The Giants are a perfect match. They play in a pitcher’s park and have been lusting for a main attraction since Barry Bonds. Can you imagine a one/two punch of Johan and Lincecum? Here’s my proposal: Mets send Santana to San Francisco in exchange for Matt Cain, Buster Posey and Thomas Neal.
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Holy Shit!
This is an entire mountain of stupid!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jan 8, 2010 8:13 AM PST reply actions
No! Er, I mean Yes, please!
With the Budster stepping out of the Commishchamber the resulting chaos will be perfect for the Frankenstudios’ ringingly endorsed candidate – Calvin, who will then institute Calvinball rules – and anyone who’s ever played pro Calvinball knows that there are no rules!
This will thusly allow Johannesburg RoseannaSantana to swing two bats in his signature deliciously ambidextrous fashion, garnering twice the offensive production of a normal hyoomin bean – thus more than accounting for the ragged hole in our future when Neal and Posey are removed.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
Mmm, lust!
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LOL
Is this real or is it a Steve Phillips parody.
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yeah, no
A hearty thank you to Rich Aurilia for all the good memories, and to the Niners for finally getting the uni's (mostly) right.
The Twins didn’t even get that kind of haul when they traded Santana.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jan 8, 2010 8:20 AM PST reply actions
My favorite part
He thinks we want Johan Santana because we need a “marquee attraction.”
Johan Santana: bigger in San Francisco than Tim Lincecum. Apparently.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
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BUT LINCECUM HAS NEVER PLAYED ON THE EAST COAST JCB
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It would help get “those beaners” to ballgames
/freatgiantfan
say hey nation is the Ralph Nader of McC.-Xanthan
by say hey nation on Jan 8, 2010 9:53 AM PST up reply actions
But this still could work!
Just replace Thomas Neal with Aaron Rowand
Replace Buster Posey with Steve Holm
And replace Matt Cain with Henry Sosa.
Rowand, Holm and Sosa for Santana.
Done and done, bwana
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Can we do Whiteside instead of Holm? I like Holm.
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Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
No, you're right.
And replace Sosa with Eric Stolp.
So Rowand, Stolp and Whiteside. Good!
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by Giantsfan4life on Jan 8, 2010 8:28 AM PST up reply actions
Eric Who?
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
[cher voice] You can do anything you want baby [/cher voice]
Bruce Bochy: Leave him alone, he's the Manager Man and his BORK is much worse than his bite.
by zodiac_chiller on Jan 8, 2010 12:44 PM PST up reply actions
we cant have two 100$ left handed starting pitchers lol
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by monta.da.boss on Jan 9, 2010 12:53 AM PST up reply actions
HAI GUYZ!
WE CAN RESIGN BENJI MOLINA TO A TWO-YEAR CONTRACT!
Petey and Fresh always dunking on Spartans,
Biscuits in baskets from Heatley and Thornton,
Bam-Bam and Gore on the way to some rings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
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When people e-mail me asking me to link to their site, I might put a FanShot up if the link is really good. But this…had everything. Posey, gone! Cain, gone! Neal, a throw-in! No hitters acquired!
Man, maybe the Giants can flip Santana for Fielder, though.
by Grant Brisbee on Jan 8, 2010 8:30 AM PST up reply actions
/Grant doesn’t respond, so xanthan puts up league lead in FanShot spamz
by Grant Brisbee on Jan 8, 2010 8:34 AM PST up reply actions
If I were .gif savvy, I’d create a “BOOM! FANSHOT!” .gif.
by Grant Brisbee on Jan 8, 2010 8:38 AM PST up reply actions
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
I take pictures
by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 9:04 AM PST up reply actions 6 recs
/flagged
//awaits TimLincecum.com fanshot
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
more likely, they'd flip him for
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
Tiny!!
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
At least AT&T was a pitchers park once upon a time…
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
This is a problem I have with/something I don’t understand about park factors. The dimensions of the park have not changed. Nor have the prevailing wind patterns (over a few decades climate change could effect this) or time of year that games are played. There could be variances due to small sample size as it pertains to weather which should be the only thing that really effects the travel of a baseball except the whole which players are throwing/hitting them thing.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 11:08 AM PST up reply actions
I think weather discrepencies have a much bigger part in it than you’ve gotten in to. Weather itself is not static – it can be very different from year to year, so not only are you getting sample error due to random luck, but different years bring entirely different weather patterns altogether, so at that point you’re not even talking about samples from the same population. Temperature, humidity, wind….all things subject to fluctuation besides what we’d expect from sample error. Also, there are factors that could change things – like the construction of a large apartment building a few blocks away (like the one near the base of the Bay Bridge) may alter the wind patterns some. So I think weather can play a pretty huge role in changing park factors over time, far beyond what we’d expect out of sample error alone.*
*Note: I’m not a meteorologist, so I don’t actually know as much aboutt his as I’m trying to sound like I do, but it does seem to make a lot of sense to me, theoretically.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
I think you make some really good points. I think I am (and maybe all of us) underestimating the randomness inheirant in an sample size of 81. Thrown on top of that all the additional weather stochasticity and poof! Not pitchers park anymore. It makes you wonder how people who run statistics for baseball players should factor in park-factors.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
"stochasticity"
W-w-w-whut?
A stochastic process is one whose behavior is non-deterministic, in that a system’s subsequent state is determined both by the process’s predictable actions and by a random element. However, according to M. Kac and E. Nelson, any kind of time development (be it deterministic or essentially probabilistic) which is analyzable in terms of probability deserves the name of stochastic process.
Cool.
I get to thunk Jr. with this when we hook up tonight for burgers.
“Secret new ingredient, Jack. I have no idea what it was or what it’s gonna taste like, but I’m gonna call it a Stochastiburger – and you get the first one.”
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by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
Stochasticity?
I have been put in my place.
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Sorry
This is what grad school does to you. It makes you use $5 words in public spaces. In the Environmental Sciences you will rarely see/hear the words chance or randomness, it is always stochastic or stochasticity.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 2:11 PM PST up reply actions
I once read The Stochastic Man…
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Jan 8, 2010 2:18 PM PST up reply actions
I’m kind of skeptical about this, but it’s possible. I haven’t noticed much difference from year to year. Day games are usually warm and sunny, and night games are usually cold and foggy, every year. I guess I can’t say much about the wind or humidity, though. Still, 80 games a year is a pretty good sample size; for there to be a big difference it would have to be as you suggest, each year draws from a completely different population.
My theory is that the Giants don’t really have any left-handed power hitters now, so the “pitchers’ park” aspect is neutralized for them. RF in AT&T is actually a benefit to a line-drive hitter, because all the room out there allows for more doubles and triples. Obviously other teams do have LH power hitters, but the Giants are always going to make up half the sample.
actually one big reason is that PFs are relative to each other
the main reason that AT&T has changed
1) Petco opened and it’s such a ridiculous pitchers park that all other parks get bumped up
2) Humidor in Coors, has the opposite effect – making other parks have more runs scored by comparison
I am not sure (depends on details of the calculations) but it’s also possible that because these two parks on in the NL West and teams play an unbalanced schedule that these two parks would effect AT&T more.
The weather might be partially responsible – really the only thing that ever suppressed offense in AT&T is that it’s very difficult for LHH to hit HRs due to the high wall and wind conditions.
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The fact that those parks are in the NL West would affect AT&T more, as I understand how park factors are calculated. They compare each players’ stats overall compared to his performance in the park of interest. Given the unbalanced schedule, SD and Col players would make up a larger portion of the AT&T sample than, say, Cubs players. The players in the division would have their overall stats deflated by the changes in their home parks, thus making their AT&T numbers look better. I think.
no
They are as stupid as Steve Phillips.
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FTA
At the same time, the Mets save themselves some money for the free agent market in 2011 when Carl Crawford, Carlos Pena, Jayson Werth, Josh Beckett, Brandon Webb and Chris Young become available
Because the Giants should help the Met’s save money to sign Carl Crawford. It’s not like the Giants would need Carl Crawford.
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I don't see why this is so hard to understand for you people
the mets play in the east, the giants play in the west. Ergo, the giants’ sole purpose in MLB is to help teams in the east get better
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Totally understand now
Hilarious
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
by Cannonballden on Jan 8, 2010 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
I know...what was I thinking.
/has vision of Crawford in a Giants Uni….and he’s happy to be here
//2011 Rosterbation…
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Brendan Crawford is black?
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
I AM BRIAN’S BOCOCK
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
FAKE!!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
It’s obvious: the Yankees are going to want Crawford (Crawford, Granderson outfield combo makes me weak in the knees) and once a real team gets involved, Cowardly Lion and the Fearsome Frenchman will acquiesce and exeunt from the bargaining table.
Cue the chorus of “Doesn’t want to play here” and “Not the kind of money we want to be spending” or “Will command the type of salary we cannot compete with”
"It appears that Sabean is playing a game of chicken with Neukom wherein he elucidates the most outrageous things he could do as ML GM without getting fired." - cornball
They can re-sign Benji Molina to a two-year contact
Wait, what?
Surely this is parody…
Utter frustration and futility.
Exactly.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Jan 8, 2010 10:40 AM PST up reply actions
Why stick with the young (and cheap) talent, one of which we know to be very good (Cain), one of which is a super prospect who’s MLB ready, and another very good prospect, when we can overpay an old guy who will give us less than the market value we could get in free agency? Seriously. If we were interested in something like that, we could have gone after CC last year, or even just resigned Penny this year (Penny + Cain isn’t that much worse than Johan, and much, much, much, much, much cheaper and less risky)…
Other teams exist merely to help teams from New York improve.
Glad to see this phenomenon spread from just the Yankees.
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It's no secret
The rest of the MLB = New York teams’ farm system
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
great minds
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Maybe not, but if the Royals offered me Zack Greinke for him, you know I’d go for that in a second…
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 2:00 PM PST up reply actions
Well, duh.
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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but that isnt happening
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by monta.da.boss on Jan 9, 2010 12:56 AM PST up reply actions
That might actually be the best move the Royals could make. It would HAVE to lead to Dayton Moore finally getting fired….right?
by Missing Barry on Jan 10, 2010 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Mr. Site Over Lord;
Obviously this a terrorist strike plan and should be met with over whelming force. That is all.
Facecrowd memeber, daveinexile
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
NEEDS MORE WRISTBANDS
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 9:47 AM PST up reply actions
Looks like camo-sweatbands.
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 11:08 AM PST up reply actions
NEVERMIND WHAT I DO
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Clandestine Operation
The guy works for the CIA, but can’t tell anybody.
“….He is trying to get ahead by spending downtime translating Arabic blogs and social networking sites, looking for the next generation of Al Qaeda, but anything he has found his bosses have brushed off.”
by E Ticket on Jan 8, 2010 8:57 AM PST reply actions
GREAT MOVES, GIT R DUN SABES
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I wonder whether Santana has any trade value at all at this point. He’s very good but he’s not the pitcher he was four or five years ago, and his contract pays him nearly $25 million per year for four years.
I guess the Yankees or Red Sox or Angels would pick him up if they put him on waivers.
And he was injured last year
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I was just going to say something similar. Considering the injuries, salary, and declining numbers, I wouldn’t even take Santana off of waivers right now…
I'd trade for him
for some low-level prospects and if the mets paid 20 million of his salary
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well, yeah, there’s that. Santana’s net value with that contract and coming off of an injury is somewhere in the neighborhood of $0. So… “Here’s my proposal: Mets send nothing to San Francisco in exchange for Matt Cain, Buster Posey and Thomas Neal.”
Easily the best rosterbation of the year… nice find, Grant.
Counteroffer: Lewis and Frandsen
At least that makes it even in terms of net value going both ways.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, on the Curacao-SF express (via Arizona).
Nah
Lewis has some value. He’s probably like a 1.5 WAR player making the league minimum. That’s a surplus of at least $5M.
I still strongly believe if someone actually gives Lewis a full year of PT he’s a 2 WAR player, maybe even 2.5 WAR if you include baserunning (not much of a basestealer and his instincts don’t seem good, but speed is speed).
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve always liked him, and he has been poorly used by the Giants, but I suspect that 2008 is the best year he’ll ever have. He really can’t hit left-handers at all, for one thing.
True on the left handers, so maybe I should adjust it to call him a ~2.5 WAR player, on a rate basis (that 2.5 being per a full year) if he platooned, which would of course lower his individual WAR because he wouldn’t get a full season of production in. For what it’s worth CHONE calls him a pretty much a 2 WAR player – it projects him to put up 1.3 WAR in 14 replacement runs, so if you extrapolate that for a season worth of productivity, that’s pretty close to 2 WAR pre-baserunning….
I also believe in his bat a little bit more than CHONE…not much, but a bit. Bill James’ projection is higher for his offensive output, but those are notoriously optimistic, so not sure it means anything….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 12:39 PM PST up reply actions
This
Santana is no longer a superstar. He is now merely very good. Trading him straight-up for Cain is a dubious proposition as Santana’s injury history makes him likely to pitch fewer innings per season than Cain and those injuries are likely to make him less effective when he does pitch.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
And even when he does outperform Cain, we’re very likely to have a better team with Cain + difference between Cain and Johan’s salary than with Johan.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
That is the stupidest fucking load of bullshit I've ever read
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I wouldn't do Cain for Santana straight up
Cain is cheaper, younger, not hurt, and not hurt.
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I've never been happier to have Crabs
Sadly
I have so little faith in our front office, that I could actually see this happening. Single tear :*(
/knows fear
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
/stabs deer
#1 threat to America: Pandas
Also, Tim Lincecum
Official McPokeMaster
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jan 8, 2010 3:25 PM PST up reply actions
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 9, 2010 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
Basically this guy is showing that he thinks the Giants FO is a bunch of know nothing morons who can be had pretty easily. Now normally I would agree with him…..if it were any other team than the Mets. What is worse, however, is what he is implying about the fans. He knows nothing about SF baseball obviously. Why do east coast writers think we give two fucks about east coast teams and players on those teams. How can you possibly say that Santana is a bigger marquee player than the back to back (and reigning) CY Young award winner?
Lucky Giants shorts from Target > Jobu
The only way you can say that
is if you are a total ignorant fuck. Check and check
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by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
dammit
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 9, 2010 12:57 PM PST up reply actions
We're back in this thing.
The Giants are in a sense, the 2008 Mets – ready to win. They have a stud in Pablo Sandoval. They can re-sign Benji Molina to a two-year contact and now with Santana – have another pitcher who puts them over the top.
"El once, chico. Eleven."
Also no secret
All we need is better pitching.
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
You all have totally misunderstood this.
See, what we do is trade for Santana to play left field. Seriously, have you seen him shag?
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by Giantsfan4life on Jan 8, 2010 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
lol
you know it’s fake, they mis-spelled bengie’s name
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With a gun and a bottle.
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by 49er16 on Jan 8, 2010 9:31 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Patrick Stewart does not approve
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That’s Sir Patrick Stewart to you.
He was brilliant with David Tennant in the BBC broadcast of Hamlet
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 1:25 PM PST up reply actions
He got knighted? How did I miss that? Good for you Captain Picard!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
last week, actually
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 2:20 PM PST up reply actions
Patrick Stewart is the man
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
YES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7lv1SDzno
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 2:40 PM PST up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRpcqr89f0E
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That's
SIR Patrick Stewart.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Mychael Urban: Wow. Probably Dye at this point. Good outfielder, could adapt to RF at AT&T, good RBI guy.
by natteringnabob on Jan 8, 2010 10:27 PM PST up reply actions
How’d it all work out for the 2008 Mets, anyway?
by The Double Deuce on Jan 8, 2010 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
Darn
He can’t play centerfield for us.
/sarcasm
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THANK YOU LORD
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/ ponders who to rotate into sig. Damon and …
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
morale would make more sense.
but then 2 or the orginal 3 have been avioded so do I dare mess with the mojo THAT much?
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this, and I think the Giants are going to sign Rick Ankiel to a one-year deal with a 2nd year team option.
/auto-defenestrates
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 9:50 AM PST up reply actions
Phone Company Park would eat his DINGERZ for breakfast.
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Adopted Giant: the probably soon to be ditched but still awesome Fred Lewis
But he can play more than 1 position!
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He’ll need to stock up on his HGH breakfast to counter those effects
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by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 9:56 AM PST up reply actions
I’m not saying I think it’s a good idear. My completely non-insider read on this: the Giants want a LHH. LaRoche is their top target. LaRoche does not want to be in SF. Who does that leave? Damon? I don’t think the Giants want to give that kind of money and I think Damon really wants to stay in NY. Ankiel is a Boras client so that does represent a problem, but you can’t really shut-out Boras if you want to have top-tier free agents (whether you should ever sign top tier free agents is a different story), and it might be a sort-of good-faith gesture (not that the Zito contract wasn’t the bestest-faith gesture ever!).
Just riffin’
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 10:05 AM PST up reply actions
This line of thought is getting kind of scary.
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
Can you elaborate, I don’t understand.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
I can see Sabean getting all fired up and buyng into it.
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
Hopefully he doesn’t read what I wrote!!! But yeah, he seems in love with 1-2 year deals these days.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 10:56 AM PST up reply actions
I thought NY isn't bringing damon back?
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LaRoche turned down 2 yrs 17 million (we don’t know how long ago though) but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t want to be in San Francisco. If you’re seeking 3 yrs 31 million, you would obviously turn down 2 yrs 17. I have a feeling that 2 yrs 17 million sounds a lot better to him now if it’s still on the table, and since I don’t see any rumors involving LaRoche and anyone else, I still see the Giants as a favorite to land him.
No Edgar, it's not your fault, it's the fault of the idiot that plays you
Maybe I am reading too much into the places he has lived and played.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
It just strikes me as Damon wanting to be there and too much of a feel-good moment for the Yankees to pass up. Once again, totally non-CPlanlawr expertise here.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 10:55 AM PST up reply actions
Delgado maybe; Branyan
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You really have to. They are the worlds greatest train wreck.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 11:05 AM PST up reply actions
I have always wanted to watch a game there. It looks very nice on TV.
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Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jan 8, 2010 9:01 PM PST up reply actions
Matt Holliday wraps up a busy day with some one-on-one media interviews
…and now St Louis can’t afford to pay its electricity bill.
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
His nads must still be hurting from that fly ball. He continues to protect them!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jan 8, 2010 9:57 AM PST up reply actions
DONK
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
I take pictures
by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
You dropped your balls
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by zodiac_chiller on Jan 8, 2010 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
Class, look at the flexion of the superficial muscles of the neck. It creates a ribbed appearance due to constriction of the tissue around underlying structures such as tendons and muscles. This is a wonderful demonstration of flexion of the platysmus muscle.
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You are making this up!
There is no such thing as a platypus muscle!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jan 8, 2010 12:59 PM PST up reply actions
Neck ribs are great if you cook ’em long enough and have a decent dry rub.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Jan 8, 2010 2:20 PM PST up reply actions
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I take pictures
by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 2:24 PM PST up reply actions
Some things are always worth protecting.
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INTIMATE!
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I was curious how others would take it. I could have said it in a much worse way, and chose less harsh words instead….
And come on, if you can’t laugh about something after the fact once you know nobody got that hurt, what can you laugh about!
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
But he did get hurt, and getting hit in the head could kill someone. Now if he got hit in the butt and it left stitch marks, that would be a different story…
He got a concussion. Big deal. We enjoy watching NFL players hit each other full speed – watching the highlight hits later – and those guys get concussions from what they do all the time. You can die doing a lot of things – and the fact is, he didn’t, nor was there ever a point where it looked like he might. If you’re really going to make it out like him getting hurt was a big deal, I’m going to call you out for a ridiculous double standard.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
I can’t imagine you ever played baseball. If you did, you’d realize getting hit by a little league pitch in the head would be scary, much less a high-90s fastball.
And since I never mentioned the NFL, and I don’t really even care much for football, I’ll raise your double standard with a strawman…
Never played it past the age of 14, fair enough. And sure, like I said, lots of things are scary – once we know everyone turns out alright, though, often it becomes much easier/acceptable to look back on it in a different light. Whether that be a NASCAR crash, a football hit, or just dumb things people do in real life (see: Youtube).
As for this strawman stuff, given we’re talking about sports, and football is the most popular sport in America, I don’t think I’m offbase bringing it up at all. Maybe it doesn’t apply to you, personally, after all, I don’t know you so I have no idea whether it does or not, but it DOES apply to a large percentage of Americans, especially sports fans.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
Fair points. Not a huge deal and nothing for either of us to waste any more energy on. I think it’s just seen as such a scary thing in baseball since while of course it’s possible on any pitch, it’s really rare and happens so quickly…
Yeah, I just like getting into the details of how people react and perceive things at times – it happens fairly often where I just don’t understand how people in general can feel a way they do, and I find it interesting to try to get to the bottom of it.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Interesting thought. When I was young we still had a wide spread use of wooden bats. Pitching inside was done even in sand lot games. Even a 80MH ball at the dome , by accident, gets your blood going. I am not so sure with wide spread aluminum bats younger kid experienced that as much. I know if I was on the hill as kid I was not so willing to throw inside when a metal stick was up. And there are posters here old enough to remember real MLB bean ball wars as well.
As for football look at the suit of armor they put on now days. This is not the leather helmet of my dad’s days or like rugby. And in ruby they have stretch sportsmanship rules to deter the head hunting mind set.
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
I never even thought about the difference in wooden vs aluminum bats in high school
I pitched inside no matter what the batter was holding. It was the only way to setup a slider off the plate.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jan 8, 2010 11:12 AM PST up reply actions
If I tried throwing inside to him now, he would probably catch the ball barehanded and throw it back to me. I doubt I could still hit mid-80’s these days.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jan 8, 2010 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
Please shoot me before I reach my mid - 80s
You have 35 years.
Get going.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
/swings at slider two feet off the plate
No seriously, that’s what I would have done.
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by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
The fact that NFL players receive many concussions does not mean that it’s acceptable or healthy. The more we study former football players, the more we realize how fucked up they get from playing that sport.
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
True. It just fascinates me that it seems like the general population just really doesn’t give a fuck about it.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
I agree entirely. PEDs are considered evil because they’re dangerous and unhealthy. Voluntarily subjecting yourself to repeated concussions, however, is something we applaud.
Osiris, Lord of the Dead, and... relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants?
And on top of that, while Barry Bonds somehow singlehandedly destroyed the world for all the kids these days, the NFL gets away with some of the most blatant steroid use ever….and nobody cares. What, half the Panthers Super Bowl team gets connected to a doctor giving out PED’s? Shawn Merriman tests positive for ‘roids, gets suspended 4 games, and is still voted into the Pro Bowl? Where’s the outrage there? It’s just amazing to me how we (people in general)….hmmm, can’t think of a proper way to word what I want to say. I just really don’t get how we apply such different standards to such different things, and I think it’s interesting to talk out with other intelligent people to try to figure out how it comes about, and why it happens…
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 12:54 PM PST up reply actions
We enjoy watching NFL players hit each other full speed
Believe it or not, there are some that neither watch nor enjoy anything about the NFL.
You can't solve your problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems - Albert Einstein to Brian Sabean
by bgunn on Jan 8, 2010 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
I believe it, but any indicator you care to use tells me the NFL is the most popular sport in America….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
IQ? Kidding football fans, kidding.
Serriously, I was kidding.
You can't solve your problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems - Albert Einstein to Brian Sabean
by bgunn on Jan 8, 2010 11:23 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
What sport do you see kids under 12 playing most outside? I see a lot of football and I see Futboll and basketball. I see that last more often than the first one. I guess what I am saying question they guys giving you your measurements on this assumption. I think you will find they have vested interest in increasing the perception of how widely popular football is.
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
haha, when i was younger i got out and threw the baseball around with dad… but umm that ended quickly as soon as i broke one of his car door windows… But hey, basketball was an everyday thing for me, could play by yourself, football was fun, but yea i see alot of soccer, basketball, and football… baseball not so much, since you need the glove and a ball…
My brother and I used to play with a nerf basketball and an old tennis racket in the back yard… nerfs really break well, I had a wicked curve. No gloves, no broken windows.
Utter frustration and futility.
by Johnny Disaster on Jan 8, 2010 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
Do kids even play outside anymore?
Besides ringtones on their fucking phones.
And I’m really loving the recess/extracurricular cutbacks.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
If my brother is any indication (and he’s only 6 years younger than me, but still young enough to barely even remember having to use dial up, much less a time before the internet was popular)….no.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
LOL.
But hey, basketball was an everyday thing for me, could play by yourself, football was fun, but yea i see alot of soccer, basketball, and football… baseball not so much, since you need the glove and a ball…
"El once, chico. Eleven."
I guess what I am saying question they guys giving you your measurements on this assumption.
;)
Eh, I dunno if kids playing outside is a great way to measure its popularity. As long as you have a hoop, basketball is easy enough to play – it only takes 2 people, after all. Soccer all you need is a ball, you can easily find shoes/shirts/whatever to make a goal, and I believe soccer is the most played sport in America for kids, so obviously it’s well organized and kids are interested in it somewhat….but clearly it’s not very popular in America. Football seems to have the worst set up in terms of organized kids activities – at least where I lived, sure you could play pop warner, but not many kids did, and it wasn’t as prevelent or popular as CYO, or soccer, or Little League. As someone else noted baseball generally takes a bunch of people to play, so that hurts it.
But yeah, anyways, if you look at revenues, football was always the highest (though baseball was catching up, a good search seemed to only bring up 2007 results where baseball was only a little behind) despite playing only 16 games a season, they get the best tv ratings…I don’t think all the things I’ve read that proclaim the NFL as the most popular of the various professional sports were biased, it’s a pretty well agreed upon conclusion….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
Ok the agreed upon conclusion by whom and what are their credentails?
And as far as revue is concerned you have to beaware of 2 very possible things.
1) if kids are playing a sport but there is not a lot of revenue thatn that would mean the guys with a lot of money just have not figured out how to milk enough revnue to suit them yet.
2) Once someone advocts tying the ammount fo money it takes to get an NFL tv rights they realy are not that liekly to turn arround and say, ’My bad". In fact they have every reason to avoid admitting it.
Now I am not saying NFL is done or will dry up and blow away but the drum beat that it is "THE AMERICIAN SPORT " is bit of fluff P.T. Barnum would be proud of.
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
Well, just to add some clarity to my claim – I’m talking specifically about the professional sports here (NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR, NHL) in terms of popularity. I’ve found some references to an ESPN poll that put footbal first, basketball second, and baseball third (in terms of spectator sports), but I can’t find the original poll, so I won’t give you a link. The NFL also sells more mechandise than any of the other sports, so that seems pretty telling to me….
I’d also like to note the NFL is actually my least favorite sport – I love college football, but NFL? Eh, it’s ok. So I’m not going around to NFL specific sites – everything I’ve read on the issue has been from sources like ESPN….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 12:34 PM PST up reply actions
And isn’t ESPN heavy invest in NFL now days?
I think you get i not saying it is fringe sport or that it doesn’t mattr. I just think its important to US sports is a bit over blown.
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
Yeah, don’t worry, I get it…I’m just trying to throw objective evidence into my posts and you keep implying all my sources are biased. :(
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 5:44 PM PST up reply actions
If you ever walk the streets of NYC in the summer you see kids playing baseball. Brings a tear to my eye. You can also see the history of baseball on the lots—bases and batters boxes spraypainted on playgrounds. Stickball boxes painted on walls.
I was always planning a fanpost asking everyone about the variations on baseball you played as a youth. Seems like every street or neighorhood in the NJ town I grew up in played a variation of the game: boxball, wiffle-ten, tree ball, gutterball, running the bases…
Nostalgic old dude is nostalgic and old.
You can't solve your problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems - Albert Einstein to Brian Sabean
Wiffleball for sure. In my younger days we did more home run derby stuff, trying to see how far we could hit it (since we were small and still growing), by high school we had our wiffle ball setup perfected.
Also, sucks that you grew up in NJ. :)
(Sorry, I couldn’t resist)
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 1:23 PM PST up reply actions
*HR derby stuff wasn’t wiffleball, it would be baseballs, tennis balls, or whatever else….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
Are you actually downplaying concussions?
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
Not really, I’m more accusing our society as a whole of downplaying concussions. I’m just trying to discuss it on a relative plain to other instances – I feel like there are times when we DO downplay concussions (hence my NFL example), and I think it’s strange that the same injury seems to provke different reactions based on the circumstances it happens. My thoughts are a concussion is a concussion, if it’s a big deal, we should be a hell of a lot more concerned about what goes on in the NFL…or conversely, if we take the view that it’s not a big deal, why should we be so sensitive to this particular instance?
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 12:27 PM PST up reply actions
You’re not sitting in the middle of your regular UFC/MMA/WWF crowd here that just wants nonstop entertainment without being bothered to stop and consider the fallen entertainer.
We also read more than the average household. We’re more informed about what happens to the performers who pass out of the viewer’s eye, even if it’s just for a routine hospital stay. Step away from the assembled higher education here and the level of particular concern drops right off the table.
Mainstream MMA America also needs to see an injury to bring home the idea that it even is one. If concussions made your head explode visually – instead of the slow, silent, secretive way they really do – they’d be getting a lot more talk on the loading dock.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 8, 2010 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
I guess I’d really have to see a mass reaction directed at the NFL from this type of higher educated crowd before I’d really believe they’re really that concerned about concussions….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 5:47 PM PST up reply actions
I can only drive my own car, etc.
I don’t want my son playing football.
I’m sort of fond of what comes out of his head, even if its a lot of frustrated sighing of late.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 9, 2010 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
Well I am trying to avoid directing my comments at anyone in general, and of course I could be could be just off with my blanket statements of how society feels….but at least I think they’re fairly accurate. :)
by Missing Barry on Jan 10, 2010 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
I noted your restraint you used and I think we responded with similar restraint.
I am a big guy to laugh and question anything. The more NON P.C. the better. But in this case Cain never meant to hit him and guys can get killed or maimed in both that act and the retaliation. It just strikes me as too disrespectful of Cain, Wright & baseball not frown at it. Nothing personal just sometimes even a bad joke is dud. Lord knows I’v made plenty of the later.
/ Chants, " Olivio, Jacobs, Podsednik" Then smacks head with a 1 X 6. This will continue tell the pain decreases and moral improves.
Ha true, and I said it more in the interest of seeing what the reaction from the crowd would be rather than trying to make a joke. I was honestly just curious what people would think.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 10:55 AM PST up reply actions
I woulda laughed but the joke was unfunny. And believe me, I know unfunny.
Maybe a .gif of the beaning & a title of: “This is what Matt Cain thinks of this trade:”
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Oh I agree, I was more concerned with saying it lightly than being funny. It did spawn the reaction I was looking for and got the discussion I wanted started, though….so for my purposes, I consider it a huge success.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
Um no
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Thanks to roger
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farm team
B/c do they even have any prospects?
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by say hey nation on Jan 8, 2010 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
They have a bunch
Mejia, Martinez (not sure if he’s still a prospect), Flores, Holt, Davis, Havens…
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GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Whomever Sabean signs this off-season will make a good platoon partner with Ryan Gark-ohh... nevermind...
Ummm
I only listed some of their good prospects…
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Whomever Sabean signs this off-season will make a good platoon partner with Ryan Gark-ohh... nevermind...
some of their good prospects
Key word – their. Their good prospects might not be good prospects, just good for them. :)
by Missing Barry on Jan 10, 2010 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
Huh?
All the guys I listed are actually good…
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
GET THAT VORP AND WHIP SH!T OUTTA HERE!!!
Whomever Sabean signs this off-season will make a good platoon partner with Ryan Gark-ohh... nevermind...
+1
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by Cannonballden on Jan 8, 2010 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
I'll take Santana
for Zito and Rowand. I’d even throw in a Sosa or a Merkin Valdez, just so the Mets can say they received some young talent in return.
by crazedcrustacean on Jan 8, 2010 10:17 AM PST reply actions
I was just thinking the other day that our rotation needs more lefties…
But the Mets obviously cannot make this trade because Matt Cain is an evil, soulless demon who throws at peoples’ heads, so he’d be a clubhouse cancer. Every Met fan knows this…
Hector Sanchez: Underrated. Fighting body bias since the 2009 off season. I still love you, son, even if you're fat.
If the Mets want to make the kind of bold move to capture the back pages of newspapers and get people talking about New York’s "other" team, then there is only one thing to do: trade Johan Santana.
Leave it to Mets fans to aspire to simply “get people talking” about the team. Hey guyz, I say we one up the Mets this year and trade Lincecum. That would really get people talking about our team! Oh, and maybe that’s why people see them as New York’s “other” team in the first place.
"Any time I watch a game on television, I have to turn the commentators off. They say 'he's playing well' and I'm thinking 'no, he's not.' My advice to anyone is don't listen to the experts, just watch the game and gather your own opinion."
-Roy Keane
It’s weird how much the “get people talking” goal seems to dominate the decision-making process of New York sports teams. Don’t they realize that all they have to do is build a winner?
Yeah, is it really a good thing to get people talking if what they’re saying is “Whatta bunch of f*ing idiots”?
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Well to be fair, Mets fans have probably realized at this point Minaya isn’t going to build them a winner….so maybe they see that as the next best option?
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 10:56 AM PST up reply actions
I recall Keith Law saying ...
a trade of Cain/Posey for Halladay might not be a bad deal for the Giants. I could be mistaken.
It would be interesting to see what kind of trade Minaya and Sabean could cook up. Maybe they could get Ed Wade involved so it would be a three-team trade.
Or
WHY DON’T WE JUST KEEP THIS GUY? AND IDK, MAYBE THE GUY NEXT TO HIM TOO
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I initially thought that the shutterstock lines through this photo were actually photographic evidence of the kind of power that could be unleashed from Tim and Matt closely approximating their hands. Imagine if they actually bumped fists?
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
"Egon, you said crossing the streams was bad."
“There’s still a very slim chance we might survive.”
Beat.
“I love this plan! I’m excited to be a part of it!”
I looked at the trap.
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The flowers are still standing!
The Giants Way™"If anybody deserves credit for this year’s turnaround it’s these two people, Brian and Bruce," Neukom said. "The encouraging thing is we think we’re back to playing baseball the way it ought to be played."
"Let's split up."
“Yeah, we can do more damage that way.”
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 9, 2010 1:04 PM PST up reply actions
+109
Adopted Giant: Clayton Tanner
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jan 8, 2010 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
yes
you are mistaken
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
I take pictures
by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
The one good thing about this is if even a stupid Mets fan has heard of Thomas Neal, the kid must be pretty good. I’m surprised this guy even knew who Buster Posey was.
No Edgar, it's not your fault, it's the fault of the idiot that plays you
He probably thought he was pretty cool, finding a diamond in the rough like Thomas Neal though.
LOL I LOOKED AT THE STATS FOR THEIR SINGLE A TEAM AND FOUND THIS GUY WHO LOOKS REALLY GOOD. MOST GIANTS FANS PROBABLY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS, I’LL THROW HIM IN!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
LOL METS
I know I shouldn’t snicker, especially since it was the result of a wild Cain pitch, but this ain’t Wright.
Win the inning.
separated at birth
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Eh. It takes getting used to, but safety > aesthetics.
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
Have a nice day.
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
I take pictures
by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
Thank you.
/auto-defenestrates
something something jhiat00 will swindle
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
Comb the desert
Bruce Bochy: Leave him alone, he's the Manager Man and his BORK is much worse than his bite.
by zodiac_chiller on Jan 8, 2010 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
they used a pick
Bruce Bochy: Leave him alone, he's the Manager Man and his BORK is much worse than his bite.
by zodiac_chiller on Jan 8, 2010 1:32 PM PST up reply actions
They’ve gone plaid!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Ludicrous Speed!
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
I take pictures
by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 1:27 PM PST up reply actions
It’s a bummer that it’s the result of an injury, but yeah, it does look like he’s on that episode where all the characters flash back to their childhoods. I know safety’s important, but I can also understand why no one wants to wear ’em. Then again, maybe no big deal after awhile?
I wonder what the weight/balance feels like, though. Seems awkward.
MLB should just make them mandatory, that might justify the ridiculous amounts of money these guys make.
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by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
And really, if it was mandatory, nobody would feel stupid doing it because everyone else would be doing it, too…
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
Like wearing the tight pants as part of the uniform
I bet once upon a time, Babe Ruth and company would laugh at the ballplayers in those tight pants with 6 pack abs.
Win the inning.
by Scooter Ellis on Jan 8, 2010 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
Actually those are the new minor league helmets and Wright was one of the few that gave it a test run.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090831&content_id=6709576&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
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It's...uh...funnier. Because it's bigger than a normal sized hat
Lucky Giants shorts from Target > Jobu
by AXmrdrir on Jan 8, 2010 11:14 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
David Wright sings Karaoke
“Hit me with your best shot, why don’t you hit me with your best shot…..fire awaaaaaay!”
22g
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
I take pictures
by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
That’s what she said.
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Royals Agree To Sign Scott Podsednik
By Tim Dierkes [January 8 at 10:14am CST]
10:14am: Podsednik has passed his physical, according to MLB.com’s Dick Kaegel (via Twitter). The Royals are expected to finalize the signing sometime today.
It’s final. My nightmare has been avoided.
LOL Royals
Man, with Dayton Moore running a low-payroll team, the 1962 Mets should be very concerned.
This makes me very happy
Dayton Moore beat Sabean to the idiot button.
I think Dayton gave us enough information to conclusively say that a while ago…
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 2:04 PM PST up reply actions
I was just over at Royal Review
Those poor bastards.
/auto-defenestrates
something something jhiat00 will swindle
Young Studs for Old Bats: The Brian Sabean Story
FREE KEVIN FRANDSEN!!! Member of the Frandsen 5% Club.
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jan 8, 2010 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
What a stupid trade idea
Trade for someone we don’t need while giving up three players we need. Maybe if they throw in Jose Reyes and David Wright, then maybe we’re talking, if we are going to talk about stupid trade ideas.
Adoptive parental unit of Ehire Adrianza.
Godfather of Travis Ishikawa.
"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"It's a process" - Brian Sabean
"Attempting [to match Maddux and Johnson's 4 straight Cy's] just comes back to being a student of the game and never settling. A lot of guys can just sit on things they did. I could have easily sat on things I did last year and bounce off it. I just wanted to become better." - Lincecum
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jan 8, 2010 11:03 AM PST reply actions
More Mets Marquee Mayhem
Here’s a trade that the Mets simply can’t refuse…………..
Travis Ishikawa, Kevin Frandsen, Fred Lewis, Eugenio Velez, Aaron Rowand, Andres Torres, Barry Zito, Eli Whiteside, Edgar Renteria, Henry Sosa, and Ryan Rohlinger
for
Jose Reyes, Johan Santana and David Wright
I mean, just look at all those players New York’s getting for just three in return.
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Rosterbation Gone Wild
You can't solve your problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems - Albert Einstein to Brian Sabean
Uhh, I prefer to do it alone
in a dark room and in front of my computer with the MLB trade rumors website displaying.
Win the inning.
by Scooter Ellis on Jan 8, 2010 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
Quick, go read the comments in the link. I think it’s satire, but I’m not sure if I’m smart enough to figure it out.
Author of the post sez:
I honestly think this is a PERFECT trade for you guys – pitching is what wins games – look at the ballpark you are in. You put Johan and Linceum at the top of that rotation and you are looking at a championship team. If Cain is so good, how come you couldn’t make the playoffs? Don’t get me wrong, Cain is a good pitcher but he is inconsistent. Johan is a PROVEN winner. He earns his money unlike that joke Barry Zito
#1 FanShot Champion
He followed it up with this gem
Additionally the Giants averaged 35,335 per game during thr 2009 season which was 7th of 16 National League teams. AT&T Park’s seating capacity is 41,503. Johan will fill those empty seats.
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 Jan 8, 2010 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
Pfffft. As if their attendance was anything to brag about. Keep Johan and worry about keeping up with the Yankees, pal.
(And yes, LOL Oakland.)
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
by esseffgeez on Jan 8, 2010 12:53 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
I love awesome visuals. That sir, is one awesome visual.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 12:55 PM PST up reply actions
Credit where credit is due:
http://billsportsmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mlb_attendance-map2009_k.gif
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
wow there are not a lot of teams in the west
I’m sure a team in Oregon or Utah could fill out their ballparks better than the Marlins or Nats
Other than CA, there really isn’t much of a population out west at all. Even CA it’s concentrated in the Bay Area and LA-SD.
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 1:25 PM PST up reply actions
The population density on the East Coast is incredible. Especially in the Northeast. It’s basically one continuous glob of city and suburb from DC to Boston.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
The midwest is pretty crazy too though, there are a ton of people in Ohio plus just all over the place in the Midwest. It’s like that on the East Coast since there is not that much space but a TON of people
Oh the upper Midwest is very dense. Milwaukee is basically in the Chicago suburbs and Minneapolis is a huge city too.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
say hey nation is the Ralph Nader of McC.-Xanthan
by say hey nation on Jan 8, 2010 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
say hey nation is the Ralph Nader of McC.-Xanthan
by say hey nation on Jan 8, 2010 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
So much black out West. It’s actually kinda funny how it’s almost the exact middle of the country where all of a sudden there’s nobody anymore….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 2:03 PM PST up reply actions
there’s nothing but wilderness there… More people would rather live along the coast more than anything else
Except at least on the Eastern non-coast half, there are still people – enough that it stands out pretty strongly….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
RACIST
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Looks like flying baseball caps are attacking the Eastern seaboard.
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
Put a team in Vancouver
"Any time I watch a game on television, I have to turn the commentators off. They say 'he's playing well' and I'm thinking 'no, he's not.' My advice to anyone is don't listen to the experts, just watch the game and gather your own opinion."
-Roy Keane
Or one of the Carolinas or something. The Braves control the entire southeast.
I was promised lasagna.
Wow
Brewers posting significantly stronger attendance than I would have guessed.
Oh that's why we didn't make the playoffs...
it was Cain’s fault!
by Johnny Drama on Jan 8, 2010 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t think you guys recognize the importance of protecting Lincecum in the rotation with a big name arm like Santana. Teams are going to simply refuse to take pitches from Lincecum, and if you don’t have another big hurler following up the next day you will constantly strand your ace out there.
by snafu on Jan 8, 2010 12:02 PM PST reply actions 10 recs
LOL.
Adopted Giant: Clayton Tanner
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jan 8, 2010 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
OMG AWESOME
"I never watched baseball on TV. It's slow and boring. I'm not a fan. Never was." - Jeff Kent
I bet St Louis fans eat this kind of thing up
The Flying Spaghetti Monster helps me pitch!!
by Lars The Wanderer on Jan 8, 2010 12:16 PM PST reply actions
Eh
It’s just personal stuff.
Now, the whole 2007 Rockies winning because of Jesus thing – THAT was dumb.
I was promised lasagna.
I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumors
But I think that God’s got a sick sense of humor
And when the Rockies failed I know we both were laughing…
Oh. And this.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
by victor frankenstein on Jan 9, 2010 1:16 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, I’m sure he’ll be around soon.
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Hey, is it possible to trade the farm for Matt Holliday? maybe we could package, Bumgarner, Posey, Cain, Neal, and maybe Pablo? I mean, we don’t know if Pablo can keep all this up
I think we should trade Cain, Neal, Bumgarner, Pablo, Sanchez, Sanchez, and Fred Lewis for Jorge Posada. I mean we need a catcher to mentor Posey and because Buster can’t play 100 games. Posada must be worth all of those players because he plays for the Yankees. And, finally, we’ll get rid of Fred Lewis, who has really been the problem for the Giants during the last few years.
Merry Christmas, McCoven. YOU DRINK YOUR DAMN EGGNOG
!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH thats the funniest shit i have ever heard !!!!!!!!!! Never going to happen , not even sabean is that dumb ! i says we trade zito for santana , they both have horrible contracts
OT -- Carroll going to Seahawks?
Apparently he’s already assembling a staff, and SC is courting Mike Riley from Oregon State
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
Smells like USC could be in trouble for recruiting violations and/or the Mcknight and Reggie Bush stuff and Carroll is getting out before the shit hits the fan
Hasn’t he already failed miserably at NFL coaching?
say hey nation is the Ralph Nader of McC.-Xanthan
by say hey nation on Jan 8, 2010 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
Well, that Bill Belicheck guy failed pretty bad his first time around, too….
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 2:03 PM PST up reply actions
He failed
But I don’t know if I’d call it miserably. 6-10 in one season with the Jets, then 10-6, 9-7, and 8-8 with the Pats. (Pats lost six of their last eight in his final year, leading to the axe.)
I didn’t follow the Pats that closely back then, so I don’t have a real opinion on his coaching ability. He inherited a Super Bowl team from Parcells and underachieved, in the view of ownership. Take this with the appropriate grain of salt, but I do know that “Boston Sports Guy” Bill Simmons thinks Carroll is a terrible coach.
Actually he didn't do that bad
33-31 overall record and went to the playoffs twice too but I guess he was canned because at that time he was a newish head coach in the NFL. If he were to duplicate that in Seattle, they would be overjoyed.
Win the inning.
by Scooter Ellis on Jan 8, 2010 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
I can’t wait till Pete Carroll goes to the Seahawks and destroys both USC and the Seahawks!
"I never watched baseball on TV. It's slow and boring. I'm not a fan. Never was." - Jeff Kent
In all honesty though, when i look at the AFC north or a competitive conference like that, i just hope the NFC west can get that way, it’d be so much more fun to watch, and hey, when you look at the Seahawks, who else was out there?
You know what would be really fun to watch? A functional, playoff caliber 49er team. Forget the rest of the division.
"Any time I watch a game on television, I have to turn the commentators off. They say 'he's playing well' and I'm thinking 'no, he's not.' My advice to anyone is don't listen to the experts, just watch the game and gather your own opinion."
-Roy Keane
It'll be even funnier
when he fails again in the NFL. At least this time he can legally pay players money to come play for his team!
Win the inning.
by Scooter Ellis on Jan 8, 2010 2:06 PM PST up reply actions
Nah
Adopted Giant: Clayton Tanner
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jan 8, 2010 1:56 PM PST reply actions
This hasn't been mentioned yet as far as I can tell
Santana has a full no-trade clause, so, uh, lol.
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Crazy Trade Proposal Update
okay you convinced me that you don’t need more pitching… how about Pedro Sandoval and Aaron Rowand for Carlos Beltran, Daniel Murphy and Angel Pagan
Murphy would do well for you since he is a doubles hitter. You get more power with Beltran and Pagan, if given the opportunity could really thrive with you guys
http://pedro_sandoval.com/shop.asp
You can't solve your problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems - Albert Einstein to Brian Sabean
PEDRO SANDOVAL
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
Steal of the century
ESPN reports due to a clerical mistake on the Mets’ part, they have acquired IF Pedro Sandoval and OF Aaron Rowand while OF Carlos Beltran plus 2 other players will be heading to San Francisco. Pedro Sandoval was signed by the Giants a mere 2 days ago and is not nor related to their 3B Pablo Sandoval. More at 8.
Win the inning.
by Scooter Ellis on Jan 8, 2010 3:17 PM PST up reply actions
Player to be named later is reported to be SP Dirty “Jonathon” Sanchez
"Any time I watch a game on television, I have to turn the commentators off. They say 'he's playing well' and I'm thinking 'no, he's not.' My advice to anyone is don't listen to the experts, just watch the game and gather your own opinion."
-Roy Keane
He must be like 12 years old
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"AT LAST I AM A PARENTS." - Buster
Someone just tell that guy to shut the hell up and let’s be done with him. Next.
"Any time I watch a game on television, I have to turn the commentators off. They say 'he's playing well' and I'm thinking 'no, he's not.' My advice to anyone is don't listen to the experts, just watch the game and gather your own opinion."
-Roy Keane
Man its fucking cold! Its gonna make dressing for the plane to Costa Rica quite challenging!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
say hey nation is the Ralph Nader of McC.-Xanthan
OT: Wow, looked on ESPN and the rumors page, clearly says “Niners after Cribbs?” it would have to be a trade
Niners already got the Crabs
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
I take pictures
by SoFa King Mike on Jan 8, 2010 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
4:05pm: Royals GM Dayton Moore tells Sam Mellinger of the Kansas City Star that the 2011 option becomes a mutual option after 550 plate appearances (Twitter link).
3:57pm: Rosenthal tweets the specifics: it’s a one-year $1.75MM deal with incentives that could bring the deal’s value up to $2MM. The Royals have a $2MM (plus incentives) option for 2011 that Podsednik can void if he reaches 525 plate appearances this year.
Moneys not bad but LOL on it being potentially for 2 years
So the question is – will Dayton Moore realize how bad Posednik is during the season and stop playing him long before the incentives kick in….or does he compound his mistake in a very Sabean-esque manner?
by Missing Barry on Jan 8, 2010 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
I wish I could write stuff that dumb on my blogs and get hundreds of free visitors like that guy just did.
Quit making the theiving Wall Street Fat-Cat Bankers even richer.
moveyourmoney.info
But enough about Grant.
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I thought Mike Fox made the worst posts.
Now I think Grant makes the worst posts. Just stick to 2nd tier free agents and the farm system. If I were the Mets, I would do that trade before the Giants sobered up.
You suck, Grant.
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“I want a hot dog and a hamburger and a….”
“YOU’LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT”
by VidaWantsYourCar on Jan 9, 2010 8:26 AM PST reply actions
In Words of Step Brothers
Are you F-kin’ High!
by truthfulfacts22 on Jan 9, 2010 11:15 AM PST reply actions
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