Rangers Hitting Preview, Part II
by Grant Brisbee on Oct 26, 2010 3:39 PM PDT
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PrintContinuing the Nicholl Fellowship-winning series, here is part two of the Rangers lineup preview:
Nelson Cruz
Toot! Toot! Thirty-eight percent of the time, I pick out diamonds in the rough every time. Please don’t look at those other names from that post.
Cruz is a late bloomer, a guy who didn’t get regular at-bats until he was 26 and wasn’t able to translate his gaudy minor-league numbers into major league success until he was a September call-up a year after that. By law I’m required to mention John Bowker here, though more as a curiosity than a formal complaint these days because of the success of Javier Lopez.
He’s never had any serious platoon splits, other than his penchant for roughing up dookie-ballers. Dude’s good, and UZR has him as a consistently plus fielder.
Last year he hit 31 home runs; this year he finished with nine. That’s like going from Jeff Kent to Mark Ellis. Kinsler’s walk rate went up, and so did his ground ball rate. I have no idea what to make of him, but I have a strange feeling that he’s the likeliest player on the Rangers to cody the Giants. Maybe that’s just because the only at-bat of his that I can remember this year was the ALDS home run he hit off Rafael Soriano that just landed.
Now we’re getting somewhere. Big Money Molina. The clutchiest clutch who ever clutched. Just because he had a .240/.279/.320 line after joining Texas doesn’t mean that he’s forgotten how to drive in those runs. Mmmm. He can smell those runs out there. They nourish him. All he wants to do is bring them home.
Molina is the litmus test. This is how the Giants will be able to tell if the franchise has been unlucky since moving to San Francisco, or if they’re legitimately cursed. If the Giants lose because Josh Hamilton – or any of the previous six hitters that were profiled, really – goes nuts well, that would stink, but there’s no shame in getting beat by good hitters. Molina, though, is quite possibly the worst hitter in baseball now that he doesn’t hit for power. His gravity-of-Jupiter speed is crippling and his on-base percentage is wretched. He’s everything you don’t want in a hitter.
But it’s the playoffs. A short series. Molina could go 10-for-14 with three doubles and two inside-the-park home runs. That’s when you’d know you’re part of some cosmic experiment. That’s when you’d know that you’re just a character in a teleplay that’s being narrated by Rod Serling. My first instinct would be to quit watching baseball if Molina ends up being the reason the Rangers win the World Series, but a part of me thinks I’d keep watching just to see what the baseball gods would do to top that. Maybe they wouldn’t be able to find anything, and Giants baseball would start resembling the decline of "24." How can you top atomic bombs and presidential assassinations in a format like "24"? You can’t. So think it over, baseball gods. Think about if this is the right time to go all-in on a Giants curse.
The Rangers would probably explore a Chris Davis for Matt Cain deal again if you asked really nicely. Yeah. Watching a team score 650 runs every single year causes brain damage. Those threads are painful.
Moreland’s production was perfectly timed. When Davis and Justin Smoak didn’t hit, Moreland came up and earned a starting spot. He was the kind of player that never showed up for the Giants over the past decade – a quietly competent, homegrown placeholder that helps more than he hurts*. As an eighth-place hitter, he’s more than acceptable.
Others
- David Murphy is what we were hoping Nate Schierholtz would become. He’s a solid player who will get a lot of playing time when the series moves to Texas.
- Jeff Francoeur is what weren’t hoping Pablo Sandoval would become. Sadly, Sandoval was like six Francoeurs duct-taped together this year. That’s not good. Here’s hoping that Ron Washington is still enamored of Francoeur’s small-sample success after the outfielder came over from the Mets.
- Jorge Cantu is not on the Giants somehow, which is like a puddle of caramel going years without attracting ants.
- Julio Borbon is the go-to defensive replacement in the outfielder, as well as the default pinch-runner when Brian Wilson walks someone with a one-run lead. The Rangers are far scarier when they put Hamilton in center and start David Murphy, but Borbon might get some starts in San Francisco’s big outfield.
- Matt Treanor is a catcher, and the interesting thing about him is
It’s a good offense almost the whole way through. And yet the name that really scares me is Bengie Molina. Being a Giants fan is weird.
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I don’t know why, but Jeff Francoeur really sticks in my head as a terrible, terrible piece of baseball guy. Maybe it was cause the Cuzzi series was the first time I was really reading an opposing blog, and Amazing Avenue was just all over Frenchy. He’s their Scott.
This means he is guaranteed to hit a dinger off Romo.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Oct 26, 2010 3:44 PM PDT reply actions
If you’re such a good baseball guy, then why aren’t you on the scoreboard?
by kingofthacove on Oct 26, 2010 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
HERE UH, READ THIS:
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
CLONE HIGH!
I loved this show.
FLIP THE POOL!
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Hard-hitting baseball analysis
He’s apparently terrible at baseball, but I love his smile.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I fear Kinsler. His numbers were down in part because he was hurt for a good deal of the season (180 fewer PAs than 2009), but he still can crush the ball, his OBP was better this year, and he looked real good in the Rays series.
by Duelling Brandos on Oct 26, 2010 3:48 PM PDT reply actions
Didn’t we do some kind of reciprocal all*star voting thing with him and Pablo? I think we may have gotten outmanuvered somehow.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
That would have made sense—they both deserved to go in 2009. Kinsler actually made the team in 2010, although it probably was based on his previous season rather than what he had done in the first half this year.
by Duelling Brandos on Oct 26, 2010 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
With all the talk about Kinsler’s down year, I was surprised how not down his numbers are – he had an OPS+ of 113, compared to his career OPS+ of 113. Less SLG and more OBP, but he’s just as good as ever.
Also, why doesn’t he get more attention? He’s probably the best player in their lineup after Hamilton.
Nelson Cruz
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
He was really good last year too….. and awesome in a handful of games in 2008. Kinsler is a really good player every year but he’s only had one really, really awesome season and that was probably largely fueled by some BABIP luck.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
In his last 3 years, he has 1100 PAs (2 years worth) with an OPS+ of 136. That’s pretty good.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
There’s no doubt he’s good. Over the same time period, though, Kinsler had a 118 OPS+, and he’s a very good fielder at a tougher position, and a better baserunner.
Basically, if you go with career numbers, Kinsler is significantly better, and if you go with recent performance, Cruz is slightly better. I’d say it’s close, and I’d give Kinsler the advantage.
I mentioned Kinsler as well in another thread...
His backfoot uppercut swing + Matt Cain flyball rising fastball = not good
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Please don't click on the fan posts part of that search
That would be appreciated.
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I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Yowch.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:18 PM PDT up reply actions
You clicked on it, didn't you?
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
/looks around sheepishly
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
lol you
Joe Mauer is from Minnesota. My adopted son, RHP Steve Edlefsen, is from Minnesota. Joe Mauer is very good at baseball. Call up Steve Edlefsen, Giants! Science™ is begging you.
I think it's stupid to ridicule people for trade suggestions with 2 years of hindsight to use as ammo
like EVERYONE ELSE knew what was going to happen back then? FEH. FEH I SAY.
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
Well, I am certainly not ridiculing anyone
One of those fanposts was mine. And I am not ashamed of it. I just thought it was funny that I suggested something like that.
And, I just want to make it clear because people completely misunderstood the first time…
I was NOT suggesting a straight up Cain for Davis trade. I felt Davis and then some for Cain was what we needed.
It still would have been horrible…but still.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Moose on wall speak!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Grant just wanted to emphasize the "hurt"
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
I thought it was a bullet (SBN auto-format fail):
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
It’s actually a records-book asterisk. No footnote is needed. You’re just supposed to know that it’s about steroids.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoops. It was going to be something clever about Fred Lewis. Like this:
- Fred Lewis
Like that.
by Grant Brisbee on Oct 26, 2010 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
If the Giants lose because of Bengie Molina
Then AT&T Park should be destroyed and baseball never played in San Francisco again.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
"We kicked their ass, we drank their whiskey, and we took their plane."- Mike Krukow
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FU- okay, actually, make your case.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Oct 26, 2010 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
He already made it, actually.
Quite succinctly, too.
The Giants used to lose because of Bengie Molina
all the time.
by D4P on Oct 26, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
Did Chris Ray gain 150 lbs. since the last time I looked?
"I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I have the feeling it's Willie Mays." --Ted Kluszewski
by Rick Parker (Lewis) Can't Lose on Oct 26, 2010 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I was wondering
If Bengie gets a ring no matter what, does Chris Ray too?
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
Over-rated!
clap clap clapclapclap
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Baseball= not an olympic sport
beach volleyball? Come on now.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
WHAT IF I CAME HERE TO READ ABOUT BATMAN??
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
.
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions
OMG, that's priceless!
Someone needs to shop Bochy’s head onto that
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
lol the Flash
VROOOOOOOOM punches.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Flash sux. HTML5 FTW.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Too much awesome
Another great Neal Adams issue from the 60’s. I’ve got this one!
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
The Superman discussions would crush your dinky Batman discussion, anyway.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions
So, is it agreed that DC > Marvel ?!?!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
cake
More comfortable with chicken
by billywitchdoctor.com on Oct 26, 2010 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions
WRONG
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
never
More comfortable with chicken
by billywitchdoctor.com on Oct 26, 2010 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Of course pie. Cake, LOL
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
BUT MAGNETO
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
in books yes.
movies no.
Ryan reynolds as the green lantern?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Means Green Lantern will be a chick flick…
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
have you seen the artwork from it? Oa looks terrible. this is gonna be ghost rider all over again. green lantern and ghost rider were my two favourite books btw
thankfully on the marvel side Thor looks amazing
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Stan Lee's vision always lent itself to big screen adaptations
Hulk notwithstanding. DC almost required foreknowledge of the full backstory for movies. Slowed them down… Also, the DC alter egos are largely uninteresting, where the Marvel alter egos had personalities that can be exploited in a movie by the right actors.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
i disagree. Kyle Rainer’s green lantern was just as much as an interesting alter ego as is peter parker etc. They chose to go with Hal because he is the more famous but Kyle was the much better and the more interesting imo. Super man is hard to do because the dood is just too super. How many times can kryptonite be used? however christopher nolan and zach snyder doing the new one gives me hope.
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Honestly, a Zach Snyder Superman gives me teh fear.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
its gonna be so bad ass. Especially if the rumors of Zod returing to be the villian are true
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Or it could be awful, like 300 (which I enjoyed on a first viewing) and Watchmen (which I enjoyed on a first viewing).
And apparently it’s Zack with a k. Go figure.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh Watchmen
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
i agree that 300 is not very good even though it was epic the 1st time. Watchmen though is pretty good. I never understand all the watchmen hate. It was about as faithful to moore’s work as it could have been while still appealing to a wide enough audience to be financially successful. plus there was a sex scene to leanord cohen. Cmon now
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Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh boy, using that sex scene as a defense of that movie? Bold tact.
Watchmen I really did enjoy the first time around, though I was bothered by some things. The second time I watched it, every scene was just unbelievably silly, which only highlighted how much the things I was bothered by bothered me. It’s hard to watch multiple times.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
It was an awful movie.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
based on what? Looking at other alan moore adaptations it was down right oscar worthy. it was pretty faithful to the comic. good acting. only thing that bothered me was the costume and how a few scenes dragged on a bit?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 7:15 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s complete absurdity combined with a steely-serious presentation combined to create a boring and hateful experience.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
*Its
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
It was kind of faithful to the comic in that it followed the main plot fairly well (to a point, of course, since they changed the entire ending), but in spirit? It’s actually interesting in that the book is fairly bloodless and clean, despite being fairly violet, the whole way through until you get to the end with the squid, whereas the movie was full of ridiculous, over-the-top violence until you got to the end, where they just had the entire population of New York vanish without a trace. I feel like Snyder missed an important point there.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
*fairly violent
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
And the way they excise the meta-narrative.
Removing the balls from the entire presentation.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
they did include tales of the black freighter in the dvd. It was a little more violent and that was zach snyder meddling. With 3 hours of movie you can only tell so much. I think they had to dwell on the main points otherwise the audience would lose interest. You will never be able to make a completely faithful adaptation of complex material. I mean the LOTR movie kicked some major ass but it was missing alot. I mean tom bombadil. TOM BOMBADIL
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 7:49 PM PDT up reply actions
To be fair, I didn't really like the book either.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
lolol well touche then
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies managed to cut half the material out and yet be incredibly long and boring.
Long action scenes don’t do it for me. They get boring fast. I would hate 300 if I ever watched it.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Yeah, I thought each movie got progressively worse with the Lord of the Rings movies. The third one was just stupid, what with the ghosts and all. And then there were like 5 endings to that movie. I never had to pee so badly in my life by the end of it.
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 26, 2010 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
this is why the wheel of time movie isnt going to work. i mean the lord of the rings movies are like 400 pages long and were 3 hours. wheel of time are like 1000 pages. theres no way they can do that series
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
This is true. I haven’t read any WOT in a loooong time (and I actually just read today that the author died in ‘07, which is really, really sad. The last time I read his blog, he was talking about how he’d fight and eventually get over his illness. It was really sad to see that he couldn’t make it.), but it seems like a lot of the side plots could be cut out.
The Wheel of Time movies would be pretty weird, too, though. There’s some stuff that should probably just be left to the imagination, because however the director envisions it, I’m sure every single other person will have a different image, and it’ll end up being a disappointment.
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Oct 26, 2010 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Return of the King
just went on forever. Every time the screen went black I got up to leave, and it started up again.
Also, Minas Tirith looks like a toilet, literally, and I don’t understand why it’s such a great citadel when the walls seem to be built out of packing peanuts.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm old, so I'm silver-age generation
Hal Jordan, Oliver Queen (with both arms), Barry Allen… None of those guys were memorable.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
dullsville
but the Legion of Scantily-Clad Superheroines? Now THAT was where DC had it over Marvel.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Lightning Lass and Saturn Girl were smoking...
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Invisible Girl
Shrinking Violet
Duo Damsel
pretty much all of them. Silicone must be cheap in the 25th C.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
No fat chicks in the 25th century...
Evolution
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
How can you skeeze on Invisible Girl if you can’t see her?
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Apparently a great imagination
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Dream Girl was the slinkiest
Especially with that star birthmark on her cheek.
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
pretty good
and I forgot to mention the one female Legionnaire that never seemed very attractive:
Gas Girl.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Saturn Girl
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Cosmic Boy's beard!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
also green arrow needs a movie
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the individual DC characters are largely superior, but I think that Marvel’s approach to the universe is superior. Depends what you’re looking for.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd never thought of it that way, but I think you're exactly right.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
also image>dc>marvel
SPAWN
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
FLAMING CARROT >>>>>>>>>>SPAWN
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Oct 26, 2010 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
lol. i forgot image brought that back.
should have been my username
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Oct 26, 2010 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
flaming carrot and dead pool
most quotable comics ever
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions
FLAMING CARROT!!! I had forgotten entirely…
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions
ut!
Why does this not surprise me that you would dig Flaming Carrot??
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Because Flaming Carrot is Orange?
Because this is a Flaming Carrot kind of place?
Because Flaming Carrot sometimes manages to exceed expectations?
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
they should make
a flaming carrot movie!!!!
oh.
When this .sig was awaiting the Final Sabean Apocalypse, I never once in a million years suspected it would be a "good" Apocalypse. Bengie... Don't let the door hit you IN YOUR GIANT ASS on the way out!
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game totally stalled and basically dead at this point
You should know that whenever someone opens the door to this room, I keep thinking I need to yell “LOL HOWIE.”
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m actually leaving for campus in about 20 minutes, and probably won’t be there until 5:30-ish. But I will hang out in Stern for a little. And then I might mosey on over to the Bender Room to catch the last of the WIP reading.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not sure if I’ll still be in Stern by then because I have to turn in my paper in 15 minutes (LOL PROCRASTINATION. LOL ME.), though. If I’m still here, expect an “LOL HOWIE.”
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was supposed to be “LOOK AT THE CUTE LITTLE GIRL!”
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
“LOL HOWIE. LOOK AT THE CUTE LITTLE GIRL.”
Now I’m tempted to go back to Stern just to yell this.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions
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Do it.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
GOING!
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m in Stern now.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL you missed it.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Seeing Jeff Clement's name
Reminds about how the Pirates seemed to go out and get every failed highly rated prospect out there.
Clement
Milledge
LaRoche
I’m surprised they didn’t get Alex Escobar or somebody like him.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Ryan Vogelsong, anyone?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Just out of curiosity...
…where does Scott Spezio rank on the Josh Hamilton – Bengie Molina continuum that was alluded to?
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Oct 26, 2010 4:02 PM PDT reply actions
Interesting thing about Treanor
he’s married to a hot volleyball player. Named Misty Mae. Seriously.
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
mae, may, whatever. It still sounds like a porn name
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
For the last damn time, it’s pronounced like deem!
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 26, 2010 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks for the update
Signed,
Ten minutes ago
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
HEY EFFUUUUUUU
I shift a’d OK
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
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 26, 2010 4:04 PM PDT reply actions
No?
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
No context
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 26, 2010 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, that’s no fun.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m sorry.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 26, 2010 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
It really amazes me that after more than a century of advanced marketing research, modern politicians (and politics) remain some of the absolute worst and most obnoxiously advertised things in the history of the world.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Worse than
Only $45 per month?
I don't have a very high opinion of southern California, in sports or in general
by short_shifter on Oct 26, 2010 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I just got off the phone with some rube who was calling from freaking Maryland, wanting to tell me how to vote on a ballot proposition. Really? Maryland? [close to DC I guess, but still] I told him where he shove it.
Everyday I go to the mailbox and remove 10 tons of political junk crap. I don’t read word one of any of it. The money that they spend on that garbage they could probably end the budget deficit.
Won’t somebody please think of the trees?!?!?
this
I decide which candidates to ignore based on how many glossy mailers they send me.
I also really wonder who, if anyone, reads the 100+ page ballot books. SF has a whole separate one just for initiatives and local candidates which is usually more packed with unreadable gobbledygook than the state version.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
At least you get information about the election
I recently moved to Texas and am registered to vote here, but have not been given any information about what is even on the ballot
Good thing there's no internets in texas...
oh wait.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Texas is even worse. Texans vote on everything, and none of the offices even have any power.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Au contraire. Railroad Commissioner has real power.
In addition to the railroads, the commission handles all the petroleum/energy and mining issues for the state.
New York
I’ve found New York elections really frustrating. Besides the location of my polling place and some candidate mailers I don’t get anything. But then the Party wants me to vote on 2-5 random party boards and council, that I don’t hear anything about. Or local judges. Or something. And I can’t even find a sample ballot for my area before heading in to the voting booth.
I sincerely miss California’s election mail outs.
co-dad w/AfDC of
Ishikawa, the Topps Rookie All Star Team's First baseman. Does he get a chance in 2010?
"Because I don’t know what it means anymore, in the PCL. It’s almost like years ago."
"That’s not to say Buster isn’t fully committed or all-in. He is. He’s smart and he’s got the advance reports. Anybody who said he’s not ready to catch in the big leagues is crazy because he’s a pretty good catcher, especially throwing." - Sabean 7/11/10
did they switch to electronic machines?
I remember the first time I saw one of those Rube Goldberg things with all the switches… weird.
I guess you miss getting party ballots without registering for the party too.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:36 AM PDT up reply actions
We have paper-then-scan ballots. (With instructions that don’t match the ballot or the scanner.)
co-dad w/AfDC of
Ishikawa, the Topps Rookie All Star Team's First baseman. Does he get a chance in 2010?
"Because I don’t know what it means anymore, in the PCL. It’s almost like years ago."
"That’s not to say Buster isn’t fully committed or all-in. He is. He’s smart and he’s got the advance reports. Anybody who said he’s not ready to catch in the big leagues is crazy because he’s a pretty good catcher, especially throwing." - Sabean 7/11/10
its pretty simple
negative ads work. they work very very well.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
not on me they don’t, so I shouldn’t have to look at them!!! We have a Bucky Button on the tv remote. I don’t read the crap that comes in the mail, and woe is the person who tries to use a phone for political stumping. The “do not call list” should apply to campaign pushers too. It’s just gotten out of hand. We get 5-10 calls a night!
not on me they don’t, so I shouldn’t have to look at them!!!
Not saying they do work on you, but about 90% of the population believes they don’t work on them…. but they work on a lot more than 10% of the population.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
I don’t know that that’s true. Most people just vote the party line.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
The average American voter is an uninformed boob
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
I'd like to meet informed boobs
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’s almost like they think you can’t be a decent person if you’ve tried drugs.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
We need a hero.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions
You're not supposed to "read" them.
They only care if you lookat the ad, even if it’s to sort it from a pile and discard it. They’re hoping their name sticks in your lizard brain, so that you’ll recognize their name and party when you’re in the voting booth.Way too many Americans don’t know what candidates stand for, only party + name, and political advertisers know this.
That’s why the ads are so brightly-colored and simplistic. They’re not meant to be read, only to get the name + party thing in a voter’s head.
888 tax deal
888 tax deal
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
omg this guy. i thought his radio commercials were bad enough, but they have him on CSN now as some sort of sports personality. dude looks like the cryptkeeper.
by shaggingflyballs on Oct 27, 2010 8:02 AM PDT up reply actions
For real. They should sell politicians like they sell beer: without showing the product actually being used.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
They do this, already
In Texas, you could send out a mailer that says, “Mr. Bigoted Plutocrat: REPUBLiCAN!” with as many US and Texas flags plastered around the words that you could fit on the card, and Mr. Bigoted Plutocrat would win in a landslide.
Just kidding.
Sort of.
brrrrrirng
“This is a recording of some elected jerk, calling to tell you to vote for me.”
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t register to vote so they can’t get me on jury duty. seriously, I’ve never voted (no point since majority doesn’t even win- see Gore/Bush election) and never gotten warped into jury duty.
I believe they are correlated.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
is this something new? i may be running on luck now instead of my previous calculated approach
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
The selection and management of jurors is governed by the California Code of Civil Procedure. Jurors’ names are selected at random from lists of registered voters and persons who have valid California drivers licenses or identification cards issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
from some damn California Superior Court webpage
so basically it’s both. the odds are still with me then, since they pick from registered voters and people with drivers licenses. Then again, how many people are registered voters and don’t have licenses?
oh man, i thought i had an out. i dont know how i’d feel being on a jury that decides someones fate. I’d probably just tell the selectors that i hate all races, including white people and they’d drop me.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Judges don’t buy that stuff anymore…unless you walk with with a clean shaven head and some Aryan tattoos…
ill sharpie on some lightning bolts and stuff.
isn’t that how the Aryan Nation tattoos end up looking anyways?
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
The thing is, depending on the case… if you or a family member have ever been the victim of violent crime they don’t want you.
Likewise with drugs/guns/alcohol/death penalty issues.
Register to vote for some wacky 3rd party so you can prove your nuttiness. “I’m a Green we believe in non-violence, I’m against the death penalty. Look it up!”
Speaking of death penalty, the cat just heard a squirrel outside, this never ends well.
I only let my cat go after squirrels if the squirrel has killed a cat I know.
What’s your policy?
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Or swat at flies that aren't there...
muttering about the gravitational pull of Uranus
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
I’ll scream Rectumface until they throw me in jail. By then, they will think I’m crazy and drop me
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Then again, how many people are registered voters and don’t have licenses?
LOL jcb9 from a year ago!
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions
if you have to be 18 to vote, but 16 to drive, how does jcb9 not have a license until a year ago? even if you don’t have a car, getting a license is basically free
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Same here.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
that’s crazy talk!! the whole point of getting your license at 16 is so you can drive around with your friends!!
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Except
That California passed a law basically making getting your license before 18 useless. I don’t remember the specifics, but something like 6 months no driving without someone 25 or over or some crazyness like that. Something about restricted night driving too.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
They can drive solo as soon as they get the license, but for the first year they can’t drive with other minors unless there is also someone over 25 in the car. There are some loopholes for driving with siblings and for school-related activities.
There we go
Thanks.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
oh, wow… that wasn’t around 10 years ago when i got mine.
i got my license, and first night went out cruzin around with my buddies, hitting mailboxes with baseball bats. yes, we were little hell-raisers.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I totally got my license in 2001 and all those laws were definitely in place in some version or other.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it used to be 6 months and was recently changed to 1 year.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
i got my license in Nov 1999, so idk. i scored the lowest you can get on my drivers test (ran a stop sign and cut off a couple cars). then got in 4 accidents within 2 years (only 2 were my fault).
my record has been clean since. 8 years, a sealbelt ticket, that’s it. no crashes
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions
By not wearing your seatbelt.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 27, 2010 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
lol yep
I had an SUV and the cop said she saw through my dark tinted windows that I wasn’t wearing it. she saw this from 4’ lower thru dark windows. yeah, right.
i wasnt wearing it anyhow, but still a bs ticket
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Sounds pretty legitimate to me. You weren’t wearing your seatbelt and you got a ticket for not wearing your seatbelt.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 27, 2010 8:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the SUV with tinted windows is sufficient all by itself.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 28, 2010 8:35 AM PDT up reply actions
With poor imaginations.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 27, 2010 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup, but it never stopped me.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Except when you are raised in a single parent family with only one car that mom needed to get to work, and you would have never had a chance to drive a car anyway. I didn’t get my license till I was in my 20’s and wanted to drive over to Stanford for Olympic soccer. No bus went from Hayward to Palo Alto on a Saturday.
I didn’t get my first car till I was 30 something.
Driving isn’t worthwhile for some people. It’s pretty common, actually.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
There are other potential reasons, but a good number of them wouldn’t apply to jcb9.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
i guess if you live in SF all your life, there’s not alot of reason, but seeing as how it costs next to nothing to get, i would think it’s a handy thing to have if you need it
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
since the official city planning strategy
is to make driving so miserable that no one will want to, even fewer people will.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:39 AM PDT up reply actions
totally works for me
I mean really, screw automobiles. Take transit.
this plan works better
where there are subways and buses and taxis everywhere. They were spouting this even as they eliminated bus routes and messing with the N and T.
And installing the insult info screens on the shelters: “Next bus: 98 minutes”
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:35 AM PDT up reply actions
don't remind me about the T
The N still runs a lot, though it does get a lot of use. If they skip a couple of Ts at the wrong time, it really is next train: 48 minutes — at peak commute hours.
the N is crazy
but still better than the 38, or the 1 Cal but I haven’t been on that in a while.
And they still haven’t really done anything about the bus convoy problem, or the Muni stuff like
L 1 minutes
L 2 minutes
L 5 minutes
L 10 minutes
J 45 minutes
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions
actually
I still only have a learner’s permit. LOL ME.
To answer:
- I never got my license in high school.
- I went to college in Downtown Manhattan
- Then I went to grad school in Chicago. I moved in with my wife around this time; she had a car, but it started breaking down, and we never used it with the city’s public transit system, so we didn’t replace it when it died.
- Then we moved to Oakland. I worked from home, and my wife took BART and the bus, so we had little use for a car.
- Then we moved to Tallahassee, and I really need to get off my ass on the whole driving thing, but it’s been a crazy year and I’ve barely had a chance to practice.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
(Plus I have more important things to do with my time, like write novel-length fanposts on MCC. Ahem.)
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
lol. awesome.
but still, i would have thought it would just be good to have a license in case of an emergency, or yknow, just a good thing to have. plus, when you meet ladies and they want to see “how cute” your drivers license pic is, when they see “identification card” instead of “drivers license” as the title, it’s a turnoff. how do i know? when i lost my license at 18 for speeding tickets, they literally took my license and i had to get an id card. one girl laughed me off. dumb bitch
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, I really need to write a novel-length novel.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
SSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Let’s go Violets! ( I guess, I don’t think there’s a chant).
Also, the university you mentioned is uptown.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:40 AM PDT up reply actions
turns out
if you claim that you believe the system is racist, they don’t want you. far be it from citizens to think something is wrong with the system.
by Captain Leebeard on Oct 26, 2010 11:55 PM PDT up reply actions
no, i was gonna claim that i was racist.
(not sure exactly which post you were responding to)
:)
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s how they got me. But hey, at least it freed me to register to vote, which I was cautious about because of that whole jury duty thing.
American Heroes: Joe Pavelski, Buster Posey, David Backes
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i won’t vote until they change the electoral votes system.
a guy with popular vote can still lose an election? no thanks
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions
im surprised no one has picked up on that before. it truly is a representative republic, otherwise the popular vote would win
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.
Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo.
While the congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict…
by calbearjd on Oct 26, 2010 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The beginning of the end
of George Lucas’ sanity
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Wrong wrong wrong
5 – 4 – 6 – 3 – 2- 1
Wow, you killed any movie credibility right there…
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
by ToddCommish on Oct 26, 2010 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
heck no
5, 3, 2, 4, 1, and 6
people are nostalgic about 4, 5, and 6 because it was “new” and totally different than other films at the time…watch them again…only 5 really stands up to the test of time…
3 was good, 2 was decent, 1 was okay and set up the story…
1 was quite possibly the worst movie ever...
when you combine expectation with execution + JakeLOLoyd
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
I am with you all the way until this
Worst movie ever= Dungeons & Dragons.
TPM did suck though. It should have been about 30 minutes of the second movie.
Also: THIS IS PODRACING!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
The podracing is so freakin' long!
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I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
LOL Anakin's mom
Left Behind! Where’s Kirk Cameron?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I never realized until it was pointed out to me, but… why didn’t Qui Gon just take Anikin’s mom, too? It’s not like he’d be in the moral wrong, nor is it like this scummy, powerless, Tatooine slave-trader can really do anything to a group of fucking Jedis.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNETHICAL! MORALLY WRONG!
Nothing like rigging dice or gambling.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
the gambling is weird, but doesn't seem to un-Jedi
I mean, he specifically made the Arab/Jew/Middle Eastern flying bug resistant to the force. But he will roll a six sided die for the ship part? Talk about ham-handed.
If you think about it, his mom was better off as a slave, with her nice cushy house, plenty of food to eat, apparently no work to do…
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Because how else would Anakin later be filled with anger?
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
HE COULD READ THE SCRIPT AMIRITE?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:43 AM PDT up reply actions
When I saw the podracing in theaters when I was in high school, I was like “OH MY GOD THAT IS INCREDIBLE.”
When I see it now, I’m like “wow that’s a dumb, long, worthless scene.”
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE IT IN 3D!
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I wonder if he kicks his own ass everytime he is reminded he was a part of that.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I sometimes wonder how something that I was absolutely convinced was so good could really be so good, Proops or no Proops.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, that second good should be a bad.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions
What about that second Proops?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
That was a typo.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
here kid that I can't train
and brought across the galaxy into a war zone, get into this starfighter and sit here by yourself while we hunt down an evil jedi and attack a drone army.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:44 AM PDT up reply actions
One great thing from 3 is
“YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWERS!” My son and I yell this at each other whenever one doubts the other.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Ewan McGregor was good in 1/2/3…as was Liam Neeson…
Natalie Portman was also a much better actress than Carrie Fisher…
Nobody was good in any of it because of the dumb things Lucas made them all say. (Except Palpatine! Still funny!)
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Red Herring.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
It's absolutely a red herring.
Nearly word uttered in 1-3 was ham handed exposition. That which was not was dialogue – I mean I guess it was supposed to be “romantic” – a fourteen year old girl would be embarrassed to scribble in her diary.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
That’s all in the delivery.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
So he was a whiny immature 18 year old
There are plenty of those.
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I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Well, to be fair
Luke is supposed to be badly flawed (whiny and annoying) at that point. It’s part of showing who he was at the beginning of the story, and what he has to overcome about himself to become the hero at the end of the movie.
Basic storytelling. :::Shrug::::
Um, the dialogue in the first three was MUCH better
MUCH better.
Particularly the love stuff. The stuff between Solo/Leia was light years ahead of Anakin/Padme.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
let's see
ESB: You like me BECAUSE I’m a scoundrel.
Ep. 2: If you are suffering as much, please, tell me.
Yup.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
McGregor was legitimately good.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
He’d be legitimately good in a movie based on someone’s Dragonball Z fanfic.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Oct 26, 2010 6:02 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s great when he shows his wiener.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
hmm
Which episode is this?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Not in SW
Definitely happened in Velvet Goldmine. I’m thinking Trainspotting had some interesting scenes with him as well, but I can’t ever get past the filthiest bathroom in Scotland when I dredge up memories of that film.
What’s that one with all the writing on the naked lady? Lots of Ewan wang in that one, too. Pillow something?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
I feel bad for Hayden Christiansen that I judge him based on his ability to say dialogue that George Lucas wrote.
Not bad enough that I’ll stop, of course.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
YOU TURNED HER AGAINST ME!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
I WISH THAT I COULD JUST WISH AWAY MY FEELINGS!!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
ANAKIN, YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
flagged
for all this obscenity
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I really think that George Lucas has no idea how relationships work
Eps 1-3 and The Crystal Skull are conclusive, I believe.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Of course not, he’s George Fucking Lucas. Relationships are for stories and peons.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean, really
Ep. 2 has one of the most jarring scenes I’ve ever seen.
Anakin: “I killed them all! And not just the men. The women and children, too! I slaughtered them like animals! That’s what they are, animals!”
Padme: “Oh, there, there. My poor baby.”
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
lulz
I am still not clear how tracking down and killing the sandpeople (note the generic word) was somehow a horrible path to the dark side.
Hence the dumb innovation of the droid army, which fought in the Clone Wars.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
/cuts legs off and leaves to burn to death
I don’t know how he avoided getting a Dark Side Point for that one.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s a game-bug. They’ve patched it since then.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow. Natalie Portman was terrible in those movies. Absoutely awful.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:00 PM PDT up reply actions
But HAWT
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Allowed.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
DO NOT LOOK BEHIND YOU
Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Liam Neeson was not great in Episode 1, but worse than that, his character was a complete and total moron.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Yes. Those two reviews are so long but so worth the watch (though the serial killer parts are kind of boring.) But it really points out just how awful those first two movies are. I hope he makes one for Ep. III soon, because I really hated that one just as much as the other two.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Qui-Gon Gin
Come on 7, daddy needs a new hyperdrive!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I was honestly offended when it turned out that Qui Gon invented the ghost Jedi technique. That was, in my opinion, a major slap in the face.
SOMETIMES THINGS DON’T NEED TO BE EXPLAINED, LUCAS. THIS GHOST JEDI THING WENT UNEXPLAINED FOR A QUARTER OF A DECADE WITHOUT CAUSING ANY PROBLEMS. JUST LET IT BE.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
OH MAN WHAT ARE THE ODDS
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
PLZ DONT TELL THEM :)
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Plus, of all people, him? I’d much rather it have been a cool old jedi.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Or even a Jedi who didn’t totally suck at the Force.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean, how the hell can Qui Gon learn advanced after death shit like that? He can barely influence the minds of the weak.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
He can flip a die from blue to red.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow. Quarter of a century. Man, my brain is in a real fail place right now.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
my moment for this
was when they gave Yoda a teeny lightsaber and made him a frigging CGI jumping bean. And use Mork’s spaceship to run away from clone soldiers?
WTF happened to “wars not make anyone great” and “size matters not” (LOL Yaddle)?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:46 AM PDT up reply actions
It annoyed me when not just Yoda but the Emperor ended up having lightsabers
I always pictured both of them as being too powerful for lightsabers. Lightsabers were a tool that wasn’t needed for both of them.
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"I told the family lovingly slide"
I have one question
How does it feel to be the wrongest person in this history of the Internet?
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
...
…
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Not even close.
Although I will say that, allegedly, the Ewoks were originally supposed to be Wookies, which would have been 63 different kinds of awesome.
I, personally, have never had a problem with the ewoks
I’ve alway hated Jar jar.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Which makes it okay?
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
Any of him was too much
And I don’t even think he’s a racist character.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
even when
he leads the Florida A&M band into Theed to see Padme give the fat guy the electric ball?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
This applies to so many real-life politicians IDEK
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Oct 26, 2010 6:44 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
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4-6-3-2-1 -—————————————————5
5 is the worst movie in the series
i would rather watch the new trilogy a million times than 5 again
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
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by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
wow
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
i know im literally the only star wars fan alive who likes 5 the least. To me its only redeeming quality was the lightsaber dual between vader and luke but to me 1 is better because it has the best lightsaber dual ever, 3 i just think is a great movie with poor acting, and 2 is average but not great. I just dont like 5
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Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions
rather than flame you
I’m actually curious why you dislike ESB so much.
I know old nerds who hate ALL the movies other than 4 because they deviated from the script blah blah blah, but putting that one below 1 and 2 is interesting.
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"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
They deviated from the script?
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by theghostofjasonellison on Oct 26, 2010 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
oh man
There are versions of scripts, early drafts, complaints about Alan Dean Foster’s uncredited novelization….
The general gist is that the brother/sister/father thing was grafted on and “ruined” the “freewheeling adventure” Lucas wrote.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh wow, I never knew that. When I first watched those movies as a kid, I always wondered how Vader could have a kid. I mean, he can only live with this giant suit on. What girl would be attracted to that, and how do they even get it on?
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Oct 26, 2010 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
you can go on and on
Why didn’t Vader feel anything in the force when he tortured his daughter on the Death Star, f’r instance? (I’m just reporting this stuff, it’s not really my interest).
Now, of course, having seen the prequels you can wonder the same thing: why would anyone, much less a hot senator with 5,750 changes of clothes and a house in Lake Como, put up with Anakin’s whiny crap long enough to breed with him?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I enjoyed to battle of hoth but I just think it is a ridiculous premise. Who attacks a base with walkers on an ice planet? Seems like tie bombers would have been the way to go there. Then the scenes between yoda and luke were good but I really didn’t like luke at all during the interplay. I guess thats kind of the point but i never went back to liking luke after that. Cloud city had its moments, mostly lando and the light saber dual. But i really found mark’s acting lacking in the key reveal scene and that kind of ruined it for me. I do like the really depressing ending though. Han frozen, luke with no hand, the rebelion in ruins.
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
good explanation
Thinking about air superiority totally ruins all the military stuff in SW. Like, you know, in the movies you like better than ESB. Instead of attacking the stupid droid ship the Naboo should have fried the droids on the ground; in Ep. 2 and 3 ground forces should have been fried. Lucas knows less military strategy than he knows dialogue.
I understand being depressed at the ending. But that’s exactly what makes it awesome.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
You and I clearly have only the Giants in common.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
at least we will always have longs walks in the beach in common
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Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
As long as you keep your leash on.
Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 27, 2010 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t get me wrong, I love Star Wars
I love the vastness and layers in E1, 2, and 3…the number of worlds, the back plots, and the interactions are so much richer than E4, 5, and 6, which is basically a King Arthur theme mixed with some Greek tragedy.
So, using this logic
Video Games > Greek drama
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
The worlds, back plots and interactions are completely half-assed, underdeveloped and superficial in the prequels
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
or as stated in the review you linked
What the hell did Naboo need so much from the Trade Federation that they couldn’t live one day without?
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"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
BUT THEIR PLANET LACKED A CORE omg all water inside
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
and Russian nesting fish
each larger than the other.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
episode 1-3
is like finding the biggest possible canvas and painting it with the widest brush dipped in stupid paint
by Captain Leebeard on Oct 27, 2010 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions
THIS OUGHT TO BE GREAT!!!!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Well, since the electoral college isn’t coming into play this year, you don’t really have an excuse.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
im afraid if i register to vote, they will see a new registerer and dump me in the jury pool
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d like to do jury duty someday.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
zzzzzzzzzzz
I get called… never selected. Sitting in that jury room waiting to get called into a court room? Ugh. As one woman put it, the last time I got called “Why, this is like 8 hours of time out!”
Had an argument with a District Judge in Oakland
Company pays for two weeks of jury duty. Judge says the trial will last six weeks. I told him that I wouldn’t do it unless I was compensated for the extra month; financial hardship and all that. He yelled at me about my civic duty. I pointed out that my civic duty also included feeding my family. He threatened me with contempt. Haven’t been called back since.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
good evidence of a very dumb system
Everyone is entitled to a jury of their peers. So, totally at random thousands of people are summoned under threat of law to sit at the courthouse and read newspapers for a week until the case settles and you go home for a year.
Also, be careful or you really will get stuck with a contempt citation.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
“My civic duty also includes feeding and sheltering my family so they don’t become a burden on the community, your honor.”
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I never get selected. Lawyers don’t usually want lawyers on the jury if they can help it.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Me too
But so far I get bounced during jury selection due to an excessive number of felons in the family.
I want to be on one. Really. I just never get picked.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
SQUIRREL!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions
You’d want to be on one? What if it’s like a murder or something? you wouldn’t have a conscience about deciding someone’s fate?
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Why would my conscience be bothered deciding someone’s fate?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
That’s a false dichotomy. Of course you would have a conscience about deciding someone’s fate in a capital case. That’s a good thing. We need serious, smart people on juries to carefully consider such a consequence.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
+1
I think it’s really interesting to have that role in a case. And it’s really important to have thoughtful people.
Letter2, I’d pick you for my jury any day. Hmm…that sounds less strange in my head.
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 26, 2010 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions
And I would serve, but I think journalists generally don’t get picked for juries.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I think lawyers are reluctant to let people who may gain a lot of control in the jury room sit on their juries. Don’t want that person controlling deliberations unless you’re really sure how they’ll decide.
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 26, 2010 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s better to control them yourself.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
That was the impression I got from people who’d been through the process before.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
It’s what I would look for when I was trying to recommend a jury profile. Engineers are always good – analytical and thoughtful.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
+1
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions
what I meant was, I don’t know how I’d feel in a situation where you have split jurors, deciding someone else’s fate… i guess that just wouldn’t be for me.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions
This. Except a “jury of your peers” means that nearly half the people on a jury will have double-digit IQs.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve wanted to do it for a while. I got called while I was still in law school, but the case didn’t go to trial. No way I’d get picked now. I wouldn’t pick me, that’s for sure.
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 26, 2010 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I enjoyed being in the jury pool for two hours. Dude was guilty as hell but he completely gave himself away. He was calm and composed in his lousy suit until the prosecutor started describing the crime and the charges which included assault. Then dude stuck his hands in his pocket and starting looking around the room to see who had his back. Guilty conscience much?
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
even if a guy looks nervous or like he has a guilty conscience, I don’t think that’s grounds for a guilty verdict, what with the type of forensic evidence these days. if you dont have evidence, anyone can appear any way they want (even those who admit to the crime still aren’t charged guilty), but so long as the beyond a reasonable doubt, and in capital cases, proof through evidence AND a confession are needed.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t end up on the jury. I didn’t really want to. Fortunately the prosecutor asked me a couple of questions that I was able to answer honestly under oath, and got I tossed on a peremptory challenge which I presume was here.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
oh ok. some people i thought were saying they wanted to be on an actual jury for a trial, and i was like, um, that would suck. i dont think you’d want to do that, lol.
if you keep up on the news, then usually you are cast out of the pool for knowing too much about the situation beforehand, and thus, being biased
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Thank you Dr. Lightman.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 27, 2010 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
way to be unclear on the civic concept. go vote, you uninformed boob.
by shaggingflyballs on Oct 27, 2010 8:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Watch 12 Angry Men (the original version)
to get an appreciation of the jury system…the movie obviously overly dramatic but pretty accurate
The line urks me the most...
“He/She is just like me”
I don’t want someone just like me…I have a hard enough time keeping my checking account in the positive and remembering to not make a big mess when I’m fixing a sandwich…I want someone more competent than me to run the government.
When she was at the Wiccan ceremony:
I’m a witch! I’m you!
wait – you’re telling me that separation of church and state is in the first amendment?
huh.
by shaggingflyballs on Oct 27, 2010 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I have the wonderful privilege
Of receiving all sorts of email these days from the Democratic Party and associated causes thanks to one Joyce Mar from whereversville California who mispelled (sic) her email address.
Joyce, if you’re out there … I’ve unsubscribed.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
At first it was all
But now it’s
and
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Oooooh, Sean is gonna get his ass kicked.
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
TELL HER TO FIX HER EMAIL ADDRESS
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
So the Rangers seem similar to the Phillies
Pitching is just about as good as ours and their offense is better. That’s as superficial as comparisons get. But it seems right to me.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
It’s Nicholl Fellowship (no “s”). Troglodyte.
"I been waitin' a long time for this! I been waitin' since the f**kin' amateurs!" --WILL "THE THRILL" CLARK
by Josh from Hollywood on Oct 26, 2010 4:07 PM PDT reply actions
You're wrong.
I won the Nicholls Fellowship, and I have the check for $3.00 to prove it.
by Grant Brisbee on Oct 26, 2010 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Bernie Nicholls has a fellowship?
for washed-up hockey players?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
You're all wrong.
It’s the Nichol’s Fellowship, named after Rachel Nichols, odd-looking yet captivating ESPN reporter.
Well phrased...
I look at her, and I think “Naaaah…”, but after a few beers, she’d be acceptable.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
I miss Melissa Stark
always a personal fave….
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
I think that the Rangers are all hat and no cattle.
I mean they wanted to trade for Bengie?
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 4:07 PM PDT reply actions
did you see what they had pre-Molina?
Saltalaphabet – could never get healthy, got traded to Bos
M. Ramierez – could never get healthy and is poor behind the plate
T. Teagrden – Couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat, but is a great defender
Treanor – Career backup with an OK looking wife and injury issues…
Of all the options Fatty might just be the best one….
JD’s like, "you want some fucking pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, bitches!"- RCCook
a classic win-win trade
The Rangers upgraded their catching, and the Giants got a decent arm when they were desperate for one. And made an incredible lineup upgrade.
Neither team would be in the WS without that trade, which is pretty damned amazing.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions
the bullpen was pretty much in disarray for a bit
so anyone not dead was a help. There was a 13-man pitching staff for a while, with no lefty reliever for a while.
He had some good appearances but his major achievement was not being Denny Bautista or Todd WeLOLemeyer.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions
He didn’t do a whole lot.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I don't know about that.
He didn’t pitch that well, but on the other hand he was absolutely spectacular at not being Bengie Molina.
It’s an important skill.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 27, 2010 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember after his first few appearances, people were all “OMG, I can’t believe the Rangers gave us this guy AND a prospect for Bengie!”
It made more sense later on.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Speaking of the prospect,
I’m guessing Main didn’t light up the minors there. He hasn’t been “right” for a while.
nope, pitched like crap
He’s young so there’s still hope, but no performance.
The trade was still %100 worth it.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
absolutely
Bengie had to go. Getting a you-never-know former first-rounder for him was fine. I’d have asked for a different reliever, but almost all relievers are fungible, so getting Ray was fine.
He definitely wasn't good.
Other people will probably have more insight on what that means for his future in the organization.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
they promoted him to AA and he got crushed, then they just shut him down (not sure if it was injury or bad performance.)
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
The best pitching and hitting is in AA
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
He had as many walks as strikeouts
when he was with Texas, but he had a .214 BABIP, so Washington liked to put him in high leverage situations.
He was the worst athlete in the history of sport.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
“In the history of sport” sounds cooler than “in the history of sports.”
You could debate me, but you would be unequivocally wrong, so I don’t recommend it.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Sounds Anglophile.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Just the facts, man.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
you misspelled ma'am
Saying ma’am is the only possible reason to write, ‘just the facts.’
he was excellent at not being Bengie Molina
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Molina had pretty much wore out his welcome with the fans, plus Bochy kept playing him instead of Posey (probably “showcasing” him for a trade) which was hurting the team offensively. Bengie was a good giant, but we were definitely thrilled to see him go b/c Posey got to start full time, which was a significant upgrade. We would have traded Molina for a bag of used baseballs, so getting Ray who turned out to be useful for a time was like Christmas morning.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn't have signed off on the used baseballs. I would've held out for a box of new ones.
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
alright. I sit corrected.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions
It hurt the team defensively too
/“wild pitch”
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Has anyone compared our pitchers’ “wild pitches” before and after the Molina trade?
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
In a similar
(but much more lame way) getting rid of Ray let us use Ogando, so that was nice. It’s not anywhere close to Posey, but it’s something.
I didn't realize that
but it makes it more of a win-win trade. Although I think Texas came out ahead on the dollars, no? Did they end up with the $1.5M incentive for Bengie’s games played/started?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm slightly more ignorant
on the financial aspect. I know we threw in Main to get SF to cover the salary, but I don’t know about incentives.
they would be on the hook for his bonus because the games started that got him the bonus was in a TEX uniform
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I think in general the Giants paid Molina’s salary (because at that point the Rangers were still in bankruptcy and couldn’t take on payroll), and that’s why the Rangers kicked in a couple of possibly useful arms.
I don’t know if Bengie’s bonus kicked in. If so, I think Texas would have to pay it.
this is what I assume too
but as you say at the time they were a little sensitive about taking on future commitments (and Bengie’s agent might have been too).
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:54 AM PDT up reply actions
/disputes ok looking wife
she looks like she’s been catching for the rangers without a mask.
And the worst part, those fukin’ douchenozzles over at the MCC get to lord this over us.
Having a hard time generating any real "Ranger hatred."
Wasn’t a problem for ATL or Philly but somehow this Ranger team isn’t despicable.
…
Yet.
quick reason to hate them. they call themselves the texas rangers even though there are other teams in the state. I hate teams that do that. florida marlins, california angels when that was their name. I really wish the warriors would change their name to they bay warriors.
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
even though they play in oakland i like the dual ownership aspect. It makes us more united.
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
It bothers me that the Warriors have never had the balls to put the word “Oakland” on anything. I mean shit, they remodeled the Arena and they still don’t. Yet they’ll slap “San Francisco” on the jersey, apparently in tribute to those three years in the sixties they played at the Bill Graham that I’m pretty sure was just made up on Wikipedia. And no, the Cow Palace is not in San Francisco.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Oct 26, 2010 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I would buy all of their merchandise though.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too!
/High five
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think Daly City actually exists. Every time I’ve passed through, there’s been fog instead of, you know, a city.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
He’s dead?
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 27, 2010 5:41 AM PDT up reply actions
A Filipino friend of mine once claimed that was due to all the rice cookers.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 27, 2010 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
They're the Dallas Rangers in reality
But “Texas Rangers” has that connotation of being “tall in the saddle” or whatever. They could have been the Dallas Senators ala the Utah Jazz, like that major retarded case of incongruously keeping a team name despite a big relocation, so Texas Rangers was all they might have been left with.
/Mono’d
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
by TheLetter2 on Oct 26, 2010 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Land of 10,000 Lakes Pools
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Land of 10,000LakesPools
OF BLOOD!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
that was the AAA team name IIRC
I dunno why they ditched the Dallas name.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions
To be fair...
…the Marlins were the only team in Florida when they adopted the name.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
and they're ditching it next year anyway
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Allan Shivers sent in the Texas Rangers
to break up a school desegregation attempt in Mansfield, Texas in 1956. There was a huge, angry white mob outside the school, and instead of helping the black students who tried to desegregate the school, Shivers ordered the Rangers to break up the crowds.
/lol my research paper
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
RACISTS!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Ralph Yarborough was basically the only good statewide elected official in Texas about that time period, and he was primaried (albeit by Lloyd Bentsen, who would turn out to be not-terrible). Lyndon Johnson did alot of good things as President, but as Senator he was as despicable as the rest of the Southern Caucus.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Wow. I can’t believe I actually wrote “alot”. That’s one of my pet peeves right there.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
I WILL NOT
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:51 PM PDT up reply actions
ALOT
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Oct 26, 2010 7:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I love it alot.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions
It's not like they slapped the name together.
But I guess you do what you’ve got to do to stoke the fires of hatred. I’m pretty sure I talked some shit about the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk the other day.
by Past A Diving Michael Young on Oct 27, 2010 7:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate everything about/named Dallas
except in Hunt for Red October…the American sub was the USS Dallas and the one scene where the alternate captain (lack of naval knowledge) says “Fly Big D…Fly”…
What about Tom Skerrit in "Alien"?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
I like Aliens, but this is still wrong. One’s a classic horror movie, legitimately terrifying, and the other’s a good action movie.
The movie theater in my home town that was showing Alien kept having to replace the arm rests on the seats. It seems some big guys would get quite a grip on those things during the suspenseful parts….
I thought we had this discussion
Alien = sci-fi/horror
Aliens = action flick
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Doesn’t like Alien, didn’t like Star Wars 4-6, not horrified by Jar Jar. Chasm?
by shaggingflyballs on Oct 27, 2010 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Think of the Cowboys, and you’ll find all the hate you need
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
How about the fact that them winning would mean there are some Texans who get to be happy.
Here's to the Dodgers and their bucket of suck.
It’s because their fans don’t intimidate me. Philly fans are intimidating… Texas fans, not so much.
"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 26, 2010 7:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I've walked down the supermarket aisle that has the douches and I've never been scared or intimidated.
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait
What?
"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 26, 2010 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
what ever happened to the amazing catching prospects texas was loaded with? saltamacchia, teagarden and others?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 4:09 PM PDT reply actions
Bengie happened
Obscuring everyone behind him, literally.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Saltalamacchia developed Johhny Rabb disease.
He suddenly couldn’t throw the ball back to the pitcher. Now with the Red Sox and has already signed for next year.
by mrs. owlcroft on Oct 26, 2010 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Salty is brittle and got traded to Bos,
Max Ramirez got hurt and is/was a bad defender, Teagarden has great defensive skills but is worse then Molina offensively…
They have several super young guys that are a few years out but C for Texas thinned out in a hurry… Just shows how hard it is to really develop a catcher…
JD’s like, "you want some fucking pitching? Here’s all the pitching you can stand. Now choke on it, bitches!"- RCCook
It’s not so much that Salty is brittle – he wasn’t able to throw the ball back to the pitcher.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
We May Be Cursed...
…but not as bad as the Rangers…
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Hey wait
I saw him throw in a first pitch at a game, he has a good arm, lefty you know!
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
brings a whole new meaning to the term "LOOGY"
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Or maybe it was his dad I'm thinking of. Too many people named Bush in this world I guess.
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Doesn't look like a lefty to me
Maybe his dad is, though.
by RoyaleWithCheese on Oct 26, 2010 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
This picture is reversed to cover up the fact that he put his coat on inside out.
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by satyricrash on Oct 26, 2010 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I lol'd.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 26, 2010 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
His dad is a lefty. Curiously, as president, the younger Bush showed a much better arm, even though he was a cheerleader whereas his dad had been a varsity first baseman.
SUSAN, GET ME GEORGE HW BUSH’S PHONE NUMBER
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/trades Sammy Sosa for savvy vets
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Wait, did GWB actually make player moves?
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Not really. He was their Bowtie. He had ultimate authority and would get a veto on major moves, but I don’t think he was real hands-on. C’mon, does that seem like his style?
Well that was my question
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
You could call their stadium "the house that Bush built"
Since he was a force in strong-arming the residents of the land that stadium was built on, using some shady deals.
I finally got a new phone yesterday
I went for 3 weeks without one. It was life changing. I hated it.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 26, 2010 4:12 PM PDT reply actions
Grants such a tease
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 26, 2010 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
It was the end of The Sapranos
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Thanks Chop.
Can someone summarize what Grant wrote?
Does he sell Cliff Notes?
Is this real life? Is this going to be forever?
Well
Grant makes good points, but what we need are runs.
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
It was really Saltalamacchia’s neurotic collapse that made them get Molina. Treanor was never good enough to get many starts.
by Duelling Brandos on Oct 26, 2010 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t know if it will make anyone feel better, but a LOT of those guys are pretty splitty.
big differences for Hamilton (Huff’s numbers v LHP are better), Kinsler, Moreland, Francoeur, and, to a lesser extent Young and Murphy.
Keith Law made a good point on ESPN Radio
He said that the Yankees for some reason threw Hamilton a lot of fastballs while the Rays threw him a lot of offspeed/breaking stuff…
Hamilton stats (SSS) in…
the ALDS: .111/.200/.111 with 0 homers and 1 RBI
the ALCS: .350/.536/1.000 with 4 homers and 7 RBIs
Yankees spit on scouting reports
We’re the fucking Yankees and we’ll throw him whatever we want!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
The Yankee Mystique!
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Mistake and Error.
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"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
they can't hit on Wednesdays
but I haven’t checked their Halloween splits yet.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions
What is the significance of the Antlers and Claw anyway?
I understood the whole “spotlight” thing, but I never understood Antlers and Claws
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
Animal motif. Frontier livin’. Wild West. Yawn.
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll confess: I like it
It’s goofy and the players have fun with it. Like “Fear the Beard”, it’s an organic thing, not the product of a marketing department focus group (although the marketing department has of course got their hooks in it now). The only part I don’t like is that it’s a Rangers thing.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
I think it’s kind of silly. I suppose fear the beard is too, but it’s silly enough to be funny. The antlers thing feels like it just might be serious enough to be dumb. Probably just Giants-fan bias talking though.
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 26, 2010 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I suspect you have to have been raised in Texas to ‘get it’
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
The New York Daily News has a different view of this.
Molina is the litmus test. This is how the Giants will be able to tell if the franchise has been unlucky since moving to San Francisco, or if they’re legitimately cursed.
The Eddie Grant Monument Curse
I find it interesting that after Magowan blew the guy off, the Giants two years ago erected a replica of the monument at AT&T (I gotta find that thing – sounds like it’s near the Lefty O’Doul gate elevator). Anti-jinx?
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Should we all meet up there tomorrow before game time? I’ve got some incense, somebody bring some wine… do a little cleansing ceremony. Smudge sticks at twilight!
I’m in this line … nothing like a friendly pre-game exorcism.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
I don’t have any prairie sage. Will kitchen sage work?
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Oct 26, 2010 6:48 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I liked Electric Avenue as much as anyone
but a monument at AT&T seems a little much.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
Out in the streets!
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Looks like Eddie would have fit in well here:
Grant only played a couple of seasons at third base in New York, and the Harvard grad reportedly annoyed his teammates sometimes by shouting the grammatically correct, “I have it!” instead of, “I got it!”
/2000 comment thread discussing correct way to call for balls
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
Wait, which kind of balls is this about?
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 26, 2010 5:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Which kind would you like to call for?
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
I asked first…
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 26, 2010 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Grant: It’s not “RBIs”, it’s just “RBI” – “runs” is already plural.
McGraw: Shut yer fat face, Poindexter.
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how many Runs Batted In (RBI) vs how many Runs Batted Ins (RBI)
the s after RBI is completely unnecessary in correct English. The world is stupid
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
the only time they ever use it correctly is to say “he only has one RBI this season”
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions
but they never could say that about Ryan Howard in the 2010 playoffs :)
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
RBIs is the plural form of the abbreviation RBI, which stands for Run Batted In. There’s no reason RBIs needs to stand for Runs Batted In.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Wow. This feeling just washed over me like I want to vote for you for some public office.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Other than that it stands for Runs Batted Ins?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions
RBI either means Runs Batted In or Run batted in.
I don’t think RBIs is the intended plural of RBI, but someone would need to consult the baseball dictionary about that one.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
When veteran baseball people . . .
. . . from press to players, all say it as “ribbies”, it seems uncontroversial to say that the written form is RBIs.
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Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I was making more of a reference to correct English, in that RBI is an acronym of an already plural or singular word.
but since like you said, it is referred to as ribbies by most, the point is moot.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:41 AM PDT up reply actions
It's not really a matter of correct English . . .
. . . in that it is mere style, not grammar or diction. The Chicago (14th) does not directly address the question; at “Letters, Noun Coinages, Numbers, and Abbreviations” (6.16 and 6.17), about all it says that is relevant is—
So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns . . . form the plural by adding s alone.I have no data for this, but I suspect that people who speak in initialese would say, if referring collectively to the attorneys general of several states, AGs—I cannot conceive of anyone saying AsG (or A’sG), any more than I can their saying R’sBI. The initialism is conceptually a unitary thing, and is so pluralized.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
The world says “ATM machine” and “PIN number”, too.
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
But Kent said
The money is in the RBIs, just doesn’t sound right without the little s thingee.
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
the money lie in the RBI
the money lies in the RBIs.
hmm… we may be onto something here
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
The money lies in the RBIs
No surprise, I drive balls like Benzes
Over fences, I touch ’em all, big flies
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
The moneys lie in the RBI
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions
It is mine!
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants erected the monument and plaque in fair territory
Really? So people tripped over it and stuff?
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions
It was nearly 500 feet from home plate at the Polo Grounds. There was in a little, what, alcove in center field. It was in the center of that. Balls never got hit there, but yes it was in fair play.
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funny how they're not cursed for moving monuments
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
It's not that the monument was moved...
It’s that it was stolen.
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
It would be kind of cool if they put it out in Triples Alley, even though 421 feet probably isn’t far enough.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Just put it high on the wall.
If it bounces, bounces. I’m sure Eddie’s ghost knew the risks when they put his shrine in the Polo Grounds CF.
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
curses are horsepucky
I liked Cody Ross yesterday when FP asked him about the last time the Giants won a WS… he guessed 1954. I don’t think they’re really worrying about what happened in 1989 or 71 or whatever.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
GIVE ME THE BALL!
x 3
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
/LeBron requests trade to Cleveland
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
they fucking hate him out there. I saw this thing on ESPN with interviews… people were seriously like hating that guy forever. Cleveland will never forget him.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Lowest point total for a half last year: 32
this year, with the addition of Bosh and Lebron: 30.
hahaha laugher.
Hey guys, the Giants are playing in the World Series.
Of baseball!!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Does that include Japan?
/and Cuba?
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Aruba, Jamaica ooh I wanna take ya
To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don’t we go
Ooh I wanna take you down to Kokomo
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
you messed up the final sentence.
Aruba, Jamaica ooh I wanna take ya
To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don’t we go
Jamaica- off the Florida Keys
or
Aruba, Jamaica ooh I wanna take ya
To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don’t we go
down to Kokomo
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Never understood that song
“Baby, let’s go to…central Indiana?”
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
I think it’s about jetsetting to the sun-soaked, clear watered islands.
i could be wrong, though
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I get the intent
but the only place called Kokomo that comes to my mind is a city in Indiana.
It’s like…“Baby let me take you to Vacaville” or something.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
Kokomo is the name of a brand of cookie in Pakistan that has a lot of ads on Cartoon Network. I couldn’t help but chuckle each time I heard the name on TV when I was in Bangladesh.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Also, the name of chimpanzee that replaced J. Fred Muggs as comic relief on NBC’s Today in 1958.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I’ve studied this history of the Today show extensively since I was teenager. I’ve decided that if I ever write a book, it’ll probably be a biography of the show’s first host, Dave Garroway.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I would buy it.
If I ever write a book, it’ll probably be about October 1962. That month was basically the most eventful month in history.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
The Missiles of October
Nice TV movie, too.
"(Christy) Mathewson pitched against Cincinnati yesterday. Another way of putting it is that Cincinnati lost a game of baseball. The first statement means the same as the second." - Damon Runyon
I’ve written two, but they’ll never sell.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Let me ask the both of you, then, how difficult was the process? I’ve arrived at the notion that if I ever write a book, it would have to be on a subject to which I was so dedicated that I wouldn’t lose focus and give up. Anything less would be a waste of my time because I’d lose interest a third of the way through.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
It’s either incredibly satisfying or completely psychologically devastating. Depending on how seriously you want your work to be taken and if you intend it to be a) sold b) cherished c) esteemed, the latter may be a better indicator of quality than the former.
I really should fix up the baseball novel, though. As I’ve said before, it basically parallels Tim Lincecum’s story with the Giants, except I wrote it in 2002.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Well the kids stuff is easy, that just comes naturally from stuff that happens at work.
The novels… ugh… I haven’t written since Mr. Merope and I moved in together, it’s too draining, and I need uninterrupted time. Nothing like getting to a pivotal point in the story and hearing “Hon???? Where’s the ketchup?”
On a much smaller scale, that’s how I feel about the stories I’ve written over the years. One-shots are fine and dandy, but I get bogged down in multi-chaptered works because I do begin to lose interest and fail to set aside sufficient time to complete the writing.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
That’s actually not my problem in the writing — I like the space afforded long form, while short story, I keep feeling the ghost of O Henry or Flannery O’Connor looming over me, daring me to create the moment of jouissance.
My problem is I write the whole thing too quickly then lose interest in the editing. Ugh ugh ugh.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Kokomo, i dont think it really exists, but is more a facet of the imagination going to a perfect place where there are no cares
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Have you been to Indiana?
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"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:55 AM PDT up reply actions
no. but I’d imagine Kokomo, Indiana is not what he is referring to, lol. Sounds like a crappy place
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I completely wish that there was an actual World Series.
With the Champions of the domestic European leagues vying for an invitation to the Australia-Asian Tournament, who then faces the MLB Champion.
Combining baseball with international soccer tournaments… my two loves… awww yeah.
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“…and another ball goes through the legs of the Frenchman. Boy, they sure can’t field, but they love their wine and cheese!!!”
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
THEY WOULD MAKE EXCELLENT GIANTS FANS, AMIRITE?
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
damn, i didnt mask the joke enough. you all saw right through it.
will try harder next time
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I would prefer as little soccerization of baseball as possible.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 27, 2010 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
No, that's not possible.
Are you sure your not talking about the niners?
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 6:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I heard Aubrey has a good poker face though!
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THIS TIME TOMORROW........
ACK!!!!!! RUNS AROUND WILDLY CRASHING INTO FURNITURE AND WALLS
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
Yes, it's a random trend but it's better than the experts telling us the Rangers are better at 6 of 8 positions.
Before the LCS, I posted these in the game thread:
1) Since the inception of the National League division series in 1995, teams sweeping their division series are 0-9 in the NLCS when facing teams which won their division series in either 4 or 5 games
2) National League teams winning their division series in exactly 4 games are 9-0 in the NLCS when facing teams which won their division series in either 3 or 5 games.
We can now make it 0-10 and 10-0…. now as for the World Series….
1) Teams who win the clinching game of a best of 7 league championship series on
the road and have home field advantage in the World Series are 12-0 in the World Series.
2) Teams who win the clinching game of a best of 7 league championship series at
home and do not have home field advantage in the World Series are 0-13 in the World Series.
by www.westcoastbias.com on Oct 26, 2010 5:35 PM PDT reply actions
Is this where Tim McCarver gets this stuff?
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/Giants draft forfeit notice
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
let’s keep the trend alive!
numbers 1 and 2 in at the end are good omens to me
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, Howie, turn around.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:51 PM PDT reply actions
I can see the composition notebook he has to his left.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Let’s see if he can hear me:
HEY HOWIE YOU SURE WERE A CUTE LITTLE GIRL
(Full disclosure: I was a very cute little boy when I was a little girl)
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Is he doing something adorable? I bet he’s doing something adorable.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
He’s responding to a comment on this thread.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
It looks like it’s a long comment.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
So it’s getting longer?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:57 PM PDT up reply actions
TWSS
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
He’s at the part of the thread where corn is encouraging me to go to the computer lab and yell “LOOK AT THE CUTE LITTLE GIRL.”
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL SBN
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions
/farts
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
He also still looks like he has a failbeard.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, you’ve been waiting 14 minutes for me to z to this?
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, she actually said it.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, you watched me print out my story and sign into McCC for a quarter of an hour. That’s quality stalking.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions
See? I am a good stalker.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
As a reward, you get "what in the world am I wearing?"
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions
What the fuck?
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
If that first picture actually worked, you guys just get extra Howie.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL, I can’t see it.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Looks like something they dressed my dad in during the depression.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:13 PM PDT up reply actions
ON THE GOOOOOOD SHIP LOLLYPOP!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Your socks being pulled all the way up really completes the ensemble
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Nate?
Don't Trade Monta
Bush is on Fire!
Huff likes it raw
by JohnnyDangerously on Oct 26, 2010 7:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I did nothing wrong! It’s this durn computer.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
I’ve been delaying making my kids dinner so I could enjoy the unfolding of the stalking adventure.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Surprisingly anti-climactic thus far.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
She just killed me, if that helps your sense of drama.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I just took the stapler by the printer and hit you in the head with it. Repeatedly.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I was completely helpless, but with my last breath I did apologize to everyone I love for dying.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
HI HOWIE
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s telling me a story about second grade now.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Was that before or after he was a little girl?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
After.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions
But it was about people thinking I was a girl back then! It was totally relevant!
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
When I was a kid, I had really thick hair (still do). My mom hated to brush it, so she always gave me these god-awful short haircuts, like “The Pixie.” It really just made me look like a little boy. People would actually ask “Are you a little boy or a little girl.” Pissed me off. So I’d always answer “Neither.” Shut those fucking obnoxious old ladies up right quick.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
They actually just assumed I was a girl.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:13 PM PDT up reply actions
And now it’s funny that you’re doing it to howie.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions
PUT ON YOUR LID HOWIE
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Done. You meant hat, right?
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Specifically, a baseball hat.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe I shouldn’t have worn my corduroy today.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
The sad thing is we’re not interacting at all. We’re just both on McCC in total silence.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Total silence? Dude, I’m trying to sit here and not crack up.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Similar to a Public House meet-up?
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m waiting for one of you to spring up with an enraged howl and start attacking the other.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Johnny Disaster is here too?
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions
/creeper
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Sounds like you’re married. AM I RIGHT EVERYONE???
/never been married
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
HEYO
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
Is it like a horror movie?
Where you don’t DARE turn around because you know the monster is behind you?
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions
WHAT NEXT?
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
The whole ensemble is actually a bit of a mess, I have to admit. But at least I’ve lost some weight since two weeks ago.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I wasn't going to say anything but since you mentioned it...
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
I think I’ve lost close to ten pounds just by eating food that I’m buying and preparing myself.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Awesome
Losing weight is…um, awesome. !
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
You too! It sounds like you’ve been doing way better than me.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
To be honest, I’ve been doing way better than I hoped.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
I'M SORRY, LETTER.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s all right. It just…it really hurts sometimes, you know?
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
:'(
Do you need a hug?
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 7:39 PM PDT up reply actions
No, I’m all right. I’m just being overly dramatic. But seriously, the man is rocking that coat.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
LOL, yeah, I was just playing along (but I totally would’ve given you a hug if you needed it). Also, I must say, Howie’s voice was not what I expected it to be.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t tell me. I still want to believe it’s a rich, sonorous baritone.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Alright. Not saying another word about it.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 7:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I've seen the hot wing video.
And now, you can too. Scroll on down to the bottom of his essay.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I actually have some minor voice talents, so I can totally do that baritone if I wanted to. It’s just not my natural state.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I have never seen that until now.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions
He must be destroyed.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
As a mod, he is a pawn of the current regime.
GROUG 4 DICTATOR
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Mine will be a bloody and merciless reign.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Upon a hill of skulls in a castle of pain
I sat upon a throne of blood! Twenty thousand corpses swung from the walls and parapets, and the rivers ran with tears! What was will be, what is will be no more. Now is the season of Evil! Bring me a child that I may live again!
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
It kind of sounds like I’ve been sipping helium.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re welcome.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Now all of you know my preferred method of sitting. I have no secrets left.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:24 PM PDT up reply actions
‘popped the cuff’
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions
IT’S NOT MY FAULT THAT THE SMALLEST LEGS YOU CAN BUY IN JEANS AS A MAN ARE 30. I’M SORRY BUT MY LEGS ARE NOT 30. THEY ARE 28 ON A GOOD DAY!
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m a 29 in leg length. That’s pretty hard to find.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I might actually be 26. I haven’t taken the time to get out a measure, but there’s no way I’ll ever buy jeans that won’t need cuffing or hemming.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
But the length of my waist and torso almost make up for it.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Tojo shot your shins off in the war?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions
i'm like a 36 length, i hate being tall
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
CRY ME A RIVER
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:35 PM PDT up reply actions
oh like that Justin Timberlake song?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
But you can reach tall shelves. That’s a joy I’ll never know.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
it's not like anythings up there anyway that's anything special
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
that i got to pay like 50 bucks for, screwwwwww that
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
COOKIES
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
AT LEAST YOU CAN BUY JEANS.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m a 36/38 in seam but only like a 34/36 waste (36 is pushing it) and I can never find pants that are long enough in my waist size.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Oct 27, 2010 6:12 AM PDT up reply actions
There aren’t petite sizes for men? How barbaric!
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
How about regular sized kids?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Does that work better than candy?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Natto is oddly confident for a man of his size, if you know what I mean.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions
It gives me a strange sort of pleasure to know that I’m taller than the three of you.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The jeans also have holes in them.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:31 PM PDT up reply actions
did that girl to the right of you bring food into the lab? YOU CANT DO THAT
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Oh man, I should have regulated.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder if she looked over and saw herself.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Sally Draper is disturbed by the Land O Lakes boy.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
GO TO YOUR ROOM
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Jeeeez you’re sitting in a real low chair.
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
Chop, that is so fucked up
and THANK GOD HOWIE for putting your hat back on
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Hey, I said on twitter that this is the creepiest thing I’ve ever done.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:22 PM PDT up reply actions
had to do it, now back to writing my senior thesis at home
on my laptop, and not in a library where people creep on ya
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
yea yea yea... i dont have to do much
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
As much as I enjoy the science of meteorology, I'm a little tired of all these tornado warnings today.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
call the Stormchasers guys, they’ll take the twisters off your hands
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
How is everyone’s playoff beards doing?
I am somewhat proud of mine.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 5:52 PM PDT reply actions
EXPLOSIVE!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Thanks. Got buried in today’s round of shitty noob fanposts.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL N00BS
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
I am shaving at this very moment
/well, I put the shaver down to type this, but still…
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
I shaved this morning.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
I want to shave, but I haven’t shaved since the division clinching game. What if the Giants lose the WS? IT’LL BE MY FAULT
I’ll find a way to pin it on you regardless.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 6:00 PM PDT up reply actions
DON'T DO IT
It’s not worth the risk.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
I have to shave because of work
So it’s the complete opposite of what it should be.
"I AIN'T HAVIN IT."
What about the scruffy journalist stereotype?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
How ’bout real pale, thin journalists? Especially if they have a killer sense of humor?
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Ask walkoff about mine.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
It still looks like a failbeard.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't bother reading the AP preview for this game
They spend the entire article on their knees for Lee, without otherwise even giving a preview of the actual game, or more than simply mentioning his opposition.
Oh yeah, they make the extraordinarily relevant point that Jose Guillen is hitting .360 over his career against him.
MLB Network is now playing the GIants’ Road to the Playoffs right now.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 6:01 PM PDT reply actions
Dammit. My dish alignment has slipped – I’ve lost the MLB network. Gotta get a tech out this week.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Replaying on my DVR
I’m pretty disappointed it’s pretty much only about the postseason, I was hoping it would be a look back at the whole season (they just opened with a quick 5-6 minute recap of the regular season, then went right to the playoffs)
OT: I just moved into a new apartment. The number?
109
It’s a sign from heaven, obviously.
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
My first apartment was B-49
And that was 1988. The 49ers promptly won two straight Super Bowls.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
For anyone that wasn’t listening to KNBR this afternoon, what are your opinions on Gary’s new favorite Giant theme song.
http://www.knbr.com/portals/3/podcasts/garyradnich/1026%20-%20BRUNO.mp3
Jeaaaggaahh
Song should be euthanized
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
My thoughts exactly. Before I went to class I saw Radnich hear it for the first time and was amazed that he liked it.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, free cookies to anyone that can find a link to the song itself.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
From Saturday? It was a freakin’ riot. Wait until you here the Bochy interview, where Kuip is being Bochy.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Miller’s recollection of Flemming’s Bochy interview was hilarious.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Link, please! Thank you in advance.
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.knbr.com/Podcasts/SanFranciscoGiants/tabid/1151/Default.aspx
3rd link down.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Thank you!
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions
High Quality (because I know everyone wanted it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTtu9AKd2k
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 7:42 PM PDT up reply actions
kill it with fire
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh Poopsicles:
Baseball’s playoffs could be expanding in two years. The new head of the players’ union says his members are open to adding more wild-card teams for 2012 and possibly extending the division series…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
There's not much that could kill baseball as my favorite sport
I don’t know if that would do it or not…but man that would suck.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
for crap's sake
Every additional WC makes the regular season less important. 100 years of pennant races, and pretty soon we’ll be at 4 4-team divisions with wild cards so that everybody can win and there’s more postseason games to televise.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Better:
Thirty one-team divisions and six months of playoffs.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Contract 4 teams, play a 150 game regular season, play every other club 3 home and 3 away. Then seed the top 16 and away you go.
I hope I die before witnessing such a thing.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 12:48 AM PDT up reply actions
seriously. teams that win 84 games a year could take out a vastly superior 95 or 100 win team in a best of 5 or 7 series- all depends on how each is playing at the time.
even though the playoffs are already a crapshoot, the beautiful thing about it is that a team can win 97 games a season and still lose to a 92 win team- the WS is earned by the team that plays best (the Giants/Phils is the perfect example- while the Phils were better, we outplayed them)
if they expand to 8 teams per division, why even play a 150 game season? play 100 games and spend 4 months on playoffs. or 50 games and 6 months on playoffs. any team can win on any day, the odds are like 5.5 in ten the better team wins as it is
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:46 AM PDT up reply actions
I think 8 teams per division would be an improvement
if only the winners advanced. There were 8 teams per league for many years, and even the 7-team divisions used to have some very exciting pennant races.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 6:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, they said they also want to make the regular season shorter.
I don’t think adding one more wild card team and giving the division winners an actual advantage for winning the division is such a bad thing.
by kingofthacove on Oct 26, 2010 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
That would be really horrible. Especially if they shorten the regular season to do it. And I really don’t think we need baseball in December.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Shortening the season might not be a great thing from a fan point of view, but I understand the players’ sentiment.
by kingofthacove on Oct 26, 2010 6:22 PM PDT up reply actions
We pay them millions of dollars and get five months or so off
They better suck it up.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
What do you mean? Players should play through injury?
From Affeldt:
“If they’re going to do that, they need to shorten the season then. That’s a lot of games and that’s a long time. Even in the playoffs now we’re going potentially to Nov. 5,” he said. “Sometimes they think we’re just robots, but you’ve got to think of potential injuries. On pitchers, that’s a lot of throwing. Position players, some play every game all year. It just takes a toll on the body. If they’re going to do that, they’ve got to think a lot about the ramifications.”
Yes, this is in reply to potentially extending the playoffs, but I’m sure a lot of players would be in favor of shortening the season, especially if it would legitimately decrease injury risk.
by kingofthacove on Oct 26, 2010 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions
No, I don't think players should play through injury
That seems pretty straw-mannish to me
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
That’s not all a strawman.
You told them to “suck it up” in reply to a point that the season should be shortened for the player’s sake. Why do you think I support it? So they get more vacation time? (Not to mention, because they should “suck it up” is almost always an immature reasoning to force something upon someone)
by kingofthacove on Oct 26, 2010 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions
/shrugs
/disagrees
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
LOL Affeldt
Sounds like a shop steward.
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
He is, right? Who is the current player rep to the MLBPA for the Giants?
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
him
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
We pay them?
How bad a hit are you taking each month. Just sayin
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
SO YOU ARE NOT SAYING
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 7:22 PM PDT up reply actions
:(
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Someone had to…
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Nothing like Christmas baseball!
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ribe
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Just say no
The next thing know they will want to have us use the stupid DH rule, blah humbug, leave my baseball alone.
by Lefty-is-crafty on Oct 26, 2010 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Is this just to get the Red Sox in there even when they suck??
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Who now have a new GM.
This will be interesting.
Sabean delenda est!
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ugh.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Merope!
For shame. Haven’t you learned that everybody wins? Losing might make the other teams feel bad. If we have a 32 team postseason tournament that will never happen.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I am actually fine with making the division series a best of 7
I don’t want to see any more playoff teams each year, but I wouldn’t mind if they reconfigured things a bit— say two divisions in each league instead of three, with two division champs and two wildcards in each league.
I also think the idea some have kicked around where you add an extra wildcard in each league then have them play a one game “play in” just to get to the postseason could be cool— it would make teams put a greater emphasis on winning the division at least. Ultimately, I think I’d be against that because you’d just run the risk of watering down the postseason competition, but I’d DEFINITELY be against anything more significant than this.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Oct 27, 2010 1:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Taking the World Series back to a Best-of-Nine might be good.
Let 16 teams in each league play each other for three months, let the best 8 play only each other for 2 months, the the best 4 play each other only for 1 month. Let those that fall behind play an ad hoc schedule. By this time, it’s September and you really haven’t screwed with football.
Playoffs are just the World Series.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 1:17 AM PDT up reply actions
the problem with that is injuries. If, say, Josh Hamilton goes down at the start of the season, then his team may not even make the final 8 after the “first round”.
leave it the way it is, i say. or, like someone suggested above, 2 divisions per league, with 2 champs and two wild cards.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:48 AM PDT up reply actions
boo
part of the excitement of the pennant race is dealing with teams like the Diamondbacks and Cubs, who had the chance to spoil the Giants’ season.
“Joe Morgan hits it… it’s back… it’s gone! The Giants have defeated the Royals 5-3 in this meaningless ad hoc game!”
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:03 AM PDT up reply actions
WHAT IF I CAME HERE FOR HOWIE NEWS??
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
THIS IS YOUR DAY!
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
he doesn't like battlestar galactica
but he can’t stop watching, like a car wreck I guess.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions
She’s liveblogging everything I’m doing over there right now.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Howie is currently responding to my comment of the picture I took of him with a hat on.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
MLB Network is running the Path to the WS show now...
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
And now that I have stalked Howie, I must go to dinner.
Especially since I was supposed to go meet my friends 20 minutes ago, but whatever. This was amusing.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 6:21 PM PDT reply actions
Bye!
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:22 PM PDT up reply actions
For all the amusement: Here's a picture of me with a dog and teenage Gohan hair.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions
You look like a mad scientist!
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
You can’t really tell from her underside, but that is the most beautiful dog in the world.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t like how she’s flashing her parts at me. It makes me uncomfortable.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Nice rack!
Of wine.
"Baseball is a game played by the dextrous, but only understood by the poindextrous." - Professor Frink
Please, DO NOT tell us the circumstances leading up to this picture.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Oct 27, 2010 6:16 AM PDT up reply actions
First, I gelled my hair WAY up.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 27, 2010 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
what's funny is that you guys didn't say a word to eachother
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
LOL, yeah, we did. When I left, I said, “Later, Howie,” and he waved.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions
HE HELD BACK POSEY!!! BOOOOOOOBS
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
only after he ruins the World Series by doing good
then I’ll let him have it
Don't Trade Monta
Bush is on Fire!
Huff likes it raw
by JohnnyDangerously on Oct 26, 2010 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions
that's fair
I think crying would be better than booing.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
i concur
cheer him at first but we can’t very well praise him all series long…that won’t look good when we win :)
by sf_get_some on Oct 26, 2010 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
we are not phillies fans
cheers, unless he starts kicking our ass
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Oct 27, 2010 1:11 AM PDT up reply actions
NO ZEETS ON THE SERIES ROSTER
I actually feel sad for him now.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Source?
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 6:45 PM PDT up reply actions
nvm
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 6:45 PM PDT up reply actions
oh well... either way he should be just proud that
the team he’s on is in the series… at least i hope that’s how more players think
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
By all accounts, he’s being pretty classy about it. But it’s gotta hurt.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Yea, that's good to know then, that he's being pretty classy about this issue
but yea, you’re right, it’s gotta be depressing
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
he should at least take solace in the fact
that his decent start to the season has put the team in position to win a goddamn title
Don't Trade Monta
Bush is on Fire!
Huff likes it raw
by JohnnyDangerously on Oct 26, 2010 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah. I mean in all honesty if our rotation was lincecum, cain, sanchez, bumgarner, and wellomeyer all season we prolly dont get here. he’s can at least take solace in the fact that he is better than wellemeyer.
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
And that somebody legitimately made this comparison
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/6/20/1527916/are-barry-zito-and-johan-santana
Don't Trade Monta
Bush is on Fire!
Huff likes it raw
by JohnnyDangerously on Oct 26, 2010 6:59 PM PDT up reply actions
lololol
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 7:12 PM PDT up reply actions
i read this as noooo, zeets on roster
as in he made the team.
panic’d for a second
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Are they just gonna remove it for next season?
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by Useful_Idiot on Oct 26, 2010 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Tim Kawakami
Righetti said Sanchez loves the big game so much he might’ve overdone it. And the jousting with Utley? “He was embarrassed a little bit.”
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!!!!!!
Whoops, Wrong tweet
Tim Kawakami
I asked Dave Righetti if he was concerned about Jonathan Sanchez after his Game 6 mini-meltdown. “Yes,” Righetti said immediately. “I am.”
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
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The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
HAHA, he said that Utley was embarrassed a bit?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Chutley is incapable of embarrassment.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 26, 2010 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions
when your name is Chase Utley it aint hard to be embarrassed
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I think Righetti was saying Sanchez was embarrassed a bit
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!!!!!!
Well, he is a Giant.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
How dare you
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 7:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Extra Baggs
Assuming Andres Torres’ hip flexor checks out medically, he’ll lead off and start in center field against left-hander Cliff Lee. The rest of the lineup will be identical to what Bochy rolled out there against lefty Cole Hamels in the NLDS: 2B Freddy Sanchez, C Buster Posey, LF Pat Burrell, RF Cody Ross, 1B Aubrey Huff, 3B Juan Uribe, SS Edgar Renteria and right-hander Tim Lincecum.
The Giants expect Torres to play. But if he’s iffy, it’ll be Renteria leading off and Aaron Rowand in center field, batting eighth.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/extrabaggs/2010/10/26/world-series-game-1-giants-rosterlineup-news/
damn. a pitcher who throws strikes and no pablo?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions
why do rowand and zito have to be so damned likable this post season? i want to hate our overpaid players as much as other teams do.
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 7:13 PM PDT reply actions
Likeability and class haven't stopped people from hating them before.
And won’t stop in the future.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Fine. Have your guitar-wielding trollop! I’ll just take Rowand. Nothing could possibly go wrong!
/Rowand swings at movie-date in the dirt, I facepalm
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Ask Joe Crede how wrong things can get with Rowand. He’s never really recovered, inside.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
No. Didn’t want to get into AJ’s head, and neither did Scott.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Sure, sure. I’m still thinking about how to do this Posey’Wilson thing Prussian Creole wanted. I shouldn’t be this squeamish about it.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
A complete dripping mess on Matt Cain’s new suede couch from Room & Board?
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Well, he lives in SF now right?
SF upholstery cleaners are very experienced with that sort of stain.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
lol molina calls out sabes
“That tells you kind of what a person [Sabean] is,” Molina said. “He never told me anything. I wish he would’ve told me before they signed me…I would not have signed. I would have left the doors open for Posey. I wish they would’ve been more open…I understand their point but just come to me and say it.”"
id be thankful anyone gave me a job in the first place. wasnt it just us and the mets and the mets passed?
at the same time though if that really was sabeans plan all along thats kind of fucked
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 7:17 PM PDT up reply actions
That would so creepy! Who would do — Oh. Never mind.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
ive seen this picture a million times
and ive never noticed that its a razor phone
/lol early 2000’s
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Still my favorite phone I ever had
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Oct 26, 2010 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
But now we have Steven Revetria!
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Cripes, shut up already.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
this
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
HAOW DARE HE
How dare he attack my son! I am now on NIbblets’ side – I change my vote to BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
LOL HAOW
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
It’s a business, Bengie.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Bengie Molina is kinda making me like Sabean
I’m very confused by the way I’m feeling right now :/
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"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha! ’Cuz we were just talking about…well, I thought it was funny.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Attention TheLetter2
If you ever write this story, I will find you and I will kill you.
Welcome to McCovey Chronicles: Calm down
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"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, dick move.
But on the other hand, Sabean’s machinations locked Bengie into a World Series ring. So maybe Bengie should just get over it.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
WHY I WOULD HAVE PLAYED FOR THE METS HAD I KNOWN.
Sheesh.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Just think, he could have played for the minimum.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Hmm, someone suggesting that Bengie Molina get over something. There’s a novel idea.
Welcome to McCovey Chronicles: Calm down
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"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 7:39 PM PDT up reply actions
He's had no trouble getting over a plate full of food.
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I"m still pissed off at hearing Mitch Williams go off about how “seriously out-of-shape” Pablo Sandoval and how that’s quickly becoming a liability then not 20 minutes later talking about what a boost Molina has been to the Rangers. Because Bengie could never be characterized as “out-of-shape.” I’m very certain Pablo still wins in a foot race.
Welcome to McCovey Chronicles: Calm down
From now on, every day is Thong Thursday!
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
BRIAN SABEAN: a mind of metal and wheels
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Hey Bengie: You aren’t a very good baseball player. You were replaced by a very good baseball player. Science.
"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 26, 2010 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions
/knockonwood
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
So he’s saying he would have rather been unemployed than make $6 mil?
He’s such a freakin’ asshat.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
Oh Bengie
Why would Steven Revetria call you, exposing his nefarious scheme for domination of baseball?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
This might mean something to me if Bengie didn’t complain about everything in the first place.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmm
On the one hand, Bengie’s kind of being a whiny bitch considering he’s making $4M+, it didn’t seem like there was any way he was going to get that from another team, and he ended up going to a contender and playing in the World Fucking Series. Poor, poor pitiful him. On the other hand, Sabean really does come off as a major prick most of the time, and this is no exception. So I’d say there are no winners here.
Even if he had said anything it's not like you could trust it.
He has a record of saying whatever the fuck is convenient and doing something else later. The manager, his job is to care about you and how you are doing personally. The general manager, his job is the opposite.
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Anyone watching the Lakers barftastic ring ceremony?
Hypocritically, I would be loving it if the Giants did something like this next April.
by Murray, Present on Oct 26, 2010 7:39 PM PDT reply actions
What happened in that other game? With the team that collected all those big name players? Heat?
/doesn’t follow basketball
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not, but the Heat lost.
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by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 7:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I seriously don’t follow basketball. I just remember all the hub bub about them getting all those players (aside from Lebron I don’t even know who they are.)
Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade
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by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Yeah, that’s kinda what I meant. I mean, D-Wade could have easily gone to Chicago, NY, etc. etc. if he wanted to.
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by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Dwyane
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
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No, I’m not going to be corrected on that even if that is the way he spells it. It’s like “Britney” Spears. You have no right to get upset if I spell it “Brittany” because your parents went out of their way to spell it stupid.
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by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I swear I’ve seen the first one more, but maybe that’s just because of her.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Brittany is a region in NW France. That’s where the name comes from. The spelling bastardization has only occured over the last 50 years or so.
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by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Breton
Is Celtic. No wonder people who want to name their kids after the place can’t spell.
do basketball teams play others in 3 game series, like baseball, or what? a game, go to another city, a game, another city, and so on?
basketball is a sport i dont think ive watched one entire game of from start to finish in my life. too much scoring, pointless to me. i think scoring should be somewhat of an accomplishment, get the men around the bases, drive the football down the field, not score 100 times a game combined.
anyhow, anyone got an answer for me?
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Basketball teams play one-off games, although on occasion teams will play two games in a row against each other, one in each arena.
Agree about scoring in basketball.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
college basketball was less bad in the dark ages
but with the clock, no zone, and so on, it’s about the same anymore.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Lakers fans are insufferable at the moment
I’ve been wearing a green shirt with white lettering across the front today— not Celtics related at all, just the same colors. But I’ve gotten two “Boo Celtics!” jeers and one question about how I thought the Celtics would do tonight against LeBron. Angelenos R illiterut, har.
Seriously though, I never thought I’d say this but I miss KNBR so much. I hate most of the personalities, but at least they mix it up a bit— I hear about the NFL, NBA, MLB, college sports and occasionally the Sharkies. Down here? It’s all Lakers all the time and it SUCKS, it’s BORING. Yesterday, Siciliano and Thompson spent like half an hour laughing about some bleacher report ranking of the best lakers of all time. That’s what they do— if there’s even a SHRED of Lakers news they’ll talk it to death, and if there’s none then they’ll make some up. I was not a Laker hater before I got here, but I am one now.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Oct 27, 2010 1:18 AM PDT up reply actions
He’s from San Diego, I think. He’s also a Chargers fan.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
LOL Clippers
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
he was raised right.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Read his profile page. Also see: Duke basketball.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
yes. 2010 has been a very good year for me as a sports fan.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Cowherd? Is that you?
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by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m bay area, born and raised, but I grew up liking the Lakers of the Showtime era. it’s the only LA team I root for. Since Thomas Neal is my MCC-adopted son, I approve of his choice.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Lakers and Duke?
The ALCS and last night’s MNF game must have been rough for you.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
nope
not at all, except Romo WAS my fantasy QB.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
How are the Red Wings shaping up this year?
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
would know. I don’t follow hockey until the playoffs. Plus, I prefer the sharks.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m just kidding. I’m actually (gasp) a Duke fan too.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions
excellent.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions
How can you root for a team that wins all the time? I don’t understand that.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
Get used to it dude
The World Series starts tomorrow!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I grew up rooting for the 49ers in the 80’s, so it isn’t like it was some stretch. Mostly, I think it was b/c my father liked the Celtics (big fan of KC Jones and Bill Russell from their USF days) so I had to like their rival.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
We get no respect
Rangers are -123 in game one. FFFFFFFFFUUUUU vegas.
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
Though
the niners are favored by over 3 points against the broncos. So also: LOL VEGAS.
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
easy call
49ers > Raiders >>>> Broncos.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions
but if it's David Carr and not Alex Smith...
Broncos>>49ers
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Oct 27, 2010 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Cliff Lee is the better pitcher.
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!!!!!!
He is.
But he is also overrated at this point. That 0.75 ERA in postseason will not continue indefinitely.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
No, but it could ver well continue for two more games. It’s amazing how low an ERA can be when you throw as many strikeouts as anyone while not walking anyone.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
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It could.
But that 34:1 K/BB ratio isn’t likely to continue either. He’s obviously a great pitcher and there’s no reason he couldn’t pitch two (three?) complete game, 12K, shutouts in this series. But, if you’re asking me to predict his stats, my guess is going to include an ERA somewhere north of 0.75 and a K/BB ratio south of 34:1.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Not necessarily
He had the better year, but that’s not the only thing relevant to determining who will be better tomorrow or in the future.
by kingofthacove on Oct 26, 2010 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Aww Aubrey
http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_16441834?source=rss
But this series represents something much deeper for Huff. His single-parent mother will be attending the three games scheduled in Arlington. She raised her two children in small-town Texas after her husband was murdered in a workplace shooting when Aubrey was just 6 years old.
When she saw how her shy boy had thrown himself into baseball, Fonda paid to have a batting cage built in their backyard — even though she really didn’t have the money for such an extravagance on her Winn-Dixie supermarket-clerk salary.
She wasn’t thinking about a future major-league career for her son.
“I just didn’t want him to be without because his father got killed,” Fonda said. “I think it was a way to make up to him for not having a dad. He didn’t have anybody to pitch to him.”
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
ha ha
For her part, mom doesn’t quite know what to make of the thong.
“Every time I ask him about it, he changes the subject,” Fonda said, laughing.
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I still remember reading when Huff’s mom visited him at college and Burrell appeared in the room naked. And how she reacted after he was embarrassed.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
that was hilarious. she sounds like a very good natured lady.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
She sounds like a pretty damn good mom.
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by Prussian Creole on Oct 26, 2010 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
crap
that’s quite a story.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry jct
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Just had a thought: Giants playing an extra month of baseball makes it verrrry unlikely that players will vote to open in Taiwan in March.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Good
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Oct 26, 2010 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I was thinking of going to Taiwan in March if this happened. :(
by Murray, Present on Oct 26, 2010 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
considering we won the division by a game margin, im glad they wont screw with 2011 and risk going 1-2 or 0-3 before they even get spring training in, not to mention that kind of time zone change seriously fucks with your body, not to mention they need the rest.
is there anything I didn’t not to mention?
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah. That if the Taiwanese really want MLB, let them invent teleportation and ask for a franchise.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
International MLB franchises yesssssssssssss
Teleportation would be neat too.
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We won by two games.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
every game counted, was my point.
and if you consider that if we were tied going into sunday, that there would be no fallback one game playoff in SD then one game playoff in ATL. it would have been do or die, and maybe we dont end up winning the game.
point is, by going to taiwan, we’d be risking the outcomes of a hell of a lot more games than the margin we won by this year.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
jct is gonna be pissed
OTOH
a WS title may sooth that wound.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
OT: GOD DAMN TWILIGHT
http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/crush/superman-gets-a-hipster-makeover/488
sorry for more nerd comic book talk but holy fuck its superman
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
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Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:24 PM PDT reply actions
I don’t think the writer knows what hipsters are. Also, it wouldn’t be the first time they screwed around with Superman’s look to his detriment.
lol it that was when he had electric powers?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
lolol
i guess there is worse than hipster superman
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
best website ever
http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2010/01/05/nicholas-cage-as-everyone/
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
/is
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
FP is speculating that Pat is The Machine.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 8:27 PM PDT reply actions
I’ve heard that before.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
From FP?
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Oct 26, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
The Machine looked out of shape if I remember correctly.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
You remember correctly
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Caption for Pablo pic.
“Yo Rangers. I’m really happy for you, I’m going to let you finish, but The Giants have one of the best teams of all time.” – Pablo
"For all you first-basemen who played first your whole life, that's where Buster plays on his OFF days" - Kuiper
Also, check out my friend's pumpkin he just carved
"For all you first-basemen who played first your whole life, that's where Buster plays on his OFF days" - Kuiper
by O R They? on Oct 26, 2010 8:35 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
I’m gonna go with incredible.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
That’s pretty damn good. The mouth is a little weird though. But otherwise, dang.
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 26, 2010 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Badass.
This is my favorite that I’ve seen so far (non-Giants division).
"What’s that, Buster? You asked for a bicycle? Well, sorry. Santa brought butt floss instead."
by thebighead on Oct 26, 2010 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions 7 recs
And right you are.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
That’s the best pumpkin I’ve ever seen.
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 26, 2010 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
The pumpkin patch is much too remote to make an effective demonstration.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
HOLY SHIT
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it's shopped
There’s a complete rectangle cut out. It should fall apart.
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!!!!!!
It is possible that they only carved one half of the pumpkin.
"What’s that, Buster? You asked for a bicycle? Well, sorry. Santa brought butt floss instead."
Also, if you shave the pumpkin so the skin is thin enough to show light through, you don’t have to actually cut through it to get a good glow effect.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 27, 2010 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
well that's it...
Halloween is over. No point any more.
When this .sig was awaiting the Final Sabean Apocalypse, I never once in a million years suspected it would be a "good" Apocalypse. Bengie... Don't let the door hit you IN YOUR GIANT ASS on the way out!
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game totally stalled and basically dead at this point
Your friend carves Giants players' O-faces?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
wait wait guys.
why are we talking about baseball
GLEE IS ON!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:37 PM PDT reply actions
Who’s talking baseball?
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!!!!!!
It's the offseason
Why the hell would we waste time with baseball while some other teams play in the W-… what’s that you say?
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I’m watching one now, unfortunately.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
ROCKY HORROR GLEE SHOW
this is now a glee gameday thread
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
oh man flynn is suspended. how will the show go on now?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
/stares off into space
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
sue that treacherous bitch. How will the show go on now?
also as a hetrosexual man there are only two men i find attractive: buster posey and john stamos
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
shows cancelled! how will the show go on now?
TIME WARP
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
episode’s over! how will the show go on now?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
cant wait for next week for mccovglee chronicles
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I replaced LOST with glee when LOST ended. I fucking love glee. It is by far the most fun ive had watching tv in ages. Its like a mixture of degrassi and musicals
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I sometimes watch glee because it’s a mixture of Dianna Agron and Lea Michele, and that’s hot.
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 26, 2010 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions
You would hate yourself more if you loved gleet.
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
OT: so I finally joined Twitter
And was asking people “seriously how the fuck do I set my profile pic?” They made fun of me until they realized that all of a sudden nobody could edit their picture.
I broke Twitter just by joining it. MISSION FUCKING ACCOMPLISHED.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Oct 26, 2010 8:39 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Just checked Stubhub listings for tomorrow's game ...
Many View Reserve tickets are actually priced lower than all the SRO’s. That’s seems really out of whack!
Buyer: “But I DON’T WANT TO SIT during the game!”
Seller: “Sorry, you’ll have to pay more for that.”
Kinda like, during the early days of the recession, when US Gov’t Bonds were actually paying a small negative interest rate for a short period – when investors were just looking for a safe “mattress” to park their money.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
catch home run balls?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
ESPN insider on the cheap
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/40871/1year-subscription-to-espn-magazine
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
The magazine is shit
But the insider is totally worth it – and you get ESPN Insider with the magazine.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I've bought from similar ones before
They’re usually legit, the only thing you have to look out for is that a lot of them will automatically renew your subscription at a non-discounted rate after your year is over, so you need to jsut remember to cancel it.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
yep, that’s how they get you, and why they do stuff like this.
by kingofthacove on Oct 26, 2010 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Exactly
There’s nothing inherently suspicious about them, but if you’re not careful you’ll get re-upped at 30$ or whatever. Just have to be diligent.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I did the discountmag version. They said that they don’t auto renew. We’ll see. . .
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU
I tweet (more often than I blarg).
I did the same one
So we’re in this together.
Tried to activate it immediately at the espn insider site but they said they don’t have my info in the system yet, which I suppose makes sense.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
i usually dont trust sites like that
but slick deals is legit. Lot of good finds on there
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
then you’ve got a problem. if it’s a slick deal, its probably not to be trusted. See- used car salesman telling you “this car will last forever” before it breaks down 10ft out of the lot.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
i dunno. i think we chasmed every other.
let’s have a drink while we’re down there.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
MLB Network just showed Cody Ross's first ever homer
a grand slam off Cliff Lee.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 26, 2010 9:27 PM PDT reply actions
First Ssory Doc, now this!
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 26, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
fuck yeah foreshadowing
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
It's never too early to celebrate the World Series
with Bleacher Report’s 10 players the Giants should pursue for 2011!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
In convenient slideshow format!
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 26, 2010 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions
spoiler
contains 2 lefty relievers and one aging SS from the East Coast…
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
GiantPain's rosterbatory responses.
Beltre – No. Don’t buy high. No. Play Pablo, who has a similar ceiling.
Werth – Yes. We have a hole in RF, and he’s the best pure hitter in the FA class. Do what you must. Get his ass.
Takahashi – No. Everyone worthwhile in our bullpen will already be back next year. Not worth paying FA money to get more relief that we can get from minor league deals or the minors.
Thorton – No. We have Lopez and Affeldt.
Aramis Ramirez – Again, no. Stop trying to replace Pablo you morons.
Lee – an interesting idea, if you signed Lee, you could trade Sanchez for a bat or something. But Lee will get so much money, why bother?
Jonny Gomes – No. He’s Pat Burrell with worse defense. Yes, you read that right.
Alex Gonzalez – He will not be available.
Bronson Arroyo – Why?
Jeter – For 2/16 or something, sure. But he’d never take it.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
But Lee is soooo good. He’s just, like, wow. Doesn’t fit on this team with the other big contracts we have (plus the need for hitters), but that won’t keep me from secretly hoping.
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 26, 2010 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
He's kinda old
And has very recently been a) Awful and b) Injury prone.
No denying he’s good. And he will get paid. But I wouldn’t want us to take that risk.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yeah, the age is definitely a factor. He’s what, 32 now? And he’ll get at least 4 years on his next deal.
Here’s to Werth, though. Would LOVE to see the caveman in RF.
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 26, 2010 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Torres CF
Sanchez 2B
Huff 1B
Werth RF
Posey C
Burrell LF
Uribe SS
Sandoval 3B
Bench: Ross, Fontenot, Rowand, DeRosa, Whiteside
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
But what about Guillen?
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 26, 2010 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Ross isn’t a bench player. He’s a starter. Look what happened with Guillen- Ross played sparingly, spot starts, PH, and did terrible. Give him a starting job, and he produces very well.
Some people aren’t suited to the DH role, like Pat. Some aren’t suited to the bench, like Ross
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Ross has a pretty intense platoon split
His career numbers are a bit inflated because he’s gotten to face lefties more than normal. His numbers vs RHP really aren’t ideal for a starter.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
but when you play everyday, those platoon splits don’t become nearly as amplified because you are getting more ABs vs RH pitching.
and I don’t think he’s been platooned much, he seems to have been a daily starter from what I heard him say about his time in FLA
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Ross would still get plenty of PA's
He’d probably spend a decent amount of time in each position
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
Forget Werth. Not in the budget. Won’t happen.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions
remember when people wanted to sign cc sabathia for a hometown discount?
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
If only Zito hadn’t signed the year before. Then again if we didn’t have Zito, we might not have Posey and Bumgarner.
not to mention we would have been terrible anyways most likely and making fun of zito gave us something to do during the dark times
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
There is noooo fucking way Jeter leaves the Bronx. They love him too much and he loves them too much and that’s fine with me. They can have each other.
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
not to mention he’s on the verge of 3000 hits or some record like that.
the breaking of the record will bring in more revenue than his salary, TBH, so they will pay what it takes. just like SF and Barry
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions
More ESPN picks
Aaron Boone picks Giants in 7
Chris Singleton picks Rangers in 6
Buck Showalter picks Rangers in 5
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
showalter is a dumbshit. i saw him on BBTN today, and he was talking out of his ass about how the Rangers would stomp us.
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
He did live and manage in Texas.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
No prediction in a short series is stupid.
None of them, even the ones against us.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Does vodka mix with vanilla cream soda?
by Murray, Present on Oct 26, 2010 9:35 PM PDT reply actions
Don't see why not.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Oct 26, 2010 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
AW YEAH THURSDAY NIGHT GIANTS DRINKING GAME IS ON.
by Murray, Present on Oct 26, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
sure
but kind of hard to unmix them.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 26, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
vodka mixes with anything you want it to.
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 26, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup.
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 26, 2010 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Pablo to Ranger hitters
Back up I got dis. I going to hit sum honerones and be m vee pees so watch Jos Hamiltionn. This is my berlin woo off cliff lee superman pitches.
That you, The 701 Level?
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Oct 26, 2010 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
An important article about Northern California's rising story.
This article is well researched and presents its point flawlessly.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Few thoughts before reading the article:
- Northern Californians have dominated the Democratic Party ever since it became relevant (in 1958, when Pat Brown was elected and cross-filing was abolished)
- The South has traditionally been home to Republican notables, but now that every Republican officeholder is toxic statewide, the Republicans have to rely on self-funders, who tend to be from Northern California because that’s where the money is
- The dominance of Northern California is a fundamentally good thing
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
so once again i have class during the game tommorow
why oh why do important play off games during Wednesday nights
i would skip it but its a super important one
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:45 PM PDT reply actions
Not that I’m saying you should skip it (well, yes I am, but stay in school, kids) but if I had a class, I’d be so distracted I wouldn’t learn a thing.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Oct 26, 2010 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
ima try to follow the game on my itouch again. but last time the professor caught someone watching the game on his lappie and the prof slammed the lid shut. it was scary
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
DC transplant/long time lurker
who joined just to say that I made it up to Philly for game 6 and it was incredible. I had to wait for the SBN required 24 hours to post this, as well as some additional time for my liver/heart/ulcer to recover sufficiently after the game. BTW, Philly fans were awesome and majorly earned my respect-I was shaking hands (shaking hands!) all the way out of the stadium.
Also got a BP ball stroked by Gerald himself. Needless to say it made my top-5 days of my life, ever.
This portends victory . . .
. . . even more clearly than the pumpkin entrails I’ve recently laid out on the back porch.
Watch that liver, sundance, and keep shaking. That’s where the fun is.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Oct 26, 2010 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Normally I'd say
that one set of pumpkin entrails is a SSS, but it is only a seven game series…anything can happen.
Those in the city may have heard fireworks
You will have heard it if you are near Golden Gate Park. ABC 7 says it’s to celebrate the opening of the World Series.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
All this World Series hoopla is startlingly unusual.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Oct 26, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, yeah. I heard it. I forgot they were holding the WS Gala at the Academy of Sciences.
They could be Giants...but not really.
NERDS!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Deadspin delging deeper into the identity and history of "The Machine"
http://deadspin.com/5673896/is-brian-wilson-into-fetish-porn-or-something-a-video-investigation
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 26, 2010 10:00 PM PDT reply actions
lololol
str8edgeracer C.J. Wilson
Waitress just accidentally dropped a knife on me. Accidentally. #giantsfansareeverywhere
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
hahaha hey, accidents happen. =D
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY
by girltothemax on Oct 26, 2010 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
im just waiting for cliff lees sheet to accidentally be changed to an only 150 thread count
muwahahaha
how will you pitch against us without your silky sheets sir
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
/ i need to go to bed. night every body
"Life is like a grapefruit. It's orange and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Oct 26, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
But wait!
The sheets…they’re scratchy. Could it be?
DAMN YOU, CLIFF LEE!!!!!!!!!!!
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
/takes flea infestation to the visitors clubhouse.
I’m surprised Philly fans didn’t take rocket launchers to the buses before Game 6. unstable asshats
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
White Album Disc 1
If you could only hear one Beatles Album?
Is this real life? Is this going to be forever?
Everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey.
by Murray, Present on Oct 26, 2010 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
That is a bad-ass cover. They also did Paint It Black on that record. So on their debut album they covered the Beatles and the Stones. Chutzpah!
Chutzpah, indeed — but I Paint It Black was a 1990 B-side that A&M tacked onto their CD reissue of the 1980 debut. I love Paint It Black, mind you. When my buddy got free tickets to a Rolling Stones show at the Mount Daviseum, I made her stay until they played it. What a great tune.
I see a red door and I want it painted black..
I read that as
“Rolling Stones show at Mt. Davidson” and wondered how they pulled that one off. Although I’m sure they would have put the cross to good use.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I love the Feelies cover of the Velvet’s “What Goes On” as well. For those of you who don’t know, Bar None has reissued the Feelies 1st two recordings:
- Crazy Rhythms
- Good Life
They are availabe on vinyl and CD (maybe even that download thing if that’s how you roll). 1998’s Only Life remains sadly out of print.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
1988
If you’re willing to go through used record bins, all their stuff used to be $2, except for the original Stiff issue of the debut, which maybe went for $8. Also, once you’re in the stacks, pick up the Yung Wu LP from 1986. It’s more of a Weckerman vehicle, but has a couple great covers on it. I warn, it has been a decade since I went to record stores, so maybe these are hard to find now. Sometimes I hate being old and boring.
I was always sad that the Something Wild soundtrack didn’t have the ‘Willies’ on it from the film.
Revolver FTW
Though unlike most I can go Please Please Me (original Mono UK LP, thanks — it’s not just a record, it’s a college fund!)
Why is he being interviewed by the guy from that VH1 weight loss show?
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
soooooo chop was stalking howie???
and posting pictures???
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Oct 26, 2010 10:43 PM PDT reply actions
yep
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
OT - personal bet with GRM
So based on this and this, I have lost this bet to GRM. But GRM is no longer around…. so should I still keep my end of the bet to him, even though he’s not around?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
2 many links
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 26, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Grass fed, grain finished…
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
The guy above
From sfgate:
For the World Series games, Fittz, Nathanson and about six others they met through a fan site, Lone Star Ball, may return to sports bar American Bull in Burlingame, where they watched the American League Championship Series.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
srsly? do they want this guy to get beat up? dressed like that in Burlingame during WS, it’s highly probable. just sayin’
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Beat up in Burlingame? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 27, 2010 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I sure hope
There is no pom-pom giveaway tomorrow or Thursday.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
So here is what I will be wearing while watching the game tomorrow:
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
by scout6 on Oct 26, 2010 11:05 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
WALMART
I went nuts when I found it.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
They also have a wool 2010 NL champs hat.
Velcro, but still. I am gonna hold off on that in case there is another hat released in a week or so.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I’ve been holding off on getting any postseason gear for pretty much that reason. But that shirt is hard to resist, especially with a Walmart right next to where I work.
They could be Giants...but not really.
I was with my wife, she is so awesome
She was like, do you want both, I said no and I said why, then she goes “If that happens you are getting another shirt too.”
I am fine with the shirt. If I had gotten the hat, then another one is released, how often would I really wear the NL champ one?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Why buy a 2010 NL champs hat . . .
. . . when soon you’ll be able to get a 2010 World Champs hat?
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
We absolutely, positively do not bear superstitions.
Really. It’s maybe fun to jest and josh about them, but, in truth, we do not hold with it.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I accept, no, cherish that attitude about anything else...
But not baseball. And definitely not Giants baseball. So again…
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
Owlcroft, this is going to be a bit random, I know, but I just realized something about your, er, tag line I guess you could call it.
You are implicitly calling Sabean a girl. Not your intention, I’m sure, and it has slipped past me until now, but there it is: delenda is feminine and in that construction it agrees with the subject in number, case, and gender. Which means Sabean is singular, nominative, and feminine.
I don’t know why, but it is really amusing to me right now.
I'm as tall as Mel - why can't I hit 500 home runs?
My knowledge of Latin . . .
. . . does not budge the needle. I simply modelled it after Cato the Elder’s perennial remark about Carthage: Carthago delenda est! I vaguely assumed that a name ending in “o” would be masculine. Is the common rendering of Cato’s words incorrect? Or is “Carthago” actually feminine, despite the “o” ending? Or is it something else altogether? (I have no idea.)
But, for now,
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
In other words, yes, Carthage is feminine. Sabean delendus est likely is proper.
OK, I'll take your word on it.
Sabean delendus est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
my daily anti-jinx will reverse any and all jinxes. i got it covered
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Good. Thank you.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
Adding the inactive players just seems wrong somehow.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I thought it was weird
but I am ok with Zito on there, just really wish I could white out Guillen.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
You could always just cross out his name with a permanent marker.
They could be Giants...but not really.
I was thinking of writing "LOL" next to it.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
that looks delicious.
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
by LincecumFTK on Oct 26, 2010 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I definitely plan on getting a similar shirt.
I’ll be wearing the shirt Lou Seal threw to me at game 162, I’ve worn it every game and it has worked thus far.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
That's awesome.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I [crab] SF would be slightly more awesome
But I guess with no heart symbol people might worry/
I normally dislike
“Miss Congeniality” shirts, but that one is pretty nice. I hope to get one when they’re made totally irrelevant by a WS victory.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:11 AM PDT up reply actions
OT
According to ESPN, the Celtics didn’t beat the Heat. The Heat lost.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I am surprised the servers did not explode.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
The Celtics were the winners, so disaster was averted. If it were the Hawks or some team like that, on the other hand…
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
ESPN made it seem like the Celtics didn’t matter. It was all Heat, Heat, Heat.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
What I’m annoyed about is that they promised “WORLD SERIES PREVIEW”, so, intrigued, I sat through 10 minutes of basketball for 30 seconds on how Cliff Lee is great.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
At least they took the time to send 80% of their baseball people to SF.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
BBTN spent 50min on Lee and Rangers, 7 on Giants (5 alone was on Timmeh)
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions
aw, Panda and Big Money
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
YOU SMELL LIKE PIE
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Fraternization sucks.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think there's a force in the verse
that can stop Panda from being cheerful.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Very Cool.
Big Money = Willie Mac Award Winner = Always a good Giant in my book
www.zenpop.com - Rock Posters, Illustrations, Magazine Covers and more!
Shoulder hug
Apparently bellies get in the way.
Also, Pablo is thanking Bengie for inevitably grounding in to more double plays than he will over the course of this series.
"I signed up for this job, the day I was born" - Brian Wilson, Ninja
by Giant Torture on Oct 27, 2010 7:18 AM PDT up reply actions
the night before/the day of
(didn’t want to exclude anyone based on time zone!)
(ALSO-meh, long post is longish, sorry!)
I was starting to get the ‘fear’ and thought I’d check in here for some Giants related warmth and safety, kinda like those SFG Snuggies :o) I hope our boys are getting a good night’s sleep, the beards are fresh(ly died), the red thongs are freshly washed and the weather is just what Timmy likes. My mom and aunt will be at the game and I couldn’t be more jealous. I’m hoping the fact that Robin Williams is a guest on the Tonight Show and (thanks to girltothemax!) that footage of Freddy interviewed by Ross will be played it’s a good sign :o) (crosses fingers and knocks on every piece of wood, including own head for anti-jinxiness) My NL Champ shirt wont arrive til Nov. 1 according to the website, so you guys will just have to be my protection from the ever-present torture. I do believe this team is just crazy enough to take it all the way, and when the WS comes on my tv tomorrow (muted, of course) I will be embracing the alternate universe we have found ourselves in and CHEER FOR MY BELOVED SF GIANTS AS THEY PLAY IN THE WORLD SERIES!!!! :oD
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Paragraphs are your friend.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I know, but I thought that would just make long post even longer, my bad :(
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
if not more readable. i gave up by the 2nd sentence
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
it was more dry humor than it was ragging on you. i read it, and i do think they are crazy enough to win it all- after all, what the hell did we come this far for, then?
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Your loss, I guess.
Thanks for the positive post, SoCalgal! I still can’t believe it’s real either!
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
thanks Gbabe :)
I think if I lived around other Giants fans (i.e. not in Anaheim) it would be more real for me, but none of my friends here grew up in the bay area, so the celebrations are a bit lonely. I come here to make sure it’s real :oD
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Yeah, that must be so hard being so far away and not being in the Bay Area witnessing all the energy and excitement. I wish you could be here live and in person!!
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
me too! cuz maybe then I could be going to tomorrow’s game with my mom & aunt! or just go to a bar and be
with Giants Fans en masse! Have you seen that footage someone posted on youtube of the Public House, I
wish I could have been around a crowd like that, I just went out on my patio and whispered to myself "We’re
going to the World Series!" :)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Yes, I’ve seen that video as well as countless others from bars and city streets around here. It was mayhem!
I’m afraid to go to bed because when I wake up it will be World Series Game One and I will be in freak out/panic mode all day.
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
lol, me too! I’ve already loaded up my day with mindless errands just to keep my mind off it, we’ll see if it really works!
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
haha! me too
I plan on giving myself a pedicure while listening to Gary Radnich.
Oh God. What has become of my life?
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
lol, us girlz gotta do what we gotta do to get through the day! thanks for the idea though, I need to do my nails for halloween!
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Orange and Black polish, FTW! :)
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
i won’t believe it’s real until the opening introductions tomorrow.
either that, or when i wake up in the AM and my heart is already pounding through my chest, lol
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
do you really think they will actually show all the pre-game stuff, or will we be forced to watch the dipshit brigade’s mouths go up and down instead, like in the previous series? do not want! :(
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
nah, they will show the introductions, like when everyone lines up along the first and third baselines, while they introduce every player on each 25-man.
or at least they’ve done it that way every year so far, but no east coast team in WS=listen to pundits while the cool shit happens
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Cover the manager and the starters, cut away for the reserves… Just a guess.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 26, 2010 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I will murder people if they talk over everything going on pre-game! I don’t have (read: can’t afford) CSNBA
so I’m stuck with whatever Fox is kind enough to show, and I want to see it ALL! Also, if I hear one more
person say Fox’s ratings are gonna suck because of Giants/Rangers and no cares outside of their fans, I
will set fire to the interwebs!
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
lol fox “baseball is over without those yankees or redsox” (stupid fox)
try the news or i think channel 2 has pre-game or post-game show before worthless fox is on.
CSNBA can’t show any of the pregame, im pretty sure.
all television rights go to FOX
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions
but don’t they get postgame interviews and stuff like that? MLBnet coverage post game is pretty shoddy, but then again we are 1 of only 2 teams left, so there’s still a 25-75 chance that they’ll show Giants highlights
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
yeah, postgame interviews and such are avalable to anyone because FOX has the television rights but they can’t lock the reporters out of the clubhouse or anything. its just the stuff leading up to the game inside the stadium and the game itself.
the pregame introductions they have the rights too as well. i didnt see any pregame on CSNBA during the playoffs (at least not the First Pitch, Barry Bonds thing, etc)
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
that’s my point, they have the rights and yet those idiots talked when WILLIE MAYS was throwing a ceremonial first pitch! and they can’t play the /east coast bias’d card cuz his career started in NY! Perhaps I want this WS win so badly because I want the team to get the respect they deserve
/steps down off soapbox
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
i think now that it’s the World Series, and everyone who is still watching baseball will be watching it, they won’t pull any stupid shit like they did in the NLCS.
Or so one would hope.
Remember, as much as we want this, everyone didn’t expect, realistically, to even make it out of Philly- we went from a 72 win team to an 88, to a pennant. We’re ahead of the “planned course” of the team, so this is experience for the guys and house money, if i may say so. The opportunity to be in the WS will be realistic for the next 2-4 years at the minimum, with the pitching we have.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions
hell, no one expected us to make it past the Padres! and you have far too much faith in Fox I fear, but I’m really hoping they prove you right! :)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
what they did in the NLCS, was slight the Giants during their home-park pregame. But this is the pregame for the first game of the WS, so there won’t be any slighting. i hope
im sick of hearing from John Kruk how “if the Padres wouldn’t have folded…” you know John, if you wanna say something, FUCKING SAY IT. don’t be all passive-agressive and imply we shouldnt have even been in the playoffs to begin with.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:22 AM PDT up reply actions
that guy bugs me. he was saying something stupid again today during BP and I meant to remember it so I could bring it up here, but my brain has a low tolerance for stupid BS so it’s evaporated. blech, Fox
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
and he was wrong, too. if the padres hadn’t folded, we would have played ATL for a do or die WC spot.
so even in his stupid moments, he’s still forgetting the facts.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:53 AM PDT up reply actions
oh, and his stupid moments and forgetting facts are unrelated. they just happen to cross paths at times.
stupid is not always a product of poor facts.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Willie
seemed to be basically an afterthought in the whole thing. I don’t get how he’s one of 4 guys throwing out a game 4 ball.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:15 AM PDT up reply actions
A & E Home Video will release a box set of the entire World Series (meaning the entire game on individual DVDs). There will be alternate audio where you could watch it with the FOX broadcasters or the teams radio broadcasters. Meaning you could re-watch each game with Krukow, Kuiper and Flemming do the game.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Don't you realize
It’s a dream. The Giants are 68-94. MLB changed the rules in late September and we got Yankees vs. Red Sox in the World Series.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
funny you should say that, I was watching the postseason recap on MLB, and everytime something went poorly for the other team, I kept thinking it was actually us and we didn’t really make it past the Braves or Phillies. It’s just too easy to think it went the other way for us.
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
who knew that hoarding was a gateway to being /inception’d? ;)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
i dont have my totem with me so i couldnt tell ya.
actually, my shoes arent spinning, so i think its real
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:06 AM PDT up reply actions
oh, see you are smarter than me, the dry humor wasn’t just a ruse!
you were referring to the actual movie, whereas I was only referring to the South Park episode…
silly me! ;)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
i didnt even see the SouthPark episode- i assume they parodied the movie? wait, have you seen the movie?
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:18 AM PDT up reply actions
at the risk of exposing myself as possibly one of the only McCers who hasn’t, nope, haven’t seen Inception :(
but yeah, the SP epi started with Stan having a “hoarding” problem (not really) and going to Makey (who really does) for help and they all end up in therapy which leads to Inception. Not a huge fan, but this one was pretty good.
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Stan did have a hoarding problem, though. Remember the month-old sandwich in his locker? With the maggots?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
LOL BOBBY HILL
Cool hometown article:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/oct/27/giants-cain-an-everyday-joe/?partner=RSS
Matt Cain, right, smiles as he signs a contract to play baseball for the San Francisco Giants at his parents’ home in Collierville June 26, 2002. At left are his grandparents Fran and Guy Miller, parents Dolores Cain, seated, and Tom Cain, standing, and Giants’ scout Lee Elder in sport coat.
They could be Giants...but not really.
by esseffgeez on Oct 26, 2010 11:22 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
D'awww.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
look how short his hair is!
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
by LincecumFTK on Oct 26, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I love the orange shirts!
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
Oh boy!
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
his dad looks so young
Proud adopted parent of the ball dudes, who have grounded into 109 fewer double plays than the Giants.
Clean living and hard work will do that for you.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 12:51 AM PDT up reply actions
ABC-7 Thursday weather forecast says
North Bay showers. They say it may drizzle at the park. But other stations say it may still rain at AT&T.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
9:16 update from south central SF
Pale winter sunshine, not a cloud in the eastern sky. Dare I say, that as of now, a great day for baseball.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
wish it were a day game
It’s nice out. Cool, clear, bright. The ride into work today along the Embarcadero was absolutely gorgeous. Saw some pelicans fishing off the fourth street bridge. Which doesn’t mean much, except I like pelicans.
OT(ish)
has anyone seen Jonah Hex?
I’m gonna rent it on AT&T U-Verse for 5 bucks tonight, anyone seen it? good pick? i like shoot-em up movies
Apparently it’s terrible.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
is that movie with Bruce Willis, Sylverter Stallone, Schwarzennegger, yknow all the big action stars out yet? cant remember the name of it…
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
The Expendables.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
yes, that one.
/looks it up
ah, its probably still in theatres. that’s a waste of $10 most of the time, i have a big tv and surround sound system. Avatar in 3D was pretty cool, though
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t see how it could not be terrible. But just to be sure, what does operation carrot have to say on the issue of Jonah Hex?
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
(just teasing, btw)
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
MEGAN FOX
QED
Can’t act, gyrates around a bit, collects check.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
heard they are dumping her in the next transformers movie, lol. how bad do you have to be to get dumped for a movie made 90% of CGI?
saw a few minutes of “Jennifers Body” on HBO or something the other day… fucking wierd. all she does is act like a slut. which is not to take away from her hotness
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
In a related note, Mel Gibson should have finally got the note he needs to be checked out.
You are really crazy if you were fired from a movie franchise that Mike Tyson was deemed sane enough to appear in.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
lol what? Mike Tyson was in The Hangover, and that turned out alright.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Mel Gibson was gonna be in the Hangover 2
Now he is not. Rumor is Galafanakis (sp?) may have had a problem with him being in the film.
Or he was batshit crazy.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Galfanakis is batshit crazy too, or so it appears.
I didn’t know they were making a Hangover 2 and def didn’t know Mel was gonna be in it. His role was probably a drunk dad to one of the main characters- yknow, give him a role he is familiar with
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions
He was gonna be a tattoo artist.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
kicked out of a minor role in a movie?
you’ve gotta be a fucking idiot to lose a little gig like that.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions
what’s it supposed to be about? same characters as last time?
ill bet its the bachelor party for Stu, who will be marrying that stripper, and everything goes wrong again.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions
It takes place in Asia I think.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
A lot of the principal filming will be in Thailand. Many bribes will be paid.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 12:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Ahem
http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Mel_Gibson
And this has not been updated in like 2 or 3 years.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I think Tyson is getting his act together.
From what I’ve heard, as long as he’s on his meds, he’s alright.
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
Tyson is still in my book one badass character. He really came clean during this two hour long interview he did last year, it was a well made documentary.
I like the guy, I think he means well.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions
If you’re talking about the movie Tyson, it was made by one of his good friends, so it has a pretty clear pro-Tyson bias. It’s not clear how much batshit insane they left out to make him sympathetic.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 27, 2010 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
it wasn’t a movie, like something you find in the theatres. It was a bio done by PBS or something like that- it was a 3rd party.
but say we are talking about the movie, everyone knows how batshit insane he is already. i see no problem casting him in a good light, so long as the words coming out of his mouth back it up. the real problem with him is that he wouldn’t admit to his mistakes. well, that and biting peoples ears off, but we already knew that.
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Saw it on a plane
I fell asleep halfway through, if that answers your question.
by Murray, Present on Oct 26, 2010 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
that could have been the carbon monoxide
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:18 AM PDT up reply actions
sl
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 11:35 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
Man there are so many just horrible things you can do with this image.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I really need to stop changing the desktop wallpapers at school.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
You know, it’s really annoying when I log onto a computer and the first thing I see is a blurry photo of Grant taken through a bush.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I put clothed pictures on the PCs and blurry naked pictures on the Macs.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
You did that because you know I use Macs, didn’t you?
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I only found out about that today, actually.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 26, 2010 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Shit.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
get a room, you two. i could cut the sexual tension with a knife
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL. Howie likes Grant.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 26, 2010 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Preferably a Miracle Blade.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Oct 26, 2010 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you two actually say hello or was everything online?
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Well, he turned around when he got to the part of the thread where I told him to turn around and I said “LOOK AT THE CUTE LITTLE GIRL” and he told me a story about how in second grade, everyone thought he was a girl. After that, we just posted on here.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Oct 27, 2010 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I was going to go back to your row and chat, but the computer next to yours was occupied by some smelly looking guy.
In 2010, teammates Aubrey Huff and Pat Burrell perfected the art of brotational hitting.
by howtheyscored on Oct 27, 2010 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Or you could change all of them and then lock the system settings so they can’t be changed back.
Which, let’s face it, was probably already your plan.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
when i was in college, everyone uses personal user accounts so settings are already locked out to any user.
you’ll have to devise another plan. although your college may not be so worried about this naked wallpaper endemic
by giant4life83 on Oct 26, 2010 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2010/10/26/1776958/one-of-these-days
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Well I done it. For the first time ever I trash talked the A’s. I immediately broke out in a cold sweat at the karmic implications of “no one cares how many world championships you have if you haven’t had any lately”. Not the thing to say on the eve of battle! So I must rectify my standing. This will be painful, but it must be done.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Oct 27, 2010 12:25 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
you’ve doomed us all!!!!!!!
j/k, they had it coming ;)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
To expiate my unfounded arrogance I just publicly admitted to having always envied the A’s their Bay Area titles. It’s a very humbling thing for me to admit, and I dread the Mentions box tomorrow, but it must be done!
… Although, srsly, who here is expecting a win later today? cliff Lee isn’t Halladay who we hit around this year. I remember last year he took us apart when the phillies came to Sf.
Of course a win is possible, but I can’t believe it’s likely.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Oct 27, 2010 12:46 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
WTF?
It’s after midnight… WHERE THE HELL IS GRANT’s NEW POST?!!! (slacker.)
www.zenpop.com - Rock Posters, Illustrations, Magazine Covers and more!
Watching 2002 World Series DVD
Hoping that it is a good anti-jinx for the series.
I’m going to go vomit now……
Remember when you got asked to the prom by the popular boy?
And then you were named Prom Queen, but at the last second the popular boys dumped goat blood on you and you ran from the gym crying?
We taped it! Happy Birthday!
Look at my website. Look at it. || Screw Johnsonville Sausages and Safeway. I have my reasons. || I pity the fool that falls in love with [THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS]
I saw the first part of it in a theater and then some Jewish guys started shooing and set the place on fire.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 12:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Lots of love for Lopez in the comments here.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-jayson-werth-problem
Also LOL at
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-jayson-werth-problem/#comment-311434
Proud adopted parent of the ball dudes, who have grounded into 109 fewer double plays than the Giants.
OT: OMG Huey Lewis is on Jimmy Fallon with the Roots :D
I once “followed” him 8 blocks (from a distance) when we exited some burger joint in SF one evening about 15 years ago, god how I miss SF!
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
you followed him?
creeper status..
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
by LincecumFTK on Oct 27, 2010 12:49 AM PDT up reply actions
lol not my proudest moment, more of “OMG, I can’t believe I actually ran into a celebrity, we must now watch him like an episode of Mutual of Omaha’s Animal Kingdom!” but then we were getting lost and turned back. :D
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
oh ok, it sounds so much better when you put it that way
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
by LincecumFTK on Oct 27, 2010 12:55 AM PDT up reply actions
ha ha ha! but it’s HUEY LEWIS! could you have just let him go by? ;)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
i probably would have run up to him going, “OMG do you know that your Huey Lewis???”
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
see! that’s what would have come out of my mouth if I had dared to say anything to him, following him was a much better choice lol
btw, just looked him up on WIki, he’s 60!! and I still would ;)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
i’m sure a lot of women “still would”. I mean c’mon its Huey Lewis.
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
what can I say, I’m a sucker for musicians (extra bonus pts. if they’re Giants fans!)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
/breaks out the guitar
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
dude will probably play “balckbird” then try to rip off your top.
Is this real life? Is this going to be forever?
ACTUALLY
i play more country stuff, since that is what I listen to most.
Let the country bashin’ commence..
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
aww! I went to school in Stockton, I understand :D
besides, you wanna see bashing, watch this…
hey millennial! at least it’s not Stairway!!!! ::rolls eyes::
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
yes!
someone that understands, awesome!
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
so maybe you can answer this for me…I was just thinking about this the other day-where did the Dixie Chicks go? (I know, it’s country lite, but I liked them)
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
They were touring with the Eagles this summer. They are still aroundm as far as I know. They do a ton of philanthropic work..
And being country “lite” as it is, I am not ashamed to stay I enjoyed the music they produced.
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
really!? wow, I so missed that :( so who are your faves?
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Garth Brooks, Alabama. Just to name a few
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
never heard of Jason Aldean, but my mom had a serious thing for the lead guy in Alabama, I gave her such crap, must have been the beard! lol
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
yeah I grew up on Alabama and Mr Strait.. not really saying a lot since I’m only 23 though. Jason Aldean is that new country stuff, he’s probably the only one I like that has that harder sound to his music.
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
wow! I didn’t know they were still putting out albums not that long ago. I think being in Stockton for 4+ years turned me off to a lot of that hootin & hollerin country (Billy Ray Cyrus) but most of the country I’ll still listen to tends to be just barely country, DC, Sugarland, Rascal Flatts, etc.
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
yeah I’m not really picky. If it is catchy and I can line dance to it, I’m a pretty happy guy
"throwing out runners? I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey
Did he actually find a new drug?
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 12:57 AM PDT up reply actions
lol he did seem to be going somewhere in a hurry with his shades on, at night….oh, Huey, nooooo!
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Good thing Don Henley wasn’t coming the other way, driving with his eyes closed.
Anyhow Eddie Money over Huey Lewis in 5
/EastCoastMusciBias
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 1:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Eddie Money, really? he’s ok, but Take Me Home Tonight, blech! great! now I have that floating around in my head!
thanks :|
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Just like Ronnie sa-ang…
Really, if you didn’t get chills from hearing her on that song the first time, you’re either too young for the context or your soul is dead.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 1:19 AM PDT up reply actions
she was the best part of the song! something about Eddie in that song always bugged me, can’t put my finger on it, maybe it was meddling with a perfectly good Ronette’s tune, I don’t like messing with proper music that way
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
I should think
you could follow him any time you want, just cruise county fairs and Six Flags.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:21 AM PDT up reply actions
tnargdeirubi
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 1:20 AM PDT up reply actions
/facepalm
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
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by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 1:24 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s late, I forgot tnargdeirubi is what I shit on your porch every morning.
Is this real life? Is this going to be forever?
I thought you were stupid before, but now I’m convinced.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Oct 27, 2010 1:31 AM PDT up reply actions
me thinks I’ll get in line behind S.F. Giangst
/tiptoes quietly away
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
How bout
putting the your face up you ass, dick head.
/facepalm
Is this real life? Is this going to be forever?
LOL SF bandwagoners
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27vecsey.html?hp
Proud adopted parent of the ball dudes, who have grounded into 109 fewer double plays than the Giants.
reading the title of the article made my blood pressure go up 20 pts.!!! F them!
funny, top of page says “Suddenly, SF is a Baseball Town” but top of the window says “SF is Suddenly a Baseball Town”
either way, F them, they’re just pissed the wrong team left NY in ’58 :-p
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
I think the article was fine
and more about the excitement that non-baseball fans are feeling. I don’t see why that’s a problem- I didn’t really like watching Klesko and Co. either.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:29 AM PDT up reply actions
More "experts" picks from SI.com
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/10/26/world.series.experts.picks/index.html
11 picks. 5 picked the Giants. Out of the six who picked the Rangers, 5 said it will go 7 games. 1 said 5.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
So yeah…. woke up at 4am. Too hyper to go back to sleep. Gonna be a looooooooong day!
Does MLB take over the “entertainment” for the WS games? Cuz… According to an article on SFGate: Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that soul singer John Legend will perform the national anthem on Wednesday at Game 1 of the series between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers. And something called “Lady Antebellum” is set to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” on Thursday at Game 2. So much for local flavor, color me disappointed.
Maybe they were afraid they’d get more Beach Blanket Babylon. Seriously though… a country act from Tennessee? In Texas sure. In SF?
ditto
although at least I don’t have to see and hear Kid Rock’s stupid song any more. I still don’t see how that had anything to do with baseball or the postseason.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:31 AM PDT up reply actions
What if I came here for the weather report?
"It feels awesome. Feels like when you were a kid and every guy gets a chance to be a hero, then you eat orange slices and kool-aid after the game. Except we’re nailing champagne right now." —Brian Wilson
"The mass of people, as La Boetie and Mises recognised, always and everywhere consists of "brutes", "dullards", and "fools", easily deluded and sunk into habitual submission. Thus today, inundated from early childhood with government propaganda in public schools and educational institutions by legions of publicly certified intellectuals, most people mindlessly accept and repeat nonsense such as that democracy is self-rule and government is of, by, and for the people." Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Happy Timmeh Day everyone!
Cliff Lee may join Russell Martin in sucking it!
"I signed up for this job, the day I was born" - Brian Wilson, Ninja
the only thing i like about lee is his a fellow leftie.
period. he’s going down.
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY
by girltothemax on Oct 27, 2010 7:17 AM PDT up reply actions
does anyone know where I could look for predictions from analysts and experts?
I wanna make sure everyone are siding with the Rangers.
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY
Well, there's Scott Ostler of the Chron . . .
. . . who mentioned in his column this morning (Wed. Oct 27) that a bored fan might “pull out the Blackberry and start working on the Fisbee account.”
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Lots of people named that.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Oct 27, 2010 7:21 AM PDT reply actions
This Stark article is fantastic
But naturally, they’re plowing into that debate, anyway — with their vocal cords in flames.
“I don’t mean to denigrate the Texas Rangers,” said Brian Murphy. "And I love Ron Washington. And I hope Bengie Molina gets the standing ovation he deserves. … But I’m going to be brutally honest here. Let’s just say it: Texans do not truly value baseball. Texans value football. And it’s as simple as that.
“I understand there will be some happy people there. But Texas is a football state all the way — 3,000 percent. So I would humbly submit to Rangers fans that they will be just as interested in the Cowboys score as the Rangers score, whereas right now, the 49ers don’t even exist.”
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2010/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=5730501
Murph history fail
This city has a rich history going back to 1776, dood.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 7:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I think you can outdoors
but not in the tunnels. It’s pretty static-y on Muni trains. I’ve not tried on electric buses but that’s probably bad too.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 8:11 AM PDT up reply actions
That's what I was afraid of
I have to work in Burlingame this afternoon and then try to make a quick break home to East Bay.
et tu, calbear?
Ewok-hate? Teddy bear luau ending? Vader’s “redemption”?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Don’t forget the sad scene with where the ewok dies…
I like 6 but just not as much as the other episodes…it was my favorite as a kid but not as fun as an adult.
Conversely, 5 was weird for me when I first saw it because it has no real beginning or ending but I have come to appreciate it more…
I really like 3 a lot…if not for the scenes between Padme and Anakin, it would probably be my favorite.
This is the longest day ever.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 27, 2010 8:16 AM PDT reply actions
+109….million
"I signed up for this job, the day I was born" - Brian Wilson, Ninja
by Giant Torture on Oct 27, 2010 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions
For me ...
… last FridaySaturday was the longest day ever.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
You expect me to remember back that far?
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 27, 2010 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
how come we don't have a Q&A exchange between Grant and a mod from lonestarball?
Is it because they are too awesome for us or are we scared of them?
Proud adopted parent of the ball dudes, who have grounded into 109 fewer double plays than the Giants.
Baseball Card OT: Pretty cool story
BALTIMORE – Sister Virginia Muller had never heard of shortstop Honus Wagner.
But she quickly learned the baseball great is a revered figure among collectors, and the most sought-after baseball card in history. And thanks to an unexpected donation, one of the century-old cards belongs to Muller and her order, the Baltimore-based School Sisters of Notre Dame.
The Roman Catholic nuns are auctioning off the card, which despite its poor condition is expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000. The proceeds will go to their ministries in 35 countries around the world.
So here we are
The morning of Game 1 of the World Series. In San Francisco. I’ve got my Giants hat (with Tim Lincecum pin) on. Locked and loaded. Let’s do this.
/waits seven and a half more hours
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
99 bottles of beer on the wall
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Oct 27, 2010 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
A little slow in here
Is everyone in the fetal position right now?
/asking while in fetal position
I checked, we haven’t been Chopped in an old thread—unless, everybody’s over in Premium!
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
the real whine and cheese blog!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria takes over as Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"What do I want you to do? What are you doing in the National League?"- John McGraw
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Oct 27, 2010 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
People are waiting for a new thread so they can discuss what’s for lunch.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 27, 2010 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Not yet, just planning ahead
I’m mapping out comfortable places in the house where I can take my radio and curl up in the fetal position at a moment’s notice.
My adopted Giant got shipped off to Pittsburgh, and it was worth it.
by rightcenterfielder on Oct 27, 2010 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
I have anxious butterflies in my anxious stomach...
I feel like like were about to head in to battle.
I'm nervous, too.
But I also feel, FIERCE, in a way. We’ve made it this far and we deserve to be here.
WE NEED TO UNLEASH IT TONIGHT! /RAISES FIST
/returns to fetal position
Have you ever thrown a fist full of glitter in the air?
♥ 2010 San Francisco Giants ♥
♥ McCoven ♥
"You'd"?
That’s when you’d know you’re part of some cosmic experiment.
“You’d”? Why did you add the apostrophy “d”?
A little background: I grew up in the Bay Area and used to take 3 different modes of public transportation just to watch the Giants in Candlestick. I now live in Arlington, TX, and my kids and I watch the Giants on MLB TV. So this is not like 2002 when I turned off the TV afterwards and ignored baseball for several months. This is not like 1989 when I could count on a few Giants fans to console with at school. No, this is different. Today my daughter’s school dress code is:
In honor of the Rangers accomplishments we are declaring Wednesday, October 27 as Rangers shirt day and/or red and blue shirt day within the guidelines of the dress code for free dress day. Wear your uniform if you choose not to wear a Rangers shirt or a red & blue shirt.
Got that! My 5-year-old daughter is now sitting in a classroom full of kids wearing Rangers’ gear, and she is not even allowed to wear her Giants’ gear. (My wife and I cleverly sent her to school in a red shirt with pandas on them. They can’t keep us down.)
So, there is no “you’d” here. It’s “you”. Or more like “me”. I am in some sick cosmic experiment. I’m sorry you all have to go down with me.
P.S. I have a friend who’s a Rangers season ticket holder, and he scored me a face-valued ticket to Game 4, so I am totally cool with that.
I like it.
Texas is bringing the heat. This is gonna be fun.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Lower box
row 42
some say “obstructed view” anyone know waht that’s about?
Sucking up to Grant for a mod position since 2009
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
You get some of the overhang from field club, which could obstruct the view of the scoreboard depending on where you’re sitting. It’s really not that bad, plus the last row has tons of leg room.
you can see everything on the field, just can’t see 20’ above it (flyballs/HRs) or the scoreboard or anything else.
just the field
by giant4life83 on Oct 27, 2010 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
NEW POST
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/10/27/1777698/choose-your-own-path-to-the-world-series
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Oct 27, 2010 10:02 AM PDT reply actions
He was the kind of player that never showed up for the Giants over the past decade – a quietly competent, homegrown placeholder that helps more than he hurts*.
Where is the clarifying asterisk?!
"I don't know how the six-pack got in my hands." -P.T.F. Bat
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