Reviewing the 2010 prospect list: 11-20
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 22, 2010 1:26 PM PST
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20. Henry Sosa
How did he do?
It wasn’t a bad season if you look at the mediocre ERA, but the FIP was terrifying. It was another leg on the journey from "prospect" to "organizational arm."
Lesson learned?
If faced with a choice between fawning over a 2.00 ERA in the Eastern League or wrinkling your nose at the low strikeout rate, go with the latter. He’s still one of the more advanced starting pitchers in the system, of course. No pick-up basketball games, Madison.
19. Clayton Tanner
How did he do?
The walk rate went up, the strikeout rate went down. It was another leg on the journey from "prospect" to..wait, this seems familiar.
Lesson learned?
When a strikeout rate jumps in a player’s second year in the same league, be a little wary. I’ve irrationally liked Tanner since he was drafted, ignoring the pedestrian strikeout rates along the way. It seemed like 2009 was a semi-breakout, but it’s way too hard to overlook a K/BB ratio of almost 1:1 in the Eastern League. Still, he’s only 23, and I can still hope he’ll work into a Doug Davis kind of career. Don’t get in the mosh pit at that Biohazard concert, Barry.
18. Darren Ford
How did he do?
Sort of got arrested. Never took an at-bat in the majors, but won a game with his legs for a team that needed every win to take the division. Typical prospect stuff. Also, his Cal League offense was mugged on the way to Virginia.
Lesson learned?
When a 23-year-old busts out in the Cal League, treat it like a 29-year-old busting out in AAA. Also, there should be 60-man active rosters just so we could watch players do this all season.
17. Conor Gillaspie
How did he do?
Well, he, uh, still has that .429 on-base percentage in the majors. You can’t take that away from him. And, really, I’ve almost given up trying to read Eastern League stats. He didn’t bust out, but he held his own as a 22-year-old. He even busted out for a little power in the Arizona Fall League with a .306/.350/.597 line in 72 at-bats. His defense is rumored to be quite clanky, though, so he’d have to hit like Dave Magadan to have any value. The Bill Mueller comparisons seem pretty far away right now.
Lesson learned?
Sometimes, those close-to-the-majors bats need quite a bit of time. I still like Gillaspie’s chances to be a part-time player on a good team some day, but the walk-rate dip is more than a little concerning.
16. Hector Sanchez
How did he do?
An on-base machine in the rookie leagues, Sanchez had a more nondescript season as a 20-year-old splitting time behind the plate in low-A. I don’t know much about his defense, other than John Sickels calling him a glove-first guy in his prospect book. If he’s at least average defensively, Sanchez is probably the most underrated prospect in the system. A catcher who could put up a .274/.334/.394 line -- his slash line in Augusta -- with good defense would be a really valuable asset. Plus, when he comes up we can start Posey at first, Belt in left, and Gary Brown at short.
Lesson learned?
It’s probably never a good idea to get delusions of prospect grandeur based on rookie-league stats, but Sanchez is coming along just fine. A smart team would do well to sneak him in a prospect package at the deadline.
15. Aaron King
How did he do?
FAA officials are still picking up pieces of Aaron King, but it could take a while to determine just what went wrong. They did find the little black box, though, which was thrown to the backstop. A pretty terrible season all around.
Lesson learned?
I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. If you come here for knock-knock jokes and Tony Perezchica references, you’re doing okay. If you come here for cogent analysis and inside prospect information, you’re doing it wrong. This was about as big of a miss as a prospect list can have. Wild, live-armed lefties are mercurial things. It’s hard to believe that Jonathan Sanchez made it out okay.
14. Jorge Bucardo
How did he do?
Sinked some slinky sinkers smoothly. And how. The strikeout rate is still low, and his velocity isn’t that of a vintage Lowe/Webb power sinker, but it’s hard to complain about a 20-year-old with a 3.14 FIP and a 62% groundball rate in low-A.
Lesson learned?
Overrate the pitchers with high groundball rates, then collect prospect-list groupies when you’re behind the velvet rope at Club So Damned Right. I missed out this year, so now I have a goal for the 2011 list.
13. Eric Surkamp
How did he do?
Pretty well until a hip injury ended his season in July. Surkamp wasn’t quite the strikeout machine that he was in low-A, but he was one of the Cal League’s better starters. He had a 4-2 record in 17 starts, indicating a strong tendency to get cained on a regular basis. If it weren’t for the injury, I’d be for skipping him to Fresno with the hope that he could become a viable stopgap in case of an injury in the major league rotation.
Lesson learned?
Nothing yet. Double-A will be a better test for a control-reliant lefty like Surkamp.
How did he do?
Much better than I expected, though he still makes Pablo Sandoval seem as patient as Rickey Henderson. Peguero’s not a super-young prospect, so it’s not as if a .329/.358/.488 line is elite for the Cal League, but he has TOOLS! that garnish the numbers with the promise of something more.
Lesson learned?
Sometimes -- every so often -- the scouts know more than a blogger who makes it to one or two minor league games every year and usually hangs out by the barbecue pit and beer garden all game. It’s rare, sure, but it can happen. Peguero, walks be damned, is a legit prospect in the organization because of his CF defense and speed alone.
11. Ehire Adrianza
How did he do?
Same story as last year -- if the defense is really superlative, you can live with the weak bat, and he gets bonus points for being younger than the rest of the league.
Lesson learned?
He’s in the top ten, maybe top five, in the system now even though he had the exact same season, for the most part. So goes the Giants farm system, but that’s what happens when Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner leave the minors to win a World Series1.
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Weird-these prospects are either in my top 15
Or not in my top 50.
…Well except Clayton Tanner. He’s like 40 on my list.
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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by Gobroks on Dec 22, 2010 1:33 PM PST via mobile reply actions
I meant for this year
I actually don’t remember where I had Sanchez last year
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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I’m just going to leave this one alone.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:24 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, I had Sanchez at 15
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
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Link
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/2/10/1305136/community-prospect-list#30628476
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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I like Ehire Adrianza because his Twitter account is almost entirely just him counting the days until Spring Training.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
D’awwwwww.
Can we keep him? Canwecanwecanwe?
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Haha, this.
Dang it, now I’m attached. This isn’t quite as good as Neal’s twitter…but its getting there.
"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."
They’re compelling in different ways.
"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!"
Neal is supposedly trying to grow a beard for ST….this makes me laugh.
But yes…its kinda cool to know that at least one of the players is counting down the days along with the rest of us.
"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."
Whatever you do, do not search ‘ehire adrianza’ on twitter.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
That's a sick profile pic
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
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Stripes!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:25 PM PST up reply actions
I want this guy to make it to the bigs
just so Vin Scully can butcher his name, too.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 22, 2010 2:30 PM PST up reply actions
It’s not like Duane Kuiper pronounces names correctly, either. He spent almost one year saying “Travis Ishigawa”
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
But isn’t the distinction between the hard G and the hard K negligible in Japanese?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 6:24 PM PST up reply actions
No, vocalization does matter in Japanese.
"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!"
Maybe I’m thinking of Korean.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 6:33 PM PST up reply actions
in Chinese the wade-giles romanization uses a K where most speakers would make something closer to a G sound.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
I believe it’s technically an unaspirated “k,” although it’s been so long since I’ve taken a linguistics class that my ass could talk more intelligently about voiceless glottal fricatives than I could.
by Monkeyking42 on Dec 22, 2010 7:17 PM PST up reply actions
In English, the "g" and "k" . . .
are identical in point of articulation. They are different in voicing, not in aspiration. (I think this is what El Person means by “vocalization.”) They are velar fricatives, not glottal. It’s the same voicing difference as between “t” and “d.”
I don’t know the Asian application of this, but in spoken English the “g” and “k” tend to receive virtually the same value when they are in a middle position. When you say “strictly” in conversation, you give the phonetic /k/ little voice and say it like the unvoiced /g/.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 22, 2010 7:50 PM PST up reply actions
in Chinese at least, as you would never see a G or K sound in the middle position
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
I want to start a screamo noise band called The Voiceless Glottal Fricatives
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 8:11 PM PST up reply actions
All your songs should just consist of you repeating voiceless glottal fricatives over and over again.
"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!"
Glottal fricatives . . .
. . . are not pretty. They are the /x/ sound, which doesn’t exist in standard English, but resembles hocking up a loogie, not to confused with giving away Lopez for nothing.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 22, 2010 10:07 PM PST up reply actions
Just to clarify
Since I’m not the linguistics type, but is the /x/ sound the back of the throat “chhhh” common in Semitic languages?
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Not one fart joke from this? I’m disappointed.
by Monkeyking42 on Dec 23, 2010 11:36 AM PST up reply actions
In my band, the ‘vocalist’ will sing by farting into the microphone.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 23, 2010 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
Aidin Viziri will love it.
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 23, 2010 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
Silent but deadly glottal fricatives are no joke.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2010 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
Yep
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The only consonant pair where the line is indistinct is L and R, as they pronounce it more or less as an intermediate consonant based on tongue placement. Ultimately it’s an R, but it replaces Ls in E→J transliteration.
/cues “supplies” jokes
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I always liked the election jokes better.
by Monkeyking42 on Dec 22, 2010 7:18 PM PST up reply actions
HOLY AWESOME
Can we send him to the Ozzie Smith school of hitting, please?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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Yeah, like I’m going to trust Yahoo for sports-related facts.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Dec 22, 2010 1:36 PM PST reply actions
Grant > Yahoo Sports
I have Bucardo and H. Sanchez on my Top 10 list. Sanchez is going to be the real deal. Looks like he has the defensive skills and we need more Sanchezes on the roster.
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by Penitentiary Face on Dec 22, 2010 1:46 PM PST reply actions
Anyone know what happened to Ford &
His legal problems? I can’t remember what they were.
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by GiantMalcontent on Dec 22, 2010 1:47 PM PST reply actions
Thanks
Clip of him is still fun to watch.
I can only be nice to one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.
by GiantMalcontent on Dec 22, 2010 1:54 PM PST up reply actions
Thanks for the citation
I totally wouldn’t have believed that “Giants win the World Series” bit without a source.
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That video of D Ford has the best Burrell/Huff bromance/aggression clip ever
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by Giant Fan in Singapore on Dec 22, 2010 1:54 PM PST reply actions
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by Natto on Dec 22, 2010 1:56 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Huff: You make me feel good in my heart, right here.
Burrell: No, your heart is a little higher and to your right actually. Right here. The idea that it’s in the center of your chest is a myth. Oh, hey, Darren scored. He’s fast.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Dec 22, 2010 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
I think my favorite part of that gif is actually the background. Timmy looks like he’s doing an Exorcist spin, and Mike Fontenot just keeps disappearing into nothingness.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 22, 2010 3:19 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Oh God, now all I can see is Timmy’s head.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I’m waiting for the gout of orange and black vomit now.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 3:48 PM PST up reply actions
Not to mention some Bochy head-bobbling going on. Very subtle.
by Timorous Me on Dec 23, 2010 10:08 PM PST up reply actions
Letter’s writing Rangers fic now. Ew.
"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 one’s forcing you to read it.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
If you put it up there, you should know I’m going to read it.
"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 believe the legal term is “attractive nuisance”.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Dec 23, 2010 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Are you saying TheLetter2 is only attractive to 5 year olds?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 23, 2010 1:39 PM PST up reply actions
This reads like one of those folks who writes to their local TV station to complain about all the smut on the airwaves, instead of using their remote to the change the channel.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
Or Kurt Wild getting fired from his Subway job when one of the customers recognized him from gay porn. “THIS MAN IS IN DISGUSTING EXPLICIT HUMMASEKSHWUL SMUT!”
Dude, he’s just trying to feed his three kids and pay for his trailer.
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 23, 2010 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
The idea is just so ridiculous
The guy watched so much porn that he can actually recognize an actor from it, and yet is offended by that actor selling him a sandwich. Basically the idea that the guy he’s been jerking off to actually exists in real life scares him.
My only complaint is that I’m missing the smut.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 25, 2010 7:29 AM PST up reply actions
My apologies. It’s here. And it’s not really smut. I hope that’s not disappointing to you.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
This series is just sad so far, I need to see a blurb about Brandon Belt stat
"I dont always hit home runs, but when I do, I prefer World Series winning home runs"
you wont
I don’t think he was on grants list, last year.
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Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
What?
Grant is recapping his own list? But what if I came here for prospect analysis?
"I can't very well tell my batters, 'Dont hit it to him.' Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway."
- NY Mets manager Gil Hodges on Willie Mays
While Grant > Yahoo Sports + Heyman, Grant < Conclusive Prospect Analysis
I still appreciate Grant’s opinion on prospects but remain personally offended about the “2 Minor League Game & hanging out at the barbecue comment”.
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by Penitentiary Face on Dec 22, 2010 9:34 PM PST up reply actions
To be fair, the barbecue pit/beer garden area is awesome.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:14 PM PST reply actions
Yeah, but it’s ceiling is a second deck barbecue pit/beer garden in the majors.
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 22, 2010 2:15 PM PST up reply actions
I think you forgot to factor in its relatively young age for its level. While I agree it’s not luxury box material, I could see in the first deck behind the bleachers.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:22 PM PST up reply actions
Sundrendy Windster?
Wow, do we have the corner on great names or what?
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by GiantMalcontent on Dec 22, 2010 2:18 PM PST reply actions
says no.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
That guy was named 100 years too late.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
Prince Octopus Dzanie concurs
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THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
by scout6 on Dec 22, 2010 2:33 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
also from the Marlins system
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!
Doesn’t the name Taiwan imply that he’s an Easterling? Seems kind of redundant.
"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!"
He is, in fact, a black guy from Mississippi. Same hometown as Fred Lewis, actually.
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!
played for FSU
I saw him a couple of times last year. I was a little surprised he was drafted – he was just a backup outfielder on the team.
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!
Of course, their starting left fielder, cleanup hitter, and main home run guy was drafted as a pitcher. Baseball’s a funny game.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing, your next dominant reliever 1.47 ERA in S-K, with 34 K in 42 IP. Uh, just ignore his age and the walks, please!
also!
I just noticed another name drafted the same round as Easterling: a first baseman named Benito Santiago out of some college in Texas I’ve never heard of. Gotta be THE Bentio Santiago’s son, I’m assuming?
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!
im posting from my phone while on a plane
I love the future. Ill let you guys know if I think of any more oft-injured sluggers I want the giants to pursue, I don’t even have to wait to land to tell you about it!
Wait. Eric chavez.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
No.
This is a bad idea.
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Is punctuation banned on this plane?
"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!"
ANSWER THE QUESTION!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:27 PM PST up reply actions
it's virgin america
So they’re demanding I put u’s in all sourts of places they doun’t beloung.
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Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
by GiantPain on Dec 22, 2010 2:28 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Ouh, the horruor!
"I can't very well tell my batters, 'Dont hit it to him.' Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway."
- NY Mets manager Gil Hodges on Willie Mays
It’s so they can still consider themselves to be virginal.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
I never feel that virginal when I put anything into u
by Deleuzian on Dec 22, 2010 4:06 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
this looks like a Prince lyric
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 4:08 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Ladies and gentlemen the captain has now turned on the no punctuation sign please refrain from punctuating until we have reached cruising altitude
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Dec 23, 2010 10:09 AM PST up reply actions
You're on a phone?
Are you standing on it or sitting? Either way, it means you’re typing with your toes or your balls, so a few mistakes are to be expected.
The thong is, it happened.
Anyone know when Baggs is comin back?
I miss him…
"Sabean is the master of the dry hump" -Michael Lewis
Well, there goes our backup catcher. Remember when he was our actual backup catcher?
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Steve Holm: worth 0.5 WAR in 107 PA
Eli Whiteside: worth 0.9 WAR in 287 PA
Oh well. Not a big deal, in the end. But I still like Holm better.
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 seemed like the organization was convinced Holm was a defensive disaster, which I never saw in his limited playing time.
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 22, 2010 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
Well, regardless of what the org thought of him, that he lost his pseudo- major league job at all was just a product of bad timing and Eli being out of options. Which sucks even more than a bad rep, especially when you don’t have a chance to prove that rep wrong. Sad.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I was alarmed when I realized that a good comp for Darren Ford’s bat is Justin Knoedler.
Placeholder.
How is that pronounced
Cause I would love it to be pronounced as “Noodler”
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‘Kanoodler’
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:34 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
This is how i like to say it.
I’ve always thought it was Ka-naid-ler, though.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:35 PM PST up reply actions
I believe that is correct.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:36 PM PST up reply actions
Probably correct
but a lot more boring.
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THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
“Canoodler”, perhaps.
"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!"
Can-UUd-ler
You have to prounce it Canadian
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 22, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
They should teach Ford to play catcher.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
Then move him to 1B to preserve his legs.
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by Natto on Dec 22, 2010 2:44 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
But then he’ll block 1B prospect Tommy Joseph!!!!
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Convert him to shortstop.
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Unrelated picture
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I am truly sorry for this. It's a compulsion, and not a good one.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:48 PM PST up reply actions
Took me a while to get it.
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That’s what she said!
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I kept looking for Zito.
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Dec 22, 2010 2:57 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Zito is in the part of the pic that is pixelated.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 22, 2010 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
That is mega nasty and I don’t even understand it to boot.
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 22, 2010 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
It’s a nod to Andres Serrano.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 5:13 PM PST up reply actions
No wonder why the third person from the left is disgusted.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I hate the third person from the left. He’s always like “The third person from the left this” and “The third person from the left that.”
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 6:30 PM PST up reply actions
GIT ER DONE SABEZ!!!!!!!!!
But seriously, we need an emergency starter.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Posey.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Maybe we can somehow get Bowker back as well.
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From MLBtraderumors
Baseball America ranked him 30th among Giants prospects heading into the ’09 season. They called him “a groundball machine” with a “sinking 86-88 mph fastball, a true curveball and a plus changeup consistently down in the strike zone.”
How did the Giants ever let him go?
This is how:
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
by Solidarity on Dec 22, 2010 3:08 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
I could watch that all day long.
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 22, 2010 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
. . . is still watching at 7:58
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 22, 2010 7:56 PM PST up reply actions
what was that last scene I don’t even know
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
Are you 100% positive it was the last one?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I waded through all the false endings just to get to that punchline of a real one.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:01 PM PST up reply actions
I’m too amused to even hate it. I mean, wtaf?
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:02 PM PST up reply actions
And it was all the dream of some retarded kid. Named Ronald Moore.
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LOLNALD MOORE!!
Crappy ending = explained
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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I assume y'all are talking about Battlestar Galactica
Because if it was one of the other shows Moore wrote for (TNG or DS9), I’d have a clue what you were talking about.
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And it’s not really a crappy ending so much as it is an astonishingly terrible five minutes tacked on after a mostly satisfying ending.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:08 PM PST up reply actions
Worst ending I’ve ever seen in a science fiction tv show: Enterprise. They randomly jumped ahead like 5 years, but nobody had changed in any way whatsoever, down to rank and haircut. And the whole thing was on the holodeck from the POV of Riker and Troi, wedged into the plot of the TNG episode “The Pegasus.”
Voyager had a terrible ending too, come to think of it. And DS9’s got pretty hokey, I thought.
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Oh man, I never got that far with Enterprise or Voyager. And now that I think about it, I don’t remember DS9’s ending very well, though I definitely saw it.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:16 PM PST up reply actions
Voyager did some bullshit with time travel where they showed the crew members decades in the future, bitter and cranky that they had never managed to magically get home, and it took them too many years. Then they went and fixed it and the ship got magically home in literally the last 10 seconds of the episode.
DS9 had their whole huge 10-episode final arch which had some good bits, but was also a clusterfuck. The really hokey bit i referred to was at the end where they showed photo montages of each character with sappy music playing.
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TNG’s ending was awesome, however.
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SO AWESOME
Again with the time travel, but done in a fun and interesting way. I never understood why the crew was so incredulous that Picard could be jumping around to different eras. That shit happens all the time in space.
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TNG’s ending stands out in my mind as being really good. It’s amazing what can happen when you have something figured out from the very first episode forward.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:21 PM PST up reply actions
Babylon 5 is the show for you, sir!
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I’m going to watch it! I have it on my Instant Queue already.
I just need to get a couple of days away from BSG before I start. I think I can only handle so much spaceship show per week.
And later: Andromeda.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:25 PM PST up reply actions
To be fair, B5 is a space STATION show.
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Well then what am I waiting for!?
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:28 PM PST up reply actions
also
Be patient. It gets off to a pretty slow start. The pilot, in particular, was kind of bad. But you need to watch it for story arch reasons, and it’s available separately from season one…so do make sure you watch it first (it’s Babylon 5: The Gathering).
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It starts to improve about halfway through season one, then gets better the second season, and even better the third.
So far the fourth season has been good, but not as good as season three, I’d say.
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Oh, that’s good to know about the pilot.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:42 PM PST up reply actions
there are several tv movies and such attached to the show
Aside from that one, though, they’re all from the time of the fifth season.
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also!
When you do start watching, the episode guides at this site are really handy and helpful:
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
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Sir!
You forget yourself! In The Beginning is a prequel, and the best of those films.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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It’s a prequel, but it aired between the fourth and fifth seasons, I think, and thus I haven’t watched it yet.
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I thought the pilot was OK.
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by natteringnabob on Dec 22, 2010 4:24 PM PST up reply actions
No no no no. Nobody was bitter and cranky, it was just Janeway who was still mooning over Chakotay who died of a broken heart long after he hooked up and married Seven of Nine who died on an away mission. So she cooked up this plot to go back in time, take over the Borg transwarp hub, and use that to get them home. But younger Janeway was too principled to fuck up with the timeline, and the Borg Queen was interested in using this for her own nefarious schemes, there was a huge bitchfight and I think Janeway destroyed the Borg transwarp hub.
Basically it was the BSG thing about the Resurrection hub.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
It’s been a while, but I have the vague recollection of Harry Kim having grey hair and being embittered.
Oh, wait, that was another episode, wasn’t it?
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aha
That’s in our Netflix queue, after we finish up with Babylon 5 (we’re currently watching the fourth of its five seasons)
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Non-spoiler advice
Don’t get your hopes up for season 5. I was thoroughly underwhelmed. All through the run of the series, I thought the acting was poor, but the writing and effects more than made up for it. Seasons 2-4 were really good. I believe JMS suffers from the same malady that plagues Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelhof, and Ronald D. Moore.
"I can't very well tell my batters, 'Dont hit it to him.' Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway."
- NY Mets manager Gil Hodges on Willie Mays
What I’ve generally heard is that season five was pretty good, but not as good as the previous few seasons.
I have heard that “The Fall of Centauri Prime” and the last episode were really good, though.
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It’s been awhile, but I think you’re right about that particular episode (“The Fall…”). I got the DVD set for Christmas last year, but haven’t made much headway through them. My favorite baseball team suddenly got interesting this past summer, and most of my free time was spent keeping up with them. I should tell you about it some time.
"I can't very well tell my batters, 'Dont hit it to him.' Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway."
- NY Mets manager Gil Hodges on Willie Mays
yeah, I've had a bit of that too!
Also grad school.
I’ll be annoyed if they never explain what the hell was up with the attempted assassination of Kosh IN THE PILOT.
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They already did!
Did you miss it or something?
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well, it's known that the attempt was made by a member of the Minbari warrior caste
And, later, that many of them were working with the Shadows. That makes sense.
What doesn’t make sense is HOW he was able to poison him. When they showed what happened through Lyta’s telepathy, it showed Kosh apparently open his encounter suit and reach out “hands,” which is how the attack work. Later (I think in the second season), a couple characters talked about how it made no sense that they should have been able to attack him through the encounter suit, but I don’t think it’s ever been mentioned since then.
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oh, and there was also the whole Control thing, of course
But I still don’t understand why Kosh would’ve reached out of his encounter suit!
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I love the last episode, personally.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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I think that, overall, the acting is pretty good. Almost all of the aliens are good (Delen = weak link). Bruce Box…. The guy from Tron is okay. Jerry Doyle and Walter Koenig are quite good. Really, only Claudia Christian and the psychics are the anchors, and at least Christian gets a bunch of good lines.
JMS makes his characters say some pretty silly stuff at times. That can make a weak actor look terrible.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas – if I’m spelling either of those even remotely right – are personally my favorites.
Koenig was good too, it’s true.
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I thought the guy who played Sinclair was horribly wooden, though. No wonder they replaced him after one season.
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Oh, he was terrible.
How did that ever happen?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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Andreas Katsulas is the man.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
was the man
Sadly.
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Wha he died? When??
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Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
2006. Lung cancer, apparently.
The guy who played Franklin is also dead.
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Of all the ill-advised spinoffs attempted from B5 I was most interested in something that was never planned: The Adventures of G’Kar and Lyta Alexander. Sort of like Bones or Moonlighting but with alien prosthetics and creepy mind powers.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Or G'Kar and Garibaldi!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
FUCK YEAH
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Not just an actor
but a well rounded person. With his own keys and credit cards.
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THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES
oh, and
I don’t mind Claudia Christian.
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Sounds like a hyper religious children’s book character.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
Her character was a secular Jew!
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Jessica Jew?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
Wasn’t Jerry Doyle the poor-man’s-Bruce-Willis role? His acting singlehandedly put me off that show. Well, him and couldn’t-act-his-way-out-of-a-cardboard-Boxleitner. (Suck it, Chris Berman!)
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by EliminateMe on Dec 23, 2010 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
I’m actually mostly satisfied with it. They paid a lot of stuff off in a pretty short amount of time. I’m just not sure why they decided it to sprinkle it with the occasional five minutes of absolutely baffling stuff.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:05 PM PST up reply actions
Writer’s strike, maybe?
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I didn’t realize the strike was against things that make sense.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:06 PM PST up reply actions
I hated Starbuck’s …. ending. Even Katee Sackhoff said she didn’t like it.
"I can't very well tell my batters, 'Dont hit it to him.' Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway."
- NY Mets manager Gil Hodges on Willie Mays
So hard not to make spoiler jokes.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
That actually didn’t bother me much. I was a little mad that the prophecy about Roslin didn’t actually get paid off, but the scene with her and Adama in the raptor was beautiful so I guess it’s not so bad.
I think there were two things that are hard for me not to forgive. One is the “Let’s all stop fighting and talk” scene. So many things happened during that scene that were just absolute nonsense, not the least of all being Cavil’s ultimate resolution.
Then the preachiness of the Lee’s speech about starting over.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
Hard for me not to forgive?
I mean, hard for me to forgive.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
I told you it was all angels.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
That does appear to be the case.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 4:02 PM PST up reply actions
Also, now we know how archaic Homo sapiens became modern Homo sapiens.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I assume that they just murdered all of the tribal people and forced Hera to have as many of Baltar’s babies as she could.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
Semi-spoiler alert
This this this. “All will be revealed” and they still don’t tell us crap.
But dancing robots!
I enjoyed the BSG finale, for the most part, except for the Starbuck thing. About two weeks after it aired, I went to Emerald City Comic Con where I interacted with the actual humans who played Helo and Chief Tyrol. And I told them that I liked the finale, because that’s how I honestly felt. They spoke at a panel, and there weren’t a lot of haters in the audience who wanted to complain “Why did Lee go all Walden on us? What the frak?” And trust me, these were loud nerds who would not hold back out of politeness.
So I dunno, this outcry about the finale ruining the whole show, I think it might be a loud online minority.
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by Murray, Present on Dec 22, 2010 5:47 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t think people mind the finale so much as they mind those last five minutes.
Which, if you take them seriously, do retroactively fuck up a lot of things from the series’ run. Luckily, I’m choosing to ignore those five minutes completely, except insofar as they are hilarious.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:50 PM PST up reply actions
Also, Tom Sawyer fucked up “Huckleberry Finn”.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
The characters or the books?
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:53 PM PST up reply actions
The Rush song.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 5:54 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, who the hell can get high on me? No matter what space he invades.
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by natteringnabob on Dec 22, 2010 6:15 PM PST up reply actions
In Soviet Russia, the invader gets high on you.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 8:13 PM PST up reply actions
Going off on a common complaint that the Tom Sawyer return at the end of “Huck Finn” brought down the whole book.
Although you don’t have to look very far around the published world, let alone the Net….
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
SPOILERS, jeez
I have never read that book, actually, and I’m planning to do that over Christmas break.
Also might pick up Mark Twain’s autobiography.
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by Murray, Present on Dec 22, 2010 6:01 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, they should’ve ended with Adama at Laura’s [SPOILER] grave.
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by Murray, Present on Dec 22, 2010 5:53 PM PST up reply actions
That has to be the least spoilery thing that’s ever been spoilered. It was announced that she was going to die in, like, season 1.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:54 PM PST up reply actions
IT FRAKKIN TOOK HER LONG ENOUGH.
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by Murray, Present on Dec 22, 2010 5:58 PM PST up reply actions
I was actually disappointed because the prophecy said she would die before reaching Earth, and I was like “EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE GODS DAMNED PROPHECY CAME TRUE!”
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 6:01 PM PST up reply actions
Okay. That might have been a little spoilery.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 6:02 PM PST up reply actions
The epilogue was the worst...
…but it wasn’t all of it, for me. There were a lot of forced, out-of-character moments in a show that had very few of them previously. Cavil’s suicide, as you mentioned.
The biggest of those was Lee saying “let’s throw out all our technology” and everybody apparently agreeing unanimously. One of the things BSG did so well was depicting the interpersonal conflicts even among a bunch of people with the same ultimate goal, and this is possibly the biggest decision among many they’ve had to make, and as far as we can tell there’s no dissent at all. It made no sense in the context of the series I thought I was watching.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Dec 23, 2010 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
I thought it was weirdest of all that the Cylons were just fine with that.
“Oh, yes, technology is inherently evil. Us robots agree completely.”
But even that, to me, is just, like, ten minutes of silliness that I can mostly ignore.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2010 7:11 PM PST up reply actions
I guess if you can really ignore all the silliness, there’s 20 minutes or so of quality TV in those last two episodes.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Dec 23, 2010 11:28 PM PST up reply actions
I put the stuff that really sticks out at about 3 scenes, so I can deal with it.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 24, 2010 12:00 AM PST up reply actions
And why would anybody complain about Lee going Walden? Of course he wants to explore!
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:53 PM PST up reply actions
There were a lot of OTT complaints about how he doomed their entire civilization to die by throwing out their modern technology, including their medicine.
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by Murray, Present on Dec 22, 2010 6:03 PM PST up reply actions
Oh wait… yeah… Walden wasn’t an explorer. That was dumb on my part.
I did dislike his whole “technology bad” speech, and I was shocked – shocked – that the remaining Cylons weren’t bothered by it, too.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
Bork was just on XM...
along with the half dozen or so, “I’ll tell you what’s” and “Yeah, you’re absolutely right’s” he threw down, Bork did mention that from what he knows about Brandon Belt, it would appear that he would stand a very good chance at making the ball club this year, either in LF or at 1st base.
I thought the feeling was he couldn’t quite handle left field? Is he working on left field in the offseason?
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Dec 22, 2010 3:20 PM PST up reply actions
As far as I know, it’s not so much that he’s bad at left field as that he’s really good at first base.
"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!"
Also, he’s not bad in left field so much as he hasn’t played there much at all. Just a handful of games this year, is my understanding.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
My intuition is to keep him at first because his glove is supposed to be so good there. If he can play left field well enough that he gains value from the positional adjustment, and the Giants can find a good first baseman lying around, then I’m interested in left field.
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 22, 2010 3:41 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t meant that to sound like I think he should be taught to play left. If he really does play plus defense at first base, keep him there. I just meant that my understanding was that he hadn’t played much LF at all, and wasn’t particularly comfortable out there as a result.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
I didn’t take your comment that way. I’m really just thinking out loud regarding Belt’s position.
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 22, 2010 3:52 PM PST up reply actions
I attended 6 Arizona League games and saw Belt play. The dude can hit, is disciplined and knows the strike zone.
However, if the Giants had any intention of playing Belt in left, I would have thought that the AZ League team would have been given orders to give him some PT in left. I know he is a good athlete but to expect him to make the transition that quickly is unreasonable. I’d like to know if they are working with him now and if they have already asked him to come to camp and be ready to play left. Any word on the talk shows?
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Dec 22, 2010 9:50 PM PST up reply actions
He was in right field when I saw him in Sacramento, but I’m guessing that ain’t gonna fly at ATT.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 3:41 PM PST up reply actions
He didn’t really have a chance to do anything out there in that game.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Well, yes, but he wasn’t in left field.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 3:46 PM PST up reply actions
Nothing is reserved for Burrell except $1mm and a chance to right the ship from the horrendous post season minus the 3 run homer he hit against the Braves in Game 2 of the NLDS.
But I like his attitude. He didn’t blame anyone for his slump. He took full responsibility. I expect to see more from Burrell of what we saw in the regular season. I’m glad he is coming back.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Dec 22, 2010 9:53 PM PST up reply actions
I clicked on the Darren Ford link...
the next link was the Inside the clubhouse: The Journey video…
so yea…this window has been open for 50 mins and I didn’t do much work…
Uh. Phil Jackson, making a comparing playing basketball on Christmas Day to giving birth?
As a dude, even I have to say STFU.
The Giants won the 2010 World Series. Your argument is invalid.
Et tu, Ribe?
Is the basketball baby Jesus?
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 22, 2010 3:53 PM PST up reply actions
Flibbity-flab
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 22, 2010 4:34 PM PST reply actions
Wow. This is amazing
http://deadspin.com/5716038/the-greatest-letter-ever-printed-on-nfl-team-letterhead
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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
Ha! That’s awesome.
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 22, 2010 5:17 PM PST up reply actions
Good Stuff
"Pablo Sandoval, coming around third like a runaway beer truck." - Kruk
Wow Sweet
A bunch of prospects just as I suspected.
How bout a Mad Libs thing instead? That would be a way better way for work to pay me while I’m not working.
That sounds awesome. You should get to work on that right away.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 5:19 PM PST up reply actions
it’s Saturday, Grant doesn’t do real content on weekends.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:28 PM PST up reply actions
This actually took me a long time, but that’s because I tried to do it as a Google Doc first.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:30 PM PST up reply actions
Pretty much this, people don’t really eat lunch on weekends. LOL whine and cheese brunch blog!
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:30 PM PST up reply actions
Unless it’s October inside!
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:30 PM PST up reply actions
It will turn into a movie discussion soon.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:31 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I should probably stop. That was a lengthier subthread than I remembered.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
It was a bravura bit of guerrilla art while it lasted.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Just in case anybody though Sigualicious was being an asshole, I thought it was a creative way to remind people that he was actually just poking fun at himself.
But then I was like, “Am I really going to copy/paste all 50 of these comments?” And the answer was no.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:34 PM PST up reply actions
Should I understand what the hell you’re talking about right now? Admittedly I have attention span issues.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 5:40 PM PST up reply actions
At least, I assume he’s poking fun at himself. There’s really no other reason to recycle that comment word for word.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:44 PM PST up reply actions
Ha! Now I get it. Brilliant!
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 22, 2010 5:46 PM PST up reply actions
That’s why they pay me the big McCoveyBucks.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 5:48 PM PST up reply actions
The light goes on! That thing got to 400 comments before I got to it and I must confess that I lack the courage (and time) to open it.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 5:48 PM PST up reply actions
I feel bad for making jerky comments now.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 5:52 PM PST up reply actions
Heh
Yeah, I was actually kidding both times. I just thought I’d follow up when he finally did this part. Felt it was appropriate.
by Sigualicious on Dec 23, 2010 10:02 AM PST up reply actions
Shouldn’t you be setting the lineup for the Billings Mustangs 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 22, 2010 5:42 PM PST up reply actions
went to Giants Dugout in Valley Fair today
They didn’t have very much variety, or are just sold out. I was hoping to get a hat with World Series 2010 Champions, but they didn’t even have the penis version.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Dec 22, 2010 5:51 PM PST reply actions
z-ing quickly through the comments, I thought I saw “penis valley”.
"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!"
Lars lords over that valley with an iron fist.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 22, 2010 6:21 PM PST up reply actions
But it is iron.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 6:22 PM PST up reply actions
That’s too big to be a space station.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2010 7:12 PM PST up reply actions
Would the penis version of the hat include a chin-strap?
How about a matching bib?
The thong is, it happened.
The SI cover shoot video
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Haters gonna hate
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Dec 22, 2010 5:59 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
sl
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Dec 22, 2010 6:03 PM PST up reply actions 6 recs
YOU RULE!
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Dec 22, 2010 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
WOOO!
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Dec 22, 2010 6:05 PM PST up reply actions
Chop!
rec’d.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 22, 2010 6:05 PM PST up reply actions
They really are
So awesome
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
As I said in the community ranking thread, Sanchez has a case for #5. He’s probably got the best glove in the organization, and looks like he’s a better hitter than Adrianza and Crawford. And Peguero will pretty much be an historical anomaly if he makes it despite that K/BB.
Tales of the Jedi...
surprisingly good, at least Book 1 of the Omnibus.
Now I’m re-considering my anti-Dark Empire stance. I don’t mind Luke as a dark Jedi, but it seems dumb that the Rebels went from Rebels to New Republic to freezing on Hoth or wherever in only 5 years.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"Oh no, he wanted me to do that. It was intentional." - Tim Lincecum
OT
Finally got my World Series box set. Now I have something to watch on Christmas. I sure ain’t watching the Heat-Lakers.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Is it “San Fransisco” for you too?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
yes
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Sigh. Nice things. Never get em.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
There is also an error on the Game 4 NLCS sleeve
On the inside it says after inning 1 “Pitching for PHI: Madison Bumgarner” Pitching for SF: Joe Blanton.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
not to be nitpicky
On the cover of WS game 4 of the box set it has a pic of Huff’s “left” spike. It looks like a right spike to me. Is the pic reversed for anyone else?
Did anyone else ever notice...
…that in The Year Without a Santa Claus, Mother Nature talks to the wrong Miser brother when ordering each of them to cooperate with Mrs. Claus. She orders Heat Miser to allow a spring day in the North Pole and Cold Miser to allow it to snow in Southtown.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 22, 2010 8:19 PM PST up reply actions
And when you look at frame 154, it’s clear the shot is coming from in front of Kennedy, not behind as the Warren Commission suggested. And if you look just to the right of frame, you can clearly make out John Connally calmly eating popcorn as though he knew it would happen.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
The applause light is ON !
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
I am pretty sure
that mine is wrapped in green paper sitting under a tree residing in my living room.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Dec 23, 2010 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
OT: True Grit
Everytime I see the trailer I think to myself “Why is that girl from the Addams Family in a western?”
True
But every time I see that trailer, I think OMGBADASS. I cannot wait to see it.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Saw it today
it was awesome. Matt Damon was far better than I expected him to be, and the girl was great. Apparently its much truer to the book than the Wayne movie was (which I haven’t seen)
San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
Buster Posey: 100% ballplayer, 0% bullshit
by free f.p. #14 on Dec 22, 2010 7:50 PM PST up reply actions
We might see it this afternoon/tonight
We’re n Maui and it’s raining, so the beach it out
The thong is, it happened.
Anyone else having trouble replying?
Every time I click reply it just goes to the top of the page, maybe Grant revoked my premium membership.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
Nope
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
That’s weird, it only works in Chrome.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 22, 2010 6:59 PM PST up reply actions
OT
On the Giants schedule, most of the Saturday home games say TBD except for 6 games. 5 say 1:10 PM. One says 4:10 PM. I assume these 6 games will be on FOX.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Often the decisions about whether or not to eschew Fox (i.e., evening or late afternoon starts) aren’t made until late January.
I just noticed that our season ticket haven’t been invoiced yet. I assume that it has something to do with the moving of Opening Day, although probably more to do with how that would affect the exhibition schedule (shortening the Bay Bridge Series to two game, perhaps?).
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by BruteSentiment on Dec 23, 2010 2:09 AM PST up reply actions
I think Fox has no problem shoving games around later, and their contract with MLB seems to consist mostly of the clause “U R OUR BIOTCH” so if they decide to televise someone else on Sat. the Giants will be playing night games to avoid the stupid blackout.
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 23, 2010 7:23 AM PST up reply actions
OT3
I just went to the SI MLB page and the main picture was the picture of Wilson and Posey and Huff that Grant used the other day, and I broke into happy, bemused laughter, again, that of all the teams the Giants have had, it was the 2010 team that did it. I mean THESE GUYS.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
OT Opening Day
So … has anybody found any information on when the H-E-double-hockey-sticks Opening Day is going to be? 31st? or 8th? And when are they going to decide?
SHIFT+A
Flipping back and forth between the Cal and Gonzaga game, and its cool that Cal is playing the Jayhawks close and everything but hearing Flemming’s voice is so nice.
"I ain't havin it!"
The Giants been suspiciously quiet this off season, is something big about to happen?
Kevin Mitchell has a black belt in keeping it real.
No
They are pretty much done except maybe a backup SS and C.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I wish they’d just sign Feliz and solve both problems at once.
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 23, 2010 7:23 AM PST up reply actions
Not expecting anything big to happen this off season. They have addressed the big issues getting Huff re-signed and figuring out what they were going to do to replace Uribe.
Now they just need to see what Rent is going to do, clean up some middle relief issues, ie. Mota, etc., see how De Rosa mends, maybe make a minor move here or there, but I beliee they are just hoping they like their chances if they can stay healthy and the young guys continue to develop and improve. Weird isn’t it? As a Giant fan it has always been “what big move can we make to be competitive”. Now because we are in the NL West it’s “get me to the post season and I like our chances”.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Dec 22, 2010 10:10 PM PST up reply actions
You missed it.
There was a lunar eclipse on the equinox. Pretty big. Hasn’t happened before in our country’s history. But it happened when San Francisco won the World Series.
Coincidence? I think not.
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by BruteSentiment on Dec 23, 2010 2:11 AM PST up reply actions
Does that mean we have to wait another 250 years?
co-dad w/AfDC of
Ishikawa, the Topps Rookie All Star Team's First baseman. Does he get a chance in 2010?
"Because I don’t know what it means anymore, in the PCL. It’s almost like years ago."
"That’s not to say Buster isn’t fully committed or all-in. He is. He’s smart and he’s got the advance reports. Anybody who said he’s not ready to catch in the big leagues is crazy because he’s a pretty good catcher, especially throwing." - Sabean 7/11/10
THEY TURNED THE MOON ORANGE!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 23, 2010 7:30 AM PST up reply actions
This is a very good, if frightening, point.
The South shall rise again! And it will have a tender, flaky crust!
“Torture to Rapture” suddenly means something else.
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 23, 2010 12:10 PM PST up reply actions
I just have a gut feeling that something is gonna happen that turns MCC upside down.
Kevin Mitchell has a black belt in keeping it real.
jponry’s coup.
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 10:26 PM PST up reply actions
And then she trades Tim Lincecum for Alex Rios.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Grant for a blogger to be named later
"I dont always hit home runs, but when I do, I prefer World Series winning home runs"
WELCOME 22GIGANTES
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 11:31 PM PST up reply actions
Damn
I hate that virus. Really, rendering HTML code upside down? That’s like the high schoolers who nail the library’s furniture to the ceiling, except less impressive.
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by BruteSentiment on Dec 23, 2010 2:12 AM PST up reply actions
Giants won the World Series?
I’m still having a tough time wrapping my head around that one.
Sucking up to Grant for a mod position since 2009
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
It's hard to believe, huh?
I put in the game 5 of the WS DVD from the box set and it still seems like fiction.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
The special effects are amazing. In the top of the seventh, they make it look like Edgar Renteria hit a three-run HR off Cliff Lee. I played it over and over and I just couldn’t make out the CGI. Very impressive.
by non sequitur on Dec 23, 2010 2:17 AM PST up reply actions
You can definitely see the pixels if you look closely, 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!"
The kerning on his uniform logo is all wrong.
"Guys, here's 20 wins right here" - Aubrey Huff on his red thong
by EliminateMe on Dec 23, 2010 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
They had Alex start the last two games. If they were going to do that at all, they should have given him the season. Putting them in a rotation is the coaching staff admitting that they had no idea what they were doing when they decided either one should start any games at all.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2010 10:28 AM PST up reply actions
well, I don’t think Alex should have ever been put back, and if I had to pick between the coaching staff looking stupid and sticking with Alex Smith and the coaching staff looking stupid and switching back if it meant Troy Smith, I’d go with the latter.
by kingofthacove on Dec 23, 2010 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
White Whale Sighting
Padres Considering Russell Branyan
By Ben Nicholson-Smith [December 23 at 8:42am CST]
The Padres are considering signing Russell Branyan and making him part of a platoon at first base, according to ESPN.com’s Buster Olney. Branyan excels against right-handed pitching (.241/.340/.501 career line), but struggles against lefties. If the Padres combined Branyan with a right-handed hitter like Kyle Blanks, they could get affordable production.
Coincentally...
…I had a humpback whale sighting yesterday.
Also, does a 741 OPS against LHP really qualify as “excels” for a 1B?
The thong is, it happened.
Actually .841 isn't bad
I’m just stupid 65% of the time..and smart the other half of the time
The thong is, it happened.
Just watched MLB 75 biggest blasts of 2010
very east of the Mississippi heavy.
We are nothing to them. Are all of their countdowns like this?
Also, the only MLB commentator to give us props as the top 5 teams in 2011 was Harold Reynolds.
Kevin Mitchell has a black belt in keeping it real.
It was based on the home run length.
How could the distance they were hit be biased?
Thome had some MONSTROUS shots. 5 in the top 75 this year. I did not realize Hayward’s 1st home run was 475 feet though. That seemed a little like overestimating to me.
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 did like that in the top 75, only one of them was hit off a Giants' pitcher.
That pitcher: Mota.
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Who was it hit by?
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
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by Giant among Angels on Dec 23, 2010 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
Yorvit Torrealba
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Furthermore, only one Giant made the list.
Andres Torres.
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Is that because Rent’s WS homer wasn’t dramatic enough?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 23, 2010 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
It wasn't based on drama
It was based on Home Run length. Thus “The Biggest Bombs of the Year”.
Torres’ shot was the monster ball he hit in Arizona to deep right center. Even that was only #33 on the year,
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Ahhhh… I don’t trust those estimates, but at least it makes sense.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 23, 2010 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
What about the one that Dunn hit almost onto the concourse in dead center at Turner Field?
by non sequitur on Dec 23, 2010 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
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word is, #dodgers canned a couple more non-baseball front-office execs the other day. not sure why but … #lawyersaintcheap
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Dizzy
Well, he, uh, still has that .429 on-base percentage in the majors. You can’t take that away from him.
I think about five more PAs would do it
The thong is, it happened.
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by Ceora on Dec 23, 2010 2:11 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
REC'D!
And the NYT conceit of using “Mr.” before every mention of the subject’s name never looked so good.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
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by natteringnabob on Dec 23, 2010 10:01 PM PST up reply actions
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