Post-Game Thread: It's Cool to Score Runs
by jponry on Jun 20, 2010 2:52 PM PDT
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Cool game.
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I didn’t watch it.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 2:53 PM PDT reply actions
I guess there was no picture of Fred Lewis playing his Fred Lewis defense?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
who is fred lewis
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
But yeah, there weren’t. If there was, I would have totally used it, tbh.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
It's always funny to watch others go through a bitter and messy break up.
/gets popcorn.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I honestly thought it was unrequited on his end
But judging by how immaturely he has been acting, perhaps not.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
I was a Fred fan...
until these Facebook shennanigans came about. He seems like a bitter douche. Randy Winn would be disappointed.
Hitler was a Dodgers fan.
by The Nick on Jun 20, 2010 3:07 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
That was reallllllly immature
Still a fan of Winn
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Talking about Fred Lewis being immature, haha, really think i'd knock someone here?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Ha, sorry
I’m also still a fan of Winn as well.
Fred was obviously bothered facing the Giants. It was clear that this was going to be an issue from his first comment about “burying dead things”. “Thou doth protest too much” Freddy.
TIS COOL
Yea, that quote by him was BS, since yea obviously he was disturbed and took offense to everything people said about him. If you’re going to be a professional athlete, part of being one is to be able to handle criticism and just ignore it or just laugh at it
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Randy would be disappointed because he oozes class. Unlike FLew…
Hitler was a Dodgers fan.
by The Nick on Jun 20, 2010 3:52 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Or perhaps I was chasmed...?
Hitler was a Dodgers fan.
by The Nick on Jun 20, 2010 3:53 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
He was saying that what Fred did was immature and that he liked Randy.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
Pretty much
has nothing to do with the fact he went to San Ramon Valley high
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
CHASMED!!!!
just saying that Winn was ALWAYS a class act, hence CLASSY, but man, i can’t imagine a worse way to handle someone’s self like Lewis did
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Megh Fred
No reason to do that whatsoever
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
he has been playing great....until this series
i think playing his old team got into his head
Fred reads that, drops his iPad
…drops his drawers…
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:25 AM PDT up reply actions
...drops his dignity...
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:25 AM PDT up reply actions
This was a good game. it was nice to see the Giants come back from a defeBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
That was two games
It ended in a 3-3 tie, then the giants won 6-3 in the second game.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
KNBR discussion
Posey and Bumgarner for Hanley Ramirez?
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/10: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
Green and Gold Till the Club is Sold- LUHG
posey too valuable
bumgarner plus prospect X, sure
how about renteria n bumgarner
he’s hitting .330 afterall ;D
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE MARLINS!
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
celebratory...
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
KNBR discussion
derp dee derp dee derp, matt damon, derp dee dee derp BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
/vuvuzella spam
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Why would Florida go for this?
Oh…. right…. because they are Florida. God forbid they keep the same player for more than 5 years.
by BooRadley2785 on Jun 20, 2010 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
We don't want no stinkin' slackers on this team
We only want gritty gamer veterans!
CHEMISTRY ALERT
I don’t think Sabean/Bochy would go for that type of guy in the clubhouse and I agree. I don’t expect many people to agree with that
Sometimes, there's a man...well, he's the man for his time and place.
Posey the 1st baseman? Yes
Posey the catcher? Iffy
by paboperfecto on Jun 20, 2010 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions
laser rocket arm? yes
veteran grit? no
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
He hasn’t really caught that much AAA pitching.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 20, 2010 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Skipped AA.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 20, 2010 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I went to the Rivercats game last night. They won on a literal “walkoff baltimore chop”
/mind blown.
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Nice.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Hmm
Ignoring money, it would be a steal for us. Hanley is still only 26 years old, and is at least a top 5 player in the NL, probably top 3. There are very, very, very few 2-prospect combinations I wouldn’t trade for that, and I’m pretty sure that they all include Strasburg. But, he is going to cost about $14M a year over the next 4 years, and then is a free agent.
I think I’d still do it.
I was promised lasagna.
missed it
toddler ear infection, father’s day with opa, oh my.
maybe I should stop watching games and the team could win more.
Yeah...
Disappointing job filling in for Grant
/kids jponry
There’s a reason jponry doesn’t get the big bucks.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
You think Wilson pays his setup men to create save situations?
Buster Posey: "I'm a catcher." Brian Sabean: "I'm an idiot."
by rxmeister on Jun 20, 2010 3:00 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Better be paying them well
since if Affeldt keeps this up he may find himself looking for a job
LOL EXTENSION
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
LOL 100% GUARANTEED MONEY
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
I think it’s the year after.
Buster Posey: "I'm a catcher." Brian Sabean: "I'm an idiot."
by rxmeister on Jun 20, 2010 3:08 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
oh thats right
Only next year is guaranteed, that’s not to bad then. Knowing jaff he’ll remain awful this year, and then come back in 2011 and revert to 2009 form and then get his option picked up and fail in 2012 LOL SABEAN.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Giving an unnecessary extension to a reliever coming off an insane career year in which his ERA was 2 runs lower than his FIP: not a good idea.
I was promised lasagna.
I was in favor at the time…I mean I didn’t expect him to be near perfect again, but I think everyone thought he would at least be valuable…was I the only one?
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn't
he likely would’ve been a type A FA and we had a guy who could potentially be the LHSU next year (Runzler), and if Runzler had the year that he’s having then we could’ve offered Affeldt arb and either gotten a draft pick or brought back Affeldt for maybe 500K more
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
Seems like it
Seems the bullpen is always LOLing blowouts away and setting up save situations.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
The bullpen was actually great today until Affeldt came in.
Buster Posey: "I'm a catcher." Brian Sabean: "I'm an idiot."
by rxmeister on Jun 20, 2010 3:09 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Affeldt combined all the suck and saved it for the 9th
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Has Posey been sent to Fresno yet?
Buster Posey: "I'm a catcher." Brian Sabean: "I'm an idiot."
by rxmeister on Jun 20, 2010 3:01 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
The Jays sent Encarnacion to Las Vegas after the game.
I ain't havin' it
by NuschlerFace on Jun 20, 2010 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess they weren’t impressed by the game winning HR on Friday.
Buster Posey: "I'm a catcher." Brian Sabean: "I'm an idiot."
by rxmeister on Jun 20, 2010 3:07 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I think the Giants were burnt by the old
“even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile”
Not to play there, mind you...
Just wanted to give him a fun week to clear his head.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
Timeless River in KH2
Talk to you clowns later.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
OT: LOLustin Johnson
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:08 PM PDT reply actions
The Affeldt extension continues to resonate in its stupidity
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
Not like we had him for another year on the cheap
lol sabean
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
The original deal was for two years, so he would have been a free agent after this year. I didn’t see anything wrong with adding another year at the same price. He’s got great stuff, so why wouldn’t he bounce back next year or even later this year?
Buster Posey: "I'm a catcher." Brian Sabean: "I'm an idiot."
by rxmeister on Jun 20, 2010 3:28 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
IAWTC
While jeremy has been a huge dissapointment this year, I’m confident he’ll find himself in the second half. If not he’s not a bum, he’ll get his shit together and come back with a force in 2011.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
I’d say the Affeldt extension was easily the most inexplicable move Sabean made over the winter. The other ones, I could see what the logic was, even if I didn’t agree with it. But why extend a guy who is an absolute lock to have worse numbers in the year to come than in the year just past? Just wait and extend him later, if you still want to.
IAWTC
Just look at his career statistics. 2009 was abnormal. 2010 so far looks more like his career numbers than 2009.
Not really.
Affeldt’s career ERAs as a starter and reliever are quite different—5.41 vs 3.71—and he was still being used as a starter as late as 2006; his career as pure reliever began in Colorado. If we look at the succeeding seasons, we see:
2007: 3.51
2008: 3.33
2009: 1.73
2010: 4.57 (through yesterday)
And his actual pitching quality for each of those years is about in line with the ERA—maybe a little worse, but ERAs for relievers are always a bit lower than their quality of pitching.
So there is plenty of reason to believe that while 2009 was indeed something of an aberration, his overall ability is that of a distinctly better than league-average reliever: he just isn’t Mariano Rivera.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I don’t know how you measure “pitching quality”, but it’s not good. His 2009 peripherals were not anywhere near as good as his ERA. His ERA was 1.73, his FIP 3.59. This was mainly thanks to a .244 BABIP (career .308), and some luck/clutchiness – .689 OPS against with nobody on base, .488 with runners on (over his career, the splits have been nearly identical).
You’re probably just using a reverse hitting stat (Linear Weights against, or, more likely, TOP against). That doesn’t account for how fluky balls in play are in that sample size, and even if it would, it would not be a pitching stat, it would be a pitching and defense stat. Defensive independent stats, especially in such small sample size, are much more accurate and predictive.
I was promised lasagna.
Well . . .
. . . his BABIP in 2009 was unsustainably low, but I think we all concede that that was a fluke year. Curiously, though, his BABIPs have been all over the yard:
2007 – .267
2008 – .327
2009 – .250
2010 – .350
Just eyeballing, not analyzing, his other stats, K/W and so on, it looks to me as if he is by and large just what I said: a somewhat better than average reliever, not a star but not a mediocrity. Right now he looks to be having a control problem, but there is no evidence that I find persuasive that this represents his norm, and that he cannot or will not improve to a maybe 3.80-type pitcher, which is satisfactory for general relief work.
Though it applies more to closers, there is a tendency to a general pattern for relievers of good-year/bad-year; most observers I have read reckon it’s probably from overuse when a guy is having a good year, leading to underuse when he pays the price the next year, setting him up for another good year after that, and so on. Maybe, maybe not, but it’s interesting.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
BABIP fluctuates a ton in these sort of sample sizes, though in Affeldt’s case it’s crazier than usual. Still, look at Mota:
2007: .314
2008: .289
2009: .244
2010: .281
Anyway, I agree that he’s probably a ~3.80 pitcher, I just disagreed with this:
And his actual pitching quality for each of those years is about in line with the ERA—maybe a little worse, but ERAs for relievers are always a bit lower than their quality of pitching.
I was promised lasagna.
I am sorta in this camp.
Dude was terrific last year. I still hold hope he can be terrific again.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Pat Burrell
I don’t want to resort to hyperbole, but Pat Burrell is fucking awesome.
Sometimes, there's a man...well, he's the man for his time and place.
the best fucking thing since sliced bread!
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
my rays?
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
YOUR PUCETAS IS JEALOUS
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
raysor burn
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
/raises hand
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
the panda masks are scary
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the Panda hats are worse
…reminds me of Tropic Thunder
pretty funny movie
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
take a step back
and literally fuck your own face!!
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
you grew hands?!
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t read the script. The script reads me.
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
McCoven: We're all happy to be wrong.
by atxgiantsfan on Jun 20, 2010 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I wanna bight it’s hide. I wanna wear it’s stomach skin like a……unitard!
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions
mother nature just pissed her pant suit!
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
What in crikey fuck is half-squat?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Throw in some gazelle masks then you got yourself the complete animal kingdom both out on the field and in the stands! Yay!
you're playing hard ball!!
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Affeldt such
anagram for Lacked stuff! Who knew?
Yup. Only way he disappears is if he is released, which the Giants front office would never do (he’d develop some sort of injury problem before that happened).
is homeruninitus an injury problem?
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Must have popped his dingerz muscle
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
It comes in various strains...
2009 was Howryitis
2010 so far the milder Romococcus
often confused with...
intermittent Huffofylia
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
The way I like to think about it is we traded Fred Lewis to the AL East and got Pat Burrel and Aubrey Huff in return of Fred Lewis and Kevin Frandsen.
10 yr extension 4 sabez!!
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Larry Baer says:
GREAT IDEA!!!!
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Let's try that again.
The way I like to think about it is we traded Fred Lewis and Kevin Frandsen to the AL East and got Pat Burrel and Aubrey Huff in return.
by Uncle Russel on Jun 20, 2010 4:05 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
and we used the $75,000 the jays gave us to mechanically reconstruct andres torres to become the ultimate leadoff centerfielder
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ha! I would have paid at least $500,000 for this!!
Well, I would have given away the Giants money in the form of $500,000….
Proud supporter of the Fightin' Hydrants.
by Little Napoleon on Jun 20, 2010 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
looks like $75,000 did the trick though
/giants brass playing (baseball) god
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
THAT 75 K COULD BE USED TO SIGN ONE OF OUR DRAFT PICKS THIS SEASON, POSSIBLY OUR 2ND ROUNDER OR MAYBE HIGHER
Oh wait
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
I am now .01% dumber from just listening to Curt Schillings incoherent rant
Some of Schillings gems
1. Clay Bucholz is good now because he got married and he’s learned from Beckett and Lackey
2. The Red Sox offense has been good despite Josh Beckett being gone
3. He looks like an old lesbian
JUST .01%?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
yea, for real
i’m surprised it aint more
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
anyone who ever read his blog wouldn't bother to listen to him on television
he should go on “are you smarter than a 10 year old?”
I like my beer cold ... my TV loud ... and my romosexuals flaming.--Homer Simpson
http://www.cracked.com/article_15788_top-25-men-who-look-like-old-lesbians.html
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing. Because all 50th Round picks go to heaven (or at least extended spring training).
Enjoy your free Fred Lewis, Blue Jays.
by jcb9 on Jun 20, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
LOL
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions
The 5 or so that were in my head were on that list
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
freakin bruce jenner
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I dont know who that is
but damn….
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
old olympic athlete who got way too much plastic surgery
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
WHEATIES!
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Patton Oswalt looks like a lesbian!
but he’s funny so it’s cool!
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Tim Robbins?
Nah
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/10: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
Green and Gold Till the Club is Sold- LUHG
by Useful_Idiot on Jun 20, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
wait a minute now
I thought Bumgarner was no good because he got married. Why doesn’t this apply to Buchholz?
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
AL to NL conversion.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Schilling looks like a fat fuck these days
by The Franchise on Jun 20, 2010 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions
God he looked like was high.
And his explanation for why Bucholz is having a good year:
He had more innings pitched. That’s it. Because he was pitching more innings.
How can someone who had such a terrific pitching career, even though was a dick, was one of the hardest working pitchers who had detailed notes about hitters and what to do against them, could be such a fucking idiot?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Aubrey Huff is super awesome. Burrell is growing on me. Also huge props to Denny Bautista, dude probably saved the game
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
So, we saw a car absolutely engulfed in flames while driving home from getting sushi just now. Would’ve called 911, but there were already like four people who’d pulled over to do so.
So that was fun.
Making calculations based upon statiscal histori-garbage rather than situation reality since 1980
Adopted Giant: Kaohi Downing. Because all 50th Round picks go to heaven (or at least extended spring training).
Enjoy your free Fred Lewis, Blue Jays.
interesting, PICS!!!!!
but wow, that must’ve been quite a sight
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I see the Astros called up their hotshot catching prospect, Jason Castro, for the Giants series. Wonder if they’ll play him at first base?
Buster Posey: "I'm a catcher." Brian Sabean: "I'm an idiot."
by rxmeister on Jun 20, 2010 4:43 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Fellow Castro Valley High Alum! Thats actually pretty cool though. Didn’t know they called him up
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
Strange. He was always a pretty cool guy in high school. Maybe the semi stardom got to him.
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
I will admit that I didn’t get to know him very well—he was pretty much always doing baseball related things, but that was the impression I formed of him in a limited basis.
Sounds like that'll be the case
LOL MANAGEMENT
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
reply fail, supposed to be to rxmeister
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Padres are going to Tampa for a three game series with the Rays. I don’t think they’ll be in first much longer.
Buster Posey: "I'm a catcher." Brian Sabean: "I'm an idiot."
by rxmeister on Jun 20, 2010 4:50 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I am glad the Giants dont play the Rays. I am rather fond of them
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
Me too
Sometimes I dream of Evan Longoria on the Giants. Then I wake up and I haz a sad.
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
Would trade Lincecum for him and not look back
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
boy, that would be hard
TWSS.
I’d have to at least think about it. It makes sense from a baseball perspective but I really like Lincecum
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, hacker extraordinaire. Rescuing moribund Giants lineups since 2008
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
True story
He was once traded for Aubrey Huff
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
IRL
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
WHOOPS NO
Sorry, I got it confused. It wasn’t Longoria who was traded for Huff; it was Ben Zobrist.
My Son, the best position player on the damn team.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
Current Pass Recipients: Posey, Whiteside, Huff, Sanchez, Torres, Uribe
yeah, longoria was drafted by the rays
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, hacker extraordinaire. Rescuing moribund Giants lineups since 2008
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Giants avoid the sweep!!!
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Baggs
Sabean says he cannot trade Madison Bumgarner and he isn’t willing to give up top-shelf prospects for an impending free agent.
Sabean was a little more vague on what the immediate needs would be to firm up this team as a contender. Now, it’s pretty clear to me they could use another run producer for the middle of their lineup, regardless of position. They’ve got the personnel to adjust accordingly, including moving Buster Posey to the everyday catcher spot. If they can improve by making that move, they absolutely should consider it.
They could be Giants...but not really.
so
same as last year basically
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Whomever that is, that will happen at the next McCoven meet up at Zeke’s.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
July 24th.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
You gotta be kidding....
of course it happens almost right when i leave to go back to ohio
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Well, i know which day NOT to go to the park
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
There is a gate for people who do not care about the giveaway, the Marina Gate. I will enter through that if the Bruce Bochy bobblehead lines are long.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Perfect, i mean, to me though, i couldn’t care less about giveaway stuff, it’s just noise that isn’t needed
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
K, this picture just makes me hate it, the only giveaway game i went to was Cain’s bobblehead day, that was hectic. But to me? I’m not into it, i just go for the game and the fun, have a beer MAYBE, but just talk with friends and enjoy the game
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I’ve been collecting since I was little. I have 32 bobbleheads, Giants and Mariners. (mostly Giants)
it’s a pain in the ass but it’s nice to have a shitload of em
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s different though for you since you started young, what i did as a kid was collect baseball cards, and i have like 500 cards or so all in storage now, but it’s a habit, like with me collecting hats
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
/feels like a nerd
I collect all 3 lol. I just got a crapload of free binders for my cards…
Ma! the Meatloaf!
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:51 PM PDT up reply actions
HAHAHA
the binders for the cards SUCH A NERD.
/doesnt want to come out of the closet for having 2 binders full of pokemon cards and magic cards
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
oh man! even I left magic behind when i was like 11 lol.
‘sall good, I don’t mind being a nerd.
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t have em anymore, i got rid of them, i don’t even have anything now except for mah hats brah
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Remember, sir, you're under oath here.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:39 AM PDT up reply actions
500 Cards?
That’s like one box from Costco (it was called Price Club when I was collecting)
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
man, i hope it's on a saturday
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I didn’t know we’d chosen a date for it already? Or is this the East Bay meetup?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Baltimore Chop said July 24th above. Wait, are there more of these meetups in SF?
They could be Giants...but not really.
The July 24th one is for a meetup at the Walnut Creek McCovey’s.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I will be there.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
This one is the one at McCovey’s. There is usually one near the ball park before the game.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Ah, okay. I didn’t know there were two different ones.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I went to the one at Zeke’s last year. We played the Pirates and Tim pitched. I remember Velez started in LF and did a good job that night (either that or I was really drunk). I remember jctgamer checking his phone and mentioned outloud that the Giants got Garko.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
And the overall consensus immediately after the notification?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Baron was pissed because she was supposed to interview Scott Barnes later that week!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Everyone else was like, “Garko, huh?” and then when we found out we traded Barnes for him, we were like, “Oh. Hmmm.”
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Haha, i remember that day, i knew exactly who he was since everyone at school were Indians fans so i knew most everyone on the team.
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I meant to share this weeks ago
Working in the Indians org, I got to ask Ross Adkins about Garko. Apparently they thought his bat was slowing and that he didn’t have very good conditioning habits. His theory is that Sabean figured that out after acquiring him, and that’s why we non-tendered him.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Wow, i guess you could say the same
about Derosa? i mean, i like both players, but this is all blamed on Sabeans knowledge of the players history and current happenings
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
We give Sabes a lot of shit for the Garko sequence, with some justification; but I’m glad he’s willing to cut his losses and move on when he makes a mistake.
he’s looking good on the Sanchez re-signing
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD!
mccoven diversity: Romosexuals, Velezbians, Nerb's--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jun 21, 2010 12:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Still too early to say that.
Sanchez breaks again and he’s back to looking like a grade 1A idiot
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Tim had like 15 strikeouts. The whole thing was pretty epic.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Wasn’t the date picked because everyone felt it would be a low attended game due to the Pirates? We had no idea Tim would pitch that night.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I think it was just picked because it’s when all the non-kenshin mods could make it.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
Ah so. Is that why Natto was holding up a “SUCK IT KENSHIN” sign?
They could be Giants...but not really.
He was the only one not to be there (also before jponry was named a mod).
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I might be a little late to all this, but is it weird that i haven’t ever seen a Kenshin post here since i’ve been here?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I think I’ve only seen him post once since I’ve been here. I could just be imagining it, though.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, same here
I remember his comment in the 22gigantes post
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
i've seen him post here a litttttttle bit
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
He used to post here a lot last season and then he disappeared.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 6:00 PM PDT up reply actions
people have a life outside the McC
that’s my assumption
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Yeah, that makes sense.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Of course
i really don’t, i still have 10 or so problems to do for my philosophy homework, and i’ve been doin it for about an hour
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Satyricrash seems to have disapeared.
That makes me sad.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Why on earth would that be a tiff?
people had that big of a deal about it?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
oh, i’m saying about the whole thing with San JOse being a major city… that’s what drove him away?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Last I checked, that thread had his last comments, and his comments in that thread indicated he was really, really upset. Don’t know if he’s lurking out there or something or if he quit cold turkey.
:(
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
:[
I was wondering what happened to shanghaijim. What about satyricrash?
They could be Giants...but not really.
saty? or jim?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
So that would force him to just leave and not come back? Ignoring the posters wasn’t possible?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
shhh
They are all here.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
- splutter -
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:42 AM PDT up reply actions
A few have disappeared. Mayor has, too.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Yea
he was the first person i really got into an argument/debate with since i was talkin about Brian wilson or Damon Bruce and we got into this big fight over it. Of course it was my second week on McC
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
If he ever returns, you could irritate him by using than and then wrong.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I think he is really, really busy with work. I think he’s a doctor.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Fun fact: bannings used to be called “going all kenshin on someone”
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
i take a slight offense to that
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I think Cookyman is trying to up his post count.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Where did that joke start?
Like, why would anyone want to up his post count?
I was promised lasagna.
Howie made some backhanded comment about Lars making a lot of LOL FRED comments to pad his stats.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
That WOULD make some sense, kinda sad i’m not a vet here. Not even a year for me, ALMOST, but not yet. Even though i was always around here during games before i was a member here
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
17000+ post on McC and not even a year?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I’ve been here almost 2 years and only 18,000 + posts.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
well, actually, i kinda do have a life, i take that back, i just tend to comment ALOT whenever i’m on here. so hence, now? I’m doing homework and watching baseball, but still posting here. I still go to class, go out play ball, lift, hang with friends, but i think i just post here A TON when i’m online
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
The more posts you have, the cooler you are.
Obviously.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
dude
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
whatever
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
He responded to a mod email correspondance the other day!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
So a gathering of moderators? Or perhaps, a squad of mods?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
CLARENCE
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:45 AM PDT up reply actions
WILLIAMS
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:45 AM PDT up reply actions
III
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I think the O's are close to DFA'ing him
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
He says something like this every season as the deadline approaches
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/10: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
Green and Gold Till the Club is Sold- LUHG
by Useful_Idiot on Jun 20, 2010 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
My moves
-Trade Molina for whatever
- Look to acquire bullpen arm(s), god knows they need them
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
But what/who would Molina bring back? I’m trying to think of contenders who might need a catcher.
They could be Giants...but not really.
AL would probably be the better option for him than the NL, still has a decent bat, plus is a pretty OK catcher
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I think at this point Molina needs to go
No matter how much Pablo loves him (you guys see him dry hump Molina after today’s game?)
Posey at C, Huff back at 1B, and shop for a LH power OF
I mean, all players form a friendship, a pretty good friendship with eachother, just look at Torres and Pablo, but yea, Molina doesnt NEED to go, but it would almost benefit the team if he were traded for someone. I mean, i have no idea how Posey really is behind the plate since i haven’t really seen him play behind the plate even in the minors, but yea, i think they need to ease him into that role and not just say, play him everyday
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
ALL players?
You’re excused because you may not remember these two:
B. Bonds
J. Kent
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:48 AM PDT up reply actions
I stand corrected
in the dug out at least, Bonds and Kent did not form a very good friendship, since their feud was caught on camera in San Diego
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Tampa maybe
No they’re too smart for that
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
Yes
Although they do have a surplus of infielders in Bartlett, Brignac and Rodriguez. At some point, one of those three will have to go.
They could be Giants...but not really.
The Rangers
Do they still have a revolving door of catchers?
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
I would agree
i mean, i understand the fact the giants could use another guy in the middle of the lineup, we’ve talked about this for the past 2 or 3 years, haven’t we? Fact is, what they need to do is what you said, trade Molina for whomever, because he’s pretty much served his purpose for this team. Eli’s a DECENT backup/spot starter. Obviously you’d have to pair up Molina with a minor leaguer for someone actually good, because you know that the dodgers will make a move to get a bat
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
If a bat is available that wont cost big time prospects sure
I guess an outfield spot is free, but the infield is set. taking AB’s from Huff or Uribe is a lateral move. I heard guys on the radio talking about a Hanley trade. Compare Uribe and Hanley, numbers are very similar except for SB’s. Konerko is the only guy I can think of who could fit without costing too much
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
I'm not gonna go into the lineup thing again since it's pretty much
been exhausted here. But fact is, I also heard the Hanley talk and also Derek Lee ideas, but i’m just slightly worried about who they’d be giving up for him, you put Posey at catcher that opens up a spot at 1st possibly, 3rd possibly, and like you said a spot in the outfield. Problem is, many of the teams know the giants are desperate or at least WANT a RBI hitter or just a middle of the order guy, so the first thing they’ll ask for is Bumgarner, or Posey, or Cain
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Toss the untouchable label on Cain and Posey if you must
If Sabean cant negotiate away from those guys then I have no hope
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
There’s no way Sabean’s dealing those two, it’s not happening, i think he realizes what he has in Cain, with him and Timmy, 2 of the best starters in the league. Posey? He’s not proven YET, but he’s definitely progressing, i mean, give it time, which is what management and Bochy are doing for him since he’s STILL in the lineup even with this slump. It’s the perfect way to handle him, let him figure it out on his own
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
And also consider it from a PR standpoint, the fans love him, he’s really become a star here and I don’t think people would respond well if we traded away our best prospect. Posey and Cain are pretty much untouchables at this point, Bumgarner not so much but I don’t know.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
Well, yea, i’d agree, they’d have to take into account the fans interest in Posey, i’d assume that people come to the park to also see him play as well. With Bumgarner, i kinda like to think that it’s pointless to trade him away without knowing exactly what they have with him in the majors, i mean, he could develop into a LEGIT 5th starter this year. By next year obviously he’d move up in the rotation, but that would in turn push Wellemeyer or Joey to the bullpen for long relief, which i’m liking more and more
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I wonder who the Giants will put as the 5th starter as they will need one next Saturday vs. the Red Sox.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I would assume Joey
i would like to see someone sent down to bring up Madison to have him as the 5th starter, but if they don’t i guess i could understand why. It might just be Joey and the bullpen for that day. Looking like the knuckler, Wakefield, then Bucholtz, then Lester on Sunday, so the sunday game will be fun with Lester v. Timmy i believe?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
But no Tim vs. the Dodgers.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Correct, since he'll go for the finale on Sunday
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
What's an RBI hitter?
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Haven't seen one in about 3 or 4 years plus
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I’m worried about that too. I really really don’t want to see Wellemeyer, not that uncomfortable with Joey but still against Boston…doesn’t sit well with me.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
This is a weekend I don’t mind a bad pitcher since I’m rooting for the Red Sox. I haven’t seen them in person since 2004. (and side note: I am giving myself a ban for the entire weekend. I won’t even sign on).
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Meh
whatever, won’t hold it against ya dude. haha, but i’m very interested in knowing who’s going to go for the giants on Saturday as well, i can’t imagine and i’d actually be SHOCKED if the giants brought up Bumgarner
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Reminds me of when the Giants played the Red Sox in 2004. On Friday, the Giants faced Wakefield with Jerome Williams going for the Giants. On Saturday, the Giants had to called up someone from Fresno to take the start vs. Pedro: Noah Lowry.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
It is clear to me that Bengie is done, then again, it was clear to me last year that he was done. I was shocked when the Mets were interested in him (but then again it is the Mets).
I cannot believe any team would have any interest in him at all. He cannot hit, he cannot field and he is the slowest runner in the majors.
Omar Minaya….theres your answer.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
Ever try talking to a mets fan? because i think you have, just based off your comment
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I have a friend who loves the Mets…he HATES Minaya
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
HA
so there ya go, one of my friends forbids me to talk about HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
LOL
Well Minaya is pretty bad wasn’t he like bottom 3 for GMs?
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
I mean, if isn't there's a problem
and wasn’t he GM of montreal?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
One year Montreal was decent (02, I believe)
Minaya traded Cliff Lee, Brandon Phillips, Grady Sizemore & Lee Stevens for 1/2 a year of Bartolo Colon. The Expos finished 3rd in the NL East that year.
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
Anybody notice Cliff Lee has only 4 walks in 77.2 innings pitched? He has more wins than walks.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
He's ridiculous
The Yankees and Red Sox are gonna break the bank for him. Also LOL Phillies-the main prospect they got back for him (Phillippe Aumont) got demoted to Hi-A after sucking at AA
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Grab Some Pine, Meat
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I still dunno why they traded him.
Yeah they needed to rebuild their farm, but keeping him puts them almost a lock to make the playoffs and maybe even the NL pennant.
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For Lee? or for Aumont? Because no, they didn’t, in both cases.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Wasn’t it as 3-team trade? That’s what I remembered.
I mean, they traded an elite starter for prospects…and then traded prospects for an elite starter? That’s pretty weird.
I was promised lasagna.
It was two seperate trades
Masked as a three team trade. Just cause it happened on the same day.
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Also it was the other way around if I remember
They traded what was left in their farm for Halladay, then traded Lee to try and get some prospects back.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
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yes
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Thanks to roger
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What’s bad is that NOBODY KNOWS, ESPN hardly covers him
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Not on the Phillies anymore.
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on a team from a city nobody cares about
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Yankees. Red Sox, Phillies = Cy Young winner to ESPN.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
all i have to say is
TIM LINCECUM, SUCK IT ESPN
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One ESPN analyst likes Cain over Lincecum.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Well
this year? Cain’s having a better season, GO CAIN!!!!
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not for long
I love cain, but timmy’s just plain better
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Thanks to roger
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Let's do a bet then
Cain finishes with BETTER numbers and a better shot at the Cy
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I think you need to define the categories you would use.
Because you could pick areas where Cain was better then Timmy, and Vice Versa.
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I TAKE STRIKEOUTS
I WIN, SUCK IT PIKA
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by bondslegend on Jun 21, 2010 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
DAMN YOU!!!
I take WHIP AND ERA, FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU
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Time will tell.
I’ll not deny Tim’s been more overmatchingly dominant. However, I’m also not changing my mind about his diminishing returns, and I think that after ten years it will be an interesting comparison.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, time will tell whether Cain will be better in a few years. You don’t need time to know that Lincecum is better right now.
I was promised lasagna.
yup
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by bondslegend on Jun 21, 2010 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Fuck the party line.
Nice ERA, Shaggy.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm actually hoping
that Cain finishes better than Lincecum!!!!!
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Cain might be likely to finish with a lower ERA, because of what he’s done so far. But if the question is who’s likely to have a lower ERA from this point until the end of the year, then I’ll definitely take Lincecum without thinking twice.
I was promised lasagna.
Ten bucks.
Be careful, that might be a large percentage of your weekly allowance.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 22, 2010 7:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Also
Don’t look now, but Liriano is back to being one of the very best pitchers in the majors.
I was promised lasagna.
/doesn’t look now
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Yeah. Whenever I do, I strain to look for flukiness.
“Uh, that HR rate is a little low, I guess!”
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
True, but his ERA is also .70 points above his FIP.
If you want to feel better, though, Tim Licecum now has the lowest FIP in the NL.
I was promised lasagna.
BUT HE'S FALLING APART!
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
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not me
before I vacated my dynasty league team I traded for him
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Thanks to roger
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IMO Minaya is the worst GM in baseball
like worse than Sabean, Ed Wade, & Dayton Moore
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Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
he is the slowest runner in the majors competitive sports.
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks you gave me a laugh...
I’m picturing Bengie on ice skates
does this include the Paralympics?
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
the biggest need is in the bullpen. And to stop giving Molina starts at catcher.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
and ban outside sliders from the sport.
Where's Perry?
by Bballpitcher2 on Jun 20, 2010 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve started to wonder whether Bumgarner might not make a good relief pitcher for the rest of the year.
I like it. Give him a temp try while Affeldt does a rehab assignment.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
I’d rather see him start and if that doesn’t work out then move him to relief but he’s been a starter for a while it makes sense to at least give him a shot at the 5th starter spot.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
His numbers don’t scream “immediate success as a starter” to me and we really need help in the bullpen, right now .
Whenever a starter comes out, I hear Lucinda Williams singing “I Asked for Water (He Gave Me Gasoline)” in my head.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
We need help left-handed bullpen help, specifically. Wilson & Romo & Mota have been fine, but Affeldt & Runzler have been horrible.
And because of his delivery, Bumgarner has always been especially tough on left-handed hitters.
Well, I feel like they should also do something to shore up the righties in the pen either. Romo is an extreme flyball pitcher, so the gopherball problem might not be a fluke. I also feel like Mota’s phenomenal control earlier this season was a complete fluke.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
Well, yeah. But on a team with no real fifth starter and a weak lineup even if Pat Burrell is for real, I wouldn’t want to spend any trade chips on yet another RH reliever. Just stick with the Bautista/Casilla lottery tickets instead.
I do love those kind of pickups. If you must have a shitty reliever, at least make sure he’s the type that can suddenly put it all together and become dominant.
Are there any failed starters floating around that we might get for a song? Any right handed Scott Eyres out there?
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
Mota's not a fluke, he's just old.
To regulate fatigue, he can’t be used every day or even every other day.
The money lies in the RBIs
-- Jeff Kent
yeah. He’s old and they took away his steroids. He can’t strike anybody out any more and he’s never had the phenomenal control that he’s lived by so far this year.
I wouldn’t quite say he’s a collection of old newspapers and oil soaked rags, but he wouldn’t be the relief ace in a quality pen.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
LOL! Ignorant.
Ignorance of steroids’ effects—or rather lack of effects—is quite antique by now.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
LOL you. You know what isn’t in that article? Anything that supports the claim that steroids would have no effect on a pitcher’s ability.
I wouldn’t throw around the word ignorant on this subject if I were you. The tenacity of your belief is far stronger than the quality of your evidence.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
Are we reading the same article?
For example:
Robert Donatelli, a physical therapist who has consulted for the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies and tennis player Andy Roddick:
“With pitchers, I don’t really see how that would help them in terms of improving velocity. The velocity is mostly dependent upon how far the arm goes back . . . [and] how much time the hand has to develop speed to throw the ball.” Brute strength has little to do with it, Donatelli said, which is why skinny pitchers such as New York Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera and New York Mets ace Pedro Martinez are able to throw hard.
Don Catlin, the director of the Los Angeles laboratory that carries out the testing for minor-league baseball:
“We all know if you throw 93 today and 98 tomorrow, that will make a big difference in your career. But the information we have doesn’t really support that.”
“Medical experts say that the muscle growth promoted by steroids does not include a corresponding growth in the tendons, ligaments and other connective tissue that effectively hold the arm together when it is catapulted violently during a pitch. A side effect of steroids, in fact, is a weakening of that connective tissue, which can lead to a variety of injuries when artificially strengthened muscles apply too much force.”
I haven’t the time or inclination to dig up more, but It’s Out There®. For example, here, in The New York Times:
For pitchers identified by the report, we looked at the annual earned run average for their major league careers. For hitters we examined batting averages, home runs and slugging percentages. We then compared each player’s yearly performance before and after he is accused of having started using performance-enhancing drugs. After excluding those with insufficient information for a comparison, we were left with 48 batters and 23 pitchers.
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For pitchers there was no net gain in performance and, indeed, some loss. Of the 23, seven showed improvement after they supposedly began taking drugs (lower E.R.A.’s), but 16 showed deterioration (higher E.R.A.’s). Over all, the E.R.A.’s rose by 0.5 earned runs per game. Roger Clemens is a case in point: a great pitcher before 1998, a great (if increasingly fragile) pitcher after he is supposed to have received treatment. But when we compared Clemens’s E.R.A. through 1997 with his E.R.A. from 1998 on, it was worse by 0.32 in the later period.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Heh. Of course, that NYT one is rather weak, with them not controlling for defense if they’re going to use ERA, among other things.
I would have thought . . .
. . . albeit without examining their list, that most of the pitchers involved would have been playing with pretty much the same defenses behind them throughout. Not all, but most.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Am I misreading it? It looks like they’re comparing the entire career before vs. the entire career after the PEDs were allegedly started—not the year before and the year after. I would imagine in that case that the defense were actually substantially different.
It seems, though . . .
. . . that even if the men had long careers with several different defenses behind them each, that some pattern would emerge were there such a pattern. To hold the contrary is to suppose that there is a pattern, but the the changes in each man’s defense before and after were just exactly, wonderfully (literally) tuned so as to mask that effect, even in the whole lot of them taken ensemble. Me no likee.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
A few points: obviously they also got older in the putative “deterioration” half; for a sample of “clean” pitchers, would we expect to see their ERA rise as well in, say, the second half of their career?
Also, without seeing a histogram of this, it’s impossible to tell if one or two of the pitchers REALLY swayed the mean. 16 got higher, but 7 got lower as well. In a fairly small sample size (and yes, 23 strikes me as a bit small), that does not seem significant to me.
excuse me but an off the cuff opinion by a physical therapist?
I like my beer cold ... my TV loud ... and my romosexuals flaming.--Homer Simpson
Let us suppose . . .
. . . that when speaking to a reporter from The Washington Post that he answered on the cuff.
More germane is the counter-question: where is the testimony from anyone bearing a reasonable resemblance to being medically qualified who explains how much steroids are likekly to help pitchers? Frank Jobe, who might be thought to know a thing or two about pitchers’ arms, has said that steroid use might—note might—add to a fastball, but if so by no more than about 2 mph. Whoopee.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
2 MPH are worth, on average, about .60 points of ERA for a starter, and .90 points for a reliever, based on this.
It wouldn’t turn a bad pitcher into a great one, but it’s pretty significant.
I was promised lasagna.
It looks to me . . .
. . . on a skimming, that 2 mph would be 0.56 on RA. But we need to note that the study worked on established pitchers losing speed off their FB. That affects how they can use and control their pitches, the differential from their FB to their off-speed pitches, and more. It is not axiomatic that gaining some speed works like that in reverse.
There are other things that bother me. Those results imply that a pitcher once capable of 94 who now can throw only 90 will have tacked well over a whole run onto his ERA. That does not—albeit absent actual research—seem to me to align with real-life experience. There are a lot of former flamethrowers who lose several mph off their heater without having their ERAs explosively bloat out like that.
I dunno. Is 3.5 mph really about one full run on the ERA? I have my doubts. (Also, for what it’s worth, Jobe was guesstimating a maximum increase; other sources feel it’s effectively nil.)
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I think you’ve already drawn a conclusion, and you’re seeing more support than is there.
The lack of net gain in performance is horrendously spurious. You’re a smart man, so I will only say one word: endogeneity.
As for the rest of the article, it lists several reasons why steroids might not increase velocity, then several ways that they could. The only thing that is certain is that they should cause more injuries in pitchers. That’s it.
Sorry, the book is still open and you are entitled to absolutely none of your certitude.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
What is . . .
. . . your degree of certainty that they had positive effects?
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
If Sabean trades Bengie Molina
He will have at least a one month reprieve from me. Because we would be getting rid of him, and he will have found someone dumb enough to take him.
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Bumgarner for Choo?
/ducks
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
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Hmmm
Nah. Too many long term questions about Choo (Boras client, possible military service) I’d definitely consider it, though.
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Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
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noooo thank you
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Oh hey, Dexter Fowler hit for the cycle today……….in AAA, mwahahaha.
They could be Giants...but not really.
He did it backwards to
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Or a fan threw the ball all the way from the centre field wall to home plate and he hit it straight to the pitcher?
by sarf_london_niner on Jun 20, 2010 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions
yup
Home run, triple, double, single and I think he had 2 more at bats after that.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
I have to ask you a question. On a different thread a few days ago, you mentioned you lived close to the old Joe’s Ice Cream place on Geary in SF. How close? We are pretty much neighbors. I live around the corner from the old location (they moved last month to across the street).
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Whew, for a second there, I thought you were our batshit crazy neighbor who screams at his TV when the Giants game is on.
We’re still neighbors, but you’re much closer. We’re about 7 blocks away, on 24th and Anza.
They could be Giants...but not really.
Who doesn’t scream at their tv / radio when the giants are on?
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
i dont, i’m not one of those guys, when the sharks are on, i’ll do that, same with football, but i’m just not AS into it with Giants baseball. However when Sanchez hit the home run today, i was in my car driving back from the wedding and yelled in my car “FUCK YES”, but it wasn’t good since i’m pretty sure these parents in the car next to me could read my lips.
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If you ever plan to get ice cream, do plan on waiting. Their business is up since moving across the street (next to the movie theater building).
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LOLDGERS
Matt kemp how far you have fallen, keep dating rihana and hanging out with BLB because you’re going downhill faster than any giants fan could have dreamed.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Too late for Zeets
Toronto optioned Encarnacion to Triple-A Las Vegas following the game and recalled INF Jarett Hoffpauir. …
They could be Giants...but not really.
Oh, joy, I get to see Encarnacion play this weekend.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Lucky you! Make sure you let him know how much we appreciate his RBIs.
They could be Giants...but not really.
I’ll probably be hanging out by the Grizzlies’ bullpen, so I might not get a chance to tell him that.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I heard about that and lol'd
Clearly the game winning HR didn’t impress them, god dammit why didn’t they do that before the series.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
I still find it funny how far Toronto’s AAA team is.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
It’s bizarre.
And what’s weirder is that few of Toronto’s affiliates are very close to them. Double-A is Manchester, NH, which is a 10 hour drive.
They have Single-A teams in Lansing, MI (5-6 hour drive), and Auburn, NY (3-4 hour drive), and that’s about it.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
LOL
Lansing, all those places are just so close, one would imagine that it would be ideal to have a AAA team somewhere on the eastern part of the US, but OH WELL, they’re problem
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Usually teams either have their Triple-A OR their Double-A closeby. For example, for the decades that Columbus was the Triple-A affiliate of the Yankees, New York would often send their rehab assignments to Double-A Trenton because it was so close by. I guess Toronto probably just ships guys all the way out to Vegas for rehabs—-it’s not like Manchester would be super convenient.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Almost like with the giants
sending their players that are rehabbing to as close as San Jose, but Fresno is extremely ideal since it’s only a 3, 3 and half hour drive
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
i give you this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVp-2B8qlw
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Would that be worse than if your neighbor became a porn producer and all you heard were the noise from that?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Might have to go upstairs and check it out, ya know, just investigate
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Moonshots redux (see below)
Normally I set up the scope in the parking lot of my apt complex, but because of the rotational relationship of the two celestials/the local foliage I have to find different spots as the phases deepen…meaning the trees start to block the Moon.
So I was forced to set the tripod close to a building so I could shoot over the trees. As I’m assembling lenses and finding the Moon I become aware of amorous noises from within said building.
Yup, that’s the scenario – a couple inside loudly getting it on ’round midnight, and a guy outside their building with a telescope.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 4:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Polka?
Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 20, 2010 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions
OT: lookin to be a good US open at Pebble right now
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
where's tiger at?
and mickelson?and johnson?
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Dustin Johnson, just wow, an 82 on the final round?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
seriously scrubbed it
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions
So bad, but good for McDowell
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Toad fuckery going on in Fresno now. Bases loaded, one out, two runs in. And some defensive failure.
C’mon, MadBum, get out of this.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 6:15 PM PDT reply actions
Since he’s apparently turned into Kirk Rueter….
…SHAMROCK
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
And some defensive failure
What did Velez do?
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
It was MadBum with a missed catch.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
If the rotation holds up
Tim would pitch the Sunday game before the All Star break in Washington and thus would become ineligible to play in the ASG.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I read that somewhere, does that assume that we’re skipping the 5th starter again? Because if I go by my spreadsheet, the 5th starter is projected to pitch that Sunday. Tim’s last start before the break would be @MIL on July 7th.
They could be Giants...but not really.
It’s something Schulman said.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Hmm
@ HOU – Lincecum, Zito, Cain
BOS – Sanchez, #5 Dude, Lincecum
LAD – Zito, Cain, Sanchez
@COL – #5 Dude, Lincecum, Zito, Cain
@ MIL – Sanchez, #5 Dude, Lincecum, Zito
@ WSH – Cain, Sanchez, #5 Dude
They could be Giants...but not really.
pending on whether they skip a starter.... but it looks like there are no
days off between these series
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Giants will face Padilla one of those games vs. LA. A chance to get back at him for hitting Rownads in the face.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Or thank him.
:(
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Is Strasburg scheduled to face the Giants?
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
yep.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
So 9 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 16 SO?
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I would set the O/U K line at 12.
And I would take the over.
only 16?
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
This feels very strange and sad. Jon Miller is on ESPN broadcasting the Dodger/Red Sox game.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
by sanfrankid on Jun 20, 2010 6:23 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
This
It bothers me to hear him laud the dodgers and manny ramirez.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
And he’ll be in Dodger Stadium next Sunday for Yanks-Dodgers.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Yanks and Dodgers, ESPN is lovin it
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Teams are only allowed 5 ESPN Sunday night games so expect a Giants game to be added soon. ESPN will save Yankees and Red Sox for the Yankees vs. Red Sox match up.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Giants won’t be on ESPN this year, there’s just not a chance
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Nope
the white sox and cubs have been though LOL CHICAGO TRASH
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
They might as well put a nationals game on over a giants game
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The cubs are hilarious
154 million dollar payroll and one of the worst teams in baseball LOLPINELLA
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
K, might want to think about the Mets before you bring up the Cubs
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Well the mets at least have been well above .500 since may
Where as the scrubs have been 7 or 8 games out of first for a long time. If not for cincy and stl scuffling recently the cubs would be 13-15 games out.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
The NL central is not that good at all.
However, of course let’s just give it a month or two before the Mets start tumbling back down to where they usually end up in the standings
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
This
The nats are 10 games out of first place now, hard to believe a week before they called strasburg up they were in first by 3 games lol.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Sorry but i'm not finding it HARD to believe that
the team had some good offense, good defense, and some OK pitching. But then all the sudden the hitting went cold, pitching became MEH, and everything was about Strasberg
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
yup
I thought they had a good offense and solid pitching with a good bullpen. As you said though, the bats went silent and strasburgs in town and everyone’s choking. I doubt that team will make trades to try and contend this year, but they’ve made some huge steps forward for the next few years.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Pretty much, i’m actually surprised at how well they’ve progressed, they got a good core of players
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Yeah, last year I predicted the Nationals to be a dark horse for the playoffs (living in DC and all), and man, was I wrong. Maybe I was just a year off. I liked the offense they put together, but their pitching has been really really bad. They have some good starters coming back from injury though, with Marquis, a couple prospects, and Wang, they might surprise some people
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Jun 20, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
This year, they might be another year off depending on the division, they have A BOAT LOAD of talent offensively and pitching wise. They just have to be consistent
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
That, and two #1 picks where there was a clear top choice is definitely gonna help them. Man, landing the top pick when Strasburg AND Harper are available? That’s some lucky stars right there
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Jun 20, 2010 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Definitely, they just have to stay consistent and yea, these kids are definitely stars in the making, they just have to prove to the fans they can do that day in and day out and not be considered snubs. Stephen is just crazy good, but Harper? yea he’s PROJECTED to be good, but let’s wait and see
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I was a bit worried they would mishandle Strasburg, but they’ve done well so far, we’ll see how the innings count goes by the end of the year. I agree, I don’t think they’ll be in contention this year, and I would make sure as much as I can that he’ll be healthy when they are up there in the standings at the end of the year
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Jun 20, 2010 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, no reason to look down on this year just yet, i mean there’s alot of games left.
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Yeah, I’m just not sure they have the pitching, and their bullpen’s been fluky good. I don’t think they maintain the pace, but it sets a real nice steppingstone for next season, maybe if they resign Dunn and pick up a nice pitcher or two
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Jun 20, 2010 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
This game is sooooooooooo slow for a 1-0 game
So, it seems like it isn’t just Yankee-Red Sox games that are slow. Maybe it has something to do with the Red Sox?
serously
its been on for 90 minutes and its the 3rd inning LOL.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Dodgers and Red Sox
The next two teams the Giants will face at home.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Sabes on Rent and Ro
“I think the more you’re in a position to try to win, or in a mode to win, you have to do what’s right by whatever the hot hand is,” general manager Brian Sabean said. “Having said that, they’re going to be on the field. It’s just a matter of whether they’re able to step up and get into the front line of things. Right now, neither of them are, and they’re going to have to wait their turn.”
They could be Giants...but not really.
Hey sabean
Stop allowing bork to put rowand in CF when torres is in the game.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
you have to do what’s right by whatever the hot hand is,
So if you are not doing well, you will be benched. I sure hope they apply that to everyone and not just young players
Having said that, they’re going to be on the field. It’s just a matter of whether they’re able to step up and get into the front line of things.
Oh, so ride the hot hand, but hope that Renteria, Rowand and Molina will be a part of that hot hand because they are going to play anyway.
Fuck this shit.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I don’t understand what he’s saying. First, he says “ride the hot hand.” Then, he says “they’re going to be on the field.” Finally, he says, “Right now, neither of them are, and they’re going to have to wait their turn.” So are they going to be on the field, or not? The suspense is killing me.
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Jun 20, 2010 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
What’s that, Bigglesworth? You want to see Rowand in CF again? And Mays in left, stop that, Bigglesworth!
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Jun 20, 2010 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I love clay bucholz
He’s been pretty wild tonight and keeps missing up and in and nearly hitting dodgers players in the head, It’s excellent TV to watch.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
NL west matchups the next series
Padres-Rays
Giants-Astros
Dodgers-Angels
Red Sox-Rockies
Yankees-DBacks
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Dodgers play the Angels again?
I like these matchups.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
One is not like the other
thank you scheduling gods!
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
by Scooter Ellis on Jun 20, 2010 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions
LOLOL
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
LOL DINGERZ
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
LOL MANNY
Did you guys just see that clip they played from manny back in the day? LOL TERRIBLE
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Buchholz is my pokemon and he is shutting down the Dodgers
I love him right now.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I bet he's going to rock the giants lineup
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
What a difference a day makes.
A torturous but ultimately satisfactory show, with one act after another providing entertainment and edification for the audience:
The Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo routine, starring Fred Lewis and Aaron Rowand in an amusing satire on outfielding.
A remarkable Joe Morgan impression rendered by Mr. Fred Sanchez.
Exhibitions of might and main from the U Miami duo.
And more! What an extravaganza!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I didn’t realize it until now but the Pirates have a worse record than the Astros do.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
lost 12 in a row starting with game where B-Weezy blew save then vultured win
The money lies in the RBIs
-- Jeff Kent
Before the mariners swept the reds, they have the 2nd worst record in baseball in front of just the mighty O’s. The red’s pulled a giants in oakland and scored 1 run in 27 innings, including back to back CG’s back clee and fhern.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
The Pirates are almost as bad as the Astros at hitting, but their pitching staff is much, much worse. At least they seem to actually be rebuilding.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
Well, their “rebuilding” consists of the future trade of Andrew McCutchen
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
not a snowballs chance in Jamaica will we get him
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
One of the guys I would give Posey for
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
Yea... i guess so
he’s one of the best young outfielders in the game, the epitome of a leadoff hitter
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
It isnt a very long list, and Mccutchen is probably near the bottom
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
Torres is a top 10 leadoff guy. Could be higher if could steal bags consistently
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
Yea, the fact he’s getting on base is the reason why i like him so much, that’s what lead off hitters do, they get ON BASE, and the past few years it kinda was a struggle to at least get on base, the next part is the HITTING HIM HOME
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
OT: is anyone else having a problem trying to load the FanPosts list page?
It looks as if my browser is being put into an infinite reload loop.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
LOL BUCHOLZ
I love this kid, straight up head huntin the dodgers.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
MadBum with 10 K’s so far. Seems to have settled down after a rocky first inning.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 7:34 PM PDT reply actions
He’s also getting Cain’d right now.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 7:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Make that 11 K’s.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Bowker crushes another homer into the right field seats.
And now Pill hits one way over the left field bleachers. DAMN.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 7:40 PM PDT up reply actions
incredible
Bumgarner has no longer been cained.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
It’s almost like years ago.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
The sad part is our organization is not.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
HE HAD HIS CHANCE
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
damn.
I take it back, Madison. You can hang on to that starter gig.
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
He’s been killing it since they tinkered with his mechanics, hasn’t he?
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
Yeah, like sanfrankid said, he’s lowered his ERA since the mechanics tinkering, but the K numbers aren’t there at all. 11 K’s is very welcome to see
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Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Jun 20, 2010 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions
yup
He’s on his way to getting cain’d though, he’s definitely a giant!
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Yipes.
The Dodgers’ Rafael Furcal’s father died Sunday from injuries he suffered in an incident with a horse.
:(
.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
wow
Heard he died but not like that, that’s awful :(.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Standing behind the horse
It kicked him in the chest and he suffered major internal injuries.
I’ve owned horses. You do not stand behind them. Ever.
by mrs. owlcroft on Jun 20, 2010 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions
And of course there’s the story from the Giants game (also mentioned on the post game wrap:
“Toronto’s John McDonald hit a two-run homer off Jeremy Affeldt in the ninth, his first. It was an emotional Father’s Day drive for the light-hitting McDonald, whose father, Jack, died of cancer last week. Before he died, he told his son to hit his next home run in his honor.
That was really nice. Flemming picked him as his player of the game it was pretty touching after hearing the story.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
Definitely touching, how emotional for him
having it be fathers day and his father passing away just last week? wow
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Flem was saying that McDonald had been away from the team for the past week [?]spending time with his father who was dying, today was his first game back, and that was his first plate appearance.
It’s just so sad, that whole experience, been through it before, it’s EXTREMELY emotional to watch a loved one deteriorate like that, since you’re so used to seeing him/her be able to get up and walk around and be themselves. From talking one day to the next day not being able to do anything but look around… i’ll stop there, getting too emotional
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Whoa crazy stuff especially on Father's Day
I’m glad Jeremy complied nicely.
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
by Scooter Ellis on Jun 20, 2010 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Because you all care...
Did a hellacious workout yesterday, of course injuring myself in the process. Wow do rib injuries suck. I can’t do anything. Tim Howard is a beast. Then I wake up in the morning to be pleasantly surprised with stomach flu. So, injured, incredibly sore, and sick. I can barely drink water. Even typing hurts.
At least the Giants won. I was writhing and feeling sick to the point that I couldn’t even turn on the TV. I’m glad they won. Go Huff! Go Sanchez! Go Burrell! I love those guys.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Get better soon. I’m at least glad to take you off of the list of the decent posters who are suspiciously MIA lately.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Thanks.
I’ve been staying out of game threads somewhat because sharing my attention between typing and the game occasionally causes me to lose focus on the TV. I miss things that I normally wouldn’t, and so on.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Decent posters?
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 5:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Being on the east coast, I don’t get to watch a lot of Giants games. When I do, I usually avoid the GD threads. They have more value to me when I’m following on Gameday.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I do the same
i usually avoid the GD thread since i want to WATCH the game and not comment
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
You missed incredible defense by edgAARP and scott in the 9th
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
LOL JOHN MILLER
He was talking about the NL west and he was extremely skeptical about bringing up the giants and just blurted out they won LOL ESPN.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
WTF Grizzlies?
Grizzlies Celebrate Twilight Night
God I hate Twilight.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
Yeahhh, that’s a horrible promotion. I’m going to that game, though.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 7:58 PM PDT up reply actions
It looks like the wife and are going July 17th
Cold Hard Cash Giveaway night.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Nice. I think the game I’m going to after Saturday’s is Posey bobblehead night.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh. At least the album to the last movie was good
The new album has good bands making crappy music
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
Madison Bumgarner's Line
7.2 IP 5 Hits 2 Runs, 2 ER, 2 BB, 11 SO (WOW) 0 HR 3.05 ERA
Edlefson
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
Awesome.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
pending ediefson
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
omg strikeouts!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Bumgarner gets the No-Decision
Edelfson gave up a 2 run homer. 3 ER for Bumgarner now.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
LOL TIMMY'D
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
OT: Dad just called, got pulled over for doing 85 in a 65...
haha, how pathetic, gets pulled over a day after his wedding, wow
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Edlefsen has NOT been pitching so great lately. Good gravy. There goes MadBum’s win.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 7:59 PM PDT reply actions
seriously wtf
He avoids getting cain’d, and then he gets timmy’d sigh giants baseball.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
The W-L doesn’t concern me (though it sucks). It’s encouraging to see that this is his most dominating start in a while. I never got off the Bumgarner bandwagon but I was worried about his strikeout stuff, he’s giving me more hope.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
He was in trouble in the first, but he managed to get out of that with just 2 runs. Good to see him striking kids out and going deep into the game, LOLpen happens.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Yeah, the W-L thing was mainly because his confidence seemed to have been rattled in the first, so it would’ve been nice to see him get the win. But he pitched great tonight after that inning.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh well, doesnt effect the giants record
and it doesnt effect what Bumgarner did
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
hence, i'm not mad at all
Kinda liking the fact Bumgarner has been stellar lately, and honestly the fact that he got a no decision shouldn’t even do anything to change managements mind about him. The line regardless is AMAZING
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Yeah, he’s been pitching great lately, which is fantastic to see.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Why i'm not too worried about the no-decision
The wins and losses in the minors are so miniscule compared to how a specific player is doing. For all we know, Fresno could be the worst team in AAA, but Posey hitting like he has, also Bumgarner pitching like he has been, shouldn’t detract what they’ve done
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I agree. But I still wanted to see MadBum get the win because I follow the Grizzlies as close as I follow the Giants and I’d like to see them make it to the playoffs as well.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Yea, it’s different if you were to follow the team closely, more or less i like to look at a players performance over the record, however, at the same time of course i’d want the team to do very well, case in point, San Jose Giants
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Yeah. I was like that before I started going to Grizzlies games at least twice a month, and then I started following the team as a whole and not just individual players.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions
One thing i kinda want to do is go to Chuckchancy, had my grandpa live down there over on Bullard and Palm
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That’s pretty close to the Chuk. You should go one day! It’s a nice place to see a game.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, now i have no reason to go to Fresno other than to see family over on old Van Ness i believe where christmas tree lane is
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Yep, that’s where Christmas tree lane is. But, yeah. If you’re ever in Fresno to visit family or whatever, you should try to find some time to see a game.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
For sure
plus it’s a nice park. Aside from going to see a game, there is absolutely NO reason to be downtown at all, there’s nothing there, plus not a very friendly downtown
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I almost never go downtown unless I’m going to a game.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions
how sad
i mean, where that big shopping center is over on blackstone i believe? is pretty awesome though
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Yeah, that’s on Blackstone. And that’s a lot nicer to hang out at than downtown.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
By a crap load
other than that i really don’t know any good hang out spots around Fresno, i usually just hung out around the west end of town around Bullard, so there was not any place to actually “go out” and have fun
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Hah, I don’t know of any either. I usually don’t go into Fresno unless I have a reason to. But if I am there for no reason, I’m either at that shopping center or the mall.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha, yea, k, here’s a question for you and everyone here that knows something about Fresno (lives there, goes there often) ever heard of Simonian Farms?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
YES.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
My family right there, they own it, it’s all my aunt and cousins, so yea :)
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
That is AWESOME.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
You should pass on the hook up.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
haha
whatever you want i can get
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
It would be easier
If you just told them that anyone who identifies themself as “scout6” should be allowed free reign
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
And “walkoff baltimore chop.”
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
One thing i want to know
is if i can still get whatever, since my Aunt passed, she was like 90 something, and i still have family down there that work with the place, but some of the stuff they got there is just damn good
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I love me some dried fruit
and I am a cashew fanatic. Also Chocolate covered raisins.
Yum.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Hence, Simonian farms has all of that
and the best part now is that my step mom gets like free beer almost from Sierra Nevada since she lives in Chico, so it’s pretty awesome
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Looks around the barnyard . . .
Menace is in the air . . .
Anyone who disses Fresno will have to deal with Gallo del Cielo.
. . . sees seeds and corn in the gravel and pursues it like an outside slider . . .
Taller than Pearl du Monville.
by gallo del cielo on Jun 20, 2010 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I would love to see Steve Decker managing the big club. I heard he’s great.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
Oh, he is. He’s also a better third base coach than Flannery.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh Flannery he is seriously beginning to irritate me.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
He’s not really a good 3B coach.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
He makes sensible moves when it comes to baserunners. A lot more sensible than Flannery, at least.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Good point.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions
in fact, it should get him prepared for life as a starter on a team with occasional offense and a rickety bullpen
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
Another reason why I’m not so pleased with the HR Edlefsen gave up is that he hasn’t been as dependable out of the pen as used to be.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Isn’t Edlefsen going to the ASG?
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Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jun 20, 2010 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Not that I know of. Voting’s not over yet.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably got him confused with one of the Low-A / Hi-A guys…
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Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jun 20, 2010 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Justin miller sighting
Knowing our luck he’ll be lights out.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
his elbow was pretty much toast last year. He pitched through the pain (oops).
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
As do I
To bad we didn’t pick him up with a MLD deal this season =/.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Strong chance of papelbon pulling a qualis
Even though its the 567
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
my pokemonz don't need that
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
LOL FRANCE
Players walked out of practice
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
I’ve been flying all day from Boston to Chicago to SF =/ missed today’s game too.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Well, i had to re-watch that game in Arizona where Bochy got ejected and Uribe was bitchin out the umpire at the end, all because i never saw that game, but wow, talk about a ump that is a serious dick, those type of umpires are total ass holes who just follow the player around and kind of will them into an ejection
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I’m surprised people didn’t make a bigger deal about it because of all the bullshit the umps have done, this one was seriously over the line. Umps aren’t supposed to do shit like that and he just was bad.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
/grabs crotch
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
YAY
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I like it better when they win.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 20, 2010 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
LOLODGERS
2nd place Bitches!!
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
GIANTS NOW IN 2ND
SUP!
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Fresno attempting to pull 9th inning heroics
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
srsly
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Failed stealing attempt. Ick.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
TIE GAME. COPELAND TRIPLE
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
BENJ!
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Man, that kid isn't really a KID anymore is he?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
LOL
good thing they attempted to steal, that’d have been a walk off loLoLoL.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Oh snap. Guzman base hit but he couldn’t score.
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
It was hit right down the third base line. Hardly went past the mound.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Now they’re intentionally walking Boyer.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow
Bases loaded 1 out. Come on Graham
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
DAMN LINE DRIVE RIGHT BACK TO THE PITCHER
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Velez with a chance to win it
/grounds out
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
This is hard to watch. Really.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions
FUCK YOU VELEZ
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:45 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL VELEZ
DFAep
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
LOL VELEZ
And there was the clutch K
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
Wow. 0-5
There’s the Velez we all know.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Transactions
SF – Recalled INF/OF Eugenio Velez from Fresno, optioned C/INF Buster Posey to Fresno.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I know you are joking because you listed Buster as a C.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
OT: Pandorica Opens
I thought RTD left the show
"Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
by operation carrot on Jun 20, 2010 8:41 PM PDT reply actions
i dont want to do too many spoilers because some people might be watching off of bbca but yeah that was a tad nonsensical. The alliance bothers me most of all. There is no way they would ever all work together. And amy’s memories wtf
"Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
by operation carrot on Jun 20, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that Dr. Who? If so, I have no idea what any of that means, I just started watching like a week or two ago on BBCA. But has the season been good so far, like up to standards with the show in general?
Also known to haunt as theghostoftravisdenker and theaccidentalghostofsergioromo.
Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Jun 20, 2010 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
have you been watching from the beginning? Like were they doing repeats the last two weeks and youre mostly caught up or have you only seen the last few week’s epis? Its kind of important you see most of the season. Also this season has been pretty good but imo there hasnt been any one truly great episode. The van gough one i thought was the closest.
"Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast."
by operation carrot on Jun 20, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL ESPN
Yankee’s diamondbacks on espn tomorrow night in arizona. I’m sure the diamondbacks made ESPN cringe, but hey as long as it involves the yankee’s we’ll stick ti in your face like its special!
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
LOL yankee's
I enjoyed every single moment of that WS, fuck the yankee’s.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Is the Grizzly game on TV in Fresno?
Mainly directed towards Walkoff.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
909 on Comcast. (HD channel)
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn
No HD…yet….
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Crap.
Double play needed.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Oh, good, it’s Mehdders.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 8:56 PM PDT reply actions
OH LORD IT'S MEDDERS
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
LOL MEDDERS
SAVIOR!
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Phew.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:02 PM PDT reply actions
that was legit by medders
Definately thought he was gonna summon the inner runzler with them loaded.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
C'mon, Bowker, win this thing.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:06 PM PDT reply actions
Or not.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
THATS WHY HE'S IN FRESNO
01.19.2010
r.i.p. buster posey
Wave them home Tim Flannery, wave them home.
He's not and will never be major league material
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
LOL MEDDERS
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
LOL tornados in the midwest
WTF. I’m quickly running out of reasons to live here. We had 30 something tornados touch down in minnesota in ONE DAY a couple days ago, and another one just hit a town in montana i used to frequent as a youngin. Insanity
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, hacker extraordinaire. Rescuing moribund Giants lineups since 2008
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
There are people who say they would rather be near tornados and hurricanes than earthquakes even though major earthquakes in CA are infrequent.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Please don’t say that, don’t jinx it! But seriously, i felt pretty safe being in Ohio, although where bondslegend is isn’t even as close to what Ohio is like "safety"wise
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
We get them (heck San Diego go one last week) but not the frequency of the other stuff.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
true, i mean, i haven’t felt one since 2 years ago? but i’ve been here and in Ohio…. Usually i’ll just wake up in the middle of the night, and Dad’s all “ANDREW ANDREW!!! DID YOU FEEL THAT?” yelling and screaming, and it’s like a 3.0
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Last one I felt, I was asleep. I woke and said to myself “Oh an earthquake” and fell back to sleep.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
That is one of the unsung benefits of Ohio: very infrequent natural disasters.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I’ll be in Iowa from Thursday through Monday, weather looks like it should be fine as of now.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jun 20, 2010 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Though it appears we are flying from John Wayne to Minneapolis to Cedar Rapids. We’ll see…
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jun 20, 2010 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
"as of now"
i’m sure you know that the midwest is can be crazy, weather can change JUST LIKE THAT
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Ballgame.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:22 PM PDT reply actions
LOL MEDDERS
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL 2 OUT SINGLE
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Copeland, Rojas and Boyer up in the bottom of the 11th. I don’t feel too confident about that.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Hacker is on deck. Okay.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
BALL GAME OVER
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Twins like titanic come back is imminent
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
LOL GRIZZLIES
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I blame it on Velez.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
So what would it take to get Josh Johnson on the giants?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Noooooooooooo.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
He'd be a solid 5th starter
Perhaps gino velez and renteria for him? After all EdgAARP is a celebrity in that town how about a re-union!
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
'chasm?
Seriously? He’s their ace and is a pretty damn good pitcher. He’s much better than a 5th starter.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
He;s incredible
The run he’s been on has been down right cainine, he’s allowed 1 earned run or less in his last 8 starts. No one has done that sinec 1920, not sure what the record is.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
by sfgiants420 on Jun 20, 2010 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Some kind of mind control ray to get the Florida GM to trade him to us for Velez and Medders.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Holy shit, anyone else see what happen to the Astros catcher today getting NAILED in the head?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
yeah
Brutal. I’m not to pleased that the astro’s got swept by the rangers, I think we might be in for some payback for the LOL SWEEPS earlier in the year.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Do not take the astro's lightly
You know for a fact they fucking hate the giants and after those two heart-breaking sweeps I’m pretty sure they’ll bring it.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
There's no hate between teams.
But let’s be honest here, the giants SHOULD win the series, that’s what they SHOULD do against teams like the astros
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
True, but as giants fans we are due to get fucked over and our pitchers to get cain’d.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
What happened first series of the year, remind me
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
The Giants have a better offense then the last two times they played.
I am still fully expecting to take 2-3 from Houston.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
i'm content with this opinion
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Yeah
Holy shit that was scary and looked painful. Apparently he was ok, just had a cut on the side of his head.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Yeah, that was horrible. I hope he’s okay.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
it was a no doubter
Just a question of fair or foul
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Looked like a pop up that hit the left field foul pole.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Watching that again actually it didn’t look gone at all, looked like a medium deep fly out to left at best. That ball would have been well gone if it was another few inches fair, but it hit right in the middle of the foul pole.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
he deserves it
he had a couple close ones at ATT
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 20, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder how he liked dem apples
I ain't havin' it
by NuschlerFace on Jun 20, 2010 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Can’t believe I missed this.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jun 20, 2010 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
E, right?
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jun 20, 2010 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Si.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
I just noticed the scoreboard thing changes from 1 to 2 outs, even though he dropped it.
The folks running it thought it was a sure out.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
LOL so true
Did you see how he played uribe’s gapper? He like sat there for a few seconds confused and then charged after it blindly and let it go to the wall and then made a HORRIBLE throw LOL.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
by sfgiants420 on Jun 20, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
But the STATS! Good defender!
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!!!!!!
Defense stats.
Worth the paper they’re written on, or maybe not.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Is there any reason you actually dislike UZR, outside of the fact that it’s new? Because you’ve made it pretty clear that anything that’s happened in the field of sabermetrics in the past 15 years doesn’t interest you.
I was promised lasagna.
Not so.
But that development has a long way to go to credibility. (Mind, advances in knowledge of theory are always interesting, but advances with substantial practical applicability are few on the ground: many people fail to grasp how few a front office’s options are at any given moment.)
One test I give a deal of weight to is whether a metric applied to individuals can be for a given set of men, pro-rated for playing time, be combined to get a team figure that can be compared to some real-world datum for accuracy. My understanding is that that is not the case for most or all of the defensive metrics. If X is A runs above norm and Y is B runs below, and so on, does one get a team metric that the team is Z runs above or below norm? And can that then reliably be compared with team-level stats as a cross-check? And if so, how good is the correlation?
Another reason for dubiety is that UZRs seem to vary wildly for a given player from season to season. I am naturally suspicious of a metric for which a full season’s worth is not at least fairly indicative. For batting stats, sure, I like two or even more season’s worth, but (barring external causes, such as injuries), a full season’s worth of play is not definitive but is usually rather indicative. UZRs, I gather (I have not delved deep) yo-yo up and down considerably from year to year, and not necessarily in a clear dampening trend. And further, there are, I gather, major differences between various defensive metrics depending on whose raw data is used, indicating an awful lot of unreliability in the basic facts. Batters either get a hit or they don’t; the influence of subjectivity, as in scorers’ decisions on hit/error, are a very small component of their hits total. For fielding, such subjective judgement is all of the data.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
If X is A runs above norm and Y is B runs below, and so on, does one get a team metric that the team is Z runs above or below norm? And can that then reliably be compared with team-level stats as a cross-check? And if so, how good is the correlation?
Here is a list of 2009 MLB teams ranked by UZR.
Here is a list of 2009 MLB teams ranked by ERA – FIP (click on “E-F”).
There is a very clear correlation. The better the fielders’ UZR, the more likely the pitchers were to allow fewer runs than their peripherals suggested they should. It’s far from a perfect correlation, but it’s clearly there.
Another reason for dubiety is that UZRs seem to vary wildly for a given player from season to season. I am naturally suspicious of a metric for which a full season’s worth is not at least fairly indicative. For batting stats, sure, I like two or even more season’s worth, but (barring external causes, such as injuries), a full season’s worth of play is not definitive but is usually rather indicative. UZRs, I gather (I have not delved deep) yo-yo up and down considerably from year to year, and not necessarily in a clear dampening trend
First of all, UZR uses a smaller sample size than hitting stats. Every ball in play used to be a PA when it was young, but only ~69% of PA’s end up being balls in play. So, regardless of how reliable the stats are, and of what they try to measure, you’d expect UZR to fluctuate from year to year significantly more than hitting stats like TOP or wOBA do, because hitters get more opportunities to hit than fielders do to field.
Now, I’ll quote Tango:
Correlation of UZR is r=.50, when BIP=400 (100 games). That compares to component pitching ERA of r=.50 when PA=300, and RC or LWTS of r=.50 when PA=200 (50 games).
In short, you need 2 years of UZR or other fielding metric to be as reliable as 1 year of hitting stats.
Two years of UZR are a predictive as 1 year of RC. 1 year of RC – like you said – “is not definitive but is usually rather indicative”
There many problems with defensive stats, and sometimes people (but not those who invented them) treat them like they are more reliable than they actually are. But they are far from useless.
I was promised lasagna.
Burrell doesn’t get near that ball. I’m being 100% serious here.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
this
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, hacker extraordinaire. Rescuing moribund Giants lineups since 2008
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
believe so
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, hacker extraordinaire. Rescuing moribund Giants lineups since 2008
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Has anyone mentioned that Alderson started against the Flying Squirrels today? 7ip, 9h, 2r, 2er, 1bb, 4k
Darren Ford had 3 of the 9 hits. Unfortunately, he also lost a ball in the sun which ultimately led to a 2-6 loss. Sounds like Tanner got Cain’d.
They could be Giants...but not really.
OT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9JoIxqUTBE Really? Brazil Kaka red carded? i’m stunned
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
They’ve got some gems in the comments section there…
temtem36:
no18 ivory coast is fucking negro
he is son of the bitch asshole
by short_shifter on Jun 20, 2010 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Comments for You Tube are always full of racists and homophobes.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
All the time, if there isn't any kind of negativity on the comments
something’s wrong
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Hmm, so Brandon Flowers made a solo album
Crossfire is a decent song, but not as good as the old Killers stuff
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
Really? I had no idea. I should check that out.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I just heard it for the 1st time tonight
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
Huge Killers fan, really like the song "All these things that i've done"
since it’s not ALL rock there’s a hint of gospel in the chorus
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ae3tFI8wXE
This commercial and pretty much every Nike commercial is just unreal and so true, like this one is just inspiration
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Yeah they mention religion in some of their songs
His new song talks about the “crossfire of heaven and hell”
And “a dustland fairytale” has a line about religion
Proud father of Mike Krukow (who is more than 3 times my age)
Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
John Bowker: One of the 3 best OF's on the Giants roster
by Gobroks on Jun 21, 2010 12:54 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Man, I'm still really bugged out about the Fred weekend
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
I hope someone wrote him an angry letter telling him what a douche he is.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m really tempted to.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL DON’T ENCOURAGE ME, MAN.
I’m having a tough time trying to come up with a letter that’s not unclassy.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 11:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Can I get the official Randy Winn classy seal of approval for it?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
The Lou Seal of Approval?
I’ll go sit in the corner
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
SCIENCE
Wow.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 21, 2010 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions
It's the even more dissappointing because so many of us defended him over the years.
Just totally classless.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
I was only gone for a week.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
You were gone? I remember your April trip but didn’t know you were gone this week.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I didn’t notice he was gone, either.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah it was a last minute trip. I didn’t say anything to see if people would miss me. Obviously know one did. Especially wbc.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
That was a weird typo.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I can always count on you.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Psh, of course I didn’t miss seeing your Oski icon ‘round here. (I’m kidding, bro.)
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha I was too. It’s all gravy.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Ahaha, cool.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Oski? OHHHHH that thing from Cal?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Si.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 20, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah. My icon?
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
The Cal mascot
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jun 20, 2010 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
yea i was gone for a week, i was in Panama City and i got an email from greatgiantsfan and he was all “yo are you still alive?”
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Some people thought you were in Panama.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
someone actually bring up the fact i was in Panama?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
The best part of today's game
The assistant umpires behind the plate.
It got old
but the Blue Jay Mascot helping out made it a bit more funny.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, who has been resurrected and has returned to..(reads)...Fresno? And is also an outfielder now.
Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
Yea, it looked funny at the start, and see i thought they were just gonna be doing the Strike out thing for JUST Jays pitching, but they did both ways
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Those guys have been to New York, Washington, Philly, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland (the last 3 they did 3 games in 24 hours).
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
So basically go all over the country
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I heard they work at the Stock Exchange in Toronto and have very understanding girlfriends.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Goody
Rownads returns to the city that where he started 0 for his first 10 at bats.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
OT - Starcraft 2
Go suck a dick Blizzard. You made SC shinier but n00bed it up, and tried to strong-arm the dudes who run progaming in Korea (who are not perfect, obviously, but did more to spread the popularity of SC than your PR department). There’s no way SC2 was going to last as long as Brood War in the first place, and now you’re just trying to kill BW to promote SC2 and it’s inferior gameplay. Have fun with your flop of a game.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
shinier you say?
intrigued…
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 21, 2010 12:23 AM PDT up reply actions
:(
This is going to be the Star Wars prequels of video games, isn’t it?
Just get the damn surgery, Mark DeRosa.
I'm trying to think of a sequel that had so much hype and came so many years later
Only to be a colossal disappointment. I’m guessing it will be like that.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
The Tigers sent down Rick Porcello today.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
he was on my pokemonz, NOW HE AINT
dropped him for Cahill
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
WCWWASRIGHT
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I didn't notice today was Father's Day until last Tuesday
I don’t pay attention to that. I’m not a father and my father died 18 years ago.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
how didn't you realize today was father's day last tuesday?
paradoxicalnessitude
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 21, 2010 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I was at the Giants game and the NASCAR event up in Sonoma came up. The person I was talking to mentioned it usually happens around Father’s Day weekend. That’s how I found out.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
that makes sense
my bad
in soviet russia, run scores you!....and giants still have terrible offense
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jun 21, 2010 12:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Whoever called Stanton’s grand slam on the Marlins telecast was hella annoying. “GO BALL. GO BALL. GOOOONEEEEE.”
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 21, 2010 12:51 AM PDT reply actions
That would be Rich Waltz and Tommy Hutton. They also have another when Dan Uggla homers “AND HIS NAME IS DAN UGGLA!!!!!!!”
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Good gravy, I hate that one.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 21, 2010 1:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Time stamp
I have yet to finish watching this game.
And yes, I WAS on the GDT.
Went riding at 5: 15 AM.
Worked out at eight.
Hit the sack in eighth inning…woke up at 9pm (well, that’s when I got up. It gets kind of warm here, I just soak my shirt/head/go back to bed.
Cleaned a telescope, watched replay of the 5 run inning.
Took some moon shots
Am making mashed ‘taters (heavy on the garlic salt) an’ will then FINISH HIM an’ then watch Toy Story 3.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 1:28 AM PDT reply actions
Giants Baseball:Torture Murder!
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 3:18 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I was afraid someone was going to rec this
Good thing we’re all still classy here.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Someone did.
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 21, 2010 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Having just commented in a critical manner at someone else's taking violence lightly I feel somewhat chastened.
Damned schizophrenia…
"I don’t know why people feel the need to come up with reasons 'why' for everything..." - Missing Barry
"...and is the reason 'why' really something we should be striving for?" - (guess who)
by victor frankenstein on Jun 22, 2010 7:32 AM PDT up reply actions
What does Bochy have against Kagan?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/06/21/national/w071616D35.DTL&tsp=1
Frandsen, 2-4. You go, kid!
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
Language of the McCoven--TWSS!, Meh!, STFD!, Bork!, Fail!, STFD! STFD!
mccoven diversity: Romosexuals, Velezbians, Nerb's--they're all here...
So funny he's playing everyday for the angels
Clearly had no place on the giants in 2008 or 2009.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
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