The Giants and Minor League Evaluation
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2009 10:57 AM PDT
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PrintNot much time for a ton of writing today, so I'll just ask your help for possible posts down the road. I'm trying to make a list of examples of the Giants ignoring minor league performance in their hitter evaluation process in the Brian Sabean era.
- Rich Aurilia -- Fine numbers for a AAA shortstop, blocked by Jose Vizcaino because he was the "get one free" part of the Jeff Kent trade.
- Todd Linden -- Stellar numbers in AAA, never given a chance (note: this is a list of examples for better or for worse. It was almost assuredly a good thing that Linden didn't get a chance as a starter.)
- Dan Ortmeier -- Very little power, contact, or on-base skills in the minors, fluked his way into a .497 slugging percentage in 157 major league at-bats, taken seriously as a candidate for a starting 1B job in the majors
- Kevin Frandsen -- Career .317/.380/.452 hitter in the minors, blocked by vets and rooks alike. Also a career .241/.306/.342 hitter in the majors in over 450 at-bats, so this might be more of a Linden situation rather than a crime against player evaluation.
- Nate Schierholtz -- Career .308/.355/.516 hitter in the minors, blocked by vets and rooks alike. Also a career .287/.318/.408 hitter in the majors in over 450 at-bats, so...hey, that reads familiar.
- Brian Bocock -- A year after hitting .220 in A-ball, he was the Opening Day shortstop. Seriously.
- Emmanuel Burriss -- Two years after hitting .165 in A-ball, he was the Opening Day second baseman. Seriously.
- John Bowker -- Hit .342/.451/.596 with a reworked approach in AAA. The player standing in the way of a starting job in the majors hasn't hit a home run since April.
- Buster Posey -- Isn't likely to have an on-base percentage below .300, which makes him a special offensive catcher in this organization's history. Needs to prove his worth to get a single start; won't get a single start until he proves his worth.
- Eugenio Velez -- Nothing in his minor league career, other than a fine age-24 season in low-A, suggests he'll be more than a fine bench player. Because he had a ridiculously hot 80 at-bats when he was called up, though, he's a starting outfielder. And he's done just fine, mind you. But he also starts against left-handers, against whom he's hit .241/.288/.353 over his minor league career and .212/.287/.260 in his major league career.
No thesis, really. I'm just trying to figure out why the Giants completely ignore minor league statistics when they evaluate hitters. Actually, I guess I'm trying to figure out if they ignore minor league stats, and if that's even helped the team on a few occassions. Please help me fill in any gaps or omissions. Also let me know if I'm cherry-picking and/or making too much out of nothing. Also, feel free to ignore baseball entirely and talk about lunch, as that's what you're going to do anyways.
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Fried catfish poboy FTW!
Plotting the ultimate demise of Gore51 (never met him, I dunno he could be swell) so as to adopt Kyle Nicholson.
"I don’t know much about sabre-stats but there’s nothing better than white tea and poptarts first thing in the morning" - tk
by Whiteteaandpoptarts on Sep 25, 2009 11:04 AM PDT reply actions
16th and Glenarm
downtown Denver. :(
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"I don’t know much about sabre-stats but there’s nothing better than white tea and poptarts first thing in the morning" - tk
by Whiteteaandpoptarts on Sep 25, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
You say FiDi
I say LoDo. Lets call the whole thing off.
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"I don’t know much about sabre-stats but there’s nothing better than white tea and poptarts first thing in the morning" - tk
by Whiteteaandpoptarts on Sep 25, 2009 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Pshaw.
Combat from behind enemy lines. Im practically your hero.
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"I don’t know much about sabre-stats but there’s nothing better than white tea and poptarts first thing in the morning" - tk
by Whiteteaandpoptarts on Sep 25, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it takes longer than that.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
HA HA, SHIFT+FAIL!!!
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Luckily I am just smart enough to figure out how to fix that, but not smart enough to not do it in the first place.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to defenestrate you into a sarchasm BIATCH!!!
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I just saw your sig!
Are you stealing more of my work!?!
That’s it. Pistols at dawn.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Just so we’re clear, this is the second time you have lifted one of my comments for your sig in the last few weeks. I don’t know whether to be flattered or creeped out. I’m going with nervously flattered. Really, I think it’s funny, I’m just playing.
/turns around to make sure jhiat00 isn’t looking at me
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
/was looking at you
No my last sig was “/has given up on this season.”
But I was posting “/jumps out a window” a bunch of times after you did it in a thread last week.
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It’s cool. It’s like better than a rec’d comment.
Btw, I like your picture (white flag).
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks. Actually I was trying to change it to a wookie throwing a baseball a little while ago but couldn’t get it to work. When I hit ‘update’ it would just clear out the filepath for the image.
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Bah, Wookies playing baseball. Everyone knows that they can’t hit 90 because they don’t have enough arm speed from too much drag from their hairy arms.
But seriously, can you post that picture, I need to see it.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Never figured Chewie for a southpaw. Huh…
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
You know, now that I think about it, a Wookie pitcher makes more sense than a Wookie electrician/mechanic/pilot, with those hairy fingers and all..
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
That's no Wookie
That’s Matt Morris.
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Not pictured: Wookie pitcher ripping the arms of the umpire out of their sockets.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
As long as we're taking credit for things...
…I’d like to point out that I was the first one to use the word ‘autodefenestration’ on MCC.
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I was the first person to ever mention Steve Mintz on MCC!
(Wow, his b-r sponsorship is even cheaper than Kim Batiste’s was!)
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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Yes, but you weren’t the first to mention Luis Aquino because that was me just now.
Luis Aquino: not a good Giant.
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And the last 1995 Giant has finally gotten his mention on MCC!
I wonder how far you have to go back now to find a Giant who’s never been mentioned once.
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He did that one-day-contract-take-the-field-get-cheered-then-leave thing so he could “retire” as a Giant.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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He last played in 2006. That was just a publicity stunt/favor to JT, basically.
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Not too far.
There’s still at least one unmentioned guy from the 1994 team.
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Has anyone ever mentioned Mike Laga? When Grant brought up the 1989 team I started noticing all the guys on there that I had never heard of despite loving that team.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
Oh yeah
As obscure Giants go, Laga gets talked about almost as much as Geddy Lee eating mini tacos.
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Also surprisingly popular
I also referenced him at McCovey’s, I think.
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There’s a place near 24th and Potrero called Yat’s that is supposed to have good po boys. I had one at Outsidelands and it was okay but that’s a tough venue to critique food so I’m going to give them another chance.
by AngelWillSaveUs on Sep 25, 2009 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Either Catfish or Oyster poboys are usually on the Mavarick brunch menu (17th, west of Mission)
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Pork burrito from the nearby taco cart. Stupidly excited about it.
"That feeling after you win and they raise your hand... it's like you have this energy that releases from your body, and it's like you mingle with the cosmos, and you feel omnipotent"
I am really craving a burrito as well.
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This just in
It was mind-blowingly delisious and I want another.
"That feeling after you win and they raise your hand... it's like you have this energy that releases from your body, and it's like you mingle with the cosmos, and you feel omnipotent"
UPDATE
I got a burrito and it was awesome.
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I had a bowl of peanut butter Cap’n Crunch. Not exciting, but I’m short on time this afternoon.
It's my blarg! Quick Pitch
And I tweet (more often than I blarg).
I looked up Brian Buscher since he’s managed to get some time with the Twins but his numbers from AA in his last season with the Giants don’t look that impressive. .259/.321/.366
The next season with the Twins organization he posted .309/.385/.493 in AA and AAA. Overall in the bigs he’s posted .266/.343/.356 for an OPS+ of 91. Last season in 244 plate appearances: .294/.340/.390 OPS+ of 100.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
They paid attention to Andres Torres’s minor league numbers, which have steadily improved as he’s worked himself up through the minors the old-fashioned way!
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
FWIW, I know this is a dig at owlcroft but the Giants have done a good job with Andres Torres. If they were to decide he’s an everyday player all of a sudden and hand him a starting job next season, then we’d have issues.
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To repeat what Sabean said yesterday, sounds like Torres will split leadoff duty with Velez next season barring any big signings. I don’t know how that will fit in position wise, but yeah doesn’t sound like Torres is going to be a starter
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
If he’s a platoon starter and 4th OF, I’m totally fine with that.
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Now the Velez thing, on the other hand……..
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
Right, because Sabean also penciled in Sanchez batting 2nd, playing 2nd base for us too. Could be right now that the OF will be Velez-Rowand-Nate/Bowker if the Giants don’t do anything
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
I actually think that Bowker shouldn’t be in right though because his arm is so shitty (or at least seemed that way from that throw he had the other day)
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Shouldn't Nate be in RF?
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by bondslegend on Sep 25, 2009 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I would love it if Nate could get his offense back together…mostly by taking a fucking walk every now and then
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... and stop swinging at pitches that are about to hit him.
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by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
he was playing really well before he got hurt and has gotten no consisten ABs since coming back. He will be fine (assuming they let him actually play).
I think he’s the type of player that will improve with experience and familiarity… but that’s a subjective judgement. Also, plate discipline would be a really good friend of his.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I think he’s probably not as good as a lot of Giants fans seem to think but I also think he’s better than how he’s playing right now.
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This sentence probably applies to half the players on the 40-man roster right now.
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Yeah…who’re we talking about again?
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You’re probably right – I think he is kind of quiet, likable and seems to work hard, so people respond well to that…
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I actually think he’s exactly the player that his season stats say he is.
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.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case.
At the same time, I wouldn’t be surprised if – given more consistent playing time – he could hit to his projections from before the season – in the .345 range for wOBA.
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You know in the big picture I’ll take that.
If he can be a pinch hitter like this (13 hits in 36 PA’s 859 OPS , ~ 416 wOBA) in what are usally late inning situation he makes a great 4th outfielder.
Personall I find Nate age 25 season a bit more impressive then I thought it would be in April.
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I don’t know about this. I think pitcher might have figured him out. Throw a slider at his back foot and you have a swinging strike. I think we have seen the best of Juggernate.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
should be “pitchers”
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I think exactly the opposite – once he figures out what they are trying to do to him, if he is able to adjust his approach, he will do all right. That’s a big if, admittedly.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it’s possible that if you gave him the chance to adjust to that, he would.
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I would like to believe he could learn how to stop swinging at those pitches. That might come with experience, so I would rather have him stick around. Besides, he’s useful for his D anyway.
Is it the coaches fault he hasn’t adjusted to that pitch? We do have Shawon teaching hitters…
Insanity is just a state of mind.
Do free-swingers really ever learn to lay off those problem pitches? Nate is 25, not 19. Is he going to change?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
don’t you think he should have a chance to figure it out? in 193 ABs through the July 26 (before he went on the DL), he hit .295/.326/.424 and in 135 Abs in June in July he hit .318/.352/.467. After coming back from the DL, he has had 84 ABs and has hit .214/.274.369.
Well, I actually think Nate is probably our best option in RF for next year, and I prefer him to Velez. The thing is, he is not selective, he never walks, and he doesn’t really have power. So he might be an average hitter who runs well and plays good defense. That is definitely valuable, but I don’t think he will ever be a good major-league hitter.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
That assumes he can't adjust at all...
I know it’s a big if, but if he could learn to walk a little, he’d be very serviceable… Bottom line is that his career minor league numbers are very good: 308/ .355/ .516
I think (with my rose colored brain glasses, perhaps) even in the absence of walks, his power improves as he learns the pitchers. Not HR power, but extra base hits in general.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I think you are higher on him than I am, which is fine – his minor league numbers support the idea that he can be a serviceable major league player. I think we are in agreement that he is probably the best option for RF next year as opposed to spending a bunch of money on a Abreu- or Burrell-type player.
Bowker in LF and I’m happy.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I think we are in agreement that he is probably the best option for RF next year as opposed to spending a bunch of money on a Abreu- or Burrell-type player.
Bowker in LF and I’m happy.
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I think the problem is proximity. For most of the present Giants, if the man was with another organization and someone proposed acquiring him, there’d be—and rightly—screams of outrage. But seen up close through the lens of wishful thinking, some of them look like good players.
Take a look at the OPSes of the roster of some winning teams and see how many Velezes and Bowkers and Schierholtzes you find. A winning team does not need to be stocked with men who walk out of corn fields, but it cannot carry much, if any, mediocrity. Not all Titans—just no midgets. How many position players on, say, the Dodgers look like Hall of Fame players? One. And they wouldn’t lose much replacing him with a pretty good but not for-the-ages player.
But you cannot be a successful contender on a regular basis with a rosterful of players who are all major-league average or a little better. Or worse.
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The Dogcatchers have 2 certain HOFs, but among the under 30 guys — Matt Kemp is headed in the right direction.
Manny Ramirez and… ?
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Oh yeah. I forgot he was on the team.
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Proximity and cost
Yes, we often tend to overvalue our own prospects – but also, they’re free, while acquiring another organization’s unproven Schierholtzes or Bowkers in trade would not be.
If you take the 2009 Giants and put a major-league average player at 2B and RF for the whole season, you have a playoff team.
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People said that about Paul O'Neil's Reds days
But once he hit 30 (with the Yankees), he was a whole other guy.
yes
I like Nate, isn’t he like the fastest guy on the team too? He doesn’t look like it but i know he can fly and I think Kruk said it at one point. I just want them to put him there everyday for at least 200 ab’s and I think he’ll do a good job. Noone else we have is even a good option for RF
He’s fast, but he’s certainly not the fastest.
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I don’t think he’s as fast as Torres, but I do think he’s faster than Velez, at least when it comes to running the bases (Velez takes a long time to get going). That inside-the-park home run Nate had was very impressive. I thought I heard one of the announcers say he rounded the bases in less than 15 seconds, which seems impossible.
He’s probably the second fastest guy on the team.
Is it bad that I kind of hope the Giants don’t make any effort to improve so I can laugh at how shocked they are that they aren’t finishing over .500 again?
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Well, me too, obviously. But, you know…
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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Yes, it’s bad. You’re a bad person and you should feel bad.
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by EliminateMe on Sep 25, 2009 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
This is nothing new.
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You are a bad person. But it feels so good.
by San Francisco Slim on Sep 25, 2009 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
This is actually what I kind of expect to happen. I have a terrible feeling about this offseason and next season.
by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2009 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I’ve enjoyed the fact that the Giants have been respectable this season – but I don’t enjoy the fact that that almost certainly saved Bochy’s and Sabean’s jobs.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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its like accepting death or marriage.
by San Francisco Slim on Sep 25, 2009 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Sad but I think this is what we fans have come to embrace
We don’t even know what it’s like to have competence any more in the FO
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by Fan from Sac on Sep 25, 2009 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Torres + Velez =/= a viable everyday player and especially =/= leadoff ability.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
but SPARKPLUG!
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It takes more than two sparkplugs to run a car.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Especially when you’re taking those two sparkplugs and jamming them both in the same hole.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
And that hole isn’t even in your car.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Hey now. Keep it in the bedroom!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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Why would I keep my waffle iron in the bedroom?
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Chant with me!
1 more strike, 3 games out!
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I’d say the Giants are more like a motorcycle with a sidecar. Not the cool looking kind either. So two sparkplugs is plenty.
by chilibean_3 on Sep 25, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
SSS, but Torres’s numbers against LHP grab the attention: .350/.391/.767 in 64 PA.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
I have no problem with him on the bench. This starting every day and hitting second thing is killing the crap out of me, though.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
But it's not the "good old way" . . . .
It has been known for quite some while that line-up effects are improved if the classic #3-type hitter is actually batted #2, which obviously suggests that Sandoval should be in that slot. Moreover, as a generalization, the higher up in the lineup, the more seasonal plate appearances. Heaven knows Pablo’s OBP is plenty good enough even without a lot of walks.
Why Brock Bond, with a .429 OBP at Connecticut, a monstrously bad park for offense, is just ignored must puzzle anyone. Sure, no power: so? OPS of 838 in that cavern. With Bond, or someone of that sort, leading off and Sandoval in the #2 hole, a Torres could be batted #8 (“second leadoff man”). I’d take a lineup with a guy that good at #8.
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Ignored in what sense?
He’s played at five levels in the 3 seasons he’s been in the organization, and the very good season he just had in CT was his first at that level. Ignored because they haven’t called him up straight from AA to the majors?
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Well, to be fair, most people (around McC and elsewhere) who think about Bond at all do not consider him a “real” prospect. The knock is average speed, no power, barely acceptable defense. Myself, I see that OBP and it looks real shiny. He’ll be in Fresno next year, I assume, though I doubt he gets a shot in the majors unless someone gets hurt or is wildly ineffective (eg Renteria).
Wait...
Sabean actually said this? Link?
by FireBrianSabean on Sep 25, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Yup, just like I said.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
its about 15:10 in when he talks about next season.
Velez/Torres, Sanchez, then Panda are the only things set in stone pretty much for next year’s lineup. Panda either at 3 or 4. There was no mention of Molina at all, but that doesn’t mean much right now.
He doesn’t think that there are that many people through free agency who he feels will be a huge difference maker that the Giants can easily obtain.
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I feel like he says that every year
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by Useful_Idiot on Sep 25, 2009 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
To clarify, he says that there isn’t much out there that can help the team
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by Useful_Idiot on Sep 25, 2009 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
It was on the Sabean / Baer / Neukom show with Ralph and T. There’s probably a link on knbr.com for streaming.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I can’t believe we’re about to give this doofus AND Bochy contract extensions. Ugh.
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I don’t get why it seems like they’re tying themselves into the same shitty offense as this year for next year before the offseason has even started.
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Well, to be fair, Sabean did say that he’ll do the usual looking for better players through free agency or trades or through the farm and what not but Sabean never will say something like “Rowand will be in center, Bowker will be in right, and we’ll find a new left fielder”
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
Well, yeah, but it just seems bizarre that they’re like, “Oh yeah, we’re going to improve but we’ve got Velez in left and Rowand in center and Pablo at third and Renteria at short and Sanchez at second and…”
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Protip: Brian Sabean says a lot of things when he is drunk. Brian Sabean is always drunk.
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by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Sabean said if theoretically we have Velez/Torres leading off, Sanchez batting second and Pablo batting third, then we still have to find a 4th and 5th batter. So, replacements in the line-up for Molina and Uribe. But it does kind of sound like he’s fine with Velez and Sanchez.
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by San Francisco Slim on Sep 25, 2009 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Do other teams do this too? It is hard saying the Giants aren’t good at evaluating their talent if they follow similar patters that other teams do with their own players
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I honestly think that no team in the history of baseball has ever done anything to match the Bocock Maneuver.
haha well yeah the Bocock situation seems so far out there that I don’t know if that one should be counted
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How QUICKLY WE FORGET
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by jctGamer on Sep 25, 2009 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's nice to know someone else remembers . . . .
For those who don’t: second baseman; 2008 OPS at Fresno, 841; 2008 OPS for the big club, 820. Ignored and let go on waivers. The Red Sox organization now has him, and we all know how crappy they are at evaluating talent.
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2009 OPS at Pawtucket: .663. After the Padres also cut him loose.
I really don’t understand how you can be dismissing Bowker and Schierholtz as known mediocrities on the one hand while touting Travis Denker on the other.
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Oh, that wasn’t a question.
Good statement. I want to know the answer to this.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions
obviously (OBVIOUSLY!) the shock of being let go by such an offensively inept team like the Giants killed Denker’s self-esteem so that he went into a tailspin of mediocrity.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 5:57 PM PDT up reply actions
And damn those idiot Sox, too.
I am not, and was not, “touting” Denker. While there’s a fair chance that he might yet be a pretty good ballplayer, the point is what was known at the time. And that was that he was doing well. Maybe he was not an answer to any question in hand, but for all the rending of garments over how this or that mediocrity isn’t getting his 15 minutes of fame this year, one would think Denker deserved something of a shot.
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It’s hard for us to answer this question since we don’t follow other organizations as religiously as we follow the Giants.
by deuce deuce on Sep 25, 2009 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Right, obviously, but I’m just saying this could be a common thing that teams do. It doesn’t make it right for us specifically, but if other teams do this it could just be a hard practice for teams to evaluate their talent fairly.
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It doesn't seem like the Angels do this...
But then again, I really don’t follow them at all.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Sep 25, 2009 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m apparently going to the chalk talk with Brian Sabean tonight now, maybe I should ask.
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I went to one of those once back in 2003. I asked him why Jesse Foppert’s velocity was so much lower than his scouting reports indicated. He replied with some mumbo-jumbo about becoming a “pitcher not a thrower”, and Tidrow basically said, “we’re working on it”.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Should I ask about the discrepancy between Bumgarner saying his velocity drop is unexplainable and Sabean and some other minor league coach guy saying that it’s because he’s pitching to contact, etc?
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Throw a shoe at him. And if you get a chance before security gets to you, throw a second shoe.
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by marcello on Sep 25, 2009 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
I like it. Chances are, she’d probably hit Bochy’s head…wherever he might be in the world.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Its gravitational pull alone would guarantee she’ll at least get the shoe in orbit.
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by groug on Sep 25, 2009 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It could slingshot around his head and seriously injure an innocent bystander.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Bochy's cranial gravitational pull is so strong that...
… his watch is always slow.
… light actually bends around him.
… yardsticks are only 22 inches long near him.
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by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
helpful phrase
“YOU LIE!”
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Heh.
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I was actually kinda serious. If Velez/Torres is the leadoff option next year even though Fred is likely to have ~50 points of OBP over Gene, will he even be on the team?
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I was pretty convinced we were dumping him even before he said he wanted out.
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I'll second that
Fred, the homegrown starter that wasn’t.
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Grant, you have been going on about this for some time. For the most I agree with you, albeit indifferently.
The Giants have been trying to get blood from a sack of turnips. Maybe we would focus on different turnips in the sack than the Giants organization does, but at the end of the day are we really gonna make soup out of any of these gagootz?
You’re probably right, but one day, one of these turnips will turn into Carlos Pena or BEN ZOBRIST, and then the Giants will look really stupid.
And, yeah, I’m thinking Bowker’s the guy. And I’m thinking a smart team is going to get him this offseason for a middle reliever.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2009 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Idk about that Grant. Especially when Pena and Zobrist were much more highly thought of prospects than Bowker has ever been.
How highly was Zobrist thought of? I liked him, but I was just looking, and it doesn’t look like he ever cracked BA’s Top 100 list.
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Pena was. I think Zobrist was a Josh Phelps type, beloved by statheads, but nobody else.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Speaking of Phelps
Wasn’t he projected to be somewhat llike Ryan Garko?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
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GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
You know what might be worse...
Bowker does not get a chance to start next year because our lolfield is: Velez, Rowand, and Schierholz. Then he stagnates in the minors and gets all depressed and ends up in Japan or something. If the Giants are going to suck and Bowker is never going to get a chance to play, I prefer he gets traded and thrives somewhere else so I can endlessly bitch about it.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too.
I want to bitch about it forever.
Because well… Sabean sucks.
As well as Bochy.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Sep 25, 2009 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Oof
Thinking about an outfield with Velez makes my skin crawl.
"It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra
It bothers me less than an infield with Velez.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m in the minority, but I think he’s improved a lot in the OF (I know, look at the starting point), and will continue to improve. He seems a ton more confident, and that contributes to what I perceive as his speedy improvement.
I dont think he’s the long term solution, but I’m in his camp (the camp with a difference, so never mind the weather, when you come to Geno’s, the holiday’s forever).
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I’ve come around to him as an outfielder as well.
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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I think you mean stone soup.
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I thought about Lance Niekro but it looks like he did okay in the minors – 907 OPS his last year in Fresno – and he for sure got his chance with the Giants. Still, was he worthy to be the opening day 1B?
Giant season effort summary:
Was just enough ensure the Dodgers won the division.
Was just little enough to ensure the Giants lost the wild card.
by cybermaldonado on Sep 25, 2009 11:27 AM PDT reply actions
Niekro’s minor league numbers were actually pretty terrible. Through his first 4 seasons (1 each at ever level) his stats were entirely BA dependent. He had absolutely no secondary average of any kind. He had 30 BBs combined in three seasons in A, AA, AAA and he barely posted SLG over .400 (in fact in his first year in the hit happy PCL he put up a .380 SLG). In addition he missed copious amounts of time to injuries and had trouble finding any defensive position he could play. Also, he was never young for his league. All in all, a pretty unimpressive resume.
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Yeah, Linden’s a point for the Giants. It took him three tries to do something worthwhile in Fresno.
For fast, athletic guys that don’t know how to play baseball, minor league performance really should be weighted less, I just don’t know how much less.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
And yet, they often promote people for no reason other than that they’ve gone on a hot streak in the minors. That’s what happened with Rohlinger and Denker last year, and arguably with Sandoval.
Well, Rohlinger was also promoted because Castillo was so mind-bogglingly terrible that how could Rohlinger be worse?
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Yeah… but… weren’t there AA or AAA options that would have made more sense?
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
McClain? whatshisface the 29 year old third baseman that sucked? Justin Something?
I was okay with that part of last year, the big club wasn’t going anywhere, might as well bring up some actual kids.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
And this year when the minor league coaches said Sadowski had “figured it out” even with pretty stunning minor league stats that said otherwise, they called him straight the hell up.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought Sadowski was called up because they wouldn’t miss him when he was DFA’d.
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Yeah, I think he was mostly called up as an emergency option because they wouldn’t care if they had to DFA him later…
…of course, he started off with two pretty good starts and then they started talking him up like he was a great pitcher all over the place.
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There were guys they could’ve called up and sent down without DFAing, though.
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IIRC, the other options (Pucetas) had just pitched and so couldn’t make that start.
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(Of course, they could have, like, realized that they were possibly going to call someone up to replace Sanchez in the near future and manipulated the AAA rotation to call up the guy they actually wanted)
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Not on the 40-man
That was the problem. They wanted someone they could temporarily add to the 40-man, DFA, and not lose (or care if they did lose him). If they would have used Pucetas they would have had to keep him on the 40-man, and they wanted to keep the flexibility of not using the roster spot permanently. Because, after all, they can’t DFA Bocock to free up a spot under any circumstances.
Stop telling me I’m wrong.
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 Sep 25, 2009 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
But all it does is expose the fact that I’m wrong. And I don’t think that’s helping.
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 Sep 25, 2009 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah groug, stop telling him he's wrong.
Let someone else have a turn!
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by EliminateMe on Sep 25, 2009 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
It helps Groug.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
And you could probably also add Ishikawa to last year’s list.
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True, but at least Ishi worked his way up the ladder level-by-level and was old enough to be plausibly ready.
True.
They also called him up briefly when he clearly wasn’t ready, but he wasn’t even hot at the time – in fact, he was having an awful year. That was an emergency injury thing, though.
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from Twitter:
timkawakami: I’d say Wilson’s on par at htis point with Jenks, Soriano, Cordero, Valverde, Hawkins, Aardsma, Rhodes… Good but non-elite.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
I’m not sure I would take Bobby Jenks over Bobby Howry at this point in their careers.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Needs moar canyon tossing
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by SoFa King Mike on Sep 25, 2009 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Good grief
Do we really need a definition of “elite”?
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Currently...
I’d say Aardsma is pretty elite.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Sep 25, 2009 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Those taquitos are tasting great today
"I never watched baseball on TV. It's slow and boring. I'm not a fan. Never was." - Jeff Kent
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
The wife is illin’ so i made us some grilled cheese and some tomato soup.
Turns out you can spell Ugnio Vlz without 4 E's
by The Gene Hackman on Sep 25, 2009 12:18 PM PDT reply actions
so thats why you bought those castor beans off me
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by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I see what you did there…
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
During the planning of our wedding I suggested we serve grilled cheese at the reception and have a tomato soup fountain. She didn’t think that was very funny.
/has given up on this season.
I would actually have grilled cheese + tomato soup at a wedding
Fancy-like, with gruyere, gazpacho, and various artisan breads.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2009 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually that makes sense. At the time I was just being stupid because I was bored.
/has given up on this season.
When it doubt, turn to a foodie. :)
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2009 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
So, the thing i’ve been wondering about is how indicative of a player’s career stats are the first few hundred ABs? Do good players come out and perform well reasonably quickly or does it take some period of time to reach a career norm of performance? Is there even a typical performance curve?
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 12:25 PM PDT reply actions
There’s probably some correlation, but consider this:
Kevin Maas’s first MLB stint, 1990: .252 / .367 / .535 / 21 HR in 300 PA
Matt Williams’s first MLB stint, 1987: .188 / .240 / .339 / 8 HR in 266 PA
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Fair enough. Give me some time and I’m sure I could find a similar example of players who were the same age, though.
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Pete Incaviglia, for example, was a lot closer to Williams’s age as a rookie – he was about a year and a half older – and he had like 55 points of OPS+ on Williams.
The larger point is that skepticism is warranted in both directions. Some players burst right out of the gate and then fizzle, while some look god-awful at first but develop into very good players.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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Looking up this stuff reminded me of a guy who a truly weird career: Steve Balboni.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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To whit:
- He had a career .229 BA and .293 OBP
- He struck out 25% of the time and didn’t walk all that much
- He was fat and slow
- Somehow, he also had a 101 career OPS+
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with a wOBA of .325. So basically for a 1B/DH, he was not good.
Also, when I typed his name into fangraphs, I typed “balbonin”. So I guess his career did have one silver-lining: a name of Bocockian proportions.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I’m not arguing he was good.
He also managed to stick around for more than a decade despite having no skills whatsoever other than DINGERZ.
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Don’t forget the mustache. That is a skill. I mean, you really have to own it.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Tenants of Balboninism:
Swing. You aren’t up there to watch pitches go by.
Swing as hard as you can. Don’t get cheated up there. Don’t cheat the game.
Fruit. Don’t eat it. Fruit is for fairies.
Mustache. Grow one.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
What he said. Always pay attention to age. Its why Bowker is a bit of a dilelma.
by San Francisco Slim on Sep 25, 2009 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you see that Garret Jones and Kevin Maas are the only two guys to have 20 HRs in a season with all 20 coming after the All Star break?
My Bucardo is better than yours.
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We should troll the SFGate and Extra Baggs commentors by pretending to make the same snap judgments while living in a 20-year-old fog.
Roger Craig is AN IDIOT. Are you telling me that Lefferts was a better bet than Garrelts in that ninth? COME ON.
And give it up, fan boys. Matt Williams will NEVER learn to hit breaking balls. Trade him and a mid-level prospect for Chris Sabo, and focus on 1990, when this team has a chance to DO SOMETHING.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
They’re going to give up on Ernie Riles too soon! He’s going to breakout in 1990 I can feel it. And WTF, I know Brett Butler is good but Donnell Nixon needs playing time. Dude is going to be a stud.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
I was always fond of Greg Litton. In an exhibition game, he once did he Buster Posey trick of playing an inning at each position.
Also his home run was one of the only highlights of the 1989 World Series.
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I remember always really liking Randy Kutcher when I was young. I didn’t realize why until recently I looked up the log of my first game ever and he had hit a HR.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
Chili Davis hit a grand slam for the only runs in the ballgame at my first game.
Mustache. Grow one. - Steve Balboni
We went to the whole series. Bonds hit two bombs the first game, got tossed the second game, and Torres broke Charlie Hays’ face!
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I was at that one too
still have the commemorative “Rockies first visit” pins they gave out
I still believe in Bowkermania.
by rightcenterfielder on Sep 25, 2009 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I can’t remember when my first game was (I was a preschooler at the time), but I do remember the experience of getting ready to go and getting lost at the entrance.
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When I was 6, I went to a game at Veterans Stadium with my parents. I had to use the restroom at one point, and insisted on going by myself. When I came back I made a wrong turn and couldn’t find my parents. I ended up walking all the way around the entire stadium before I found them.
They were just a little bit worried.
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I walked away from my dad once at the Sturgis motorcycle rally. He was mad when he finally found me.
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Was he mad that you walked away or that he found you?
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Just like an apple.
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I can’t remember mine either, I was prolly in elementary school and went with the Palo Alto YMCA for summer camp. So this would have to be late 80’s
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
LOL FRED
Mine. Actually it was a double header. After mentioning how Randy Kutcher homered in my first ever game, I noticed that he struck out 3 times in the second game of the double header.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
Mine was at age 4 in Sicks' Stadium in Seattle.
I’m trying to figure out what game it would have been so I can see the boxscore. I remember very little. My next MLB game: 8 years later when the Mariners came into something like existence.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Why stop there? Make it a 30-year fog.
God, Marc Hill sucks. Free Dennis Littlejohn! ALTOBELLI’S AN IDIOT!!
Anagram of "suck it Russell Martin" = TRUER SKILL: SCUM STAIN
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Sep 25, 2009 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants had a catcher around that time who my dad used to describe as running like he was carrying a piano on his back. I’m not sure, but I think it was Marc Hill.
I bet Molina’s even slower, though.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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Molina runs like he’s dragging an upside-down piano behind him in the dirt.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow! That’s a great memory. Marc Hill ran like he had a piano on his back going uphill. I’d pay money to see a Marc Hill/Bengie Molina race.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
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WHY WON'T THEY GIVE JOEY AMALFITANO A FAIR SHOT??
The guy must’ve put a dent in Rigney’s Oldsmobile or something.
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WHY THE HELL WON'T McGRAW PLAY MOONLIGHT GRAHAM MORE THAN A HALF AN INNING!!!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
The SFGate comments on Shea’s latest Posey article are incredible.
Ex:
pick up adrian gonzalez and carl crawford dump rentadiareha start velez at short and shurholze in right keep super uribe and you might just win it all
rentadiareha? shurholze? Wow.
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 Sep 25, 2009 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I liked “carl crawford dump” myself.
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 Sep 25, 2009 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
what a riot!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
There is a definite age curve for hitters, so I’m willing to bet that most hitters have a worse first couple hundred ABs than the rest of their careers.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
I’d say No there isn’t. Mays went 0 for his first 40 or ABs. Ty Cobb had a fairly unproductive rookie year (of course he was 18 and when he came back up at 19 he began mashing), while Ted Williams’ rookie year (age 20) would easily be the greatest season in most players careers (including a lot of other HOFers).
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.
Tacos
mashed into taco salad
Timmy is my Man-crush
Spaghetti squash spaghetti
And some day I will make spaghetti squash pad thai.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
I made this once, it was incredible
Good call
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by Fan from Sac on Sep 25, 2009 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Squash spaghetti is a delicious way to get your veggies for the day!
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Not that I'd be happy with this, but wouldn't the following be better than what we had this year?
vs. RHP:
Velez – LF
Sanchez – 2B
Posey – C
Sandoval – 3B
Uribe – SS
Ishikawa -1B
Rowand – CF
Schierholtz – RF
Pitcher
vs. LHP:
Torres – RF
Sanchez – 2B
Posey – C
Sandoval – 3B
Uribe – SS
Garko -1B
Rowand – CF
Lewis – LF
Pitcher
Quibble about the batting order if you’d like, but I think if Bochy had started going these lineups just the last two months of the season, we’d have caught the Rockies. This is what I’d do if the Giants aren’t able to land a Holliday, Bay or Crawford.
"We're in this thing!" My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman, "Sweet Jesus" Guzman and Jesus H. Guzman.
I know we will talk about this all offseason, so I am not going to blow my wad now (Is that kosher to say? I had a biologist say that to me in a car ride down to a field site this week… I thought it was sort of unprofessional, but what do I know, I am still laughing over Balbonin.), but here are some ideas:
-Bowker needs to start in the outfield.
-Giants need to make a decision whether Panda is going to stick at 3B instead of 1B. 1B should be (contrary to the Giants history) easier to fill. The total production from 1B/3B needs to go up.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
As long as no spatter gets on me, I’ll allow it.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I think in a car/private setting between two males its PC but in public when someone could over hear you and associate that behavior to the other person (you in this case) its not cool. In the presence of a women it can skewed as inappropriate.
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by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
after the fap fap fap discussion my mind is in the gutter
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by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes
I think that’s actually where it comes from as is a “wad of cash”.
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agreed…and I know everything
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m a guy, an older woman (45ish?) said it. And to respond to a comment below, I think she probably meant it in the terms of money. She did tell me that she used to do coke though, so who knows. She’s nuttier than a fruit cake.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Well....
outside of a wad of cash, she shouldnt have a wad to blow. Was her name Lola?
Plotting the ultimate demise of Gore51 (never met him, I dunno he could be swell) so as to adopt Kyle Nicholson.
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by Whiteteaandpoptarts on Sep 25, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I worked for a Astrophysicist as an undergrad
and he used the phrase “shot our wad” with regards to spending our funding… needless to say I almost lost it.
I’m pretty sure that blowing your wad is Kosher, but I’ll really have to check with my Rabbi to be positive.
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 Sep 25, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
As long as there’s no pork in it, right? And don’t let it touch a dairy product?
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 Sep 25, 2009 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
See, this kind of philosophical nuance is exactly why I’m no good at religion.
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 Sep 25, 2009 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Mybe he’s so good that he realizes that he will never actually be ‘good’.
/head asplodes
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I don’t think Garko or Lewis are coming back.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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I don’t think the Giants will be able to sign Uribe either. Rent will be the starting SS next year unless his arm falls off. Pretty much I think we are looking at this (some optimism included):
Rowand – CF
Sanchez/Frandsen/Velez – 2B
Mythical Firstbaseman – 1B
Sandoval – 3B
Posey – C
Bowker – LF
Juggernate – RF
Rent – SS
Pitcher
I think Torres sticks around to be 4th OF and plattooner.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions
i really don’t mind it. Can’t we get a taste of it now and just use Garkikawa as the understudy for the mythical 1B?
How do you feel about Ishi long term (let’s assume he is not a +10 fielding 1B)?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
And Garko is a one-trick pony (can’t hit RHP; can’t play any other position), so what do you do there?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
good ?, but that seems to be one of the primary areas of need. I guess we can start taling about Nick Johnson again.
I’m beginning to think that nobody else share my irrational hatred of RHH-only 1B types like Garko.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
He can hit from RHP and he can play catcher. So there. It’s not awesome production against righties, but he’s hardly inept. He just hits lefties way better.
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 Sep 25, 2009 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
vs. RHP: .266/.334/.420
vs. LHP: .316/.394/.504
I guess that is about league average (it’s also basically Ishi’s stats), but it is also about 3 times the number of plate appearances, which I think is probably the same rate going forward.
Also, isn’t he just an emergency catcher at this point?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Apparently (I know we must have gone down this road two months ago) he hasn’t caught since the minors.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, aside from 12 games in the outfield, he’s been a first baseman / DH exclusively in the majors.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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Yeah. I know the catching thing is kind of a farcical point, and defending his mehtastic stats against rightiesis an uphill battle. But he’s really pretty far from being a useless player-type.
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 Sep 25, 2009 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think he’s useless, I just wouldn’t want to give a bench spot to a player like him. If he is only going to play 1B and only bad vs. LHP, I think his utility is very small. Or narrow. I don’t know. TWSS.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, he also shouldn’t be taking a bench spot. He should be the starter on this team.
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 Sep 25, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d like to see Ishi pan out, maybe like Carlos Pena finally did
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
No way we get Mythical Firstbaseman. The Yankees are gonna throw silly money at him.
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Mythical Firstbaseman comes from a place where quality of life matters more than money. The place he is from values a strong fanbase and an elite pitching staff. People there like to walk, and they want their players too do so as well. There are unicorns there too.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Sadly, replacing this year’s Winn/Renteria/Molina with almost anyone is going to be an improvement, unless the replacements underperform as much as those three have.
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Actually Pablo is an example of them getting it right...
He was fast-tracked appropriately. In fact his minor league numbers were .303/.342/.445 and in his 1+ seasons in the bigs he is .330/.376/.531
I went to Panera and had bagel/cream cheese and coffee.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2009 1:19 PM PDT reply actions
I hate Panera.
But only b/c my fiances roomate in college worked there and she was bipolar crazy. And when I say crazy I mean she would get in fights and scream at one night stand guys that she meet in the bar the previous night. Then she would cry about them not loving her.
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by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m bipolar and I love Panera. But I don’t flip out at people, only the Giants.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
they figured you out that fast?
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Panera figured out how to get me to love them pretty quick: serve tomato soup.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2009 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
ah, the important stuff
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
My wife and I went on our first date at Panera. It was a lunch date
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by Giant among Angels on Sep 25, 2009 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
interesting tidbit
California is named for a powerful, wealthy, handsome, black lesbian. Well, that sounds improbable; doesn’t it? But it’s true nonetheless. California is named for Calafia (sometimes spelled Califia), warrior queen of a mythical tribe of Amazon warriors who were believed by early Spanish explorers to inhabit the place we now call California.
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
What were Calafia’s minor-league numbers like?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
good pitching, no hitting
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s the most common theory for where the name came from, but we don’t actually know for sure.
Other early (European era) names for California: Carolina Island, New Albion.
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black lesbian sounds about right to me
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the lesbian angle is a later addition or assumption. The novel from which the name came fsays that they got together with “their adversaries” (other tribes, presumably, that included men) for baby making purposes. At least, if this is a legit excerpt, which it seems to be.
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neifi, the single edged sword
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Lincecum Open To An Extension
By Ben Nicholson-Smith [September 25 at 9:55am CST]
Tim Lincecum is open to the idea of a long-term deal, according to John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle. The 25-year-old righty says he’d consider a multi-year deal if the Giants approach him about one.
“I definitely like San Francisco,” Lincecum said. “I’ve seen nothing but positive things as far as my personal experiences. It’s where I see myself being for a while.”
If the Giants decide to extend the reigning Cy Young winner, there won’t be many precedents off of which to base a deal. After all, few pitchers win Cy Youngs in both of their first full seasons. Lincecum has an ERA of 2.47 and a league-high 247 strikeouts over the course of his 211.1 innings pitched, so he’s a leading Cy Young candidate once again.
Lincecum will be a super two player this offseason, so he’s about to hit arbitration for the first time. Fellow super two Cole Hamels signed a three-year deal worth $20.5MM last offseason, so Lincecum’s agent, Rick Thurman, will be in position to demand at least that much if the sides start negotiating. Lincecum, who is on track to become a free agent after 2013, could conceivably demand Zack Greinke money ($38MM) to cover his four years of arbitration. Greinke’s deal bought out two of his free agent years, but Lincecum can demand a precedent-setting deal since he has established himself as one of the game’s best.
how much is too much?
he’s damn awesome. Does 4 years/$45M sound like too much? would that get it done?
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
What would be the point of that? He’s under team control for the next four years anyway. He probably figures to make about that much in arb — if he stays healthy. So that would just be guaranteeing his arb years, and the Giants wouldn’t save any money or get any additional seasons of control.
the point is if you’re only taking about buying out his arb years, it removes a lot of uncertainty in going into arb every year. Plus, arbitration can be contentious and there’s no reason to go through it 4 times when each side can take their own risks into account and work out a deal in advance, which would also engender good feelings among the two sides, which helps out further down the road. They could always include options for the years beyond the deal.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Right.
But if the Giants are going to guarantee Lincecum he gets paid those four years, they should get something in return, right? Either a cheaper price, or additional years.
fair enough.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
He was trying to convert to a pitcher at one point.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
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knuckleballer
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
needs more tebacci
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
you mean this?
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by Useful_Idiot on Sep 25, 2009 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Tounge-in-cheek: the secret to throwing a good knucke ball.
See also: FFFFFFFFFF for other pitches.
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he had great minor league numbers
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s in the Braves org.
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and the smilin’ okie, Damon Minor
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Mexican Fiesta Salad from Cafe Rosalena in San Jose.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 1:59 PM PDT reply actions
That is my favorite salad, ever. Great choice. I haven’t had one in awhile, but I think that will be my lunch tomorrow. Thankfully I live just around the corner.
I live (part time) in this hood as well. A few blocks west of Race, just off the Alameda.
Rosies Pizza sells there salads as well (same owners I believe).
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Yup. Same owners. I work just down the Alameda and eat there quite frequently.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I had a fantastic hot dog for lunch. It was split and grilled, topped with grilled peppers, kim chi, mustard and hot sauce. I also had a peach and arugula salad.
No lunch yet for me
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Instant Noodles!
Why do they put corn in that crap?
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 Sep 25, 2009 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
So you’ll have corn in your crap!
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OT: has any one every had a Septoplasty (deviated septum correction)? If so what can I expect, I am getting one in 3 weeks
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pain
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
A couple of rails will help that.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
reminds me of when I had my broken nose “fixed”
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks, I’m not worried about the procedure. I am just afraid of the pain, I know its worth it to be able to smell and breath out my nose
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by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
if they can put you under, by all means, take them up on it
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
“I know its worth it to be able to smell”
Stay away from the Giants.
Serriously, best of luck with the surgery.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
There is a reason I have waited until 7 months before I leave Philly to fix this. (I’ve lived here going on 3 years in May)
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by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I wanted to make jokes, but surgery isn’t really that funny, so good luck. My guess is you will probably have black eyes.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Any word yet on Molina? And are we going to have to sit through another night with Whiteside behind the plate?
"It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra
it’s another year that concerns me
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by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
X-Rays negative (just like Molina’s offense). Baggs speculated that he’d be out for a few days as it obviously hurt.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
who’s this “Baggs,” and why should we care?
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
he’s a Giants beat writer and a good one.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
but actually, it wasn’t him speculating (oops). it was his occasional fill-in.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/extrabaggs/
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Why don’t they use the hand as an excuse for his poor hitting and just shut him down for the year?
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn’t actually include Aurilia in this list. His minor league numbers were pretty decent, but he had just been given a 350 AB audition in 1996 and he was just horrific. I don’t think any Giants fans that winter thought he should have a major league starting position handed to him. Aurilia’s 1996 may not have been quite as terrible as Emmanuel Burriss this year, but it was certainly comparable. In the end they may really have handled Richie’s development perfectly.
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.
right on, go E-man
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
The thing is, though, he showed definite signs of improvement in 1997, but got very little playing time.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
His improvement in ‘97 was rewarded with a chance to reearn the starting job in ’98, which he took advantage of. I don’t think having him take a step back from the disaster of ’96 and grow as a role player was necessarily a bad idea. And certainly, we know the end result of using him that way was several years of a very productive player. We can only guess that the same might have been true had they gone the other way and just let him work through it.
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.
Brian Horwitz would have won a batting title if given a chance. Maybe seven or eight batting titles. And one or two home run titles. And the World Series.
Seriously, though, to defend my son: He hit .317/.387/.422 in his minor league career, and got rewarded with all of 36 major league at bats. I know, no tools, no secondary skills, but line drives don’t count anymore?
Saving countless runs with my Brian Horwitz
Is Brian really your son? Where’s he playing now?
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Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Allow me to introduce you to our Adopt-a-Giant Program.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
We have only had two restraining orders filed against us
I R 5
by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
technically, Judy Steffes isn’t a Giant…
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
ok, so a lot of us mccovitiens say that certain guys weren’t given enough of a chance, but there isn’t a magical amount of at bats that has been consistently proven to show when a player “has it” or not. since none of us knows how many at bats any individual player needs to prove their worth, then can we ever really logically complain? i know we can emotionally, because it feels good to complain…but i just don’t see where our opinions on sample size and such is based off of any reality, and not just feelings and guesstimates.
personally, i wanted mark leonard to get more of a chance in rf back in the day, and i felt cheated because he didn’t… but thats hypocrisy to discuss another time
Les Plack = more chicks
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by Headhunter Rollins on Sep 25, 2009 2:25 PM PDT reply actions
nah, that’s the line-drawing fallacy. Just because you can’t nail down where the exact line between enough and not enough is doesn’t mean that you can’t distinguish between enough and not enough. While I think the Giants hit the mark on a number of these guys, I think intelligent fans can come up with reasonable standards for whether a prospect has gotten his shot or not.
A player should be given an amount of rope dependent on his past success and upside, balanced against how risk averse his team feels given their shot at a pennant. Dan Ortmeier pretty clearly did not deserve much rope, while Buster Posey will.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
then tell me how to distinguish…
what are the criterion for such? if it isnt a magical line that you want, then tell me how to do it without it
Les Plack = more chicks
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by Headhunter Rollins on Sep 25, 2009 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, like I said, it’s going to be different for each player, there’s no recipe for it.
A guy who has a lot of athletic gifts, and has had a lot of minor league success at age appropriate levels should get a lot of leeway, especially if the team sucks or there are no cheap alternatives. A guy with only the gifts, but not the past success, should get some leeway, but less than the first group. Guys who just have one good minor league season when they were old for their level, I don’t care if they’re evaluated on a small number of mlb ABs.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Hardly anything in life is defined
I R 5
by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
(1 divided by 0) is saying, "you KNOW dass right, baby"
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
But the thing with Ortmeier was that they benched him because of spring training performance (kind of a reverse Burriss) . Even if Ortmeier was the wrong choice for 1b it seems their method for determining that was flawed.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
exactly.
Burriss – enough PA’s
Bowker/Frandsen/Guzman – Not anywhere close to enough
No one here gets out alive.
Yes. This.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
nailed it.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
Silly Goat Boy now screaming for Pizza Hut.
"I FEEL A LOT OF HAPPY!" - Juan Uribe
FREE BUSTER POSEY
KABOOM!
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Funny
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Sep 25, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
meh on Frandsen. I don’t mind blocking him, I just wish the Giants would block him with someone worthwhile.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
that's really the issue w/ Frandsen
they gave Burriss 200 at bats and then wouldn’t give Frandsen more than a start or two while others were on bereavement leave, which isn’t much of a chance at all. Since he didn’t go 8 for 8, they wrote him off. All the while, Frandsen was hitting quite well in AAA and 2nd base was a black hole of offensive suck (until they put Uribe there) (SS wasn’t much better).
He’s probably not ever going to be a good full-time player at the major league level, but he should have been given a greater opportunity to show that this season.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree; it is the line-drawing fallacy. (I even agree with the hyphen usage, and I bet HowTheyScored does, too.)
But this brings us back to a bone of contention between the Serious Stats Quasi-Absolutists and the rest of the population: there is absolutely a role for observation, which is admittedly subjective but which is also systematic and based on a lot of accumulated observations (or, you know, should be).
Galileo figured out the thing about the sunspots on the sun by visual observation, then charting them each day and seeing that the damn things appear to crawl across the sun. From that he derived some pretty incredible and valid knowledge. Et cetera. Observation is the foundation of all knowledge. Stats have an important role to play, but they don’t answer all questions nor reveal all knowledge. (And no, this isn’t a strawman: I am not suggesting that any of the SSQA’s dismiss scouting altogether. My point is that sheer numbers don’t tell us everything we need to know about a player, and that what constitutes a sufficient chance for a new player is determinable on an individual basis only, and that determination is going to be based on non-stat observations such as coachability, mechanics, the barriers to greater success and the surmountability of those, etc.)
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I think you’d have to be crazy to think there is no role for non-statistical observation.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Right, and I'm not suggesting anyone (worth listening to) thinks there is NO role for it.
But I think the “EYEZ!!1” crowd minimizes it. It has an enormous role to play, not just a minimal role.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
more
because professional scouting reports are less available than statistics, and because I have an affinity for statistics I lean on them more than anything else when we talk about baseball.
Also, in my experience, the average fan has no idea to really watch a baseball game from a talent evaluating perspective (myself included, though I feel I know good 1B defense when I see it). A GM with professional scouts watching baseball players should take full advantage of the qualitative insights they offer.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
I think if Whiteside is starting to tonight, Bruce Bochy, after giving his lineup card to umpires, should just flip off the crowd as he wobbles back to the dug-out.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Sep 25, 2009 3:17 PM PDT reply actions
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Velez 2B, Winn RF, Sandoval 3B, Uribe SS, Bowker LF, Ishikawa 1B, Posey C, Rowand CF, Lincecum RHP
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 3:39 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I can roll with this. What’s your source?
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Sep 25, 2009 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Giants twitter
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
http://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/4379978224
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
but
mathematically still in this thing!!
I still believe in Bowkermania.
by rightcenterfielder on Sep 25, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
WHAT OMG OMG OMG OMG
I’M GOING TO POSEY’S FIRST CAREER START
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
OMG OMG OMG
I AM JEALOUS
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I really wish I could go. :( TIMSDAY TOO!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
The world’s first recorded in-the-stands unfing happens today.
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 Sep 25, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Unfing.
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 Sep 25, 2009 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Girls don't fap, geez.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
At least not on the internet.
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 Sep 25, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup.
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 Sep 25, 2009 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to write hearts around his name on my scorecard.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
Me, too! Yay! Yay! Yay!
Btw, I’m going to try to meet up with you guys at some point tonight.
I'm the Juggernate, bitch.
by kdl on Sep 25, 2009 4:13 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Cool!
I’m on my way now to the … you know.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh god!
TOO HORIZONTAL!
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 Sep 25, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Horizontal lineup is horizontal. And interesting. Posey v. Zambrano. I’m there.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Too busy trying to comprehend the fact that BUSTER FUCKING POSEY IS GETTING A START to edit it into the normal format.
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Bochey-y must be in a coma
/kidding, I wish him no ill
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Bochy in a coma, I know, I know it’s serious
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
Some catchers are better than others
Some catchers are better than others
I have just discovered
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
by jcb9 on Sep 25, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Posey is so shitty according to ochy, yet 12 million man Rowand is still batting behind him
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
Ochycinco
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Ochycoo Park
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I had to do a double take on that.
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Hallelujah!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
So, this means Tim Lincecum’s going give up about 12 runs tonight, because of Buster’s poor defense and play-calling?
/dan dibley
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
Don’t trust the venom of Tim Kawakami
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No
That was one of Dibley’s tweets. “Don’t trust the venom of tk” or something.
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Here we go
@willDavidian defense Will. Posey clearly not ready to catch MLB pitching every day. Don’t hide behind the clever venom of @timkawakami
http://twitter.com/dandibley/status/4344510403
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How to talk to Idiots:
Step 1. Get a Twitter account.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I have always known that about you!
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
don't bother
it should be called “how to argue like an idiot”
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
No, it’s mine!
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Now is not the time to watch Posey get MLB-ready behind the plate. It’s winning-time. Buster will get his chance
@timkawakami How many games have you seen him catch? I’ve seen how he frames pitches in person Buster 2K10 Do ur due diligence TK
@willDavidian How many SJ Giants games did you go to? Exactly.
…Douche-chill!
And good lord, the stolen bases….
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean have you SEEN him frame pitches? Seriously, guys.
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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
i has a happy!
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
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:D
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Posey!
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Sep 25, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
ALSO!
I think I only have a few more days to ever use this:
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
You Make Me Feel Like Frandsen
Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!
by Useful_Idiot on Sep 25, 2009 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Since nobody else has said it...
BOCHY WHAT THE FUCK?!?! WINN STARTING AND BATTING SECOND?!?!?!?
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
whatever
Bowker and Posey are starting. And it’s Timmy day.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Posey: Good & compelling.
Bowker: Intresting and compelling.
Uribe: Justice is being served. This pleases me.
Panda: good & compelling.
The Rest is obviously an EPA Super Fund Site just waiting on the application to be finished.
Remind me again why Big Head and Sabean are not yet replaced by zombies?
That’s it! Katie bar the door for this 79 win team is star crossed! And I am loving it.
OMG OMG OMG
I WAS JUST LEAVING FOR WORK AND I SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I HAD TO COME HERE AND SAY OMG POSEY!!!!!1
k bye.
I wonder if a large hardon collider would also destroy the world.
Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.
I want to make a joke about Buster Posey’s large hardon collider but
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
OMG U R 5
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Cause women are secretive about their age.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Why would women secrete about something like that?
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Kent surpasse expectations by miles, but I think everyone thought more of him than Vizcaino.
I did, anyway.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
Naw, Sabean wanted Vizcaino, Kent was part of a salary dump.
If he hadn’t killed in Spring Training, Kent would have started on the bench.
He would’ve been on the bench behind whom? Wilson Delgado?
I guess they could’ve moved Mueller over to second, but as I recall the plan was always to platoon him with Mark Lewis.
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
Mark Lewis had the initial edge at 2B.
Kent showed up in Spring and said he wanted to play 2B then hit his way onto the starting lineup.
BUSTER POSEY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sorry, I just can’t contain myself.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
GERALDINE!
Brian Sabean wants to kick tires. I want to kick Brian Sabean.
Adopted Giant: FREDEMPTION Lewis
BUSTER!!!!!!
You know the Snoopy happy dance? No lie, I just imitated that.
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait what? He’s starting!?
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
False choice... but it appears to have worked.
Mazel tov.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
by Mayor of 311 on Sep 25, 2009 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Posey the choice or GTFO is yours?
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Why am I so fucking skeptical that I feel like Bochy is setting up Buster for failure or a I told you so. He goes 0-4 against Zambrano or Timmy has a bad outing and we’re back to Molina/Whiteside.
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:04 PM PDT reply actions
you dropped this
and we’re back to Molina/Whiteside in 2010.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
/throws self down stairs.
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
wait a second...
BUSTER FUCKING POSEY?!
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
LOL FRED
I love and hate this every time I see it.
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It it slightly disturbing, innit?
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
nice
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
So you were a little DAN DRIBBLEY!
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
So pretty similar to Dan Dibbley.
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What would be a minimum acceptable Rookie season for Buster?
I’ll go for .275/.340/.440
30 2B/ 2 3B/ 18 HR
60 R/ 75 RBI
NERD
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That's the minimum acceptable?
So if he only has, say, a .900 OPS, you’ll be disappointed?
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
If he has a .900 OPS i’m just gonna be like, “Wow. Just wow.” Total dejection.
And if he doen’t nab 30 bags, I’ll off myself.
Half awake, half baked
We're gonna hold you to that, you know.
If you chicken out, we may have to have jcb9 do it for you.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
That's the minimum?
That would make him one of the top 10 offensive catchers in baseball.
I’d say I’ll be a little disappointed if he has OPS less than .730. But if he’s a league-average hitter out of the catcher spot, that’s pretty damn good.
You know what?
This might be the single best lineup Bochy has put together all year.
2B Velez
RF Winn
3B Sandoval
SS Uribe
LF Bowker
1B Ishikawa
C Posey
CF Rowand
P Lincecum
Still room for improvement (Lewis instead of Winn) but I’ll take this lineup every time over any other lineup that Bochy has thrown on there this year.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
Give him ~155 games, he can do most anything.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
he’s almost figured it out after all these months.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I love that Bochy’s best lineup of the year has Winn hitting second and Uribe cleanup.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 25, 2009 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
someone should add a few matrix bullets to it
I R 5
by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Buster!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 4:25 PM PDT reply actions
Vanilla!
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
so now we actually have a reason to watch tonight, no?
"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."
Seriously. I was going to go see a movie or bang a hooker or something…
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Minutes? Well, that’s not enough time for the movie….
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
its enough time to tell surrogates is a worthless movie
I R 5
by say hey nation on Sep 25, 2009 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
BOOYA!
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
That, and Pandorum.
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Blow and baseball works too.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Are we talking cocaine or the other kind of blow? And how much do you charge… For either one? How about the package deal?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
make sure you use them in right order
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by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 25, 2009 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Seriously, this does put a crimp in my plans to switch to Dollhouse at 9.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
Obviously
Since Posey’s presence will cause Lincecum to give up 12 runs.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
Is it any good?
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 Sep 25, 2009 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions
It started out bad (first episode was mediocre at best, second was good, third was right-handed Randy Winn bad), then it got good.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
Love the use of “right-handed Randy Winn” as an adjective.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Ooh, Dollhouse is back tonight? Cool.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
So who put the gun to Bochy’s head to finally give Posey a start?
"It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra
Posey
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Emmanuel Plexico Burriss
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
He found out jponry would be at the game tonight and didn’t want to risk her wrath.
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Mud Power?
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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Off to the park. Have fun in the GDT.
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
In response to the original question:
“[T]he Giants ignoring minor league performance in their hitter evaluation process in the Brian Sabean era.”
Right now: Brock Bond.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
But who will hit clutch grand slams for us now?
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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Posey? Just saying.
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
LOL FRED
Is he really more hurt today than he has been since May? Ridiculous.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
BORK!
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 Sep 25, 2009 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Rejoice!
Bochy said that Buster Posey, who is receiving his first start tonight, will catch most if not all of the final nine games.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
Considering this was the man who said that there wouldn’t be a platoon at 1B, I won’t believe it until I see it.
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
The cure to Posey Shock is More Posey!!!
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I GOTTA HAVE MORE POSEY!
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, someone please help me.
LOL FRED
/soils self
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm tellin' ya
buster need to move up on the plate some
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
needs
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I vote yes
Not because it would help the Giants, but because it would feel good.
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How can something be wrong when it feels so right?
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve been doing it for 15 years and I ain’t hooked!
/salutes Richard Pryor
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Too bad Chevey Chase is busy with his new series. He’s normally my go to guy when I need a developmentally arrested youth in a large animal costume.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Meant to say: I need a developmentally arrested youth in a large animal costume kidnapped.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions
AD!
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions
you posers are bugging the shit out of me
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
wat?
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions
let the kid get some playing time before you anoint him
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Sir, are you serious? Have you been reading this site for the past 6 months? Nobody is anointing anybody. We are excited to see one of the best prospects in all of baseball – a position prospect at that – get to start and play, and we are excited to see Not Molinaside be our catcher for a few evenings. A little irrational exuberance is more than called for and if it is “bugging the shit out of you” take your sour demeanor someplace else.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:31 PM PDT up reply actions
/sir
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re not Bochy, are you?
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Check his hat size!!!
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions
i like to have my screen able to display other inane mcc comments besides just posey worship
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Didn’t you read the bi-line? “All Posey, All The Time.”
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh man, that was howiesque.
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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That occurred to me as I was writing it
Then I shuddered and hit Post.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
That sounds dirty to me.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2009 5:57 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s what she said.
His name's Clayton, not Danny.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2009 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Then you’ve come to the right place.
Can you show me a place where anyone has said that he’d singlehandedly end world hunger—and meant it? He had a stellar season in the minors, he plays a position of need, and we’re excited to see what he can do. No one’s saying they expect him to be Mike Piazza with a good glove or Joe Mauer.
Alternatively, if you don’t like the content, you can begin a new topic of your choice, within this thread or on the front page in either the FanPost or FanShot sections. McCovey Chronicles aims to please! Beware, there might be a Posey thread someplace else!
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I think if the self-aggrandizing “greatgiantfan” starts a post on the front page, the probability of it getting jacked are definitely approaching 1.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions
True. The claim is merely better than average, not the greatest. Give the guy credit for some modicum of modesty.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
thanks, UnG, for having my back (now, get away)
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
ah, that is a Gary Thomasson reference. His strikeout totals with the Yomiuri Giants earned him the nicknames the Great Giant Fan and Giant Human Fan.
Please hit better, Randy Winn.
wow, I started calling him that when he played for the Dodgers
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 6:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t doubt it, just an interesting coincidence
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 6:21 PM PDT up reply actions
LOOK AT BANNER, MICHAEL!
I know you nerds know NOTHING about the real game of baseball, or any other athletic endeavor requiring teamwork under physical stress.
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OT: ESL games or activities
Most ESL classes in our school district have been canceled.
Many of the parents still want to learn English, many have computers, but don’t have internet access.
Does anyone know of some ESL type games I can d/l, and burn to cd and distribute LEGALLY ?
I found 1 shareware program on tucows that might work [ESL-ABA] any other ideas would be appreciated!
Can a player go 5 for 4 with 6 homeruns. ’Cause I think Monster might to that tonight. Also he will save a sea lion in McCovey Cove from a drunken kayaker (Grant).
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:23 PM PDT reply actions
don’t know, but Darrel Evans once had 20 homers and 19 rbi’s
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD! STFD!
by greatgiantfan on Sep 25, 2009 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m a Giants fan. I’m afraid to see Posey start. He represents the future. I’m afraid he won’t live up to expectations, not that any Giants prospect has ever done that before. There’s been so much hype, so much anticipation, I’m afraid to watch and have my fragile dreams stomped on again.
/hides
Don’t go quiet into that good night.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Sep 25, 2009 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
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