MLB's 20 Greatest Games vote...
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 2:37 PM PST
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PrintOkay. I’ll bite.
My ballot:
1. November 1, 2010 – Giants at Rangers (with KNBR audio)
2. November 1, 2010 – Giants at Rangers (with Fox audio)
3. November 1, 2010 – Giants at Rangers (synced up with "Black Sabbath, Vol. 4" on repeat – Renteria’s home run is hit right when "Supernaut" starts. Tell me that is just a coincidence. You start the audio up before the first pitch, right when you hear Tim McCarver roar.)
4. November 1, 2010 – Giants at Rangers – (En Español)
5. November 1, 2010 – Giants at Rangers – (just closed captioning)
6. November 1, 2010 – Giants at Rangers – Without game images, but with the KNBR audio over three hours of that stupid Fox robot hitting an animated Tommy Lasorda with a frozen sturgeon. The game moves up to #1 if it’s a real robot and a real Lasorda, but that’s probably unlikely and/or illegal.
7. N….
But not one of those is an option. EAST COAST BUY US. Instead, we have a bunch of non-November 1, 2010 games, so we’ll have to make do. My thoughts so far:
- The exclusion of the Spahn/Marichal game should void any ballot
- The ’79 Phillies/Cubs game should be on there just because. Forty-five runs. Man.
- The July 4, 1985 game is so, so epic. Rick Camp hit a home run to tie the game in the 18th inning. That’s like Jeremy Affeldt hitting a two-out, 18th-inning homer and then coughing up the game in the next half-inning. The word "epic" is used way too much on the internet these days, but epic. Epic. It has to be on the list.
- Morris/Smoltz.
- Ozzie beating the Dodgers is a good bookend to Morgan beating the Dodgers. I’ll take both.
- Now that the Giants have won the World Series, I suppose I can appreciate that Kirk Gibson home run just a little bit as a general baseball fan. A little bit. Maybe.
- Mets/Astros in 1986 makes it easily. I hope Mike Scott wakes up every night thinking about that series.
- Problems: The A-Rod/Texieria/Twins game is kind of an embarrassment to the list. Two from the ’88 Dodgers’ run? And I love the playoffs as much of the next guy, but only six regular season games out of close to 200,000 possibilities? That’s silly. I’ll even take the Spilborghs game over "Phils win after delay."
- No, wait, I wouldn’t.
So help me round out my list. Click on the picture up there to look at the list, and talk me into at least one Yankees highlight. Make arguments for some of the game I didn’t mention, and I’ll go vote. Or make fun of the list, and I’ll be too ashamed to vote. I mostly just want to use my fame and the power of my 51 readers to vote up the Morgan home run.
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this seems like a lot of work
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Yeah, Needs more Mad Libs.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
I want more of this also.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Like, hey, wasn’t the Ron Svoboda game the one that… And then I’m like oh yeah. And then we vote for Joe Morgan.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 2:52 PM PST up reply actions
Click on the picture up there to look at the list
Oh ho ho, you’re not fooling anyone, Frisbee.
Also, it doesn’t work.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
There's still a gross error
Kirk Gibson home run
Needs more deletion. Or strikethrough. Or something.
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 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
Oh man were 2002 and 2003 painful.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 2:44 PM PST reply actions
:(
2002 is winning too (22%). The next closest vote-getter is at 6%.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
I couldn’t believe that, it’s not just in the lead, it’s dominating.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 21, 2010 3:34 PM PST up reply actions
SSS?
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 21, 2010 3:36 PM PST up reply actions
How does that have 22%?
Isn’t there some stupid Red Sox or Yankees game for people to vote for?
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 21, 2010 4:01 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, what the hell?
I call shenanigans!
My adopted Giant got shipped off to Pittsburgh, and it was worth it.
by rightcenterfielder on Dec 21, 2010 4:48 PM PST up reply actions
1962 was painful
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
by Howie Bruno on Dec 21, 2010 3:08 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I was blissfully non-existent.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
2010 was not painful
"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 is the scene where I was on Nov 1 2010. Those are the owners. Free whisky did flow. Not painful at all.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 3:49 PM PST up reply actions
i was here as well
just out of the shot to the left, and the free whiskey did flow like nectar into my waiting mouth
/high five
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 4:15 PM PST up reply actions
2010 was very painful
It was the first year since 1986 I didn’t at least visit the Bay Area, and I spent all but like 5 days of the year in Northern Florida. :(
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on the plus side
Those five-ish days were spent (a) going to NLDS Game 3 and (b) in New Orleans.
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!
not this game which should have made the list!
"There was no torture in the end. Only rapture." - Mike Krukow
2010 Giants: World Series Champs
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 21, 2010 5:13 PM PST up reply actions
Where are the 2002 votes coming from? I would have suspected that all of the Angel fans would have jumped off of the bandwagon after last season.
"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 21, 2010 11:13 PM PST up reply actions
OT
The NY Times has an article on Timmeh:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/sports/baseball/26lincecum.html
"It’s like a rocket ship," Chris Lincecum said. "It’s surreal. Every now and then I have to sit back and go: ‘Hey, that’s my kid. He’s a superstar.’ "
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"I never got to sleep," Chris Lincecum said. "At 6 o’clock the next morning, I was still up. I remember every now and then, I’d be walking down the hall and just go, ‘Yeah!’ It really struck me: he just won the World Series. He won two of the four games. I’m still floating."
I did the same thing, and I’m not even Tim’s dad.
by non sequitur on Dec 21, 2010 2:57 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
omg why am i crying about this?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Holiday Season Emotions….and BTW TGWTWS2010
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
TGWTW.
I like it.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
It's like penicilin.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Tim… Guy? Won the World Series 2010?
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 21, 2010 10:41 PM PST up reply actions
becasue the GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES!
And you’re not the only one…I’m kinda teary too….
"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."
Havnt seen how the list is going on ther yet. The one game playoff between Colorado and San Diego from a few years ago has to be on there tho doesn’t it? For a non-Giants game, that has to be one of the very best ive ever seen given the situation
Brandon!
Belted deep to right-center field!
by Vaccaro on Dec 21, 2010 2:50 PM PST via mobile reply actions
51 years ago.
"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 21, 2010 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
Holy shit
How does that get excluded?! I mean, seriously, wow. I know that was past the time limit (50 years), but dios mio. The dude only took a perfect game into the 13th inning. And lost the game. Good grief.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
I agree Grantwise on the '86 Mets/Astros...
That game made me late going back into work. I didn’t even get to start watching it until the 7th. It just blew to bits my lunch break. Considering how much I despised the Astros that year, I was pulling for….and I can’t believe it to this day, but I was rooting for a New York team.
I also hate that the Astros made me root for a New York team. Damn you Jose Cruz, Glenn Davis and Mike effing Scott.
I saw that game back in January or so on MLB Network. Definitely amazing.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
And damn him indirectly for 2003
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 21, 2010 10:43 PM PST up reply actions
The Martinez double against the Yankees in the ALDS is up there for me.
Kruk: "and the Giants, the San Francisco Giants…"
Kuip: "They got one…"
Kruk: "World Champs."
- November 1, 2010
I was thinking about that one. Capping off a comeback from down 2-0 in the series was pretty exciting.
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 21, 2010 3:04 PM PST up reply actions
I voted
11/4/01 – Gonzo beats Mo. Gotta be the biggest Yankee heartbreaker of the half-century. Unless losing a 3-0 game lead to the Red Sox is better.
I saw the 9th inning at the Burbank airport, conveniently given a great seat when a Yankee fan left it in disgust at some point.
"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
off the greatest closer ever.
"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 21, 2010 5:08 PM PST up reply actions
Right after Mrs. Cashman had turned to her husband
and said “One more strike!”
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 21, 2010 6:41 PM PST up reply actions
You could tell Mo was in trouble during the ninth because he was wild and (if I remember correctly) threw a ball away to 2nd base. Also because the announcers spent the entire inning talking about how awesome he was and never lost big games.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 21, 2010 8:05 PM PST up reply actions
Any American outside of NYC and Bergen County would vote for the Gonzo hit.
"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 21, 2010 9:38 PM PST up reply actions
my roomate is from Bergen County
He’s a prick
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
by Howie Bruno on Dec 21, 2010 10:40 PM PST up reply actions
The biggest douchebag I’ve ever met on the Internet was from Bergen County.
"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!"
my dad is from Bergen County :(
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
The young guys from Bergen County are pricks, not the old guys - your dad is probably alright...but please keep an eye on him.
"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 21, 2010 11:16 PM PST up reply actions
He's a good guy.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Are you from Bergen County?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 8:21 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
the worst part of hulu is that i have to sit through a 30 sec commercial to watch the end-of-episode tag
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
if its community its usually worth it.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
it's two more episodes of parks & rec at the moment
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Fuck.
I wanted Barry Bonds to have a ring so bad.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
by GiantPain on Dec 21, 2010 3:07 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
+1
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Dec 21, 2010 3:09 PM PST up reply actions
Then again
He held his fate in his own noodle arm in 1992, and Bream beat him.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
it was a strong enough throw, just a little offline.
"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 21, 2010 5:22 PM PST up reply actions
You know, from a narrative perspective there’s a sort of beautiful symbolism to Barry finishing out his career without a ring. He’s a man who was willing to risk everything, surrender everything, in pursuit of success – of attaining the ultimate “Fuck You” to wave in the face of a world he seemed happy to oppose. If you believe that the world is ultimately an unfair and fucked-up place, it only seems right that this absolute titan would be forced into retirement without achieving the height of his sport.
The part of me that isn’t a pretentious dick agrees, though. :(
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 21, 2010 3:17 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
From a narrative baseball perspective, you're right.
Not even baseball can be perfect.
(reminder that though Barry Bonds has faced injustices in the baseball world, he is also rich as fucking fuck)
I have a tumblr. I had some other text here but then the San Francisco Giants won the World Series
Yes, but we could have said the same for Willie Mac, Bobby Bonds, Will the Thrill....it would have been nice to see Barry get one, but the only thing that matters is that the Boys got one this year. Maybe Bengie can send his to Barry.
"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 21, 2010 9:42 PM PST up reply actions
Wrecked
But the same can be said for so many…I just hope the past players appreciate 2010 half as much as the fans do.
"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."
Fuck yeah!
"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 21, 2010 5:08 PM PST up reply actions
I had a third row bleachers ticket but I couldn’t go T-T
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 21, 2010 10:47 PM PST up reply actions
Ah
I remember the first time we did the Dark Side of the Moon Wizard of Oz thing back in college. That was cool.
"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.
AUGH
I accidentally voted for the Oct 9, 2005 game when I was trying to watch the video. Fortunately, I can just go back to the page again.
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Where's the Marichal game where he uses Roseborough's face as a pinata? That has my vote.
"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 21, 2010 9:47 PM PST up reply actions
Ooh…good call.
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 21, 2010 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
It’s the kiddie pool.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
Only up to '62?
The Shot Heard ’Round The World is clearly so far above anything else, i mean, Don Delillo wrote a whole book inspired by it.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I was wondering about this as well.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 21, 2010 3:36 PM PST up reply actions
That is a pretty glaring omission.
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 21, 2010 3:37 PM PST up reply actions
The poll is just of the last 50 years.
Kruk: "and the Giants, the San Francisco Giants…"
Kuip: "They got one…"
Kruk: "World Champs."
- November 1, 2010
Which is a travesty.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
They want to show the games...
..so they limited it to the TV era.
Rec’d
"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!"
CRUCIFY
CRUCIFY
CRUCIFY
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 21, 2010 3:44 PM PST up reply actions
…and I never pass up the opportunity to tell my Lasorda story.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
Fuck Kirk Gibson
Now and forever.
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!
by jcb9 on Dec 21, 2010 3:39 PM PST reply actions 6 recs
/slides in to this line. Fuck him and his fist pump.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
Is that he sequel to “Lick My Love Pump”?
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
The minor keys are always so sad.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 3:54 PM PST up reply actions
He sure is.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
rec'd
with eternal gratitude.
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 4:41 PM PST up reply actions
Never has a poster been more correct in the history of the internet. Ever.
It was Game 1 fercrissakes.
I can't fight this feeling anymore!
by ResDog on Dec 22, 2010 5:30 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
THANK YOU!
“Ishikawa doubles to left… here comes Renteria… the Giants win the World Series!”
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 7:04 AM PST up reply actions
Game 7 of the 2001 World Series was a pretty great one.
And the only time in my life I’ve ever unreservedly rooted for the Diamondbacks.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
I got into trouble with my major Giants fan friend for confessing I rooted for the D’Backs in that game. I know, I know, but dude, it was the destruction of the Death Star. The battle of Helm’s Deep. It set the state for the overthrow of the Emperor and the Fall of Barad-Dur.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
It was totally sensible to root for them on that occasion. Friend: wrong.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 4:05 PM PST up reply actions
I had a roommate who claimed that so many people were rooting against the Yankees that they were the underdogs in the series. Luckily, class projects kept me away from watching the games at home with him.
by Ice Watter In His Veins! on Dec 22, 2010 10:34 AM PST up reply actions
If that was how they determined underdogs, the Yankees would be underdogs in every game they ever played.
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 22, 2010 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
It’s weird for me that Arizona is now the least hated NL West team. I miss the days when I didn’t give a shit about the Padres and pitied the Rockies.
My NL West hate standings
Dodgers
Rockies
Padres
Dbacks
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Dodgers
Rockies
Padres
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meh
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Dbacks
by speckops on Dec 21, 2010 4:17 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
agree
D-backs beat the Yankees and gave Matt Williams a ring.
I still have trouble hating the Rockies. I do dislike some of their players though, and Dinger should die a thousand gruesome deaths.
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 21, 2010 4:22 PM PST up reply actions
I hate the Rockies now because their fans are supercilious and pharisaical, holier-than-thou hypocrites. I hate the Dodgers because they exist. I hate the A’s because A’s fans hate the Giants, for no good reason.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Rockies fans have slowly been turning me against the team, but I rarely interact with them, so it hasn’t happened very quickly. Seriously though, Dinger.
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 21, 2010 4:31 PM PST up reply actions
Although what is up with all the Colorado hats in gangland these days.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
It’s the initials, isn’t it? Or the colors? Red Sox jerseys are common gang attire in Anchorage because of the colors.
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 21, 2010 4:33 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t hate the A’s. My feelings for the A’s are basically mildly benevolent indifferent. A’s fans are the worst, 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!"
If A's fans bug you...
Don’t go near them in the exercise yard.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
That’s Raiders fans.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 4:40 PM PST up reply actions
They're in solitary
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
I’ve really hated the A’s ever since I heard the stories when Ichiro made his first appearance in Oakland. Fans were throwing coins at Ichiro and Japanese fans all over the ball park (non-season ticket holder areas) were getting racist comments toward them.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Also batteries (before Rome was saying “battery chuck” IIRC). I remember Bill King trying to figure out what was going on, since he hadn’t really done anything in the game, and that surprised me just as much. The great Mr. King was not usually slow on the uptake, and even I knew sitting in my apartment in Oakland what was happening without visuals, and why.
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 7:09 AM PST up reply actions
Mariners fans are like the opposite of A’s fans.
"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.
Mariners fans are the best. Seriously. They’re ridiculously loyal to their team, but they give you the least amount of crap ever if you’re rooting for th other side.
"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."
A’s are definitely my second team. But the difference in my affection for the Giants and the A’s is like the difference between reading a book on the beach in Hawaii and reading a passage from James Michener’s “Hawaii” while I’m hanging out in a Motel 6 in Medford.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 4:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Not as good with smilies.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 5:00 PM PST up reply actions
Like a 3rd simile, at best.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
[Giants player] is like [bad actor or 1980s pop culture reference]…
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Barry Bonds is like a Virgin?
Did I do it right?
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 21, 2010 5:08 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Eugenio Velez is all where’s the beef all up in this bitch!
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 5:11 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Miguel Tejada is Hey, Mikey!
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No, no, that's Bill Simmons.
And you meant [Celtics player] is like [bad actor or 1980s pop culture reference].
Also, the 1980s metaphor should be stretched out to a few ten thousand words.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 21, 2010 11:07 PM PST up reply actions
Why are you in Mehford?
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
I was driving back to the Bay Area from Seattle, got a late start, was pulling into Mehford along I-5 South. Dead tired … I stumbled a few miles further south and stayed the night in Ashland.
by non sequitur on Dec 21, 2010 7:33 PM PST up reply actions
That’s a good simile, you are clever.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 21, 2010 8:46 PM PST up reply actions
Really?
Were they your second favorite team in 89? How did that feel?
I can't fight this feeling anymore!
They were my favorite team in ’89, but I was 12. I got better.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 22, 2010 1:36 PM PST up reply actions
Gross.
"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 was 12, the Rams were my favorite football team because I’m an Aries and Aries is the Ram. I also liked the Blue Jays because I thought their hat looked cool.
12-year-olds are stupid.
Placeholder.
by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:38 PM PST up reply actions
I was shudder kind of a Packers fan because someone bought me a Packers hat. I was also an A’s fan because Zito and Tejada were goofy.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 22, 2010 2:08 PM PST up reply actions
Yup, something about the Rockies just makes me want to dropkick things.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 21, 2010 8:49 PM PST up reply actions
What?
What is wrong with you? You can’t find it in yourself to hate Todd Helton and his neck goatee or Neifi Perez and his broken bat homer or that joke of a ballpark? What the hell?
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
I hate the Rockies with a passion and hate their stupid purple dinosaur that always shakes his ass behind home plate the entire bottom of the 9th inning
by 49erEmpire on Dec 22, 2010 8:30 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Hate Standings
Dodgers
Padres
Rockies
—MEH-NDOZA LINE—
D-Backs
The Rockies and D-Backs switch places a lot here. I don’t think the Padres will fall below the Meh-ndoza Line for a while.
I have a tumblr. I had some other text here but then the San Francisco Giants won the World Series
I will always fucking hate the Rockies
1993
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
by ToddCommish on Dec 21, 2010 4:43 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
If you hate 1993...
Then you have to hate the Padres more. If they hadn’t traded McGriff to Atlanta, the Rockies wouldn’t have mattered. Even the Dodgers wouldn’t have mattered. And for sure the Braves wouldn’t have mattered.
Proud father of Barry Bonds.
by Sabertooth on Dec 21, 2010 7:57 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Neifi Perez'd
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
by Cody_ransom on Dec 23, 2010 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
More Like
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- Dinger
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- Mat Latos
- Padres
The Mario Mendoza Line
8. D’Backs
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
Yes, but I still hate the D'backs Manager - fuck the D'backs Manager AND his fist pump.
"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 21, 2010 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
One weird thing for me about AZ is that even when they were good, they were so stocked with former Giants, or seemed to be anyway (having Matt Williams went a long way, believe me, when he came in to home a world champion in 2001 I was so happy for him) that it’s always been a strange feeling between me and the Snakes.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Their base coaches are both Giants and their manager is a Dodger. They’re like the Mets of the west.
"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!"
LOL Mets
“Um, why is our new ballpark all about the NY Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers?”
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Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
"Mets Fans Perplexed By New Stadium's Prominent Tim Teufel Statue"
http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/mets-fans-perplexed-by-new-stadiums-prominent-tim,6664/
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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 pretty sure it’s only about the Dodgers.
"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.
The Wilpons grew up in Brooklyn as Dodger fans and built a shrine to their childhood team. It looks like Ebbets Field and the main entrance is the Jackie Robinson Rotunda and ohbythewaytheMetsHallofFame, stuffed under a stairwell.
The Mess deserve everything bad that happens to them.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 21, 2010 11:13 PM PST up reply actions
We don't really have a signature loss at the hands of the D'Backs in the last decade
No Ryan Spilborghs game, no Steve Finley game and not many one-run losses.
When I think of the Giants-D’Backs, I think of the game where Bonds hit a salami off of Curt Schilling
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
Matt Williams, Brett Butler is also a coach in their farm system and don't forgetbthe snakes when they won it had Brenly as their Manager and Bob Melvin since then. For the most part, the Giants and the D'backs really doesn't seem like a rivalry because I
Can’t remember both teams being goodnthe same year.
"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 21, 2010 9:56 PM PST up reply actions
Not fair that the newly expansion Diamondbacks team gets to beat the Yankees on a doink hit up the middle...
…and that the ‘old as the Polo Grounds’ Giants lose to the Yankees on a screaming line drive to the out of positioned second baseman….tsk, tsk….
And called by McCarver. It was a stunner.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
That was the only flaw in my "dream season" this year. I so much wanted to be in Yankee Stadium for Game 5 on 11/1/2010 to see Timmeh kick Sabbathia and the Yankees asses in front of their fans.
Instead, I was forced to celebrate at Arlington Stadium surrounded by Ranger fans talking about where they were going to go deer hunting this season. Ranger fans are much harder to hate.
"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 21, 2010 10:00 PM PST up reply actions
That’s the only time I’ve ever rooted for the Yankees.
Other than when Rickey Henderson was on the team, but that’s just the folly of youth.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
It was less than two months after September 11th, and it was the f’n Diamondbacks. I apologize for nothing.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 4:25 PM PST up reply actions
Just because terrible things happen to people doesn’t mean that you should root for them or their ugly laundry.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I agree. I don’t like when fans argue their team deserves something because of some terrible tragedy.
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 21, 2010 4:32 PM PST up reply actions
2002 Cardinals were guilty of this
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 21, 2010 4:33 PM PST up reply actions
Absolutely – their broadcaster, right? I hated that.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Dec 21, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Oh yeah.
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 21, 2010 4:46 PM PST up reply actions
So did we win the World Series because
Velez got smacked in the head by a line drive?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
THE TRAGEDY OF BARRY ZITO
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Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 21, 2010 4:48 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Well, they did only win the division by one game, so perhaps.
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 21, 2010 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
Correction – two games, but you know what I meant.
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 21, 2010 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
And before the Giants won the World Series, I was vehemently opposed to expansion teams cutting in line. Screw you Marlins (x2), and screw you Arizona.
You’re cool, Texas.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 4:28 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Fuck the Marlins.
"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!"
There’s two championships lost to oblivion.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
So annoying
At least the Diamonbacks deserved their title – the Marlins just crapped out a couple of pretty good seasons out of nowhere and somehow won both times.
The 1997 Marlins had a pretty good collection of players (most of whom were hired guns).
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#matlatoscomplaints
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 5:00 PM PST up reply actions
Young Mat Latos was not impressed.
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Lot of homegrown talent, too
some of whom would become good Giants.
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
The Marlins win...
Means that Robb Nen got a ring. That makes it infinitely better.
"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."
Fun fact
No World Series has ever featured two expansion teams.
"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 agree with Grant totally
+1 on expansion teams
+1 on 9/11 sympathy for NY
+1 on hating Diamondbacks
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 21, 2010 6:23 PM PST up reply actions
I'm with both of you
I’ll admit it
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Dec 22, 2010 12:08 PM PST up reply actions
Honestly, that made me more inclined to root against the Yankees.
Much of the media at the time seemed to be advancing a “IF YOU DON’T ROOT FOR THE YANKEES YOU HATE AMERICA” line, and living in Lower Manhattan at the time, that kinda pissed me off.
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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!
by jcb9 on Dec 21, 2010 4:29 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Ugh, 2002 it was “The Angels are the bright shining example of everything that is good and pure, while the Giants are as surly and mean as their steroid superstar”, and then you see a picture of Eckstein vs a picture of Barry and you see exactly what they’re referring to, and it’s not “goodness”.
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Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 21, 2010 4:31 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
+1
I will unreservedly call racism at every opportunity in a discussion of Barry’s legacy.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 21, 2010 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
This is dumb
Clemens is despised by the national media in the same way as Barry – because they were both good and won’t apologize for it.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Barry Bonds absolutely 100% received more negative attention from fans and the media because of his race. Not all of the attention, not all of the fans, not all of the media. Probably not even a majority. But it was there.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 21, 2010 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
I don't think this is really the same
Clemens was vilified AFTER evidence of his guilt came out, and when it did, most people seemed to be “shocked.”
Bonds, on the other hand, was vilified from pretty much the moment the steroids hysteria began, before evidence against him ever became public.
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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!
McGwire was villified early on too
It’s not a race thing.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
really?
I don’t remember anyone vilifying McGwire before his testimony to Congress.
Hell, the whole country pretty much ignored him admitting to using Andro (which was, of course, legal at the time, but which is still a PED).
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by jcb9 on Dec 21, 2010 4:54 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
That’s how I remember it too.
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 21, 2010 5:02 PM PST up reply actions
Where are the votes for 2002 coming from? Are there really that many Angel fans still on the bandwagon after last year?
"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 21, 2010 11:09 PM PST up reply actions
Not sure it was a race thing, but the media clearly had it out for Barry. Having lived in NYC when Clemens pitched for the Yankees, nobody ever questioned Clemens about steroids and it wasn't until
His personal trainer and nutritionist called him out. Barry will never get the credit he deserves for perhaps being the greatest hitter of All Time. Unfortunately, I believe race has at least something to do with it. I have not seen anyone in the media who is African American attack Barry. But I have seen numerous white members of the media who were trying to prosecute Barry in the media before there was a credible shred of evidence.
"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 21, 2010 11:34 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Before there was anything to indict him FOR — remember, his criminal indictment is for lying to the investigation. I’m not saying entrapment, I’m just saying …
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Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
But wasn’t it the BALCO thing that set off the steroids hysteria? Bonds was most certainly associated with them.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 4:51 PM PST up reply actions
maybe bitterness has colored my recollection
But I remember hearing a lot of “OMG STEROIDZ!” about Bonds in 2001-2002. Not on the same scale as post-Balco, obviously.
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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 was vilified once he entered the league. The steroids stuff just gave people/media another excuse to do so later on in his career.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 21, 2010 5:21 PM PST up reply actions
This is my impression. Due to whatever ticked them off when he was a young player, they’ve always been “out to get him”, and the roids thing was just a justification for a preexisting feeling.
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Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Dec 21, 2010 5:52 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Due to whatever ticked them off when he was a young player
He was Barry Bonds and he was badass ?
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
This.
"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 21, 2010 10:39 PM PST up reply actions
Back in 89-91 I think it's possible
that some of the hate was racially agrivated. What I mean is that the hate was not rooted in racism but rather racism amplified the things that some people hated about Bonds. In general I think that feeling is absent now.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
by Cody_ransom on Dec 23, 2010 12:10 PM PST up reply actions
http://sports.espn.go.com/gammons/s/2003/0402/1533123.html
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Looking at Bonds’ 2002 stats, my first thought is often, .370 OBP, not bad. .582 slugging, pretty damn good. Oh wait, .370 was his batting average and .582 was his OBP. Holy crap.
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 21, 2010 4:53 PM PST up reply actions
Um, yeah. Even after seeing the stats numerous times – Wow.
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 21, 2010 5:03 PM PST up reply actions
This.
Its definitely not something you just get used to.
"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."
It is so foreign to anything we see in baseball statistics.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
by Cody_ransom on Dec 23, 2010 12:16 PM PST up reply actions
Just his Avg+OBP that year wouldve put him fifth on the list in OPS in 2010, 2nd in 2009, and 2nd 2008.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
To be fair
That was the year Bonds set the all-time single season OPS record.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Rub my eyes. If we could have morphed 2002 lineup offensively with our current pitching staff, how many rings could Barry have won?
"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 21, 2010 10:42 PM PST up reply actions
Elventy billion.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
by Cody_ransom on Dec 23, 2010 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
Didn’t get that in Oregon. It seemed like a welcome diversion for an area that really needed one.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 4:31 PM PST up reply actions
I was also, it should be said, thoroughly frazzled and taking everything terribly personally at that point in time.
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The sense of Yankee entitlement was coming through loud and clear in SF.
It seemed like a welcome diversion for an area that really needed one.
Oh, yeah. Area Mets fans were reeeeally hoping that the Yankees could add a 27th notch to their belt, because that would make everything better. Like how a Tigers’ win would fix Detroit.
Sarcasm aside, the diversion to which you refer was the games themselves, not the outcome of the Series. And a thrilling, engrossing, nail-biter of a Series is exactly what they got.
And the good less bad guys won.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 21, 2010 11:41 PM PST up reply actions
Also
Schilling and Randy Johnson? Yuck. And the Yankees had just started their campaign to just straight buy the title, so they hadn’t become outrageous yet. Sure, they picked up Clemens and Mussina, but Scott Brosius was a major hero for them that year. Scott Brosius!
I rooted for ’em when Mussina had their perfect game going against the Red Sox. Always liked Moose. Bay Area ties, etc.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
their = that
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I was pissed when the Giants didn’t draft Mussina.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
1990 was not a good year for the team brain trust
Adam Hyzdu! (2 picks later: Jeromy Burnitz)
Eric Christopherson!! (next pick: Moose)
BOOOO!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 4:22 PM PST up reply actions
I pissed off my then girlfriend (a Yankees fan) by jumping around as if I were a Diamondbacks fan. I’m unashamed.
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 21, 2010 4:21 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I’ve never been my gast so flabbered as when Tony Womack hit that double.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’ve long been of the opinion that this game doesn’t get enough respect. It solidified my “Shawn Estes is a piece of shit” opinion. And some dude hit a home run or something. Also, Eric Davis!! And many other things. Just got lost in the shuffle, and in the ‘Fucking Dodgers’ groupthink.
I mean, look at you all. LOOK AT YOU! YOU’RE FILTHY! CLEAN YOURSELVES UP! This is a Giants website, and the most historic moment in Giantsdom does not bare a mention until I drunkenly recollect it?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Well, if it bared its mention more often perhaps it would be better remembered.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 4:03 PM PST up reply actions
Estes wasn't bad at all in 2001, really
When I think of him that year, I think of another one-run loss.
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Marquis Grissom sighting!
"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!"
Wow.
LOLyoung indeed.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Jeff Shaw . . .
. . . had the save in that game, good for a total of 42 on the year. Then, retired. Wonder what happened.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I was at that game.
So bittersweet. We were eliminated that day by virtue of the ’Stros winning.
SO FUCKING AWESOME THOUGH
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
You’re thinking of the last game of the season in 2004.
"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!"
No, I'm not.
I recall watching the out-of-town scoreboard during the game.
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
LOL ME
It happened in 2004, too, 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!"
I remember watching that last ’04 game and thinking, “Great, now what?”
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yeah
I’m pretty positive the Giants were eliminated the same day Barry broke the single-season record.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
It was truly one of the most epic, if crushing, games in Giants history.
9/11 had happened. Two days later, the Afghan War would start. Barry Bonds was about to break the single-season home run record, and it wasn’t a national lovefest. So much angst and pressure, and the Giants were clinging to a chance at the postseason. Estes collapsed and our hero pitcher of the Dustiny years was booed off the field a failure. Bonds hit a home run. Twice. Tied the record. Broke the record. It was the longest 9-inning game in National League history to that time. It was Giants-Dodgers. If the Dodgers beat the Giants, the Giants would be eliminated. They did.
I was catatonic after that game. Picked myself up off the floor about half an hour into the news and made myself a drink.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Same.
Still my favorite game of all time. Impossibly epic. They should do a 30 at 30 about it.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Totally. It was one of those, sports-as-microcosm, baseball-reflecting-and-commenting-on-America, kind of games.
If David Halberstam were alive and remembered the Giants moved to the West Coast, he might have had a good book about that game.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I remember that Eric Davis double quite vividly. That, on top of Jon Miller’s almost blindingly awesome home run call and the general madness, got me to a fever pitch never since approached. I was blind with pure fandom. The Dodgers were the embodiment of Evil; the Giants, Good. There was nothing more than that one baseball game, and Jesus Christ there goes Eric Davis of all people with a rope down the line. One forgets one’s mortality, and there is only baseball.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
And how's this for a fourth inning?
GIANTS 4TH: Feliz struck out; Fultz singled to right; Benard doubled to right [Fultz to third]; Aurilia flied to left; Bonds was walked intentionally; Kent doubled to right [Fultz scored,
Benard scored, Bonds scored, Kent out at third (right toshortstop to third)]; 3 R, 3 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Dodgers 9, Giants 8.
WTF KENT
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
WTF Feliz. starts the inning with a strikeout only to have Fultz start the rally.WTF Kent....what is the cardinal sin? First or third out of the inning made at third base.
"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 21, 2010 10:12 PM PST up reply actions
This one really pissed me off
The Giants got eliminated and they still had a fucking post-game ceremony to celebrate Bonds record. It’s not celebrating it that pissed me off. It’s WHEN they did it. It was if the home run record was more important than being in the playoffs. They could have held off the ceremony until the following day.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Estes doesn’t get enough out there between that loss and Game 2 of the Mets series in 2000 (I still believe that if Estes doesn’t pull that base running blunder, thus forcing the bullpen to start early, they would have beaten the Mets). He was like an early prototype of Barry Zito except much less expensive
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 21, 2010 8:14 PM PST up reply actions
Dude, once Estes started seriously fading into meh status, I started drooling over the wacky A’s lefthander with the blue hair and the stuffed animals.
IT WAS ALL A LIE.
TO HIMSELF AND THEN TO ALL OF BASEBALL.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
In MVP Baseball 2002 I picked him in the first round of an expansion draft. At the time I was like “yeah right, I wish”.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 22, 2010 1:19 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah I didn’t trust Estes before the game and I hated him after it. I loved that Bonds ate Chan Ho Park alive.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 22, 2010 1:14 AM PST up reply actions
Clearly the best Yankee game
from a Giants perspective, is Dave Righetti’s No-hitter
I like this one. Wish I could find the video.
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Darren Lewis a Dodger? How did I block this out in my brain for all these years?
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
auuuuuugggh why
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 21, 2010 4:36 PM PST up reply actions
probably because he only played like 25 games with them
Also, the trade which sent him packing from San Francisco is still one of the strangest in Giants history:
Traded by the San Francisco Giants with Dave Burba and Mark Portugal to the Cincinnati Reds for Dave McCarty, Ricky Pickett, John Roper, Deion Sanders and Scott Service.
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!
Wow! I forgot about that trade - the Reds got the better of that one.
"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 21, 2010 10:16 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, I hated this trade!
I loved D-lew and his perfect centerfield play. We got Deion to put butts in the seats and nothing more. He did nothing on the field, left the team when we were eliminated (concentrated on football) then never came back.
also
I had forgotten Shooter stayed in and pitched two perfect innings after getting out of the bases loaded, 0 out jam. I miss Shooter.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Joe Buck got mad props from me for reciting the names of all the “greats” who played for SF and never made it to the championship, and he included Beck.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
He did well throughout the whole series, I thought. His Renteria home run call was fantastic.
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 5:00 PM PST up reply actions
I didn’t hear it, being too busy listening to Dave Flemming’s call.
"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 didn't hear it. I was too busy talking trash to Ranger fans in the left field pavilion at Arlington Stadium.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Dec 21, 2010 10:17 PM PST up reply actions
I think the fans in SF reminded him that he’s a human being, and he began to react accordingly.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Watched Game 4 of the NLCS last night. He mistook Romo for Brian Wilson, probably due to the beard. Speaking of which, wasn’t the Beard supposed to refer to the bullpen as a whole rather than just Wilson? I guess the black beard stole all the attention.
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He actually did. The Giants winning helped, but I thought he was decent.
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 21, 2010 5:03 PM PST up reply actions
As long as he doesn’t veer into “opinion” commentary, Buck is tolerable. Sometimes too dull, but tolerable. It’s McCarver who is truly annoying.
Joe Buck is good, but Jack Buck was great. McCarver is nothing short of annoying
"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 21, 2010 10:19 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe I’m alone, but I still thought he was awful throughout the Series.
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 pretty sure I’m the one without the support of numbers. Such an iconoclast!
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 21, 2010 5:14 PM PST up reply actions
PROVE IT. PROVE IT WITH NUMBERS AND EMPIRICAL REASONING.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
SPREADSHEETS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 5:17 PM PST up reply actions
I thought he was great
I preferred his calls to the radio ones at time. Kuip got a big overpumped.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
You’re just being difficult, GP. I admire that.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 21, 2010 9:27 PM PST up reply actions
The Yankee games were great because they happened to a team from NY
/Heyman
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 21, 2010 4:30 PM PST reply actions
"The exclusion of the Spahn/Marichal game should void any ballot"
I agree, for any fan that loves pitching over hitting, this game as a single isolated event not associated with any other context like winning a pennant or WS, has to be the most amazing outlier game in modern baseball history. From a google search:
“File this in the “would never happen today” drawer. On July 2, 1963, the Giants and Braves played a 16-inning game in which both pitchers went the distance. The final score: 1-0. The two pitchers: Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Warren Spann. Marichal, the winner, says he threw 227 pitches in the game. More important to him than numbers, though, are the memories of taking on Spann that he shared with Sporting News.
After nine innings, the manager, Alvin Dark, wanted to take me out. I begged him to let me stay a few more innings, so he did. In the 14th inning, he really wanted to take me out. I said, “Alvin, do you see that man pitching on the mound?”
He said, “Yeah.”
I said, “That man is 42 years old. I’m only 25. As long as that man stays on the mound, nobody is going to take me out of here,”
by Leftyretro on Dec 21, 2010 5:24 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
♥ Juan Marichal
So awesome he was doing commentary for a Latin American network during the WS so he could be there when San Francisco finally won it all.
Barry, of course, was running back and forth through his house. Which I take it is a huge house.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
The Yankees/Twins ALDS game was just a horrible inclusion.
Really don’t know what they were thinking with that one.
The Twins/Tigers game however, was definitely worthy… And it would probably make my list… Even though it’s a clear bias because I actually sat and watched it… Opposed to some of the other games on the list that may not actually make my top 20.
Either way, that game was incredible.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Dec 21, 2010 5:25 PM PST reply actions
Kerry Wood's 20 strikeout game?
or one of Clemens’s?
"There was no torture in the end. Only rapture." - Mike Krukow
2010 Giants: World Series Champs
Neal before Zod!
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 21, 2010 5:26 PM PST reply actions
I came here to post this
I believe this is the single greatest pitched game ever. Not a perfect game or a no-hitter, but pretty darned close and more dominant that anything I’ve ever seen or heard about.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Dec 21, 2010 7:25 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I totally agree. Infield chopper for the only hit
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Dec 21, 2010 7:32 PM PST up reply actions
It might have cost him his arm. I remember seeing some of that game on WGN, and the shit he threw went down, around, then up.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 21, 2010 9:29 PM PST up reply actions
I voted for Jack Morris
10 inning shutout in the W.S.? 2nd greatest after Larsen’s perfecto, imo.
# 24
by tinkerstoeverstochance on Dec 21, 2010 10:30 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Marichal/Spahn
I, and 1% of others, think so.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 21, 2010 6:08 PM PST reply actions
Does this mean you’ll be getting a nice tax break?
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
Earmark. I know people.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 21, 2010 6:40 PM PST up reply actions
That’s my problem. No people.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 6:44 PM PST up reply actions
My problem is
I’ve got people, they are poor though :-(
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
The Phillies game against the Astros in ’80 is definitely Top 50 worthy, though.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 21, 2010 8:20 PM PST up reply actions
That is an especially lame game to be called top 50.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 21, 2010 10:35 PM PST up reply actions
What about the game where the Mets were down 17-0 and came back to win it?
That was…2005-ish, I think? I know Piazza was still on their team.
The Giants also had a crazy game where they scored 18 runs and Shawn Estes pitched a shutout. That was epic.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 21, 2010 6:18 PM PST reply actions
Was that the game Estes hit a grand slam too? Against Montreal in 2000? I loved that game.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Wait a minute!!
The moon is rising. Does that mean it wasn’t eaten by a dragon last night?
I don’t know how I’ll explain this to the cat.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 21, 2010 6:41 PM PST reply actions
Bulimic dragon.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Tossed a cookie. So ends the myth of consumption/rebirth.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 21, 2010 8:42 PM PST up reply actions
You might be thinking of consumption of the afterbirth, which is common in mammals. And makes me want to toss my cookies.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 9:51 PM PST up reply actions
Bulimic Dragon
I just found a name for my new power metal band
you ever been on a real shrimpin' boat?
no, but i've been on a real big boat
by Larry Bamar on Dec 22, 2010 12:04 PM PST up reply actions
Let's go inside the mind... of a Greg Jennings
dooodleeey doodleeey doo
OH FUCK! here comes Darren Sharper! one of the most hardest hitting safeties in the game
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
by Howie Bruno on Dec 21, 2010 6:46 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
are there a ton of angels fans voting for this thing?
22% for a game that never happened?
Oh, no.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 7:07 PM PST up reply actions
Interesting. What happens to this McC meme now that TGWTW?
by non sequitur on Dec 21, 2010 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
I think that’s what happens to it:
TGWTWS
2002 still didn’t happen, but now for a different reason.
IT DOESN’T MATTER CUZ TSFGWTMFWS!!!
it was fun while it lasted, though.
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
by Howie Bruno on Dec 22, 2010 12:41 AM PST up reply actions
Because the Giants won in 2010
I’ll be nice and I WON’T find the picture. This meme needs to DIE and DIE NOW.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Kirk Gibson is #1
That is the greatest moment and greatest game I know of. Who cares if it was the Dodgers. It was incredible. Nothing touches it.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Dec 21, 2010 7:26 PM PST reply actions
Yep. Still think it’s the greatest sports moment (not including winning the World Series, of course) that I’ve ever seen. Even if I was supposed to have tickets to that game and the person with the tickets gave them to somebody else.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 21, 2010 8:17 PM PST up reply actions
I agree. With the exception of the whole Giants Winning the World Series thing, the Gibson home run was the most incredible sports play I’ve ever watched. And I say that despite the fact somebody was going to give me a ticket to that game and accidentily gave them to somebody else.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 21, 2010 8:21 PM PST up reply actions
The band is out on the field!
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 9:04 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Gibson"s homer is not #1....wasn't it game 1 of the WS? okay so it was semi dramatic at the moment mostly for Dodger fans, but besides the fact that the median crams the clip down our throats and Scully gets an erection making the call, I don't see it as
A Top 20.
"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 21, 2010 10:49 PM PST up reply actions
How could you possibly rank that over Joe Carter’s home run?
I can't fight this feeling anymore!
by ResDog on Dec 22, 2010 5:43 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Or Maz's home run
A legit underdog in Pittsburgh v. those damned Yankees. And LOL Yogi at the end.
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
Also, I agree with Grants about the 45 run game
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Dec 21, 2010 7:28 PM PST reply actions
The League of Grants!
Fighting evil and spreading justice across the globe.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 21, 2010 7:30 PM PST up reply actions
DONG HUGGER
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Dec 21, 2010 7:31 PM PST up reply actions
SCROTUM SQUEEZER!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 21, 2010 7:40 PM PST up reply actions
“Grants comment” sigh.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Dec 21, 2010 7:34 PM PST up reply actions
no, mlb network, rick ankiel isnt an inspiration for converting from a pitcher to a hitter
he used steroids.
WHY DOES NOBODY ACKNOWLEDGE PED USE EXCEPT WHEN BONDS IS MENTIONED???
How does that make him less inspirational?
Steroids don’t help you hit.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
This is what makes him less inspirational
He isn’t a good hitter. He isn’t even average.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Since 2007
His OPS+ is 101.
Which is very close to exactly average.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
not for a corner outfielder I don't think
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
oh
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
he's not a very good CF tho
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Sure
But cornball said he wasn’t an “average” hitter. I didn’t take position in to account, just him as a hitter.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
he hasn't been an average hitter the last two years
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
True.
But in his career as a hitter, since 2007, he has been roughly average.
That’s all. I’m not going any farther in my defense of Rick Ankiel.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
He has some upside, I think
he wasn’t half bad on my fantasy team a couple years ago, as I recall. I finished 8th though, so what do I know.
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
by Howie Bruno on Dec 21, 2010 11:34 PM PST up reply actions
Dude is 31
Incredibly unlikely that he has any upside left.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
But splash hits!
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 22, 2010 1:12 AM PST up reply actions
Ankiel is a walking freak show. Let's face it, he's the guy you go see at the state fair along with Ronnie and Donnienthe Siamese Twins
He really isn’t good enough to be in the majors as a everyday player and he isn’t good enough to be a pitcher in the bigs. But he is that guy you can point out to your kids when you go to a half filled royal Stadium and say “ghat is the guy who never gives up”. But he still sucks and belongs in the minors or Kansas City, whichever will have him.
"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 21, 2010 10:56 PM PST up reply actions
No, no...
This guy deposited a bomb in McCovey Cove this October, in case you’re forgetting. He had a better season last year than say, Nate McLouth. I wouldn’t mind him as a 5th outfielder.
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
by Howie Bruno on Dec 21, 2010 11:36 PM PST up reply actions
You did it. I was trying to dismiss Ankiel's bomb as incidental, a blind squirrel, a broken clock, etc. Yes it was a very restless night after THAT game.
"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 21, 2010 11:41 PM PST up reply actions
/wonders how badly he’ll get reamed for voting for Boone 2003
Other unpopular comment: is it just mind-boggling to hear Vin Scully’s voice calling games from the ‘60s? The guy’s been in this game for so long, it’s amazing…
So true....
…however, his powers over the Giants have finally diminished by virtue of the Giants World Championship. He no longer has the power of the Vinx.
Best game I ever attended. 9/28/86
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN198609280.shtml
Giants down 3-1 in the Bottom of the 9th, tie it up. Dodgers take the lead in the 14th, Giants tie it up in the bottom.
Bottom 16, Greg Minton hits a double, then scores the winning run, from second, on a Brenly single.
Will Clark was 0-8.
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
Job 1:14-15
I was there...a warm day game to begin with, by the 16th it was dark and freezing. I was holding two hot chocolates in the gen adm section.
I technically didn’t see the run score, I only saw the runner rounding third. I high-tailed it down the escalator to the car to get the car heater pumping.
I had to watch the highlights later that night on the news to see the ending.
Fucking Will Clark. That is the game when I knew he would be no good.
"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 21, 2010 10:58 PM PST up reply actions
I was 12
Started the day eating Carnation Malts and running around The Stick with my buddy, ended the day drinking hot chocolate and freezing in shorts and a t-shirt but I didn’t care b/c it was like seeing a double-header.
I always thought they should have given honorary Croix’s out for that one because of the drastic climate change and the fact that it turned in to an extra-inning night game.
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
Job 1:14-15
Game 6 WS 1975 Red Sox- Reds
It had everything. It was so great that the losing Reds (Big Red Machine) raved about how great it was. The Red Sox won it 7-6 on Carlton Fisk’s legendary homer with Fisk motioning with his hands to get it to stay fair. Pete Rose raved about this game for a long time. The Reds won the World Series the next night.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Incredible that they ignore
1970 WS and Brooks Robinson. Game 1 or 3. Game 3 was Brooks’ true masterpiece. Orioles win big 9-3, Brooks three classics.
by whiteylockmandoubled on Dec 21, 2010 8:44 PM PST reply actions
Fine observation, whitey. I watched on a bad b/l tv, but the glory of Brooks’ plays was clear.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 21, 2010 8:54 PM PST up reply actions
Excellent Point !
Brooks was the man. He, along with Bench made me want to play baseball. Mays just made my jaw drop.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
This is like the same 7 teams...
Also a little heavy handed in the post season, which leads to my first complaint
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
Does anyone doubt or dispute . . .
. . . that the worst game/s was/were the famous twi-night double header loss to the Dodgers in July of ’88 at Candlestick in which the last days of Saigon were played out?
I was there. But we’ve discussed this . . . .
The greater game is certainly the 23 inning second game of a double header in ’64 in New York against the Mets. Perry pitched ten innings, as did Roger Craig. Giants won.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 21, 2010 9:16 PM PST reply actions
I was thinking about this wrt Scott Garrelts…he started one of these games and threw a wild pitch that bounced in front of the plate and bounced over the screen.
I also think this was the game that caused the limitation of beer sales thereafter. What a sloppy mess that night was.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
Great article
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/19/2531729/quotes-by-greinke.html
"I don’t want to play anywhere else. However much I make is already more than I’ll ever spend or want to spend. So that really doesn’t matter to me."
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
OT: happy holidays!
Aunt: “No, no, no. Jesus was a huge Kenny Loggins fan.”
Grandma: “It’s true. I saw it in the Bible once.”
Me: “Grandma, Kenny Loggins wasn’t even alive back then.”
Grandma: “Oh yes he was. Kenny Loggins is immortal.”
Allie, The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas
Hyperbole and a Half, 21. December 2010
by wcw on Dec 21, 2010 9:25 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
KENNY LOGGINS WOULDN'T HIT THE BABY JESUS
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 21, 2010 9:32 PM PST up reply actions
This is testament to the power of Yacht Rock.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 21, 2010 9:55 PM PST up reply actions
Oh dang
I wanted to watch the video for Reggie’s 3 HR game and I accidentally clicked on ‘vote’. And apparently you vote for 1, not 20. Of the ones I’ve actually seen I’d say either Renteria’s first WS winner, or Mariano losing.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 21, 2010 10:31 PM PST reply actions
OT
Dammit I have Jury Duty tomorrow and of course I have to go to Downtown LA and fight that traffic and park a few blocks away just to spend it there.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Screw you Flannery.
Don't forget to wear your Giants Championhip gear tomorrow...just make sure you remove your cap before you enter the courtroom.
"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 21, 2010 11:44 PM PST up reply actions
last time i had jury duty, I winked at the D.A. during the selection process. instant dismissal. boom boom.
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
by Howie Bruno on Dec 21, 2010 11:52 PM PST up reply actions
I had Jury Duty back in late August. Never had to report to the courthouse. Now I’m done for the year. Too bad, though. I would have loved to have served on the Bonds jury (I know it’s Federal but still).
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
It’s a little late but you should definite take mass transit…Metrolink or LA Metro…you get dropped off right across the street from the court house.
At one point it was renowned for its mass transit.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 8:55 AM PST up reply actions
LA does have a transit system, the mass part not so much.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
The Red Line used to be world famous.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
And then that goddamn Judge Doom came along….
Sacrificed mass transit on the altar of strip malls and endless freeways. One is sometimes moved to wonder what might have been….
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
What was that documentary? Claimed Goodyear helped bankroll the move to buses in order to sell more tires…
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 11:44 AM PST up reply actions
I think you mean GM
LOL Key Line!
General Motors and others were subsequently convicted in 1949 of conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses and related products via a complex network of linked holding companies including National City Lines and Pacific City Lines. They were also indicted, but acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the ownership of these companies. In the period from 1936 and 1950 they had been involved in the conversion of over 100 electric surface-traction systems that were converted to bus systems in 45 cities including Baltimore, Los Angeles (mainly the “Yellow Cars”), New York City, Oakland and San Diego.
There have been a couple documentaries about this that I haven’t seen, maybe you’re thinking of “End of Suburbia”.
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 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
The mass transit has fails in LA because of rich people…can’t run an extension to Santa Monica because we wouldn’t want a subway going thorough Beverly Hills…
Same stupid reason why 710 freeway doesn’t go through San Marino/Pasadena
This poster sums up how LA views its mass transit riders
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 22, 2010 2:20 PM PST up reply actions
from the NYC subway, years ago
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 not really sure how I should be interpreting this.
But I am disturbed by every possibility.
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 22, 2010 2:35 PM PST up reply actions
I enjoy how happy the patient seems to be.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
It kind of looks like the whole thing is a prank on the medical staff.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
I was supposed to have jury duty this week, but was never called in. Technically, I’m still on call (I have to check back in at 5pm), but no groups were called in today so I’m pretty sure I’m good.
American Heroes: Joe Pavelski, Buster Posey
Fear the Fin - Cornering the market on third pairing defensemen since March 2009
It’s always nice when a) You can feel good about having fulfilled your civic duty and b) You didn’t have to actually do anything.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
Random question on a former white whale
Is there some reason that we haven’t heard anything about Russell Branyan? People are apparently falling all over themselves to try to sign Adam LaRoche but Branyan hasn’t had so much as a rumor this offseason despite being a better hitter than LaRoche.
I don’t know why a team like the Nats hasn’t signed him yet.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
well, he does strike out every three ABs or so.
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
by Howie Bruno on Dec 22, 2010 12:32 AM PST up reply actions
Seems like Adam LaRoche is every bit the hitter that Branyan is, but with the advantage of durability.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
2008-2010
Branyan: .245/.337/.515
LaRoche: .269/.339/.485
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
so 18 fewer points of OPS
but 162 more games over the same time period.
That seems to completely support what Alex said.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Pena is actually the weirder one, since he’s better than both of them. Why doesn’t anybody want him?
He signed with the Cubs for 1 year, 10 million…
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
r_j_anderson R.J. Anderson
Russ Branyan has a higher wOBA the last three years than Billy Butler, Carlos Pena, and Adam LaRoche.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
At least you're consistent in your overrating of talented yet injury-prone first basemen.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
You seem really determined to advocate a 35 year old 1B with a history back trouble. You have noticed that Branyan has played more than 120 games in a season just once, right? And that all those guys are not only younger and healthier but also within a handful of wOBA of either matching or surpassing Branyan for that thee year period?
Were I an owner, I would consider it a borderline firing offense to play Russell Branyan over Billy Butler. And I wouldn’t be happy about the rest.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
You're misunderstanding me
I’m not saying Branyan’s a better bet going forward than those guys.
I’m just surprised he hasn’t gotten, like, ANY interest. If you seach MLBTradeRumors for Branyan’s tag, he has ONE rumor this offseason. And it’s about him changing his agent.
That’s all that confused me.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Fair enough.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
August 10, 1989 - a Giant classic
Given the context of the pennant race, and the pre and post Dravecky situation. A hugely emotional day for all.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Except for that douchebag manager of the Reds that day - Pete Rose
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Pirates game 9th inning comeback
Wasn’t there a Pirates game a few years ago when they scored 9 runs in the bottom of the ninth with two outs to win the game?
Yeah, I think that was last year against the Nats? Probably the best game of the decade for them. Seriously.
The only other one that comes to mind is Rob Mackowiak’s three homers.
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
LOLuxury Tax 2010
NYY: $18M
BOS: $1.49M
Don’t spend it all in one place, Marlins, Royals, A’s, Pirates, Padres, Sidewinders, etc. etc. Actually, they won’t anyway.
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
LOL Adam Wainwright
Olney ranks the rotations, with the Phillies, Giants, and Athletics taking the top three spots. It seems odd to see the Cardinals in an eighth-place tie, but there are a lot of good ones. How does your top ten look?
(from MLBtradeumors)
AHHHH Strikethrough fail…
Olney ranks the rotations, with the Phillies, Giants, and Athletics taking the top three spots. It seems odd to see the Cardinals in an eighth-place tie, but there are a lot of good ones. How does your top ten look?
(from MLBtradeumors)
They can’t be top three over … uh … okay, so I’m not the right guy to evaluate this, blanking on the pitching staves.
Top 10, sure.
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 22, 2010 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
I have a mild argument with my boyfriend. He says Boston (Lestah, Buchholz, Beckett, Lackey, Dice-K) is legitimately in the top 5, I say no. You guys with me?
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
Daisuke hasn’t been very good recently.
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Neither has Lackey. I think where we differ is essentially Buchholz, who I think is a regression candidate in 2011.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
BUCHHOLZ IS A SUPAHSTAAH! NO ONE DENIES THIS!
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 22, 2010 2:22 PM PST up reply actions
The only reason the RedSox are in that list is for SEO purposes.
1. Phills
2. Giants
3. A’s
4.
5. Red Sucks
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
by Cody_ransom on Dec 23, 2010 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
Buster LOLney
Here it is… Red Sox
Yankees
White Sox
Angels
Cardinals.He has the Phillies at 5a.
WHY IS BENGIE?!
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2010 10:57 AM PST reply actions
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
by Cody_ransom on Dec 23, 2010 12:34 PM PST up reply actions
Hard to be much more wrong than that.
I mean, I guess he could have had the DBacks and Brewers in there but…
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
by Cody_ransom on Dec 23, 2010 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
Boston
Lester is legitimately awesome and Buchholz was great last year (ERA+ of 187!). It’s reasonable to expect Beckett and/or Lackey to improve on dismal seasons. Dice-K has been below average the past two seasons, but is not an unreasonable choice as a fifth starter. I’d say it’s certainly an above average rotation with two aces, two good mid-rotation starters and an acceptable fifth starter. Fifth seems reasonable. I’d say they’re close to Milwaukee (#6) and probably better than the teams ranked below them.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Bucholz also had an ERA almost 1.30 below his FIP.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
Seems as if the strikethrough was rather successful.
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/ golf clap
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
Shift+A
So, I really, honestly, truly had the following dream last night:
I dreamed that Grant stepped down as MCC overlord, and that jponry took over. Except that she developed a Skip Bayless-level ego and every home page thread she posted included a large photo of her right next to the headline, and the words “by jponry” in large font.
Paging Dr. Freud!
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
I like your ideas
Please send me an email
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Your Majesty. /obeisance
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 22, 2010 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
We welcome our new insect overlords
and could be helpful locating Dodger fans to work in the sugar mines.
11/1/2010
I dreamed that I was feeding bacon to cats.
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Strangely, I learned today that that might be a good thing to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creme_Puff_(cat)
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I will tell all of my cat-owning friends!
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I dreamed that I was an undercover cop working with Tracy Morgan. He fired a machine gun at a house.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
and every home page thread she posted included a large photo of her right next to the headline, and the words "by jponry"
Sounds more like Howie.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
Nah, I wouldn’t put the words “by jponry” next to my picture.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
HOW DARE YOU QUESTION JOPRNY!!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
I’m slightly worried about the repercussions of having misspelled the new overlord’s name.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
/never heard from again
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
Dreamed that I was on the run from CIA Black Ops, making my way around South America by swimming. They’d never see that coming. Eventually, I was captured by agents from the Democratic Republic of Kenya. They had been admiring my work from afar and wanted to take me back to Africa with them. I remember that I woke up feeling really forlorn because they’d slain my partner.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
You swam around South America? I admire your resistance to cold.
"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!"
In the world of my dream, it was all rather pleasant and free of rocks.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Sharks made of rocks.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:24 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
But it’s called Tierra del Fuego so it must get warm 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 22, 2010 12:27 PM PST up reply actions
There’s nothing worse than waking up continuing to feel the emotions you were feeling in your dream. I’ve had some really awful mornings because of that.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
I get that a lot, but within 5 minutes I forget every dream I’ve had from the night before. I can’t recall any of my dreams except for one very disturbing one I had as a child that haunted me so much at the time it stuck with me.
I can't fight this feeling anymore!
I seem to remember dreams where I’m being chased by zombies or loved ones die without much trouble. Other than those, it’s hit or miss.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
When I was 9-ish I had this dream where a Korean kid chased me with a big butcher’s knife and then chopped off my arm.
Can a dream be racist?
Were you a cat and did the kid eat your arm?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 6:16 PM PST up reply actions
Ugh. When I was a kid I used to get these damn stuck in the back seat of a parked car all by myself [‘cuz mom ran into the store to get milk or something] and the car would start rolling away down a hill and I couldn’t stop it.
Fossil alert: of course back then “store” meant the little general store into which you could fit 4 modern day 7-11’s . And the front seat of cars were these bench like contraptions that spanned the width of the car: no bucket seats, no center console, no head rests either.
I liked those kind of seats when I was in high school. I drove a 76 Impala that had a giant couch for a back seat.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 12:37 PM PST up reply actions
This one ?
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
More like this
Except the driver’s door and front right quarter panel didn’t match the rest of the car.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 1:09 PM PST up reply actions
The only long dream I can remember is one weird dream I had last year where first I was in Bucharest, then Berlin, then San Francisco, then Gilroy.
"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 had an unbelievably long dream one time where I was Harry Potter.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
Was Marion Cotillard in this dream?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I’m pretty sure it’s only a matter of time.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
Sometimes my dreams are quite pedestrian. Last night I dreamed I was driving, and then had to switch to the train. That was pretty much it.
by non sequitur on Dec 22, 2010 12:33 PM PST up reply actions
Motorized transportation is the opposite of pedestrian.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
It’s not pedestrian if you’re driving.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
Meh. In my dreams I use the wrong words all the time, so it’s consistent.
by non sequitur on Dec 22, 2010 1:12 PM PST up reply actions
Seriously.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I suppose it's a good 'Why the hell not?' move
But we might have to make peace with the fact that Joey kinda sucks.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
He was HIT IN THE HEAD! and can play piano! have some humanity!
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 22, 2010 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
I like how they did it to make room for Kevin Correia.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Brian Sabean has produced a shitload of pitchers, hasn’t he?
"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!"
Nah.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
The guy has regularly posted a FIP above 4.5 for his entire career, excluding two slightly lucky years where he was actually quite good. He’s very much a back-end starter on a mediocre team.
He’s an inexpensive commodity. Nothing wrong with that.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
He got a multiyear contract at 4 MM/yr. That’s quite a bit for a starter that hasn’t been much better than replacement level over the last few years.
Fangraphs has his average value over the last five years as $4.5 million.
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 agree: I'm responding to
He got a multiyear contract at 4 MM/yr. That’s quite a bit for a starter that hasn’t been much better than replacement level over the last few years.
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, I know. I was just repeating myself.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
OT paleoanthropology
Woohoo 3rd human species!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/science/23ancestor.html
Fourth if anyone’s figured out about the Hobbits of Flores.
Am I the only Paleolithic geek? Thank you Jean M. Auel for your study of customs and artifacts and your detailed sex scenes.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Pretty cool
Floresensis is a really interesting quandry. Has more to do with the philosophy of what a species is than the biology of the two groups. At least that’s my understanding of the argument.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Something-something
THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!
Oh and that 86’ Mets/Astros game was good, too.
11/1/2010
lol Jets
F-E-E-T
FEET! FEET! FEET!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 22, 2010 11:29 AM PST reply actions
This amused me.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I feel like I should understand this better than I do.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 11:45 AM PST up reply actions
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 22, 2010 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
Symbolism?!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Trying to show you how the opposing lineups felt in the playoffs?
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Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
YA GOTTA BELIEVE OR TINY TIM WON’T GET BETTER
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 22, 2010 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
IT’S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, HE SWEARS!
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 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
For you and all ...
Try this
Happy Holidays!
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Wish I could help – I’m using Adobe Flash 10 (actually 10,1,102,64) with Firefox. Maybe a Flash update for you?
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Just a sad situation all around
The repeat drunken driver convicted of three counts of second-degree murder for the alcohol-induced, high-speed crash that killed Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others last year wept Wednesday as he was sentenced to 51 years to life in prison.
Andrew Thomas Gallo, 24, who was also convicted of two felony counts of driving under the influence with injuries and one count of hit-and-run, will likely not be eligible for parole until sometime in the 2050s.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/gallo-281330-adenhart-driving.html
Except for the fact that this guy got a long sentence. I’m happy about that.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
Technically, the 51 years was the shortest sentence he could have recieved
15 years to life per each death in the accident – 3 = 45 to life
+ 6 years and 6 months for each serious injury from the accident – 1 (the sole survivor of Adenhart’s car)
= 51 years to life.
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
Hmmm… I was thinking in terms of ‘fraction of a human lifespan’ rather than ‘percentage of possible sentence’. Now it’s unhappy all around. Thanks.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 12:39 PM PST up reply actions
He's 24.
He’ll be 75 when he gets out. It’s as good as a life sentence.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
What did they do now?
Singletary name Troy Smith the starter again?
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
OH GOD I WAS JOKING
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 don't think the difference between the two Smiths is all that much
They both stink
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 22, 2010 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
There’s still no reason to rotate them.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
QB BY COMMITTEE
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 22, 2010 12:42 PM PST up reply actions
If you rotate them, they wear evenly.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 22, 2010 12:43 PM PST up reply actions
So,
Are they going to try and have TSmith learn the entire playbook then?
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 don’t think the thought process went that far. I think it got as far as “Troy Smith beat the Rams last time. QED.”
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
I'd rather see Troy Smith starting
Because at least you can make the argument that he has SOME upside. Really, though, they both suck.
Is TSmit as hilarious as ASmit? Watching ASmit always gave me the giggles.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Singletary looked at the film
Saw it was Troy Smith who played against the rams last time. Easy decision
I hope Boomer dies. That is all.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 12:51 PM PST up reply actions
Update: Boomer is not dead yet.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:01 PM PST up reply actions
Lot of flashbacks here. They don’t seem to be the awful, fill-in-the-gaps kind, at least.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, I like this plan better than abandoning the ship.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:14 PM PST up reply actions
Oh man, it’s been a while since a “previously on” segment showing brand new footage. I forgot they did that.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:20 PM PST up reply actions
lol Badger is the new president.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:36 PM PST up reply actions
Nice shot of the original series’s costumes there.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:39 PM PST up reply actions
Oof, cheesy battle effects.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
Okay… why didn’t they have Anders hooked up before jumping into the crazy gunfire?
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:42 PM PST up reply actions
I’m not exactly clear on the whole “black hole blindspot” science, but I’ll just ignore that willfully.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:44 PM PST up reply actions
I like a lot of what’s going on here, but man Boomer is an awful character.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
Oh man, that was an incredible “plan” joke.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
Boomer: “You can’t go back that way.”
Athena: “That’s not the plan.”
Starbuck: “Can we please not tell her the plan.”
The whole show in a nutshell there. I can forgive them a lot of stuff for that joke alone.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
I always liked Lee best in the fight.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
That’s a lot of blood for a leg wound.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 1:59 PM PST up reply actions
Must have a hit a, whatchacallit, artery.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:02 PM PST up reply actions
Angel Baltar is funny looking.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:07 PM PST up reply actions
This is like a series of wonderful and baffling decisions all taking place in very rapid succession.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:15 PM PST up reply actions
More false endings than Return of the King.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:52 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, no. It’s just ending now.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
Yesterday I was calling one of those insurance company lines and a pleasant artificial voice began taking my information. When of course he discovered I was not asking for a simple inquiry, he apologized for his inability to help me and connected me to a human. I said, “I bet you’re sorry, fucking Cylon.”
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I react to those droids by pressing 0 and # and * until something else happens, often with a play by play of obscenities to the robot. I think the bartender in the Star Wars cantina had it right.
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 5:09 PM PST up reply actions
What’s up with Duck Phillips’ dog? Why does it have such a weird head?
"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!"
The real question
What’s up with Duck Phillips? Why is he such a dick?
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
someone posted this on Facebook today
I immediately thought of the McCoven:
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!
Is that the bunny rabbit gang sign?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:57 PM PST up reply actions
Random epic Timmy pic
"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."
Voted for the Marichal game!
"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."
Shooter
getting out of the bases loaded no outs with the K then the 4-2-3 DP and the Dusty turning to the crowd at the top of the dugout and pumping both fists is one of the most epic moments in my Giants fandom.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
One of the finest moments of my high school career was cutting school to go to this game. It was truly amazing — the best baseball crowd I ever saw at the ’Stick. I mean, it was LOUD, all afternoon long.
I still have the memory of sitting in the LF bleachers and watching Johnson’s return throw on that double play. Everyone waited a split second for the ump’s call, and and soon as he signaled “out,” the entire stands on the first-base side (across the stadium from us) just erupted all at once. The scene after Johnson’s homer in the 12th is all a blur. I vaguely remember jumping to the bleacher seat above me, and then back to mine, over and over, for what seemed like forever.
Technically, the teams were tied atop the West after that game, but you kind of knew that the Dodgers were done.
You mean to tell me no has the 3rd game of 1962 Giants-Dodgers playoff?
6-4 Giants win w/ a 4-run rally in the top of the 9th at Dodger stadium. One for the ages, but a west coast thing, I guess. The end of a sizzling pennant race between the greatest baseball rivals OF ALL.
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