW IT?
DO YOU KNOW THAT RYAN ROHLINGERS FAVORITE OMELETTE IS EGG?? THAT’S HOW IT WORKS.
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I'm actually giggling
And I don’t quite get why that fanpost was taken down. I mean, I know it wasn’t the real Judy (if there is such a thing), but I thought it was acceptable satire and absolutely hilarious. If someone knows why, let me know.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Was this a recent fanpost? There were some….uh….events….involving (the real) Judy Steffes some time back.
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There was a classic “Judy Steffes” fanpost last year, but that was before the unpleasantness and the imprisonment and all that. Was this a different fake Judy!?
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(Because I thought the fake Judy Steffes last year was a regular. But maybe my information was bad.)
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I never got to hear what the actual big “jail” trouble was. Someone should email it to me since I know no one can actually talk about it on here.
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Well, geez, I'm on faceboook
I don’t know how to get to this story, though
"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.
Search for the McCovey Chronicles group. Grant told the tale there.
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The MCC has a group?
Where have I been all this time?!?!?!
"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.
Oh hey
Im in that group
but i dont remember joining
weird
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
ditto
I thought I was special!
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
I wish I was special….
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but I'm a Creeep
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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Soon, I’ll make a better album than this.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
and then never ever play this song again
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
oh wow
I guess I should visit the McC group page more often.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I just joined
see how hard it is to find me. .. ;)
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
It’s the cryptic moniker that threw me.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
that was epic
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I mentioned this at McC Night At The Yard. Did you think I was joking?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
I probably thought you were just making an educated guess or something.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I think we were already at our seats, and then I mentioned it and asked who groud really was.
AND NO ONE WOULD TELL ME, DAMMIT
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
I could tell you… but then I’d have to eliminate you.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
It’s probably really easy to figure out who my fake user is for anyone who cares.
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(It’s WalrusMan)
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(Mine’s jcb9)
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
(Mine’s Natto)
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
subtle
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
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ABUSE OF MODERATOR POWERS
Now I have to worry about groug showing up at my house with that murder stare of his!
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
In real life, though, he has razor-sharp retractable claws.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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and cat-like reflexes.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 6:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
All I'm saying is...
…if my dismembered body is fished out of the Monterey Bay, it’s all your fault.
Well, it’s mostly groug’s fault. But you’re an accessory.
I’m not saying, I’m just saying.
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holy crap
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
If there was an email address in your profile I’d copy and paste it to you. :(
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Just read the Facebook saga.
For starters, that cop was acting ENTIRELY out of his authority— his job is to investigate crimes, which nothing that was going on was a crime whatsoever, even a tiny bit, even theoretically. IF what was going on constitutes defamation/libel (which it absolutely did not, by the way), that is way outside the authority of a cop. Torts are private matters and would be dealt with through civil litigation, if at all. (Again: NOTHING that was going on constituted anything actionable.)
So I’m guessing that the cop is a friend/spouse/relative of the “reporter,” and was basically trying to use his cop voice and cop authority to influence people into stopping doing something TOTALLY LAWFUL just because it happened to annoy a friend/spouse/relative. I hate that crap. Abuse of his authority.
NOBODY DID ANYTHING IN THE LEAST BIT WRONG. But because she got in a snit and got a cop to badger Grant about it, that’s a whole topic we can’t even bring up? Grrrrr.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
…but it makes for a good story.
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I'd rather have the comedy than this story.
Grrrrrrrrr.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah.
I really, really enjoyed her run as McCoven muse.
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The thing yesterday was a gem.
BIG APPLAUSE to whichever of you mooks/mookettes did that one. Sheer comedy genius.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I was very glad to have caught it before its disappearance.
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I missed it.
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I’m curious now.
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If I was thinking more clearly, I would have copied it for posterity.
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I took a screen shot.
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Hmmm.... does that mean you didn't write it?
Or you DID write it but are brilliantly throwing me off the trail?
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I wish I could take credit for it. It was great. But not me.
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Then who does that leave?
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
It is I who wrote it.
Actually, no, not really. I didn’t even see it.
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you remove a big hat with a dramatic flourish as you typed "It is I who wrote it"?
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Why, I sure did!
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Not ME, if that’s what you’re implying. I mean… really….
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 26, 2009 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
And that fake beard disguise kind of gives you away.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
….You don’t get how things happen in Wisconsin.
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I have enough exposure to cops who use their badge for many purposes other than their damn job.
Grrrrrrr.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think it was really anything demanding though, just after Grant talked to the guy he laughed and said “whatever”
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No, even to have initiated contact with Grant, point out that he's a cop, conduct an interrogation
is totally reprehensible. I don’t care that the guy’s demeanor was pleasant — he still used his position of authority to influence someone who was doing something totally lawful and peaceful.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think he really used a position of authority to influence someone, he just tried to influence someone. Just a suggestion as to what he wished would happen. There isn’t anything he could have done about it anyway, and he knew that.
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When you identify yourself as a cop and ask someone to do something, you’re using your position of authority to influence someone. He didn’t call and say “I’m her brother in law, and she’s upset, can you knock it off.”
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I was thinking he thought it was funny/more interesting than Wisconsin and wanted to talk to the crazy left coasters.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Ms. Willie Maize is EXACTLY right.
Walrus, I love you and all, but how on EARTH can this be interpreted as anything other than a cop — who went out of his way to identify himself as a cop and start asking questions — using his cop status to intimidate someone who had bothered his sister/“escort”/informant/dealer/neighbor. Can of Corn is exactly right. If he didn’t MEAN for Grant to know he was a cop and asking a bunch of nosy questions, he would not have SAID he was a cop and start asking a bunch of nosy questions.
Let’s not be coy here: if this were really just a complaint by someone whose feelings were hurt (or whatever her deal was), then SHE could have written Grant an email on her own, or failing that, the cop could have just made the complaint when he first emailed Grant. But he didn’t! He identified himself as a cop in the email and then wanted Grant to get back in touch with him live on the phone. This was more than just lodging a complaint. This was obviously trying to use one’s position as a cop to mete out some intimidation for which he had no authority.
Tonight, naivete wears tusks.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I think
that the whole purpose of identifying himself as a cop was to ensure a response from grant. Abuse of his authority? Sure. But a very minor one.
From my reading of the story, there didn’t seem to be any intimidation going on. He just wanted to make sure he was able to talk to grant.
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Minor?? For me it’s binary – abuse or not. This guy was acting under color of authority inappropriately. Big or small, it’s not a lawful or proper use of his police authority.
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 27, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I look at it this way
If I were to write a letter to the editor of our town’s newspaper about something important (I’ve written in about baseball before), I would probably include the fact that I am a teacher in the community. Why would I do this? For no other reason than to ensure that my words carry a little extra weight. This type of thing happens all the time. Titles are importrant to humans. To me, it’s about on par with Clinton’s haircut. Sure, it’s an abuse of authority and was something he should not have done. But it’s not something to get worked up over.
If it’s binary to you, that’s fine. I just can’t really look at this as something sinister.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
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A teacher can’t arrest you. Big difference.
There’s a reason that there is a whole area of law dealing with abuses under color of authority (and not, for instance, identifying oneself as a teacher). It’s an issue. I’m not getting worked up over it in this particular instance, but it is kind of ass-hatty to use one’s status as a cop to get someone to stop doing something lawful.
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Forgive me, but that's an absurd analogy.
First of all, there is no comparison between floating an idea out there into the marketplace of ideas and letting happen whatever happens, versus getting someone on the phone and forcing a 1-on-1 contact in which the cop does what cops do: ask questions, make judgments, imply that the other person is doing something questionable (right or not), and so on.
Second, the use of “I’m a teacher” implies that you’re learned and studious, and maybe your opinion should carry more weight. (It’s a cheap rhetorical trick, but you’re aware of that.)
“I’m a cop” is NO F"ING WAY intended to imply anything like yours. It is unquestionably intended to imply that what he has power, the other person is now being investigated for possible wrongdoing, that at the very least what the other person was doing is serious and questionable enough to involve a cop.
To deny that cops in one-on-one contacts are inherently coercive when they start throwing their cop identity around is to deny earth-based reality. I mean, for heaven’s sake, look at the results: it got totally lawful expression squelched, and got Grant scared enough that a perfectly legal and valid and hilarious fanpost got deleted this week. I’m perplexed as to what you are not seeing here.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 27, 2009 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not as invested in this discussion as you are
But I do owe you a response, I suppose.
I can not speak for why Grant and Xanthan stopped using the Steffes meme, but I think highly enough of both of them to feel that they would have stopped had it been a grocery clerk making the call to Grant. I could be wrong, of course. But that’s how I view it.
I disagree however that “I’m a cop” has nothing to do with “I’m a teacher.” Both are important authority figures in the community. Saying “I’m a cop” doesn’t necessarily mean “you better do what I say because I could make trouble for you.” Particularly when that cop is from another part of the country. Saying “I’m a cop” shows that you put your life on the line for the community. It’s similar in that saying “I’m a teacher” shows that you also serve the community. Is it a perfect analogy? No. But neither is it absurd.
I feel that he identified himself as a cop simply to ensure a phone conversation because while a cop could arrest you, are you seriously suggesting that Grant was afraid of being arrested or cited by a cop from Wisconsin? I would think that you would have a higher opinion of Grant than that.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
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OK, but think that through.
So, he wants to ensure a live conversation with Grant. Why? Why not just an email complaining about whatever he/JS is annoyed by, and let that be that. Understand that there is NOTHING wrongful (neither criminal nor civil) in what was going on.
So, they didn’t want just an email to register a complaint— they wanted to effect change, they wanted free and legal speech squelched, not just complained about.
And what method did they use to try to influence actual change? Playing the cop card, coercing a live conversation, and a conversation that had the obvious tones of interrogation (“You know Xanthan? You sure seem to have a lot of interaction with him in the comments…” etc.)
It’s not nearly as benign as you suggest. I don’t love it when cops park at fire hydrants to go into a store for lunch, but that’s fairly minor considering they probably would hear about any alarm long before a fire engine would need to use that hydrant. But doing personal favors for their friends/relatives/hookers is absolutely beyond the pale. This is a republic, goddammit. No fiefdoms, no castes, rule of law rather than rule of man in a uniform.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 27, 2009 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t know what it is between you and cops, Mayor. But I think it’s coloring your judgment here. Interrogation? Coercing? I think these are strong words for the details that came out in that story.
"Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense."
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
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I said "tones of interrogation" and on what planet is what the cop did not coercive?
Seriously. What isn’t coercive? The cop’s involvement brought about change, and not only that, but it got an absolutely hilarious (and lawful) fanpost deleted two days ago! How on earth does that not qualify as compelling a choice (the definition of coerce)??? And what the cop was doing was absolutely in the category of interrogation— how is “do you know Xanthan?” not interrogation (I sat through a year of Criminal Procedure in law school and have had lots of subsequent dealings in this area; trust me when I say that what was described meets the legal definition of interrogation. You are, of course, entitled to your opinion of whether it meets the lay definition, which I do think it meets).
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 27, 2009 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I am really confused. What did Grant do?
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by say hey nation on Aug 27, 2009 9:11 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
And all that talent would have been capably managed by strategic mastermind Bruce Bochy.
I hate you I just choked on my water.
You want to see a walk? Then go watch the mailman.
If I came to McC for news
I’d think that bruce bochy was a good manager. Fuck you, Grant.
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by bondslegend on Aug 26, 2009 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Posey Posey Posey
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Alderson Alderson Alderson…oh, wait.
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"If you want to bunt, bake a cake."--Bruce Bochy
/Sanchez pulls mole, gets put on 60-day DL
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 26, 2009 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
GRRRRRR
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by bondslegend on Aug 26, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Grant to McCoven: The team sucks right now, and even thought we have some good prospects, those don’t usually work out, so just sit in the corner and cry.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Buster Posey will work out. I refuse to consider any other possibility.
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
AWTC
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by bondslegend on Aug 26, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
If he doesn’t go gangbusters on the league like Longoria, I will be surprised.
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He’d better sign for an indentured-servitude contract just like Longo
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
That would be sweet.
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AHHHH JINX
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You really nailed it Grant
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by say hey nation on Aug 26, 2009 12:12 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
this is making me lol really hard
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Can you take it as a smaller image with just him in the image, but make it a larger size?
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I love this
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by bondslegend on Aug 26, 2009 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Here is a link, it wont resize http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt232/tferr85/wow.gif
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by say hey nation on Aug 26, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Found your post again, thanks Natto, cool man
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So, not often?
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I’m happy to report that RafRod will develop perfectly. And MadBum will be great too. Lincecum only gets better. At least that’s what’s going on in my new Baseball Mogul dynasty.
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You left out that they’ll all get good during the exact same 3 year period
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Well yea
Lincecum did win the Cy Young in 2017. And the MVP was won as well, but that was Soto.
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MadBum was on the Tim Wakefield plan for me. He signed a seven-year deal at $2M per year when he was 30, and pitched seven seasons of 110 ERA+ swing work.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 26, 2009 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
What a deal that is for the Red Sox. Basically a cheap deal for however long they want to pay him.
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It’s like the Barry Zito contract in reverse.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 26, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Pinch Runner though!
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I believe Kruk referred to him as the “Fleet footed Barry Zito”, therefore it must be true.
by CrispinGloversBalls on Aug 26, 2009 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Since AS break
My faith has been carefully renewed in Zito. He’s been pretty damn good. Of course, as a Giants fan, I also am bracing for another round of bitter disappointment.
I know
he is getting better, but I have a hard time feeling good about him since that game a few years ago in Oakland where he walked like 5 hitters in a row and allowed 12 runs or something
by HeMissedTheTag! on Aug 26, 2009 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Hush!
Do not tempt Murphy in such ways.
That’s it! Katie bar the door for this 79 win team is star crossed! And I am loving it.
Postings influencing reality?
Please.
Who’d buy that idea , and would they be able to explain it?
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Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Aug 26, 2009 12:14 PM PDT reply actions
I HATE YOU VICTOR
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by bondslegend on Aug 26, 2009 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
FUCKVICTORFRANKENSTEINFUCKVICTORFRANKENSTEINFUCKVICTORFRANKENSTEINFUCKVICTORFRANKENSTEINFUCKVICTORFRANKENSTEINFUCKVICTORFRANKENSTEIN
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Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Aug 26, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s been very difficult to explain to my wife.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 26, 2009 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
BUT TEH KZ
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by bondslegend on Aug 26, 2009 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
TMI
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he probably won’t steal as many bases.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 26, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably not
But he does currently have 12 in 48 games in the minors.
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I came back and saw there were hundreds of new comments and just knew most of them would have nothing to do with baseball.
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They should really have taken vitamin D supplements.
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Holy crap, I just noticed I’ve passed 20,000 comments. Heaven help me.
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Natto has 53,000 LOL.
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Am I still in second place to him?
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I can’t find anyone else who has more than you.
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Makes my measly 7000 seem so small
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Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's [no, make that Rowand's] contract.
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A mere 25,000 for me. I used to be like 1,000 behind Natto, though, so this is an improvement?
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 26, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow.
I’ve only got 300 comments on you.
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We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
We should totally have a whole fanpost just coming up with quick capsule biographies of the McCoven in this style.
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WalrusMan: pedo, likes mini-tacos with ranch, frequently quotes seinfeld, only likes music from before he was born
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jponry: girl on the internet, defender of fred lewis, smarter than you
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Lars the Wanderer: pie! 79 wins 80 wins! desires Norwegian Heritage Night
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Sharksrog: long comments, doesn’t think Matt Cain has swingthrough stuff, hasn’t been heard from since he was caught masturbating in Tim Lincecum’s dad’s bushes.
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oldjacket: fucking asshole
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lol
I don’t believe in jinxes, man. Just giving you the CW.
your fantasy team really should be you defining schtick.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
CW = camwoody
Who doesn’t really post anymore? :-(
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
conventional wisdom
I’m starting to think I’m the only one who uses that acronym.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
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ICWTUDIDTHR.
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/high five
I was worried for a second. I forgot the amount of shit you took (and that Vic is now taking) for being a jinx.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
lol aww cmon
I’m not THAT mean. If I REALLY thought you were an asshole I’d be all passive aggressive about it. That’s the minnesotan way, dammit.
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I don’t know a short way to say it but satyricrash does not like when others suggest that a certain player should give up his personal style to act or look like others (ie “Brian Wilson should get a haircut!”), also he’s from Portland
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HIPPIE
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I've never been happier to have Crabs
I am currently growing a menacing beard to go with greasy used-to-be Robert Smith ‘doo and combining that with as much flannel as possible for my trip to SF next month to give the impression not unlike a vagrant, just see how many people I can scare. Maybe I’ll get an axe. “Yeah, Oregon’s one big Rob Zombie movie. You got a dollar?” THIS IS MY IDEA OF A GOOD TIME. I am messed up.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
I am currently growing a menacing beard
Me too!
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 26, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, it is taking five or six years longer than I thought it would.
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 26, 2009 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
He hates a lot of other weird things, too.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
GiantsRainMan: A True Maverick, No One On The Blog Understands His True Outside The Box Genious, Eshoes All Grammer And Spelling Rules
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Hates Groupthink
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
Brings light To The Minds Of The Ignorant
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Every Cap In The Subjecat Too
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
World's First Female College World Series Participant
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
The Love Of My Life
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
by Outside The Box Thinking on Aug 26, 2009 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
groug: likes Chester Arthur, hates when people say Nate can play third, has creepy murder stare
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
zenbitz: desperately wishes he was a big enough part of MCC for people to write a blurb on him
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.
thehavenot: umm, he doesn’t have anything?
"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.
zenbitz: OG stat-nerd, doesn’t think much of your pet theory and isn’t going to sugarcoat it for you. has a son who appears to be vomiting.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Does not like Juan Uribe.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
I think that was Zets. Though lots of people don’t like Juan Uribe. My wife still hates him for spoiling Sanchez’s perfect game.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
I got no problem with Uribe
well, no more so than any other hacker employed by the Giants.
I do harbor a (possibly) irrational hatred for JT Snow (the player)
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.
Posters whose usernames start with Z all look the same.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
alphabetist!
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’m pretty sure zenbitz doesn’t like anyone.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
obsessivegiantscompulsive: it would really be inappropriate to try to sum up his many thoughtful contributions to this site in such an abbreviated format. To really appreciate obsessivegiantscompulsive’s work it needs to be discussed at greater length, with particular attention to his insightful analysis of the front office. His raw stats may not be that impressive (46 fanposts, 2820 comments) but they don’t tell the full story. To get the full story you need to really look at what he puts into every one of those two thousand eight hundred and twenty comments.
Now, I’m like the rest of you and I’m all "tl;dr" so I don’t really know what he does put into them. For all I know it could just be a bunch of "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur tellus turpis, aliquam ut facilisis at, porttitor nec dui. Donec a fermentum leo. Aenean faucibus iaculis rhoncus. Aenean nec neque metus. Nunc vehicula, sem eget vestibulum malesuada, neque lorem accumsan ante, eget malesuada nisl nisi eget odio. Vestibulum in nunc turpis, sit amet aliquam enim. Etiam ac malesuada turpis. Donec condimentum orci quis leo tempor tristique." It could be, but I don’t think so. He’s got more class than that, and doesn’t go for the cheap obvious joke like some other people I could name.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
by EliminateMe on Aug 26, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 11 recs
arbitrary endpoints?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
I think thats included in micro splits
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
CB30: thunderstealer
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Genius personified
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
EliminateMe: world’s greatest OGC impersonator, sometimes confused with Eddy Martinez-Esteve.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
I Do A Pretyt God GREM Impresson Myself.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Goofus: dances funny, likes dick jokes, has hot wife
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
rxmeister: furious New Yorker, hates Fred Lewis and the Mets with equal passion, considerings the +reply button a form of performance art.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
TakeAGiantStepNGo
Likes to SWOOP! and strives to have an equal number of posts and comments.
I thought I didn’t care… then I fell in love with Panda and now I’m not so sure anymore. - Smoke On The Water
Doesnt care what people say in his posts
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Or to think anything through.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
I dont even remember what he posted about
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Here are a couple of representative fanposts
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/1/12/718799/giants-will-go-after-holli
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2008/12/11/689876/how-long-until-cain-says-g
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
Swoop is someone else – SneakToBetterSeats. No, they are not the same person.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Oh yeah, I think you are right. But that doesn’t mean TAGSNG doesn’t like to SWOOP! I mean who doesnt?
I thought I didn’t care… then I fell in love with Panda and now I’m not so sure anymore. - Smoke On The Water
See? One comment and you've got him covered.
If you’d really stretched it out it could’ve been three.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
I remember that one that wasn’t about food…it was cool.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
You've been a member 2 months less than me
and have wayy more comments. I bow, sir.
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
Gameday threads are about 70% of my comments
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
LOLs are 99% of mine.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
+1s are mine
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
+1
I very rarely venture into fanposts unless they’re rec’d. And you can see why in the new “DERR RBIEZZZ” thread.
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’m scared to check how many comments I’ve posted.
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Comparitvely, not that many
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
4,460.
That’s still more than I expected.
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
geez get a life!
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
What is this "life" of which you speak of?
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe it has to do with getting 3 strikes?
That’s it! Katie bar the door for this 79 win team is star crossed! And I am loving it.
I’m not a turkey.
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow I’m really falling behind you people
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!
WALOLRUSMAN
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 don’t know if the count reset, but I know you can still find my first comment by browsing my profile, and that was pre-switch.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
I know in my case my first comment is from a 2006 GDT but my profile page says I joined in June of 2008. I was late to the party after the conversion, and the re-registering and all that jazz, so I was just wondering …
Yea the join date is reset to when you joined the SBN 2.0 thing, but post count is still correct.
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!
LAME
True Blue LA was the 2nd blog on SB Nation I joined. FMProfile really
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
I think we pretty much all joined AN first since they were the first to switch over and we had to reserve our user names, but then MCC was next.
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!
The original join date is intact in the Blog Memberships block.
Since May 24, 2006 – UID: 756
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
I signed up like 4 days before you and my UID is 744.
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 26, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha – no-life Lars! I only have 6258 (well, now 6259 after I hit Post).
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Unfortunately, true. =/
work>home>work>home>occasional Giants game>home>work>home etc.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I still only have mine in the thousands. Probably because I’ve missed so many Gameday threads this year.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
I shudder to think how many comments I’d have if I didn’t have kids and was single, and thus was able to stick around throughout the gameday threads.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
LOL
I don’t have kids… and I’m single.
Wait, does this mean I have a life?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
No
You live in your mother’s basement.
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.
@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
HARHARHAR DOES IT LOOK LIKIE I’M A BLOGGER BOY?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
It puts the lotion in the basket.
This looks alikea good spot fora Joe Dirt ref.
That’s it! Katie bar the door for this 79 win team is star crossed! And I am loving it.
A terrifying thought, to be sure
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
/immediately gets kids and becomes not single
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Only ~5200 for me here
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.
@#$% Juan Uribe. Dios es grande.
2500 ish
and ive been here just over a month, 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
Food!
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
What Grant's Thinking:
’CAN’T I GO ONE FREAKING FRONTPAGE POST WITHOUT RANDOM OT STUFF IN IT?!!! I THOUGHT WE WERE TALKIN ABOUT BASEBALL!
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
It’s his own fault, with the omelette talk.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
WINE AND CHEESE BLOG. TRUE BLUE LA IS A BETTER ENVIRONMENT.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
YOU PEOPLE SWEAR TOO MUCH AND ARE SARCASTIC
AND SWEAR
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
If I came here for news
I’d think they introduced omlettes into the baseball rulebook
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
YOU SUCK
/only half joking
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Silly rabbit
computers can’t suck. He blows.
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
That is true
Xanthan’s like a leafblower because…. uhh… he blowss?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
HOW WILL HE RECOVER
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
He blows like Dizzy Gillespie!
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
made me lol
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 wonder what first-timers think when the click on any of these threads on McCoven.
If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding.
When I was a first timer, I was greeted by many images making fun of Tyler Walker. I found it to be inviting. And hilarious.
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 27, 2009 8:24 AM PDT up reply actions
I CAME HERE FOR HARD HITTING GIANTS INFO
NOT OMELETS AND SURSING
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Well, here’s another day wasted.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
I am sitting on a conference call that was supposed to start 4 minutes ago. I love when people are late to the meetings they call!
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I still haven’t started my day really…
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Waiting for the Game Day Thread, huh?
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Sure….. or just being lazy
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
That happens to me like 80% of the time when dealing with musicians.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
I’ve been editing specifications all day. Thank god for this thread.
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 26, 2009 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
if we don't pay attention to prospects on other teams
how will we know who to trade cain for??
DUH ITZ FEELDER OF CURS
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
Good post Grant
I didn’t follow the minor leagues at all five years ago, so I found this interesting
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Aug 26, 2009 1:57 PM PDT reply actions
I had no idea the Pads had such highly touted prospects. Imagine if none of our current prospects turn out? I’m pretty sure this site would collapse within itself, creating some sort of black hole made of anguish, torment, and broken dreams.
It kind of puts into perspective Sabean’s ideology when Bonds was here. Don’t get me wrong, the ideal way of running an organization is to continue to slowly stock the system when you are a contender each year, but when you look at what happened to the Pad’s system, it’s hard to blame him when he tried to stockpile veterans around Bonds while he was here.
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
The thing is
It’s not so much that he went for veterans and forsook the farm system (though, that was in fact dumb). It’s the fact that the veterans he went for were so dang mediocre.
"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.
forsook
That didn’t look right to me but it was!
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
It didn't seem right to me also
But I couldn’t think of anything else it would be. So I went with it.
"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.
Summary
1) I hate eggs
2) I love onions
3) I have way too much time on this site, but then again, I spent way too much time at Waiting for Boof.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
Its hard to believe the Dodgers are now only 2 games up. Yes, the Giants are 6 back of the Dodgers, but the way the Dodgers have been playing, I’d rather have the Giants chasing the Dodgers for the Wild Card. Maybe there is hope after all? Oh gawd, now I sound like that damn “We’re in this thing” commercial. Argghhh!
"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.
You know
Golly gee, I think there are a lot of prospects in the Rockies’ farm system that should be discussed further. I really want to get this gloom fresh in everyone’s mind, so let’s talk about how we’re going to lose the division for the next decade.
I’d like to also discuss our possibly past failures in management, such as various guys like Benitez, Zito, Rowand, and the existence of Bochy. Also, some trade involving a guy named some injured 2nd baseman named Sanchez.
"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit." - Coach John Wooden
This post is about food, sorry.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
And I am pretty sure Bochy was in existence prior to the Giants current management structure.
I blame Bruce’s parents.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
He was... he was.... he was like an author to me.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
never heard of him
but RIP
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
my wife is kneww deep in finals studying
should I go to the game tonight by myself, i work right next door. Not sure i wanna torture myself by watching them life right now though.
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
yea, go
although I decided not to go tonight…(I have a long drive up from Hayward)
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
im thinking i will, trying to convince a buddy to come, there are some seriously cheap tickets available on stub hub right now
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
so...
did everyone take the night off giants baseball yesterday? I did, mainly cus I had plans (IHAZALIFE!)…but I’m back on the bandwagon tonight. And I still love baseball. And the Giants. (I’m such a sucker)
I watched last night
that almost ended in disaster
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
i was getting texts the whole game, and shitting my pants in the process even though I convinced myself to stay away.
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
that may be even worse
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Adopted Father: Tyler Graham
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
you’ve said that so much, I’m not sure I believe 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
see, now you’re being defensive!
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
also,
there is a joke about Aaron Rowand in here somewhere
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 refused to watch last night
but I think I’ll be back tonight
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I thought I wouldn’t watch, but then the lure of Cain brought me back.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
I watched the entire game.
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
i almost started to cry at the end of the game.. but then i was laughing.
"There he goes. One of god's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
the three batter sequence of Schierholtz, Lewis and Ishikawa moistened my eyeballs a bit
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
WALKS ARE BAD CUZ THEY DONT LEAD 2 RUNZ!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
I liked how Ishikawa took a strike that he couldn’t do much with before crushing that mistake. That was beautiful.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
I got out of class in time to listen to the 7th and part of the 8th inning on the radio whilst driving home, and watched the rest on the TV.
I don’t think I’m going to watch tonight. Two late nights in a row, and I can barely stay awake right now. Plus since I go back to work next week I have to start getting back on some sort of schedule. I wake up at 5am during the school year. Ugh…
ouch. why would you do that to yourself?
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I watched the whole game
but then again I was at the game and I’ll never leave before the last out. The game became a roller coaster from the bottom of the 8th until Romo finished it, and Wilson was fuming once he went into the dugout and then the clubhouse.
Win the inning.
by Scooter Ellis on Aug 26, 2009 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
last man standing gets a trade?
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
Let's Do This
w/o Google…off the top…
L-R: Macho Man, forgot, Mr Perfect (?), Hogan, The tag team that bit Demolition, Big Boss Man, Roddy Piper, Jake the Snake, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Undertaker, Sgt. Slaughter, and Flair
hulk hogan is in between macho man and mr perfect
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oh nm, you weren’t going by rows
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I think that’s meant to be Sid Justice, not Mr. Perfect. At the time of this event, Mr. Perfect was hurt and working as a manager/announcer rather than a wrestler.
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oh yeah, the nightstick
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I think Boss Man’s supposed to be holding the nightstick. It’s hard to tell but it was part of his gimmick.
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yeah, my memory is shaky, i think i was 8 or 9 when this happened
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You’re missing the Legion of Doom (aka the Road Warriors) and Earthquake, I think.
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I always felt that Legion of Doom were jacking Demolition’s swag…there I said it after all these years and it feels good.
Dude, LOD was around like a decade before Demolition!
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Really??
Now, I’m confused and I appoligize.
Anyway, Demolition was hard…a throw back to when men could wear studded-leather, ass-less chaps, generally dress like The Gimp, and … and I don’t know.
Yeah, they were around for years as the Road Warriors in the NWA and AWA – they just didn’t show up in the WWF until after Demolition was established.
I recently saw a Demolition match and was stuck by how much they looked like leather daddy bears.
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Jeebus
Reyes
Wright
Beltran
Delgado
Santana
Perez
anyone else?
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Cora
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
jeez
Thats like their 6 best players
rough
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
JJ Putz too
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They’re dropping like flies.
It never occurred to me that one man could play with the faith of 50 million.
by imovermyhead on Aug 26, 2009 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
… and Castillo drops flies. (Against the Yankees.)
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by Panty Inspector on Aug 26, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I tweeted it before and I'll say it again
Mixing the Giants and Dodgers references in the same park is just an offense against the baseball gods.
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Long ago they came west over the mountains, and I have rooted for them years uncounted; and together through many ages of this world we have fought the long defeat.
LOLINEUP
LF Velez
SS Renteria
RF Winn
1B Garko
CF Rowand
3B Rohlinger
2B Uribe
C Whiteside
P J. Sanchez
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:02 PM PDT reply actions
two nights in a row without molina?
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As per usual, pretty awful lineup. TI sits, Bengie (quad) and Panda (calf) are still out.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Quad issue according to Baggs and Schulman
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
She?
GIRL ON INTERWEBS ALERT
Not allowed to ask what you are doing this Friday anymore though.
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WERE YOU CALLED BY A POLICE MAN AND TOLD TO STOP??
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NO AND I DIDN’T DO IT TO A 5 YEAR OLD EITHER
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I SWEAR TO GOD, OFFICER, SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS 7!
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There was another thread the other day where we were talking about all the memes that have cropped up about MCC members – my rage, delorean being old, jponry being rude, that kind of thing. I think we all agreed that yours was the worst. But it also just may be the funniest.
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I may have missed this thread. Which one? I want to see the memes!
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http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/8/24/1001372/minor-lines-8-24-09#20189976
The best part is Cookyman’s explanation for how the WalrusMan meme started:
I think he molested some kids.
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hahahahaha
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Thanks.
Poor tusks.
And I didn’t know that jponry was rude. Try harder, jponry!
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That's a recent one
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/8/22/998604/jeremy-affeldt-was-great-against
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Pfft – guy deserved it.
And you can’t make a meme by saying "New meme: ", can you?
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Perhaps not, but it’s been referenced at least a few times since.
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Can someone explain Maria Shriver to me?
I was out of town when that meme was passed out.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher??
If it has to do with her eating your flesh, it’s because she’s a zombie. If it has to do with anything else, I don’t know what they’re talking about.
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 26, 2009 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I think she used to go out with Lars. Amirite?
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This is true
And I can confirm that she eats flesh.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah
It was an angry PTA member.
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He’s into the playing-hard-to-get thing
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
For him, hard to get is someone not liking candy.
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Or roofies.
(Too far?)
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I imagine WalrusMan cruising around in an old, broken wood paneled station that spews black exhaust everywhere. When he spots a real hottie, he pulls over and, after coughing up some phlegm, rolls down his window and calls out, “HEY, YOU WANNA GO FOR A RIDE? I GOT CANDY!”
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Nah – it’s gotta be a van. Always a van.
There’s a house on a busy residential street that I drive by frequently that has 3 (count ‘em – 3) Chester the Molester 70’s vans parked in front of it at all times. Creepy.
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THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Aug 26, 2009 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow.
I realize we say this almost every night, but…is that the worst lineup ever?
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…we have 5 players on the active roster with OPS+ over 90, and only one of them is in the lineup tonight.
The OPS+ for this lineup:
Velez 87
Renteria 70
Winn 82
Garko 77
Rowand 102
Rohlinger n/a
Uribe 89
Whiteside 55
That’s just…words fail.
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But Uribe is so close!
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Yes
But he sucks so he doesn’t count obvsly
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Words fail
So do Giants hitters.
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By definition.
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Still, it’s facing the Giants, whose team OPS+ is 82 this year. For comparison, Craig Counsell’s career number is 80. Yep: the entire San Francisco roster, overall, has basically been hitting like Craig this year.
YEAH WELL AT LEAST WE DON’T HAVE THAT STUPID BATTING STANCE!
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Velez and Rowand have pretty stupid stances.
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Counsell was pretty clutch in his Blankdays.
Put the damn stats down , can’t I talk out of my ass just once?
/looks at Frankenstein body of work
Ok , maybe not. But still.
NL West TempestTeapot
Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Aug 26, 2009 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions
LOLINGER!!!
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What did he do to deserve hitting ahead of Uribe?
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
It’s for Judy.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoever said...
“I always look at the lineup and think that has to be the worst lineup we’ve put out all year… until I see the next day’s line up” was spot on.
I thought yesterday’s lineup stunk but my gawd, this has to easily be the worst lineup of the year.
Well, maybe not – I mean, at least Molina’s not batting cleanup.
I think that was can of corn
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Every day I see a new lineup, and every day its worse than the day before
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t look now but Renteria has played well the last few games. . Randy Winn is swinging better too. We need those vets to pick it up in crunch time.
/ducks
Winn actually has been better lately
That’s still no excuse for him to bat third against a LHP.
THAT ONE GUY WHOSE NAME STARTS WITH AN H WAS RIGHT!
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
His name is like a word jumble with all consonants
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
I always read it as “hokysmokes” which, for me anyway, takes any edge off of anything he says.
Or is it someone else you are referring to?
c'mon Giants
score some run.
And no, that’s not a typo.
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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Wow I thought last night was bad
This might be the worst lineup of the year. Too bad Nate can’t hit lefties, but at least Winn bats right handed!
LA-COL
So who should we root for tonight, anyway?
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by Panty Inspector on Aug 26, 2009 4:03 PM PDT reply actions
A meteor strike.
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Really. Maybe a plane crash between the two teams’ charters.
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by Panty Inspector on Aug 26, 2009 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
H1N1
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you guys read this SI article on Lincecum and Cain?
Matt Cain had heard all about this Tim Lincecum wunderkind, who, with only eight minor league games under his small belt, arrived at the Giants’ 2007 spring training camp with the kind of word-of-mouth buzz befitting a blockbuster movie. A talented righthander himself, Cain had just finished his first full major league season and wasn’t buying the buzz. “I’m thinking, They hype this guy way too much,” Cain recalls. “He’s coming here throwing 97, 98 effortlessly, punching tickets…. No way he’s that good.” ¶ It would take a few minutes for Cain to become a believer, to understand that a rare window of opportunity could be opening for San Francisco. Just playing catch, Lincecum amazed Cain with the velocity and life in his arm. “I’m like, O.K., this guy throws cheese,” Cain says.
LOL
Awesome.
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I posted a fanshot if you want to read it. There are some real nuggests in there.
Back in that 2007 spring training camp, Lincecum was such a sensation that Cain and other Giants pitchers would stop what they were doing to check out his bullpen sessions. “We didn’t want anybody to notice we were watching,” Cain says. “It was like, This kid is dirty! And that’s when he was just fastball, breaking ball. We’d think, How is anybody going to hit that? Now you watch him throw that split-changeup thing, and it’s unfair.”
I like how Cain’s younger than Lincecum but still calls him a kid.
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This is one hell of a thread
It really has spanned the entire breadth of the McCoven experience, from baseball to despair to the xanthan in prison story to food and back again to baseball. Epic.
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I downloaded a FireRed hack the other day that makes it basically the same as Pokemon Crystal for GBC, except all Game Boy Advance-y. It seems pretty well done so far.
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BOOOOOO
crystal version
Red, Blue and Gold
anything past that is stupid
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
And something about 'Star Wars,' preferably Bothans
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Has it been discussed how strangely out of place Mon Mothma’s (or rather the actress portraying her) reactions are not only when compared to that scene but to the entire Star Wars Saga? Turned up the Vanessa Redgrave to eleven.
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Vanessa Redgrave to eleven! BRAVO
That is deeply, deeply hilarious. And yes, absolutely right. I think that not only was Mon Mothma boning a Bothan spy who was killed in the crappy little operation, but also that the actress as part of her “method” was boning a British spy who was doing black bag ops behind the Iron Curtain. Vanessa Redgrave, of course, would have boned a Soviet spy working in Britain, but, you know, po-tay-to/po-tah-to.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, you guys, I will no longer be able to rewatch ROTJ without laughing hysterically at this scene.
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Unlike before???
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I just giggled before
and oh man
HOT BOTHAN ACTION
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"Come on, Baby... I got the Force with me..."
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah. Mayor of 311 brought up the scene for some reason, and it sparked a couple of philosophic debates.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Personally, I think the Mayor’s obsession with Mon Mothma and the possibly-Bothan-related details of her sex life may be a little…well, unhealthy.
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I mostly just find it hilarious
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Well, that too.
Unhealthy, yet hilarious.
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Someone said "Many Bothans died to bring us this information," and then I belabored my point that the Bothan spies were crap, what they brought back was unvetted and tainted, and...
… that the only way that Mon Mothma chick could have been so torn up about the loss of the spies was if she were boning one (or more) of them. Someone else then picked up the Hot Bothan Action thing, which morphed into Hoth Boning Action (funny, despite being essentially a pun), and so on.
But really: those Bothan spies were like the McDonald’s of spies— mediocre, product contains pieces of shit that they don’t even care about as they sell it to you, if a few of them die it’s not a big loss (unless, apparently, you’re boning the manager).
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Director: Seems the actress playing Mon Mothma thinks she’s in A Man For All Seasons. Should we reshoot?
Lucas: {shrugs} Just throw some lasers on top of it.
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I have red, gold and blue version but my blue and red version wont save so I just play gold version and i have a level 92 Pidgeot that can take out the whole Elite 4 plus Gary by itself and my Pikachu is also hecka good and I even got a polygon by gamblin
enough. Gold version is the best because Pikachu follows you around and you can get Squirtle, Charizard and Bulbasaur instead of sticking with just one. There is also some kind of code you can enter where you can get a mew but I dont know how but my firends do.
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I does
I apologize
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
you have to use strength on that truck near the St. Anne
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really?
Can you do it after the SS Anne has already left?
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
It’s an old rumor from when the games first came out, it’s not actually true. Sorry :(
There is a way to do it, it involves glitches and Cerulean City, but I don’t remember how.
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Here's a guide to doing it, if you're interested
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gameboy/file/907714/23116
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I’m still waiting for HeartGold and SoulSilver.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm so excited
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OMFG ME TOO
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 26, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I took like an hour break from this thread and xanthan is in jail?
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Ya
I dont know why a prison need a computer though.
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
can we talk about how good RUSH! is now?
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The Fuck Buttons!!!
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 26, 2009 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Too soon.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
that’s never stopped us before
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No.
Rush fails.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Never fake it?
Someone slip Rich Aurilia this stuff.
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its just you and me walrusman…
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XANTHAN, CAN OF CORN
WE NEED REINFORCEMENTS NOW
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RUSH IS AWESOME!!
Actually, I’m pretty stoked that the new radio station in the South Bay (103.7) plays Rush. I was cruising around last weekend and enjoyed a triple shot of some of Rush’s delightful tunes.
SUCK IT, RUSH HATERS!! GO LISTEN TO YOUR CELINE DION!!
(how’s that, WalrusMan?)
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the band?
yeah that station is good stuff
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the band, being the name of the station, 103.7
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I’m pissed about that. 103.7 played nice jazz when I left for Pasadena, and I come back and it plays other random crap. (Well it’s not crap, but it isn’t jazz either.) At least I still have 91.1.
RUSH! is kind of jazzy
ok, they aren’t sorry.
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FALSE DICHOTOMY ALERT!!!!
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NO, IT’S A FACT! AN ACCOUNTANT TOLD ME SO!
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For what it’s worth, I’d rather listen to Rush than Celine Dion.
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Yea, I’ve noticed that too. Anyone know what the Hippo is? They seem to be around 103 and played something interesting, but I’m not sure about the name of the station.
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If it’s 103.3, I think that’s the Santa Clara University student station. Sometimes there’s really good stuff. Sometimes it’s weird. Depends on the random DJ.
(Don’t know if anyone calls it Hippo, though, so I could be totally wrong)
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free form radio, ftw
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im starting it, damnit
favorites songs/album….
ive been into subdivisions a TON lately, that and their first album… its fun to hear some stuff without the neil pert lyrics
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no one wants to talk songs? you guys are all RUSH but then i don’t see you backing it up =(
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a great choice obviously, darn i dont have that at work, this will work a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDjx6aM-7VM
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wow @ geddy’s hair in this video
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IT’S 4 ON 1248!!!!
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we have geddy, neil and alex on our side too
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Alex looks like Kyle Gass these days
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 26, 2009 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
well, we’ve got Geddy and neil. Never been a big fan of Alex.
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someone has to play guitar… his early work is better IMO
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I don’t know how a noob would even start.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Or someone who actually wanted to talk about baseball
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
We’ve actually talked about baseball here, though! In a few, isolated bursts.
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What’s that
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Baseball is slow and boring!
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yeah, but have you seen cricket? it takes 3 days to play!
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I have watched cricket, just a couple of hours, but it felt like three days.
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no, there are literally matches that take days. But there is a faster version too
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all are boring
played for a day when i was in school (in scotland). hated it. rugby=fun though
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
The faster version only takes two and a half days.
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My favorite cricket memory
I was in the Kensington Oval in London, and one of the bowlers who was not, at that moment bowling but the ball was still in play, was off to the side signing autographs. DURING play. I think that counts as the lowest intensity sport of all time.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I love cricket
Just went home, watched the Ashes – good time was had. It takes patience
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
see below
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You forgot
That Fred Lewis is the worst thing ever to happen to the Giants.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
FUCK WORK LETS DRINK
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after looking at that lineup
I’m In!
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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TWSS!!!
But what I meant was that I am down with the work fucking and the drinking.
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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going to the 21a right now, if anyone is around the ball park, ill be outside in a grey SF giants hoodie
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Love the beer. Need to try the place.
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the food is meh
but they have some great stuff on tap… i fyou like the cans on 21a IPA you’ll like the rest of their stuff
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Yeah, I was mostly interested in what’s on tap.
(T-t-t-t-tap).
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OT
but this made me laugh:
“Bonus Fact No. 8: Chris Cooley plays fantasy football and once played against himself in the playoffs and scored the touchdown that eliminated him.”
/flagged for being a troll
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by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 26, 2009 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions
A little help...
hypothetically if we win the next two games, do I actually want the dodgers to win their next two???
IT IS NEVER OKAY TO ROOT FOR THE GODDAMN DODGERS DAMMIT.
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thank you...
still a little out of it from that game that never happend monday night
by Johnny Drama on Aug 26, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
nah. just hope they lose their next ten
by scottishgiants on Aug 26, 2009 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope.
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Sorry to talk about baseball, but. . .
. . . has anybody else noticed that we’re down to one healthy catcher? Because that’s really fucked up.
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I thought Garko could catch.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
If Eli gets injured, would you want to put a guy with a tight quad or tight calf into the squat for any length of time? Those injuries are the kind that are bad for catchers, I would think.
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Can we start a countdown clock to September call-ups? Between the bullpen, and now the catchers looks like the Giants need some help sooner, rather than later.
6 days till call ups? No off day till the 10th. Oy.
I could totally see the front office only calling up a few guys, though. They’ve already said stuff to set that expectation.
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Aurilia for sure.
I think Torres was saying he was promised a Sept 1 call up after his DL stint.
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We’re totally going to see Jacks Williams, aren’t we? And wilriv hasn’t even been around much lately.
Obligatory bad Photoshop:
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Well there’s not gonna be any catchers called up, unless the FO surprises us and brings up Posey. Whiteside and Molina are the only catchers on the 40-man. I suppose it’s remotely possible that they might bring up Jacks, but….
What if Molina has to go on the DL?
Let’s just say the injury is more serious than they initially thought and Molina has to DL. there is no other catcher on the 40 man roster.
Do you bring Holm back on the 40 man roster just to be DFA’d again at the end of the year to make room for Posey, or do you just say fuck it it’s Buster Posey time?
Especially because there’s been some grumblings about whether he’d be ready to handle a major league staff next year. I say give him a little taste now, so he can work on a good base in ST.
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What do you mean? Pedro Feliz can.... Ohhhhhh, I see what you mean.
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by Mayor of 311 on Aug 26, 2009 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Justin Upton has been activated. Right on time!
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 4:52 PM PDT reply actions
It’s too bad that those tough losses against the Rockies really killed the activity on this site.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
That's because we care more about swearing than about baseball
SHIT FUCK COCKPANTS
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I came here for information, dammit. Not cursing!
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THEY ARE FUNNIER THAN US BUT MORE VULGAR SO THAT CANCELS IT OUT.
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BUT ONLY IF YOU LIKE THAT KIND OF HUMOR. IT’S NOT EVERYBODY’S CUP OF TEA.
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MB’s allowed 4 H 1 BB and 0 runs through 6.
For a guy going through a dead arm period and with supposedly poor breaking stuff he sure does know how to pitch.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 26, 2009 5:05 PM PDT reply actions
MB’s night is done. 7 IP 0 R 4 H 1 BB 2 K. He now has a 1.91 ERA.
Runzier struck out two in the 8th. So far he’s dominating AA just like the other levels. 9.1 IP .96 ERA 11 Ks.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 26, 2009 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I was saying recently that in a way his recent stretch is encouraging. He’s showing he can still be really damn good even without striking everyone out.
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exactly … there are going to be days where his stuff isn’t there. Learning to pitch without it will prove invaluable when his A stuff returns.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 26, 2009 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m still kind of concerned. I liked it better when he was striking everyone out.
Have we heard any reports as to whether his velocity has dropped over the course of the year?
Kevin Goldstein had reports of him being 89-91 recently. No injury apparently, so I don’t really think it’s a huge long term concern.
If he comes to spring training throwing 89 than I’ll be worried.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 26, 2009 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions
OT: Talk about Freaking Out:
I know several people here have mentioned their love for Yosemite… “Yosemite rockfall forces Ahwahnee evacuation”
I don’t think I’d want to see a boulder the size of a microwave oven headed at me.
Damn! Friends of mine were just there last weekend.
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Haha
Dust from the avalanche obscured views of Half Dome.
OH NO!
I was there just a few weeks after the big one below Half Dome happened. It was around the size of the Glacier Point rockslide I think, but even a few weeks after it happened the North Tenaya Canyon trail had a layer of granite dust kicked up by the slide.
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“Jeez, that boulder’s about the size of a microwave.”
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 26, 2009 5:12 PM PDT reply actions
We’re over 1000 comments now. Good job, all.
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Kindly go fuck yourself sir.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
IT'S OVER ONE THOUSAND
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 26, 2009 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Nervous people often tend to be quite gregarious. There’s another (likely heartbreaking) Giants game in two hours so naturally…
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 26, 2009 5:17 PM PDT reply actions
Nah – there was a food discussion going on. Priorities, and all that.
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mmmmm….corn
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 26, 2009 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m off to the yard…have fun. I have a feeling the GDT is going to be epic.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
going to the game too… have fun
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jealous
I live in the deep south and only get to come out for a series a year. I wish I could head down to the yard.
im blessed* I work a block away, so I can decide last minute
*may not actually be blessed, check back after the game with this LOLINEUP
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I ran some simulations using tonight’s starting lineup and I believe we will score negative 23 runs.
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I was actually thinking the other night how lucky we are that negative runs are impossible in baseball. If it were possible to end up with less than one run an inning, the Giants would be totally screwed.
by Wonderful Terrific Monds on Aug 26, 2009 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
ARILOLNA DIAMONDLOLS
Status: Feels so broke up. Wants to go home. || Still boycotting Johnsonville and Giants souvenirs or ballpark foods for repossessing my K Wall in right field.
lmao
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 26, 2009 6:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm still optimistic:
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I found a penny in the washing machine this afternoon. Does that count?
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Now that everybody's warmed up
I’m ready for the GDT. Where’s all the GDT at?
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God damn… t… t…
Okay, you got me. What does the T stand for?
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by howtheyscored on Aug 26, 2009 6:10 PM PDT up reply actions
“game day thread”
I heard one of the cool kids call it that.
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A joke answer also would have been acceptable.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 26, 2009 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
The “cool kids” part WAS the joke. THERE ARE NO COOL KIDS ON THIS BOARD!!!
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Joke answer?
Buddy, you came to the wrong blog.
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I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO STOP SPYING ON GROUG ALREADY!
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 26, 2009 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I guess it’s an hour and 2 minutes before the game. My bad.
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http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/8/26/1003473/open-gamethread-8-26#comments
HAPPY NOW?
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by howtheyscored on Aug 26, 2009 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Heard, sighed, fumed, posted, and abandoned hope about it.
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reminds me of...
This talk of developing prospects reminds me of the Arizona Cardinals up until last year.
Fluke of all flukes
watch them come crashing back to earth, and then everyone will be wondering “wha hhaaaaapen?!?!”
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
by bondslegend on Aug 27, 2009 12:46 AM PDT up reply actions
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