Spring Training Power Poll
Ranks the teams 1-30. Giants clock in at #14. I get the impression it'd be higher if there was any pop in the lineup.
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if there were any pop in the lineup
The Kids: Lewis, Posey, Sandoval, Bowker, Schierholtz, Frandsen, Ishikawa, Amezaga
Current Team: Rowand, Sanchez, DeRosa, Sandoval, Huff, Molina, Renteria, Schierholtz
The Kids' CHONE WAR projection= 12.7
Current Team's CHONE WAR projection= 12.6
/young Howie
Kevin Frandsen: The best SS on the Giants roster
Hoping for BowkerMania to hit AT&T Park in 2010
by Gobroks on Mar 9, 2010 10:31 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Plenty of those guys are old enough to have kids…
Adoptive parent of Kevin "The Stopgap" Frandsen.
by EliminateMe on Mar 10, 2010 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
I just wanted to share my Pop Secret!
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I disagree – I think was is fine. In this context, I think pop is singular so was is appropriate.
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by giantsfansince1981 on Mar 10, 2010 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
It’s not plural, it’s the subjunctive.
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by EliminateMe on Mar 10, 2010 10:42 AM PST up reply actions
The subjunctive noun clause? Hmm…you may have a point there. So the plural “were” would be correct here? Do tell…
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by giantsfansince1981 on Mar 10, 2010 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
See here…
A verb is in the subjunctive mood when it expresses a condition which is doubtful or not factual.
A Giants lineup having pop is certainly doubtful at best.
Adoptive parent of Kevin "The Stopgap" Frandsen.
by EliminateMe on Mar 10, 2010 11:45 AM PST up reply actions
Ah, that makes sense. I stand corrected.
/Bows head in grammatical shame.
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by giantsfansince1981 on Mar 10, 2010 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t understand why the Padres have a chance at contention because of the division they play in. Did I fall asleep for five years and 2009 is long gone, or did the Giants just go 88-74 and finish THIRD in the division? That’s AL East levels of competition; we didn’t make the playoffs, but finished with a better record than the Twins, who did. I get that this guy is obviously a huge Yankees fan, so his world begins and ends on that island, but seriously man, look at the numbers from last year; there are four playoff contenders in the NL West (Reynolds, Montero, Drew, and LaRoche have something to say about Upton being the only good hitter in the Arizona lineup).
God, that automatic dismissal of the NL West as a good division annoys the crap out of me; going back to ‘02 (because that’s when Yahoo’s standings stop), there have been two years, ‘05 and ’08, when the division winner wasn’t 15+ games above .500, and the NL West consistently produces multiple 90 game winners.
NL West? Aren’t all their teams not on the east coast or even in the midwest? Wow, they must suck.
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"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Go Roger Kieschnick! And son, please continue to break scoreboards on your way to San Francisco.
I gave up on the article after the entry on the Pirates, which was downright insulting to Pirates fans and ignores how a team tries to rebuild by trading away veterans who won’t be around when the team actually has a shot at being good. At least, that’s what I hope the Pirates are doing. I’d like them to be good again.
The article seems dumb to me.
Eagerly anticipating adding to my Giants family.
by giantsfansince1981 on Mar 10, 2010 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
This was particularly stupid
In the last few years, Pittsburgh has gotten rid of Xavier Nady, Jason Bay and a few others. Is it going to be Andrew McCutchen this season? Who knows.
I know. They won’t be trading McCutchen. He is the guy they are building around.
Juan Carlos Perez, please start hitting.
Yeah, seems like he’s a fan who assumes the Yankees will just trade for/sign any player they want. I hate it when Yankees fans say things like, “Oh, Mauer, yeah we’ll sign him.” When they say it about Lincecum I want to smother them with spam. The meat, not the mail, though that would work too.
Eagerly anticipating adding to my Giants family.
by giantsfansince1981 on Mar 10, 2010 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
I like Yankee/Red Sox fans who have never been to Boston or New York.
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by say hey nation on Mar 10, 2010 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
need proof
Quote from last year’s power ranking:
Aside from Adrian Gonzalez, the Arizona Diamondbacks just don’t have many other good players on their roster.
That is hilarious.
I bet the Diamondbacks wish this guy could control reality through his power rankings.
Eagerly anticipating adding to my Giants family.
by giantsfansince1981 on Mar 10, 2010 10:40 AM PST up reply actions
SODA
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
It’s all Coke, dammit. All of it.
by Grant Brisbee on Mar 9, 2010 11:15 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Xanthan disagrees..
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They JUST started carrying this at the Freddy’s by my apt last fall and it is GRRRRRREAT!!
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by satyricrash on Mar 10, 2010 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
My Personal Favorite...
pretty much available only in the Southeast.
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This stuff is everywhere around here now.
by chilibean_3 on Mar 10, 2010 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
I still need to try this.
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Out here look at BevMo.
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"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."
Go Roger Kieschnick! And son, please continue to break scoreboards on your way to San Francisco.
Yeah, I’m never in the area of a BevMo though.
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I have no idea what this is.
WHY IS BENGIE?!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Mar 10, 2010 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
SPAM! This dude is worse than BCB, due posts everything on every site!
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
SODA.
Adopted Giant: Clayton Tanner
by walkoff baltimore chop on Mar 10, 2010 10:04 AM PST reply actions
Uhm.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Mar 10, 2010 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
The Red Sox are 1b and the Yankees are 1. Shouldn’t the Yankees be 1a in this scenario?
Juan Carlos Perez, please start hitting.
Don’t look for logic in this article.
Eagerly anticipating adding to my Giants family.
by giantsfansince1981 on Mar 10, 2010 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
Well, give the dude a break. Its quite a feat that he was (is being) educated at USC and still counted to 31 correctly and skipped number two.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Mar 10, 2010 10:43 AM PST up reply actions
while people often over-apostrophize the word
in this case, it should be it’s
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Whatever.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Mar 10, 2010 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
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