Underappreciated Giants: Volume Six
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 20, 2010 3:43 PM PST
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PrintTo the grizzled Giants lifers, it’s pretty freaky that both Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum came up from the minors – within two seasons of each other, mind you – and pitched well right away. There was no lost season, no gruesome adjustment period. They came up, got restaurant tips from the concierge, and started to make NL batters look silly in the same afternoon they arrived. That is not what old-timey Giants fans expect out of their pitching prospects.
(Side note: Another thing the old-timey fans didn’t expect was a World Series championship. But the Giants won their first title since moving to San Francisco, defeating the Texas Rangers four games to one, and completing the World Series victory with a win in Game Five on November 1st, 2010.)
It wasn’t always like that. It probably won’t be like that again. The Giants have a long history of pitching prospects who came up with a bunch of hype but ended up being a tick above average, or who lived up to the hype before succumbing to injuries, or who came out of the gates quickly only to slide into mediocrity. You know, the Giants and 29 other teams. But it always felt like it was only the Giants who were waiting patiently for a homegrown ace that would never come.
Scott Garrelts had as good of an arm as any of them. He was a first-round pick and a strikeout machine – in a league with a 5.5 K/9 ratio, Garrelts averaged over a strikeout per inning in his first full major league season. As an 18-year-old in the Midwest League, he only allowed two home runs in 176 innings, a testament to the heavy, natural moment on his sinker. Sure, he also walked 149 hitters in those 176 innings, but…
…
Good gravy. One-hundred-and-forty-nine walks. I’m assuming he threw 150 pitches every start. And yet somehow, he blew out his arm. Crazy.
Garrelts actually ironed out his control problems pretty quickly in the majors. He went from a 22-year-old who walked 7.1 batters for every nine innings to a 24-year-old who walked 3.8 batters for every nine. And when Garrelts led the National League in ERA, picking up a couple Cy Young votes along the way, his BB/9 was downright impressive at 2.1. He was one of Roger Craig's split-finger proteges, and in ’89 the Giants won the pennant, and Garrelts was one of the brightest young pitchers in baseball. Heck, just listen to Brett Butler:
(The Giants and the Cubs have) two solid stoppers: Steve Bedrosian for us and Mitch Williams for them. We each have a crafty veteran in Rick Reuschel and Rick Sutcliffe. We also have up-and-coming young pitchers in Greg Maddux and Scott Garrelts.
I didn’t run the WAR numbers, but I think Maddux had the better career. Still, did Maddux ever lead the National League in ERA? Well, sure, he did it four times, but did he ever do it in the ‘80s? Exactly.
In 1990, Garrelts was ineffective as his strikeout rate plummeted, though he did have flashes of his old dominance. In 1991, he pitched the last 20 innings of his major league career. He stuck around for another three or four years, pitching in the minors and trying to get healthy.
So here’s to Scott Garrelts. He had limitless potential, but he probably suffered from a workload that today’s teenagers wouldn’t dream of. And he wasn’t just unrealized potential – he did lead the league in ERA in a pennant-winning season, after all. Scott Garrelts: good Giant. Underappreciated Giant.
Though, really, all I wanted was an excuse to post this:
It’s like the start of a crappy time-travel movie. The protagonist rummages through a drawer at his parent’s house, only to find a picture of him with himself as a child! He can’t fathom what it means, until he’s visited by a sexy-yet-deadly NSA agent, who brings more questions than answers…. "Blade Runner" meets "Shawshank Redemption," and I hear that Chazz Palminteri is very interested for the part of Manny Trillo.
If you are sick enough to be interested in the rest of this series, you can find the first five installments here.
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My book is a ranking of good Giants pitchers since 1883.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Being left-handed, Shawn Estes was my favorite as a kid.
Before that, Bud Black was my favorite pitcher because he was the first player alphabetically in my stack of Giants baseball cards. Which goes to show you my baseball awareness at that age.
Still, Shawn was awesome while he lasted.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Shawn was awesomely Shawn during his appearances in the postgame shows in October. But then, I have a thing for handsome arrogant jackasses.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Apropos of nothing, that is a really good picture of Nate.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
Well, the hat covers his bald head.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Dec 20, 2010 5:44 PM PST up reply actions
Aw. Don’t make fun of Nate’s head. He can’t help it.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
It’s supposed to be a sign of virility.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 6:19 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, you can have the virility. I just think the baldness detracts from his otherwise sexy appearance.
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 Dec 20, 2010 6:25 PM PST up reply actions
RAMPANT FOLLICLISM!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 6:30 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve been thinking about that, and I decided I shouldn’t be that shallow. After all, it could very well be me in a few years, and it would be hypocritical of me to criticize his appearance.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
Nate is selfish, he is wrong
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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by Gobroks on Dec 21, 2010 7:13 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Little known fact:
Estes gave up the 1st ever splash hit to one Barry Bonds.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
That seems very unlikely
as Estes was a Giant through 2001.
"Just another ahahahaha... laugher."
Free AnVil!
Yeah, I had to look it up, too.
Bgunn was right in that it was a former Giant, Rich Rodriguez.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
Very first splash hit
But who was the Yankee who gave one up to Bonds in the pre-season?
I was at both games, but frankly I don’t remember. Posada (or some other Yankee) hit one later in the game.
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by achiappanza on Dec 21, 2010 12:04 AM PST up reply actions
Golf clap. Jim Poole, not an appreciated Giant. At all. Just thinking about him upset my stomach.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
It was during batting practice.
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The day they broke ground on the stadium, Estes pitched to Bonds atop the old wearhouse that then stood @ 3rd and King. After about a dozen pitches, Barry hit one into what would become McCovey Cove.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
List of splash hits:
http://mlb.mlb.com/sf/ballpark/information/index.jsp?content=splash
"Just another ahahahaha... laugher."
Free AnVil!
That list tells us
That Estes gave up the SECOND splash hit to an opposing player.
It wuz Gonzo.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I mentioned it.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 6:08 PM PST up reply actions
60 plus homers out of nowhere, yet is never mentioned in any steroid conversatiosn, why?
/Roger Maris’d
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I keep wanting to say that hitting 22% of your career home runs in one season is a weird thing, but it’s probably extremely common (particularly for those whose careers span somewhere around five full seasons).
Although, it might be weirder for somebody who played 12 years. Like Maris did.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 8:54 PM PST up reply actions
he never looked that strong for some reason
maybe he took roids but didn’t actually work out much?
by repeat_in_2011 on Dec 20, 2010 8:29 PM PST up reply actions
his arms were frightening
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!
Also: Rumors that steroids turn you into Lou Ferrigno are greatly exaggerated.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 8:47 PM PST up reply actions
but look what steroids did to him
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
that's anger
Nature’s steroid! That and gamma rays.
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:26 AM PST up reply actions
They turn you into the Ultimate Warrior
Kruk: "and the Giants, the San Francisco Giants…"
Kuip: "They got one…"
Kruk: "World Champs."
- November 1, 2010
*shakes ropes*
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
A far-right nut job?
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
/teases hair
/cranks some Poison
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Wow . . .
I was about to jump in with some good stats re statistical anomalies, how Davey Johnson hit 43 in 1973, more than he had hit in the prior four seasons combined, etc. etc. And so maybe it’s just random chance . . . and then THOSE ARMS. Wow.
by NiceGuysFinishEtc on Dec 21, 2010 8:46 AM PST up reply actions
It also says that Rick Ankiel hit one last year? I don’t remember. I wonder if there’s video of it.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 20, 2010 4:21 PM PST up reply actions
That was TBS
Whatever, they both sucked
I don't have a very high opinion of southern California, in sports or in general
by short_shifter on Dec 20, 2010 4:23 PM PST up reply actions
Ankiel joins Werth in the Nats outfield.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 8:46 PM PST up reply actions
Dayton Moore must be confused
I bet he really wanted an outfield composed only of former Braves. Melky, Frenchy, and Ankiel…y.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
for some reason...
this confuses me:
10 Felipe Crespo 5/28/01 Arizona Diamondbacks Bret Prinz
13 Felipe Crespo 7/8/01 Milwaukee Brewers Curtis Leskanic
and this:
47 John Bowker 7/2/08 Chicago Cubs Ryan Dempster
For a while it was Barry Bonds and Felipe Crespo all alone.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Bonds and Crespo, sittin’ in a tree…
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
Worst slashfic ever.
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It got Crespo sent to Japan...
…true story!
/or not.
I really liked watching Crespo play.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Dec 20, 2010 5:00 PM PST up reply actions
I didn't realize
that Pablo has the second most splash hits.
"Just another ahahahaha... laugher."
Free AnVil!
Glad to see only 1 AL player on this list. It still brings back waves of nausea to see Ankiel on here....until I remember the Giants won the WORLD SERIES.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 8:30 PM PST up reply actions
It wasn’t a game. For the groundbreaking of the eventual ballpark, Estes and Bonds stood atop an abandoned building at 3rd and King, Estes threw Bonds a fat pitch and Bonds parked it into what would become known as McCovey Cove.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
that for real? Bonds hit it off the top of an abandoned building at 3rd and King into the Cove?
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 4:52 PM PST up reply actions
i wish i had video of that. hitting a ball off the top of a building would make it fly so much farther, probably 500+ feet, because of the height distance too
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 4:57 PM PST up reply actions
/is shocked that people don’t remember this
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
AT&T Park wasn’t always there? WHHAAAAAT?
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
Dude, there was a freeway at the Embarcadero. And one in the middle of the city. And no skyscrapers south of Mission.
And this was just, like twenty years ago.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Not quite 20 years ago but
I remember when Market Street had an Emporium Capwell and Woolworth’s almost opposite each other, and a Planet Hollywood on the corner of Stockton, close to FAO Schwarz. The Main Library was in what is now the Asian Art Museum. I craved the furniture at Fillamento, but ended up buying at Busvan. And my first job in The City was as a bookseller at A Clean Well-Lighted Place.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
/weeps for lost city of my early college days
Oh, Virgin Megastore, I remember when you opened, and when you had a big jazz section and a snooty cafe.
All that said, GOD the ballpark is the most awesome new building in SF in like, EVER. Although the new deYoung is cool and I do like the remodeled Academy of Science. And I love walking through the Ferry Building.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Remember when
Yeah, I remember the Virgin opening. Not the first listening stations I saw, but the coolest, built in to the pillars and all.
I went on a Cheap Suit Santas outing with the Cacophony Society and we rampaged through that old Planet Hollywood. Ah, those were the days.
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
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by achiappanza on Dec 21, 2010 12:08 AM PST up reply actions
LOLD
I’m glad Books Inc. took over ACWLP rather than the location closing, but it was a cooler store.
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:33 AM PST up reply actions
I remember when any book tour in the Bay Area had to make three or four stops: Book Passage in Corte Madera, ACWLP in San Francisco, Kepler’s in Menlo Park and Cody’s in Berkeley. Sad to think that of those four, only Book Passage hasn’t closed or come close to closing.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
man
I still get mad at Cody’s for opening that store on Powell or wherever it was that they closed a year later. I think that was the end.
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 Dec 21, 2010 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
It’s weird looking at photos of the old Embarcadero freeway, something I vaguely remember from my childhood.
It really was an ugly thing. Getting rid of it was one good thing that came out of the ’89 quake.
I still miss the Broadway offramp, gateway to so many youthful misadventures.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 10:02 AM PST up reply actions
I was three years old and fanatical in ‘89, but I don’t remember Scott Garrelts at all. :( Here’s to you, Scott.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 20, 2010 3:48 PM PST reply actions
I was at G2 of the '89 WS which I believe Garrelts was on the losing end to Mike Moore 5-0. Out of baseball a few years later.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 8:49 PM PST up reply actions
I was 17, and I remember...
…mostly because my mom kept calling him GAR-letts.
First Giants game I can ever remember attending Scott Garrelts pitched in it. He pitched against the Pittsburgh Pirates and gave up a home run to Bonds. Sadly, I’ve been hooked to the Giants since.
"That's like Swede on Swede violence."-Randy Hahn
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
Scott Garrelts
I only remember you as a player in RBI Baseball 2.
Kruk: "and the Giants, the San Francisco Giants…"
Kuip: "They got one…"
Kruk: "World Champs."
- November 1, 2010
What ever happened to the rest of your prospect list from last year, Grant?
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Saved for days I got nothin’ else. When I find a picture with me and Scotty Garrelts, plans change.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 20, 2010 4:17 PM PST up reply actions
Ok, that was close to "nothing else"
"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 Dec 20, 2010 8:50 PM PST up reply actions
It was a picture of me with Scott Garrelts. What did you want me to do, not break the story?
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 20, 2010 9:17 PM PST up reply actions
Some of us are in to family stuff
Loved the picture. The Giants got tradition and got family. In a media world in which family doesn’t figure too big the Giants have gone the whole other direction.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
you will get Fontenot and like it.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Just to insult him again with money.
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 Dec 20, 2010 3:56 PM PST up reply actions
Aw yeah baby
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
She must have taken a test-drive before buying.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Ryan Theriot who was in the wedding party (old LSU buddy0
swore on an ESPN radio show that for a wedding present he gave them a waterproof mattress cover. He said Mike didn’t think it was funny.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
He was ragging on the venue as well on XM. He said why hold a wedding in Florida if it’s not going to be on the beach?
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
/Fontenot shows Theriot his World Series ring
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
That wedding happened just recently right?
I remember seeing an interview with Fontenot right after the Series where he said he could put all of his attention into his wedding now.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
So much cute!
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
Also
Very considerate of the Mrs. to wear flats so that Mikey could be taller.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
What happens if I don't like Grant?
"That's like Swede on Swede violence."-Randy Hahn
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
THIS IS NOT A CHOICE
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
That's what I thought
"That's like Swede on Swede violence."-Randy Hahn
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants
/Would rather have Fontenot than Renteria
/is probably in the minority.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I want to be the minority
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I WALK A LONELY ROAD
THE ONLY ONE THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWN
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
There was a time when Green Day sang songs about things that give youth angst, like masturbating constantly. Now, they sing songs about things that they think give youth angst, like being angsty.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 8:57 PM PST up reply actions
I saw American Idiot when it was at Berkeley Rep. The only thing that could further compound the wangst of their stuff from 21st Century Breakdown was having it sung by 30-somethings pretending to be 19. Ugh.
I enjoyed the album of American Idiot, but that show… was a mistake.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I want to see it on broadway. It has Stark Sands. Who, by the way, is playing Buster Posey in the movie.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 20, 2010 10:03 PM PST up reply actions
There’s really no reason to see it. The orchestrations are uninspired. The harmonies are generic and repetitive. The story is poorly conceived and poorly told. They even play the tracks from the albums in order. If you have the two CDs, you’re better off listening to them in succession and using your imagination. Lord knows that Michael Mayer didn’t.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I saw it on Broadway this summer. It wasn’t exactly high theater, but it was fun. On the other hand, seeing how expensive tickets can get…I’m not sure its worth the money.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
When it’s cheaper to go to Yankee Stadium than it is to sit in the balcony for Phantom of the Opera, it doesn’t take me long to decide. And I love Broadway, just not at $75-100 per.
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:36 AM PST up reply actions
Mary Faber, too, who we saw last as Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q. She’s really good.
That said I’d rather see Rock of Ages if I want a mindless celebration of rock music.
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:35 AM PST up reply actions
American Idiot is an album that can be defended. It’s really not bad.
21st Century Breakdown is really pretty awful, though.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:17 AM PST up reply actions
The stage production, though, I don’t even know.
Placeholder.
by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
I really liked American Idiot the album.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
I must be one of the few people
Who is extremely enamored with both old AND new Green Day. Most people seem divided into camps.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I wouldn’t say I’m a fan, in the sense that I listen to all the albums and know stuff about them and the background of the lyrics. But I do like “singles”, either radio-chosen or ones I pick myself.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I prefer their newer stuff. Back when they were angsty young men… I wasn’t. Then they became irritated at society old coots… now that I can relate to.
I don't think they were really ever ANGSTY young men
If anything, they’ve only become angsty recently. Before, they were punks.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I think they used to have angst… just, it was actually about stuff, like sexual frustration or double standards applied to youth or the death of a close friend. The angst on their more recent records is for angst’s sake, and that’s where I break from it.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:27 PM PST up reply actions
Favorite Green Day song?
Mine is When I Come Around.
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It would have to be She
Just really because of the intro bass line.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
And now I have it in my head.
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She is pretty awesome, but it doesn’t make my “top” list because I can never get over the silliness of “the brick of self-control”.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:39 PM PST up reply actions
That's what I love about early green day
They had the whole shitty-skater-kid vibe with the spiked hair and the punk attitudes, but they could also kick out a song like ‘When I Come Around’, which just has so much awesome in it.
You may find out that your self doubt means nothing was ever there, you can’t go forcing something if it’s just not right.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Back when they were still in high school, my music nerd friends who had heard them said, “they’re these kids from Pinole who do the whole Gilman Street punk look.. but write good songs.” True from the very first: 1,000 Hours is great, even if the sound is cheap and thin.
My all-time most listened to song by Green Day
Is ‘16’, off their first album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51TJhCMRJYo
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Oh, for no good reason that reminded me how much I love Android. Put that right up with the others.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
Probably Misery, because that’s a pretty badass song.
In terms of sheer nostalgic pleasure, though, probably either Basket Case or 2000 Light Years Away.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:38 PM PST up reply actions
They are actually fucking awesome live as well
There are some bands who you love but who just can’t pull shit off live (Blink-182 is a good example for me).
But Green Day sounds perfect live. It might be a product of all their songs being intentionally relatively simple to perform, but Billy Joe is a great singer and sounds even better live than on the album.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yeah, they’re really good live.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
this is something I really appreciate in bands — the ability to perform live really well and as good or better than on recording.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
The live album slash concert video they put out a little while ago
Bullet in a Bible. Phenomenal.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
What I really love are bands who not only play well, but understand that playing live and recording are fundamentally different. The canonical pop act who got this for me were Blur, whose live shows, pre superduperstardom, were @#$%! epic. They played their pop songs, but with an over-the-top, blood-on-the-stage desperation that really suits live rock and/or roll performance. In other genres, Lee Hazlewood, Don & Dewey (all three RIP, alas) and John Darnielle really delivered for me.
John Darnielle is such a great performer
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Doing a live music TV show, one of the biggest surprises was how great Ron Thompson and the Resistors were live.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 2:42 PM PST up reply actions
This is probably #2 for me.
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You don’t think it’s more socio-political angst now? I mean, whatever you may think of American Idiot, it is about something (in that kind of vague, nebulous way that rock concept albums are about something).
I think the socio-political stuff is separate from the angst, actually.
I WALK A LONELY ROAD THE ONLY ROAD THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWN…
… is just angst.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:51 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe. But if you’ve ever had the feeling that you are surrounded by incompetent bumbling idiots, and that most of them are in some way shape or form creating policy and/or running the country… and you are one of the few people that can see that their shit isn’t working… then it does sort of take on a socio-political overtone.
I mean, I understand what you’re saying. I just really buy it. I’m not really going to go into a line-by-line reading of the entire album, but I think that for most of the album you can draw a pretty clear line between “whiny angst” and “socio-political commentary”. Boulevard of Broken Dreams is just one of them. The song is all self-absorbed angst. The title track is sort of the polar opposite of that song. The song American Idiot is almost pure scathing commentary, with no angst to speak of.
Both aspects are definitely large aspects of the entire album, but I just don’t see them as being married within it.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 2:27 PM PST up reply actions
I’d say that when a song like “American Idiot” lies side-by-side with a song like “Boulevard,” the meaning of one kind of bleeds into the other. I mean, it’s obvious that Green Day intended the listener to hear the album as a whole, not just as a collection of songs (though it works okay as that too), so the fact that both songs exist within the same album makes the juxtaposition (probably) intentional.
Not that the message is incredibly concrete or nuanced even when you take the album as a whole — after all, it’s still a bombastic rock opera, with all the inherent silliness that comes with such things. But I also don’t think it’s just angst for angst’s sake.
There is nothing wrong with bombastic rock opera!!!!!!!
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Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I have a friend who claims to be writing a rock opera based on the Donner party.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 7:08 PM PST up reply actions
It started out as a seven song album, but it’s down to two now.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
Two delicious, delicious songs.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
But they are old coots!
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Billie Joe seems to have had a portrait done by the House of Dorian Gray, though.
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Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
It’s all the eye shadow.
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I thoroughly enjoyed their work as Foxboro Hottubs.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
I'm not divided
I don’t like either
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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meh
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 21, 2010 1:45 PM PST up reply actions
I think I'd rather trade for Jeff Keppinger of the Astros
He’s supposedly on the block
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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by Gobroks on Dec 20, 2010 4:02 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Is he any good?
All I know is he gets a bunch of hits against the Giants, but I don’t really see him get mentioned anywhere else.
by Ice Watter In His Veins! on Dec 21, 2010 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
Underappreciated . . .
. . . that’s me. Yep, good old gallo del cielo. Easily worth 1.5MM/yr. Even at my age and condition. You just go out and find someone who can do what I do. I don’t need this. I’ll just spend time with the gallinas back home in Arden-Arcade, or where ever it is I live. I can just go back to teaching full time.
Not even a Poster of the Year nomination. I don’t need this. I can go to AN any day. Or GL. I could go purple.
I don’t need this disrespect.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 3:57 PM PST reply actions
/throws some grit for gallo to peck
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
/throws some grit for gallo to peck
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 4:40 PM PST up reply actions
. . . as much as gallo likes grit . . .
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 4:48 PM PST up reply actions
The protagonist rummages through a drawer at his parent’s house, only to find a picture of him with himself as a child!
Is Grant really Scott Garrelts?
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
Grant is Scott Garrelts. Fontenot is Grant. We are all Pedro Feliz.
Where does it end?!
I'm as tall as Mel - why can't I hit 500 home runs?
by Ott on Dec 20, 2010 3:59 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Llamas.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
by Rolfyboy on Dec 20, 2010 4:58 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Shawn Estes was the One. Then he went nuts.
Kurt Ainsworth was the One. I forget what happened to him.
I think I was supposed to think Russ Ortiz was awesome. I never did.
Jesse Foppert!
Jerome Williams!
Believe me, I have been waiting for the One since I have been a baseball fan.
Now … we have Three. The One Who Was, The One Who Is, The One Who Is To Come …
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
The one who was = Tyler Walker
"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 Dec 20, 2010 8:54 PM PST up reply actions
I remember reading that AJ Pierzynski never worked with Jerome Williams
I assume this is why Williams failed
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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by Gobroks on Dec 20, 2010 4:06 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Russ was great in 01
And The One was Jason Schmidt. But he got away slash was hurt.
I hope now that he’s retired they can start bringing Jason back around. Boy he was awesome.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I don’t think that we understand how greateful we should be for the fact that the Dodgers haven’t been dominating the NL West for the past few years. In 2006 the Dodgers had the highest payroll in the NL, and brought up Russell Martin, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, and James Loney; Jonathan Broxton had been brought up the year before; Clayton Kershaw had just been drafted, and was already one of the best pitching prospects in the game.
There was every reason in the world to expect the Dodgers to become the best team in the NL for years to come. Instead, they’ve averaged 85 wins in the last 4 years.
by Cookyman on Dec 20, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
bad karma for being the Dodgers took hold
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 4:53 PM PST up reply actions
Giants clubhouse circa late 2006
Schmidt: Hey Brian…my doc just told me that my arm is shot and I can’t do much for the team. But I really wanted to thank you for getting me out of Pittsburgh…Is there anything I can do for the Giants…
Sabean: Too bad about your arm but you remember Ned right? He’s “leaving” the Giants to go to be the Dodger’s GM….
after Schmidt's last year i didn't even want the Giants to offer $10 mil/season
wasn’t he missing about 5 mph velocity on the FB all of a sudden?
by repeat_in_2011 on Dec 20, 2010 6:03 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, and I think he had stopped throwing all secondary pitchers besides the changeup.
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 21, 2010 4:32 PM PST up reply actions
Sometimes shit happens
And sometimes your GM trades this guy for Casey Blake. (But I agree with your post…the Dodgers should be a much better team.)
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
And don't forget Jason Werth. can't remember exactly when he came up, but you could tell the dude was going to be a freak of nature and prayed the Dodgers would fuck with his career.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 8:57 PM PST up reply actions
I miss Schmidt! He should definitely come wandering through now and again.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
“The road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began … now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow where I can …!”
“You’re late!”
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
A Wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins...
Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
Big Ups to Matt Downs
"He told me he was gonna do it"- Andres Torres
by jdoldham831 on Dec 20, 2010 10:33 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, yeah, I think I was focusing on “homegrown” players mostly. Schmidt came via trade, and became THE RIGHTFUL CY YOUNG OF … whatever year it was he should’ve won.
Oh well. It only made Timmy’s first time so much more special for me.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
“Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people’s needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry.”
Speaking of very sad lives, Ainsworth was traded for Sydney Ponson.
+3 for addressing my B5 reference
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
In Valen’s name, thinking about Foppert, Williams, and Ainsworth makes me sad.
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!
Heavy moment.
"Today I flew the most poorly dressed bad-ass that has ever entered my jet. And he borrowed my pen to do a cross word puzzle." - robotsapproach on Brian Wilson.
Shawn Estes was my first favorite Giant
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
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by Gobroks on Dec 20, 2010 4:03 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Shawn Estes’s curveball will always remain in my memory as the most beautiful pitch I’ve personally seen.
Timmy’s changeup is the most devastating, of course, but for sheer beauty …
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
He had me at "I'm taking this bike for a joyride."
Remember the rumored “Estes for Pettite” trade? I thought that would have been a disaster, but it would have been pretty good.
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
I did a google video search of Atlee Hammaker and came across this video from mlb.com:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=9215981
It’s a video of the first grand slam in All Star history. The description is as follows:
“Angels CF Fred Lynn smacks a grand slam home run off of Atlee Hammaker in the third inning of the 1983 All-Star Game at old Comisky Park”
A sad time in Giants history. The mid-70’s through mid-80’s were the lost years.
I remember that game
I was so excited, so proud to see Atlee pitching in the All Star Game. And it went so wrong…
Yes, but the press said some mighty fine things about Atlee afterwards.
Some of them were surprised he hung around to talk to them, but he manned up big-time and answered every question. I believe he just barely qualified for a pension by signing with the White Sox in ’94.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 20, 2010 6:57 PM PST up reply actions
Atlee was awesome
I feel so bad for him that he’s generally recalled for his exhibition game disaster and not for the greatness before it.
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
You can all breath a sign of relief now...
The Minnesota Vikings activated the 41-year-old QB for Monday’s game against the Chicago Bears and said he would start.
Hopefully this clown will call it quits now.
Total D-bag.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Timmy the subject of a photo book?
This is great:
Lincecum’s humility, per the book, is the genuine article. In the intro by Joan Ryan, is an anecdote about the pitcher heading to the bank. When the teller notices the team logo on Lincecum’s paycheck, she asks him if he works at the ballpark. Yes, he replied. “Oh, that must be fun,” she said. Yes, it is, he notes.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
Also
Wouldn’t his paycheck be huge? And wouldn’t that tip the teller off?
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I mean
Tim made 8 million dollars last year. If he’s getting paid every other week, his paychecks are, like, $300,000 each.
And the teller asks him if he works at the ballpark?
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
“…and can I get the first fifty thousand in 20s, and the rest in hundreds? Thanks.”
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Dec 20, 2010 5:28 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Also
Why doesn’t he hire a monkey butler to run his errands?
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 8:00 PM PST up reply actions
Is this a Professor Elemental reference?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 10:42 PM PST up reply actions
And yet Professor Elemental has a monkey butler.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 8:23 AM PST up reply actions
It’s not like monkey butlers have to be a reference to only one thing. That would be crazy. Monkey butlers are a long and storied tradition.
by Monkeyking42 on Dec 21, 2010 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
I find I must concede this point… I’ve just been on a bit of a chap-hop kick lately.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
And what’s the deal with airplane peanuts!?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Wow
An ancient Ellen cite. Impressive.
“You ever see someone singing in the car next to you and you try to find the station they’re singing along with?”
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
I was just twittering last night about this
Some lady got in front of me at the grocery store in the 10 items or less line, and she had at least 13 things. And she was so fucking slow. Then she paid with a $100 bill for her $16 worth of groceries.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 8:02 PM PST up reply actions
SHE WAS A CHEAP LADY
Actually, I might have read it wrong and that was her change. It was one of those organic/locavore markets, but she was just buying a bunch of vegetables. They can’t have cost 83 dollars, right?
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 8:16 PM PST up reply actions
Lots of different veggies
a $1 can of tomato sauce
$1 package of pasta
/just ate this
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
the cashiers are so F'ing slooow these days
that a customer with 13 items in the 10 or less line is the least of the problems…damn Dollar Tree is the worst….they act like they’re working for the post office or the dmv…
by repeat_in_2011 on Dec 20, 2010 8:35 PM PST up reply actions
My mom.
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I am pretty sure they all get per diem
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Dec 20, 2010 5:12 PM PST up reply actions
I do!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
"That is not what old-timey Giants fans expect out of their pitching prospects."
Mr. Grant, old-timery here, you have a call on line 1 from a Mr. J Marichal
Well, that’s just too old. This isn’t a democracy, you know.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 20, 2010 4:17 PM PST up reply actions
Was in the 8th grade...
and was listening to the game that night. Marichal was just called up and first start on the road at philadelphia. Dude had a no-hitter into the seventh and gave up a pinch hit single to Clay Dalrimple (spell?). Went on to complete the shutout. Kind of set a high bar for future pitching prospect expectations! But hell I’m real big on #55, but even bigger on our Bearded Closer. A team can’t do shit without a good closer anymore. Anyone remember Stu Miller?
Back then closers were last 3 innings guys, if the starter got gassed.
Stu was known for throwing three pitches, slow, slower, and slowest. When asked about his pitches from reporters he would tell them that he had a pretty good fast ball, but they and us fans knew that was just a rumor. Stu made national attention when he was blown off the mound during an all star game hosted from Candlestick! Yes, they called it a balk.
Was he actually blown off the mound, though?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Yes he was
Candlestick was a wind tunnel and it was really blowing that night. It was a baseball scandal and the ’Stick’s vile reputation was nationwide after that.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Yes
I mean he didn’t fall down on his ass, but it did blow him off balance enough that he staggered and stumbled towards first base side.
Upon researching it appears that while a balk was called
His feet didn’t actually leave the rubber, but rather he ‘wavered’ 3 or 4 inches according to several sources, including quotes by miller himself. Still ’Stick stores can be a lot of fun in the retelling.
Thanks for the correction, Lefty. It remains a popular and attractive exaggeration of the real event, which I remember hearing on the radio. “Blown off balance” is accurate. And it could have happened to even a big man pausing in the stretch. The wind could come from any direction at any time. A wind-up (no pun intended) at least granted momentum toward home.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 10:25 PM PST up reply actions
Little Stu
I used to love that he didn’t just get people out most of the time but that he made the biggest hitters look so out of whack and ridiculous.
by NearestNorwich on Dec 21, 2010 6:22 AM PST up reply actions
I recall a funny news article at the time..
The Dodgers had a real awesome home run hitter named Frank Howard (382 lifetime HRs) that while having a clank for a glove was used a lot as a PH in late innings. Stu really could make him look silly at the plate. Seems one night game in late innings there came a pinch hitting opportunity and Howard stood up in the dugout and started to loosen up. Seeing this Stu out in the bullpen just slowly stood up and started to unzip his jacket and Howard upon seeing that just quietly sat back down.
by Leftyretro on Dec 21, 2010 8:54 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Frank "Hondo" Howard is one of my heroes.
He was a Washington Senator and had the most power of any ballplayer of that era. Truly a wonderful guy (called the Gentle Giant by reporters) and one of the nicest people in baseball. Became a coach and a manager, now retired. I have a poster of him, signed, in my baseball room.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 21, 2010 12:57 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve also heard the Gentle Giant stuff. Being from here, he makes a lot of appearances at Triple-A Columbus games, and everyone who encounters him loves him.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Columbus
Wait, are you a giants fan that lives in Columbus, Ohio? I thought I was the only one.
There are discussions about stuff in Columbus here at least once a week.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I think it’s mostly because of Pika.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Everything that happens on this blog is because of him.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
According to facebook, he is in the Tulsa area.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
He said he had some blizzard issues…
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 1:39 PM PST up reply actions
/shudder
blue wang.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
OT:my wife picked up dragon age for xbox 360 at target for $7...
cant wait to play it…cant open it yet, its a stocking stuffer. anyone here play it?
Holy crap, 7 bucks?
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my buddy had Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (the brand new one) and we played it for hours and hours a few weeks ago.
dope game. i was getting good at the new Halo too. the only reason i dont own an xbox or ps3 is because i would never stop playing. its like an addiction
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Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
dude its crazy. the cops drop spike strips, the helicopters drop strips, EMP pulses, massive roadblocks.
that said, we beat the game in 12 hours but couldnt get past a couple of the Hot Pursuits because the our cars would eventually get wrecked (crazy cops ramming our cars and shit)
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
I played the PC version. It was good, then I couldn’t beat some warlock or ogre or some crap, so I stopped playing it. That’s kind of the story of my gaming post-baby. The only games I’ve completed in the past two years are Shadow Complex and God of War III, though I’ve started dozens.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 20, 2010 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
we havent had kids yet, but i must say i find it difficult having both the time and sometimes patience to complete games. The last one i completed was mass effect two. ( i dont count finishing the single player campaigns on the big budget FPS shooters)
When the kids come you'll really suffer
a six year old will beat you every time.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
It really, really is.
I just realized that my problem is with open-ended games like Fallout 3 or Red Dead Redemption is that I do every freaking side quest I can because I feel like I’m going to miss out on the coolest thing ever if I don’t. I have no idea what the coolest thing ever would be (a black chocobo?) but I’m scared I’ll miss it. It’s stupid, but I think that’s why I like linear games like GOW and Shadow Complex.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 20, 2010 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
Same here. Real life is full of choices and uncertainly—-video games shouldn’t have to be that way.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I also don’t like the move of everything to a first person shooter…I really loved the third person prospective in Fallout 2…
Seriously. Bring back the tank controls in resident evil
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Ted Williams: .406 1941
Gary Brown: .438 2010
by operation carrot on Dec 20, 2010 5:10 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
i ended up playing through it like 4 times
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
That’s what I do too.
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I ruined the Romance story in Mass Effect 2, when I got lazy and skipped through the dialogue. i Pissed off Miranda and she wanted nothing to do with me after. No future decision could change it, it was one of those pivotal decisions that change the outcome. I didn’t want to play after that. I thought my wife was hard to get!
Just shack up with Tali instead
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 8:06 PM PST up reply actions
Ugh
this is my problem, and I am playing Epic Mickey, and so when I miss something I start to freak out about it. It looks like I will be able to go back to places later, but still. WHAT IF I CAN’T?
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
I was thinking of getting Epic Mickey, but I hear it has problems with fuckcamera, and nothing pisses me off more in a game than fuckcamera.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 8:59 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, the camera has been causing me some problems
Right now I would say it is not a must get. I don’t even know how far I am, but some of the gameplay is VERY repetitive, and at times even a little boring.
The level design is GORGEOUS. Absolutely amazing. I just played a pretty awesome boss battle. The story so far seems pretty good, and it is making me feel terrible about forgotten cartoon characters.
I am enjoying it though. There are the awesome 2Dish side scrolling sections that I really wish were a bigger part of the game. Each one is based on an old Disney cartoon. They are amazing.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
I hope they have one for the 1946 Disney animated classic The Story of Menstruation.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 9:06 PM PST up reply actions
What about 1953's "mommy, what is that hanging between daddy's legs?"
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
The difference is that mine is real, and I’m pretty sure yours is not.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 9:08 PM PST up reply actions
Black chocobo
I’ve got one in Final Fantasy XI. It was okay, until I saw the red ones.
San Francisco Giants ***GLORY ACHIEVED 11/01/10***
I recently got back into video games
And I bought MLB 2K10. I don’t know why I bought it though, because I only used to play in order to stack the Giants with superstars and win the world series every year, but THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES IN 2010 so I have nothing left to play for.
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
Have the Giants play against the new Phillies team with Cliff Lee. It could be boring because didn't the Giants beat Lee twice? Now WITH Lee, MLB 2K10 would have the Giants SWEEPING the Phillies.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:09 PM PST up reply actions
$7? make sure the wife picked up the xbox version and not intellivision.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:05 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve thought about getting this, it seems worth 7 dollars.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 21, 2010 2:30 AM PST up reply actions
Looking forward to tonights football game
i love watching football games while its snowing.
i know you’re all fed up with Favre, but he’s one of the top 10 QBs of all time and this is sure to be his last season. that, and i also want to see how-for-real the Bears are
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
I used to despise him throughout the late nineties.
ive made my piece. well actually last year against the niners he fueled the fire again, but the niners deserved to lose that one
i loved and hated him. it was quite the conundrum because The Pack are my 2nd fav team.
So I couldn’t root for him while he pummelled the Niners into the ground for 3 straight years
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 4:31 PM PST up reply actions
I’m okay with him prior to his recent comebacks…also annoyed at Madden’s constant drooling over him…
Are you Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary?
I think that was my proudest moment as a Niners fan. Not winning Super Bowls or having some of the greatest players ever. No, a fictional character rejecting Brett “Fav-ruh” because he played for the rival of the 49ers.
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by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 8:22 PM PST up reply actions
that was my favorite movie for so, so many years.
remember, when that movie was made in ‘97 or so, the Niners were still THE shit. now, they’re just shit
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 21, 2010 2:29 PM PST up reply actions
The best part about that is that Steve Young was originally supposed to play the Favre role.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
Fuck Brett Favre
That is all.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Break Favre's arm and with his fractured shards stick them in the frozen tundra of the field at UofM and call it a career.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:11 PM PST up reply actions
Wow. He is not top 10 all time.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 9:00 PM PST up reply actions
Top 10 all time in playing a lot of fucking games, maybe.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 9:00 PM PST up reply actions
I mean, an unscientific better-than-Favre list would have: Montana, Young, Unitas, Graham, Tarkenton, Marino, Baugh, Jurgenson, Dawson, and Staubach
You could also make a reasonable case for Kelly, Elway, Tittle, Bob Griese, Norm Van Brocklin, Sid Luckman, and Ken Anderson (HoF non-induction be damned).
And if you take active players into account, it would be pretty darn hard to leave off either Peyton or Brady, both of whom are pretty clearly better than Brett Favre.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 9:28 PM PST up reply actions
Elway’s career is overrated on the whole, but man his five or six year peak was really, really, really good.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
He's basically Cal Ripkin
Nice career numbers because he playe every day, for like a bazillion years, but really only a couple of outstanding seasons. Otherwise above average but not outstanding historically.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
LOL NERDLING!
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 4:41 PM PST reply actions
Age 8: Wormser comparisons
Age 16: The blond nerd from Dazed in Confused
Age 33: Mike Fontenot and Christian Slater
It’s an upward trajectory.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 20, 2010 4:51 PM PST up reply actions
Sadly, mine is more Brando-esque.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
My trajectory is going downward
4th grade-I looked like Matthew Perry
Now I apparently look like that ‘Josh’ guy from Drake & Josh. It doesn’t help that my name is Josh
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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by Gobroks on Dec 21, 2010 7:19 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
I’m sorry.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Dec 21, 2010 8:15 AM PST up reply actions
18
Not current-day Dylan and Seinfeld, that would be terrifying. Bringing It All Back Home era Dylan, and stand-up days Seinfeld.
Do you wear a lot of sweaters?
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 11:48 AM PST up reply actions
Aren’t you cold?
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I see my reference to Seinfeld being the prototypical sweater comic was not well presented…
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 12:32 PM PST up reply actions
Should probably stop eating them.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:31 PM PST up reply actions
OT Sweater
Does anyone know where I can find a cableknit with a roll collar that’s not a hundred dollars?? All these flat-front, wool, blend, turtle- and v-neck stuff is all I can see.
I prefer cotton but I guess wool works too if it’s, you know, not too fuzzy. I hate fuzz.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
No … I kind of forgot Lands End existed. I’ll look!
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
There’s another company like Land’s End whose name I cannot recall at the moment. But how exactly would you google that?
“Some company that has similar stuff to what Land’s End carries, but isn’t quite as well known”
I’m sure the name will come to me in about 30 minutes, when I’m at the gym, on the elliptical dealie.
LL Bean?
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
During a brief spell of fitness I was mistaken for Ernie Reyes Jr. “Not when he was a kid, more like he is now.” This was 2004 and I was all, “How on earth do you know what he looks like now?”
Now I’d probably pass for Benny Agbayani. I dunno. Maybe not quite. True Grit Matt Damon.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
2008: random stranger tells me I look like I should play guitar for Lynyrd Skynyrd. I HATE that band.
2009: random stranger thinks I’m Axl Rose. Well, okay, I used to like that band.
2010: random drunk stranger tells me I look like Kid Rock. Yeah…um…not a fan.
San Francisco Giants ***GLORY ACHIEVED 11/01/10***
I have a solution
GET A DAMN HAIRCUT!
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
For years
I got young John Elway. Personally, didn’t see that one at all, but it was flattering. Now I mostly get compared to “this one guy I know”. That gets depressing after a while.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
I've been getting Matt Damon lately butt I don't see it.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
I love how my coworker is a Dodgers Fan,
but he’s the kind of fan that doesn’t gloat like an ass (class), but breaks shit when his team loses (passion), and he calls it like it is (loves the game). He admits to me his team is in the gutter and that i should enjoy the next few years. He actually was my defender to our Manager who is a Padre fan.
One of my friends is a Dodgers fan, but when I started gloating on Facebook after the World Series, he agreed that the Giants won because they were a good team and that they deserved it. It really makes the gloating a lot less fun.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I’ve found in my experiences that Dodger fans (or West Coast fans, for that matter) are not nearly as insufferable as East Coast Team Fans
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 5:07 PM PST up reply actions
This.
I don’t like Dodger fans because well…its the Dodgers. But Yankee/Red Sox/Phillie/etc. fans can be faaaaaaaaaar worse.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
Clearly, you havent spent much time at Dodger Stadium
As a transplant living behind enemy lines, I can attest to the insufferable, thuggish duchebaggery of Dodger fans, e.g. hat snatched off of my head and slashed with a knife, the never-ending bombardment of food and curse words when my four year old is sitting next to me, sucker punched out of the crowd during the post-game stampede to the exits. It has gotten to the point that I only go to 2-3 games a year because I have to pay through the nose to price out the riff-raff. That being said, I can’t wait to wear my championship shirt for the April 1st game
Great Shawn Estes story
When I was a kid. I was in front row of bleachers during pre-game BP and he was shagging balls in the outfield. He catches one and tosses it to me.
Then he goes: “Hey kid, toss it back I need to get some warmup tosses” And we then proceed to play catch for the next 5-10 minutes.
Moral of the story. Shawn Estes is awesome
by DFARowand on Dec 20, 2010 5:04 PM PST reply actions 15 recs
Mat Latos so does not approve
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 5:08 PM PST up reply actions
for a second, I thought “WTF does Shawn Estes have to do with mercenaries?” Then I realized you were referencing a different moment in which Mat Latos acted like a total douchebag.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 20, 2010 5:11 PM PST up reply actions
Mat Latos so does not approve of playing catch with fans in SF :)
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 20, 2010 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
Flems sunroof does approve.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
less great Shawn Estes story
When I was 10 years old, I was pitching a Little League game on the same day that Shawn Estes was pitching for the Giants. I pitched the whole game (6 innings), and after the game my dad told me that Shawn Estes had the same number of strikeouts as me that day (7). That was the best thing ever for about 3 years.
by 24 Willie Mays Plaza on Dec 20, 2010 5:58 PM PST up reply actions
Horrible Shawn Estes story
I asked him for an autograph when I was like 8 (don’t remember when it was or what he was doing) but he turned me down.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 21, 2010 2:33 AM PST up reply actions
That doesn’t sound that bad.
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Were you a little bastard about it?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 11:36 AM PST up reply actions
I was like 8, I don’t think it’s possible to be a little bastard.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 21, 2010 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
So…. yes.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 1:12 PM PST up reply actions
i used to have a mancrush on Aaron Fultz and Chad Zerbe
for Fultz because he was behind 3-0 in every at bat but kept battling Tom Glavine style. i don’t have the stats to back me up but i think Fultz had a better career than Glavine too.
and then Zerbe. dude had zero stuff but was fun to watch.
i guess i just have a weird thing for lefty relievers because only they can make Joey Votto look like he’s having a seizure while swinging the bat.
Ignoring Tim Mccarver since 2002.
C minus
I don’t think anyone expected a great script or anything (though it was thinner than I expected), but what really surprised me was that it wasn’t particularly good looking – the world they created was both boring and confusing, and the actions scenes weren’t anything special. There wasn’t even much eye candy (of either sex).
Very forgettable, basically.
Really?
You’d think the visuals would have at least been good.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
I’m not a big visuals guy, so maybe you shouldn’t take my word for it, but personally I just didn’t think they were particularly good.
Also, the film is almost completely humourless. Also surprising.
I’m not that into visuals myself..I just thought that if any part of the movie was good, that would be it. I mean…its Tron…how hard can it be to make it look trippy? If you pay attention to these things, how was the music?
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
Olivia Wilde is yummy
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Dec 20, 2010 6:05 PM PST up reply actions
Meh
There’s better olivia’s imo
Bochy & Co. -- Your 2010 World Series Champions
by GrayDilla on Dec 20, 2010 6:13 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Laurence of Olivia!
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 6:30 PM PST up reply actions
Yea...
but she has a jaw you can hang your coat on…
Munn. Yumm.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
Christian Bale is awesome.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I wasn’t expecting anything else. I can’t stomach a sequel like this where they make the main character some young jerk I don’t know. I watch Tron because I want to see Jeff Bridges in the lead role. Fuck his son.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
But in the original, Jeff Bridges was some young jerk you didn’t know.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
PSA
“Inside the Clubhouse: Journey” is now available online.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
The eastern half of the nation rejoices.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
Oh, I think you’ll really like it.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
Although I don’t know if it’s just my laptop, but the audio seems pretty weak.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
Only the left channel is playing
so a lot of the narrative is weak as the left channel is crowd noise.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Finally!
Fuck you, studying for exams! I’m going to cry alone in my dorm room about how much I love the Giants.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Good plan.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
Urf.
Yes. At my uni, they randomly assign all classes to have their finals some time between the 14th and the 21st.
I have one final. Just one. And it’s on the last possible day it could be.
And my flight tomorrow night got cancelled, so I don’t get to be home until Wednesday night.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Wow, still doing finals? I already got 2 of my 3 grades. A’s, bitches.
I’m expecting the third one to be a B, though…. We’ll see. My “participation” portion might bump it up….
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by howtheyscored on Dec 20, 2010 9:04 PM PST up reply actions
Ugh
The sound mixing on this sucks. During all the games, the music is way too loud. You can’t hear any of the calls.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Nice seein' ya, Favre
he’s done for sure now. I just don’t see how he can play any longer.
That hit was brutal
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
Does anyone else remember Garrelts
coming off the field after the earthquake, carrying his younger brother? I can’t find a photo on-line, but seem to remember it was printed in SI.
I have the visual stuck in my head, but can't find a picture. I was at G2 in Oakland, I believe it was Garrelts on the losing end of a 5-0 snoozed to Mike Moore.
Garrelts always seems like a robot to me. Very Jon Olerudesque. And three years later Garrelts’ career was over.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:18 PM PST up reply actions
Good catch!
It was Kelly Downs and here’s the SI cover.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/toc/9196/index.htm
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 21, 2010 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
arrrgh stupid majestic
i want one of those therma base triple peak giants jackets, but for some strange reason, they dont carry a giants one. They carry almost every single other team but the giants. They have a youth size, just no mens sizes. It doesnt make any sense!
Check with Evan Longoria. I've seen a lot of that jackass jumping out of helicopters chasing down apparel.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:21 PM PST up reply actions
Players I remember liking as a kid but don't know why
Glenallen Hill and Royce Clayton.
Robbie Thompson, Mike Aldrete, Bill Mueller, Cave Man Don Robinson, Rod Beck, Chili Davis
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:23 PM PST up reply actions
Johnnie LeMaster!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 10:44 PM PST up reply actions
Glenallen Hill
probably used the least amount of lower body strength for a MLB player…always felt his swing was all arms…
Ernest Riles
I think mostly just because his name was Ernest.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Darren Lewis!
I saw him with hit a walkoff homer? Or maybe it was a game winning hit??
by Ice Watter In His Veins! on Dec 21, 2010 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
Kurt Manwaring!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Kirt?
Loved Man-o-war.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 5:14 PM PST up reply actions
Mike Benjamin!
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 21, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Man, I really despised Glenallen Hill.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Dec 21, 2010 8:35 PM PST up reply actions
Manny Trillo
Not an underappreciated Giant.
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!
oh my
In the latest Haft mailbag, someone asks if the Giants might use Sandoval as their backup catcher to save a bench spot. WHY IT’S ALMOST AS IF WE TRIED THAT IN 2009 AND IT WAS A STUPID IDEA.
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 thought it was a pretty OK idea
The average backup catcher starts, what, 20? 30 games, tops? I think Pablo could handle that if he slimmed down.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
It’s really him calling pitches that I worry about.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I thought we all agree around the time of the Molina trade
That all that catcher intangible stuff was mostly rubbish?
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Does calling a game fall entirely under “intangible”? Right or wrong, our pitchers seem to have a lot of faith in what whoever is behind the plate puts down. Do we want that person to be Pablo? I honestly have no idea.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
“Handling a staff?” Bullshit, sure.
Deciding which pitch your major league quality pitcher will throw to major league quality hitters? I have a hard time believing that that’s just deck chairs.
And that’s to say nothing of how Sandoval’s catching skills affect pitch selection, with Lincecum’s changeup being the most obvious example. You might say “then don’t have him catch Timmy,” but I want my backup catcher to catch every pitcher on the staff.
Plus, the more I think about it… controlling the running game? Pablo can’t even get the ball to first base 25% of the time.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
What?
Pablo had a 38% caught stealing rate in his minor league career. That’s very good.
And he’d be a backup catcher. Sure, maybe he’s not the best pitch caller in the world. But he could fake it for 20 games, and any time there’s a serious situation, Bochy would just come in and tell him what to call anyway. Hell, they could call it from the bench.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I don’t see the marginal benefit of an extra bench spot, when weighed against Sandoval playing a demanding position that he hasn’t touched in two years. Who gets Whiteside’s roster spot? Rohlinger? Joaquin? Burriss?
Giving more opportunities to overplay Pablo so that we can have a designated pinch runner or an extra middle reliever seems like a poor trade-off to me. If you need to be holding his hand, even as a backup, then he shouldn’t be there in the first place.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Most catchers are awful hitters
Double so for backup catchers.
And that roster spot is probably the difference between DFAing and keeping Shierholtz. Them’s the stakes.
Torres, Sanchez, Huff, Posey, Burrell, Tejada, Sandoval, Ross – 8 starters
5 starters. 7 relievers.
So we have 5 bench spots for: DeRosa, Fontenot, Ishikawa, Rowand, Whitside, Shierholtz
Ishikawa is the easy call for DFA, but you need another spot for Belt. So if Belt comes up, RIP Nate.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I think they find a way to keep Schierholtz if they intend for Burrell to be the starting LF, but I don’t think they do it by moving Pablo back into catching duties. I think their primary concern is “fixing” Pablo, and adding backup catcher to his already full plate (no pun intended) is not going to help him in that respect. If the organization really viewed Pablo as a viable option for backup catcher, I think we would have heard about it at least once this season.
And not that it’s a secret, but as for personal preference… Do not want. On my list of people I want behind the dish, Pablo ranks only slightly ahead of Ryan Garko.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I don't want Pablo behind the plate yet
But with his bat, he’s already better than, oh, 100% of other backup catchers in the majors.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yes, but how much better remains to be seen. And how much more he’s able to play if he gets thinner. If he rolls out of bed every morning next season looking like sunshine and hitting .330, I think the identity of our backup catcher becomes a rather minor issue.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
The identity of our backup catcher is a rather minor issue regardless
Which is why we shouldn’t waste a roster spot on one if we have someone capable of playing C and another position.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Are we really talking about backup catchers? Well then, Gary Alexander is our guy.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:27 PM PST up reply actions
There is a long and storied tradition
of arguing over backup catchers on McC. Long live Mike Sadek (who I would have argued for if McC were around at the time).
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:41 AM PST up reply actions
I don't know about the average
But in 2009, the year we tried that (and the fact that it was a bad idea was pretty well illustrated by the fact that they had to scrap it after a few weeks), Whiteside started 33 games, Holm started 2, and Sandoval started 3.
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!
who’d a thought – too fat to be a catcher…
by repeat_in_2011 on Dec 20, 2010 8:42 PM PST up reply actions
Slim down for catching duties?
Why?
Regards,
Bengie.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Ellis Burks
Probably the best of the parade of RFs/#5 hitters we got in the Bonds-Kent years. Though Reggie Sanders was pretty good too.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 8:13 PM PST reply actions
I remember when Burks was with us, and there was a call-in segment on KNBR to suggest nicknames for Bonds, Kent, and Burks as a trio. The best they could come up with was “three dog nightmare.”
Thanks, Baja Men.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I’m trying to figure out why Baha Men are to blame for Three Dog Night…and I’m failing.
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 aware of the song
Just not how these things are connected, aside from the word “dog.”
/probably missing a painfully obvious joke
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!
Bonds + Burks + Kent = Three
Baja Men = Dogs
Our offense = skeery
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Still hurts that we lost to the Mets that year. :(
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
Damn you Benny Agbeyani!
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 8:55 PM PST up reply actions
Here you go.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
As good as this is
That ball probably bounced up off of the plate, I doubt that was a swing through. Although I have seen our guys do this, namely Pedro Feliz and Nate, more than once.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Even if it was a foul ball
That in no way decreases the amount of fail.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
They played that awful song after wins that year.
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 21, 2010 4:43 PM PST up reply actions
The group even came to Pac Bell and lip synced the song live. If everyone knew what the song was about, it wouldn’t been played at ball parks nor that Rugrats movie.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Yeah, Burks...
Giants fans were pissed when Sabean didn’t re-sign him because of the knees….
not a bad lineup with Bonds, Burks, Kent, Snow, and Aurilia…
by repeat_in_2011 on Dec 20, 2010 8:58 PM PST up reply actions
Everytime I turn on the TV, Reggie Sanders is playing RF for somebody in the World Series...effin' World Series vulture.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:31 PM PST up reply actions
Hmmm
San Diego Padres: 2 Tickets for 2 Games & Behind Scenes PETCO Park Tour – $53
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
“If you look to your left, you can see the dead spot in the grass where Ryan Klesko stood to bitch out umpires after he struck out.”
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:42 AM PST up reply actions
As always, a high quality article, but I have a correction and an observation.
1) There WAS a gruesome adjustment period with Cain. It wasn’t a particularly lengthy one, and the 2006 Giants were bad enough that it hardly mattered, but Cain got off to a poor start. that year and I am pretty sure that I remember that he was on the verge of being demoted to Fresno.
Madison Bumgarner showed that this need be no more than a bump on the road, but it almost happened to Cain. I don’t remember what it was that Righetti did with him — either he had Cain skip a start or he threw some long relief — but something righted the ship. I think that Cain snapped out of it with a one-hitter against the A’s, but I’m not sure.
2) Garrelts actually started out as a closer, and he and Mark Davis were actually a very creditable right-left punch coming out of the bullpen on an otherwise abysmal 1985 Giants team. I myself never totally forgave Garrelts for LOSING No. 100 on the last day of the season. The Giants had a chance to remain the only club in NL history to avoid suffering that fate, and Garrelts blew a save opportunity.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Dec 20, 2010 8:32 PM PST reply actions
IIRC, Cain went to the bullpen for one start and then came back and threw a CG against the A’s?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
here we go
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=cainma01&t=p&year=2006
May 16th, two inning relief appearance against HOU
May 21st, CGSO against OAK
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Excellent! I thought perhaps more than two innings, but it’s gratifying to see that my memory is almost spot on.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Dec 20, 2010 8:37 PM PST up reply actions
Pretty cool that it was a one hitter! 2006 was a pretty rough year, I think I’ve blocked out most of it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
that one-hitter he threw, the only guy who got a hit (double to the gap) was the same dude who broke up his no-hitter in the 8th inning of the last Giants/Rockies game in 2010, too
dont remember his name though
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 21, 2010 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
Jay Payton?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
yeah, yeah i think that was his name.
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 21, 2010 2:52 PM PST up reply actions
I remember listening to that game on my Walkman. I was enraptured.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Yes, I had been writing from Fresno to the folks back home about this awesome athlete with the Biblical name who was a no-hitter in escrow every time he took the mound.
His first few starts in 2006 made me look pretty foolish, but that one-hitter was a virtual fulfillment of prophecy.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Dec 20, 2010 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
Garrelts continued to work primarily out of the pen for a few years after 1985. He had a combined 48 saves 1985-1988.
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!
Cain's short 2005 was pretty good though
He was one of the reasons why I thought the Giants would make the playoffs that year.
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
Wasn't 1985 Roger Craig's first year? I remember the Giants losing 100 games and I was so pissed. I believe Roger took over the team towards the end of the year
And it was like Roger was trying to make them lose 100 games on purpose just so he could make the turnaround look even more impressive. Then 1986 I believe was Will Clark’s rookie year and you knew the dude was going to be great. Then in 1987 we won the NL West and Roger completed the turnaround before the dissappointing ending to the Cards.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:39 PM PST up reply actions
LOL COUPLE ON FOX'S WEIRD GAME SHOW
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Say
What is the picture from? Were they retiring cable car 54 that day?
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
WHOA
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
by esseffgeez on Dec 20, 2010 9:12 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
<3
I actually kinda want his coffee table book. I have no idea why.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I got it
Felt a bit conflicted but decided the book was one more way to look at and reflect upon the greatest season in SF Giants history.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
I don't even...
/laughing
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
That bow tie should have been orange
Kruk: "and the Giants, the San Francisco Giants…"
Kuip: "They got one…"
Kruk: "World Champs."
- November 1, 2010
Wants to honor Red Sox. Trying to get the Yanks to up the bidding.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Dec 21, 2010 4:53 AM PST up reply actions
WELL THERE GOES MY "HE'S LAYING LOW" THEORY
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 20, 2010 10:02 PM PST up reply actions
I can't stop laughing.
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Dec 20, 2010 11:50 PM PST up reply actions
If this is real
This is awesome.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
it's real
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
You'd think a magazine like SI
could still afford to pay a good photo production artist to cut out Timmy’s hair properly…Bad photoshop is bad.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Bottom right
“World Series Champion Giants Ace Tim Lincecum”
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Seriously, it's like SI did this to remind the world it happened.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Sports Illustrated photographer Walter Iooss Jr. composed the photo essay to highlight the 10 athletes who provided the most memorable moments from the past year.
10 for ’10 features San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum, the issue’s cover boy who won two games in his team’s World Series victory over the Texas Rangers; Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant; boxer Manny Pacquiao; United States World Cup captain Landon Donovan; New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees; professional surfer Kelly Slater; Olympic gold-medalist snowboarder Shaun White; South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-Na; golfer Dustin Johnson, who was tied for the lead in the 2010 PGA Championship before a controversial two-stroke penalty dropped him to fifth place; and Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
I think that is a pretty fair and accurate list given the criteria.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
thanks for reminding me that...
"There was no torture in the end. Only rapture." - Mike Krukow
2010 Giants: World Series Champs
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 20, 2010 9:13 PM PST reply actions
I remember that Bonds would usually play Butler right on the LF line and short. More than once, Butler would hit a screamer down the line and Barry would casually put it away. Butler would then slam his bat into the dirt. Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Man, the stores were chaotic today. I probably should have started my Christmas shopping a little bit earlier.
"I don't know how the six-pack got in my hands." -P.T.F. Bat
Our local weatherman just warned us of
“a massive train of moisture”
Watch out, Fresno.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
OT: Speaking of Video Games
Did anyone play The Force Unleashed? It’s 20 bucks for the PS3. Was it any good?
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Fantastic, but extremely short
"I dont always hit home runs, but when I do, I prefer World Series winning home runs"
TWSS
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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by Gobroks on Dec 21, 2010 7:24 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
That's what she said.
"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 Dec 20, 2010 9:41 PM PST reply actions
Yay talking with Neal!
TdaddyNeal Thomas Neal
Million Dollar Money Drop is intense. I wanna go on that show. Might not make it 2 ? 7 but I would Go Big
TdaddyNeal Thomas Neal
RT @LoganDobson: @TdaddyNeal We can just nickname your first arbitration hearing “Million Dollar Money Drop” if you want.<- lol
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
You know, all this season I’ve looked at your avatar and thought it was a bobcat or something.
Having now viewed the full size image, it turns out I wasn’t all that far off.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Bobcats aren't good leadoff hitters
They have no idea of taking pitches and they don’t get on base enough. You ever hear of a patient bobcat?
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Whoa, it’s not a bobcat? WTF?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
HOW IS BOBCAT FORMED?
Brian Sabean: Sing His Praises To The Heavens!
-------
PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game that seems to have resurrected itself in my absence...
i have absolutely no clue what he is talking about right now
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
He was live tweeting Million Dollar Drop
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
And commenting on female propensity to decrease marginal game show revenue
I think.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
That’s the part where he’s become completely incoherent
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
What part of
Lady’s let Yo man make the final decision Plz
Don’t you understand?
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
he needs to stop talking before I stop loving him
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
TdaddyNeal Thomas Neal
w/o women us men would be lost :-p
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
:)
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
TdaddyNeal Thomas Neal
That last tweet made the girls :) but u see fellas maKe them feel like their in control its easy look at all the RT lmao I need 2 stop lol
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
DUH
TdaddyNeal Thomas Neal
She is 0-2 bruh but girls hack into ur phones and emails so she knows what she is talkin about Password it is lmao
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
see this i have no clue what he is saying
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
The question was about the most used passwords
and he rationalized that “women hack phones and emails so she should have known that. Even though she was wrong about the previous 2 questions, lmao”
Thats a rough translation.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
I only have five episodes of Parks & Rec left :(
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
30 Rock?
Arrested Development? Futurama? Newsradio?
Anything you haven’t seen?
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I am probably going to finish Series 3 of Ashes to Ashes next.
Then I don’t know. It’s Always Sunny? Breaking Bad? Mad Men? The Wire?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I just finished watching that. It was good, but frustrating as hell.
Then, it seemed like they were finally starting to pick up steam at the end of season 2 with the graveling stuff… and then it just sort of went “that stuff’s not important lol” and got canceled.
Placeholder.
by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
THE WIRE
please. It’s not overrated. It may be underrated.
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:48 AM PST up reply actions
Hey Now!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 7:46 AM PST up reply actions
WIREWIREWIREWIREWIREWIRE
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
You’re ending in time to not experience the hiatus.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
is Brandanawicz really leaving?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Yeah, they set him up as the “straight” man but then all the other characters ended up being less wacky and more grounded in reality than I think they had planned. He doesn’t have much to do.
He was cute though.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
i won't miss him
as long as I have Ron Swanson on my television.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
NOW THERE'S NO MORE FOOD AND I HATE EVERYTHING
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
"Bacon wrapped shrimp?
That’s my #4 favorite food wrapped in my #1 favorite food."
Ron Swanson is my avatar on my work IM.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
"My idea of a perfect government is one guy who sits in a small room at a desk, and the only thing he’s allowed to decide is who to nuke. The man is chosen based on some kind of IQ test, and maybe also a physical tournament, like a decathlon. And women are brought to him, maybe … when he desires them."
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I'm slowly working my way through Buffy the Vampire Slayer
which was popular back when I was mostly TVless.
It’s mostly ok, but I have to know, is Kendra the Vampire Slayer the most annoying character, or does it get worse?
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
Most people would say yes
There are a some major characters in Seasons 4, 5, 6, and 7 who might fit that bill. However, Season 3 is near perfect.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 10:50 PM PST up reply actions
Most people would say Dawn is the most annoying character ever. Your argument is invalid.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:31 AM PST up reply actions
Well I just finished watching “Hard Candy” and haven’t decided what I think about it. I have always known Charles’ recommendations to be different but I feel he has out done himself.
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
OT
Well hello depression and anxiety, I see you’re back. Why it was a lovely date we all took to the ER tonight. And me still without insurance. I’m back with a clean physical bill of health, prescriptions to drugs I thought I’d finally gotten over, and the impending thousand-dollar ambulance and ER bill. Happy fucking holidays.
However, the San Francisco Giants won the 2010 World Series, so really, the greater world is good.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
=(
Feel better. To the extent that it’s possible for nerds on the internet to be there for you, we’re all here for you.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I know we are just some stange internet folks
but much love shj.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
It really helps. Also makes me think I should stop being some friendless asshole who doesn’t know anyone except the lady across the street who runs the barbershop.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 20, 2010 10:20 PM PST up reply actions
pfft
Being a recluse is highly underrated.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
I usually think so but it saves you from having to take a cab from the ER and not having anyone with you while you’re there.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 20, 2010 10:27 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah
I could see where that would suck.
:(
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
shanghai,
we’re as real as any imaginary friends you could ever have.
Here, have some seeds and grit. On me.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 10:37 PM PST up reply actions
:(
dude, hugs for realz man.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 20, 2010 10:47 PM PST up reply actions
Well, that sucks.
Inasmuch as this is just a post on an internet forum, I am pretty much limited to wishing the best for you and hoping things get better. But I am doing that.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 20, 2010 10:59 PM PST up reply actions
:-(
You’ll make it through man. I hope things get better for you real soon.
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
Drugs (the kind you are talking about)
are good when they are keeping you out of the hospital for anxiety/BPD/etc. Don’t be depressed at the war against depression, it’s the war you have to win. You can and you will.
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:53 AM PST up reply actions
Maybe I need to be traded to Milwaukee.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
This made no sense, I meant to say “don’t sweat losing the battle, just win the war”. I have helped some loved ones with this sort of thing and I think the setbacks can be very disheartening. Hang in there.
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 Dec 21, 2010 4:32 PM PST up reply actions
Hang in there. This time of year can be the worst. And I’m not talking holidays… I’m talking lack of sunshine leading to seasonal depressive disorder or whatever it’s called. Get out in the sun whenever you can! Take a walk or something, as exercise also helps.
Good luck, and remember, the good thing about internet friends is somebody’s always around to talk to.
Sympathy, mate.
Anxiety is freaky. Feeling like your falling. Not being able to feel your lips. Convinced you’re having a heart attack (it’s really happening this time!). And so on. So, I know where you’re coming from.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
This been fanshotted yet?
1. Edgar Renteria(notes) hits the game winning home run in Game 5 of the World Series. Game 5 of the World Series produced one of the best pitching matchups of recent history. Tim Lincecum(notes) and Cliff Lee(notes) pitched nearly flawlessly until the top of the seventh inning. Cody Ross(notes) and Juan Uribe(notes) both hit singles. Aubrey Huff(notes) unexpectedly laid down a bunt to move the runners over. Pat Burrell(notes) struck out. Then Edgar Renteria hit a fly ball that just wouldn’t come down until it cleared the fences. That one swing summed up the entire 2010 SF Giants season. All year the odds seemed to favor the other team. All year it seemed the Giants were going to unravel. All year a different hero would step up. The home run by Renteria was the perfect end to an incredible season.
Italics mine, because it makes me emotional and happy.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I was at Garrelts' one-hitter at The Stick.
My ESPN avatar is Garrelts’ photo. I used the same photo as my avatar when I was commenting on Deadspin, and a fellow commenter was the son of Garrelts’ best friend and told Garrelts I was using his photo. He said to thank me and was glad ‘someone’ remembered him. Hope he gets to see this whole entry by Grant!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
Job 1:14-15
Mikeys wedding
I tried the link, and it didn’t work. Try the other way . On the wall, you will find, Ashley and Mike coming soon. That’s amore, sung by Dean Martin, accompanies the trailer.
?
So, wait, you require MORE than 3 minutes of footage of Mike Fontenot’s wedding?
I’m frankly surprised you weren’t invited.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
HE SHOULD HAVE INVITED ALL OF US
After all, we sit around here reading his blog all guldurned day!
Brian Sabean: Sing His Praises To The Heavens!
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game that seems to have resurrected itself in my absence...
Isn’t this in the World Series DVD collection?
Also, three guesses who stood up when they said “If anyone here knows why this man and this woman shouldn’t be joined…”
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:55 AM PST up reply actions
I’m just saying it is only a small trailer, but it is really cute. There were some parts that were not included in the trailer, that tell a lot about Mike’s family, like when he proudly introduced his disabled brother. I wish you could see the whole thing, but the trailer is worth seeing. By the way, I DID see the whole reception.
of all the players to be obsessed with
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
wait how did this get here? is this an orphaned thread?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 20, 2010 11:33 PM PST up reply actions
I figured that jponry's post was a reply fail
To the Fontenot discussion.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Judging from that photo
It doesn’t appear to be mutual.
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Dec 20, 2010 11:47 PM PST up reply actions
Noah Lowry is the biggest dissapointment.
Aparently he is suing the giants for giving him the wrong diagnosis. I thought he was gunna be the next giants cy young.
Regardless if it’s true or not, that’s going to be extremely difficult to prove in court. Plus, what benefit would the Giants have gained by diagnosing Lowry incorrectly.
"I don't know how the six-pack got in my hands." -P.T.F. Bat
by deuce deuce on Dec 20, 2010 10:45 PM PST up reply actions
there’s no way he can be the biggest disappointment. he wasn’t that hyped up, he had a few pretty good years and then got injured. way less disappointing than even any one of foppert, williams or ainsworth.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
But but he was our best pitcher in … uh … 2006? 2007? imagining things?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 20, 2010 11:33 PM PST up reply actions
I called him our "ace" in 2005
LOL me
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
He was our best in 2005
Then in the beginning of 2006 he had that oblique injury and was never the same.
He still kinda came out of nowhere. I mean he was a highish draft pick, but a lot of scouts thought he wouldn’t cut it in the majors.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
Can't blame them
The guy threw 87 without sink or great command. How many good pitchers are there like that? The only one I can think of is Zito.
But man, that change up…for the first two years, it looked like he could do with it what Zito did with his curve.
And the game against the Dodgers in 2007
Where I could tell he lost it :-(
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
Lowry :(
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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by Gobroks on Dec 21, 2010 7:29 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Good Giant.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
Lowry is definitely a Top 10. I would add Solomon Torres to the Top 10. I once saw Torres strikeout The Thrill, Kevin Mitchell and Matt Williams in the same inning in an exhibition game between the farm prospects and the big club.
The Giants went to extremes to avoid trading Torres until several years passed and management realized he wasn’t going to develop the way he was expected.
"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 Dec 22, 2010 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
By the by
If you haven’t seen this, you should:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljGtjzyxVD8
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Whoops
It’s Mike Birbiglia, a stand up comedian, describing the time he performed at the MLB mvp awards. Features Dennis Eckersley as a side character.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Seriously OT, but . . .
the sky has miraculously opened up in Sacramento and the eclipse is in full view. It will be full in about an hour and will stay that way for another hour. I hope you are in a position to see it. Gallo, of course, gains mystical powers during a full moon. Needless to say, dark forces are involved.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 10:57 PM PST reply actions
It’s partly cloudy here but you can still see the moon. Nice lunar eclipse with the solstice, couldn’t ask the better xmas present. But I have to keep an eye out for raccoons, one tried to come through the dog door earlier this evening.
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
Wow . . .
it’s straight overhead. An otherwise full moon is being consumed from 7 o’clock up. About half is gone now. The sky is beautifully clear.
Anywhere in Nor Cal, step outside and watch.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:02 PM PST reply actions
As the moon dims . . .
the stars around it emerge. Even with the Christmas lights on my street, I can see a black curtain needled with glimmering holes.
Raccoons and gallos are natural enemigos, eh.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:08 PM PST reply actions
7/8th's gone . . .
and the sky above Sacramento is perfectly clear to each horizon.
I don’t know those constellations behind it, but they are forming up wonderfully. It’s not so cold. I’m standing alone in the middle of my street. Neighbors don’t seem to notice.
Hey, timmeh.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:16 PM PST reply actions
I hate Seattle.
I wanted to see the eclipse, dang it!
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
The last eighth is going slowly, it seems,
and they say that the full eclipse will actually leave a burnt orange outline of the moon. I guess the constellation is Sagittarius. The archer.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:21 PM PST reply actions
Sorry, I was confused,
Orion’s Belt off to the south just a bit. Gemini (Castor and Pollocks) just a bit to the east.
And my own black cat has followed me out to the street and is at my feet, looking up just as I am. Does she understand. She just sits there and looks up.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:26 PM PST reply actions
The last ninth seems to leave torturously slow . . .
but the promised burnt orange remains for its hour of inverse glory.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:33 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
That burnt orange color is lovely. Switching from binos to the telescope since the moon is dimmer. A very bright moon is hard on the eyes with a telescope. And yes the stars do look lovely behind the moon.
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
this is one of the cooler viewing threads
that I have ever seen here, and that is one of the cooler posts I remember here.
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 Dec 21, 2010 5:57 AM PST up reply actions
Woohoo!
My friend was interviewed on KTVU at Chabot Observatory in regard to the eclipse.
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I appreciate your correct use of the word regard.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:34 AM PST up reply actions
It’s one of the reasons he’s so highly regarded.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
Regards.
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“With regard” is wrong?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I think ‘with regards’ gets Howie’s dander up.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 12:33 PM PST up reply actions
With regard to
In regard to
As regards
Are all correct.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
My underappreciated Giants:
Brent Mayne, Kurt Manwaring, Brian Johnson, Darryl Hamilton, Bill Mueller, and Barry Bonds :D.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
Brent Mayne, a good hitting back up catcher.
(Tell me how to hyphenate that adjectival?)
But not as good as Ed Bailey.
Now, back to the celestial event already in progress.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:44 PM PST up reply actions
Ron Pruitt
Unheralded backup catcher who singlehandedly brought the Giants to within 1 game of the Dodgers on Sept 30, 1983 with 3 to play (the good guys then proceeded to lose 2 of 3 to LA to finish up). I remember his bottom 9th bases loaded hit because I was driving on North 101 back to my apartment in the City, and the ball dropped in just as I hit a dip in the road – nearly killed myself as my head hit the car roof. Funny how we remember this stuff.
In 1983, Pruitt was 2-4 and a walk in 5 games for the Giants for a 1.350 OPS.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
My black cat,
usually a skittish creature, stays calm by my feet.
I know the moon is moving, but we can’t tell that.
Is “saltillo” the word?
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:41 PM PST reply actions
If they’re flats…
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 20, 2010 11:42 PM PST up reply actions
I referred to the color. Dark saltillos. Perhaps weathered.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:45 PM PST up reply actions
My dog was not interested in the eclipse.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
dogs: friends
cats: witches
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:53 PM PST up reply actions
Neither was I
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Wait… if that’s where it all begins, then what the heck was the first movie for???
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Vampire baseball
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 21, 2010 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
Full eclipse, but not full darkness
The features of the moon still appear, like a veteran past his prime.
Storm clouds of a nasty sort have gathered to the west, but they haven’t yet blocked the view.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 20, 2010 11:56 PM PST reply actions
Just finished watching The Journey!
The sound sucked…but with that footage its basically impossible to seriously screw up. Huff, at the end. And Timmy and Matty. And Cody. And…and…I’m just going to cry now…I love this team!
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
People weren’t complaining about it on TV though…could it just have been a problem with the upload? I don’t know much about these things.
They really do need to fix it though. Its really, really shitty.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
Whoever did the sound just put one channel on the mono Internet track
It’s just the left track of the stereo mix, they forgot to mix down both tracks to the mono mix. Really kinda dumb, our video experts here would not have been that dumb.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Kirk Reuter
Is a 2010-2011 Hall of Fame candidate. Petition your local Baseball Writers of America chapter to pledge your support.
by JSing on Dec 21, 2010 3:04 AM PST via mobile reply actions
OT: Snow!
As the UK has decided it can’t handle 6 inches of snow and everything has consequently fallen over, I will be attempting to get back from Cardiff [Wales] to my hometown near London via various means of public transport. I fully expect to reply to this comment in about 6 hours from a ditch somewhere near Slough.
hmmm.
the UK has decided it can’t handle 6 inches of snow
Apparently JT is making his rounds in the UK.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
Yea im in Orange County
and it was raining pretty bad last night. The freeways were clogged and flooded.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
seriously, fuck snow
It’s alright in small doses and can make things look beautiful but don’t you think ~27 inches is a TAD too much? That was the situation yesterday here and it certainly isn’t getting any better. I really love using buses to get to work nowadays, already a long and annoying trip can really turn into a nightmare with these conditions.
There’s really nothing to do except eat and sit on the computer unless you’re a kid. Of course we adults can also participate by clearing the driveway of snow five times a day. This is not how i planned my 4 weeks off from college.
Thankfully there are great stories like this on the intergoogle. I have to get started on those other installments of this series, as I now have time in bunches.
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by Last Place Finnish on Dec 21, 2010 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
There’s really nothing to do except eat and sit on the computer unless you’re a kid.
I wouldn’t recommend that. You might damage something.
haha I knew someone would pick that up
It’s just a lingual difference. We don’t use prepositions so these things happen when you quickly write something.
Although sitting on computers is quickly gaining ground in becoming our national pastime. Cultural differences and all that.
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by Last Place Finnish on Dec 21, 2010 1:11 PM PST up reply actions
OT: Avoid your family and waste time until February
with Out of the Park Baseball 11, now $20!
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
I started up an OOTP8 where I’m the manager of some crappy rookie ball team, but they only have a shortstop and I don’t understand how I can field a team with only a shortstop.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 10:36 AM PST up reply actions
Oh, I figured it out. Apparently I really don’t have any GM powers yet. Stupid actual job description. I skipped a few days and the actual GM signed some players.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
um
You’re supposed to do that. That’s kinda the point, although you can set the AI to do it if you just want to manage games (I don’t think many play OOTP this way though, most do the opposite).
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 Dec 21, 2010 4:34 PM PST up reply actions
I’m pretty sure I can’t do it. I’m managing some rookie ball team. The GM of the Reds organization keeps sending me messages to let me know about the transactions he’s making.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 5:15 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, sorry, I didn’t realize you were doing a bottom-up thing. Obviously you could turn on commissioner mode to get around it but like many settings in OOTP it would defeat the entire point.
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 Dec 22, 2010 5:12 PM PST up reply actions
See, this is why I love it when we beat this guy.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/153724975
“There really are some good rotations out there,” Wainwright said.
“But it does seem like with these latest (moves) there’s a lot of talk about rotations other than ours. The Phillies’ speaks for itself. They’ve got track records, they’ve had success. … The other rotations, I just don’t see what they have over ours.”
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
One more reason to continue hating the Cardinals more than any team
but one.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Speaking of Jose Oquendo
Obviously it’s weird that Jose Oquendo pitched four innings, but what was Whitey Herzog trying to do with the outfield?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
This guy never thinks before opening his mouth, does he?
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THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
This reminds me of Wellemeyer coming here and giving the backhanded compliment to the Giants starters
And then sucking so bad he got replaced by a rookie.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 21, 2010 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
Seriously
Fuck the Cardinals and fuck “Waino”. Mr. Wainwright, you have one of the worst nicknames in professional sports.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
My impression of what a waino should look like:
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 5:16 PM PST up reply actions
Garrelts both electrified me and frustrated me for years, as both a starter and a closer. Yet, I still remember fondly his years as a Giant.
One of my top positive Garrelts memories is him almost pitching a no-hitter during the 1990 season against the eventual World Series chamipon Reds. The no-no was broken up with 2 outs in the 9th.
Yes, I am an Old Blue. Now get off my lawn.
OT: WS Trophy Ornament
Don’t do it. What an ugly ill-produced piece of doo-doo!
I’m thinking about sending ours back. For $12 I expected something a little better than poorly painted plaster and an off centered logo.
Boooooooooo!!
On the other hand…the other ornaments, the round, “normal” kinda ones are just peachy. We’ll be keeping those.
It’s magic inside!
I was actually looking forward to this, maybe we’ll stick to a regular Giants ornament and our own memories of the year we got it.
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 Dec 21, 2010 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve never been a Radish fan going waaaay waaaaaay back to the 1984 Olympics when he spent much of his tv sports report talking about “the fact” that no one was interested in the US men’s National [soccer] team. You know, despite the fact that there was at least one dude from the Bay Area on the damn team, and they played a few games at Stanford.
But not in the 2010 World Series! Ooohhh!
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by Natto on Dec 21, 2010 10:59 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I’m reading that in Dice Clay’s voice.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
ahh, the D.E.N.N.I.S system.
one of the funniest episodes of TV i have ever seen
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
by giant4life83 on Dec 21, 2010 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
Filling out my annual review form...
I’m stuck on the question “What can i do as your manager that would help you the most in your current position?”
My boss is a dramatic, lying brown-noser but I don’t think I can get away with putting “stop lying” on there. Suggestions?
Kruk: "and the Giants, the San Francisco Giants…"
Kuip: "They got one…"
Kruk: "World Champs."
- November 1, 2010
“Provide more free range to perform tasks on time to help me take on more responsibilities so I can grow within the department/company.”
Boss will think “Yeah, less work for me.”
Or you know, mo money.
I can't fight this feeling anymore!
Here's my shot at it.
Sir, it has come
To my attention that you are asking
Of me to tell you how you can help me. I will be
Pleased to inform you how.
Let us be clear that
You have not always been the kindest manager, and
I have experienced some displeasure with your treatment of others. Starting in the
New Year, perhaps you could allow more flexibility to your employees to complete and take on more responsibilities. Have a
Good holiday season.
Aaron King, please pitch better.
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Man, I wish my boss’d ask me that question. It’d take her 6 months to read my entire response and by then I’d have a new job, and in the mean time she’d have no time to institute any more new, stupid, insulting policies.
Funny, this whole review form is actually a new, stupid, insulting policy that was mandated across the company.
Kruk: "and the Giants, the San Francisco Giants…"
Kuip: "They got one…"
Kruk: "World Champs."
- November 1, 2010
At our company, it’s an established, stupid, insulting policy. I’ve been putting it off for a while now…
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 12:08 PM PST up reply actions
I wouldn’t stress over it or put too much time in to it. We have to come up with “learning objectives” for ourselves every year. They go into some file somewhere so if the Feds ask my boss can explain how they are supporting our continuing education, but nothing ever comes of them. I really don’t think they even get read… by anyone.
I’ve no idea what I even wrote on mine this year. Which of course means they will ask about my progress towards my objectives.
‘Lie less frequently and only about unimportant matters’
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
"at least have the decency to give a reach around"
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Those performance review processes can be very hazardous to your career
It is of course a fucked up process designed to hold you not them to any failures in business results. Be very careful what you write into them as they will and are are used to do forced ranking for pay raises and layoff lists, etc. Think of it as your last will and testament with no take backs allowed. I played that game long enough to retire but it sure made me feel dirty to participate in it.
Underappreciated Giants pitchers
Does anyone know what is going on with Noah Lowry? Is he still trying to make a comeback or has he given up baseball?
Also any news on Ben Sheets comeback from his latest injury? He might be a good low cost high reward choice for a club looking for a 5th starter but no one is going to pay him any where close to the $10 mil the A’s did.
Radical Racing
by Radical Racing on Dec 21, 2010 10:46 AM PST reply actions
I think Lowry was appreciated well enough. I think his playing days are over though.
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Also, I think I needed to add another sentence that begins with “I think”.
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I think that would be good.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
From The Yankee Universe
During the 2007-08 off-season, Johan Santana dominated the hot stove rumor mill. As the ink was drying on the Mets’ nine-figure extension of the 29-year-old lefty, many wondered how could the Yankees, a team that felt the need to pay a 44-year-old Roger Clemens a pro-rated $28MM salary just months prior, pass up an opportunity to acquire such an asset? Simple: patience. Cashman saw that he had another prime-aged southpaw ready to hit the free-agent market in a year’s time and felt waiting was the opportune course of action.
…In the 2012-13 off-season, Chad Billingsley, Matt Cain, John Danks, Zack Greinke, Cole Hamels and Francisco Liriano will all be free agents. Their 2013 ages, you ask? I am delighted to inform that Billingsley, Cain and Danks will be entering their age-28 campaigns and age 29 for Greinke, Hamels and Liriano. A half-dozen prime-aged aces all hitting the free-agent market at the same time. Just thinking about this makes me giddy…
Cashman is selling patience to us once again. It was clear what the endgame was back in the winter of 2007-08; even though our patience may have to last an extra year, the endgame is just as clear…
UGH. But I thought Liriano was a free agent after the 2011 season?
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
Of course
This was all Cashman’s plan….He knew Lee would turn down the biggest contract offer from the Yankees and accept the smaller offer from the Phillies. He was just giving Lee an offer as a courtesy. The man is a genius.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Dec 21, 2010 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
Yankees fans are the worst.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I used to hear 28 as the average age at which ptchers peak, but recent articles seem to suggest 25-26. Maybe it’s moved down as pitching practices have evolved.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
Like their first year, right? Yeah, Ive seen that.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
I think it also depends on how you look at it
The main problem with pitchers is injuries – so even if a hypothetically perfectly healthy pitcher peaks at 27, the average pitcher could still peak at 21, because, while the odds of an injury in any given year are relatively low, the odds of an injury happening somewhere between age 21 and age 27 are fairly high.
But, if that pitcher has already reached 27, and hasn’t had an injury yet, then maybe he’s now likely to be better than he was at 21.
In other words, it might be likely that Matt Cain will better next year then he was 6 years ago, but, at the same time, also likely that Madison Bumgarner will be better next year than he will be 6 years from now (because in his case, there’s still a lot that could go wrong).
Makes sense
Although “peaking” isn’t all about avoiding injuries. Big part of it, but not all.
Fangraphs assigned the following incremental odds in projecting the probability that a SP will land on the DL:
One year older = +1%
33 more game started = -3%
1 year of Injuries = +8%
So a durable guy like Cain has basically been knocking down his odds by -2% net each year.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
So it would be interesting to see,
what the average peak season is for pitchers with at least, say, 150 starts in their first 6 seasons and without any parameters after that. So capturing only the guys who stay reasonably healthy 26 starts/season for the first 6 years, what is the peak age over a career?
By the way, I have seen some people post very detailed analysis of large samples here, where is a good source for data to perform such analysis?
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
From what I understand (I’m not sure I’ve seen the study first-hand), that’ when strikeouts peak. Control can improve marginally, but K/9 peaks from 21-24.
Bay City Ball’s readers.
I don’t think i did a great job, so I’ll take a crack at it another day.
I was trying to explain why the Giants pitchers probably won’t improve next year (apart from perhaps Bumgarner). Depending on how you look at it, a pitching staff in it’s late 20’s is just as likely to decline by the same amount as a pitching staff in their mid-to early thirties.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
BALLS
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
How many of those pitchers are actually going to make it to free agency though?
I don’t see the Dodgers letting Billingsley go, unless they are still logging through their financial crap. I don’t see Cain leaving, Danks maybe, Grienke maybe, but the Yankees do not seem too interested in him. Hamels probably because of the other money tied up in their rotation, but I also see him being traded then extended, Liriano maybe? The Twins should have money to spend to keep him.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Oswalt won’t be with the Phillies by 2013, and Halladay will also be an FA unless his option vests, so they could keep Hamels.
So take him off the list then. It’s just really hard to predict what is going to happen even 1 year down the line in FA
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Yeah, I’m agreeing with you. Liriano is the most likely to make FA, I think, but he’s also the most likely to fall apart by then. Cain and Billingsley will probably re-sign, and Grienke doesn’t want to go to New York.
Silly Yankees fans
playing with their Monopoly Money.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Greinke said he was fine with going to NY.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Oh wow
This means I won’t be voting for Mark McGwire this year, although I voted for him previously. I like McGwire and I wish him well in life. I just won’t vote for him. He admitted using PEDs and that disqualifies him on my ballot. I feel good writing that. I feel good not voting for him.
I compare PED users to murderers — of course, it’s not the same thing. But please follow my reasoning. Lots of murderers never get caught. Yet society has no trouble punishing murders who get arrested and convicted. It’s not like a defense lawyer walks into court and says, "Thousands of murderers get away with their crimes, so you should let my client, who wiped out an entire family, go free in the interest of fair play."
That would be absurd. It also is absurd to let McGwire or Palmeiro into the Hall just because we don’t have the goods on somebody else. We have the goods on McGwire and Palmeiro.
Hall of Fame voters will be facing many moral dilemmas in the next few years. The current bunch of potential Hall of Famers was filled with drug cheaters, people who artificially inflated their numbers with performance-drug help, people who put pressure on all other ballplayers to cheat. Some of them we’ll never know about. The ones we know about we must punish with exclusion from Hall of Fame.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20101220/NEWS/101229944?p=1&tc=pg
People who write this crap should be stripped of their voting rights.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
Worst sportswriter I've ever read
Even before this piece.
And yes, let’s exclude cheaters from the HOF! And let’s start with Babe Ruth (funny 4-piece bat), Whitey Ford (cutting baseballs), and Gaylord Perry (all of his foreign substances on his baseballs).
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
Gaylord Perry was a good Giant
He didn’t cheat, he just put the illusion of cheating into the hitters mind. Jedi master before even Yoda was born.
Awkward doesn’t begin to cover it…its also just a bad point to begin with. Does he want to go through the HoF and start taking people out?
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
His point doesn’t stand if you compare PED users to jaywalkers instead of murderers. Should we not punish this one jaywalker because jaywalking is/was rampant? Yes.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
lol mad
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Lowell Cohn is a half-wit
and even that’s giving him the benefit of the doubt. We still have a $5 check hanging on the wall from a bet he lost in 1982 on how many games the G’s would win that year. His baseball knowledge is non-existent and McGwire should be proud that Cohn opposes his candidacy.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 21, 2010 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
It just saddens me that he has a say over who will make the HoF or not.
Proud Adoptive Parent of no one, cause my son left me.
I still think Obi-wan wanted them to hook up & raise some genetic freaks with midichlorians firing out of their ass. - ResDog
THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
This is the most awkward analogy ever printed.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
I'm just resigned to try and enjoy and brag on our pitching staff as
long as we can. There is no way the team will be able to afford to keep all that we wish they could keep long term. I say they should pick one LHS, one RHS and one closer as have-to-keep and keep trying to restock the farm for future affordable pitchers.
Greinke says...
"I’ve always wanted to be in the National League for that reason. It’s just fun. I got to hit in Atlanta last year and got to break up a double play at second. I mean, it’s just more fun playing that way."
Lols at AL clownball!
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
Yeah.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
We made fun of him mercilessly.
http://www.lonestarball.com/2010/10/29/1781297/my-comments-on-the-game-tonight
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
"When I found out about it, I told my wife it was probably the happiest I’d been since I got drafted, like, 10 years ago. In baseball – I was happy when we got married, too."
lol
Look out. I'm having a thought.
He’s married?!?!?!?!!??!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
Girls never cease to confound me.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Greinke is awesome
I want him on the Giants so bad, but I know it’s not going to happen unless, like, the Brewers fall far out of contention and the Giants lose a starter to injury around the deadline.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
“Glad to finally play some real baseball!”
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What do those numbers mean?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Retired numbers for the Pads
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For some reason, Netflix Instant Watch is refusing to work
I DON’T WANT TO GO BACK TO HULU DAMMIT
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
"Is this ad relevant to you?"
Yes. I’m watching back episodes of NewsRadio for free online because I can afford a Lexus.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
That’s why I do most things, though.
Placeholder.
by howtheyscored on Dec 21, 2010 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
Workin' for me, sucka
In the midst of 30 Rock season 3.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Okay...
Dexter is officially the most badass show I have seen in a long time. Catching up on season 5 today
:)
The ultimate curse of the man who eventually invents the time machine is that it will only be able to make one trip, and when he gets back EVERYONE will have a better idea for what to do with that one trip than what he actually did.
Proud Parent of the palm tree outside of AT&T Park. Yeah, that palm tree.
This question has already been asked but I don't remember the answer...
Does Fontenot have a minor league option left?
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
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