Post-game thread: Giants move two games ahead of the Padres
by Grant Brisbee on Oct 1, 2010 10:45 PM PDT
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PrintThe Padres hadn’t scored in 87 innings. They just dropped three out of four at home to the Cubs. They had to feel pressure. They walked into a raucous, sold-out park and had to watch Mike Felder participate in a pre-game ceremony that made grown men tear up. Mike Felder.
The Giants have been playing amazing baseball. They took a series in Coors Field, came home, and swept a team they needed to sweep. Their team ERA for the month of September was 1.78.
The top-half of the first ended with a Padre getting thrown out at home. The bottom-half started with a ten-pitch walk.
So it was on October 1st, 2010, that the myth of momentum died. Seriously. It doesn’t exist. Momentum is just a three-run home run away from becoming someone else’s. The Padres had the momentum after Adrian Gonzalez hit a three-run bomb. The wind was out of the crowd. The Padres had the momentum.
Then the Giants had double-secret momentum after Aaron Rowand hit a home run! They had triple-secret momentum when Cody Ross doubled, and a MOMENTUM VOLCANO was about to ERUPT when Andres Torres hit a swinging bunt to bring the Giants within two runs!
Momentum. Pfffft. Momentum is a right fielder playing on the damned warning track in the ninth inning. What kind of mad-professor nonsense was that? No matter.
Win a game, Giants. You have two more chances. Three, if you want to be a lawyer about it. There is no momentum. There is only baseball, and it’s a weird little game. Win one more game.
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At least they blew through Gregerson (3 straight days), Adams (4 straight days) and Bell (3 straight days).
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
by jctGamer on Oct 1, 2010 10:46 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Bell looked like he was losing command, Adams didn’t look sharp, but gregerson was the only one who was great.
Would Black dare use those 3 again tomorrow?
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Matt Cain should not have started on short rest!
This was a bonehead decision and has put the Giants in a bad pitching match up situation.
Zito should have started followed by Cain on normal rest and Sanchez. The idiot Bochy will start Lincecum on short rest again on Sunday and make this the most embarrassing collapse ever. The only positive is the possibility of firing Bochy’s incompetent ass for fucking up this opportunity.
by jasperlamarcrabbe on Oct 2, 2010 1:21 AM PDT up reply actions
More embarrassing than...
the Padres coughing up a the division lead in September? Think not.
Hitler was a Dodgers fan.
by The Nick on Oct 2, 2010 11:24 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
He has to, he doesn't have a choice really.
Sometimes you lose the battle to win the war. Tonight the Giants did well to force this into a tight game and force Bud Black to burn through all three of them.
Meanwhile, savvy Bochy left all of his big guns in the pen rested for tomorrow. This could pay huge dividends the next two days.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
but if you look at the flip-side, those pitches are so worn that he may be better off using a pitcher who may not be as good, but isn’t liable to hang a slider right down the middle.
It’s a risk, sure, but wouldn’t it be a more inherent risk to use an overworked pitcher?
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
4th day of Wilson in a row or Chris Ray, if the game is on the line?
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
The tragic part is, the Padres have no Chris Ray. Frieri, Webb, Mujica, all those guys are pretty damn nasty.
But I still agree, I think you have to go with the big guns (especially Bell and Gregerson, Adams may be stretching it).
I guess with must-win games, you gotta use your best guns, but the inherent risk involved with that is a lesser pitcher on rest may have a better advantage.
We will see what he decides to do tomorrow while trying to protect his slim lead :)
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
What lead?
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
wow i totally overlooked what i was typing. what i meant to say what “we will see what he decides to do tomorrow while trying to keep the Pads in the game”. Oops
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s okay. Reverse jinx should work on the Padres too. Unless they sprinkle pixie dust on it and turn it into an Eckstein triple…
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
We tried short-sheeting Eckstein’s bed, but he never noticed.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
Tie his wrists with twistie-ties! He’ll never break free.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe, but go with your best.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
i totally agree with your comment though. we saved our best, while he burned his even more. we did very well to make it a ballgame, and get to the best of their ’pen.
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Savvy Bochy : Regular Bochy
a) Regular Lincecum : August Lincecum
b) Last Night’s Rowand : Regular Rowand
c) Mario : Wario
d) All of the above
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 8:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, Adams was missing a lot with his pitches.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
you can only do so much after pitching 4 straight days and 5 out of the last 6.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Yeah, but the Giants couldn’t really do much against them. If they are slightly less good tomorrow, I don’t see much difference.
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Didn't do much?
Two runners on for Adams, and Bell got lucky. He missed with all of his pitches, walked Sanchez, and gave up a SMASH to Huff. Even Posey’s ground ball was pretty hard hit.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
they were one bad pitch from losing the game from the 7th thru the 9th.
every reliever put runners on, multiple runners in most cases
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Uribe just missed a hanging slider, then another hanger went off the end of his bat to the warning track
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, I just wish the Padres had done as well against Cain
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If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not buying the "luck" excuse anymore. We use it way too much to explain away failure.
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah
jctGamer is right Uribe just missed on two that would have tied the game.
The Giants and Padres both had 11 hits tonight, the Giants could have had about 15 and the Padres should have had about 9.
True
But I wouldn’t call it luck. It might have been unfortunate, but the execution wasn’t quite there. Except Huff’s flyout, I thought that was gone. And then off the wall. And..seriously?
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Ok, BABIP
if you don’t like the word “luck”
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
their defensive positioning tonight was rediculous.
hopefully, they think so highly of that positioning tomorrow, that everything goes opposite the way they try to defend against it.
things like that even out. no computer can tell you where all those balls would have been hit tonite
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
It bit us in the ass, no doubt.
But when you have Matt Stairs in left and Ryan Ludwick in right, it doesn’t require genius to realize you want to pound the first-base corner of the plate.
It obviously doesn’t require genius, since Bud Black did it.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Bell didn’t seem sharp to me – he reminded me of Rod Beck when he was getting by on a weird mix of residual intimidation and guile.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s funny—-I remember the same phase in Beck’s career, but the numbers don’t seem to.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beckro01.shtml
His peripherals were basically in line with his performance both of those last two years.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
He got it done without his ‘stuff’. He pitched.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
But there’s a difference between smoke-and-mirrors (which I consider to be BABIP luck) and just mixing your pitches well. I’m not sure which category “residual intimidation and guile” falls under.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
It’s a screwball.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 2, 2010 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Didactylos covered it:
Sometimes things just happen. What the hell.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
What the ffffffff
Dammit Cain :(
Why did it have to happen like that?
GO ZITO!
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
And a bullshit non-strike 3 call, but I’m gonna let that go cause its only making me angrier
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
You have to get past that. You don’t get the call? Fine it happens ALL THE TIME. You have to keep on hitting your spots and making good pitches. Unfortunately, he threw a belt high strike right there and Gonzalez wasn’t going to just let that ball go by he jumped on it and made Cain pay for his mistake.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
That . . .
. . . is rather harder to get past. Most blown calls are “But who knows what would have happened after?” Game-ending blown calls are not.
Incidentally, wasn’t Cuzzi supposed to work this series? Or was that just a rumor?
Sabean delenda est!
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I thought it was a sick joke.
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Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Same thing really.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I hope fate is one of those myths like the Loch Ness Monster, STIs, and momentum in baseball.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
NO WHAT DID I TELL YOU?
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
/gets STI from monster
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
This
The pitch was a borderline strike 3 and I saw that area get called a strike a few times in the game, but Cain was still ahead in the count. Sanchez made an error in that inning, although it was ruled a hit, so there’s a few things that could have gone different. But a pitcher as good as Cain needs to buckle down.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
I don't think it was an error. He had to go a long way to get to it.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I understand the ruling of a hit
I feel like Freddy should have made that play. Looked it was right in his glove, with a lot of time to go to first.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
The guideline is simple:
It’s only an error if the missed play is one that could be made with ordinary effort. Scorers usually adjust that to mean “ordinary effort for the particular fielder involved”, but I don’t think anyone can say that even for a fine fielder, that play is executed with “ordinary effort”.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
thanks for clearing that up
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
It's the de facto rule . . .
. . . but even shows up de jure. At Rule 10.12 (Errors), under (a)(1), in the “Comment” (which is considered part of the Rule), it says in part:
For example, the official scorer shall charge an infielder with an error when a ground ball passes to either side of such infielder if, in the official scorer’s judgement, a fielder at that position making ordinary effort would have fielded such ground ball and retired a runner. [emphases added]The sam ephrase shows up later in a parallel discussion of outfield errors.
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Another good example came when the scorer changed that Eckstein throwing error (which, if an error at all, should’ve been on Gonzalez on the scoop anyway) to an infield hit. Scrappy-Doo fielded the ball behind second and throw with his momentum going into left field; definitely not “ordinary effort”.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I know the rule
I thought it was an error. He got to it, it hit him in the glove, and if he had caught it it would have been an out. That seems like the definition of an error to me.
I was at the game, haven’t seen a replay. Was the pitch to Gonzalez really a belt-high fastball right down the middle? Because that’s what it looked like. And I’m still trying to reconcile with myself how that could happen.
Yup. Right down the dick on a tee.
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Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 2, 2010 8:06 AM PDT up reply actions
id be going crazy if i had to wait until 7pm again after that loss
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree. I actually lose the chance to watch the game because I get the fucking meaningless Yankees-Red Sox game, and I’m still glad it’s a day game. i slept like shit after this one. I kept thinking we lost twice already and had to keep reminding myself it was only the first game and we had two more chances. The funny thing we’ve forgotten is that if the Phillies sweep the Braves, we’re both in anyway.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
I am worried
The Padres seem to do everything right against the giants. It’s witchcraft. But it’s happening.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Burn them!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Seriously
They turned Huff into a newt. He got better. But still, a newt!
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
I SAW GOODY GONZALEZ WITH THE DEVIL
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Padres spent all their runs tonight. Come on, Zito!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:48 PM PDT reply actions
not after the way they battled back, got the SP out of the game in the 5th or 6th, I’m not worried about the offense.
Zito, I’m worried about
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Despite their mini outburst today, let’s not forget it’s still the Padres offense against Zito.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
I’m nothing but confident about Zito. Thinking the alternative, will drive me crazy
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Hard to believe that a 126 million dollar pitcher is pitching against a guy who’s spent his entire career bouncing between the minors and a majors and the journeyman is the better pitcher. They spent all this money on Zito so he could pitch and win games like this, let’s hope he finally earns his keep.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
Maybe the Giants will take this a little more seriously.
This is the most stupid comment I’ve seen here tonight.
i probably own to some of the stupid comments. my anger was taking over when we were down 6-0
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Who said that?
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Drastic times require drastic measue
Wait....Why is everybody clapping? Everyone around me is clapping.... I guess I should be clapping too... GO LAKERS!!! I hate living in So Cal
by 27freethrows on Oct 1, 2010 11:11 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
You have to admit
It’s got to be kind of hard to take seriously a team with a dancing friar as its mascot. That or a funky chicken.
Said the guy that cheers for a team with pants-off dance-off seal mascot.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 8:35 AM PDT up reply actions
There have been anti-Semitic remarks and tempers flaring and all that
And THIS is what you choose as the stupidest remark tonight?
There’s something wrong with you.
Get help.
Seriously.
And piss off in the mean time.
I apologize
Your comment was the most stupid sports-related comment of the evening.
Anti-semitism? What?
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Once again people.
They had to use there best pitchers, and we got 2 more shots to knock them out.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 10:49 PM PDT reply actions
Rome.
Always go with Rome.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
owlcroftians
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 7:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Man, SO much of my teenage years were spent on Civ II
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 8:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I like to play as the French because in past versions they were always commercial and industrious. Not sure about Civ V, though
"My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder." -Zinedine Zidane
"If City play a game against United for 89 minutes, maybe they’ll have a chance." -King Eric Cantona
The French actually have a nifty little ability in Civ V. Their Foreign Legion gunpowder unit gets a strength bonus when fighting outside of French cultural borders.
I’ve been finding myself really enamored of the Indian civ, though. They’re designed to be this massive scientific powerhouse, but their productivity allows them to be (ironically?) militaristic, at least in the early game.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Oct 2, 2010 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Aren’t they religious? I tend to avoid religious civilizations since it doesn’t fit my play style
"My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder." -Zinedine Zidane
"If City play a game against United for 89 minutes, maybe they’ll have a chance." -King Eric Cantona
by Useful_Idiot on Oct 2, 2010 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Religion isn’t in Civ V, at least not as it was in Civ IV.
There’s a civics branch you can unlock called “Piety” which gives you various bonuses, but religion as an aspect of Civ V is greatly toned down from Civ IV, if not eliminated entirely.
There are temples and other happiness buildings – which get important when you have cities because of the happiness penalty for city building and population growth – but even that really isn’t anything more than lip service to “religion.”
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Oct 2, 2010 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
What they need to do is . . .
. . . just put it in their collective back pocket, remember that they’re the team in first place, and that all they have to do is win any one of three available games, and move on.
(Which I said in my first post, but SBN ate it.)
Sabean delenda est.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
And...
they have been doing this exact thing all year long. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a team with a shorter memory.
I’m guessing it has a great deal to do with players such as Huff, Burrell and, yes, even Rowand in the clubhouse.
Yup, I thought it would hit the bricks at worst, surprisingly Venable is just sitting right there…
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I went from sure homerun to sure double to sure despair (when I saw it was an out) to possible wrist slitting. (when I saw it was a DP) The rightfielder never plays there but Freddy Sanchez has to know where he is before he takes off like that. He’s not even the tying run, what is he thinking?
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
I thought double.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought he had done SOMETHING good
You know, something other than hit into a double play.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
I thought everything was going to be all right. Fucking right fielder right there? Jeez.
by Grant Brisbee on Oct 1, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
No doubles defense, I would think it is pretty standard given the situation (tying run at the plate, who cares about the guy on first).
The real thing that shocked me was that the ball was hit that hard and died before the wall. That and Freddy’s inexplicable vroom.
Doesn’t the No double defense usually just apply to the corner infielders?
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by Giant among Angels on Oct 1, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
No, it also means that outfielders play much deeper, and the corner outfielders shade the line. The Padres also had Gwynn playing the right centerfield gap.
I mean, teams make defensive replacements when they have the lead. It happens. No point in speculating.
I think he does. The advance scouts had Veneble playing very deep and close to the line.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
blah reply fail. Meant to reply to inthesquat.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
Like others said, he was already very deep so he didn’t have to move that much. And Ludwick covered a lot of ground tonight. Or maybe it’s because I’m so used to watching Guillen.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Exactly. This started playing in my head, now I’m going to have to put it on repeat if I plan on lasting until tomorrow.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Venable’s catch was a gut punch. The camera shot of Gonzalez walking back to tag first base was a Judo Chop to the ’nads.
"Friends, San Franciscans, Countrymen....Humm Baby."
by The Nuschlerian Candidate on Oct 1, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
It seems to me . . .
. . . that FSanchez was a bit too enthusiastic there. If a runner behind him doesn’t score, it doesn’t matter. Yes, it’s nice to have runners on 2nd and 3rd instead of 2nd and 1st, but I suspect it’s more important to be 100% sure where the ball is going.
Sabean delenda est!
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Yeah
I doubt it really matters. But he shouldn’t have been doubled off.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
+1
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
That was really bonehead
Terrible play by Sanchez with Posey and Burrell coming up. Inexcusable. I really like Freddie. What was he thinking?
by GiantMalcontent on Oct 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Wasn’t – just rwally thought the ball was a hit and didn’t consider the risk.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
It was a terrible play because there was no upside. Whether or not Freddy Sanchez scored on that play, Huff would have been at second as the tying run.
I understand that he probably went on instinct because the right fielder is never playing in a place where he can catch that ball, but he still needs to stop and check. Freddy made a terrible decision.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Well, if the ball hit the wall Sanchez may have not made it to 3B, and 1st and 2nd would have been a bit disappointing.
But yeah, it was fail.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
If he was halfway, he could have gotten to third pretty easily, I think.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
No RF is like AT&T
He gets the carom right away and throws it to the cutoff just as Freddy gets to 2B.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
It seems pretty unlikely that he’d be able to do that perfectly without a lot of experience at AT&T.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
I also thought it was unlikely that Matt Cain would give up 6 runs to the Padres.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Are you seriously contending that the runner should base his decision on a miracle carom? You need to go halfway in that situation.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
when the camera panned back to the empty first base, I though Sanchez must have tagged…wrong
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I felt the same way.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 2, 2010 8:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Definitely – no reason to get doubled off there. Just no reason.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
As Richie said on the post-game
You have to go half-way on that one.
The first base coach should have been telling him that before the ball was hit.
A guy who has been in the big leagues that long doesn’t need the coach to tell him to do that. I think he got excited, Huff connected well and struck that one. It really seemed to die.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Please re-read your post
and see if you can find the contradiction.
Good point.
Shouldn’t need a coach.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
It was a double-retch moment. Just seeing Venable appear out of what seemed to be thin air was enough to induce dry heaving.
Considering how the ball died, I’d say Venable appeared out of thick air. Like the Weird Sisters in the Scottish Play
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions
This one really pissed me off. I left the ball park after that mental error.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I was ready to go at that point. I knew it was over. The place totally deflated.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Oct 2, 2010 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, yeah.
I mean, the game only lasted three more pitches.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 8:45 AM PDT up reply actions
TWTAS
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I instantly thought of the 3-run bomb J.T. Snow hit in the bottom of the 9th in the 2000 NLDS.
Of course, that worked out well in the end, too.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing. 0.00 ERA in Salem-Keizer...as a 24-year old.
That was definitely one of the first few incidents that taught me “whenever something good happens, something bad is about to happen.” Ugh, I hate my thought patterns sometimes.
Please don't bring up memories like that
The Giants are quite capable of making this some epic heartbreak and I don’t need to be thinking about that kind of stuff.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Billy Mays!
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
No. I thought it might be off the bricks, but it was never high enough to leave the park even if it had been hit hard enough. I still have no idea what Sanchez was looking at, because I thought it was at least probably going to be caught within half a second after it was hit.
this
Surprised it ended up low enough to be caught, even on a foggy night.
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 7:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Only thing about tomorrow and Sunday that slightly worries me
For whatever reason, the Giants are kind of a mediocre team in day games. 29-26.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
SSS
But the last 2 day games they played were the Matt Cain gem at Coors Field and yesterday’s game.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
if they don’t pull one out of four games this could be it for me and baseball. it was a fun 14 years or so.
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
Oh, you’d be back. We all come back.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
you sound like my wife...
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Oct 1, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Sound like…?
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Because Giants fans are sick, twisted, demented, masochistic, pathetic bastards.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL Greg Papa asking Baer before the game how he brought the NL West to SF
Fuck every single motherfucker who is counting their fucking eggs as hatched fucking chickens.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
Papa with the jinx. Fuck him.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Papa is obsessed with saying shit before it happens.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
I didn't really like the pre-game showing all of the previous clinches
and then showing a 2010.
That pissed me off no end. I was yelling at the TV at the top of my lungs, "They haven't won A THING YOU MOTHERFUCKING MORONS!"
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I was saying the same thing!
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I was caught up in the moment.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I'm too old and jaded to get caught up in moments. If the Giants ever win the WS I'll probably cry like a baby, but until then I have learned to expect fail from the most obscure and seemingly fail-proof places.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I said I got caught up, didn't say that I was naive.
There’s always a thought in the back of my head.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
That reminded me a lot
of the gigantic ceremony the Rangers had at the beginning of the 94-5 season, parading the Stanley Cup around. That went well.
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 1, 2010 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
At least they had a trophy to show off. All the Giants have is Greg Fucking Papa
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
your last three words
worst porn film idea ever!
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 1, 2010 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Greg did like to keep it close to home.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions
We had some good signs there.
Lets build off of that and win this thing.
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by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 10:52 PM PDT reply actions
There was more than moral victory there
The Padres wanted this to be a laugher so badly because they’ve burned their bullpen the last 4 days with the cubs. By forcing them into using the back ends of the bullpen, the Giants have a huge advantage going into tomorrow.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
STAAAAAAUUUUUUFFFFFFFFFEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HATE YOUR LASAGNA
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
The four runs we got tonight give me hope.
It’s not often we score this many this late against the Padres this season.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Same here. And they were runs that they worked for and not all came on home runs.
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by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I really hope Cody Ross gets the start over Guillen tomorrow.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
+infinity
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t see how he doesn’t. Guillen should never start again over Ross.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Guillen should never start again over Ross.
Bruce Bochy is the manager. Your argument is invalid.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
by groug on Oct 1, 2010 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Gritty vet > SSS
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by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
But Guillen is a “professional hitter”. Ross is not. Okay?
by keyser_sozey on Oct 2, 2010 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions
i had no problem with it while Guillen was hitting bullets all over the place. Note to Bochy. He hasn’t hit the ball hard in two weeks, so why aren’t you going with the younger, faster, healthier player who is not only hot, but the far better defender?
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
Guillen’s not here for curtain calls. He’s here to hit. That neither is occurring fails to surprise me.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Ross only starts if Torres is out or if facing LHP
And they don’t even start him against LHP anymore. What does he have to do to start over Guillen?
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Quietly arrange . . .
. . . for Bruce Bochy to be kidnapped.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I can’t wear this bird suit in there, tomorrow’s casual Friday!
Also known to haunt as theghostoftravisdenker and theaccidentalghostofsergioromo.
Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Oct 2, 2010 7:12 AM PDT up reply actions
In my heart of hearts, I really think Bochy will play Ross over Guillen, considering today’s events.
But there is still that nagging doubt.
Though I would have preferred to win,
going through their bullpen rather quickly was nice. Hopefully that bodes well for the rest of the series.
We’re a team with a winning percentage over .500 with three chances left. Statistically speaking, we still have the high ground. We can afford another mistake. The Padres can’t.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Keith Law has been arguing Heyward over Posey on twitter all day.
Law:
WAR, an objective statistic, does. RT @metsfaithful @keithlaw No rational mind would rate Heyward over Posey this season.
Me:
@keithlaw Not if you rate it over an equal number of games. Posey wins easily then.
Law:
@naveedf11 True, but that’s because of positional value.
so?
Well, to be fair, you would have to regress his numbers to the mean and then add up the value.
It would be a lot closer in that case.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
He won't get it
and it will suck but Posey won’t mind. And at least the guy has had a good year.
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by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
True.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
So, um, positional value doesn’t matter? That doesn’t even rise to the level of ridicule.
But as to the actual contest at hand, Posey has been the better player, but he’s done it in fewer games. I don’t know how you weight the quality vs quantity thing for the Hall of Fame vote, and that still applies to this.
Myself I would vote for Posey, as I think the longevity argument doesn’t carry much weight when you’re talking about rookies.
He did say that it’s perfectly reasonable to pick Posey based on positional value. He’s simply been arguing with someone all day who has been saying that batting average and slugging percentage are more important than on base percentage.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
That doesn’t even rise to the level of ridicule.
Physicists have an even neater version of that sentiment:
It’s not even wrong.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I think Buster's gonna win it. And Felix Hernandez will take the AL Cy Young.
And I don’t think either race is gonna be close. Remember in 2008 how we were all stressing about whether Cy Young voters would recognize Timmy over the more well-known Webb and Santana? Everyone thought that was going to be an incredibly close race, and he actually won quite handily.
There’s been SO much talk about both races of late, and all the cogent arguments (C >>> RF in positional value, Felix >>> CC in everything but PW*) point to Buster and Felix. Even the strawhats are starting to realize that, what with the counting stats being nearly equal despite Posey having fewer at-bats, and nearly half of CC’s omgwinz coming against the Mariners, Royals, and Orioles. It certainly helps that the Giants are playing for the division and the Braves for the wild card, and that the Yankees are faceplanting to the finish line.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
*Pinstripes Worn
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
I agree with Hernandez finishing pretty strongly in first, I think people are just worried that the CYA will go to the wrong guy. I think Posey/Heyward will be extremely close and I can’t argue with it. They’ve both been great. I’m biased and want Posey to win, but Heyward is a great player.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Not the worst loss ever.
I mean, we lost so that sucks, but we could have just rolled over after being down 6.
That definitely scared the padres a little bit
haven’t their top bullpen arms all pitched in 3 consecutive games?
we need to get to their pen early tomorrow
by TimLaser and MattyC on Oct 1, 2010 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Everyone who was saying that the Padres Cubs game yesterday didnt matter is looking pretty foolish right about now.
To be fair
They looked pretty foolish yesterday too.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
LOL
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Miller talking about the Bucky Dent playoff game in the wrap. That is NOT the historic precedent I want to think about right now.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
+109
Playing on Monday is not a good idea.
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 1, 2010 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
If you don't believe in your players then you may as well not watch the game
I have faith in Zito tomorrow. After tonight’s performance you can’t say that you don’t have faith in the other guys who will be out there with him.
Except Guillen. Fuck that guy.
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
I always have faith.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Oh but I need some time off from that emotion
Time to pick my heart up off the floor
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Ross will be in the lineup tomorrow
Right?
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Oct 1, 2010 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Why was Renteria starting when he hasn’t played in a few weeks?
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Lefty!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
This. So much fucking this.
The Giants have been murdering the opposition in THEIR OWN BALLPARKS in Renteria’s absence. It makes me sick to think that Bochy has been sitting in his office thinking, “Man just wait until Edgar is healthy. Then we’ll REALLY kick their ass.”
I has almost forgotten that Redgar was even on the team.
Pablo @ 3B – he has been killing the ball.
Uribe / Fontenot @ SS – both have been productive
Why, oh why, Head, would you even consider screwing with this?
You know it’s because of Pablo’s R/L splits.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Zito has pitched well this year, for the most part
and he is used to the big stage.
As I read this, I thought,
"WTF?!? Even Guillen? You can’t seriously expect me to have faith in tha-
Oh. Right. Well, carry on, then."
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Just remember
Fielder is the first baseman.
Felder is the fielder.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
Or this guy
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by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Naw, he Magical Trevor'd us.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
LOL
so long since I have seen that.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Got Little Kuriboh on the mind.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
So the Braves and Reds lost
How does this effect the playoff picture? To many different scenarios to think about
I think beat Padres = play Braves.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
out of curiousity, say the braves lose out, and we lose the next two. then we are 1 game ahead of the braves, but play a playoff game for the division? say we lose that playoff game, then we end up with 1 more win than the braves but tied in loss column. WC still ours?
not that i think that will happen. I know the Giants will take care of business this weekend.
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
we wouldn’t play a playoff game. padres with take division and we’d take wildcard.
by kingofthacove on Oct 1, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
oh ok gotcha. so only a playoff game if we aren’t already guaranteed a playoff spot (ie braves losing out)
i believe it won’t come to this, just curious. if it comes to this, well then fuck, lol
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions
It effects it with great aplomb.
It affects it in the manners listed above.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
help me out here
if the Giants/Braves/padres all finish with the same record how does the play in work?
Roulette.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
i think
NL west winner gets home field….and if the braves get swept i think the giants automatically make it?
Giants and Padres would play a game, winner faces Braves I think.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Ugh
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, my bad.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
SF-SD play tiebreaker in SD for the division on Monday, and loser flies to ATL to play WC tiebreaker on Tuesday
Spot is determined by coin flip I heard for game for wild card.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
nope. ATL beat SF and SD in season series and thus, hosts any wild card tiebreaker. coin flip was eliminated couple years ago
Only in a 3 way tie there is a flip. Rules are strange on 3 way tie.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
MLB changed the rule after last season when the Twins took the season series from the White Sox but had to travel to Chicago for the play-in game because the White Sox won the coin flip. The Twins filed a grievance after the season, and MLB agreed.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Rockies go
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Oct 1, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Have you ever seen The Deer Hunter?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ll be watching the game in a bar tomorrow with a slew of Padres fans here in San Diego… my first time all year I get to do this. I look forward to the game, and seeing how long it takes for one of them to sound like they actually know baseball.
Over/under = 2012.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Charlie is wise.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL This Is STILL RELEVANT
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
first thing i thought of when that ball was caught
by Rook Takes Pawn on Oct 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
This loss even shook Shultz.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
TORTURE
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Oct 1, 2010 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
He must have Misched alot of bats tonight
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Oct 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
He was a Mischine out there.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Well Guys, here's the good news
I went to the game at the Stick in 1997, and Barry Bonds jumped into the stands.
I went to the game at Pac Bell in 2000, and the Giants won the west.
I went to NLCS Game 5 in 2002, and Kenny Lofton drove a stake through the heart of the Cardinals.
I am going to the game tomorrow.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Perfect. Even better news is that I wasn’t there for any playoff game/clincher and I’m going Sunday.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't get champagne in your eyes
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Oct 1, 2010 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Rally jct!!!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Godspeed
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Oct 1, 2010 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I know how we all feel about Zito tomorrow, but I’m gonna have to say that I can only think that he will come through, because he HAS TO. I’m gonna think only positive thoughts, I’m not gonna rag on him tomorrow, I am confident he will keep things in check and keep us in the game.
The alternative to that, is unthinkable. So, Go Barry!!
Tim Kawakami
Now, after their 6-4 loss to San Diego, it gets sticky. Now it gets deep.
by Rook Takes Pawn on Oct 1, 2010 11:03 PM PDT reply actions
Coincidental.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
You’re deep, TK. Wait, no, wrong word. You’re stupid. That’s more like it.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re telling me he didn’t think anyone would misinterpret “Now it gets sticky. Now it gets deep.” ??????
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
That's ma boy.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I think this thread just broke several laws. I blame Grant.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Sticky icky icky. Oo-ee.
(I was gonna go with this picture, but thought better of it.)
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m weirdly not that upset about this loss. Not worried, they obviously have three more chances to take this. I have faith Zito will come through tomorrow.
I'm not nervous, a little disappointed but I'm all right.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
In spirit...
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Me Neither
This loss felt like that Colorado loss last Saturday.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Could be 4 more chances left at a playoff spot
if Atlanta loses one more to Philly. In fact, if they lose all 3 I think the Giants back their way into the playoffs. It would totally suck, but sad to say, I’d take it.
that would be an ugly fucking cherry on the season. backed into a playoff spot like that.
i have faith, that barry will do well tomorrow and we will clinch in front of the fans. believing is the only way to go on this, cause the other option (not having faith in them winning just one) is unimaginable
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
It would be ugly and full of torture
But I’ll take the playoffs however the Giants can make it. It’s not about style points.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
My partner has only been watching the Giants since 2007
He is completely perplexed by how fatalistic I am right now. It’s just one game, right? They have two (even three) more chances, right?
He has not yet begun to taste pain. I am so, so, so pessimistic, and I’m trying not to be, but man…
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
They're just teasing us, I know their game.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Bingo.
Bango.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
That far which way?
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Good news is we have 3 games left to win this thing.
Bad news is that Bochy, in his infinite wisdom, will play both Guillen AND Rowand tomorrow.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:05 PM PDT reply actions
Guillen scares me more.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I don’t see him taking out Torres. I could live with Rowand CF and Torres RF.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah, it’ll be Ross over Guillen (2 doubles 4 Ross, mmm) and Pablo over Rent (Pablo didnt hit into a DP and K)
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
It was bad omen
I had the most confidence in him of the entire staff
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
He had some good swings and misses, but he was really struggling to hit his targets. When he got ahead in counts, he would miss badly with one or two that wouldn’t even tempt a hitter to think about swinging. And then he would leave one over the plate. Also, a few BABIP’s and Ludwick made a great swing.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
…and some bad umpiring. but i am working on letting that go
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Really?
I wasn’t too upset with any calls except the ball 1 to Gonzalez, but it was borderline.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Was Renteria really out at first on the double play?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
I didn’t see the replay but it looked very close.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
I don’t even remember them showing a replay, which is weird.
I was absolutely sure he was safe the first time I saw it. When I rewinded and watched it again, I would still have bet on him being safe, but I wasn’t totally certain.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Never saw a replay and didn't want to rewind
I was talking about the home plate and his strike zone, though.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
We concur.
We reckon that was what Bochy was referring to later when bitching about Eckstein’s maybe-check swing when he was HBP: Bochy was waving two fingers, as if to say “that makes two, now” (which it didn’t, as that call was actually correct).
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Yeah, I actually felt a little bad for Eckstein. Getting hit there must hurt like hell.
Watching him hop around in agony reminded me of Dobby beating the crap out of himself for revealing secrets to Harry Potter.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Zito is gonna suck tomorrow, count on it.
Giants will have to fucking score a lot of runs.
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
Oh, come on! Preemptive pessimism will not be tolerated!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I like your hidden optimism.
It almost fooled me.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
It didn't work earlier though.
That’s why I’m starting tonight
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
You are wrong
Zito has been pitching well lately and tomorrow is going to be a masterpiece
We will see
I don’t think he has it in him. I expect his control to desert him.
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Have some hope it kind of sucks that people here are trying to be positive and all you can do is spew negativity.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
Oh God, why can’t we be more like Purple Row?
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
That's not what I'm saying at all
I’m just saying that I feel hopeful and people here are trying to do the same and it just gets tiring reading all of these types of comments.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
I have to agree. I’ll take honesty, but rampant negativity I just find tiring.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:31 PM PDT up reply actions
But the FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKs I like.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Well that’s just frustration. We all feel that.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh fiddlesticks
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
I feel your pain.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
im frustrated too, mostly with the way Matt pitched, but you have to just say “fuck the past” and tell yourself that Zito will do well. Cause the alternative is just gonna be hell. Just gotta stay positive with him
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, according to his past, Matt should have annihlated them.
But, he had one of his worst starts of the year. Each day is different.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Yes! Ban Jponry!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
It was all right.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
It's ok, I'm with you buddy.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Cain is so nice, he would invite Mark Sweeney to his party
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
Green’d
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Best way to get rid of the birthday blues...
That one part where their in the rain, and… and… OMG it’s so beautiful!
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Oct 1, 2010 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm going to the game tomorrow
But damnit, I would have far far preferred they clinched today. Time for Zito to earn his $18M.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
His gritty gamer veteran experienced-ness will get us through.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Today was like the first time I wore orange on OF.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
no wait, 2nd time.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Was it a Mets jersey?
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Oct 1, 2010 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, really? So we won all of them for a while, then lost every single one since? I’m glad I went to our last win.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah we were 11-0 (10-0, but they wore orange on a tues against the orioles).
then the pads came to town (prediction game) 1 loss. sanchez got hit, some bad D
then ARI, 2 losses. timmy got shelled
then MIL, 3 losses. total D meltdown, bum got hit
then tonight.
all of the last 4 orange fridays that we’ve lost have featured either a pitcher getting shelled, or a defensive meltdown. im glad to see them go for the season
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I WUZ RIGHT!!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
how so? i turned it off right after it ended, sick of it.
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions
The lighter mood made me realize there’s always tomorrow. (At least until Monday.)
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 2, 2010 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Posting again
There are stomach punches. Then there are ball punches. Then there are those times when someone grabs your balls and twists them around a million times. Then there are times when instead of a person, it’s a blender. Then there’s Giants baseball.
by garbanzo24 on Oct 1, 2010 11:10 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Did it help?
I may try it
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
by Buster-Jangle on Oct 1, 2010 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I like drank a lot.
Then I puked, which is like one of the things I hate the most. So I don’t know, it made me feel a bit better I guess, but I still hate it with a passion.
I hate throwing up.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Same. I'm like oh I'm never drinking over my limit ever.
And it’s probably gonna happen again and I’m going to regret it.
Well, how else are you going to convince people that you’re cool?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Duh. Cigarettes.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Pft, Cigars!
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I still think cigars are cooler.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
/flagged by five different people in Cincinnati.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Fixed-gear bikes and beanies.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
I listened to The Beanies when they were on vinyl.
Oh, they’re just this band. You’ve probably never heard of them.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
by groug on Oct 1, 2010 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I was crazy before it was the cool thing to be. Now that everyone’s gone mad, I’m totally sane.
Ask anyone at the thrift store. They know me there.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
by groug on Oct 1, 2010 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wasn't sure which one of your comments to rec
Both of them made me laugh after a colossally disappointing night.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Anyway, you should rec my first comment, because after that I’ve clearly gone downhill.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Rec'd both
You shouldn’t ride your fixed-gear downhill, it will be very tricky to stop.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Fixies are for losers.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
By explaining the dangers of alcohol?
Knowledge is cool!
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
You want some knowledge? BOOM!
(found upon GISing “knowledge is cool!”)
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
TWSS
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 2, 2010 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
SIRMDMV!
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I haz a sad
Dave won’t be there tomorrow :(
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
:(
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 1, 2010 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
More proof that Stanford is an evil institution that must be stopped at all costs.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
by norcalnick on Oct 1, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
rec'd!
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 1, 2010 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions
lol no
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 1, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Rec'd
Starting with Cal’s decision to never lose a baseball game to Stanford again.
/sadz
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
If the Giants had to watch Radnich after every loss like we do.......
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
There's your 162-0 season for you
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
OT:
I’m sick of these new Kit-Kat commercials.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Oct 1, 2010 11:11 PM PDT reply actions
I’m sick of these new Kit-Kat commercials.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate it when we have the momentum then the other team takes it away from us before giving it back then taking it away again.
I know right.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Not because I'm angry...
…I’m out for the rest of the regular season. I’ve come to have anxiety issues regarding the Giants – though I have no problem with stuff like business critical emergencies that could cost me my job – and the Spilborghs game last year landed me in the hospital. So I’m out, for the betterment of us all. Also, even if you have decent health care, spending the night at Stanford costs a cool three grand. So I very sincerely hope to see you all at the playoffs.
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
For realz?
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Yeah
Thought I was having a heart attack, never felt anything like it before, but all the tests were just golden after they pumped me full of morphine.
I really shouldn’t care so much. But I’ve lived through 1987, 1989, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and Spilborghs, and at this point I have this fatalistic belief that the Giants will never be allowed to win it all and the Padres will always hit 22-hoppers and I WANT TO STRANGLE SOMEONE
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
Aww, sorry to hear that.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
All good now
Actually it’s quite a relief when they hook you up to all the machines that show that you’re 100% okay. It’s nice to have data. :)
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
That's good.
And I believe in the Giants. Teams tend to win when they have good farm players.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Wow. In that case, someone should call you if it’s going well tomorrow. Stay healthy.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
You’ll come back for the playoffs? Won’t that just kill you?
I think you can do this. The Giants need you.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I bought tickets
Also, if the game goes poorly I plan to get so shitwrecked I can’t see the score.
Yeah, I’m a healthy one.
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
I’d say that’s sensible, but sensible doesn’t compute when discussing the Giants.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Thank you
I take comfort in the fact that my primary stressor is how well twenty-five millionaires play a kids’ game.
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
Get better, man.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 1, 2010 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, that's ONE opinion
ANOTHER opinion is that the Giants should finally win it all and cure the cause of my anxiety. :)
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
THIS
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you a doctor? Cause that sounds like sound medical advice to me.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you a doctor?
You just transplanted my heard <3
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
If we were in the same room, I’d make out with you just for saying that.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you a man?
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Yeah. I’m not even gay either (assuming you’re also a man).
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
That I am if you consider 18 being a man (I don't).
But no, I’m not gay. Though, I am fb married to my gay friend and I always “flirt” with letter. Nothing weird though.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
a/s/l?
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
huh?
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Age/Sex/Location yo!
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
I hardly know ya but:
18 as of October 1st and I’m a Male.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
And why not, NJ
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
20-Female-California
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
In your profile pic, is that you on the right or the left?
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Left it’s an old picture from a while back, I don’t wear glasses anymore and stuff. Oh and Happy Birthday.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
LOL I love all these happy birthdays that I've been getting.
It’s never happened so much before. And my bday ended nearly 3 hours ago in my time zone.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Happy Birthday. You’ll accept it, and you will like it.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I will and I do.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Well it’s still your Birthday on the west coast. 11 more minutes SO ENJOY IT WHILE YOU CAN.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
Every second of it.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
The summer of my 18th birthday was amazing. Best summer evar.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
I liked the 2008 Summer a lot.
2009 was good too.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Happy birthday, but I mean for next year. I just like to be different for no reason.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Sall right.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Happy birthday!
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 1, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks again.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Taint weird at all. Of course, I just said I’d make out with you for laying on a cheap pick-up line, so I’m no judge of weird.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Everyone likes to feel special.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Yeah, gay is the new str8 I’m told.
Well, that’s what the kids at Art Institute say.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
Ah art snobs.
I draw pretty good, but, I’m not one of them.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I hope you feel better baseball-less. Though I do have one question… you’re out for the remainder of the regular season, but you’ll tune into the playoffs? that’s gonna be twice the anxiety
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
You have medically-significant levels of stress and anxiety,
and you adopted Aaron Rowand?
Is this a confront-your-phobias kinda thing?
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Zito Saturday, Sanchez Sunday…and quite possibly…Timmeh for the playoff game in San Diego.
Maybe the Giants get it done on Sunday.
Maybe it's the Fratellis
Maybe Chunk found the police.
Maybe it’s another one of Willy’s booby traps.
Its funny because fuck the dodgers
maybe he stayed in a Holiday Inn last night
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 7:32 AM PDT up reply actions
MadBum for the Braves game on Tuesday. Zito starting in Game 2 of the playoffs.
Nah, let’s not go there.
I already went there unfortunately
It is the nature of being a Giants fan.
The good news is that I think the Phillies will win at least 1 of the next two with the Braves which would guarantee the Giants at least 4 more games to be knocked out of it.
i hope we just win tomorrow, and all is good with the world.
i cant take much more, esp if its gonna be like this for the next 3-4 days
by giant4life83 on Oct 1, 2010 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
hang on hang on
I’m way bummed about the loss, but we still have 3 chances to win a game. We still have a great shot.
We will all feel better in the morning.
Maybe someone should explain the scoreboard to the screaming idiots outside of ATT tonight
My big fellows, my Giants!
If you want to be in first place, say Bye, Bye Baby!
Zito and sanchez are not the ones I want to be counting on in the most crucial games of the year
FUCK!
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
at least zito has been there before so he worries me a little less
by BrianIsAwesome on Oct 1, 2010 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Not me
I’m pretty much terrified.
OH YEAH, AND WHY THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE THEY NOT SHOWING A GAME WITH FUCKING PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS NATIONWIDE. WHAT THE FUCK.
If the Giants clinch tomorrow and I can’t see it live, somebody needs to die for that. I nominate bud selig. WHAT THE FUCK.
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Because . . .
. . . it’s not taking place on the east coast. Things west of the Hudson River are a mirage and myth: the world ends there.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Not only that, but it's a known fact that anyone traveling west of the Hudson falls off the earth and is never heard from again.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Where do people figure out the coverage?
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Sweet – thanks!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 2, 2010 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Technically, the Yankees-Red Sox game does have playoff implications, as the AL East hasn’t been decided yet.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m certain Fox will remind everyone of that about once every 30 seconds.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 2, 2010 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Cain was who I would have picked, and look what happened. That’s why we play the game.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 1, 2010 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Would you rather count on Tim Stauffer?
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
He’s been crazy good this year.
It’s disgusting.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Oh well, we tend to do good against guys like that, sometimes.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
We did bad against Ubaldo the first time.
We did him in pretty good the next few times.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
It was during that series that Jon Miller pointed out that when the Giants score a buttload of runs, they have nothing left in the tank for several games thereafter.
I’m hoping that there’s a converse rule of sorts working this series, where the Giants get stiffed tonight, and score runs and play better defense tomorrow.
It’s late and I really have no idea what I’m typing, just trying to be hopeful or sumpin.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
IT;;sd ad ok ax sx
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
That was the day when the strike zone expanded 1 foot off the plate.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 2, 2010 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Given up 2 HR’s in 76 innings. 3.0 HR/FB%. Only started 6 games and hasn’t struggled with the transition at all. Ewwwww I had no idea how ridiculous he has been.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
..
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
by jctGamer on Oct 1, 2010 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nerbz unite!
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Sanchez is good vs the padres. Zito I think will surprise everyone.
Don’t forget, we still have Timmy and an extra game if it all goes to shit.
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Oct 1, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Meh, the biggest game of Dirty's career came against SD
and he did pretty well
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
Drunk jhiat00 is going to bed. Tomorrow will be better. I’ll need to figure out that whole getting around the Fox blackout thing but that will be after a good espresso drink and some doughnuts. Also, Aaron Rowand SRSLY??
I CAN HAZ MARK REYNOLDS?
atdhe.net better have the fucking game god dammit
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Yeah, I’m gonna be going back to that fanpost from a few days ago to try and weasel my way into my MLB tv feed. Fucking blackout rules are ridiculous.
I’m also kind of sad at the prospects of listening to Fox announcers call if we win, but at this point, I’d rather just win.
I will have the game on mute and listen to the radio.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
use radiodelay to sync A/V. works great
by TimLaser and MattyC on Oct 1, 2010 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
need a computer
plug in radio to computer using audio-in and use the program radiodelay (freeware) to sync with your tv.
by TimLaser and MattyC on Oct 1, 2010 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t get KNBR on the radio out here. I can maybe get it with a lot of static at night but never during the day.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
No static at all...FM..no static at all.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
yes, but
my “radio” is MLB Gameday < whatever > so it would have to take the software packets and delay them, then send them to my speakers.
If it can do that, I will PAY them for it, TV muted, and all.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
sorry then
have an lcd tv monitor, so it’s easy for me to do it
by TimLaser and MattyC on Oct 1, 2010 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I still can't believe Greg Giraldo died, RIP
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Oh man. I didn’t know that I liked him.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
'chasm?
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
No I'm serious
I didn’t know he died. I hadn’t heard that but I liked him as a comedian.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
Oh yeah, I just found out.
Sad indeed.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
It looks like you’re saying you didn’t know if you liked him or not.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Commas can do wonders for tone in a sentance.
Oh man. I didn’t know that, I liked him.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
Punctuation saves lives!
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
That is an example . . .
. . . of what is known as Skitt’s Law. Per Wikipedia:
A corollary of Muphry’s law, variously expressed as, “Any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself,” or, “The likelihood of an error in a post is directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster.”
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I always re-read my posts when correcting another, for that reason.
But I wasn’t correcting her, simply making fun.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Meanie.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
Please, please, please tell us that you copy and pasted that.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
If that refers to the Wikipedia content . . .
. . . yes.
I sed to stop and edit every Wikipedia page I referred to, but finally decided that life is too short.
Snark: That should be either “copy-and-pasted that” or “copied and pasted that”.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I’m lazy, I admit it. But go back and check the spelling of Muphry from that wikipedia article.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
"used to"
By the way, Skitt is a real person who lives in the Bay Area (the City itself, i think) and is rather erudite and pleasant to deal with on forums (notalby usenet’s alt.english.usage).
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Then we might reasonably assume that he is the last surviving subscriber to that newsgroup. The Internet is the very incubator of illiteracy.
Good chatting, but the sandman calleth.
Good night!
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
DAMMIT
Sentence. I always mispell that for some reason.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
That is a comma splice.
It wants to be either of:
I didn’t know that; I liked him.
I didn’t know that. I liked him.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
True I forget about the semi-colon. Poor semi-colon doesn’t get any respect and is only used when people want to wink.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
It could be worse.
Consider the sad fate in modern times of the colon and the dash, two thoroughly useful marks now relegated to a couple of boring conventional uses.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
with $20 million dollars in reward bonuses.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
no one can do it better
And people wonder why he’s there so long.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
cuz he got lucky by sinning cheap players as benchwarmers.that turn out to have career numbers.
THATS CHEAP SABEAN!
sarcasm btw
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I think I saw him before the game with Marvin Benard, a packet of papers and a pen.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions
HOW THE FUCK WAS HE PLAYING THAT CLOSE TO THE LINE
THAT BALL IS ALWAYS A DOUBLE WTF
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Oct 1, 2010 11:24 PM PDT reply actions
Baseball Gods.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
its called scouting, in the real world.
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
Strawhats!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
It totally sucks
And it’s why baseball is the greatest game in the world. Especially in September and October, positioning of your fielders is all important. A few steps one way or the other is the difference between success and failure. It’s crazy.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
Like chess!
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
You know your stuff
It’s really hard to win a chess game when you’re three steps away from the table.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Not if your arms are four steps long
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
You are still looking at the board from far away, which could easily cause you to miss something.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Not if your eyes are three steps long, too. Like if you’re a wolf in a zoot suit, see, and an attractive lady walks by, and you make an AH-OOOOO-GA! sound, and… ah, never mind.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I loved Mike Felder
I remember my first baseball video game had him starting LF instead of Bonds, so he had to make due. I really used to look up to a lot of marginal players: Darren Lewis, Royce Clayton, Kirk Manwaring.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
I'm gonna try to be positive/delusional and convince myself that Zito is gonna pitch like he's never pitched before.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:26 PM PDT reply actions
Or at least
pitch like he did that one season where he wasn’t a complete ball of disappointment
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Oct 1, 2010 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah! Maybe his fastball will magically gain 10 mph. You never know.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Its ok Giants...
I know that all you wanted to do was give those Padres a little glimmer of hope so that Saturday comes by and you crush all their dreams! I see your plan! Kick some ass tomorrow!
that game sucked....however
Go Zito! Go Giants! Win Tomorrow, Damn it!
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 1, 2010 11:28 PM PDT reply actions
Brad Ausmus managed the Dodgers tonight
Maybe he should come up and manage the Giants tomorrow?
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
Can we get a Grant post on how to deal with all the fair-weather fans?
My sister wants to “talk to me about baseball”. She decided earlier this season that she likes baseball, after saying it was boring for years. I was bitter tonight and said “why didn’t you want to talk about baseball between 2005-2009?”
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Oct 1, 2010 11:31 PM PDT reply actions
Maybe she tried watching the Giants between 2005 and 2009, and was bored out of her fucking mind.
I know I was. I’m just too masochistic for that to affect anything.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
My dad has been taking us to games since we were both under a year old. This year she decided she cares. As far as I’m concerned, anyone who decides they care, doesn’t actually care.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Oct 1, 2010 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree completely. God knows I've decided not to care about the Giants around 63,000 times, give or take, and I can't stop caring for more than half a day.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 1, 2010 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
When did she start following this year? If it was early enough in the season that the Giants were still 6 games back of the Padres I’m not sure that would count as fair-weather.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
By “follow” I mean that tonight was probably the 3rd or 4th full game she’s watched this season. But it goes beyond her. Everyone is acting like they care, and I suppose they do, but it’s difficult as a die-hard to watch it happen. Don’t get me wrong, I love the support the team gets, but this is something that has bothered me for a long, long time. We’re the die-hards. We’ve been through everything with this team. I don’t know how to deal with the bandwagoners and the fair-weather fans. I suppose as long as they don’t act like they actually know their shit, I’m fine with it.
Example: I was watching yesterday’s game in a bar, and a guy was telling me how Weezy is terrible this season when he goes more than one inning.
Another example: I saw multiple facebook statuses complaining about Wilson coming in the other day because “he blows it all the time.” Why do these people get to share in our joy?
I probably sound like a douche, but I’m not. I’m just a troubled, confused fan who doesn’t know what to do with these new folk.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Oct 1, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Victory tastes sweeter for the diehard fans. Take solace in that.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions
fun fact
there’s only a bandwagon to be jumped on when the team is winning. Let’s call it a problem that’s nice to have for a change.
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 7:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Also, some bandwagon fans become hard-core fans. Especially little kids. Bandwagoning is the first step of making year-to-year success pay off long-term
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
exactly the story of my wife
Two years ago, I watched games by myself, or switched over during dinner from “news” on “commercial breaks”. Last year, she started peeking over the newspaper and not minding when I “forgot” to switch, and pretty soon was watching the game and reading the paper during commercials. This season, she started planning around Timmyday. She watched an entire game by herself when I was out of town, calling me a couple of times to tell me what was going on.
Suddenly at the end of May something happened, some new player or something, and nowadays she is more geeked out than me, listening to KNBR, etc. etc.
Weird, but awesome.
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
same here. Suddenly I find the car radio is turned to KNBR when she’s done using it, and she’s telling me that she’s watching a few innings in between classes at the Bears’ lair. She also has been asking me when the next McCoven meet-up is.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
Playoff meet-up!
/knocks wood
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I need to vent
I don’t think I need to mention the game… but the fact that I had to watch it at a bar in LA next to a Padres fan made it bad. Not only that….. The TV next to the game in the bar was tuned to Fox Sports West (Angels channel). They were airing a show recapping the 2002 World Series. I thought I was in a bad dream.
"A foghorn blowing out wild and cold." -Dire Straits
Ouch.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
You are a strong man.
There’s a good chance that if I had been in your position, I’d be in jail right now.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Oct 1, 2010 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions
If we still didn't have another chance to clinch
and if I wasn’t with my gf… Shit would have been bad. Especially when the Padres dude started chiming his glass with his fork after the final out.
"A foghorn blowing out wild and cold." -Dire Straits
I would have wanted to grab his glass, raise it, say, “I propose a toast…” then punched him in the balls.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Begbie
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Eftir that, well, the game wis mine.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Oct 2, 2010 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh God
Watching the 10th inning and the 2002 WS was just disgustingly horrible and it still hurt.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
I watched that prior to today’s game. Needless to say, this day was garbage.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Did the end bother you? I thought that he tried to portray BLB as a human being and give reasoning behind his personality and then at the end the last to interviewees just pissed me off with their comments about him.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
That part irked me just a bit, but the part about the 2002 WS really was a punch to the taint..
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
It was an interesting example of selective memory that Burns covered the whole PED thing in pretty great depth, and yet didn’t mention Big Papi was on the famous list in the Mitchell Report, because it would have ruined the narrative of 2004. You can’t have Doris Kearns Goodwin talking about steroids.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
sounds like it took all that Cobra conditioning in HS not to kill somebody..
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
Good man
I kept my cool. Live to see another day. Don’t strike first, but retaliate like your insane. Long live Cobra.
"A foghorn blowing out wild and cold." -Dire Straits
by FriscoJoe on Oct 1, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
im rec’ing this, because no one else will understand it.
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
fuck I want to wear my shirt now.
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
Cobra Corps
“What we do in life, echoes an eternity….on my signal..unleash hell!
"A foghorn blowing out wild and cold." -Dire Straits
Funny, I'd have thought Cobra conditioning in HS would make you sweep his leg.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I would like a win tomorrow.
Some strikes thrown. Maybe have us get a few hits. Score some runs, even.
And then God created Saturn... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
Twitter me and what not.
PLEASE DO THIS TOMORROW MR BOCHY
Torres CF
Sanchez 2B
Huff 1B
Posey C
Burrell LF
Uribe SS
Ross RF
Sandoval 3B
Zito P
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Oct 1, 2010 11:38 PM PDT reply actions
Yes, this works.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
As much as I love this lineup, chances are high that Bochy gives Guillen a eleventy-seventh chance at redemption.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s not here to step out of the box for curtain calls. He’s here to hit.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Great thing he does neither, amirite?
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
But not as well as . . .
. . . this:
Torres CF
Huff 1B
Burrell LF
Posey C
Uribe SS
Ross RF
Sandoval 3B
Zito P
Sanchez 2B
At least according to The Book.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Ahhh, but what does The Book On the Book have to say about it, huh?
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
I don't know, but . . .
. . . judging from the reviews of it at Amazon, I probably don’t want to know.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
For one game it would hardly make any difference. Just a matter of random chance for whomever comes up with men on base. Playing the best players is most important.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Very true.
There seems to be general agreement that even over a full season, lineup order has little effect.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
That too. I don’t dwell on it too much. I just want the best players on the field.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
is Freddy ok? might have to put Fontenot in the 2 hole
by TimLaser and MattyC on Oct 1, 2010 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait, did you say that here or there?
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, ok. I thought he meant he was trolling GLB.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
You're supposed to spell fuck. fcuk.
It’s cool
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Oct 1, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Come on, no trolling now. We’re better than that.
Although, I do agree with your comment.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh wait, not saying it there? Nevermind my above comment then, I misunderstood. If you said it here, then fuck them for eavesdropping.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Oct 1, 2010 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m worried about jponry. An airport is no place to find out about this game.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
LOL HE
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
HE IS GOING TO BE PISSED
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 2, 2010 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
bo and luke dukes...
giants jersey on top! OH OHOH OH OH OH
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
I knew it wouldn't be good
I got detained by Chinese police today. Don’t worry, I wasn’t beaten or sent to a gulag. It was actually a fairly pleasant experience.
I figured the Giants would lose also because I couldn’t sent them my positive vibes.
I haz a sad for Matt Cain.
by Murray, Present on Oct 1, 2010 11:45 PM PDT reply actions
How long did it take?
I reported getting mugged and spent 3 hours at the station answering questions and signing a statement, helpfully all written in Chinese…
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 7:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Two things:
1. If anyone ever needs an explanation of what getting BABIP’d is, we show them this game, right?
2. How does one sync up the radio with the tv? I have MLB.com Gameday Audio, and I refuse to let FOX announcers ruin this for me, but radio is always a good 3 or 4 seconds ahead.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Oct 1, 2010 11:48 PM PDT reply actions
Can you pause live TV? If so, then pause it for 3 seconds, and you’re good.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
He needs the radio paused.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Ah, shit. Misread the comment. Woops.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 1, 2010 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
you can do it if you have both a desktop and laptop on. output audio from laptop and input audio to desktop and use radiodelay
by TimLaser and MattyC on Oct 1, 2010 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions
LOVING IT!!
Gonna try this tomorrow-morrow land.
TNX!
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
no problem
btw, what kind of audio codec does MLB gameday audio use?
by TimLaser and MattyC on Oct 1, 2010 11:59 PM PDT up reply actions
no idea
it’s buried inside some god-forsaken Flash widget.
I suppose I could get tricky and break out Wireshark, it knows all, tells all. Of course, that would be academic knowledge for me. I can’t write no codec-delayin gizmo.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
Just got back
1 – Love the Orange Friday thing. I’d say 1/3 of the crowd was in orange. I hope they get it over 2/3.
2 – Fuck you Freddie Sanchez..you killed the game.
3 – Fuck BABIP, that was a very frustrating game with all the gappers that became atom balls.
4 – Matt Cain absolutely sucked.
5 – I thought we were going to win until Sanchez killed it in the ninth. Worst (near) game ending play I’ve ever seen.
A – The Eckstein HBP…from my view it looked like he swung at the pitch.
B – The big killer was the bunt pop up that was a double play but the ump ruled he caught the ball. They never showed a replay, hard to say how long it was in his glove.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Oct 1, 2010 11:55 PM PDT reply actions
I think you're putting too much blame on Freddie...
That ball was smoked, and only because Venable playing literally against the wall was it caught.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Oct 1, 2010 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions
See the discussion on this upthread.
Sad to say, FSanchez screwed up there.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
He definitely screwed up. In that situation you turn your head and look to the right as you run. You don’t just put yer head down and motor along. It did look like it was a hit off the bat, but it didn’t drop or carry far enough.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Oct 2, 2010 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes he did. Since they were down two runs, Freddie doesn’t have to score on that play. His responsibility is to get to third to make room for the tying run (Huff) at second if the ball falls in, or to get back to first if it doesn’t. That’s why he should play it halfway and look to his right to make sure of the outcome.
In a one run game, his play might be correct, but he should be aware of how the defense is playing before the pitch, so he can make the proper judgment.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
For the purposes of the "smart base-running" discussion,
it doesn’t matter whether Venable caught the ball or not. If there’s less than two outs, you go halfway on a ball in the air.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Regarding B — if you touch the ball, you cannot drop it to start the double play. If you want to let it drop, you cannot touch it. Once you touch it, the umpire can rule out if he thinks you are doing it on purpose (which he was).
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Ah. Well that explains that, then. Still, it sucked.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Oct 2, 2010 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
As to A and B:
A: Replay from the 1B viewpoint makes it fairly clear that he did not swing.
B: As already noted by jctGamer, that’s just the Rules.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Trick question
A: how is a swing/no swing judged?
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
Umpire's Gut feeling?
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Not a trick:
There is a site whose URL I forget but which dilates at great length on the official Rules. But, as they explain there, for check swing, it is entirely umpire judgement: there are no set criteria.
Although one hears talk about “breaking the plane”, most umpires apparently go by their feelings on whether or not, and to what extent, the batter was fooled.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Hence the reason it was a trick question, and hence the reason that debate devolves into nothing. The ump could have had gas from a burrito and called it a swing just to get out of the inning and into the can quicker.
I don’t mind judgment calls as long as the judges exude a sense of sanity and fairness. There have been a greater number of really egregious sh|++y calls this season, in my judgment and it burns me up.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
You can just say shitty, man. Leet-speak not necessary.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
9th inning baserunning
was unbelievaMOLE!!!
“This is like a playoff atmosphere, especially with all the Giants fans who are so into it,” Padres closer Heath Bell said.
Translation: “Padres fans suck. Both of them.”
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
Heath Bell wins the irony award. Or would that be the Capt. Obvious hat.
The Strasburg railroad is in the backshop for repairs to the engineer's driver rod. E.T.R. late 2011 or so.
Can we haz Heath Bell? He seems to be complimenting Wilson and tweeting/saying good things about Giants all the time. I’m kinda starting to like him.
May be Padres will do a Guillen for Bell trade this offseason? Guillen is a “professional hitter” and will help them get hits and score runs. Plus, we’ll throw in Rowand too.
by keyser_sozey on Oct 2, 2010 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I was going to post this.
Heath Bell is pretty awesome. I just hope that he doesn’t get a chance to protect a lead tomorrow.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
I still don’t appreciate that celebration he and Yorvit had on the field a few Saturdays ago.
Hopefully Wilson and Posey returns the favor tomorrow.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
I thought he looked a little tired last night
and hopefully pitching more than an inning (and a long inning at that) will make that worse today.
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 7:40 AM PDT up reply actions
There was a millipede or something on the wall.
I got a cup to try and trap it, but, once I got close enough, it ran down the wall super fast to the floor. I don’t know where it is. But, I want it out.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
He stole my cookies.
NOW I want him dead.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
For some reason I thought you were talking about sitting in the arcade and trying to catch Huff’s ball with a cup.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
One day...
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
I know the Fathers have our number this year
I did NOT know they are 6-1 at the Big Phone in 2010. Gah.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
How short of a rope you think Zito will be on tomorrow? I’d imagine Bork will be pulling out all the stops, even if it means going to the ’pen in the 2nd or 3rd inning
No idea. I just desperately hope it doesn't come to that.
by BoldlyGoingNowhere on Oct 2, 2010 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
me either. I’m trying to pretend in my mind that Zito is our best pitcher and I shouldn’t worry
by giant4life83 on Oct 2, 2010 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions
He was for about a day once.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
April or something.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Yes but for a short period of time, he was the BEST
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
Mid 80s fastball will take its toll.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
yea a weak fastball. but i blame hot girls for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up47mW0TpYo&feature=related
Lol Zito
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
well hopefully tomorrow is that day.
And with Ross hitting two doubles, Burrell hitting a double, Torres being Torres, I can’t see any reason why Bork would play Guillen over Burrell tomorrow.
The time for “redemption” is over. Now it’s all about winning ONE GAME and going to the playoffs.
by giant4life83 on Oct 2, 2010 12:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Don't worry. We'll clinch NL West on Sunday!
After we lose the game on Sat, we’ll wrap up NL West on Sunday. Kind of tease the Padres fans – give them hope, then take it all away.
Also – I’m convinced Guillen has pictures of Bochy/Sabean/Neukom in compromising situations. Other than that, I really can’t understand why Guillen starts over Ross. Seems so stupid.
You’d think they wouldn’t be that worried about their compromising pictures. Isn’t this San Francisco?
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
They must be really, really compromising pix then! May be video too?
by keyser_sozey on Oct 2, 2010 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Also – Guillen’s comments to Baggarly about Pat’s curtain call were so stupid, and clearly show his complete lack of team spirit.
by keyser_sozey on Oct 2, 2010 12:06 AM PDT up reply actions
what comments?
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Oct 2, 2010 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions
All that . . .
. . . was threshed out in a different thread. It is probably as well to let it rest there.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Guillen’s comments – Towards the middle of this post
Good night/morning.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
And thanks everybody.
Pablo Sandoval: The Triforce of Courage
Buster Posey: The Triforce of Wisdom
Brandon Belt: The Triforce of Power
GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE,
oh and to those that are still bitter? 2 more games to clinch, CHILL THE FUCK OUT
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Sup, dude?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 2, 2010 12:30 AM PDT up reply actions
sup chop? how ya doin? actually happy the game will be on at 4 here instead of 10
Dad’s happy as well… get to go to the miami ohio vs. kent state game then watch the giants, step-mom is here though and she’s a padre fan, so it will get interesting
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I’m doing good. I realized I fucked up something badly with my classes, but whatever. I learned my mistake. Next semester will be better.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 2, 2010 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, it looks like everyone else has gone beddy-bye . . .
. . . so me, too. Gotta be up early tomorrow for the radio game. I’d almost rather they clinch on Sunday, so I and others in like circumstances can see it, King Rupert and Emperor Seligula be hanged.
Sabean delenda est! Et Seligula delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
People are probably still awake
Not much to say anymore.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LOL Seligula.
/mentally replaces Malcom McDowell with Bud Selig
//shudders
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
This game wasn't fun
I went to BJ’s and watched the 4 innings there.
Then I went home, saw the score and greated people on my hall with a “Fuck [see’s runners on 1st & 3rd no out] Oh WTF”
Then I was like Scott!
Then I went to a party and checked the game on my phone
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
FUUUUUUUCK
The drunk me is a disappointed optimist. Tomorrow
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
by CB30 on Oct 2, 2010 2:01 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I went tonight
1) Place was on fire, ready to absolutely erupt all 9 innings.
2) I hurt from clapping and screaming so much.
3) For me, it was over in the 8thy when Andres didn’t knock one out. I really thought he would, and not only because I wanted a good reason to name my beer after him.
4) Taking the N home at 12:30 from Gordon Biersch with a bunch of 19 year olds from Chico passing a blunt around is just as amusing as it sounds.
5) If the weather will allow it, I’m wearing shorts with the Zito high socks to the yard tomorrow. And leaving the 2002 World Series towel at home (and bringing the two I have from tonight).
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
I can’t believe we wasted a clutch Scottbomb on that game. We only get one every two months, and both times this year we used them on the Marlins.
Fuck Armageddon, this is hell.
Gonzo and vodoo
Going to the game today. I’m taking a vodoo doll that looks like Adrian Gonzales. I am going to stick a pin in his glove hand so he will make another three almost errors to help the Giants.
Radical Racing
Morning! I still feel like puking, how about you?
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
better lay off the sizzurp
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
by natteringnabob on Oct 2, 2010 7:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I feel better. I expected them to win last night, so that was pretty tough. We have a lot of work to do, that’s for sure.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Oct 2, 2010 7:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Gah
Well that sucked…I didn’t even bother posting here last night because it was such chaos…
The absolute key to beating the Padres, IMO, is to score first….I still can’t believe we didn’t score in that 1st inning, you could almost see the stains in Richard’s pants, he was so nervous. We had them by the nuts right there, hit 3 balls hard into outs and that was that…
Now, we are relying on Zito? Ugh. Stauffer is due for some sort of fall, he isn’t this good….He reminds me a lot of Ian Kennedy, they pitch pretty similarly…
Please, Giants, for the sake of all of our hearts and livers, take care of business today. It’s your home field, the crowd is nuts. You can do this.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Oct 2, 2010 7:43 AM PDT reply actions
Stauffer is pretty damn good. People forget he was a #4 draft pick.
That said, he probably won’t have the strikezone he had at Petco – hopefully we can do some damage.
He’s definitely good, but he is not this good…That ERA has to rise at some point, right?
The problem with him is that he has given up 2 HR’s all year….We all know that is our only way of scoring these days…
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Oct 2, 2010 8:07 AM PDT up reply actions
It means he's Due
XFIP FOR THE WIN
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
It happened to Cain last night…
It works both ways Pads. Hopefully today is the day.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Oct 2, 2010 8:13 AM PDT up reply actions
haha!
he’s so earnest in this one.
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
So....
If we choke in the next 2 and ATL wins one, where is the do or die game? Here or SD?
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Oct 2, 2010 8:30 AM PDT reply actions
SD
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
yeah
lock down. guy didn’t look the least bit of nervous either
"A foghorn blowing out wild and cold." -Dire Straits
Sun came out this morning.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 2, 2010 8:48 AM PDT reply actions
/shrinks in terror/
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Oct 2, 2010 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Morning Cheer Up
I think this group needs something to cheer it up to get the morning started.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwE-SLnLkqY
Don’t pretend you don’t like it.
/sings along
CALIFORNIA GIRLS we’re unforgettable, daisy dukes bikinis on top!
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
I like this
and teenage dream.
Katy Perry is good
(315) SF Giants and NY Jets
Giants baseball: TORTURE
...and the home of the... JETS!
by GiantsfaninNY55 on Oct 2, 2010 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Doesn’t roll off the tongue as well.
Also, it’s “Gurls”.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
You mean California’s not all 80 degree beaches and smog?
/puts on yellow sF fleece over fanny pack
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Oct 2, 2010 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
True dat
Sit in the stands at AT&T Park, and I guarantee that no one’s popsicle will melt.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
San Francisco girls > LA Girls
but I am biased since I met my wife in SF
(315) SF Giants and NY Jets
Giants baseball: TORTURE
...and the home of the... JETS!
by GiantsfaninNY55 on Oct 2, 2010 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
i’m sure some girl at some point in SF’s history has worn daisy dukes with a bikini top, but I’ve never seen it.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
You are not alone with your POV
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/06/a_few_sf-inspired_quibbles_reg.php
A sample:
Katy’s contention: “Sex on the beach/ We get sand in our stilettos/ We freak in the Jeep/ Snoop Doggy Dogg on the stereo.”
San Francisco correction: No one except Dave Eggers (in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) tries to do it on our frigid-ass beaches. We have parks, city streets, and sex clubs for quasi-public screwing. By stilettos, I think you mean Vans, Converse, or other flat-soled shoes, and if any of us do own cars, they probably aren’t Jeeps.
Snoop Dogg’s contention: “Toned, tanned, fit and ready…”
San Francisco correction: “Toned, tattooed, fit and ready…”
Snoop Dogg’s contention: “The girl’s a freak, she drives a Jeep and lives on the beach.”
San Francisco correction: If the girl’s really a freak, she rides a brakeless fixie.
I'm not gonna lie
A hipster definitively wrote that.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Someone’s gotta post the OG version.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, I’m off to get ready for the game today. I had hoped to hear the Giants take the field today with Renell announcing “Your 2010 National League West Division Champions” but hopefully, that will be tomorrow’s game.
PLEASE PITCH WELL TODAY, BARRY! I want to celebrate on the streets today!
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
For the love of God win a game.
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis who is stuck in the baseball purgatory called extended spring training.
+1 I use this expression a lot
For the love of God, beat the fucking Padres on your home field.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Oct 2, 2010 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Woke up this morning
Chosen ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWUW2Vcb_-k
Kevin Mitchell has a black belt in keeping it real.
weird SF weather alert
So, it’s foggy outside, but halfway through my run it started to rain… not drizzle, but rain. Just a few minutes, but still pretty weird. Those lucky nerbs with tickets may want to bring light rain gear, just in case.
"Bochy said there was nothing wrong with Buster Posey. He thought Eli Whiteside had a better chance of scoring on a gapper...Bochy said he might have had Whiteside try to steal second"
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"- carp (paraphrased)
Nope.
Zito socks with shorts. I’m making a stand.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Oct 2, 2010 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
You know...we'll give them one
Matt was obviously over-amped…left too many pitches up…
It’s okay..clinch in front of a national audience…come on Zito…clinch this and I won’t talk about your contract for the rest of the season!
Deleted Fanpost?
There was a post earlier in the week about a way to watch MLB tv (fooling it into thinking you were in England) to get around the Fox blackouts, but I can’t find it for the life of me D:
Even if we did not win...it was the best outcome possible
Giants did not have use any of their best arms in the bullpen (Romo, Lopez, Casilla, Wilson) while forcing the Padres to use their (Gregerson, Adams, and Bell).
Hopefully Bochy will put Ross in Guillen’s place (not Rowand plz) and Pablo for Rent…
My wish is to have Giants win today and lose tomorrow and have ATL lose one of their next two…this would set up a playoff between SD and ATL…
Eh
I don’t think you beat the Pads by beating their bullpen…You beat them by scoring 3 or 4 runs off of their starter and holding them to 2…
I mean, it doesn’t hurt and obviously I could be completely wrong and it becomes a bullpen game…
But, I would think we are going to have to get runs off of Stauffer if we are going to win…
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Oct 2, 2010 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
As the Giants rise again from the bitterness of last nights defeat
the MLB will know they’re not going anywhere!
Today the Giants clinch! Tomorrow the future (Darren Ford) leads off!
todays game fox or CSN?
(315) SF Giants and NY Jets
Giants baseball: TORTURE
...and the home of the... JETS!
by GiantsfaninNY55 on Oct 2, 2010 10:14 AM PDT reply actions
FTW
Torres CF Fontenot 2B Huff 1B Posey C Burrell LF Uribe SS Sandoval 3B Ross LF Zito LHP
by TBRMKane on Oct 2, 2010 10:15 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
FUCK YEAH
(315) SF Giants and NY Jets
Giants baseball: TORTURE
...and the home of the... JETS!
by GiantsfaninNY55 on Oct 2, 2010 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Friggin awesome
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Oct 2, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Ross
Like a bawss
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I like it
Kevin Mitchell has a black belt in keeping it real.
by kbsofaraway08 on Oct 2, 2010 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
I like this. I approve.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 2, 2010 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I can dig it.
Somewhere in the minor leagues, Joe Paterson is pitching.
by imovermyhead on Oct 2, 2010 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
the lack of guillen makes me happy
nice too rent give way to pablo too.
No Guillen in the lineup, whaaaaaat.
How are we gonna score runs? What are we gonna bitch about now? Dammit.
Solid contact is bound to start falling in.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 2, 2010 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Pablo's home/road splits are so bizarre
It’s really striking
I just mean the disparity between home and road this year
He’s basically been last year’s Pablo at home and Yuniesky Betancourt on the road
THIS
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Oct 2, 2010 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I really, really was not expecting to see a 6-1 score when I landed. That was rough. They scored 3 more runs while I was waiting for my friends to come pick me up, but then.. :\
I suddenly feel like we’re doomed. We need Good Zito to show up. If he was ever going to have a good game, this is the time.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
San Francisco fans have never celebrated a World Series title since the Giants moved west from New York in 1958. They aren’t as fatalistic as Chicago Cubs fans, but they can turn from adoration to disgust with startling rapidity. It will take a tenacious effort to keep their interest throughout the game Saturday, and tenacity isn’t the first word that leaps to mind when Giants starter Barry Zito’s name is mentioned.
"I don't know how the six-pack got in my hands." -P.T.F. Bat
Ugh
I want subject line
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Oct 2, 2010 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
It will take a tenacious effort to keep their interest throughout the game Saturday
lolwut
So we’re ADDodger fans playing with beach balls now? Did he see the crowd last night that never stopped screaming despite falling behind 6-0?
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Out until game time!
Wife is out working…at home babysitting…have to do my daddy duties until gametime!
Go Giants!
OMG
Just got invited to the game. I’m totally ditching my family who is moving to go to the game.
by pwoper on Oct 2, 2010 10:54 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Your priorities are in order.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
time to go
Going to have a beer at 21st A to calm my jittery ass down. Then to the game.
Godspeed, all of you. I’ll see you on the other side.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
I’m hoping they win so I can celebrate tonight (with purpose). Plus I’m going on Sunday and don’t want to have any worries while I’m there (other than the niners).
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 2, 2010 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to be at the game tomorrow as well. I don’t want to be nervous the whole time. I just want to enjoy my Sunday.
Hopefully, you'll see a lineup that consists of
Ford
Renteria
Ishikawa
Whiteside
Rowand
Velez
Rohlinger
Burriss
Dirty
Zito Zito Zito
It didn’t really matter if Zito has been bad the last few years. The team was so bad he wouldn’t have helped much to get to the playoffs anyways.
Today is the opposite. Zito Zito Zito
GDT?
I know it’s early, but this thread’s pretty long and inactive.
Off to the game.
Terrified beyond words.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
I’m just hoping the Zito that elicited chants of “BARRY” “BARRY” BARRY" shows up today.
I’m actually more confident than some in Zito. I think he’ll show up with his good stuff, but we’ll see.
You're right
I just look at Stauffer’s numbers, and they’re pretty impressive.
It’s certainly possible for them to do well. They did get to Jimenez and Halladay in a big way.
I'm watching the Nats@Mets game and just learned something fascinating.
According to Ron Darling, as Greg Maddux called his own game, he’d let the catcher know what pitch was coming next by catching the return throw in different ways.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 2, 2010 11:50 AM PDT reply actions
No guillen in the line up tonight hitting in the middle of the order
Marty lurie and bochy must have shed tears together when he posted it.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
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