The worst losses of 2010
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 11, 2010 1:47 PM PST
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PrintThis is the most fun I've ever had writing one of these posts. These losses – these devastating losses – were so, so painful at the time, and yet for some inexplicable reason, I wrote about them with this song stuck in my head. I giggled a little bit. I might have even tittered a time or two.
So here are the worst losses of 2010. I was thinking about doing the best wins of 2010 first, but that’s a four-part fantasy epic, with each part happening in an alternate dimension in the time it takes Edgar Renteria to touch each base after his three-run homer in Game Five. The first part – "Edgar and the Wyvern of Ice" – is coming out on Doubleday as soon as Ethan Hawke finishes the damned foreward already.
This wasn’t a late-inning crusher – this was a slow burn of a loss. The Dodgers were about to sweep the Giants in San Francisco, and something called Vicente Padilla was dominating. The Dodgers scored first, padded the lead, and then never looked back on their way to their third straight NLCS appearance.
That’s what it felt like, at least. The Giants had lost five in a row, they were 5.5 games back, and they were slinking back toward a .500 record. They couldn’t hit, and they had just let the Dodgers sweep a series in San Francisco. This was the game that made it okay to start thinking about the prospects Aubrey Huff could bring back in a trade.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
It hurt, but it would have hurt a lot more if the Giants hadn’t already taken the first three games of the series. Blown calls happen, but it’s actually really rare when they happen in a spot where the correct call would have instantly given the win to the losing team.
If Cuzzi makes the right call, the Phillies would have had waiver priority over the Giants in August, and they would have decided to put a claim in on Cody Ross, hoping the Marlins would pay part of his salary. The Marlins would have refused and pulled Ross back. I JUST BLEW YOUR MIND. Phil Cuzzi should get a ring.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
I tried to rationalize it at the time, but in retrospect, it really, really stung that the Giants were able to come back from a 10-1 deficit only to lose in the 12th inning. A Pablo Sandoval error in the ninth led to the tying run, and Barry Zito in relief lost it. Shoddy defense by Pablo and poor pitching by Zito were going to be the reasons the Giants couldn’t advance in the playoffs, I just felt it.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
7. Troy Tulowitski is annoying, good
In a game the Giants really, really would have liked to win, they reclaimed the lead on a Cody Ross home run and then watched the lead get Coorsed. Run here, run there, double here, double there, and suddenly you see some mulleted goofball running around the bases, celebrating ,and saying, "Look at that, golly, we’re out of innings, mister! Looks like we won! Hyyuk!"
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
6. Wilson gets BABIP’d on by the Phillies
It would have been cool to sweep the Phillies, but it turns out that the Giants would have to be satisfied with a series win. That sentence applies to April and October, and upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
5. Cody Ross is a bad player and he should be released
When the Giants go to Colorado, they get pounded on and lose games in horrid ways. When the Rockies come to San Francisco, they lose slowly and find creative ways to not score. It’s kind of a de facto agreement the two teams have. So this game was especially crushing. The Rockies didn’t hold their end of the deal! Cheeeeeaters!
Even worse was the fact that most of the wizened folks here were screaming for Cody Ross to start over Jose Guillen for defensive reasons, and then Ross took a funny break on Carlos Gonzalez’s ninth-inning triple, which scored the tying run and set up the winning run. That was the last we would ever hear from Ross again.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
4. Padres think they have a chance
I actually bought champagne before this game too. Heck, the Padres were certainly going to lose to Matt Cain, right? The Padres were a battered team that had just coughed up a substantial division lead – surely they couldn’t put up a fight.
And then Adrian Gonzalez. That’s when I really started to worry about the Giants winning another game in 2010. There was a little comeback, and then nothing. Just a void with Barry Zito starting back from Saturday’s game.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
3. Sanchez and Zito lose games in which they allow one hit.
Lumped together for effect. The Giants lost two games in which they allowed a single hit. That sort of thing is rarer than a no-hitter. The Giants had it happen twice in the same season. It was proof that even if the Giants made the playoffs, they wouldn’t have enough offense to do anything. There’s no explaining the frustration of spending three hours watching another team win after they flail all Giants-like at the plate.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
This was the demarcation line. This was the game that separated the season right down the middle. We just didn’t know it at the time. After losing and losing in June, they Giants finally managed to have a late-inning comeback against the Rockies in Coors Field. In the middle of that comeback, Buster Posey roped a single to the outfield with two outs, and he was promptly replaced for a pinch-runner. When he was on first. With two outs. The pinch-runner was the backup catcher.
The official reason given by Bochy was that he thought Whiteside would have a better chance at scoring on a ball hit in the gap. The real reason was probably something to do with Bochy not trusting Posey defensively in a tie game. Maybe not, but that’s my theory.
Whiteside struck out twice in extra innings, once with a runner on third and less than two outs, and he also popped up with a runner in scoring position. This was after he made an error. So obviously, Bruce Bochy was about to be fired, and the Giants fell 7.5 games back. The season was over, and Huff was going to go to the Rangers for Bengie Molina and prospects.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
I can still see TBS showing replays of this home run when I close my eyes. After Pat Burrell hit a three-run homer to make me think, gee, maybe this is the Giants’ year, the Giants frittered away a lead. It all led to Buster Posey getting a hanging slider from Kyle Farnsworth with one out and the bases loaded in the 10th.
Easily the worst loss of the season. The difference between a 1-1 series and a 2-0 series lead before going on the road was huge. Every freaking time the Giants made the playoffs, they’d have a game like this – a total defenestration of the soul.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
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I chose #7, that one hurt so bad.
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
Yeah but Matt Cain dominated the next game to make everything all better.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Nov 13, 2010 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
Also chose #3
And why did the ECKSTEIN WALKOFF HR game not make the list? I’m pretty sure it was the only home run he hit all year.
Dave
by MightySlacker on Nov 11, 2010 1:51 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
after the Eckstein HR, isn’t that the game that Kuip first said Torture?
I hope this newfound celebrityism of yours, Grant, isn’t going to your head and causing a drop-off in your work. Shame. You should have handled it better.
:)
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
they were talking about the origins of the Torture meme (kruk and kuip were) and im pretty sure Kuip said that he said it after the Giants lost the Eckstein HR off Affeldt game.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:59 PM PST up reply actions
MLBN interviewed Kuip before one of the playoff games and he recalled coining the phrase for the first time when the Giants lost to the Padres on a one-hitter.
Personally, I think I coined the term first. It was the day Sabean and Bochy got their new contracts. Now I call them Sabes and Boch and I love them, I do.
"Friends, San Franciscans, Countrymen....Humm Baby."
by The Nuschlerian Candidate on Nov 11, 2010 7:28 PM PST up reply actions
I’m not “wizened.” Oldjacket is, but I’m not.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Nov 11, 2010 8:02 PM PST up reply actions
Links to the Post-Game Freak-Outs would’ve pretty hilarious, no?
The BB-Ref seems so sterile compared to the absolute white-hot emotion of a post-game, we are so f’n doomed thread. ;-)
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:02 PM PST up reply actions
oh god, that one was awful
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Thank's for bringing that game up
I was just done forgetting about it.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
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Just think about the last game the Giants played in 2010
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I remember that one
Eckstein free bliss (that shiny trophy helped too)
by Viva Jon Miller on Nov 11, 2010 3:14 PM PST up reply actions
Actually, I think it was the day before the Sanchez 1 hitter
That was a pretty miserable couple of days :(
Dave
by MightySlacker on Nov 11, 2010 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
I was in the LF bleachers for the Sanchez one-hitter
For a work event. While he was warming up, his stuff (especially the zip and movement on the FB) looked really nice. I told the coworker next to me, ‘if the Giants can just score a couple runs, they’ll have a good chance behind that fastball.’
@#$! spoke to @#$%! soon.
Yeah, I remember that night
I took in an entirely forgettable performance of To Kill a Mockingbird in Mountain view that night, only to listen to the last inning on radio. Chase Headley had apparently opted for the Cool Papa Bell Boost in his Mango-a-Go-Go smoothie that morning, as I think he had three steals…five SBs for the series or something?
Upon further review, Boo Radley did not prevent the Giants from winning the 2010 World Series.
by biff pocoroba on Nov 11, 2010 2:15 PM PST up reply actions
Glad Boo didn't affect the WS
Or at least that’s the SCOUT-ing report.
Rooting for the Yankees is like cheering the tanks at Tianamen Square.
FFFFFFFFFFFFF
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7546437
As fangraphs said at the time:
Over the last three years, Affeldt has allowed a 26.2% FB rate, and Eckstein has a 29.7% FB rate. Given the league average FB rate of 36.7%, using the crude estimation Expected = (Offense + Defense – Average) – used in The Book – we would expect Affeldt vs. Eckstein matchups to end in a fly ball only 19.2% of the time. Then, given Eckstein’s 1.9% HR/FB over that time frame, we would expect this matchup to end in a home run only .003648% of the time, or roughly 36 out of every 10000 times. With PETCO Park’s .86 HR park factor, that falls to 31 out of every 10000 times.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
so that’s roughly 1 in 330, i think. did it off the top of my head but i think its right
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:30 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, but how many HRs did he hit this year? A lot I bet.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
You fell in...
"(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
Yea
I think every Padres game could make that list. They had a pitching staff almost as good as ours and a lineup of Adrian Gonzalez and the nobodys.
PS, I hate the Padres
It's better to be lucky than good.
by Myemail21479 on Nov 11, 2010 5:17 PM PST up reply actions
What about that game in Coors where the Rockies hit 3 triples in a row?
Warning, angry Giants fan on the loose.
That Was A Bad Dream, Sport
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Nov 11, 2010 10:58 PM PST up reply actions
From a personal standpoint,
I was at the Eckstein walkoff game and it was a gut wrenching defeat. Just going from the pure joy of coming within 2 feet of catching a Uribe game tying HR off Heath Bell to watching the last guy in the park that should hit a walkoff HR end it all was astonishing. I had never been speechless at a baseball game but as soon as Eckstein hit that ball we knew. Horrible.
by Puster Bosey on Nov 11, 2010 9:04 PM PST up reply actions
I literally told my girlfriend, seconds before the homerun, that Eckstein hits one homerun a year. And then, you know…yeah.
by JSing on Nov 11, 2010 10:03 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
No way the Giants could beat the Braves on the road! Did you watch that series against Atlanta back in August??
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
that was a depressing series. I remember we were all going crazy at how
much Timmy was sweating in the Atlanta heat. And also Buster not doing so well for his Georgia homecoming.
I think it's funny that the way we beat ATL
in that series was pretty much just like how we beat them in Game 3….
I was at the Reds comeback game
Strangest and most heartbreaking game I’ve ever attended.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
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I pick that one, too,
as most disheartening and frustrating. Yet, upon further review . . .
by mrs. owlcroft on Nov 11, 2010 2:04 PM PST up reply actions
I was in Taiwan and checking the game on my phone every 3 minutes
I almost threw my iphone out of the 12th floor window of my hotel room.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Bumgarner was terrible in that game
He gave up like 3 home runs in the first two innings.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
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i’ll still always remember that Kruk call on Torres’ double in the 8th…
“Heeere comes Ross… Heeerrreeee cooommmmmeeeeeessss Fontenot… THIS GAME IS TIED!!”
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
Best Kruk call of the season, IMO.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Nov 11, 2010 3:03 PM PST up reply actions
oops
fooled by the OP.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Nov 11, 2010 3:43 PM PST up reply actions
was it Kuip? i was pretty sure it was Kruk
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:32 PM PST up reply actions
it was Kuiper making the call
Kuip does play-by-play, Kruk does color.
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
Nate woulda had that.
by MonochromeGarden on Nov 11, 2010 5:09 PM PST up reply actions
Not to mention, that is exactly how Kuip calls the game, from word choice to inflection.
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by Prussian Creole on Nov 11, 2010 5:11 PM PST up reply actions
/sigh
i miss them already.
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
Nate woulda had that.
by MonochromeGarden on Nov 11, 2010 5:18 PM PST up reply actions
Look at it this way: we’re going to wait less time to hear them again than we ever have in our lifetimes.
So I propose we win the World Series every year so that we can continue this trend.
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by Prussian Creole on Nov 11, 2010 5:22 PM PST up reply actions
i agree. the playoffs didnt seem the same without them. i listened to the radio during opposing teams ABs, because nothing bad ever happens on the radio, especially from those two
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
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i will subscribe.
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
Nate woulda had that.
by MonochromeGarden on Nov 11, 2010 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
ahh, i was not aware that Kruk and Kuip did the color and play-by-play, respectively.
good to know.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:22 PM PST up reply actions
Odd indeed. I remember getting ready to see them at the charity event afterward when they were on their way to winning. And then they kinda screwed the pooch. Not one time did I think, “Cool, I’m about to hang out with this year’s World Series winners!” Er, well… even if they’d won, I still wouldn’t think that.
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
Nate woulda had that.
by MonochromeGarden on Nov 11, 2010 5:16 PM PST up reply actions
Ankiel
Oh man… that one stung a bit.
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by Johnny Disaster on Nov 11, 2010 1:53 PM PST reply actions
I think it’s the #1 loss of the year, no question. It felt like the JT Snow splash hit NLDS game from 2000 all over again, except reversed. I was fully expecting the Giants to go to Atlanta, lose Game 3, then somehow get one-hit by Bobby Jones in Game 4.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
Hate to nitpick
It wasn’t a splash hit, it clanked against the green metal facade of the right field wall.
by Every6thDay on Nov 11, 2010 6:02 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
#1 loss ever ...
for me anyway, that one hurt more than any I had witnessed as a Giants fan, because I thought we had it in the bag multiple times. Even in Game 6 of 2002, I knew our bullpen was spent and wasn’t as surprised by what happened, so that one actually hurt less.
Yep
After that game I sat alongside a couple other season ticket holders and we took turns yelling about how much everything sucked. I was pretty sure that was the last time I was going to go to the yard in 2010.
48 years after his heart was broken by a Willie McCovey line out to Bobby Richardson, Charlie Brown finally has his championship.
I like to call my personal post-game experience after the Ankiel game:
“drunken tears of pom-pom destruction fury.”
we were the last two people in the 300 level – we were asked to leave.
I also thought it might be my last night at the yard. IT WAS NOT!
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 2:41 PM PST up reply actions
I spent that entire night thinking “RICK ANKIEL?!?!” Out of all the players on that goddamned team to hit a home run, it had to be RICK ANKIEL.
Ain't no Posey like a Buster Posey cause a Buster Posey don't stop...hitting.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
It’s always the Rick Ankiels.
On the other hand, the Giants won the 2010 World Series.
by non sequitur on Nov 11, 2010 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
Rick Ankiel, Benny Agbayani, etc.
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!
Emotional roller coaster
I was in Jamaica at a wedding for games 1-3 of NLDS. Well i was in Jamaica for games 1 and 2. I was able to watch on my iPad using postseason tv. I was literally partying with a bunch of people from San Francisco as the Giants took the 4-0 lead. I got on a bus to head back to my hotel and did not have coverage. I reconnected just in time to watch Wilson give up the tying run. I spent the next two days listening to the group of New Yorkers there rub it in about the Yanks. We flew home on Sunday Night and were on an WiFi enabled flight. Being over US waters, I could not watch the real feed on TBS so i chose to listen to the game on the radio feed instead. I literally yelled “FUCK” at the top of my lungs after the Hinske homer and could barely listen to the 9th. I remember when Freddy was down 0-2 thinking that this was 2000 and 2003 all over again. And then in about 13 minutes, my entire mood changed. I was screaming as loud as i could and the people on the plane thought i was nuts. Aside from the very brief moment of panic from the end of Game 5 of the NLCS through dirty’s meltdown in game 6 and up until Uribe’s homer, I really never thought they would lose again. I literally told the usher in our section as I was walking out of AT&T after Game 2 of the WS that I would see him in April. I remember thinking that I was not even remotely scared that I was jinxing it. I was not!
Yelling FUCK at the top of your lungs then screaming out cheers of joy as the game changed all at like 35,000 feet above ground??
Impressive!
Tell me more about the do-not-fly-list?
;-)
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:36 PM PST up reply actions
I seriously wondered about that. The connection was through Charlotte and there were more than a few people who thought I was insane. Of course it was made so much worse because we had scored an upgrade and were flying in First so I had inhaled about 14 Heinekens. Luckily the flight attendants knew why I was screaming.
1st rule of travel: always keep the flight attendants on your side.
well done!
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:48 PM PST up reply actions
Wait a minute,
Isn’t it illegal to listen to a radio on a plane?
Warning, angry Giants fan on the loose.
not if you are using mlb.com and wifi
I think he meant “radio”
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
Radio? Don't you mean Carrots? HAHAHAHAHA
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Those rich bastards.
Next thing we know, they have the privilege to watch satellite TV.
Warning, angry Giants fan on the loose.
projected onto the supple body of beautiful virgins.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 7:46 PM PST up reply actions
with caviar on their bellies
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Nov 13, 2010 3:17 PM PST up reply actions
oh yeah it did
That was my first ever playoff game, and all I really remember about it now (aside from the moment we all thought Buster’s season was ended by an oncoming Panda bus) was the long depressing wait to leave after the game.
All I could say on the way home and for the rest of the night was a dejected “Goddammit” every few minutes.
My adopted Giant got shipped off to Pittsburgh, and it was worth it.
by rightcenterfielder on Nov 11, 2010 8:22 PM PST up reply actions
I was devastated that night. I went to a party and whenever anyone tried to talk to me, I cut them off with “I can’t believe the Giants lost” followed by a heavy sigh and then a long silence.
I met a Padres fan that night who hated the Braves for some reason, me and her just sulked in the corner for awhile.
The Giants won the World Series!!!!!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
LOL “man”
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by Prussian Creole on Nov 11, 2010 11:55 PM PST up reply actions
That is wizardry!
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by Johnny Disaster on Nov 12, 2010 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
Are you going to do best wins of the regular season and best wins of the playoffs separately? ’Cause you should.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I think I already shot my wad with the regular season one.
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/10/4/1729321/best-comeback-wins-of-2010-part-i
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 11, 2010 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
i forgot about that
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
It was probably the best post I’ve ever written.
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 11, 2010 2:00 PM PST up reply actions
Actually
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/11/1/1788450/the-san-francisco-giants-win-the-world-series
this was.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
OK, so you do suffering better
So how about a special on all the great Matt Cain games we lost from no run support. It seemed like there were lots. I’m only slowly getting the stake out of my heart from those.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
I don’t believe you
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Nov 11, 2010 2:14 PM PST up reply actions
That thread needs more green. The whole thing should be green, dammit.
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by Prussian Creole on Nov 11, 2010 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
Worst loss (and it was supposed to be THE key)
When Pablo lost his mojo.
Proud father of Barry Bonds.
I attended the Tim Stauffer 1-0 three-hit shutout in mid-September at Petco
Torreabla hit a home run that barely made it into the “jury box.” Strikeout-throw out to end the game. I barely finished my hot dog by the time the game was over in like 20 minutes.
Just when the Giants had a chance to take the division lead, the offense blew a Bumgarner gem.
by Rook Takes Pawn on Nov 11, 2010 1:58 PM PST reply actions
But..
The next day Timmy came out and dominated, and Buster had a similar homerun. And Giants fans took over Petco. And I was on TV after the Posey homer.
I'm old enough to know, but too young to care.
I remember wishing I had gone to that game instead!
by Rook Takes Pawn on Nov 11, 2010 2:04 PM PST up reply actions
wasnt it Mat Latos who was complaining after that game about Posey’s HR going into the “cheap HR” area, when his team won a game with the exact same thing the day before?
Latos complains so much I lose track at times.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 2:53 PM PST up reply actions
PurpleRow believes that the Giants use a “reverse-humidor” at AT&T.
I think they may actually believe that, too.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
i havent heard that one yet.. please do tell
special mud?
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:33 PM PST up reply actions
the mud used to soften the balls before they are put in play, I guess
not familiar with the conspiracy theory though.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 7:37 PM PST up reply actions
In his defense, he is an impossible asshole, and everyone knows it.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
yeah, let's be fair.
And the worst part, those fukin’ douchenozzles over at the MCC get to lord this over us.
that game is in my top 5
because i love Bumgarner a lot and he was amazing. but Tim freakin Stauffer was unstoppable. and Yorvit with one of his 19 game winning hits against us this season. what a horrible game
Ignoring Tim Mccarver since 2002.
Tim Stauffer wasn’t unstoppable. The ump was giving him pitches 6-9" off the plate. Posey got into a confrontation with the ump in between innings that game.
Can’t remember the umps name. Winters, maybe?
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:34 PM PST up reply actions
Crawford
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 6:43 PM PST up reply actions
I remember predicting that, picked up Stauffer on my pokemonz. It’s a curse, not a gift.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Nov 13, 2010 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
I was there, too. Was the first game I have ever taken my wife to. I do not like to complain about umpires very much, but the zone was Gregg’ish for Stauffer the entire game. I logged on a GDT while at the park to see what the thoughts were about the zone and my eyes definitely agreed with the GDT crowd. Brutal.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 6:40 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, I was at the Cal game listening to this game on the radio. I was the angriest person in the stands, even though we were beating Colorado 52-7.
The San Francisco Giants won the World Series.
by The Enchanter on Nov 12, 2010 1:38 PM PST up reply actions
Although nowhere near the worst loss
I went to the Memorial Day game against the Rockies where Ubaldo “15 WINZ before the All Star Break” Jimenez was making quick work of the Giants LOLineup, and Timmy was having one of those rough afternoons where he looked nothing like the pitcher he was in 2008 and 2009. There was a full house at the Big Phone that day, but it may as well have been 10,000 people, we were just stunned into submission.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
July 4th
I was at that game hungover, with my best friend, (a Rockies fan), stayed the whole time only to watch them lose. Then drove 4 hours back home with him yapping about how great the game was. It pains me to this day
by BringBackBenitoSantiago on Nov 11, 2010 2:02 PM PST reply actions
+1
I was seriously crushed by this game. I was at the Rick Ankiel game and when I left the park, I told my wife "They’re not going to lie down. We are going to come back for game 5. LOL me.
But I seriously thought that game in which Bruce Bochy mismanaged the game in pretty much every way possible including pinch running for Buster Posey that the season is done. I even said that I hope that Sabean fires Bochy for the wrong reason (losing one game) just to save his own ass and get canned at the end of the year anyway.
In retrospect, this game merely proved how resilient this team is.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
by jctGamer on Nov 11, 2010 2:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
He didn't pinch run for Posey
Did he? Posey GIDP’d.
But anyway, yeah that series was an amazing display or resiliency, and the first time i actually believed.
I was talking about the Colorado game after the first paragraph. Sorry for the confusion.
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
Just remember that the Giants won the world series in 2010
call your friend and tell him the Giants won the world series in 2010. Then ask if the Rockies won the world series in 2010. Then tell him again that the Giants won the world series in 2010.
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
by bondslegend on Nov 11, 2010 2:10 PM PST up reply actions 7 recs
rec'd
This is the correct way to live.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
I rec'd this for being correct as well as hahahahaha Colorado-humidor-cheaters-never-prosper-doucebag-Rockies
"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
"He just threw me a fastball in and I just put a good swing on the ball, and you know when you put a good swing on the ball, the ball go out."
-Egdar Renteria commenting on his solo home run in the 5th inning of Game 2.
by Sabean's_Folly on Nov 11, 2010 3:04 PM PST up reply actions
And then butchered the douchebag thing.
My fingers are uncooperative douchebags today.
"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
"He just threw me a fastball in and I just put a good swing on the ball, and you know when you put a good swing on the ball, the ball go out."
-Egdar Renteria commenting on his solo home run in the 5th inning of Game 2.
by Sabean's_Folly on Nov 11, 2010 3:05 PM PST up reply actions
i preferred
doucebag
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
Nate woulda had that.
by MonochromeGarden on Nov 11, 2010 5:21 PM PST up reply actions
hahaha
That’s exactly what I do. It warms the soul each time
by BringBackBenitoSantiago on Nov 11, 2010 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
You know what this post is missing?
More references to the Giants winning the world series in 2010.
Because I’m not sure if you guys heard, but the Giants won the world series in 2010. Your argument is invalid.
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
by bondslegend on Nov 11, 2010 2:07 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
+1
Living in Colorado, this one hurt. Having to go to work after that, and facing all of those Rockies fans was tough.
However, upon further review, this did not prevent the San Fransisco Giants from winning the 2010 World Series. So, suck it Rockies fans. Enjoy Ubaldo’s, Cargo’s, and especially Tulo’s inevitable decline, as they fail to win the World Series.
And you can shove Rocktober right up your high holey asses. And fuck winter. I am blaming that on you as well.
Proud supporter of the Fightin' Hydrants.
by Little Napoleon on Nov 11, 2010 2:15 PM PST up reply actions
that was hilarious how they lost 13 of the final 14. They were all screaming 13 of 14 like in 2007 or whatever, but failed to say WIN 13 of 14.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 2:57 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t know about worst. But the best lost of the year was Game 2 of LCS, I heard a relentless amount of shit about how now the series is tied that The Giants have no chance and you should feel good b/c they had a hell of a season but…
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
I'm so goddamn happy that we beat the best teams from both leagues on our way to the title
hilarious that people still want to call it “luck”
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
The actual definition of luck is the luck that so-called "sports experts" have in
A) Finding employment as “sports experts” and
B) Keeping employment as “sports experts” after they’re shown to be nothing more than overpaid fuckstick twizzling douchebags, incapable of finding their collective asses with all their collective hands and all the collective flashlights in stock at 109 random Walmart stores.
"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
"He just threw me a fastball in and I just put a good swing on the ball, and you know when you put a good swing on the ball, the ball go out."
-Egdar Renteria commenting on his solo home run in the 5th inning of Game 2.
by Sabean's_Folly on Nov 11, 2010 3:10 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
You have to admit, it was pretty lucky that the Giants only played against teams that were mired in horrible collective batting slumps. How all the great hitters up and down those lineups all went cold, simultaneously, it defies explanation. Just can’t think of a single, possible way the Giants could have won without that happening.
/MSM’d
"My father's name is art, and my name's pride, and while my destiny reads a recipe for confusion I'm looking for whoever writes, so empty inside." -Slug
that was the saddest, most bullshit explaination for how the giants won the World Series that I had- and may ever- read.
To imagine they get paid to think up this shit
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:36 PM PST up reply actions
The best part is that next year all the pundits will be over compensating by how good the pitching is and when they have an off day they will be all over them. Similar to Lincecum’s “meltdown” but more intense and with all of our guys.
by posey yaknowsy on Nov 11, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
i wouldnt mind more media converage telling them they cant win it again. gmen seemed to thrive on being underdogs
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:03 PM PST up reply actions
I think I was the only guy outside of New York pullig for the Yankees to beat the Rangers. As a Giant fan, my biggest dream was to have been at Yankee Stadium when the Giants clinched rather than Arlington.
The Ranger fans, while annoying with the damn antler signs, are too damn likable. The Yankee Fans would have been 100% pure joy celebrating in Yankee stadium.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Nov 11, 2010 10:38 PM PST up reply actions
Glad to say I was at 5 of these.
CarGo triple game felt the worst because it solidified my thoughts that I was an idiot for going to the next series, in LA. Zito 1 hit loss hurt a lot too because it was my last game of the season (until I made my surprise triumphant return for games 1 and 2 against the Rangers!).
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Nov 11, 2010 2:11 PM PST via mobile reply actions
The broken bat triple game was also very heartbreaking
Remember how pissed we were at Ross after that game?
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
It led to a spike in "Play Nate" calls
Which subsided in October
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Best loss?
Comeback against the Reds
I tried to rationalize it at the time, but in retrospect, it really, really stung that the Giants were able to come back from a 10-1 deficit only to lose in the 12th inning.
I don’t know, the rationalizing still kinda works for me. That was a really fun game to watch, and it was especially refreshing to watch after previous seasons, when a two-run deficit felt like a lost cause. The end result was frustrating, sure, but this is the only loss of the season that I think I"d be interested in re-watching during the off-season.
Last offseason, I re-watched the Armando Benitez double balk/home run walk off game. It was strangely satisfying remembering how badly Armando sucked.
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!
I was at Shea for that game
And Jose was amazing in throwing Benitez off his game.
Mets fans told me: Glad you took him!
Mets fans are much nicer than Yankee fans.
Rooting for the Yankees is like cheering the tanks at Tianamen Square.
Throwing Benitez off his game is one of life’s easiest tasks.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
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Wouldn’t opposing teams want to keep Benitez on his game?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
throw his off his game so he gives up a grand slam, then let dusty replace him.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
HOW TO KEEP ARMANDO BENITEZ OFF HIS GAME
make sure the suns sets in the west and rises in the east
have a blue sky
ensure that a force attracts objects naturally downwards towards the earth when tossed in the air
by PocketfullofPoseys on Nov 11, 2010 10:04 PM PST up reply actions
isn't it wonderful
that in addition to winning the world series this year, armando benitez is still not a pitcher on our team. blessings abound. it makes me feel religious to think about it, how lost we once were …watching armando throw those groove-balls in the ninth to hungry hungry hitters. how far we’ve come.
"No matter how hard you try, it's not easy." Armando Benitez, 9-12-06
heeerrrrrreee comes Ross. Heeeeeerrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee coooommmmmeeeesss Fontenot.
This game is tied!!!
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:03 PM PST up reply actions
Fuck you, the Giants didn't lose any games in 2010
They just ran out of innings.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 11, 2010 2:15 PM PST reply actions
Welcome back Lars
Or maybe you’ve been back longer than I realized. In which case, welcome back me. And LOL me.
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
Thanks!
Life is an interesting journey, Tobias.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 11, 2010 2:18 PM PST up reply actions
SHIT FIST
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Nov 11, 2010 2:21 PM PST up reply actions
CRAP COBBLER!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 11, 2010 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
OT: Doak Walker basically said that about Bobby Layne
And the worst part, those fukin’ douchenozzles over at the MCC get to lord this over us.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN201006150.shtml
I’ve been cooped up in Tejas for almost 5 years now and this was my first giants game in about 6 years when I came back to the city for a family reunion. It sucked.
I have seen the future of Major League Baseball, and its name is Buster Posey.
fucking Rick Ankiel
That loss was so crushing. It was even more crushing until the top of the 9th inning of game 3 in Atlanta. That was fucking amazing.
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!
The lowest moment of the post-season was the Hinske HR. That was when I started mentally giving myself the “well it was still a great year” speech.
Sanchez’ AB in that 9th inning is my #1 most heroic 2010 moment, because that inning was clearly the linchpin of the post-season. They were really never out of control of a series again.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
by Roger on Nov 11, 2010 2:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
You could say that it sucked so hard you felt it coming.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
WHY YOU LITTLE POWER PC YOU
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
agreed on both points
I really thought the Hinske fatfinger trot was the beginning of the end. LOLME
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 2:57 PM PST up reply actions
that was such an idiotic mini-celebration of his. If it’s a walkoff, thats one thing, but ya still gotta get through the 9th without your closer, hence playing matchups.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:23 PM PST up reply actions
So I’m guessing you think JT Snow’s mini-celebration during game two of the 2000 NLDS vs. the Mets was idiotic. He did the same thing as Hinske but it only tied the game (and the Giants ending up losing).
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
no
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 6:36 PM PST up reply actions
he was a Giant, so no, it wasn’t idiotic. theres a double standard
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:53 PM PST up reply actions
yes, and thank god for Brooks Conrad. We ought to give Eugenio's playoff share to Conrad for the fine clutch double clutching he did in the playoffs. Or else, who knows where we would have been.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Nov 11, 2010 10:43 PM PST up reply actions
The Public House had been absolutely rocking and it was like all the air got sucked out of the place. I think half of us were on the verge of crying.
Then the ninth inning happened.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I puched a small hole in the drywall
Had to patch it up after the game.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
I just went back and rewatched the ninth inning highlight
:)
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I’m now watching the 9th inning as well. So wonderful. All the more so for having been there!
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!
I got sidetracked for a bit, but now I’m to the lowest point: Torres got called out on a bullshit strike 3, and Sanchez is down 0-2 with two outs and Ishikawa on first.
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!
and the 0-2 looked really bad cause he was hacking away at pitches that werent even close, IIRC.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
I can't watch it
Don’t misunderstand, I’m very glad that we won. But I still can’t get really excited about the fact that we won at the expense of a guy having the worst day of his life.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I just rewatched the Ishikawa walk, the Sanchez single and the Huff single, not the errah
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I know what you mean…but the Giants tied it up without Conrad’s assistance…it was the win that was on Brook
Meh, we've lost games on people's worst days too..
Benitez, Cruz Jr., FRod, Nen… Nobody cares about us.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Candy Maldonado, Salomon Torres (not his fault, of course…but it was definitely a terrible day for him), etc.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
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little-remembered side note
After that game in 1993, Torres announced he was retiring from baseball. The Giants had to talk him out of it over the offseason.
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But then he did retire a couple years later and was out of ball for a couple years. Then he started his comeback in Mexico or Japan or perhaps both.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
He was out of baseball 1998-2001, looks like.
He was also traded for Shawn Estes, who shortly thereafter became a minor league phenom for us.
I remember boasting about that trade to a friend who’s a Mariners fan. Estes was going to DOMINATE!
Oh well.
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He had a couple of other years where he was pretty solid too…but yeah.
I still loved the guy, though. I always liked going to games where he was pitching ‘cause he had the prettiest curveball I’ve ever seen.
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!
I remember right after the July 4th 1-hitter, I was walking to a game at Candlestick with my Dad and I was saying, “they really need to lock Estes up long-term because he’s the REAL DEAL.”
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I remember he pitched a couple of 2-hitters early in his run with the Giants. I was so sure he’d be the guy to finally get a no-hitter…
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!
the 8-0 shutout of the Expos?
I was there!
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 7:53 PM PST up reply actions
absolutely correct.
can’t believe I misplaced 10 runs in 10 years…
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 9:06 PM PST up reply actions
/Ishi magic BB
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 9:59 PM PST up reply actions
My favorite memory of Estes was when, as a Met he threw BEHIND that fucking piece of shit Roger Clemens in retaliation for throwing the broken bat at Piazza.
Fuck Roger Clemens
"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
"He just threw me a fastball in and I just put a good swing on the ball, and you know when you put a good swing on the ball, the ball go out."
-Egdar Renteria commenting on his solo home run in the 5th inning of Game 2.
by Sabean's_Folly on Nov 11, 2010 7:54 PM PST up reply actions
I should also say, for younger/newer fans
Torres was HUGELY hyped at the time. I remember him being called the next Juan Marichal.
And he had a pretty solid year in 1993 before that last game. He never seemed to be quite the same after that. In the end, it was like Tim Lincecum hype with Ryan Jensen results.
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!
It wasn’t just the last game that wore on him though. He had, what, the last 4 or 5 L’s of the season? i felt really bad for the kid.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Looking at the 1993 game logs, he lost 4 of his last 5 starts. He pitched pretty well in two of them, though.
In his one win in that stretch, he pitched 8 innings of 3-hit, shutout ball. Walked 6, though.
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!
Yeah, but those 4 starts were the team’s last 4 losses that year. They went 14-4 down the stretch and all 4, Torres was the LP. That’s got to weigh pretty heavily on a 21 year old rookie.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I’d imagine.
Funny how memory works: I remember the team collapsing and losing more often than they won in that stretch. I guess it just felt that way, since the Braves seemed to be gaining on them constantly…
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
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They collapsed the end of August, beginning of September. But then they picked themselves up and raced to the finish. Really it was a seriously heroic finish — they had fallen to 4 games back in mid-September and could easily have cashed it in.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Yeah, my memory is definitely faulty – I remember them being in first all year up until the very end.
Of course, I was 13, it was 17 years ago, and I lived in New Jersey and hardly got to see any of the games (even that last game wasn’t on tv here – still mad about that). So that’s not to surprising.
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!
one thing I definitely do remember, though
Is how pissed I was that the Braves got FRED MCGRIFF and all goddamn Bob Quinn could get for us was mediocre Jim Deshaies and over-the-hill Scott Sanderson. Sigh.
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!
I'm still bitter about the Rockies
going 0-13 against the Braves that year.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Estes did dominate for a stretch: 1997 19-5, ERA 3.18. Dude was a freaking witch. Then his arm blew up and was never the same.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Nov 11, 2010 10:48 PM PST up reply actions
and closed out a couple of games against the Giants as the re-born closer of the Pirates….
those were pleasant losses.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:18 PM PST up reply actions
I don't have that problem, personally
I guess it has to do with, again, being there. I associate that play not so much with the errah itself (I didn’t get to my seat until the third batter of the game, so I missed the first errah, and the second errah was really not Conrad’s fault…so I had no idea the extent of Conrad’s shitty day) but with the life completely coming out of the crowd at Turner. Which was great as loud and obnoxious as they’d been just minutes earlier.
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the first error, he just seemed indecisive about whether to try and turn a DP, or get the sure out at 1st, and ended up not getting either.
the second error, Heyward should have been the one catching it, as he is coming in on a ball to med-shallow RF. That’s a tough play for a 2Bman, I should know, esp with the setting sun right in your eyes.
then he miffed the sac bunt, and i think was hitless that day anyhow, which led to the final error. his confidence was already so low that at that point, i dont think he should have been in the game
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:38 PM PST up reply actions
I agree with you completely.
1st one- so, so errah from normal jitters.
2nd one- For some reason Heyward didn’t race in like he should be because that’s his ball if he can get there (way harder for 2B). My all posey loving/heyward disliking self tells me Heyward was babying some non-injury from the play before. He ran into the wall and fell down and just laid there, maybe with embarrassment? Then the trainer and cox run out to the field and he’s completely fine. Seemed to me like he just couldn’t shake not coming up with the previous play and didn’t gamer it enough to get to that short pop fly.
3rd one- complete errah, could argue cox should have pulled him but he was a clutch hitter for them
by posey yaknowsy on Nov 11, 2010 4:01 PM PST up reply actions
re: the second one, that came one at-bat after Heyward had collided with the wall and had the wind knocked out of him. He was down on the ground for a while afterwards, so he presumably wasn’t back to 100% to make that play.
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heh.
Mrs. oldjacket was a little tipsy at that point, and talked right through the Hinske homerun. Later she confessed that she didn’t know why all our faces went ashen at once.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
I remember turning from the TVs and hunching over my stool as he rounded the bases, I couldn’t watch.
48 years after his heart was broken by a Willie McCovey line out to Bobby Richardson, Charlie Brown finally has his championship.
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by Johnny Disaster on Nov 12, 2010 12:54 PM PST up reply actions
Sanchez looked terrible on the first two strikes, too. I thought there was zero chance anything good would come of his AB (as Goofus will remind everyone until the end of time).
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Those two swings were ungodly. If I were a Braves fan, I’d be like Charlie Brown sitting on the bench periodically screaming “WHY THROW FRANCHEZ WAS A BREAKING BALL!!!!”
My Bucardo is better than yours.
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He really just should have thrown the 1-1 pitch again. Another fastball high and in would have ended the game.
OH WELL. I GUESS HE DIDN’T DO THAT.
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HA!
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I knew we were really, completely and totalyl done after the Hinske HR
But we weren’t. Not even close. Isn’t that cool?
we were pretty close to done. 1 strike away with a hitter who had taken two bad hacks already, but Freddy came through. That was the turning point of the NLDS, imo.
The turning point of the NLCS, Uribes sac fly to win Game 4.
World Series turning point was the Kinsler double that bounced off the top of the wall. that’s when i knew the baseball gods were with us.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:41 PM PST up reply actions
And now that I say that I’m suddenly flashing back to GRM’s freakout at Steve S: “why aren’t you highlighting the guy whose going to be the most important to the team this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”"
Where is Rainman, anyway?
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Seriously? I’m guessing I missed something. Man, that must have been the longest burning fuse in history.
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On that subject
Where the hell does Steve S go when the minor league season ends?
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Oh, I see what you're saying now
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by giantsfansince1981 on Nov 11, 2010 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
I literally curled up into a ball on my couch when Hinske hit the homerun. I didn’t feel too good about the series at that point.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Nov 11, 2010 5:55 PM PST up reply actions
For a good 25 minutes or so, this game held the title
That was about the amount of time between the homer and Conrad’s go-ahead errah, and I think I experienced every emotion possible during that time.
My adopted Giant got shipped off to Pittsburgh, and it was worth it.
by rightcenterfielder on Nov 11, 2010 8:10 PM PST up reply actions
I absolutely agree about Sanchez
to the point that I’ve considered writing a post about that exact at-bat. today on the ferry, in describing the postseason to my vaguely-a-baseball-fan best friend, I told the story of that at-bat as an epitome of how they won the world series. I think that was the key moment, and I’m glad to see someone else noticed.
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Oh man
And i remember his first two swings were HORRIBLE. I remember thinking “Fuck that’s it”
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
After the Ankiel HR in Game 2
I thought the Hinske HR in Game 3 sealed it, and we would be finished.
Looking back, it was pretty foolish of Hinske to celebrate on the HR trot like he did. Hell, it was foolish at the time- they hadn’t won quite yet.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:22 PM PST up reply actions
He didn’t celebrate that much. He looks like an ass because the Braves ended up losing, but I don’t blame him for being excited.
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His teammates, however, acted like he hit a walk-off homer.
Yeah, that was ridiculous.
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"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Kind of highlights how cool Edgar Renteria is though. Just put his head down and ran around the bases.
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by jponry on Nov 11, 2010 3:29 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Been there. Done that.
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by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 7:04 PM PST up reply actions
Well said.
but all the media people were like: Hinske’s there every year…“he just goes to the WS”…etc…
Whereas Edgar is the MVP
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 7:33 PM PST up reply actions
It’s funny how close that came to being the worst moment in my life in terms of games I actually attended.
Now, I can watch it and laugh at Braves fans.
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Hinske was def excited, but overall, yeah the HR as a whole with the way his teammates all acted, seemed over the top because 1, obviously, they ended up losing, but they didn’t even have Wagner to close out the game.
When you’re up by a run heading to the 9th, with the top of the opponents order coming up, and your gonna play matchups, its too soon to celebrate.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:45 PM PST up reply actions
It wasn't the top of the order
I’m pretty sure it was 8-9-1 due up.
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It was
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thought Ish led off the inning with a walk off Kimbrell?
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:48 PM PST up reply actions
ahh yes, that’s right, because Sanchez batted with 2 outs
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
Ish walked, Torres K’d, Sanchez singled, Huff singled, Posey conrad’ed?
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:47 PM PST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure there was 1 out when Ishi BB'd
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Yeah, Cody Ross lead off the inning with an infield pop-up.
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Keep him off the NLCS roster
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biggest choker i ever saw!!
some parts of some of the playoff games i dont remember because i was so overcome with shock/grief/anger/happiness.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:53 PM PST up reply actions
jcb9- i thought we were already laughing at Braves fans in the first place?
that stupid tomahawk chop isn’t exactly a thing intelligent people do
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:46 PM PST up reply actions
As a general rule, yes.
But if the Braves had won that game, my response would be sobbing, not laughter.
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oh, at the time. yes, i would have been sobbing too.
Esp for poor Romo. Had we lost that series, he would have been on the hook for 2 of the losses, both after he came into the game with a lead.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:50 PM PST up reply actions
well actually, he wouldnt have been on the hook for Game 2, but damn, a 4-1 lead turns to dust on your watch…
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:54 PM PST up reply actions
I was throwing stuff around the living room. One of my friends kept texting me messages like “Looks like they’re going to win!” and “Oops oh well :).” I threw my phone too.
My wife and I had started a vacation going up to upstate New York that day, and we were stopping and spending the night at an old friend of hers (who I had never met) in northern New Jersey. I got them to put the game on TV, and was doing a little subtle pacing, but I really felt that I had to tamp down my natural impulses during that final inning in the name of good manners. They were actually really cool about it.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I think I would actually resent a person who sent me a text like that at that moment. For a while.
Look at my website. Look at it. || I had some other text here but then the San Francisco Giants won the World Series
I'd put game #3 of the World Series up there
Cuz it was a World Series game, after all. And after that our 2-0 lead was gone and we were down 3-2 headed back to AT&T with Jonathon Sanchez losing game 7 because he sucks and melts down in the 2nd inning all the time.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Nov 11, 2010 2:16 PM PST reply actions
Eh, I, for one, felt no real angst after that loss.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I was surprisingly zen after that one, too. It upset me much less than the other playoff losses for some reason.
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I dunno, it felt kind of silly to flip out over losing one game (when you were already up 2-0). I hadn’t expected them to win the series (I had expected to win in 6 or 7) and some losses are going to happen. Plus, we had MadBum and Timmy and Matt going the next three games.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
plus, there was nothing in that game that leaves you agonized. they hit a couple HRs with guys on base. We hit a couple HRs with no one on base.
Wasn’t some huge defensive miscue/bullpen meltdown.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:57 PM PST up reply actions
That game just got me worried
because i was convinced they wouldn’t win a game in Texas. and we would be going back down 3-2 with Sanchez in game 7 and needing to win both games.
Our awesome performance on the road was totally unexpected to me. So glad that it happened though.
I don’t know that Sanchez would have started a potential Game 7.
I was a little worried if they lost Game 4 after Game 3, that Cliff Lee would shut us down again, but alas, it wasn’t to be for TEX.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:48 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I don't know if Sanchez would have started either.
In a morning interview on KNBR after the series Krukow said that the decision was already in place to start Bumgarner on short rest and then go to Lincecum or the pen if there was a game 7. With Sanchez’s velocity loss and meltdowns in the two previous starts they were not going to run him out there in game 7
Roy Halladay just woke up in a cold sweat. He had a dream about this rodeo clown with a stick...
That was the one with that pitcher
Who pitched in Japan and had wandered around the league, ergo it was a sure loss from the beginning.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
I never expected a sweep, so it had to happen sometime. I felt like game 4 was pretty huge, but with Bumgarner against Hunger, I felt confident.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Nov 11, 2010 9:55 PM PST up reply actions
In the neverending battle of Bumgarner v. Food
That night, at Game 4 of the World Series… Bumgarner won.
/takes question from “audience”
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
Battling an upset stomach,
Bumgarner overcame the odds and did one hell of a job.
Warning, angry Giants fan on the loose.
I would put that as the second best loss. Only behind the Game 2 of LCS (Geographical reasons for me) b/c everyone was all THEY RANGERS HAVE BATS AND WILL DESTROY YOU KNOW THAT THEY ARE IN TEXAS!!!!
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by say hey nation on Nov 11, 2010 2:22 PM PST up reply actions
4 RUNS!!! JUGGERNAUT!!!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Nov 11, 2010 9:56 PM PST up reply actions
that one didnt sting me, for some reason.
probably because i knew cliff lee was mortal after game 1
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 3:56 PM PST up reply actions
I was there for Game 3 and of the three games slated for Arlington, Game 3 appeared to be the least winnable.
The Giants were coming off of two big wins, winning 3 in a row against a solid Ranger team and having Dirty facing the red hot Colby Lewis, I felt like we had the best chance in Game 4 with MadBum matched up against Tommy Hunter and then taking our chances in Game 5 with Timmy vs Cliff Lee. I was there for all three Arlington Games and I had told other fellow Giant fans at the hotel close to the ballpark where we were staying, IF the Giants could just win one of the three games and go back to AT&T up 3-2, I would gladly take it. Sure enough, Lewis beats Dirty in Game 3, MadBum looks like a HOFer in his 4-0 win in Game 4 and Game 5 was Christmas Morning a couple of months early as the Giants and fans celebrated hard into the early morning hours. What a weekend!!!
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by Penitentiary Face on Nov 11, 2010 11:00 PM PST up reply actions
Also, do you know which teams didn't win the World Series in 2010?
The Rockies and the Dodgers.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 11, 2010 2:17 PM PST reply actions
I was in 5th grade the last time the Dodgers won the World Series. LOL DODGERS!
I can't fight this feeling anymore!
3rd grade for me, I think. Yeah, ’cause I was in the fourth grade for 1989.
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LOL you are 12 years older than my oldest daughter but 22 years younger than I am
It weirded me out
when I realized that some of the adults I hang out with are closer to my kids’ age than mine.
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I totally use my strong association of my being in 4th Grade for the 1989 earthquake as the marker by which I calculate my grade in any given year.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Nov 13, 2010 2:27 PM PST up reply actions
Yesterday I saw a pathetic Dodger fan wearing a jacket that had their championship years on one sleeve
I just laughed when he walked by. Didn’t say a word.
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"He just threw me a fastball in and I just put a good swing on the ball, and you know when you put a good swing on the ball, the ball go out."
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by Sabean's_Folly on Nov 11, 2010 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
I have to restrain myself from shouting at Yankees fans sometimes. I’d do the same with Dodgers fans, but they’re just so sad now. Plus, I don’t see that many of them.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Nov 11, 2010 9:57 PM PST up reply actions
I was at the Gibson game, with my Dodger loving Parents...
I was rooting for the A’s, which pissed off my dad so much it may have directly lead to me becoming a Giants fan
Staunch Defender of Cake
I heard a rumor that the Padres and GSB didn't win either.
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by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 7:06 PM PST up reply actions
*GLB
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by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 7:06 PM PST up reply actions
So, my World Series t-shirt came in the mail today.
I also got the 2002 World Series DVD I ordered after we won Game 5. I haven’t watched it yet, though.
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I got a sweatshirt AND a shirt.
BEAT THAT!
Actually, I bought a shirt for the Division, NLCS, and World Series.
I got t-shirts for the World Series and division, and a hat for the World Series.
I have less of a need for sweatshirts now that I live in Florida. I mean, I need a couple, but they get used a lot less.
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For my birthday
Yesterday, my sis and bro-in-law bought me a Giants shirt and 2010 WS Championship hat.
I already had my regular Giants hat and Timmy shirt, but this birthday was special.
Rooting for the Yankees is like cheering the tanks at Tianamen Square.
I BOUGHT AN ORANGE REPLICA JERSEY
I DONT USUALLY BUY JERSEYS
OR ORANGE
BUT THIS ONE HAD A PATCH ON THE SHOULDER SAYING
“World Series” “CHAMPIONS”
so there went one hundred twenty dollars of credit
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
I kind of want one. I’m not sure which number though. Maybe MadBum or Wilson.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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I still don’t have a Tim, so that’d be a good one for me to get.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
I have Tim, Cain, Posey and Pablo t-shirts (wow that’s a lot of t-shirts), but no jerseys.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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I really want a Posey jersey t-shirt, but they are like $40 in the website. I have a hard time paying $40 for a t-shirt.
Ask me about my blog.
Wow, I think mine was like $25?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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This is the shirt I have
http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=10827376&cp=1452365.1452881.2455399
22.99
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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Weird. I could have sworn it was 40-ish.
I WAS WRONG!
Thanks for the link, I’ll be buying one now.
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Last time I checked, you could only get Posey on mlb.com as a custom shirt (they only had Lincecum and LOLZITO as default options), and those cost $40. So that’s probably where the confusion comes from.
I want a Posey shirt now…but I’ve bought two Giants shirts in the last month and a half, and I also have a Lincecum shirt.
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I have that same one, except I bought it on Amazon because they actually have men’s small sizes for all the Giants gear unlike the MLB shop.
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Oh, and there’s men’s small World Series gear on Amazon too. Because damnit, I want a 2010 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS sweatshirt that isn’t enormous on me and isn’t bedazzled.
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I was really frustrated going to a dugout store a few weeks ago to try to find a sweatshirt/jacket. The womens ones were all too small and the mens were all way too huge
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
*too small and unbelievably tacky
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Yeah, I have the same problem with pretty much all sports stuff. Women’s stuff really does not represent what women actually want – smaller versions of men’s stuff in slightly more flattering cuts. Most of the time men’s small gear does the trick, although occasionally even the small shirts are huge.
I ended up buying this sweatshirt in a small, in case you’re interested. I think there’s probably more stuff available as well.
American Heroes: Joe Pavelski, Buster Posey, David Backes
Fear the Fin - Cornering the market on third pairing defensemen since March 2009
but
if you buy the men’s things how will you get pink shirts and teal bedazzled Giants hats?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 3:09 PM PST up reply actions
I am not in the demographic I guess
those “baseball for gurls” things seem pretty lame.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 3:08 PM PST up reply actions
a small lady friend of mine often picks up kids-sizes and it works for her
ymmv
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:07 PM PST up reply actions
I never thought of buying a jersey, not at those prices even for replicas, and not when I didn’t know when I’d wear one outside of, say, a game.
But to heck with that! International orange with “World Series Champions” on it! Wearing it to job interviews!
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
\m/
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I have 2 Jerry Rice jerseys
Because he is my favorite athlete.
But I wore my Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers jersey yesterday.
Because Jackie is my hero, and never played for the L.A. Dodgers.
And I lived in Brooklyn for 18 years, for one year near the former Ebbet’s Field.
I turned 42 yesterday.
Rooting for the Yankees is like cheering the tanks at Tianamen Square.
I hear you can get a Scott jersey real cheap!
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
that looks kind of sketch
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
sketch and stretch.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:24 PM PST up reply actions
Verry. But also tempting.
Can anyone find any reviews of this site? Is it close to legit?
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
that one looks terrible
never bought a bootleg jersey, but i heard yukijersey.com is somewhat decent
by kingofthacove on Nov 11, 2010 3:27 PM PST up reply actions
the orange jerseys were all voodoo’d Padres bad luck by the end of the year. We lost every Orange Friday after The Prediction Game.
defensive meltdowns, baserunner meltdowns and pitchers getting shelled.
I loved the orange jerseys until they started being a symbol of everything that can go wrong, going wrong.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:01 PM PST up reply actions
UPS is transporting my shirt right now
Personalized jersey still to come.
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by Stuttering John Tamargo on Nov 11, 2010 2:53 PM PST up reply actions
I bought that on Amazon last year. I couldn’t make it through the whole series. I just had to turn it off. Will try again this off season.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 7:08 PM PST up reply actions
I want the shirt that I saw a number of the players wearing, I think on the parade, that’s black with a whole bunch of swirly looking designs (I know, horrible description, but I’m clothes-challenged). anyone know what I mean or where I can find one?
"No matter how hard you try, it's not easy." Armando Benitez, 9-12-06
It burns my eyes in an Ed Hardy style.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 12, 2010 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
That’s the “official parade shirt”.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Nov 12, 2010 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
I'm going with the Reds game.
I remember just thinking how they could come back. Then they DID. But then blew it.
4th of July is a close second.
I went to a Giants game on the 4th of July once. They won, but it was one of the sloppiest games I’ve ever seen. Also Mike Benjamin, Andy Allanson, Darren Lewis, Charlie O’Brien, and Frank Tanana all hit better than Barry, somehow.
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!
List pretty much nailed it
Ankiel game has to take the cake, that was definitely crushing. Cried after that one thinking we were done, no way we could even split in Atlanta.
Also, i would like to nominate
Also, game 3 of the World Series.Terrible loss. Thought we would be heading back down 3-2, but then Madbum happened, so it’s all good.
Also:
Fuck that Cuzzi Game. biggest robbery of a win i’ve ever seen in person. In fact, i was at 3 of the games on this list.
Ankiel, Zito 1 hitter and Cuzzi.
Stop going to games, asshole!
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!
I know.
I was really cursed for a while there. I was at NLCS game 5 too.
But then i went to WS game 1 and that lifted the curse.
Ugh. Randy Wolf dominates.
Yeah, that game sucked. I attended with a Brewers friend. It was Friday night and a bunch of overly cocky Giants fans were attempting to start shit with him.
They got more angry/drunk the more the Giants sucked against Randy freaking Wolf.
He kept a level head and kept saying “Calm down, win or lose tonight you guys are going to the playoffs” - drunken Friday night Giants fans were…uh…not having it.
I blew off the Saturday game, which ALSO sucked. Watched it with strangers in a bar on Fillmore – plenty of face palms to go around after that pitiful offensive performance.
But went Sunday and probably witnessed Jose Guillen’s final day of production in MLB. So yay?
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
It was my birthday
and i was there with a bunch of people. Sucked so hard. Randy effin Wolf. And then we have a slight chance at a comeback and Rohlinger comes on deck. I thought we were going to be done after that game. But i’m a giants fatalist to the max. I think we’re going to be done after every loss pretty much, maybe i will change my perspective for next year, but i doubt it.
…another Orange Friday team meltdown.
after The Prediction Game we lost every O.F. for the remainder of the year.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:03 PM PST up reply actions
I was there. Just terrible thoughts, even with all this magic, we get destroyed by Randy Wolf and lose a home series to the damn Brewers.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Nov 13, 2010 3:22 PM PST up reply actions
GIANTS ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Nov 11, 2010 2:29 PM PST reply actions
These are all heartbreaking
but the Ankiel one nearly killed me. Holy moley that was painful to see.
BUT IT DIDN’T MATTER!
The awesome of this post is directly correlated to how many world championships the Giants won in 2010.
OT: Is it weird
that I’m strangely intrigued by the idea of signing Ankiel this offseason? He seems like a tailor-made Giants resurrection project. Of course, we should probably try signing actually good players instead of trying to repeat this year’s luck with retreads. But he’s cheap and left-handed…. and hits splash hits…. running out of positives…. nevermind.
Do.Not.Want.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Nov 11, 2010 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
he is terrible
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Coming from the person who wanted Nick Johnson
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
Yeah, pretty nuts to prefer a guy coming off a .373 wOBA season to a guy coming off a .314 wOBA season.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I'm just giving jponry a hard time
I don’t want Ankiel either.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
That being said
I never wanted the Giants to sign Johnson. I don’t care how good his wOBA numbers were. The guy is injury prone. And sure enough, he got hurt this year.
/pats self on back
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
We also signed Giants killer Finley
Rooting for the Yankees is like cheering the tanks at Tianamen Square.
I've gotta say
Pops was not fond of that move.
"My father's name is art, and my name's pride, and while my destiny reads a recipe for confusion I'm looking for whoever writes, so empty inside." -Slug
certainly lived up to his reputation, no?
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:10 PM PST up reply actions
Actually, we didn’t. Sabean TRIED to sign him, but he went with the Angels. So we signed Moises Alou instead.
We later traded for Finley.
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!
I still think that was a good trade. Finley hitting all those triples to start the year, leading to Kruk and Kuip starting to call it “Finley’s Alley,” and good defense was better than anything Alfonzo ever gave us.
Well, other than the like 3 games Alfonzo decided to show up for in the playoffs.
by kingofthacove on Nov 11, 2010 3:33 PM PST up reply actions
Alfonzo was an absolute disaster that year, and I think he was owed more money too, so yeah.
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!
That’s not really true – Finley was awful that year (0.9 WAR). Alfonzo, for all of his faults, did put up 3.7 WAR in his first two seasons as a Giant (not what we were paying him for, but better than Finley was as a Giant.)
Now, Alfonzo was so bad as an Angel that the Giants did, technically win that trade. But it’s in the same sense that they “won” the Sidney Ponson trade.
Plus extra points off for being Steve Fucking Finley. God, I hated him. And he played a lot more than he should have in the last two months of the season when the Giants were terrible and he was just awful the whole time. And I know, in the end, Todd Linden was worthless, but I still would have rather seen him out there every day than Finley.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Alfonzo’s Giants tenure was so weird. His first season was disappointing, but he was quite good in the second half – and, in hindsight, he got seriously BABIPed – .257. 63 points lower than the previous year.
So he was a really good candidate for a rebound year, but the next season he pretty much did the same thing – bad in the first half, good in the second, very disappointing defensively, mediocre overall.
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!
The year after he was really awful though. He hit .359/.457/.538 in April, making everyone think that he was finally going to live up to expectations and then
.255/.287/.293 the rest of the year. No home runs and only 10 extra base hits in 87 games and 307 PA.
ONLY 10 EXTRA BASE HITS AFTER APRIL.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
(fittingly, he had 10 in April lol)
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Alfonzo was better than I remembered. I guess I thought he was worse because he was basically brought in to replace Jeff Kent’s production.
I never really understood why Sidney Ponson got so much hate though. He was pretty much the same pitcher for us as he was the first half of the season; we just didn’t give him run support.
by kingofthacove on Nov 11, 2010 3:55 PM PST up reply actions
Also, this was back in the day when we had amazingly good lineups every year. Our standards were a lot higher.
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!
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing just now.
by kingofthacove on Nov 11, 2010 3:59 PM PST up reply actions
I mean, look at the 2000 Giants. Aubrey Huff’s 2010 numbers would’ve made him, by OPS+, the FOURTH BEST HITTER in that lineup.
That team won one game in the postseason. That’s mind boggling.
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!
ranking that lineup + Huff, incidentally
1) Barry Bonds 188
2) Ellis Burks 163
3) Jeff Kent 162
4) Aubrey Huff 138
5) J.T. Snow 113
5) Bobby Estalella 113
7) Rich Aurilia 102
8) Marvin Benard 92
9) Bill Mueller 87
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!
proof that good pitching beats good hitting
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:49 PM PST up reply actions
not really.
i mean, in that series in 2000, Bobby Jones, who was an average pitcher at best, shut down that amazing lineup, and Benny Agbayani and Timo Perez were offensive heroes.
All it really proves is that anything can happen in the postseason.
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!
i meant more in the grand scheme of things, not 2000 in particular (when everyone was roiding).
Giants had the best staff in baseball this year, and rode it to the WS berth. Teams like MIL, CIN, COL, they had top 5 NL offenses and two didn’t even sniff the playoffs. the third, CIN, were out in 3.
but yes, i agree that anything can happen in the postseason
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:06 PM PST up reply actions
WS win, not berth. still hasn’t quite sunk in yet.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:06 PM PST up reply actions
If you look through the years, I suspect you’ll find that the best offense wins about as often as the best pitching, though.
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!
i dont think great pitching always beats great hitting, but most of the time, I really think it does.
i dont even know what kind of parameters to put on a search like that, but i can tell ya that the 2010 Giants are living proof of that. They shut down 2 prolific offenses and one better than average offense in the playoffs.
or that 19 game streak of 3 runs or less allowed? we won like 11 of those games i think (id have to look it up exactly) but my point still stands.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:13 PM PST up reply actions
looking at the last few years
2009 Yankees: 1st in wOBA, 3rd in FIP
2008 Phillies: 3rd in wOBA, 5th in FIP
2007 Red Sox: 2nd in wOBA, 3rd in FIP
2006 Cardinals: 7th in wOBA, 14th in FIP
2005 White Sox: 8th in wOBA, 5th in FIP
2004 Red Sox: 1st in wOBA, 2nd in FIP
2003 Marlins: 7th in wOBA, 3rd in FIP
2002 Angels: 6th in wOBA, 5th in FIP
2001 Diamondbacks: 5th in wOBA, 4th in FIP
2000 Yankees: 7th in wOBA, 5th in FIP
Really inconclusive. But I can draw SOME conclusions:
- Teams who hit really well and pitch really well often win the World Series.
- The 2000 Yankees, 2005 White Sox, and especially the 2006 Cardinals were fucking lucky as hell.
- Despite all the LOL NATIONAL LEAGUE stuff, the World Series, at least, has been remarkably even for the past decade.
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!
Lucky how?
Like: the 2005 White Sox were lucky to face the Astros who went into the tank right after the LCS?
Also: the 2006 Cardinals were lucky to face the Tigers who certainly helped beat themselves?
and where are the 2010 Giants on this list?
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 5:50 PM PST up reply actions
Lucky as in they were very far from being the best teams in their league, let alone in baseball.
It’s not really fair to say the Astros went into the tank in the WS; they were swept, but that’s misleading. Every game was very close. They could’ve just as easily swept the Sox.
The Giants were 9th in wOBA and 3rd in FIP.
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!
Gotcha.
Yes, looking back the Sox sweep was 4 very close games. 0-0 shutout deep in to the clinching game…
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 5:57 PM PST up reply actions
Cardinals won 85 games in 2006, yet won the WS kinda lucky, lol
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:05 PM PST up reply actions
- Teams who hit really well and pitch really well often win the World Series.
i def agree with that, even looking back at past winners, most of the time a WS winning team had a good offense to go with it (in the 2000s, it’s been Yankees, Boston, Phils for 5 of the 10 champs).
But I think the Giants showed that you don’t always have to have a great offense if your pitching staff is just that suffocating.
I think i remember reading somewhere that the Giants were the first team in the 2000s to win the WS with the best ERA in MLB that year. I’ll look for the link to verify, might have been Baggs or BBTN guys who said that.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:05 PM PST up reply actions
i dont want to be misleading, so i think the Giants were the first team with the best ERA in MLB that year to win a WS in the 2000s. I’ll check on that.
as for FIP, i dont know much about that stat so i couldn’t say.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:07 PM PST up reply actions
FIP is based on walks, strike outs, and home runs. The idea being that those are the best way to judge a pitcher’s performance outside of defense and luck, because everything else has at least as much to do with those factors as the pitcher himself.
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!
ok, so that is to judge a pitcher only, without the advantage or disadvantage of how good his team behind him is.
i see why you used FIP instead of ERA then
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:18 PM PST up reply actions
Also, the Ponson hate is because he shat his pants in the LDS. 5 innings, 4 runs.
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!
And the postseason was 100% what we got him for. We were going to win the division anyway.
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!
Was it just because of one start though? I was thinking it had to do with people just remembering that we lost games when he pitched, and associating fault to him for it.
And does anyone actually think of Sidney Ponson’s start as one of the major reasons we lost that series? All I think about is a) Gold Glove Jose Cruz’s flyball, b) Pudge killing Yorvit at the plate, c) JT Snow getting killed by Pudge at the plate. I’m not really that mad at him because we had a pretty good chance to win that game even after he was taken out.
by kingofthacove on Nov 11, 2010 4:06 PM PST up reply actions
This is confusing
Nick Johnson is a very very good player when healthy. Rick Ankiel was good for, what, 3/4 of a season?
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
here, this will help you
Neifi Perez
Michael Tucker
Mark Portugal
Dave Martinez
Shall I go on?
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!
i think it’s the press that has you addicted to misfits.
i dont recall much of any of us calling them all misfits and castoffs all the time before it became the “trendy playoff story”. then again, i’ve only been here since august or so
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:05 PM PST up reply actions
Do not want
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
OT: Video uploads
I made a sweet sweet 3-minute video of the Giants 2010 playoffs set to epic music… but it has a bunch of broadcast footage. Are they strict about taking that sort of thing down (off of YouTube and the like)?
I was just looking at this, and apparently the DVDs include the radio broadcasts as alternate audio tracks. Yay!
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!
My repetitive question from the other thread: IS IT IN HD?!
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 2:42 PM PST up reply actions
YOU KIDS TODAY
IN MY DAY WE HAD VHS TAPES IN SLP WITH CRAPPY TRACKING AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!
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!
I remember Betamax, son!
There are Super 8 movies of me looking damn cute in some baseball related pajamas, I’ll have you know!!
Get off my lawn!
/naps
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 2:49 PM PST up reply actions
Our first two VCRs
Sanyo Betacords. LOL US
Anagram of "SF Giants World Series Champs" = SHARP, ORGASMIC, ENDLESS SWIFT
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Nov 11, 2010 2:50 PM PST up reply actions
My buddy recorded every Bonds game on VCR.
He kept em if he hit a HR
Recorded over them if he didn’t (unless there was good reason aside from Bonds to keep em).
He has a larger apartment than I.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 2:54 PM PST up reply actions
Get that man a splicing machine
Put them together on ONE tape (well, DVD)
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
this is the long-range plan, last I’d heard…
he’s not too tech-savy (ahem…&…duh!) but is a HUGE Bonds fan having grown up in Pittsburgh..
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
i grew up watching movies on laserdisc
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
my dad just buys into every big video technology created
we’ve got betamax, laserdisc, vhs, dvd, hd dvd, blu-ray…
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I’m not budging on blu-ray. How clear does the picture really need to be?
I can't fight this feeling anymore!
Blu-ray (actually, HD in general) is more of a benefit
the bigger your TV is.
Anagram of "SF Giants World Series Champs" = SHARP, ORGASMIC, ENDLESS SWIFT
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Nov 11, 2010 2:57 PM PST up reply actions
i can't really tell the difference
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Ah, the ritual! The huge, beautiful jackets, the artwork of the track listings, reaching into the sleeves for the crinkling wax paper, drawing it out, smelling the smell of the plastic, setting it into the player, hearing it whirr as it began to spin … then getting up off the couch and flipping it over …
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
alot of DVD players use upconverting software, to turn non-HD (480p or 720p) DVDs into full HD 1920×1080p.
I have a Sony surround sound system with DVD player that turns any old DVD (even ones from the very beginning of the DVD days) into HD.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:11 PM PST up reply actions
only thing, is that it has to run on an HDMI cable. So if your TV has an HDMI hookup, doesnt matter if the DVD isn’t HD- it can still be shown in full 1920×1080p HD
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:13 PM PST up reply actions
This is all I'm asking for for Christmas this year
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I think that’s all I’ve ever asked for for Christmas:
Dear Santa,
I don’t need much of anything. How about a parade on Market Street.
Thanks for all the coal,
glenallen hill’s waterpipe
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 2:45 PM PST up reply actions
Do they still make coal?
"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
"He just threw me a fastball in and I just put a good swing on the ball, and you know when you put a good swing on the ball, the ball go out."
-Egdar Renteria commenting on his solo home run in the 5th inning of Game 2.
by Sabean's_Folly on Nov 11, 2010 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
Sadly, yes.
Though now it’s “clean” much like war is “peace”.
Fuck it – THE GIANTS ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS!
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:15 PM PST up reply actions
IT WAS ALL HOLLYWOOD
Filmed on a soundstage with performance capture.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
So I saw Howie today. Or, rather, I stalked Howie outside the computer lab about five minutes ago. That was 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 Nov 11, 2010 2:39 PM PST reply actions
You should have LOL HOWIE’d him.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 11, 2010 2:40 PM PST up reply actions
DAMMIT. I SHOULD’VE.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Nov 11, 2010 2:42 PM PST up reply actions
Howie actually came up in a conversation with one of my grad school classmates a couple of weeks ago. I had my playoff beard still, and he was impressed by how full it was compared to his. That lead to discussing the word ‘failbeard,’ which lead me to mention that one of the top GIS results for ‘failbeard’ is someone I know, which lead to him looking it up.
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!
Hahahaha. He’s still got the failbeard, by the way.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Nov 11, 2010 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
And one day, the stalker’s stalker will have their own 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 Nov 11, 2010 3:01 PM PST up reply actions
/starts stalking Chop
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
/has already been stalking 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 Nov 11, 2010 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
/I thought I saw someone mysterious following me today in my stores.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
/follows 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 Nov 11, 2010 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
/runs away
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
I FOLLOW YOU ON TWITTER. YOU CAN’T RUN AWAY.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Nov 11, 2010 3:32 PM PST up reply actions
Gotta go with the Ankiel game
Only because of the TBS replays. I have never seen anything like that. At least 10 replays.
My personal lowpoint, however, was the HInske homerun because I was in Turner field.
I thought the upper deck was going to collapse from all those Braves fan assholes jumping up and down.
And then, by the ninth, they were all deathly silent and I was on my feet. SUCK IT MOTHERFUCKERS!
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!
Ankiel's homerun was really impressive.
What a shot. And the finger raise he did after it made it epic.
Kinda wish somebody on the Giants hit one like that.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Nov 11, 2010 2:45 PM PST up reply actions
see: JT Snow Game 2 NLDS vs. New York Mets 2000
eerily similar, same shitty outcome for Giants.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 2:47 PM PST up reply actions
Splash Hits=playoff losses for team that hits them.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:16 PM PST up reply actions
Meant for this season.
But whatevs.
We have Edgar’s homerun in game 5, and I personally put Posey’s homerun in game 162 as the 2nd most epic homerun of the season.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Nov 11, 2010 7:14 PM PST up reply actions
Gotcha…
Burrell’s bomb against the Dodgers was big…
and Uribe’s blast in WS game 1 also was a big fly to my eyes…though that was a weird game…
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 7:35 PM PST up reply actions
For some reason, number 8 sticks out in my mind. Number 6, where Wilson blew the lead against Philly, was also quite frustrating
"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
Yah, I remember that and how the big talk was of how mad timmy was and how we
all wanted Bochy’s head for pulling Timmy.
For some reason that’s the loss that sticks in my head the most. That stupid loss last year to the Rockies… “This isn’t good folks…” That one is still nightmare #1 for me. The Philly loss is #2 in the “recent Giants losses that make me want to break something” sweepstakes.
Every loss in the playoffs this year sucked too, only because we were AT half of them.
so which was the "this isn't good, folks" game?
I seem to have blocked this out.
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!
Remember the losing GDTs where we started this thing of listing the end of....
Thats the:
Game… Season…Team….Organization… Life… Existence….
In retrospect that was pretty funny
A Giants loss once inspired despondent McCoven to do a Star Wars gamethread
This season was truly magical.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 11, 2010 2:46 PM PST reply actions
I loved that thread
I wasted 12 hours on it, and stayed up way too late, but man was it fun.
American Heroes: Joe Pavelski, Buster Posey, David Backes
Fear the Fin - Cornering the market on third pairing defensemen since March 2009
For those who missed it
Here’s the link. It’s over 2500 comments. Enjoy.
American Heroes: Joe Pavelski, Buster Posey, David Backes
Fear the Fin - Cornering the market on third pairing defensemen since March 2009
I am re-reading it now
So far my favorite part is 49er16 choking SFGuy with his mind. LOL
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 11, 2010 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
I'm so proud to be Alex's father . . .
he’s a Giants fan and an aficionado of good movies and squash. What more could a man want from a kid?
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Nov 11, 2010 8:16 PM PST up reply actions
He could buy his dad a mansion on the French Riviera. That’s my aspiration for my sons when they grow up.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Nov 12, 2010 10:47 AM PST up reply actions
That was a good thread.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Nov 11, 2010 8:46 PM PST up reply actions
I missed that
I wish I had been a part of it
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Greatest thread ever
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
Ross – Yoda
Torres – R2D2
Zito – Princess Leia
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
LOL LOOKS LIKE A GURL
whistle whistle
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
I had just come back from seeing my mom in the hospital or somesuch
and that was fantastic therapy.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 2:54 PM PST up reply actions
datefail
but similar grievy badness alleviated by blabbing about SW
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 6:06 PM PST up reply actions
This is probably the greatest thing I have ever done in my life.
Starting this thread. It actually started in the final GDT for that game.
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/5/22/1483516/open-nap-thread
This whole tread had some hilarious shit in it.
Sometimes an asshat
Is not really a bad thing!
WHY IS BENGIE?!
Dearest, Susan – The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on May 22, 2010 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, he's like Aubrey Huff, but can't hit as well or field his position.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s ---
Bochy: WHO GIVES A SHIT? IT'S WHATEVER I SAY IT IS BECAUSE I WON A WORLD SERIES.
Worst losses of the season
NLCS game 1 against Roy Halladay and WS game 1 against Cliff Lee. We never really had a shot.
"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
I was 0-4 at giants games this year
first time in my life i didnt see a win in a season and they win the world series… how does this happen?
by haroldansivakumar on Nov 11, 2010 2:49 PM PST reply actions
The Cody Ross blunder
That game was pretty awful. I told my brother after that debacle I was done watching baseball for the year. it felt that crushing.
Vow lasted precisely one game.
by panhandlelegend on Nov 11, 2010 2:50 PM PST reply actions
Most galling
We can rate these more objectively—kind of taking a sabermetric approach to evaluating how bad a loss is. In that case, I’d vote for #1, the Rick Ankiel game.
Personally, I choose to rate losses on how I experienced them with my own two eyes. And my heart. (Is that how grm would do it?) Doing it that way, I have to go with #6. That one did me in worse than any game this season. It actually caused me to re-assess my life and fandom. After #6, I began making a conscious effort to better manage my emotions and expectations.
Still, the Rick Ankiel game, the David Eckstein game, the Whiteside pinch-running game, and the Reds comeback-only-to-lose game were all awfully rough.
The Reds game was weird, because my family and I followed it via the Pirates scoreboard at PNC. We got there early for BP, and on our way in heard on the radio that the Giants were already down 8-1—wait, no 9-1. Then we get into the park, check the scoreboard, and—wait, now it’s 10-1 Reds. So we were all “LOL Giants”, as we made our way to the outfield bleachers in a pathetic attempt to catch a BP HR before the game. Then the Giants scored a couple, and we’re laughing: “Oh, the Giants are coming back! ha ha”. Then they score a couple more, and I’m thinking, “hmmm…they actually could make this interesting”. Then we took our seats and just watched as the 8th inning unfolded on the scoreboard, with the score, the inning, the outs, and light dots on the bases all continuing to change until, unbelievably, the Giants were leading 11-10. Suddenly, I’d gone from “LOL Giants” to “ZOMG, I WANT THIS ONE SO BAD!!” Then, just as suddenly, I went from “ZOMG!!” to the five stages of grief. …Yeah, that was just a particularly rough little whipsawing of the emotions right there.
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
The Reds game was bizarre for me
I left for class and the Giants were down big. I checked the score during class and they were down even worse so I was like “fuck that”. I checked the score after class and they had lost 12-11 and I was like “oh, okay.”
And then I did a double-take and I was like, “wuhhhh?”
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
The most torturous game for me was this one that we played at the Dodgers late summer
The Giants got like one hit in the first seven innings against their piece of shit starter, while Cain was doing OK but not particularly great. It was so painful that I had to stop watching by the 7th. It was just awful to have to see their crap OF Gibbons hitting 3-run homer while everyone of our batters (especially Jazz hands) looked like they were trying to hit home runs in every at-bat. I never found out what happened in the end but I am sure we ended up losing by 10-0 or something like that. Only the Giants can make Ted Lilly looks like Cy Young.
Proud adopted parent of the ball dudes, who have grounded into 109 fewer double plays than the Giants.
Sorry if I mentioned this before...
That was one of my favorite games ever. Driving my son up to college in Spokane, and we pick up KNBR while driving the 15 through northern Utah and into southern Idaho. We heard the whole comeback. What a great memory—I’ll never forget it.
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
These all stung
- was the one that stayed with me the longest. Objectively speaking, I think the above order is pretty spot on, with Ankiel game being the worst of the bunch. For me personally, though, the worst was #5, because that was the game that I decided to try out the ESPN iScore app, including charting all the pitches. Boy did that ever feel like a colossal waste of time after it was over.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY FIX IT FOR ME INSTEAD OF LAUGHING AT ME YOU KNOW
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 11, 2010 3:09 PM PST up reply actions
Damn you Grant for getting that song stuck in my head!
DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!
Staunch Defender of Cake
Word police:
Foreword
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
Ok, shameless plug since it is appropriate for this thread.
I made this video in August after that soul crushing Jonathan Sanchez Guarantee Padres series. Some of you said you couldn’t finish watching the video (rxmeister?) at the time because you wanted to throw your computer to the wall.
Well, now that THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS HAVE WON THE WORLD SERIES, I just re-watched my video again and got tremendous gratification :)
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
lol a certain someone all mad in the comments
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
why must you pick on JohnCenaRulesChamp?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 3:12 PM PST up reply actions
I was at games #6 and #1
Also went to Wellemeyer’s first start(Hayward pooped on him) and Anibal Sanchez’s one-hitter
I went 2-2 at games this year and strangely enough both losses were ugly Matt Cain starts (including the one against Strasburg when the first run scored when Matt 59 hopped a pick off throw into left field).
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
woohooo my new giants gear just came!!
orange champions t-shirt (to go with my Bonds 71 shirt in the collection)
orange tshirt tailored with SF logo (one of those "looks old but isn’t types)
grey hoodie with zip up front, pockets, orange&black GIANTS across the front (super warm!!)
hat, white lettered SF logo, otherwise completely black
I already had some older shirts and hats, but I justified spending $230 on all this after they won the WS.
i wish i had unlimited funds to make 1000 MCC Giants shirts. that’d be cool
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:50 PM PST up reply actions
I got that orange looks old for it
Can’t wait
it fits me really well. that type of tailored shirt is broad in the shoulders while having a smaller torso, so if you’ve got broad shoulders and a flat torso, it will fit great. I weigh 185 and got a Large, fits perfect.
the hoodie is money though. it was like $70 bucks, but is sooo well made. perfect stitching. i found almost the exact same hoodie on another side, but the Giants letters looked glued on.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:53 PM PST up reply actions
1-0 Loss against the A's where Cain went the distance was the hardest point for me
At that point in the season, we had lost so many 1-0 games and I felt like this whole season was over and we were never going to compete…
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore;ylt=AgRd0Wp71zfOhdIMGL5hdeFCLcF?gid=300522111
No ER and an Huff error was the only reason a run came around, and we lost that game. I fully expecte Jermaine Dye to be a Giant after that game… Thank god it didnt happen.
"Whoever said WAR is HELL must have been talking about Aaron Rowand" - McCoven faithful
unrelated
wow, Gio Gonzalez was surprisingly good this year.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
That whole A's series in oakland was awful
A’s fans had all the bragging rights and it looked like THEY were the team on an upswing. Haha. little did they know that they would be swept at PBP and then have another season of misery while we went on to be world champs.
I had to step back from the ledge after that series.
It felt like we had 1 hit all series and only gave up 3 runs still ended up losing all 3.
"Whoever said WAR is HELL must have been talking about Aaron Rowand" - McCoven faithful
lol
Top Batters:
Freddy Sanchez – 1 for 4
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 3:16 PM PST up reply actions
I was at that game
in fact, it was the only Giants game I saw in person all season. “Hopeless” was the best word I could think of at the time, and it still stands. From the first couple of innings on you just knew that it was one of those games where the Giants offense was going nowhere.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Nov 11, 2010 5:10 PM PST up reply actions
I was at #1 and I remember the PAIN
And yet #6 still sticks with me the most because I remember watching it all unfold in slo-mo, knowing what was about to happen and being powerless to stop it. Oh, the pain.
Oh wait, the Giants won the Worlds Series. Yeah, I feel better now.
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
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Nov 11, 2010 3:12 PM PST reply actions
Oh, and early this morning I had a realization that probably already dawned on everyone else but only just clicked for me:
We knocked over David Eckstein, Troy Glaus, and Bengie Molina on our way to winning the championship. That just makes it feel extra good.
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
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Nov 11, 2010 3:17 PM PST up reply actions
Cant't somebody go play in the California Beer League
so we can beat Spiezio, too?
by mrs. owlcroft on Nov 11, 2010 5:10 PM PST up reply actions
HIS BAND SANDFROG
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Nov 11, 2010 6:05 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Resiliency
As noted above various places…it is just amazing how resilient this team proved to be. Never being thrown off by so many horrible losses, as so many previous G’s teams (not just the G’s) would have been.
Wow, what an exciting soap opera of a season with an incredibly happy ending at the end of the torturous rainbow.
The Giants won the World Series in 2010.
Now they own it and repeat every year, right?
April 18 @ Dodgers
Dodgers win 2-1 on a PH 2 run HR by Manny Ramirez in the bottom 8, after Zito goes 7+ scoreless. Cue Romo.
Maybe this was the most painful for me ’cause I was there, at the Latrine, in full Giants regalia, vocally enjoying the first 7 innings. After the Manny HR, it was not fun to be me.
Upon further review, this game did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
My favorite part was when...
…The usher at the top of the stairs took one look at me, and pulled me aside.
Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a card that said “Guest Services, Oscar.” Then, with the seriousness in his eyes usually reserved for final words before going to battle, he said:
“Look, if anyone gives you any shit, you just give me a call, okay?”
Shit.
I remember that. Feels like so long ago. The day before that was the Timmy RBI blowout though.
I think I argued with DFARowand about Sergio for about 6 hours after that one
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I was in a bad place jponry
I believe the hyperbole was flowing on both ends pretty heavily
It definitely was
I think I was arguing that Sergio was as valuable as Wilson.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I agree, but I don’t think he’s quite as good as Wilson.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Eh?
Sergio has a better career FIP than Wilson, actually. Over his career, Romo has struck out more and walked fewer than Wheezy.
Now, Wilson has been steadily improving in each year, but it’d be hard for him to top this season in terms of performance. I’d rate them very similarly as pitchers, with the caveat that Wilson is capable, I think, of throwing more innings than Romo.
But to pitch for one inning? To get 3 outs? It’d be a tough call for me.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Well, first off I think a “I don’t think he’s quite as good” implies a pretty small gap so you don’t have to throw any of your “Eh?”s around at me.
I do worry sometimes with Sergio because he has had some injury problems (though he was durable this year, which was nice). I also feel as though he really relies on his slider moreso than any other pitch (his other pitches do have positive run values, but just from my observations, I think that’s a function of how they work in relation to the slider moreso than his fastball actually being a very good pitch, which I would imagine most people would agree with.)
Wilson has been extremely durable and, as you said, has improved his control quite a bit since two years ago. He also has three very good pitches at this point.
It’s a small gap. And you don’t have to preach the virtues of Sergio Romo to me, good God, I think I’ve always been his biggest supporter here.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Many apologies
I throw eh’s around with reckless abandon. This isn’t the first time it’s gotten me in to trouble.
We should count ourselves lucky to have two such good relievers.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I don’t think it’s terribly uncommon for great relievers to rely on one great pitch. Rivera and Hoffman are the first that come to mind.
I feel like Romo’s one pitch is a bit more conducive to being hit a really long way than Mariano’s cutter or Hoffman’s changeup? But that could just be a function of, idk, confirmation bias? What would you call it?
It’s a small factor that (along with durability) keeps Wilson slightly ahead of him in my book.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Well, there’s probably not a pitch in baseball that’s less likely to be hit a long way than Rivera’s cutter, so I would agree with that, but I don’t know if relying on a changeup is better than relying on a slider (and it’s definitely rarer – there are plenty of fastball/slider relievers out there, including many, if not most, closers; fastball/changeup is pretty rare).
I think the main argument for Wilson over Romo (and for any closer over a middle reliever) is that he was forced to face a higher percentage of LHH’s than Romo. Romo seems to have a pretty extreme split (not surprisingly), so his numbers would probably be worse than Wilson’s if he had been the closer.
Romo’s actually got much better career numbers vs LHH, although in a smaller sample size
In the end, I’m really glad we have both of them and I think we can all agree on that.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
yikes. Romo has been the scapegoat for some devastating losses this year.
Manny HR in April
that stretch where he gave up a ton of games in FLA and NY early in the year.
Gave up 3 runs in 8th to set up the Ankiel HR later (bit of a stretch)
Hinske HR (had we not come back)
There are only a few games that we actually lost in which he got shelled, oddly enough.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:23 PM PST up reply actions
its either lights out or a shit show
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:24 PM PST up reply actions
that’s what you get with ‘trick’ pitchers. when youre stuff doesnt work, you’ll get hammered.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:08 PM PST up reply actions
Well, sorta
He gave up a runner he inherited but then got out of it:
http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=12875179
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
That was a great inning. Werth hit a double on a good pitch, then Romo abused the next three hitters.
Yeah
No shame in being beat by Werth that series. Dude hit .222/.375/.611 in the NLCS.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Not just any slider, but a front-door slider. It was a great approach, but he would have looked silly if Romo tried to catch the outside corner.
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 11, 2010 10:19 PM PST up reply actions
all year i thought...
how the hell is his ERA in the low 2’s?
I wish I could capture the entire 2010 season in a bottle. It will never feel THIS good.
by housethatbondsbuilt on Nov 30, 2010 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
Yes, this must be included.
That made me hate the world.
The San Francisco Giants won the World Series.
by The Enchanter on Nov 12, 2010 1:51 PM PST up reply actions
i still dont know how romo managed to bounce back and be money all year.
stunned silence
text from friend: “fuck”
text to friend: “on a 1-2 pitch”
I wish I could capture the entire 2010 season in a bottle. It will never feel THIS good.
by housethatbondsbuilt on Nov 30, 2010 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
I was in attendance for these games
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN201004160.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN201004180.shtml
They were the first Giants games that I attended in 2010. Maybe not the worst losses of the season (although the second was extra sucky) but made worse by the fact that I was sitting in Dodger Stadium for them. This other game I attended made everything better though. http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN201007310.shtml
There are so many other close calls
The Cubs Pat Burrell Grand Slam game that we almost coughed up, The Marlins comeback at AT&T averted by Andres Torres’s bases loaded “single”, the Don Mattingly game, …etc. All of those would have been heart breakers but instead turned into thrilling victories. Most of them by Andres Torres walk off Sac Fly / Double / Ground Rule Singles
In a season where the national media debate whether Posey or Huff was the Giants MVP, the single biggest reason why the Giants won the National League West was because Andres Torres turned into Carlos Beltran.
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
I wonder what the single season record for “walkoff ground rule singles” is.
He had what, 2 or 3?
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:25 PM PST up reply actions
Yea that Eckstein HR and the Padre dominance made me haz a sad.
"I tell him straight, 'If you're going to lead, you have to be the first to practice. You have to come in, get your work down and be prepared for practice,' " assistant coach Keith Smart said. "He needs to figure out why he is having stomach problems and he's got to watch how LeBron (James), Kobe (Bryant) and D-Wade (Dwyane Wade) work. He needs to mimic that if he wants his teammates to speak volumes about him." -Keith Smart on Motna Ellis
Hinske
Threw his arm up for 180 feet with a stupid grin on his face.
Renteria went about his business. Granted at an away park though.
I still think overcelebrating (more than a fist pump or equivalent) is a little over the line unless its a walk off. Because the Giants can come back in the top of the 9th and beat you
i didnt like him when he hit the HR off Cain and did his little bat flip/skip hop
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:27 PM PST up reply actions
comes off as cocky, but now i just know he thinks hes a rodeo clown, lol
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:27 PM PST up reply actions
Different, its only top 5th inning and he’s celebrating breaking up the nohitter and his ridic dominance over baseballs.
Still would categorize it as over the line though
by posey yaknowsy on Nov 11, 2010 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
think that was his 3rd HR in his last 5-6 ABs, came off Oswalt. The little bat flip&hop are just who Cody is, not some showoff move, now that we’ve seen a lot more of him.
I still maintain that Blanton beaned him on purpose, esp after Hamels said the best way to avoid Ross is to hit him, even though Hamels said he was joking. Ross was a one-man wrecking crew for the first few games.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:56 PM PST up reply actions
This was hilarious. I know people hate it but I kinda like it. Walk off celebrations should incorporate some more creativity.
If Posey hits a game winning HR next year, I hope the Giants give him the silent treatment. By far the funniest and best celebration in baseball
by posey yaknowsy on Nov 11, 2010 4:34 PM PST up reply actions
rec'd
always
48 years after his heart was broken by a Willie McCovey line out to Bobby Richardson, Charlie Brown finally has his championship.
i think we hated it because that walkoff HR eliminated us officially
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:57 PM PST up reply actions
I'd rather my Giants spend more time on batting than plotting ridiculous celebrations..
…oh, wait. We are the World Champions. My bad.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Crazy AZN/Japan OT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI
Yes…that’s a hologram performing to a packed venue
Gorrilaz did a couple shows using holograms I think.
Look at my website. Look at it. || I had some other text here but then the San Francisco Giants won the World Series
That broken bat triple that Cody misjudged was one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
I was there with buddies and we all heard the bat break. I still don’t know how it carried that far.
The thong is, it happened.
I remember sports phone that night and FP kept saying...
“listen to the sound of the bat…its like porcelain…” (plays sound bit 20 more times)
I’m in this line. It didn’t and doesn’t really make sense compared to all the bat breaks I’ve seen.
Funny to think about these things all combined to make up the season. I’m convinced baseball is 90 % mental and the other half is physical and then the even other half is having all these breaks (like kinsler’s non-HR) just happen at the right time.
by posey yaknowsy on Nov 11, 2010 4:48 PM PST up reply actions
if that bat doesn’t break, maybe we see more Ross over Guillen. Then Ross gets hot earlier, instead of when he finally gets an everyday spot in the playoffs.
Butterfly Effect, Chaos Theory, whatever you want to call it.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:59 PM PST up reply actions
even though the broken bat triple isn’t really Ross’ fault, you know that Bork was thinking Guillen makes that play. or something
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 4:59 PM PST up reply actions
Upon further review, this broken bat did not prevent the San Francisco Giants from winning the World Series in 2010.
hooray!!
I still look at video clips every day of different postseason games to make sure they dont suddenly disappear and its says the Yankees won.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:07 PM PST up reply actions
LOL Guillen's range
"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
"He just threw me a fastball in and I just put a good swing on the ball, and you know when you put a good swing on the ball, the ball go out."
-Egdar Renteria commenting on his solo home run in the 5th inning of Game 2.
by Sabean's_Folly on Nov 11, 2010 8:05 PM PST up reply actions
another TERRIBLE LOSS just happened
McCann beat Posey for the Silver Slugger at catcher. their slash lines were .305/.357/.505 for Buster and .269/.375/.453 for McCann. he also only had just 4 more extra base hits than Posey in over 100 more plate appearances.
if this is any indication for the ROY voting then Buster won’t win. the voters are looking more at walks and that Buster didn’t play the whole year and holding that against him even though he did almost as much damage in much less time.
Ignoring Tim Mccarver since 2002.
Would be outraged
Except the Giants won the 2010 World Series…besides the Giants owed McCann one for getting them the home field advantage in the WS.
They should have a Silver Surefeet award honoring the best base stealer
by posey yaknowsy on Nov 11, 2010 4:51 PM PST up reply actions
Gold Glove, Silver Slugger...
Diamond Dasher?
Platinum Pilferer?
Bronze Baserunner?
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Happened.
"Today is about fifty-some-odd years of pent-up faith and hope, filled into one year," enthused Lincecum, "And what a year it was!"
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Nov 13, 2010 3:03 PM PST up reply actions
Award for SB and astute baserunning = Actinium Advancer
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 Nov 14, 2010 6:47 AM PST up reply actions
i want buster to be made King of the US
with a smallish ceremony to go along with it. what can i say, winning it all has made me greedy.
Ignoring Tim Mccarver since 2002.
McCann helped the Giants win the WS so i think its the least we can GIVE him :D
but heyward winning the ROY? will be fucked up
Haters Gonna Hate
I'm starting to believe Posey won't win the ROY
And its OK. The giants won the world series! THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD FUCKING SERIES! Oh man it hadn’t really hit me yet, here I am laughing/frustrated at everyone proclaiming it as a semi-joke. I now get it. The giants won the world series and nothing else really matters. Its merely a meh, whatever.
by posey yaknowsy on Nov 11, 2010 4:52 PM PST up reply actions
There’s nothing wrong with Heyward winning ROY. Don’t get me wrong, I want Posey to win, too. But Heyward is very deserving of ROY.
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
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Nov 11, 2010 5:03 PM PST up reply actions
This
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Nov 12, 2010 1:19 PM PST up reply actions
I'd be more impressed with Heyward's OBP if he didnt have 130 Ks
It’s not Posey’s fault that opposing pitchers weren’t smart enough to pitch around him more right from the start like with Heyward.
to be fair
McCann played a LOT more than Posey. Fangraphas has McCann’s offensive value at 19.2 and Posey’s at 16.6.
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!
Posey should not be punished
because of Bochy and Sabean’s decisions. the award is about the players. Posey almost outperformed McCann in every category despite the lesser playing time.
Ignoring Tim Mccarver since 2002.
Posey played less than half a season at catcher.
His torrid first month came at 1B.
no it didn't
his torrid month was July. Molina was traded on June 30th.
Ignoring Tim Mccarver since 2002.
Ahh. You're right.
I remembered him being hot when he came up, cooling down a bit, and then going apeshit in July. Which is basically what happened, but he did only hit .288 prior to being installed at catcher.
Nonetheless, I maintain that with 75 starts at the position he didn’t have enough time to reasonably qualify as best hitting catcher in the NL.
Posey is going to win lots of Silver Sluggers
to go with his ROY.
I didn’t expect him to win this time around.
I think baseball is going to have some splaining to do if Posey doesn’t win the ROY though. I think it justifies everything we have all been saying about East Coast bias if he doesn’t. What Posey did defensively alone and the way he handled that staff in Sept. was more than enough to sway it way in Posey’s favor even with Heyward’s OBP IMO. If they look at position scarcity at all, Posey locks it down. Not to diminish Heyward, as he is a special player, but catcher is a much more demanding position and to play it like Posey did is beyond exceptional. Any baseball “analyst” or fan that doesn’t give credit to him for playing a much tougher position shouldn’t have a vote.
Roy Halladay just woke up in a cold sweat. He had a dream about this rodeo clown with a stick...
The problem with that argument is that Posey only played catcher for less than half a season (76). Heyward’s biggest advantage (to me) is that he played more last year than Posey — he was great was longer than Posey was, and as anybody whose ever been hitting .400 in June has discovered, it’s really hard to be great for a longer period of time. Arguing that Posey should be ROY because he played Catcher effectively increases Heyward’s advantage as Posey spent 30 games (almost a third of his PT) at 1B.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
might as well get this thing warmed up now, in case Buster doesn't win ROY
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
by oldjacket on Nov 11, 2010 5:00 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
that is SO much better...
than any award Heyward might get
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:02 PM PST up reply actions
I’m trying to think of the last time a Giant won the ROY. Wow, it was The Count.
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!
Wrong Count, blah.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Nov 12, 2010 1:21 PM PST up reply actions
since I mentioned faulty memory earlier in this thread....
…for years I remembered Robby Thompson winning the ROY in 1986.
Of course, it was Todd Worrell. Who, if you’ll forgive the anachronism, had a 0.5 WAR in 1986. YOU BASTARDS.
Ten guys guy ROY votes that year. Five were or would go on to be Giants: Robby, Kevin Mitchell, Will Clark, Barry Bonds, and Jim Deshaies. And the winner was the older brother of future Giant Tim Worrell.
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!
last time a catcher hit cleanup for a team that won the WS?
1947, if that SI article the other day was right
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:08 PM PST up reply actions
you know what that means?
That Mike Piazza never won a World Series.
And that makes me happy.
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!
oops, i meant last time a rookie catcher hit cleanup for a team that won the WS was 1947 according to the good folks at SI.
piazza may have won a WS with the Mets, but I don’t remember.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:17 PM PST up reply actions
Ah, yes. The only interesting part of the 2000 Series. Roger, the Vampire Slayer.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Nov 11, 2010 6:08 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I’m pretty sure Piazza wasn’t on the Mets yet in 1986.
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!
i was thinking of the Subway series.
Piazza hadn’t even been drafted until 1988 and didnt debut until ’92
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
sarchasm
You said that Piazza “may have” won a WS with the Mets. I was pointing out that he was a skinny high school kid the last time the Mets won one.
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!
throw me a rope, eh? oh wait, theres a sandwich down here. hold up…
i didnt remember if they won the Subway Series. so 1986 was the last time they won the WS? then how the hell are they SO RELEVANT to the media? jeez, another layer of East Coast Bias sets in.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:21 PM PST up reply actions
They’ve only won two. The Miracle Mets and ’86.
I probably remember the Subway Series better than some because I was in New York at the time.
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!
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 Nov 11, 2010 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
Ryan Braun OT:
Just check out his stats…wow! Too bad he won’t be a FA until 2016
Other members of the 2005 draft:
Justin Upton
Ryan Zimmerman
The guy with the mullet in Denver
2006 had
Evan Longoria, Clayton Kershaw, that Tom Linkendrum fella, and noted superstar Emmanuel Burriss.
Good coule of years for the first round!
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!
at least the Giants sucked in years that had great draft pedigrees.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:09 PM PST up reply actions
Like 1972!
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!
if only Mays’ line drive was 3 feet higher.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:19 PM PST up reply actions
oops… my bad. yeah, mccovey.
BRAIN FARTS ARE REAL. TIMMEH GETS THEM TOO
by giant4life83 on Nov 12, 2010 3:29 AM PST up reply actions
/walks giant4life83 back to third
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Nov 12, 2010 10:51 AM PST up reply actions
I’m going for home!! catch me if you can!
by giant4life83 on Nov 12, 2010 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
Buster got snubbed for the Silver Slugger so that he can get the ROTY.
can’t give a rookie TWO awards
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:01 PM PST up reply actions
From Lookout Landing
Mariners fail to win any Silver Slugger awards
However, two members of the same division rival did. A year ago, the Giants didn’t win any Silver Slugger awards, but two members of the same division rival did. Hmmm
Giants / Mariners 2011 WS – book it!
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 5:54 PM PST up reply actions
Bring it, AL West.
Giants/A’s 1989
12 years
Giants/Angels 2002
7 years
Giants/Rangers 2010
? years
Giants/Mariners 20?
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Happened.
"Today is about fifty-some-odd years of pent-up faith and hope, filled into one year," enthused Lincecum, "And what a year it was!"
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Nov 13, 2010 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
I thought my fandom would wane as I grew older
But it’s only grown. Perhaps that reflects poorly on my maturity, or perhaps it reflects well on the odd sense of community engendered by McCovey Chronicles. Either way, I know I’m going to sit back this winter with the World Series DVDs like a little kid watching his favorite movie again and again.
Late OT: Worst Cruise of 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_cruise_ship_fire
Always wanted to take a cruise…but now…maybe not…at least not Carnival
Just listened to the most recent Buster Olney podcast with Bill Simmons
Olney admitted that he grew up a hardcore Dodgers fan. All is explained.
Also dropped some breaking news that the Giants wouldn’t trade MadBum for Prince Fielder (his insight is amazing)
However, he did drop some tidbits about Carl Crawford that made me really like the guy.
Grew up a hardcore Dodgers fan IN VERMONT. that’s just special.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Nov 11, 2010 6:10 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Say what?
San Francisco general manager Brian Sabean, routinely vilified as a grump and a guy who gives out overpriced contracts, just rode in a parade celebrating the franchise’s first championship since 1954. Meanwhile, Billy Beane, a charismatic, progressive thinker and media favorite whose team has won one playoff series in his 13 seasons as Oakland GM, will be portrayed by Brad Pitt next fall in the movie version of Michael Lewis’ best-seller “Moneyball.”
Miguel Tejada, one of the Oakland players featured in the movie, was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. For the role of Tejada, the filmmakers cast Royce Clayton, a Burbank, Calif., native who grew up in Inglewood and speaks just enough Spanish to be dangerous.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=crasnick_jerry&id=5788481
reports suggested Tejada would have played himself, but he was uncomfortable playing/acting in front of a large audience.
explains why he was an Oakland Athletic, a Baltimore Oriole and a San Diego Padre.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 5:21 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
And he's gonna need some 'roids
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
hahahahaha
its funny cause its true
needs moar roids and stupid spotlight gesture
by posey yaknowsy on Nov 11, 2010 5:47 PM PST up reply actions
I hear it’s a madcap satirical farce.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
by shanghaijim on Nov 11, 2010 6:11 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
As much as this season is known for the torture, none of these losses compare to the “This is not good, folks” game, or the Steve Finley grand slam game. Those were painful.
"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
I was at the Steve Finley grand slam game
Worst in-person sports moment of my life
was reading more on an article someone linked earlier and
• Wild thing: It’s looking more and more likely that baseball is going to add a second wild-card team in each league and have those two wild cards duke it out after the season for the right to move on to the division series. But you probably won’t see that happen until 2012.
And in the meantime, the big battle could be over whether that wild-card survivor round should be a dramatic, one-game October Madness win-or-go-home game, or whether it should be stretched out to a best-of-three.
Every indication is that the players are dug in on two-out-of-three. But there’s a mixed camp on the clubs’ side. Let’s just say it didn’t go unnoticed that the team that had to wait around longest between rounds lost EVERY postseason series this year.
So there’s already grumbling about the thought of the two teams with the best record in each league having to kill time in October while the wild cards play it off. If the idea of that wild-card round is to reward teams for finishing first, that’s an issue that needs to be addressed.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&page=rumblings101110
I don’t like this. You could have four teams that win 92-95 games, and the 5th best team in the league (the extra WC) could win 85 games, yet still get a shot at getting into the playoffs.
They play 162 games for a reason- to see who the best teams are. What’s the point of playing that many games if a vastly less superior team could sneak into the playoffs and suddenly get hot?
Sounds like they just want to add the 2nd wild card for do-or-die games, for TV ratings.
This has probably already been discussed though
It has been discussed, most people round here seem to be against it.
If they do implement it – I like the idea of a holy-shit-one-game-playoff for the WC spot.
The WC team would have to (potentially) throw all hands on deck out to win the one game, then with a quick turnaround to play the division winner…and after ‘97 I’m not averse to the idea of the WC having to rough it a bit to get to the division series.
that said, I don’t feel particularly strongly about it.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 6:00 PM PST up reply actions
id rather just see the WC get one or no home field games, as “punishment” for not winning the division.
and if you have a holy-shit-one-game-playoff just 2 days (or even 1 day) after the reg season, you just have to go with the pitcher who is slated to start. so in theory, you could have a 92 win Giants team with Zito slated for the playoff game, and an 85 win Rockies team with Ubaldo slated for the game.
Beyond that, would the whole “cant play a team in your division in the 1st round” still apply? because that would throw in more implications as well- the 2nd best team in the league could lose their NLDS home field.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:16 PM PST up reply actions
i know the one game playoff would be all hands on deck, but still, the odds a team would have to start with it’s slated starter for at least a couple innings are high.
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:17 PM PST up reply actions
Ross still made the correct first step in on the Gonzalez GW hit.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Nov 11, 2010 6:45 PM PST reply actions
if anything it was Freddys bad relay that cost us the game. Gonzalez’ hit only tied it
by giant4life83 on Nov 11, 2010 6:56 PM PST up reply actions
On KNBR, the debut of the Hot Stove League show on now.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Can I just say...
Nice job, Pat Burrell.
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 Nov 11, 2010 8:05 PM PST up reply actions
LoL rewatching Giants v. dodgers …last game of 2008. And my favorite commercial is on!!! “Oh those boys are much too much, those boys are much too much!” Which balances out watching the Sanchez no-no the other day and seeing the ad for “Wishful Drinking” again.
that was a good commercial
betterlife.org? I forget what it was for (lol Madison Ave.)
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 7:13 PM PST up reply actions
Here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A2Ap3DyvLg
Awwww Omar just walked off the field… to a rousing ovation.
Wishful Drinking was the “We make the phones ring” for TV.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Fuck Wishful Drinking
that was absolutely the worst commercial during Giants games. Fuck Carrie Fisher no one gave a fucking fuck about her little play.
and then I went to rehab...
NOT BECAUSE I NEEDED IT!
My adopted Giant got shipped off to Pittsburgh, and it was worth it.
by rightcenterfielder on Nov 11, 2010 8:22 PM PST up reply actions
I don't remember any of the losses of 2010
The Giants won the World Series.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
this
The Bochy-Sabes memory wipe did the trick.
My adopted Giant got shipped off to Pittsburgh, and it was worth it.
by rightcenterfielder on Nov 11, 2010 8:31 PM PST up reply actions
/waits patiently for Natto's Sabean/Bochy Men In Black photoshop
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Gee the Giants sure don't waste any time
now appearing in your email in box: Travel to Spring Training with the Giants.
Betcha that sells out like yesterday…
don’t forget your identification, folks.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 7:54 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve heard great stories…not enough to motivate me to rob banks, but it does sound sweet.
They used to do a cruise too – though it seems like the great days of cruise ships are behind us.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 11, 2010 7:59 PM PST up reply actions
If it includes air-fare, no thanks. The TSA is out of hand. Drive or take a bus or a train.
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 Nov 11, 2010 8:06 PM PST up reply actions
I was just saying the same thing to my wife today. Fuck the TSA and their bullshit.
"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
"He just threw me a fastball in and I just put a good swing on the ball, and you know when you put a good swing on the ball, the ball go out."
-Egdar Renteria commenting on his solo home run in the 5th inning of Game 2.
by Sabean's_Folly on Nov 11, 2010 8:07 PM PST up reply actions
This new full body scanner or “enhanced” patdown shit is creepy as hell
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Key concept: “Cancer Scanners”. Keep repeating it everywhere until it becomes a meme. Calling them “Porno Scanners” just makes most people smirk. But everyone is afraid of cancer.
Yes, it’s disingenuous, but so are the justifications for installing those scanners and this insane regime of security theater. Fight fire with 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 Nov 11, 2010 9:01 PM PST up reply actions
you can always hitchhike
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 11, 2010 8:17 PM PST up reply actions
I might be the only one who thought #10 was the worst.
It was also the low point for me as a Giants fan. Worse than Game 6. Worse than ’93. Worse than ’87.
I’ve lived in So Cal for about 3 years and my hatred for the Dodgers is bordering on insanity. That night, I went to a bar with a Dodger fan and I was wearing my Giants hat. We were there for a bit and she screams out to the whole bar, “Dodgers swept the Giants!!!” Everyone starts cheering and giving me shit. Kirk Gibson, Game 6, everything got thrown my way.
When I went home I took off my hat and looked at it with disgust. I really started wondering if I could take the punishment much longer.
I’m really glad I held on.
This is an epic post.
Epic, I says.
AND WOW YOU REALLY DID BLOW MY MIND ON THE PHIL CUZZI GAME
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS: WORLD CHAMPIONS!
Touchdown Forty Niners!
Giants Baseball: Torture. It hurts so good.
The crazy thing
Is that it’s really not crazy. The Phillies could really use someone like Cody.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yup
But really, who couldn’t use a guy like Cody? I was one of the few people that was excited at the prospect of claiming him, because he’s a good all around player. An every-day, 9 innings king of guy. He doesn’t do anything miraculously (although he sure was miraculous in the playoffs!) but he does just about everything well. I don’t know if many Giants fans knew the quality player they were claiming. They wanted a big bat, and he was just another outfielder with a decent bat.
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS: WORLD CHAMPIONS!
Touchdown Forty Niners!
Giants Baseball: Torture. It hurts so good.
Sure, but
The Phillies in particular could have used a right handed bat who can handle the corners – a Ross/Ibanez platoon would have been nice for them going forward.
A lot of people weren’t excited because he seemed more than a little redundant, and he wasn’t really having a good season. He was, after all, hitting just .265/.316/.405 in Fla.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
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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 Nov 11, 2010 9:44 PM PST up reply actions
I understand the reference
And I found the original video funny, but I don’t find the sign all that funny, to be honest.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I mean
if you consider the rest of the video/song, if the Giants were the “rapist”, then they would be “So dumb” and “really dumb” and at risk of being found (paraphrased.) I’m not sure why we would want that for the Giants.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
wait...we did have this discussion about this photo!
I remember now. Sorry, a co worker emailed this to me recently. I thought i recognized it. But I now remember the discussion regarding this. and yes the video is funny. But I agree rape is not an appropriate way to exaggerate domination in any sport. Did anyone bring up as to what the little logo is on the sign.
Yeah.
The actual video was amusing because, you know, it actually had elements of sexual assault. Taking that out of context is significantly less amusing.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
i think were forgetting that Antoine is really why that video is funny at all...
and you can run and tel dat
Shift A
The one hit losses were horrible, the Eckstein Walk off HR should be on here, and what about the Star Wars game?
That loss sent this site into a funk it took like two days to get out of.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, he's like Aubrey Huff, but can't hit as well or field his position.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s ---
Bochy: WHO GIVES A SHIT? IT'S WHATEVER I SAY IT IS BECAUSE I WON A WORLD SERIES.
God, I hate David Eckstein. Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat screaming his name.
snore snore snore jumps up
EEEEEEEEEECKSSSSSTTTTTTEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS: WORLD CHAMPIONS!
Touchdown Forty Niners!
Giants Baseball: Torture. It hurts so good.
and Im sorry... I know he's a scrappy little slugger....
but I cant stand his little dance at the plate.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS: WORLD CHAMPIONS!
Touchdown Forty Niners!
Giants Baseball: Torture. It hurts so good.
Shift-A
“Defenestration of the soul.”
Best turn of phrase ever.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
I was at #1 and #4.
- was torture because I had a 50 mile running race the next morning in the East Bay. I did not sleep well! It sucked because I took 5 other people to the game, including the pastor who married my wife and I a little over a year ago to his first ever Giants playoff game.
- was horrible because I was so sure Cain would get it done, I got the party started before coming to the park with two Double Jacks on the rocks at O’Neils and a Bud Light pre-game at the yard. Instead of ending up in a gutter with a smile on my face, I was just another depressed fan tossing my rally towel in the street.
I’m sure happy for the Giants I didn’t end up at any of the World Series games considering I was also at Game 5 of the NLCS.
4 was awful! I was at a costco picking up pizza for a game...
and a Giant fan who worked their asked me if Cain was gonna take care of business. and i told him Hell yah, its his birhday! we had this loud conversation in front of a bunch of people decked in padre gear standing at the check out ( i live in southern california). And as i was rushing home to get to the game I was tempted to not turn on the radio because i had the game recording. I gave into temptation and when i turned on the radio Gonzales homered off Cain. When I turned on the TV when i got home… Stairs home run ball was in flight.
Ugh...why did it have to be Game 2 of the NLDS?
That happened to be the only playoff game I made it to this year. Thanks Rick Ankiel!
"Yes, my cousin is, ummm, Eliezer Alfonzo" - my response to Dodger Stadium security
rawr trex
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
We still have our WS Game 6 tickets laying around here somewhere. I wonder if I could sell them on Ebay….
probably get 50-100 bucks from someone who wants to frame it or something.
its worth your ten seconds to look it up
by giant4life83 on Nov 12, 2010 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
the Chronicle
was selling ticket frames which were kind of cool, with pictures and a space for the ticket to fit in. A nice little reminder of stress foregone.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 12, 2010 5:50 PM PST up reply actions
I am totally enjoying re-reading the Star Wars thread.
Man Luke will you be rethinking how cool you are when you find out some more geneology
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)…Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
#2 in Fanshots
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 May 22, 2010 4:19 PM PDT reply actions
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, he's like Aubrey Huff, but can't hit as well or field his position.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s ---
Bochy: WHO GIVES A SHIT? IT'S WHATEVER I SAY IT IS BECAUSE I WON A WORLD SERIES.
OT: The Margaret Schroder chick on Boardwalk Empire...
has an awesome accent. I love the way she says…. “Meester Nochy Thompsun”
is the widow the mistress? (Margaret Schroder)?
I think the flapper chick (Nucky’s lover) is funny they way she talks like shes in Marylin Monroe “boop bee doop mista president” mode the whole time. The detective guy Nelson CREEPS ME THE F**K OUT! I find it a fun watch.
So, you don’t like the show solely because one of the actresses on it is unattractive?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
To be fair, she is naked on the show very very often.
To also be fair, it is absurd to find her unattractive.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
She is attractive, and I find her character hilarious. And this show
has LOTS of gratuitous nudity. Kind of like HBO gives them a nudity quota.
Science OT: We can all sleep a little easier tonight
US researchers on Thursday unveiled the secret of how cats lap water or milk with such elegance, a phenomenon that happens so fast it cannot be followed by human eyes.
Cats are among the many species that, unlike humans, cannot close their mouths and create suction.
With help from from high-speed video taken of a felines lapping liquid, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Princeton University found that household cats and larger felines like tigers balance gravity and inertia as they imbibe liquids.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101111/sc_afp/usscienceresearchanimalcat_20101111202537
Best part about this link
the yahoo comment board. I’m on page 15 and i cant stop!
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Nov 11, 2010 11:12 PM PST up reply actions
Obama created cats to turn this country into a socialist haven! Obama hates dogs and thus is un-American
From the Great Mind of "Juan"
Got p u s sy ;]
note the spaces in between the naughty word as to really stick it to the Gov’t’s neo-communist regime
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Nov 11, 2010 11:18 PM PST up reply actions
not to mention fluid dynamics
And the worst part, those fukin’ douchenozzles over at the MCC get to lord this over us.
Looked for the Cain part in Moneyball again
“The Giants won’t take McCurdy, right?” says Billy. The San Francisco Giants had the twenty-fifth pick, the only pick between the A’s next two. “Take Blanton with 24 and McCurdy with 26.”
“Swisher and Blanton and McCurdy,” says Erik “This is unfair.” He clicks the button on the speakerphone, and his voice shaking like a man calling in to say he holds the winning Lotto ticket, takes Blanton with the twenty-fourth pick, pauses while the Giants make their pick, then takes McCurdy with the twenty-sixth.
The thing is, it happened.
Did somebody call for Cain?
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
It amuses me how little the A’s got out of that draft.
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!
And this amuses me on Wikipedia:
Jeremy made his Major League debut on September 3, 2006, against the Baltimore Orioles. He had 3 hits in 10 AB, including two doubles, and a .364 OBP in the Major Leagues for the 2006 season.
I love that someone felt the need to list his OBP for the season. In 11 PA.
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!
it's going to be a real exciting movie
A couple of friends went over to the Colosseum as extras for the crowd shots and they said several different scenes were shot, including “the big dramatic part where they get the big hit and win the big game”. Don’t really remember that chapter.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 12, 2010 5:42 AM PST up reply actions
They’re depicting the Coliseum as having fans in it!?
Definitely a heavily fictionalized movie.
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!
I’m guessing the “big hit” in the “big game” was the 20th consecutive victory.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 12, 2010 9:27 AM PST up reply actions
could be
although “big game” is a bit of a stretch…
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 12, 2010 9:29 AM PST up reply actions
Seeing as they failed to win a World Series that decade, I’m going with the big 20 games in a row.
And I seem to remember seeing a trailer for the movie that made mention of the 20 game streak…and lord knows A’s management are rightly proud of it.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Nov 12, 2010 9:32 AM PST up reply actions
"based on a true story..."
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 12, 2010 5:52 PM PST up reply actions
They got two legit MLB quality players in the first round
That ain’t bad.
My Son
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
That’s pretty damn good. Swisher is good. Blanton not as much, but still, better than most 24th picks turn out. No Matt Cain, certainly, but whatever.
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 Nov 12, 2010 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, it just seems like little in comparison to the hype the draft got as a result of the Moneyball coverage.
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!
especially when they are both playing elsewhere and have been for years
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Nov 12, 2010 5:51 PM PST up reply actions
lol
OMG MCCURDY!!!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I forgot how hilarious this is
HIS VOICE WAS SHAKING!!!!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Don’t do that. That sounds painful.
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 Nov 12, 2010 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Cherrio Chaps
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Jolly good day to you too, old chaps.
Care for a spot of tea and biscuits? Or maybe some spotted dick?
Warning, angry Giants fan on the loose.
I think the two that hurt me most were 7 and 1
I remember walking outside and just falling in the grass after the Colorado game. It felt like the same things were just bound to happen to us again and again. We were so close to taking 2 out of 3 in Denver and then, poof, it seemed gone. And then Matt Cain happened. I think that was one of the most underrated games of the season. He just went out and dominated and to me, saved our chances. That felt like the biggest win of the season to my dad and I. And then of course, Dirty and his gem in game 3 followed by the blunders of a second baseman. The recovery wins we had this year were just so great. God, I love this season so much. It was worth all my time. San Fransisco Giants, 2010 World Series Champions!
Thank you and good morning to you. By the way...
the San Francisco Giants are 2010 World Series Champions
Staunch Defender of Cake
Purple Row is not going to be happy about this
According to a source, the Yankees have expressed interest in lefthander Jorge de la Rosa, considered by many to be one of the top free-agent pitchers available after Lee.
Wow
They weren’t kidding when they said there was a big dropoff.
This would be the same Jorge de la Rosa with a 5.02 career ERA and 1.5 WHIP? An 8.0 K/9 to go with a 4.5 BB/9?
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Nov 12, 2010 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
#5 and #7 - effing Rockies
While I think #7 was the worst (regular season) loss; I have a bone of contention with you Grant as to your characterization of game #5.
As I recall, Ross was a defensive replacement in RF, after only recently being acquired from the Marlins. Our RF is, of course, a tricky one, and the contention against Ross being in was that he was unfamiliar with the RF (at that point). In my humble opinion, the defensive switch should have been made to put Schierholtz in instead of Ross, thus having a more experienced RF in the game, and not someone just learning the lay of the land.
In fact, my opinion of Cody Ross, as a horrible horrible person (because of this miss-play) did not change until he launched Roy Halladay in the NLCS (he had me w/ the first one).
[site decorum]
somewhere is there is a loss that caused Bochy to stop using Rowand? and one that caused Bengie to be traded?
if so, those losses also did not keep the Giants from winning the 2010 World Series.
And the worst part, those fukin’ douchenozzles over at the MCC get to lord this over us.
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