Deadline fears
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 23, 2010 9:39 AM PDT
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PrintDuring yesterday’s interview with Brian Sabean on KNBR, Ralph Barbieri asked several questions about what the Giants might do before the trade deadline. Sabean couldn’t be too specific, but he was pretty clear that the starting rotation would stay intact. A trade wouldn’t involve Cain, Sanchez, or Bumgarner. Simple.
Barbieri probed a little more. What if a trade for a "big bat" fell into your lap? Would you consider something then? It was a fair question. I’m thinking names like Prince Fielder or Hanley Ramirez -- if those teams come calling, and they want Sanchez or Bumgarner as the centerpiece of a deal, as unlikely as that would be, you’d have to listen. Then Barbieri clarifies:
Would it be worth having that vacancy (in the fifth starter’s slot) to get a Bautista, a DeJesus, a Dunn, or a Hart?
There it is. My biggest fear. Everyone with more than five home runs, all lumped in to the same amorphous "big bat" blob. Now Sabean wasn't the one lumping all of those players into one category, nor was Barbieri doing anything more than listing the usual suspects in trade rumors. All it takes is one player, though, to sneak over the line Sabean has drawn between "useful" and "big bat", and the Giants are hosed. To be fair, Sabean couldn’t say that Bautista was garbage, or that Hart was overrated; he just reaffirmed that it would be almost impossible to trade someone in the starting rotation.
Running down the names...
- Corey Hart scares me because he’s having a fluky good year. He’s also the kind of hitter who can be beat regularly by good pitching. There’d be nothing worse than overpaying for Hart, making the playoffs, and watching him flail at slider after slider against playoff pitching.
- David DeJesus scares me because he’s a batting-average dependent hitter. He’s not bad when his average goes below .300 -- he’s just not someone worth a pail of prospects, even after his defense is accounted for. He’s a nice player, nothing more.
- Jose Bautista scares me because there’s no way he’s going to keep up this kind of home run pace. He’s the J.J. Hardy of 2010. He’s the biggest buy-high guy on the market, which is saying a lot.
- Adam Dunn scares me less as a hitter, but the Nationals are supposedly asking for rare works of art for him. I’m not convinced that his offense makes up for his clankmitt, and he’ll also be a free agent after the season.
- Jose Guillen would be a debacle. The difference between Guillen and Pat Burrell are worth a Kevin Pucetas. Maybe. Take it or leave it, Kansas City.
I’m not opposed to any of the names on the bullet-pointed list up there except for Guillen, but none of them are worth Sanchez. I’m glad to hear that Sabean seems to agree. What scares me is that Sabean might think that a couple of them are worth Brandon Belt and Zack Wheeler. There are reasons to empty the farm -- and at this point, the Giants have only two or three players who are B- or better prospects, so a trade of Belt, Wheeler, and/or Thomas Neal would probably qualify as an emptying -- but no one on the market is worth it except maybe Fielder, but he’d take the farm and a starting pitcher. No thanks.
The Giants have square pegs, the rest of the league has round holes. Well, the Giants have a few round pegs, but they’re keeping the wheels on the axle. Also, one of the round pegs is playing third base. We should keep that guy. It should be a boring deadline. Should be. I hope.
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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 Jul 23, 2010 9:39 AM PDT reply actions
McCovey Chronicles mccoveychron
The most boring post ever. You should come into the comments section and talk about movies or something.
Yep, you’re right
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by Grant Brisbee on Jul 23, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
/punches Grant
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 Jul 23, 2010 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
So
What did everyone think of Inception?
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
Loved it. It gave me hope that Neuromancer could be successfully translated to the screen. I’m going to see it again tomorrow evening (taking someone who hasn’t seen it yet).
Totally dug it, and I really hope it succeeds astronomically, because it could lead to more original and complex films being made, if audiences respond well enough
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was overrated. I go to the movies to be entertained, I don’t want to do all that thinking! I didn’t hate it, but LOL to seeing it twice!
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
by rxmeister on Jul 23, 2010 11:47 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I thought it was excellent
The only part that pissed me off was that the climax was like a half an hour. They didn’t need 5 full minutes of screen time to establish that the van was falling from the bridge very slowly.
The very bad man who traded my first son non-tendered my replacement son. F*ck you Brian Sabean. Leave my children alone.
that was the whole point
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
It wasn't falling slowly
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Yeah I got that
My point was that it was played out to the point where it was almost overdramatic.
The very bad man who traded my first son non-tendered my replacement son. F*ck you Brian Sabean. Leave my children alone.
/Spinning back fist
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Grab Some Pine, Meat
Still cheering for Kevin Frandsen
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by Gobroks on Jul 23, 2010 1:06 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I just subscribed to Netflix last week. Now I can catch up on all those movies I haven’t gotten around to seeing. I watched Paprika a few days ago. Very weird, but good.
Watch The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Very interesting movie, It’s in Sweedish I think, kind of weird but I liked it.
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t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
is it already out on DVD?
I thought it was OK. the gratuitous and graphic rape stuff REALLY didn’t sit well with me.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Oh boy, maybe I don’t want to watch it.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
fair warning
I can cope with a good amount of on-screen violence, and when something is integral to the plot, like Irreversible, say, I don’t mind it. (Irreversible was hard as hell to watch, but it was in no way gratuitous.)
But the scene in question in TGWTDT totally didn’t need to be as graphic as it was.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I can handle on-screen violence without flinching, but rape makes me physically ill. I can accept it if it’s absolutely necessary, but even then I get sick from it.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
i'm with you
and that’s the distinction i’m trying to make b/t an Irreversible and a GWTDT. I assume this will be handled differently in the US remake.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I kind of looked away but it doesn’t show everything and leaves you with enough to know it happened but overall it’s a pretty good story.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Spoiler
at least you know she gets her revenge
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Oh yeah
That was insane.
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t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
that's what ruined Showgirls for me.
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by DrStankus on Jul 23, 2010 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
For me it was Saved By The Bell.
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saw it not long ago, it was great. The US is making a remake unfortunately possibly starring Ellen Page…blah….They are also making an English remake of Let the Right One In. They will definitely screw that one up too.
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Eli will bare his/her fangs a lot and hiss.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate remakes. the [rec] remake was so horrible i wanted to hurl. Leave good movies alone. Or at least put in some effort and try to make it your own thing rather than dumbed down shot for shot remake of the original. I plan on watching let the right one in pretty soon. I heard it was amazing.
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by operation carrot on Jul 23, 2010 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
LTROI was fucking great
book also great.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Remakes should only be made if the first film was bad or had mistakes, something to improve upon. These films wont be improved
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
Or the last “copy” was over 30 years old. Just like with songs sometimes a new vioce does has a relevant way to recaste a tale. As a rule of thumb though I agree remakes are a mistake.
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Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
i also dont minf remakes if theyre updates. Like romeo and juliet being told in brazil with guns was kind of cool even though there wasnt really anything wrong with the original. I hate it when people say movies with bad graphics need to be remade. If the story is fine use your imagination a little and ignore all the tin foil. Actually i feel the same way about movies that i do about video games. When the effects were worse they had to focus more on story. Or gameplay for the video game analogy. Go sega genesis!
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by operation carrot on Jul 23, 2010 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah, and Super Nintendo to this day has some of the best RPGs and they did not have any CGI or animated cuts in between scenes
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exactly. Chrono trigger/ Final Fantasy 3 (six if youre in japan) are the two best rpgs of all time imo. Not to mention the incredibly underrated phantasy star 4 on the genesis. That was the real golden age of rpgs.
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by operation carrot on Jul 23, 2010 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
+1 for Chrono Trigger
God I loved that game.
I was also hyped to see the end of Scott Pilgim’s Finest Hour used the X strike.
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Those are definitely two of my favorite games of all time. And I never had an SNES, so I never even played them until the PSX era. They were still amazing.
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lol young
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Hey, I certainly was the right age to have an SNES, my parents just would never get me one :(
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"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Yeah, I never got an SNES because I already had a regular NES. Console jumping was a different game back then.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
+1
I stupidly had a Genesis until CT made me realize how stupid being an exclusive consoler was
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I never got a console until the N64!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
My first console was the Atari 2600
The next one I got was Nintendo 64.
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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.
wtf is wrong with you
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haha
The Atari was a hand me down. My mom was a single mother and could not afford us much. So I started Umpiring LL and Tee Ball games to make money and helped pay for the 64 for my birthday.
First game I got for it: GOLDENEYE
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my first console
was “Super PONG”.
I will get my second one when my 6-year-old learns to read.
[full disclosure, I have played a wide variety of PC games on various and sundry PCs since then]
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game totally stalled and basically dead at this point
I got my N64 as a birthday present and I basically couldn’t even believe what was happening.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait… were you that kid from that youtube video!?!
by The Double Deuce on Jul 23, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh god I don’t know what you’re talking about and I hope it’s not me.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU
Tosh.0 had that guy on the show. Lol.
Wilber Bucardo: Missing?
Pssh
Actually having a childhood where you went outdoors.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
I am Asian
What’s your excuse!
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This is my excuse, too.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
*high five*
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/high five
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
IS THIS AN AZN MAKING FUN OF AZN JOKE
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I assume you went to Cal from your username
We are definitely not the minority.
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Ah UCI
University of Chinese Immigrants
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/high five…what you can’t reach
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jul 23, 2010 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey now...
I went outdoors… once in a while
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
She never said that she went outdoors. For all you know, she spent her youth playing imaginary SNES in her room.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I beat Imaginary SMW like 10 times
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I beat something else like 100,000 times....
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by jctGamer on Jul 23, 2010 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Imaginary DKC?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I beat my real DKC like 100,000 times.
Wait. what?
by The Double Deuce on Jul 23, 2010 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I had a handed-down NES and then jumped to N64.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
Genesis was great...
Altered Beast and Golden Axe made it worth while
Almost forgot Michael Jackson Moonwalker
So awesome.
My friend growing up had Sega channel. Being at his house was the absolute greatest shit ever. I had totally forgotten about that until now.
Fuck Armageddon, this is hell.
oooh
my buddy had that on his MAME arcade machine but then his machine busted.
When this .sig was awaiting the Final Sabean Apocalypse, I never once in a million years suspected it would be a "good" Apocalypse. Bengie... Don't let the door hit you IN YOUR GIANT ASS on the way out!
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game totally stalled and basically dead at this point
Chrono Trigger is awesome
Final Fantasy VI is not even the best Final Fantasy, let alone best RPG.
Final Fantasy IV or bust. What an outstanding game.
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I liked 6 more than 4
Maybe it was because I played them in that order though.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
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But let's face it, there is only one true champion of RPG, and it's not Final Fantasy
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Nobody recognizes the greatness of Shin Megami Tensei :(
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+1
Never got the love. I think I played one of the Personas on PS and was underwhelmed.
Actually, I might just rom the original next week.
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Oh. It’s one of those.
/cue interminable opening scene wherein nothing happens.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Megaten is a cool series.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Please note the behatted fellow in my avatar. Now that’s a great RPG.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Kinda touch and go on IV as well
But I was never a huge fan of the proper FFs, it always seemed like Square’s best games were outside them (FF Tactics, Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Vagrant Story, Secret of Mana)
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<3 Xenogears
I’ve been wanting to replay it for ages, but I lost disc 1 somewhere and I can’t find it :(
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"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
So close to being one of the greatest games ever. Falls on its face at the end.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I didn’t play it on consoles, but I loved the Ultima series. Well, VII and VIII. I never got to the earlier ones, and the 9th one was unplayable, from what I heard (I also didn’t have a computer fast enough to play it at the time).
There was a re-make of Ultima V (I think) using the Dragon Siege engine a couple years back, but I haven’t had the time to play it.
Just wait for the US remake.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought Paprika was good, but oddly not as fantastic (I mean that as a pun) as Kon’s other films (excluding, I suppose, Perfect Blue).
But that’s not exactly a criticism. Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers are two of my favorite movies ever. So not being on that level isn’t really an insult.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
On the realz though
There have to be other options, right?
DeJesus looked alright, but now he’s out 2-6 weeks depending on if he needs surgery.
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 Jul 23, 2010 9:43 AM PDT reply actions
Yep
I saw the play on ESPN last night. He went hard into the wall going after a long fly, and his glove hand got bent back toward his forearm at an extremely painful looking angle. He was immediately removed from the game.
I don’t wish ill on any player (OK, sometimes I do think about certain members of the Fodgers), but I must admit that I was hoping this injury was going to be serious enough to keep Sabes from making a horrible trade wiht the Royals this month.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
If the circle jerk is big enough, that might happen. Where’s Alyssa Milano when you need her?
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Warning: Subject Line
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Thank you, SL
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Someone needs to doctor that image up
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
good news!
She’s also got pics in SF gear for her clothing line.
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large image is big
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Almost everything in her line is ugly. There’s jewelry, too, and it’s horrible.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
she’d look so much better if she didn’t wear anything at all.
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not azn
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she gets grandfathered in for me
I mean, she was the hot teenaged girl when I was exactly the right age when my parts started gettin’ tingly.
She can do no wrong.
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Me too. Her & Winnie Cooper.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
I don't usually drool over non AzNs
But when I do, I prefer Jennifer Love Hewitt
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
ew
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Yup.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Alyssa Milano...
…baseball whore.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Eyesoap please.
Somewhere in the minor leagues, Joe Paterson is pitching.
by imovermyhead on Jul 23, 2010 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
D:
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Keep her away from the team!
"I never watched baseball on TV. It's slow and boring. I'm not a fan. Never was." - Jeff Kent
FREE POSEY IS FREE
or more accurately
“You can leave your hat bat on”
"My My, Hey Hey .... GIDP is here to stay."
Bork Never Sleeps
Don't give up yet
We could still get Guillen!!
Also: DeJesus — Gamer.
Here's to the Dodgers and their bucket of suck.
i've said this before ...
But I like the idea of trading with KC.
First off the inner arsonist in my thinks putting Sabean & Moore in the same room for a prolonged period of time would either create a train wreck of epic proportions or we might find that most of the “dark matter” in the universe are subatomic partials of stupid and they can only be noticed when they are super concentrated. And this would the even to concentrate them!
Secondly, and more importantly, the swapping of “failed” add on parts could help both sides a fair bit. Guillen himself I am not too thrilled about but what could come along with it might be very interesting.
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd be more interested in just trading for a nondescript reliever or two...
Joakim Soria would obviously be make a wonderful setup guy for Wilson, but I’m sure he’d be too expensive. Kyle Farnsworth, on the other hand, is actually pitching well this year, and with his age I’m thinking could be had super-cheap.
Toronto also has a couple options that might be available for a lower-tier prospect or two. I’m thinking Shawn Camp or Casey Janssen.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
No way could I take Farnsworth seriously
He’s strictly a Dugout character to me now.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Why not?
Farnsworth’s always had a great arm. He’s had some bad years, but several solid years too. He’s pitching very well this year: 1.12 WHIP, 2.41 ERA in 41 IP (with 10 BB and 31 SO). His good control would definitely make him a standout with the Giants. If he comes cheap, I don’t see why he wouldn’t be a good guy to add to the Giants’ pen over the last 2-3 months of the season.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth: the mad man from the sudan kyle farnsworth, super top secret double agent leader of the nexus
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
ohhh...
Have never watched Futurama. Had to Google search “professor farnsworth” just now to even know what you were talking about.
Sorry to whiff on the joke. Happens a lot with me…
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
This is not futurama
This is dugout chat.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Now I'm even more confused...
…
Isn’t this Professor Farnsworth?
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
dude can tackle well too
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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I can’t see the name without hearing “Good News!”
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Not a bad way to look at it. Though I don’t think the ’pen is that bad off. I mean that was streak of 18 games before teh Break witha 4 day stay on Dever in the middle of it for Lawds sake. I am not sure there has been a pitching staff that would not look ragged in simmilar conditions.
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Besides I got my eyes on my Hawaiian White Whale (Kila) or a guy that would not be a bad 3rd base man if the team starts moving Panda to first and/or catcher a 2-3 games a week over the next couple years
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I like Shawn Camp
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 Jul 23, 2010 1:11 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Best "other option"
= stick with what we’ve got. Posey is the big bat.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Is it too early to talk about lunch?
Also, what do you think we’d have to give up to get, say, a Bowker?
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
Rowand and Bochy
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Sounds like a great deal to me...
but Fresno would never go for it.
"He made a decent attempt to put the tag on him. That's what it looked to me, and that's why I called him out."-Phil's Cuzzi
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
We just re-watched “Fletch” on DVD a couple weeks ago. First time I’d seen it in about 5 years. It turns out that even with the passage of time, I can still recite every single line of dialogue in the movie.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
The saddest thing is that I have a bunch of kids in their Mid-20’s working for me and not one has even heard of it
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
That’s a movie I’ve never seen. I do know what it is, though.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Who else is glad that the Zach Braff Fletch remake apparently fell through?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
fuck that guy
in his face with Casey Blake’s face
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
i actually like Garden State when it came out. Saw it in an independent teacher in SD, but then i watched it again a few years later and couldn’t stand it.
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
I had that exact same experience.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I was not impressed
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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’ll watch Natalie Portman in anything.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
I’ll watch anything in Natalie Portman.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
It really creeps me out watching it over again that her character appears to be a 13-year-old girl in a 16-year-old girl’s body.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Star Wars Episode 1?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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, but I was creeped out by that the first time around.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I want to say they were going more for the playful personality that JD (he’s JD to me) needed in his life, more than stunted maturity.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
I think that’s a perfectly fair assessment of what they were going for. I’m not sure they succeeded, though. She just seems young to me.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Fletch, by the way, set up one of my favorite Simpsons jokes.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ll ask: Explain.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
It’s a Church sign joke. I don’t even remember the episode. But they were having a movie showing of “Feltch” at the church for a dyslexic group.
I went years and years not getting it. And then when I finally did understand it, I was like, “Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.”
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m taking off early and going to state fair. See what type of food they have there.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
Funnel Cakes!
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 Jul 23, 2010 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Deep Fried Twinkies!
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 Jul 23, 2010 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Never liked Funnel Cakes. I’m more of a Corn Dog person.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
What?
That’s like saying, no I am not a cupcake guy, I prefer dinner rolls.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Too much sugar
Fucks up my stomach.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
That makes more sense then your previous statement.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Aren’t churros already fried? So are you talking about frying a fried churro because if so that’s pretty gross.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Battered and refried.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Wrapped in a blueberry pancake and then fried again.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
With extra powdered sugar! (which is also fried)
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Work blocks youtube but here is the google search for the skit from which I stole the pancake thing: link
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
+1 on the turkey legs
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
I have not
What’s up with the turkey legs?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Food Inc. pretty much trashed my appetite for all poultry
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
Please expound
I’m curious now.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
For starters, processing plants doused raw chicken in ammonia after an E. coli breakout.
Somewhere in the minor leagues, Joe Paterson is pitching.
by imovermyhead on Jul 23, 2010 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Mmmmm....
Ammonia, puts hair on your back.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
it does kill bacteria. substantially all eggs are sprayed with alkaline detergent and rinsed with a chlorine solution. if that sort of thing oogs you out, you need to raise your own chickens.
Or get them from a small, local farm. Like I do.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
No joke apparently...
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-07-15/bay-area/21983912_1_fresh-eggs-chickens-carrie-harrington
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
why would I joke? I know where food comes from and it does not stop me from enjoying sausage. given the eating habits of the farmers in my family, this is not unique.
also, small local farms often process in much the same way as the commercial guys.
You can and should eat whatever you want. I am just telling you that I found the treatment of animals on these factory farms to be rather abhorrent…
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
I am not saying that I endorse animal abuse but
it’s just not higher on my list than providing low-cost food to human beings.
have there not been multiple studies on how deplorable “living” conditions for livestock contributes to unhealthy food for humans? They had to change the way they killed cows because they discovered that a terrified cow taints its own meat!
Different issue...
that has to do with health hazard (which you can regulate, test, and control) to humans…not the plight of the animals.
I perform animal research experiments (mice) and have done so for almost 20 years. I would not be able to do what I do if I did not feel that we treated the animals with respect. Why be cruel when you don’t have to be?
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
We spend a lot of money trying to make things as humane as possible for the animals
I think this is a good thing.
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
But at the end of the day, they're getting killed
Only part of the way through Food, Inc., so I’ll have to finish it later.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Yes...
The idea is to try to reduce suffering
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
fuck those people!
THERE ARE ANIMALS SUFFERING! WHO CARES ABOUT FEEDING PEOPLE?!
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
this is a false dilemma
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
it’s a false dilemma because Tyson Chicken is not trying to feed more people; they’re trying to increase earnings. If they were trying to feed more people, they’d grow soybeans or something.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Uhh
increase earnings = sell more food = feed more people.
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
that’s not a correlation i’m prepared to accept.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
well whatever
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
From what I understand, if they took all the corn they use to feed cows, chickens and pigs, and used it to feed people it would end world hunger or some such.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
But the corn they use for animal feed
Is lower-quality than the corn in supermarkets. So it’s not exactly that easy.
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Or even used it to feed chicken and pigs as the have much lower feed converion ratio than beef.
Chickens gain 1 pound body weighrt for every two pounds feed, pigs gain 1 for every 3 to 4 and cows erequire 8 lbs of food (8!) to gain one pound.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jul 23, 2010 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
increase earnings = sell more food = feed more people.
Or:
increase earnings = sell same amount of food from less animal = /= feed more people.
And that is the point of chicken farms.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jul 23, 2010 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Hahaha nice
(responding to jhiat’s quip)
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
also
that’s not even close to what a false dilemma is.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
hmm, maybe you're right.
“THERE ARE ANIMALS SUFFERING! WHO CARES ABOUT FEEDING PEOPLE?!”
isn’t necessarily a false dilemma, but it’s the same kind of black and white thinking that typifies false dilemmas, and is used by people to dismiss different points of view.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Its using only surface knowledge to defend a point
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Jul 23, 2010 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean
it kind of is a false dilemma, but not for the reason you proposed. It would be one if they could improve the conditions for the animals while remaining reasonably profitable without raising prices.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
so it is sort of close to one, then? ;)
but that’s not even the thing I was calling a false dilemma. It’s the thing that so often gets lobbed at animal rights folks: “you care about animals, therefore you don’t care about people.” It’s annoying, stupid, and wrong nearly 100% of the time.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
But usually it's the opposite accusation
It’s that if you don’t care about the animal, you are barbaric and evil…see PETA..
Like I said I have no problems with treating animals nicer…just that $0.99 burgers come with a price tag else where.
well,
i actually do think that our treatment of animals is generally barbaric (nut not evil). and “PETA does it too!” isn’t much of a defense, frankly.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Me too...
I can’t believe I am taking this side of this argument. I have spent nearly 20 years defending myself from animal rights activists. But I have to admit that their efforts mean that we treat animals better. I think that is a good thing.
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
I disagree
I think the point was that it is either feed more people OR torture animals. That does seem like a false dilemma to me.
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
Tyson is also trying to keep their prices low
so that people can buy them.
If their costs go up, their prices will as well…earnings will be earnings no matter what the price is.
They don't do econ at Cal?
Tyson is trying to keep their prices low like fucking hell. Tyson is trying to keep their costs down and is trying to sell chickens for as much as the market will bear. Tyson is trying to maximize profits which is the difference between their revenue and their expenses. Tyson gives not one shit about feeding poor people.
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
Nope...didn't take econ at cal
But that profit margin is no different if the costs go up.. Look at milk…when prices go up…the profit margin remains the same while consumers just pay more.
Or instead, people end up eating processed foods that are infinitely worse for them and create huge medical/health issues later on.
like Tyson chicken nuggets!
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
More soybeans?
Huh?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
posting in a skinny column thread
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’m not saying I endorse animal abuse, but as long as it keeps the price down, I endorse animal abuse.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope. They abuse the animals intending to make more money.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Pretty much this.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
I am NOT an animal rights activist
But this is horrible
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/campaigns/factory_farming/
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
Pan Dulce
For breakfast.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Going to Taco Bell with my buddy
Yeah, yeah, let’s hear it.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 is actually what my buddy usually orders.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 man, not as good as Del Taco?
I guess it depends on what you order
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
you must be constantly high. :)
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Del Taco is nasty.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
not when you're drunk at 3AM
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
No, even at 4 AM when you’re high. It’s nasty.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
how wrong you are...
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I'd put it as one level above edible
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Taco Del Oro
near alviso / milpitas is fantastic
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
DelTaco > Taco Bell
Though it sucks that DelTaco is really expensive here compared to the Southland.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I envy 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 Jul 23, 2010 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
It's like playing McC Bingo!
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
have you guys had the new grilled cheese shop in soma?
The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen. Aaaamazing
...so no.
I almost did after the US/Ghana game but there was a line.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
I could not disagree more
The food was solid but over priced. Sandwiches are baked, not grilled or pressed. Service is crazy slow because they only have one oven.
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis who is stuck in the baseball purgatory called extended spring training.
Barbeque pork and sauteed romaine lettuce
Or I’ll be going out, who knows
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
I’m okay with it, too. It just doesn’t look like there are any pieces available that could help.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
Pretty much. And anything that could help, will cost way too much.
"I AIN'T HAVIN IT." - Buster Posey
Exactly. I would be interested in Werth, but I’m afraid of the contract implications for him.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
I’m almost certain we wouldn’t resign him. The only way we would be able to is if we really overpaid for him since he hates AT&T.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
He's a type A FA
Offer him arbitration and collect the draft pick
I’m with that. it all depends on how much it would cost to trade. No Sanchez, no Bumgarner, no Belt if you ask me.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd include Wheeler in that
They seem to be pretty consistent in stating that they’re not trading a SP. Larry Baer also voiced the concerns about trading a SP because they have nobody else to replace them, so I’m pretty confident that won’t happen.
But I’d trade Neal and pretty much anybody else for somebody as good as Werth. Good bat + good defense is the type of player we should target for the stretch run.
Kind of reminds me of this year’s FA Market, really kind of meh. There aren’t any players really out there on the trading block that the Giants should trade for. I’m pretty sure we need to just stand pat and use what we have so far.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
except for that Bowker deal you mentioned.
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
The team is finally coming together and starting to play well. Adding another piece, whether it seems worth it or not, would likely hurt us no matter what considering the way the team is beginning to play.
In the early 2000’s the Oakland teams tended to get hot in the 2nd half of the season, and they began those trends around this time. Not saying this years Giants squad is like those ones, but those teams didn’t exactly break the bank/sell the farm to go after one player when the team started to play well. They instead continued to ride their success into the playoffs.
Maybe Zito could impart something from those years.
Chris Cohan- YOU'RE FIRED!
my movie-watching stalls big-time during baseball season
The rest of the year i’m watching at least 3 films a week. Last thing I watched was Indochine; next up in the queue is Tyson.
Most anticipating watching Haneke’s The White Ribbon whenever it’s out on DVD.
Still haven’t seen Toy Story 3, which I must rectify.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I watched ‘The Runaways’ last night on DVD. It met my low expectations.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
I've been avoiding that one.
Big fan of the band, don’t think I could watch it.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I watched all 3 Toy stories over the last week or so. I had never seen any of them and was impressed by how good all 3 of them were.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
Bingo
We can be friends.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Sweet!
Wanna come over and play pogs later?
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
POGS? AWESOME
I just need to find my slammers.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 think I got rid of them.
I used to have 2 of those one foot tube thingies they were stored in. Full of them.
Man that was a weird fad.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 always thought those tubes would make a good steam roller.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
heh
heh
heh
don’t try it (plastic melts and it can gnarly, but it was an awesome two hour run)
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Haneke is among my very favorite living directors
dude is amazing.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
He’s tremendously skilled, but he gives me the creeps — like von Trier, though not as bad. This is his best film imo.
I’ve seen Cache, which was really great. I feel like I’ve seen something else of his, but nothing else in his filmography is familiar.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Funny Games?
There’s an original and an English-language remake. Really brutal.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
it's more or less an exact remake of the original
which is equally unbearable.
i also think it’s a masterpiece.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Code Unknown was the first of his I saw, and probably my favorite (I haven’t seen the White Ribbon, though). The Piano Teacher is good too—in that the director met his match with his star, Isabelle Huppert, who’s perfect for his vision.
by Duelling Brandos on Jul 23, 2010 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I love Huppert.
Have you seen Time of the Wolf?
Interesting that Code Inconnu is your fave — I think that’s one of his weaker films, actually.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Well, I had no idea what I was seeing at the time, which I think makes his shock effects work better.
I haven’t seen Time of the Wolf.
by Duelling Brandos on Jul 23, 2010 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
gotcha
TotW has Huppert as well. She’s incredible in it (duh).
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
So now that this has gone way off topic
What’s the consensus on Ozon? I’m always disappointed by his films.
by Duelling Brandos on Jul 23, 2010 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
only seen Swimming Pool and 5x2
Loved Swimming Pool (HOLY SHIT LUDIVIGNE SAGNIER!!!), didn’t like 5×2 much.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I think he basically discovered her. If you like her, you might want to see Hot Water on Burning Rocks or whatever it’s called, though it’s not a good movie.
by Duelling Brandos on Jul 23, 2010 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
i would sit thru anything, just about, to watch her. She is devestating.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
then you need to see that one, for sure.
by Duelling Brandos on Jul 23, 2010 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
thanks for the rec!
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
TS3 is really freaking good.
Get on that.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
One of the best movies of the year, imo.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
It’s in my top spot right now, but I haven’t seen Inception yet.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
I have not seen Inception yet either
but I usually wait for movies to hit DVD before i see them. Theaters are too expensive. Save those for things the wife and I have to see. Like TS3.
Also Tron this December.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 still haven't watched my Internal Affairs DVD from netflix
/awaits Natto ban
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
trade deadline dream scenario:
we do nothing!
First ever adoptee: Steven Michael Decker, our 2012 San Francisco Giants Manager/starting catcher.
Dodgers fans eat their young.
Ryan Howard has a hugely ridiculous contract, and isn’t nearly worth it. It would be like getting another Zito, except less productive.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
Insider jokes are frowned upon here
Not everyone can afford the McCoveyChronicles.com premium content package.
Proudly adopted Aubrey Huff. You can't beat that!
But we did get the early post today!!!
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
What
Don’t you read fangraphs? Howard and Dunn are essentially the same player.
"He made a decent attempt to put the tag on him. That's what it looked to me, and that's why I called him out."-Phil's Cuzzi
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
DeJesus got fucked wit
I wouldn’t mind an extra arm in the bullpen, or another starter so we can use Bumgarner as the 2010 version of David Price.
Mark DeRosa just got the damn surgery.
What relievers would you guys want to target?
Marshall?
Capps?
Someone on the Pirates?
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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 Jul 23, 2010 9:49 AM PDT reply actions
I’ve heard that Meek isn’t available.
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I bet Capps would be too pricy, but I like him.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
he’s under control in 2011, which raises the price. the Nats don’t need to deal him.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Jul 23, 2010 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
They don’t need to, but they have Storen, so they can. And they could probably get a good return for him.
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 Jul 23, 2010 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
if I were the Nats I would sell high on Capps
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 23, 2010 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Unfortunately, you are not the Nats. They are stuck with Rizzo. But maybe his strategy will work, and teams will become so desperate that he will receive massive overpays for all his players. Only time will tell, but it didn’t work last year with Willingham.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Will Capps be a type A FA?
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
that will depend a lot on how he performs next season
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 23, 2010 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Doesn’t he have a one-year deal that expires this year?
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, 1 year 3.5 million
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Downs on the Blue Jays
Solid lefty reliever
by giants92388 on Jul 23, 2010 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Frasor is available to, Gregg too I believe.
Looking at their numbers, Downs is definitely having a better season, but he is 34.
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
The appeal of Downs is the lefty-ness
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, he would be a good target.
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 Jul 23, 2010 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm all for Downs or Will Ohman
Neither of them should cost too much. But I’m back to believing in Jeremy Affeldt so, while I would still like to add a lefty reliever, I’m not as desperate to do it as I was a couple weeks ago.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Jul 23, 2010 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Joakim Soria would obviously be make a wonderful setup guy for Wilson, but I’m sure he’d be too expensive. Kyle Farnsworth, on the other hand, is actually pitching well this year, and with his age I’m thinking could be had super-cheap.
Toronto also has a couple options that might be available for a lower-tier prospect or two. I’m thinking Shawn Camp or Casey Janssen. Downs would be great too.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
oh suuuure
Take away ALL of Soria’s fantasy value why don’t we
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Isn’t our pen already pretty good?
7th Affeldt
8th Romo
9th Wilson
Others: Joaquin, Runzler, etc.
I mean, that was supposed to be the shit coming out of spring training. I wouldn’t want to trade prospects for relievers based on a half a season of play from Affeldt and Romo that has been below standards. They’re still pretty good.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
Yeah, he’s nice to have as a middle reliever.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
Marshall has been really good
I also like Octavio Dotel
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 Jul 23, 2010 1:24 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I like Adam Dunn a lot. When you talk about his “clankmitt,” I can only think you are hoping for a Albert Pujols/James Loney offensive/defensive juggernaut. I want one or the other and right now, we need the guy who will not hit into that double play once Andres Torres leans into a pitch, or Freddy Sanchez lucks his way on with a bloop single into right. Someone who will either strike out/walk (to set up that meaty Buster Posey RBI)/or homer….When you go down the Adam Dunn checklist it’s all there….Give up Jonathan Sanchez + prospect for Dunn and sign him long term and come jump on my band wagon….but I already called shotgun.
by barenakedladies on Jul 23, 2010 9:50 AM PDT reply actions
Before you cry about a low batting avg, the dude is hitting .278…that’s 12 points higher than a certain panda.
by barenakedladies on Jul 23, 2010 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Wow.
You just completely convinced me that we should not trade for Dunn.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Tell me your wouldn’t want a lineup like this:
Torres
Sanchez
Posey
Dunn
Huff
Sandoval
Burrell
Uribe
Pitcher
by barenakedladies on Jul 23, 2010 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
It would be something like:
Lincecum
Cain
Zito
Bumgarner
Wellemeyer or Joe Martinez or something like that and….oh nos, we would still have a amazing pitching staff. Right now, 5 amazing pitchers is overkill without a lineup to back it up.
by barenakedladies on Jul 23, 2010 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Sorry but
Brewers was asking for Sanchez or Bumgarner for Hart…Corey freaking Hart!
Washington will ask for a lot more for Dunn
Washington will ask for a lot more for Dunn
Anyone who doesn’t understand this needs help. Also, you can NEVER have too many good pitchers. Just ask the Padres.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Iasked the padres
They responded: You can never have too many decent pitchers in a spectacular pitcher’s park.
VAE PVTO DEVS FIO
Your rotation doesn't go past 3 or 4 in the playoffs anyway...
adding Bumgarner at 4, that’s not a bad set up. Although with Huff able to play 1st, I’d think a legit OF makes more sense as having Dunn, Sandoval, Huff, and Burrell in the corners defensively isn’t a formula for success.
The Mets are looking to trade (or perhaps cut) Jeff Francouer, and would give him up for less than scraps. He’s not good, but perhaps his general first month in a new place boost could help.
by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 23, 2010 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Let's worry about getting to the playoffs first
by calbearjd on Jul 23, 2010 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
+1
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not trading for Jeff Francouer in hopes that me might get hot for a month.
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I’m not sure I would trade Bengie Molina for Jeff Francoeur.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Especially since he’s basically Nate Schierholtz
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Pretty much spot on.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Not true...
Schierholtz can take a walk.
by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 23, 2010 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Career BB%
Francoeur: 4.8%
Schierholtz: 5.2%
by kingofthacove on Jul 23, 2010 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
he's nothing like Nate.
for starters, he’s not as good.
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--Daisy Owl
Nate Schierholtz plays some sweet effin d, Failcouer does not, and when you can’t hit or play d, you got problems
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Nate > Francoeur
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Bowker > Nate
dingerz.exe
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s the hacker version of Nate.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
Given his poor walk rates, I always thought Nate was the hacker version of Nate.
Proudly adopted Aubrey Huff. You can't beat that!
That was the joke.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
But now that I actually check, they are pretty much identical in their hackerness.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
If all he costs is a stick of gum?
or AA filler?
by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 23, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
If they paid us.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Change Aaron Rowand's name to Aaron Rodriguez...
and Omar Minaya might bite. So, Aaron “Rodriguez” and a nice juicy piece of ABC gum for Jeff Francouer?
by Mr. Sanchez on Jul 23, 2010 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
If you agreed to never say " Git’r Dunn" ever again, I would love that lineup, but I know I won’t love what it costs.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I like the offense, but even Torres can’t save an OF defense of Burrell in LF and Dunn in RF. Or perhaps Dunn plays 1B and Huff RF – still, not that much better.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
We already have Huff in RF most of the time anyway. Dunn would replace Ishi.
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Nobody was debating that.
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
It's not my money
What I’m worried about is the cost of starting pitching. The difference between Dunn and Bowker (offense and defense) is less than the difference between Sanchez or Bumgarner and one of Wellemeyer, Martinez, Pucetas, et al.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Why are you comparing Dunn and Bowker? Bowker isn’t even on the team.
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
He should be. he should be. It’s like trading for a bat, but giving up nothing.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
True ’nuf, but the comparison should be with Burrel or Rowand.
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Bowker fits well with Burrell as either a platoon partner or defensive replacement (albeit less of a defensive replacement than Schierholtz).
It’s hard to compare with Rowand, but none of the potential trade targets save DeJesus play CF, so they don’t compare with Rowand either. Rowand also hasn’t even been good against LHP, so he’s basically useless.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Well I’m hoping that if we traded for Dunn, Rowand or Burrel would be the players that lose playing time. Torres has been great, and Huff is solid, so actually, the comparison should probably be with Ishikawa.
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"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
I think the point is that is more than one place to draw players from, and why would you give up a ton and add a guy who’s going to end up with a huge contract when you have an option in your minor league system and the difference between the two of them
is less than the difference between Sanchez or Bumgarner and one of Wellemeyer, Martinez, Pucetas, et al.
So, it is an appropriate comparison for the point that was being made.
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Wait
You would rather give up MadBum over Sanchez?
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I have mixed feelings about MadBum...
Sanchez is a proven 3 maybe 2/1….MadBum young full of potential..don’t know what his ceiling or bottom is
What about from the cost standpoint?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 almost positive MadBum will be better than Sanchez.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Agreed
He’s super young and more than holding his own in the majors. He’s under team control forever. He could be a #1/#2 starter for absolutely cheap for years. I would rather give up Cain.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Agreed
I’m thrilled Bumgarner is pitching as well as he is but let’s wait until he’s been seen by the entire NL before calling him the savior. Which is exactly why you can’t really trade for him yet, because he doesn’t have enough starts to be valuable to another team. By the time he will, the trade deadline has long passed.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
THINK ABOUT THE DINGERZ MAN!
Also, he’s got a team friendly contract: 10:$0.5M, 11:$5M, 12:$7.5M, 13:$11M club option ($0.5M buyout).
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
Dunn isn’t worth giving up a starting pitcher considering we don’t really have anyone to replace Dirty.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Dunn
I was pro-Dunn before the season, but I find him kind of redundant with Huff now. It’s good to have one of those guys, but I’m not so sure about two.
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
by achiappanza on Jul 23, 2010 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Heyo!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Dunn and finished!
Is he Finnish?
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
Reminds of a joke I thought of but forget to say
I have concerns about San Jose signing goalie Antero Nittymaki. As a player, he’s Finnish before his career with the Sharks can even get started.
Proudly adopted Aubrey Huff. You can't beat that!
Give up Jonathan Sanchez + prospect for Dunn and sign him long term and come jump on my band wagon….but I already called shotgun.
If it’s your bandwagon and you’re riding shotgun…..
WHO’S DRIVING THIS THING!?!
BAER IS DRIVING?!?
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
HOW CAN THAT BE?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 almost hit me with his car at Divis & Geary once.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
ha!
we almost got run down by Bochy and Wotus in AZ this spring.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Tim Flannery almost ran some friends and me over after one of the Red Sox games.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
They shouldn’t have been between 3rd and home!
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
JT Snow wasn’t there to save them. :(
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jul 23, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh right, that would be me.
Oh my god, what can it be? We’re all doomed! WHO’S FLYING THIS THING?!
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
also
sorry rosterbators,
but trading Sanchez in a Win Now! trade was always too dumb even for Sabean.
Mark DeRosa just got the damn surgery.
except for that weird Carlos Zambrano Rube Goldberg one, that kinda made sense.
Mark DeRosa just got the damn surgery.
No Guillen. Absolutely not.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 9:54 AM PDT reply actions
C'mon
I’d trade Bochy for Ozzie Guillen in a heartbeat!
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
I think Ozzie Guillen might be the only manager in the majors that would annoy me more than Bochy.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Really?
I love his paranoid tirades in, and against, the media. I think he would be a better manager than Boch, and he would be really entertaining.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Velez would never, ever leave a Guillen lineup.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
He's always annoyed me
And if a manager of a team that I don’t follow annoys me, what does that say about when he becomes the manager of my team?
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
he's an asshole
and his shtick would not play well in SF, I guarantee you that.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
The gay comments pretty much cemented that.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Cain for Fielder!
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
Movies
Burma VJ just came in the mail via NetFlix. I caught part of it on one of the premium channels while staying in a hotel a few months ago and have been wanting to see it in its entirety since, I’m looking forward to it.
I watched The Fall the other day, meh.
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis.
Schindler's List
Ralph Fiennes is HILARIOUS!
You're F*cking Out!
by Kenny F*cking Powers on Jul 23, 2010 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I watched Memento last night
Absolutely fantastic movie.
Second best movie ending...
No. 1: Shawshank Redemption…(there will never be another movie close to it)
The SR was the only ending that took me by complete surprise
No. 3 on the list of best endings would be Infernal Affairs
now how the hell
did that ending take you completely by surprise?
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
SPOILER
Well he asks for the rock hammer very early in the movie and then they never really say anything about it. Then, at the the end, it is revealed the he was digging a hole all along.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
well, yeah, but you know,
the title and all.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Carrie
Now THAT’S an ending…
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
by ToddCommish on Jul 23, 2010 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
you need to see more movies.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Yes, it's one of my favorite movies.
Along with:
Big Lebowski
Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
Probably many others I’m forgetting.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
For same reason I could never watch that movie from beginning to end
Both Willis and the kid annoyed me to no end
Both 6th Sense and The Usual Suspects punched me in the gut with their endings, but it’s the great endings that lower their replay values, at least for me. The Usual Suspects I can still watch, but I don’t think I’ve seen 6th Sense all the way through since I saw it in the theater.
by oneflapdown on Jul 23, 2010 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Usual Suspects
would have been awesome even without the twist, imo.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
This is true. It was an awesome movie throughout, but then it had a good twist, and it was even more awesome.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
KINDA SPOILER ALERT - SHUTTER ISLAND
It was better watching it the second time.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
heard the same thing about Mystic River
oh man, talk about an ending…
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I remember that movie. That’s the one Nic Cage’s twin wrote in “Adaptation.”
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 23, 2010 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
SPOILER/POP CULTURE REF
“When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense…”
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Oooh, Usual Suspects
Good call. I love that movie.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
There is a good chance I like you as a person based on that list
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
I would like to meet the person who DOESNT like those movies...
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Me?
Big Leb and Pulp Fiction were okay for me
Usual suspect was not good because of pre-watching hype from other people.
That can doom a movie, true
IDK, the other two are pretty much amazing though. Well, they’re all amazing IMO
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
you're out of your element, Donny.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I’ve never seen any of them. Where you people get the time to watch all these movies…
I’ve seen snippets of The Big Lebowski it maybe one of those movies where I have actually seen the whole thing, but not from start to finish.
I watched a shit ton of movies
before I got a real job and had “responsibilities”. Responsibility sucks. And I’m not even married.
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I love the Coen Bros. but I simply could not stand the Big Lebowski. It may be due, in part, to my abject distaste for all things Jeff Bridges, but aside from a few chuckles, it just wasn’t happening for me.
But you had to love the MARK IT ZERO shop, right?
That was pure genius.
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
especially when they are wrong.
“Well, that’s just like your opinion, man”
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
The point of the movie: the rug tied the whole room together.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
The point of the movie: This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
The point of the movie: It’s a tragedy when you can’t find a cash machine
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
find a stranger in the alps
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
It's called
The Usual Suspects, and it was better than either of those two.
Chris Cohan- YOU'RE FIRED!
This
Probably the best ending I’ve seen.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
Shawshank Redemption
Chick flick for guys. Works on us like clockwork.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Here comes the shitstorm
That’s my version of “I’ve never seen [blank] movie that everyone else has and says is the best thing ever to be put on film”. I’ve always wanted to just never got the chance
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
You should see it. It is a great movie.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
I WILL, BACK OFF GEEZ
I know it’s pretty long (TWSS), and it’s hard for me to commit to that long of a movie. There’s always something else going on
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
I don’t think it’s that long though. Maybe you are thinking of The Green Mile?
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
Nah
that movie sucked. And was wayyy too long. I could be wrong, but I always thought shawshank was pushing 150 minutes
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
great movie, but not in the discussion for all time
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
For me the greatest is The Great Escape.
I know, I know Godfather this and that, but something about The Great Escape catches my attention like no other.
Wilber Bucardo: Missing?
<3 The Great Escape!
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
I think Fight Club when I think chick flick for guys.
The San Francisco Giants must win at least one World Series before I die.
by vinScullySucks on Jul 23, 2010 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Great movie. I saw it at the Embarcadero Center years ago.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s my all-time favorite. Nolan’s “Following” is excellent as well.
by oneflapdown on Jul 23, 2010 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Following was great
best thing he’s ever done, IMO. Liked Memento too, but Following was better.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Semi OT: Listening to Sabes on the radio yesterday, I was trying to think of who he sounds like...
…and it hit me: Russell Crowe in The Insider.
Anyone? Anyone?
"I wanted to pick a Rockie. But I dislike the Rockies. They're not bona fide." — Jon Miller on the postgame wrap, 7/1/10
by Giant Fan in Singapore on Jul 23, 2010 10:07 AM PDT reply actions
“I..uh…drink. A little more than I should…”
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 23, 2010 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Getting a reply from Grant (when nobody else bothers) is like having a sitdown with the Pope
The sun is shining upon me today.
"I wanted to pick a Rockie. But I dislike the Rockies. They're not bona fide." — Jon Miller on the postgame wrap, 7/1/10
by Giant Fan in Singapore on Jul 23, 2010 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Don’t use condoms. It’s against the rules.
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 23, 2010 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
That seems a personal opinion.
Carry on.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Pope Grant - Is this sacrilegious?
Beer tastes best on a Sunday morning.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
As long as it hasn’t been transubstantiated I think it’s OK.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
The sensation is totally different.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I very much agree
Good call.
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
Get Matt Capps
And then walk away from phone.
Unless Fielder drops into our laps for Eric Hacker. At that point, we’d probably be dead from our laps being crushed.
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 23, 2010 10:09 AM PDT reply actions
Oh, if I am trading Wheeler and/or Belt
I’d package Hacker & Pucetas’s shiny numbers for Justin Upton.
Yeah, in my dreams…
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 23, 2010 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
and I care about your OT because...?
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 23, 2010 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was pretty good..
The guy from District 9 was hilarious.
Brandon Crawford: Your SF Giants 2011 Opening Day starting SS!
Yeah, it was serviceable.
I really can’t stand Bradley Cooper, though. He almost ruined The Hangover for me, too.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I kind of like him, hate his characters though. He always plays an asshole.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
If it isn’t, I suggest you put it behind you with all due haste.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Oswalt
The question is what do the Astros want
I think you misunderstood
Houston sends Oswalt to the Philly
Philly sends Werth to us
We send prospects to Houston
That's interesting...
Kids these days and their fancy three-way trades…in my days…teams traded directly with each and liked it!
I read that as, “Willingham on Werth.”
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
Where OFers are concerned...
I’m pretty much in this line.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
Interesting blog on Corey Hart’s trade value: http://theghostofmoonlightgraham.com/2010/07/22/corey-hart-whats-his-trade-market/
He says the Brewers are stuck on Bumgarner, but it’s not going to happen. I have no idea who this guy is, but there’s some interesting info in there.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
Just Say No
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
I have been pleasantly surprised by three movies this year
And all three are animated: Shrek 4, The Princess and the Frog, and Despicable Me.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Princess and the Frog was amazing. I cried a little when the bug died. SPOILERS
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Yeah
Was very sad :(
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
It was also uplifting, though
He got to be with Evangeline, finally.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Nice spoiler AFTER you revealed it.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Whatever
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
by sanfrankid on Jul 23, 2010 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I AINT HAVIN IT
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Wow
this is fucking amazing and needs moar recs
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Stolen from jponry
find when she originally used it and rec it then.
It’s a much better story, I promise.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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
I hadn’t seen it before. Amazing.
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
My mistake, it was Natto
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/7/20/1579874/post-game-thread-giants-coast-to#42553213
The jponry thing, also funny was here.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Woohoo!
I didin’t have to work! Thank you
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Shrek 4 was better than I expected
Especially after the suckfest that was Shrek 3. The Princess and the Frog was a nice departure back to old-school Disney animation. And neither of those was even close to TS3 or How To Train Your Dragon, IMO.
Haven’t seen Despicable Me yet, but will probably take the little one to see it this weekend.
i agree with How To Train Your Dragon but TS3 was overrated…i kept waiting for it to start, then end…although i must say that the animated short before the film was fantastic!
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
Wow
i agree with How To Train Your Dragon but TS3 was overrated
I don’t think I have ever heard someone so wrong.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Disagree with TS3 being overrated all you want, but don’t say a bad word about HTTYD.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
i said i agreed that HTTYD was better than the rest of the animated films
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
I was talking to scout6.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah, but I was not paying attention.
At least someone responded. I have not seen HTTYD. I want to. I was taking offense to TS3 being overratted, which, imho, it was not.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
sorry, just my opinion. Wall E is the best Pixar film
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
Why even choose? They are both my favorite.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
I love them and Meet the Robinsons.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
Better ≠ favorite
I mean, Not Another Teen Movie is one of my favorites of all time but I’d never consider claiming it was actually good.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
it was really good for what it was
IMO, at least. I mean, it’s not high art, but it’s easily my favorite parody move (well, besides Airplane!)
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
" Do you like gladator movies?"
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
wrong.
Up completely blew it out of the water. Easily my favorite animated film. (though I haven’t seen HTTYD or TS3 yet)
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You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Negative
Monsters Inc
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
What are your feelings on Monsters Inc 2?
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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.
DONT TEASE ME BRO
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Yeah it's happening
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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.
pretty much like this
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
ooh yeah
that was really good, but I still like Up better. It’s very rare when a movie can make me actually shed tears, much less twice, and even rarer when it can have me in stitches the rest of the time.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I really like Up.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Squirrel!
Adoptive parental unit of Ehire Adrianza.
Godfather of Travis Ishikawa.
"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
"I think my role here has changed a little bit. I'm counted on a little more." - Posey after hitting 12-24 with 4 homers after Molina trade
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think MI holds up as well. I used to love love love it, but I watched it recently and didn’t feel as strongly.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
UP was the worst! TS3 was better than Up!
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
well like I said, I haven't seen TS3 yet, but I heard it was really good
but you are oh so wrong about Up.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
best part about up was the first 10 minutes. that’s about it. it really dropped off from there
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
the first 10 minutes
could have been an award winning short film by itself imo. But I think the rest was great too.
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You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
My thoughts exactly, I was moved to tears in the first ten minutes but then nothing after really impressed me, although the big bird was kinda cute
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
A) Dug.
but then again, that could be because he reminds me of my dogs.
B) The scene where the picture falls out of the album and he flips through the last pages for the first time. I completely lost it.
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You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
The talking dogs kinda annoyed me, like they tried to get too much mileage out of one gag, maybe I watched it too late and had heard it hyped as a best picture possibility and I just didn’t see as having a chance of winning
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
had the oscars expanded to 10 best picture nominees the year prior, Wall E would have def. been in there
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Wall E should have been there regardless
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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.
Absolutely Wall-E was a lot better than Up was, although also it felt like it peaked in the beginning, DAMN IT PIXAR LEARN TO FINISH!
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Up was flawed but still pretty great.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm with you on Up
I’d put Incredibles at #2. Monsters, Inc. at #3. A Bug’s Life is the most underrated IMO.
Damn, you look at what Pixar’s put out over the years, it almost defies belief. The only clunker on their list is Cars.
My fave is TS2
Up was good but not great. Didn’t care much for the Incredibles at all.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
even Cars
wasn’t terrible, it was just a little more anvilicious than I’m used to from them.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Cars wasn’t terrible. But it was bad. Plus: Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I disagree
Cars is my least favorite Pixar film, but I still think it’s a decent movie.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Yeah, it’s not a fight that I’ll fight with much energy. I didn’t like it, but I can’t blame people for enjoying it, either. A more accurate assessment would be that it’s a fine movie that was bad for me.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Fair enough
I DO make fun of it at times.
The moral of the story, apparently, is that freeways are evil.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
not sure if i'm being 'chasmd
but I think it was more about how we should stop and enjoy the little things
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Well, yeah (though I would have put it differently)
But the symbol of that moral was the freeway. So it was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying what you said.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Winning isn’t everything.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
Oh that reminds me
I hated the part of the movie where McQueen stops and lets Chick win the race just because the King crashes.
He didn’t help the King at all. Not one bit. And he let an undeserving participant win in order to not help at all.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Wuh?
The King would have not finished the race and finished last in his final race.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
He could have helped him finish after winning
As for finishing last in his last race, that’s a shame and it was a nice gesture but it was totally negated by letting Chick win, when he didn’t deserve to win.
The gesture (you will finish second in this race instead of last) was not worth what was given up.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
I’ll repeat: Winning isn’t everything.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
Of course not
But it is something.
McQueen devoted an entire year of his life to winning the cup. Just because winning isn’t everything does not mean that we should just discount all of that effort.
There are things he should give up the race for. Helping a racer who had a full career (he was called the King and was the model of success for both of the other racers) to finish second isn’t one of those things.
I’m not saying what McQueen did was bad in all circumstances. It was pointless in that circumstance, however.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
There’s a shift in the tone of the argument if you want to bring up publicity. The argument that winning isn’t everything therefore he should have helped the King finish the race even though he finished third is a selfless one.
The argument that he got great publicity from the act isn’t.
Regardless, I disagree.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
This is an unbelievable discussion about a fucking cartoon movie
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
I hate you.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
NO U
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
I'm in this line too
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
A Bug’s Life is pretty underrated.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I love Up, but I don’t think it stands up to Wall-E. I’ve said it before, but Up is the first Pixar movie that really made me stretch my ability to suspend my disbelief.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
What about it? There were certain fantastic parts, but I diddn’t see anything too strange.
EFF YOU MCC LURKERS
Two old men fighting on top of a blimp?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
that’s less believable than Cars that talk?!?!?!?!
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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
or toys have secret lives they live while we're away?
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
But when the cars talk, I’m asked to accept that from the start. In Up, the rules are established that Carl is an old, creaky man. They play up to that when the two are fighting inside the blimp, but when they get outside the blimp suddenly he’s Tom Cruise from Mission Impossible.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
holy shit, nerbs
are you really arguing about suspending your disbelief during a fucking CARTOON
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
by delorean on Jul 23, 2010 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
lol
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
NOT TRUE AT ALL. STORY IS STORY, DAMN IT.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
YES, I AM!
THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT!
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t understand how the LOLCARTOONS thing remains so prevalent when digital effects turn essentially every movie that is ever made any more into a live-action cartoon.
But noooooo… there are real people in those. So it’s different or something.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
it doesn't bother me when a movie (especially a cartoon) isn't realistic.
It does bother me when a movie doesn’t stay within their own accepted rules, cartoon or no.
If a character is portrayed as having no athletic ability whatsoever, and then with no explanation is all of a sudden good at sports, it bothers me.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Yeah
It’s all about the rules of the universe/realm that we are being taken to. If those rules aren’t consistent, then why does any of it matter?
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
That said
I had no real problem with anything in Up.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
It’s a fine line to walk in any movie. It is important.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
Balloons being able to fly a house?
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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.
Not specifically. There were a few house flying moments that made me go, “uhmm…” but I was generally able to accept it. They weren’t as consistent with it as they probably should have been.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I can kind of get that
there’s a certain “realness” to the opening that kind of makes you go “whaaa?” when the house starts getting carried away by helium baloons
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You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
haha, thanks and I agree. there’s no way they could hold down that house with that rope!
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
sure they could
it’s all about relative weight. Then again, if they could hold down the house with the rope, it wouldn’t rise very fast at all.
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You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I also liked Ratatouille even though the thought of rats in the kitchen kind of grossed me out.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
Tim Flannery: Make better decisions dammit.
I’m not much of a Patton Oswalt fan, and Remy bothers me just a little bit, but I still really, really enjoy that movie.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
sorry
how can one not think Patton is among the funniest people alive
does not compute
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
He's a pretty cool guy
but I’ve never bought into the “OMG HE IS SO HILARIOUS!!” group either…
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
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by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
have you seen his movie Big Fan? he plays a serious role and really shows his acting chops
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Big Fan was awful
Awful, awful.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
awful becuase it made you uncomfortable?
anxious? or did you just think the movie sucked in general?
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
Awful
because i thought the movie sucked. I wanted to love it. I know Patton a little bit and I think he’s among the funniest people who’s ever lived. I loved the Wrestler, which BF writer/director wrote. I LOVE Kevin Corrigan. Dude is hilarious. But Big Fan kinda blew.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
He was really good in Dollhouse, too.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I probably just haven’t seen enough of him, but what I have seen hasn’t really made me want to actively see more.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
steal his records from the interweb
if the KFC Famous Bowls bit doesn’t make you shit your pants with laughter, then…. something, i don’t know what.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I don’t think you know what.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I DON'T KNOW WHAT
FAMOUS BOWLS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfan5MacmsI
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
meh he's pretty funny
but not even close to my favorite stand up comedian
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
who might that be
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
tough question (in no particular order (though Mitch probably takes the top spot))
Mitch Hedberg
Aziz Ansari
George Carlin
Nick Swardson
Brian Regan
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You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Carlin’s “sortabiography” was fantastic.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
OMG Mitch Hedberg is sooooooo good.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
I saw Swardson do stand up a few years agon, and I almost fell out of my chair laughing.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
Where's Kelly!?
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You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
he's amazing
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
yes, these are all fucking awesome
and you agree with me on Alex Smith. You are awesome. NICK SWARDSON!!!!! I can’t believe someone else knows who that is
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
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Swardson is so funny in Grandma’s Boy.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
I actually fell asleep at the theater and missed the end of that movie. TBH I was disappointed because I love the show.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
I didn’t mean to imply that I thought the movie was good. I didn’t. I just loved the Swardson appearance at the end.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
I went to Green Apple to get Lewis Black’s & Greg Proops’ CDs but they don’t have any comedy CDs. :/
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Lewis Black does
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Oh, yeah. That is what I meant and was completely baffled by Viliphied.
I have all the Lewis Black albums aside from the last one, and I didn’t know Proops had any until yesterday. Saw Proops at the Punchline several years ago; made me laugh probably hardest I ever laughed. I forget the bit but it ended with getting hit by a bus and shooting flaming cats out of one’s ass.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah i figured that out about 2s after i hit post =/
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
That's precisely why I was surprised by Shrek 4
Shrek 3 was so bad.
I still need to see How to Train Your Dragon.
And, yeah, TS3 was the best movie I’ve seen this year.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Despicable Meh!
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
Is that a comment on the movie?
I thought it was pretty good. It’s nothing terribly original or poignant or anything. But the angle they were going for (silly/cute) was executed so well, for the most part, that it really delivered.
I went to the theater expecting to have to grit my teeth and kill 90 minutes, but instead I ended up enjoying myself quite a bit.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Please Giants,
Stay put. I still do not think any moves are necessary.
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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 would be open to listening about a reliever.
But even then I am not sure we need to actively look.
If the good Affeldt is not a mirage, then definitely not.
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someone like Will Ohman probably wouldn’t cost much.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Timmeh and Pablo were big stars last year
now they can’t carry the team. Maybe they will recover form, but it’s not looking like it will be this year. All the players who have been added make it just about a wash, ie this team is only a little better than last year’s. They need another hitter and/or reliever to make the playoffs.
I like my beer cold ... my TV loud ... and my romosexuals flaming.--Homer Simpson
Doesn't the team have a better record than this point last year?
And I would say that this team is better then last years by more then just a wash. There is production coming from the first 5 or 6 spots in the lineup where as last year we were scrounging for people other then Pablo to come through.
I think this year is much different from last year.
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I agree
Last year’s team over=performed to get to 88 wins.
With Huff, Torres, Posey and Madbum contributing, I’d be disappointed if we don’t win more than 88 games. I think our current place is 89 or 90
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it's about 87 according to
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_odds.php
This uses past results (PECOTA doesn’t change it much) and future schedule, so implicitly assumes limited Posey/Bumgarner. I would guess more like 89.
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I was just looking at current win % applied to 162 games
/unsophisticated anal-ysis
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DeJesus is injured
2-6 weeks, sprained thumb.
Perfect time for Sabean to make his patented buy-low-on-an-injury® deal.
*Only meets patent requirements if...
DeJesus only plays in 25-50% of games over the course of the rest of the season and underperforms next year.
"He made a decent attempt to put the tag on him. That's what it looked to me, and that's why I called him out."-Phil's Cuzzi
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
You've got to be shitting me
The Royals ‘like’ Jeff Francoeur, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (via Twitter)
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But do they "LIKE, like" 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.
Just got a Kim Kelly flashback
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Mcclane?
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
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Die Hard 2 or 3?
Years ago I wouldn’t have even had to think about this, Die Hard w/ a vengeance would have blown 2 out of the water… but each time I watch 2 now, my appreciation grows for it.
I still say 3 by a slim margin.
Chris Cohan- YOU'RE FIRED!
I just like how Samuel L. Jackson carries that gold bar around for the whole movie just to forget it in the backseat of a car. I think he’s in the 3rd movie.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
I liked 2 better.
But it is close.
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by SoFa King Mike on Jul 23, 2010 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
royalsauthority
Remember the Bell Axiom #Royals fans: Never say you hit rock bottom. It can always get worse. #PleaseGodNotFrancoeur #TrustTheProcess
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Well, if there’s one team that is most likely to want him…
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
JOSH WILLINGHAM
Get ’er done, GIANTZ BRAZZ!
I'm in this line
As long as that doesn’t require a lopsided deal in favor of Washington or rather as long as Susan negotiates the deal instead of Sabes.
"He made a decent attempt to put the tag on him. That's what it looked to me, and that's why I called him out."-Phil's Cuzzi
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Wheeler for Willingham straight up – would you do it?
How about Wheeler + Crawford/Neal?
by GrooveGiant on Jul 23, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I was the one that wanted to trade Sanchez for Willingham straight up at the beginning of the season, but I probably won’t do Wheeler or Belt. Anybody else in the system is fair game imo.
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I think I’d be cool with trading Wheeler for Willingham. Pitching prospects are never a sure thing.
Adding more to that package would make it iffy though.
by GrooveGiant on Jul 23, 2010 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm in this line
TINSTAAPP
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Thinking like this
and we wouldn’t have Lincecum, Cain, Sanchez, or Bumgarner in the rotation.
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by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Aside from the fact that Lincecum and Sanchez came out of college
And that Cain and Bumgarner were better at the same age as Wheeler, you’re spot on.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
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actually things like this
is why we don’t have Jason Grilli in the rotation.
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1) Absolutely.
2) Wheeler and Crawford probably. Wheeler and Neal probably not.
My Son. Dude hits inside the parkers and takes walks.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
I am a Bochy hater and a Sabean apologist.
Left Handed Reliever
Buy low on Fu-Te Ni. He needs to be used against left hander only.
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Detroit isn’t exactly looking to lose bullpen help. They need all they can get.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jul 23, 2010 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
They are savagely mishandling him, he’s pitched 14 innings against right handers and 9 innings against left handers this year, and after a bad June with something like a .480 BABIP, they demoted him to AAA.
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I definitely read that name as if I was reading the Chinese Sabermetrics guide
But it’s your own fault.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
Fu-Te Ni
Sounds like something out of a Jawa dialect
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 23, 2010 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Re-suggesting an idea from yesterday (or a couple of days ago)
Luke Scott + Will Ohman from the O’s for… (fill-in-the-blank with prospects). I also was thinking about how Joe Martinez could make a decent back of the rotation starter for them right now, considering his GB tendencies in relation to how small that park is.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Although they already have Brad Bergesen, who is also a low-upside, groundball kind of guy
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
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I wish
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
I think he has one more year of control.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat, a ’64 Impala
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Jul 23, 2010 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
I heard some of the Sabean interview and was pleased with most of what he said. I came away fairly convinced that he would not trade away any of the starters. But damn, he keeps insisting on getting a left-handed bat. Ralph made the point about right handed power hitters having better opportunities at home in SF, but Sabean had none of it. I like Hart, but he will not be had, and Grant’s point about him and playoff pitching is a good one. DeJesus would be OK, and probably could be had without busting the rotation, but he just seems like Winn 2.0.
I say let Burrell play more and trade Schierholtz or Bowker (plus one, if necessary) for relief pitching – and that will be the playoff roster.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned by watching Sabean’s entire reign with the Giants…. it’s don’t believe a damn thing he says.
Good point. Last year after saying he would not trade for “rentals” he did just that. Garko, of course, and for all intents and purposes, Sanchez as well. They did have to resign him.
they only had to resign Freddy because his option didn’t vest because of the injury
Thing A
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And there was a team option for $8M
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by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL uber-overpay
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
if his lipps are moveing...
He must be lieing about at least one thing.
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by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
If only we had a left handed hitter with power potential in the minor leagues.
If only he was the best hitter in the minor leagues last year.
But alas, you cannot have everything.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
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I guess Kruk said on the radio this morning that Buster won’t be in the lineup tonight. :(
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
fine with me
kid could use a day.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Actually, it sounds like it was just speculation. But, yeah, they’ve got 3 other guys who can play 1B, and Whiteside will probably be catching.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
Yeah, the rumor was stated as fact by none other than 22gigantes this morning. Krukow talked about how hard it is to catch every day and said Posey and probably Uribe would have the day off, but we’ll see.
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
no. He does this all the time. He’ll take what he hears, and restate it as fact without saying where the info came from, often times trying to take credit for it
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
Yeah, that blog kind of sucks a lot
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
He needs a slogan like In play : Out(s)
22gigantes : Be the first to comment.
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That’s really bad. As if we’re expected to believe he has some kind of source in the org. LOL.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
This was the tweet
No Posey in tonight’s game vs. #dbacks. 16-game hit streak will have to wait. #sfgiants #bproy
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
You know what’s extra dumb? If Posey does end up in the lineup, he looks like an even bigger moron.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
God I hope this happens.
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Yeah, its funny how he calls himself a “journalist” when he never cites sources
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
he probably has a decent source in Milwaukee though
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there you go with the sausage love again
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The bratwurst is the one with the real inside info.
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"Serious" journalists do that shit all of the time.
“Anonymous DNC source says Rebublicans smell like poop.”
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
Eh at least they make an attempt. 22gigantes just states things like he’s a reporter getting this info firsthand
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
I mean look at his bio
News and insider information about the San Francisco Giants.
Insider information?!?!
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
He has a CSN insider subscription
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Perhaps he means he’s indoors.
Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone see he was the first to reply to Aubrey Huff’s blog with a READ MY BLOG STATEMENT!!!!!!!
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
when I read it it looked he was the first and only commenter
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
He was the fourth when I read it.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
+109
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SHOWCASING ISHIKAWA!?!?
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I hate the term. It makes me think of players standing around in some huge acrylic box, dressed in boas and lace, Vanna Whiting it up.
That could be kind of hot
Depending on the player
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
/ awaits the mirgration of Alyssa Milano pics to here
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by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Baggs on Torres.
Aubrey Huff had a great line in his new blog. He said Torres says hi to him eight times a day. It’s true. He says hello to everyone, all the time. When he hits his golden years, he’ll be the best damn Wal-Mart greeter Puerto Rico has ever seen.
Wilber Bucardo: Missing?
Sabean won't do that
Once bitten twice shy. And he’s been bitten at least twice. A two or three year deal would be just fine by me. Huff has earned it.
I don't think that's exactly... never mind
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by SoFa King Mike on Jul 23, 2010 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Fool me once…can’t get fooled again.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
This shoud become the new McC meme when someone's completely lost in a conversation.
Awesome and rec’d
Proudly adopted Aubrey Huff. You can't beat that!
agreed.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
You mean "maymay"
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Who are the "untouchables"
obviously assuming the claiber of player in return that Grant notes, who on the major league roster and the farm system are untouchable. Because that, to me, is the more important element. Freddie Sanchez is a good example. People continue to be upset with that deal. Not me. Because it appears we didn’t give up much. I know Alderson was a top prospect at one point. But he’s going backwards. So…
Here is my major league roster list of untouchables: Tim, Cain, Bum, Wilson, Posey and Huff. That’s it. Sanchez is close – but if they could make multiple deals so as to fill his spot in the rotation, that is to be considered. Sandoval?
That doesn’t mean I’m ready to deal all others. Indeed, J. Sanchez, Sandoval, Torres are others that I would be deeply hesitant to deal. Its just that we don’t even talk about the list above.
Now as for the minors, I need help. Who besides Belt, Wheeler and perhaps Neal? Anyone??
there are no untouchables
There are, however, players so likely to be undervalued that no team will make a fair offer. Take Posey. Sure, I’d trade him. For Strasburg or Heyward, maybe. But that offer never gets made.
Posey > Heyward
Outfielders are a dime a dozen. Franchise catchers don’t come around often
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
by ToddCommish on Jul 23, 2010 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
I believe you underrate Heyward's bat
It’s really superlative.
YOU WERE RIGHT
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I believe you underrate the scarcity of catchers
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by ToddCommish on Jul 23, 2010 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't think Posey's bat is going to be this good consistently
Although their comparative values will probably be closer than many people think.
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Heyward is not a dime a dozen. And usually your right about the catchers, but its funny because there actually are a lot of good young catchers: Carlos Santana, Posey, Jason Castro, Jesus Montero, Matt Weiters, etc.
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 23, 2010 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
I really like Heyward, dude can play. However, the main stream sports media ( I’m looking at you ESPN) and the Braves fan’s need to get off of this “J-Hey Kid” crap. As a Giants fan and a baesball fan, it’s offensive to me when they allude to the fact that he belongs in the same sentence as Mays.
The current crop of young catchers is very good. The last group of catchers to get this much attention was Mauer,McCann, and Victor Martinez, and that occured in 2005, IIRC. I think that demonstrates the rarity and value of a solid hitting/solid defense catcher.
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more like lame stream media doncha know
/sarah palin’d
Congrats to my soul mate and birth brother Zach Wheeler on being drafted into greatness. Should I just buy my Wheeler jersey now, or wait till my next birthday?
by TexasRanger on Jul 23, 2010 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
"J-Hey Kid"
Maybe I’m alone, but it doesn’t bother me at all. I think it pays tribute to Mays more than says Heyward is as good a player. there’s a hell of a lot of kids today that don’t know anything about Mays. If this nickname makes kids ask their dad or grampa about Willie, then I like the old guys getting some attention in his golden years.
Proudly adopted Aubrey Huff. You can't beat that!
Very good point Goofus. Maybe it’s just the Braves fan’s that are pissing me off. Heyward would look great in orange and black.
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I’ve been thinking this is like a golden age of young catching talent.
Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
This is in all of baseball...
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
Look at my post
i said based on the caliber of player Grant is talking about. Obviously if Pujois becomes available it changes things a bit. But that is not what we are talking about.
The more relevant question is who are the guys you place on a " hard to reach list". Theese are guys that you think matter to your team moves inn the next 24-36 months. Some of theese guys are players you can’t replace without over paying ( Crawford in AA comes to mind) or guys that are already valuble but other teams will not offer compelling trade to make the added risk worth takeing ( wcw’s Buster comment or the Hart for John Sanchez or Madison ) fall into this cataglory as well.
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by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Not, me, don't give me credit for this man's good writing
The funny part about the Alderson/Sanchez trade is many people miss the point. Its not like we all thought Alderson was going to be a stud.
The point is Alderson was a valuable trading chip. Think of him as a stock. Lets say he was worth $10.00 , but Sabean sold him for $7.50. two months later that stock is worth $5.00. Those of you right now talking about Alderson’s demotion are saying hey "at least we got $7.50 for a stock thats now worth $5.00″ . But the point is you sold low , you should have gotten the $10.00 your stock was worth.
The point is Sabes should have been able to get something better for Aldrson then a injury plagued servicable 2b on the wrong side of 30. Who isn’t going to get any better and who he had to pay $12M over two years. Especially considering he could have gotten either Lopez , Johnson or Hudson during the off-season without having to trade away prospects.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
Who wrote this?
I WANT TO SHAKE THIS PERSON’S HAND AND BUY HIM A BEVERAGE.
It’s the same point I used to try to make when the Giants traded Kurt Ainsworth (plus Damian Moss and Ryan Hannaman) for Sidney Ponson.
Well said. So much better than my feeble attempts…
Oh, and I’d also like to be yet another who beats the dead horse that Alderson was only traded for 2 months and 107 nondescript plate appearances from Sanchez. Because Sabean signed Freddy as a FA after the 2009 season, whatever he does from the beginning of 2010 on (and right now it ain’t looking like much) is a completely separate deal.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
Roger on Extra Baggs.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
That is some perspective right there.
Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
something about Straw Hat pizza?
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Wow
that’s a lot of stupid in one small package.
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
I understand this argument
But still submit that we really don’t know what Sabean SHOULD have got for Alderson.
If BruteSentiment was privvy to the word in the street that Alderson’s stock was falling, then surely other teams were making note of it as well.
If Sabean had said, “We passed up on Alderson for Pujols because we really wanted Freddy Sanchez” then we could crucify him. Otherwise, we don’t know what Sabean could have or should have been able to get for Alderson.
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That we don’t know what he could have gotten for us is true.
In the end, he was traded for $0 value, because Sanchez’s performance above contract is zero.
Actually, it is quite possibly negative, looking at Kelly Johnson, Felipe Lopez, etc.
So we can go ahead and crucify Sabean for trading away an $x stock for a $0 stock.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
But you are using hindsight...
Like I said elsewhere, what if Sanchez hit .300 and played excellent 2B after the trade…then the trade looks great!
He was also projected to perform at or below contract.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
This ignores the fact
That it’s entirely possible that other teams in the league (with their, you know, scouts), KNEW that the stock was about to be 5$.
No one on McC knows what Alderson’s trade value was because we dont’ know what other teams thought of him. Accusing Sabean of underselling his asset is difficult, considering how little we know.
My Son. Dude hits inside the parkers and takes walks.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
I am a Bochy hater and a Sabean apologist.
Yes, but as said above, Sanchez’s stock was essentially $0, so it’s moot.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
The problem with this premise is that he wasn't worth $10
Maybe he was worth that pre-season, but his struggles in AA (and even Advanced A) to strike out batters was a huge warning sign to anyone who understands what that means.
He wasn’t worth $10 anymore at the time of the trade, just in the minds of the fans stuck on the fact that he was in BA’s Top 100 prospect list and high on the Giants PRE-season prospect Top 30 list, and doesn’t understand the likelihood that pitchers who cannot even strike out AA batters will not make the majors period, let alone being a consistent middle of rotation guy.
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by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The premise was not that he was worth $10
It’s that he was sold even below what his worth was as the time.
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/facepalm
I am not assuming anything. The article is not even assigning a numbered value. It was a freaking metaphor. They were basically saying they seemed to get less then what he was worth at the time.
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But you have to assign a value to him at the time of the trade to make that determination...
For the purposes of this hypothetical…it’s $7.50…what if in reality…the other GM thought he was worth $5…and the best Sabean could do was Sanchez
I have to assign nothing, as I did not write this.
I am going off what the article says, I was just clarifying.
The point is Sabes should have been able to get something better for Aldrson then a injury plagued servicable 2b on the wrong side of 30. Who isn’t going to get any better and who he had to pay $12M over two years. Especially considering he could have gotten either Lopez , Johnson or Hudson during the off-season without having to trade away prospects.
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Okay..you didn't assign any value
but in order to assess a trade…values have to be assigned on both sides..the article write believes that Sanchez was worth nothing while Alderson was worth more than nothing at the time of the trade. That’s just not true…Sanchez was worth something and so was Alderson…the question is whether the valuations were or were not correct.
To me, the writer is off because he uses hindsight for Sanchez but not Alderson. If Sanchez came in and hit .300 and played excellent 2B even for a half of a season, would we be having this discussion…of course not.
It's not really hindsight since Sanchez was injured when the trade happened.
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Yes...but obviously he was cleared by someone
You can blame the medical staff for screwing that up…I doubt Sabean would have traded for Sanchez if he thought that Sanchez would be out so much in the second half.
I would.
He would likely still be overpayed, and it would be an empty .300: no power, no on-base.
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Darn “overpaid” not overpayed..
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Very true.
But it’s a debate worth having: if Sanchez hit .300 and was not injured last year, would he have been overpaid? Quite possibly yes, and the fact that it is likely/debatable tells you his value was not more than what he was being paid.
Factor in the fact that they knew he was injured, and this becomes inexcusable.
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But that's not Sabean's fault
Medical staff screwed up…
Always gamble somewhat in trading prospects for veteran players…he did it to patch up a glaring hole on the team and to try and get into the playoffs.
a glaring hole that he created by starting the season with Burriss at 2nd base.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
You can't keep pushing back the clock...
Glaring holes are generally result of 1) injuries or 2) lack of offseason acquistions
Just look at the trade by itself…plz.
It was a bad trade that Sabean only had to make because he made a bad decision at the end of Spring Training.
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Not a bad trade at the time...
And every GM/team makes bad decisions that they try and rectify at the trade deadline…that’s kinda why team target certain players/position.
yes, yes it was a bad trade at the time
everyone thought so. Everyone. It was a terrible trade at the time, right after, and now.
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Taking the injury issue out of it (cuz that was not Sabean's part)
a starting MLB 2B hitting .300 and great defense for a AA prospect trending downward…why is that a bad trade?
because batting average is fucking retarded
and because he’d had injury problems that year. Which led to him not playing basically the entire time he was here. So they traded a prospect for nothing. I know you can’t see an injury coming, but Sanchez was and is not a very valuable baseball player.
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alderson could have been traded
for someone more worthwhile than Sanchez, not saying that Sanchez is bad at all, but he could’ve been traded for someone better
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sanchez is bad though
and he was injured.
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that's your opinion
really? you’re going to take his BA as a means to an end? i’m gonna say he’s OK, the only issue i had was that he didn’t do a whole lot last year for the team, since he was injured. This year? he’d probably be better off hitting in the latter part of the order since he’s got a not so good OBP
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That Sanchez is not a bad player is not the point. The point is that Sabes sucks and needs to GTFO.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
no
he’s not a good player. Not very far above replacement-level at this point.
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Ok dude, so who’s your replacement RIGHT NOW, and don’t you put Uribe in there at the position and plug in Rent for SS or i’ll flip
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Kelly johnson?
who could have been had for, like, 1/10th of what it cost to get Sanchez. There were so many better options the mind boggles. Hudson too.
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that's why there was a flood of FA offers for him, right?
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Not sure who you are referring to
but the examination is not after the fact but at the time of the trade…
Ok, I'm not going to argue with you any more
it’s not worth it. There were a shit ton of us here (the vast majority) that believed it was a fucking terrible trade WHEN IT WAS MADE. AND WE WERE RIGHT.
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Up to you..
on 7/26…just about everyone was screaming for Sabean to pick up Sanchez.
on 7/29…people were screaming about how Sabean is a bum because he traded alderson for Sanchez…why because most people overvalued Alderson!
People were not overvaluing Alderson appreciably. You think that because you are overvaluing Sanchez.
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Ok what the hell
so we’re not allowed to judge the trade based on Sanchez’ value afterwards, but you’re allowed to judge it based on Alderson’s? How about you stick to your own arguments here?
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No...I am not looking at Alderson after the fact
Cuz I was, I would say a downtrending single A player
There was an article just after the trade about how overrate Alderson was and how his pitching has been downtrending at the time of the trade.
That’s not after the fact…that was during the fact
Link please
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Here's one
Grant’s take: http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/7/30/969619/freddy-sanchez-one-last-post
I know I read another one but I think it was keith law and I don’t have insider.
Remember, the projection was that Sanchez would have zero value because he would perform as much as he was worth, and he turned out to have negative value because he was injured and didn’t perform at all.
These Alderson fixations are a little beside the point. Did he have value? Yes.
OK, then the trade was bad.
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At the time of the trade:
1. Sanchez was having a decent year but he had been much worse in the weeks leading up to the trade than he had at the beginning of the season.
2. Sanchez was injured.
3. Sanchez had an $8M option for 2010.
4. Alderson was half a year removed from being one of the top pitchers in the Cal League as a 19 y.o.
5. Alderson was a top 100 prospect and half a year removed from being a top 50 prospect.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
No, I am not saying that BA means to an end
I am saying it wasn’t a horrible trade…we didn’t give any one of significance to get him…
It was a bad trade
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Alderson’s career isn’t over yet so we don’t know what we gave up. What we got was a terrible injured player for half a season plus the inside track to overpay him for this year and next.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
I really don't understand how people defend this
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He’s in A ball right? i mean, yea, who knows, he’s still young and can definitely turn it around
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Here's the point
we know sanchez isn’t turning it around. And the warning signs were there before the fucking trade even fucking happened.
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Fact is, i’m not even that pissed right now, mostly due to the fact the giants are doing pretty well right now, and if they were actually playing like shit, Freddy would be the guy i’d get pissed at. There had to have been a backup option at 2nd, and who’s our top guy in the minors at 2nd? Bond? Downs? Rohlinger (SS or 3B option)?
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Freddy isn't a backup
he’s a replacement-level player being paid like he’s top 5 at his position. And we gave up what was widely considered our 3rd best prospect to get him when he was ALREADY injured.
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He isn't replacement level
He’s above replacement level, but barely below average overall, after you include his defense.
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is he worth anything close to 6 million dollars for 2 years?
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If it’s a two-year deal, he’s probably worth about $3.5 million per year.
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NOT WHAT I SAID
I SAID WHOOOOOOOOO would be back him up
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You had the guys.
Flip a coin: heads, Downs, tails, Rohlinger, lands on side, Bond.
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You should see the McCovey Chronicles page the day of the trade.
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http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2009/7/29/968331/freddy-sanchez-traded-to-the-giants
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I can only hope this means there is cash to make another deal
Otherwise on the surface, this is just awful.
And there go all of the positive feelings I’ve had for this season
Are you fucking shitting me?? Fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuu
These all posted in this thread right here, so it’s an OK representation of the community.
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Grant’s article neither agrees nor disagrees with you. If you check out the thread I linked to, what does Grant say? (paraphrased because my computer is dying from these huge threads)
“This came out of nowhere. Ugh.”
Grant was against it too.
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But the premise of the linked article is that
no one knows!
If the Giants hold steady — if they believe that this isn’t a team that’s going to seriously contend, and they hoard every one of their prospects like pieces of wartime coal — I’ll understand, but I’ll secretly wonder in five years if blowing up the farm for Freddy Sanchez and Victor Martinez would have led to a parade down Market Street.
You were saying that it was not bad at the time. I have demonstrated that the McCoven and Grant thought it was bad at the time.
I like the article, but really? Doesn’t support your point.
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I'm beginning to think it's not worth it
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He’s given up (never mind, he made another post), which is fine with me because my laptop is dying here.
I think the biggest problem with the trade supporters is that they don’t grasp that you trade for the value a player provides in excess of his pay.
They just see the production, ignoring the contract.
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even putting the contract at play…it was a half year rental…that’s the point…no long term commitment and a hope that sanchez will put the Giants over the top.
AND THAT WAS A RETARDED HOPE
because he was injured and old and trending downward! WOW keep digging this hole.
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You’re throwing out the entire evaluation of Sanchez’s projected performance compared to pay and Alderson’s projected performance compared to pay based on a “hope”.
That hope was also quantified. The projection was that Sanchez would put the Giants up about half a win for the rest of the season. He ended up putting the Giants up about 0.1 wins for the rest of the season.
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lol heimy:
I like how this comes
right when Velez starts hitting. WHAT THE FUCK. Velez wont be playing once juggernate is back
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
haha, i had one comment in that thread
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by heimy25 on Jul 29, 2009 4:04 PM PDT reply actions
Dude they’re smarter than that, cmon! he was checked out by doctors, so why would we trade one of our top prospects for someone that might be on the DL?
by PiKAgiant on Jul 29, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
yep! i was so new to posting in forums, but then i kinda became a little smarter
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wow, that's an insult :( ha
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Again...MLB starting player at 2B for a down trending AA prospect
Don’t get why it was a bad trade…
Sanchez may not be a very valuable baseball player but he is a MLB player…something that Alderson may never be.
What other player was traded around the deadline that the Giants could have gotten for Alderson?
You evaluate players based on their performance relative to contract. You evaluate trade assets based on the projected performance relative to pay.
Sanchez was a starting 2B but he was paid like an all-star 2B (only Utley and Uggla and one other guy at the keystone was paid more than $5 million last year).
His value, quite frankly, was negative. Same money, spent in free agency the year before, would have gained the Giants more wins without losing anything, let alone a 20-year old pitcher holding his own in AA.
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you can't evaluate a trade based on
what they might have been able to do the previous year in FA. Value relative to contract isn’t even close to the first thing I’d look at when evaluating a trade. Weighted marginal value is WAY more important. What value did the player you traded for provide over his replacement? What value did the player you traded provide over his replacement? Sanchez being injured throws a wrench into the whole thing, but, you know, LOL Giants medical staff. If Sanchez had not been injured, and provided the same value he had been providing up to that point in the season through the rest of the season, it would have been, as of now at least, a good trade, simply because the Giants 2B up to that point had been SO bad.
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Freddie's trend for 2009:
April OPS: .943
May OPS: .832
June OPS: .749
July OPS: ..466
then he got injured.
then we traded for him.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
It was not a glaring hole, either. Uribe was rockin’ it at the time.
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Um, OK.
That does not change the fact that Uribe was rockin’ it at the time of the trade.
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That sounds fine.
So now we’re down to Sabean giving up a prospect to get a player that was overpaid because he made a bad decision at the beginning of the season on both middle infield positions.
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I find it a little more difficult to rag on Sabez for his poor trading ability ever since he traded Bengie Molina for Buster Posey, Chris Ray, and Michael Main.
It’s really fun when you think about it like that – that’s like a package you’d give up for Cliff Lee.
Temper your enthusiasm about it by thinking about the $6 million he spent on Molina this year and the $6-10 million he’ll spend on Posey in a couple of years thanks to unnecessary super two from bringing him up last year (second part of that probable, but not guaranteed).
Doesn’t sound so fun anymore, does it?
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This
Also, when your enthusiasm gets the better of you, just wait a maximum of three innings for, “Now batting, Freddy Sanchez”
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by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Pretty much
he saved a little face from giving molina that ridiculous contract and getting something out of the money instead of the ‘not a whole lot’ Molina had provided at the start of the year.
All the reports I’ve been reading in the past couple of days say they avoided Posey being a super-two by waiting until the point they did.
by kingofthacove on Jul 23, 2010 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
The reports you’ve read are wrong then. He will be a Super 2 unless he’s sent down for a couple of months at some point in the next 2+ seasons. He’s going to have more than 140 days of service time after this season. Nobody with 2 years, 140 days or more of service time has ever missed being a Super 2.
See, people don't even think through what they write
If Sabean never spent the $6M on Molina, Posey would have been the starter from the get-go and there would be no questions about super-two, he would just be eligible for arbitration in 2013.
But now, because they did use Molina for a couple of months, he’ll now be super-two and eligible for arbitration in … 2013.
Except that now we have control over Posey until 2016 whereas without Molina, we would have lost him in 2015. The way’s he’s hitting, I think what Sabean spent was worth every penny to get Posey under control for one more season. But no, we have to weep because he’s super-two. I’m happy because he’s on our team and we control him for an additional year now.
Also, we didn’t spend $6M on Molina. We spent $5.5M on three months of Molina, plus 3 months of Chris Ray plus control of Ray for 2011, and Michael Main, with the added “free” bonus that we get another year of control over Posey (not sure how you would price that). If you break it down, we spent roughly $2.75M on Molina, $500K on Ray, and $2.25M on Michael Main. Given his original bonus was roughly $1.25M, we in essence paid for Main’s bonus plus $1M on top for what he’s done since then. Health problems have held him back, but he can throw in the mid-90’s heat when healthy with a plus curveball and average changeup, and given that the Giants have taught Schmidt, Lincecum, and Cain how to use a changeup to good effect, that seems like a bet I would take.
And, if you want to get really anal-yst about it, the real difference is that we get one additional season of control of Posey in exchange for the salary that we pay him during his super-two season. Essentially we took away one free agent year from him and exchanged it for what he gets behind Door number Super-Two. At roughly 40% of his free agent value, lets call it $23M (Mauer’s average salary, which seems fair as there would be 6 years of pro-baseball player salary inflation between then and now, so this could even be too low), we save roughly 60% on his salary, or about $14M, by signing Molina to a $5.5M contract and bringing up Posey when we did.
Plus, if the Giants didn’t bring up Posey at the time that they did, do you really think that he would have hit all those homers so soon after taking over as starting catcher without the time given to him to adjust and learn how to hit in the majors that he did while playing 1B? It is his hitting in July that has driven our surge upward, helped by Huff and Torres streaks, which I think Posey helped by being so dominating a hitter in his streak.
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by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
This whole argument hinges on the assumption that if Sabean does not sign Molina for $6 million, Posey gets called up at the beginning of the year.
That assumption is false. Good day.
(personally, I would have signed Greg Zaun for a couple million until Posey’s call-up)
It’s nice to get Chris Ray and Michael Main, but for a price tag of $4.5 million+ $3-7 million? Yikes.
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When was the last time a mid season deal really helped?
I think it is pretty rare that a midseason addition can add enough. We’re talking what, 60 games? So, it would have to be 3 WAR player above what you have currently to make a game difference?
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Trade for Lofton
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So the difference is 100% attributable to Lofton?
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Actually, scratch that...
I wasn’t even in college yet…it was the summer before I left…even worse!
/seconded
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by Lies and Perfidy on Jul 23, 2010 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
sounds reasonable
Heh.
I just looked up Lofton’s stats for that year. 104 OPS+.
Clearly he was the cause of the 3.5 game edge the Giants had to make the playoffs. :)
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Seriously
in my top 5 favorite players because of that one hit
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1997: “White Flag” trade with White Sox: Lorenzo Barcelo, Mike Caruso, Keith Foulke, Bob Howry, Brian Manning and Ken Vining for Wilson Alvarez, Danny Darwin, and Roberto Hernandez // Alvarez and Hernandez helped the Giants win the NL West.
1998: Darin Blood for Joe Carter // This one gets overlooked because of the trade Sabean made a week later, but Carter was a very good bat off the bench and contributed to the incredible comeback the Giants staged, which almost got them into the playoffs.
1998: Darryl Hamilton, Jim Stoops and a PTBNL: Jason Brester for Ellis Burks // Burks was so awesome. I still miss him.
1999: Jason Grilli and Nate Bump for Livan Hernandez // Livan wasn’t great, but he helped…at times.
2001: Chris Magruder, Erasmo Ramirez and Todd Ozias for Andres Galarraga // Another big bat who helped the Giants offense in a big way.
2001: Armando Rios and Ryan Vogelsong for Jason Schmidt and John Vander Wal // “Helpful” doesn’t even begin to describe what Schmidt provided the Giants pitching staff. He was solid in 2001 and 2002, then Cy Young caliber for 2003 and most of 2004.
2002: Felix Diaz and Ryan Meaux for Kenny Lofton // Lofton was the centerfielder and leadoff guy Tsuyoshi Shinjo could never be. OK, Shinjo was a better centerfielder defensively, but couldn’t hit enough to play every day.
2005: Yorvit Torrealba and Jesse Foppert for Randy Winn // Winn’s numbers for the remainder of 2005 were so downright freakish, it’s hard not to wonder if Barry gave him a taste of his nutritional supplements.
231 AB … 83 H … 22 2B … 5 3B … 14 HR … .359 … .391 … .680 … 1.071 … 173 OPS+ Those are just astounding numbers.
Not much since then. No valuable players received in July trades since Winn, that’s for sure.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
I think Bill James or the Hardball Times did a look at midseason trades.
There have not been many teams where the added value of the players coming over made the difference to making the playoffs.
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If making the playoffs is the only criteria I'd probably agree...
But anytime you can improve your team via trade, whether in July or in the offseason, seems like a good thing to me. I’d say that the 1997 trade and the trade for Lofton definitely were critical to the Giants making the playoffs. And acquiring Carter and Burks should’ve been enough. If not for Neifi…
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
Salt in my 2002 WS Game 6 wounds ...
2002: Felix Diaz and Ryan Meaux for Kenny Lofton // Lofton was the centerfielder and leadoff guy Tsuyoshi Shinjo could never be. OK, Shinjo was a better centerfielder defensively, but couldn’t hit enough to play every day.
Hard to read this, while I personally consider Loften to be a major reason for the demise in game 6. You will remember that Baker DH’d Shinjo w/ Loften in CF (because he refused to DH and Dusty acquiesced). This is intuitively the exact opposite of how you would want to implement the DH. IIRC correctly, many balls fell in front and to the side of Loften during the game. I hit the roof when it was reported after the Series that Loften was playing through a hernia injury.
Are my recollections correct? Help me, I’m feeling depressed again.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
No...only reason we lost Game 6 was because Dusty Baker was our manager
and he laughed at the Baseball gods…the only reason.
We lost the series because of game 2, I've always felt
First they gave up all those runs, but then the offense comes back and take the lead, incredible!, but then the pitching just gave that away. If we had won that game, series over in 5 games, there would never have been a Dusty takes the ball from Russ because there would have been no 6th game.
That’s partly why I don’t understand how people undervalue how valuable it is to have pitchers like our pitching rotation who keeps you in the game most nights. A hitter might play every game, but he only makes a difference every few games when you look at all the games he plays. A pitcher can have a great affect on the game results almost every start if he is as good as Lincecum. That is surety that you can’t buy on offense, even Pujols have many games where he doesn’t go much on offense. And as we saw with Bonds in his last years, even that surety is worthless by itself, whereas if the pitcher is good, the game is good.
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"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
"I think my role here has changed a little bit. I'm counted on a little more." - Posey after hitting 12-24 with 4 homers after Molina trade
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I see what you are saying
but we were up freaking 5-0 in the bottom of the 7th inning…Dusty had basically grounded the bullpen to dusts by that time…I think it was okay to let Russ go a little more..
Oh yeah…that and Dusty starting Hernandez instead of Reuter in game 7.
You're thinking of Game 7
Dunston was the DH in Game 6.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
Thanks, I see I've been living a lie all these years ...
Shinjo DH’d in Game 1 (which we won). Still didn’t make sense to me.
Pedro DH’d in Game 7.
But no excuse leaving an injured Loften out in CF during the AL home games. There were a lot of balls that he didn’t get to out there.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
I dislike this poster
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 Jul 23, 2010 1:50 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Nah.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Obviously a Brewers Fan...
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Godfather of Travis Ishikawa.
"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
"I think my role here has changed a little bit. I'm counted on a little more." - Posey after hitting 12-24 with 4 homers after Molina trade
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
OT:
HOLY CRAP!
Guillermo del Toro is going to produce a new film based on The Haunted Mansion!
Darker then the crappy Eddie Murphy one.
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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 thought he was making “The Hobbit?”
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
I thought he was off The Hobbit?
This article also says The Hobbit lost 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.
Pretty sure they got Peter Jackson to come back for the two part hobbit movies.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
He’s also left The Hobbit since taking over it. It’s Jackson’s baby now. But he still might not direct it himself.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe I just don't "get" del Toro
I liked “Devil’s Backbone,” but Pan’s Labyrinth was like … I dunno, just eye candy? Not that there’s anythign wrong with that. It just didn’t move me.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
For it's faults
I thought the first Haunted Mansion did really well with its set designs and score, paying a lot of homage to the rides. I cannot wait to see what he does with it.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
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I think he’s been pretty overrated based on his actual output, but I like Pan’s Labyrinth quite a bit. I have found that it seems to be a pretty divisive movie, though. I don’t really know anybody who didn’t like it, but I know people who love it, and people who had shattered expectations.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Another OT: Reading Simmons mailbag article
There was a discussion about what he would do if his kids became Lakers fan…this got me thinking…since I live in Orange County…how can I prevent my daughter from becoming a fan of the Angels or infinitely worse yet, that hack time in LA.
Should I just turn her away from baseball just to avoid this possible fate?
Buy MLB Extra Innings or something
Make sure she gets bombarded with Giants coverage early on
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Gotta start early.
All the kids at school are gonna have LA shit on.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
I've posted this before, but I've trained my two daughters to...
…call taking a crap, “making a Dodgers.” It makes for humorous conversations whenever we’re listening to the Giants/Dodgers games on the radio, and the older one says, “Daddy, why did he just say Dodgers?” and then giggles.
"I wanted to pick a Rockie. But I dislike the Rockies. They're not bona fide." — Jon Miller on the postgame wrap, 7/1/10
by Giant Fan in Singapore on Jul 23, 2010 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
We told the teachers.
"I wanted to pick a Rockie. But I dislike the Rockies. They're not bona fide." — Jon Miller on the postgame wrap, 7/1/10
by Giant Fan in Singapore on Jul 23, 2010 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Yah you gotta start giving her giants stuffed animals and girly Giants clothes
Or just do the pinching thing Simmons was talking about
Ban the colors Blue and Red from your home....
Paint her room Orange and Black. Get the FatHead of Timmy and Barry.
Show the video from “The Shot Heard ’Round The World”
Show her the Video of “The Catch”.
Put a picture of the Big Phone next to a picture of Chavez Latrine.
Buy her a Dodger Dog and a Cha-Cha Bowl, let her compare.
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Raise her on the voice of Jon Miller, he’ll take care of the rest.
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Also in Movieland
How awesome does Tron: Legacy look?
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
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I'm going to have to watch the first one again
I forgot what that movie is about.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
I have not seen it in a few years
But it is good. Also you need to remember it was made in the 80’s so the tech they used in the movie was nuts at the time, but now it looks a little dated.
Pretty awesome movie, and the next one looks AMAZING.
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
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Tron is cool. I saw it for the first time a few years ago, and I didn’t get Goonies’d by it.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
How does one ban a mod?
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
Oh come on. Goonies kind of sucks.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
i think there is a certain amount of nostalgic connection with Goonies for most kids who grew up in the 80’s.
An instant buzz is on the rise, the whiskey's for a big surprise.
It's good enough.
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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.
That’s what I’m referring to. I didn’t see Goonies when I was a kid, and I didn’t understand what everyone likes about it. That didn’t happen to me with Tron, even though I also didn’t see it when I was a kid. Tron is not nostalgia-dependent.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
I agree with this 100%, having seen both of those movies for the first time in the past three years.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
And the only reason I mention them in the same breath is because I was completely expecting Tron to have the “oh, this would be good if I was 5 and watching this 20 years ago” effect.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
No, YOU kind of suck.
Goonies was aiming to entertain kids. As a first grader, I was highly entertained.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
Goonies was aiming to entertain kids. As a first grader, I was highly entertained.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
Oh, I know. But as a 16 year old, watching it because all of my 16 year old friends were telling me how awesome it was, it kind of sucked.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Goonies falls directly into the
it was great when I was a kid but it sucks now that I am an adult…see also Voltron, Thundercats, or any 80s cartoon other than GI Joe and Transformers
I dunno, have you watched some of those GI Joe cartoons? I bought the first season for my son before the movie came out. Those were pretty bad in hindsight.
And then the original Transformers movie? I walked out of the room when he was watching it.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
Nothing tops:
1) Knowing is half the battle and
2) That transformer transforming sound…
Never gets old…
Not as good as this home movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHni7Z7S8g0
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
that was wicked
"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 Jul 23, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait,
why did the gundam just put on a scouter?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
cause it's over 9000
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
Now that DeJesus is hurt
I want, in this order:
Willingham
Werth
Fielder
Dunn
Go get one of those ones, Sabez.
My Son. Dude hits inside the parkers and takes walks.
My rule for the 2010 Giants: Everyone with an OPS over .800 gets a pass.
I am a Bochy hater and a Sabean apologist.
WHAT IN THE WHAT?
I keep doing a double-take every few seconds and I’m just as surprised each time
WTF?
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
i believe it is Comrade Correria vs Maholm
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Corriea hasn’t been very good, and the Pirates new infield may surpise you with it’s hitting competance.
Then again, it could be just fooled by Pitt’s demolishing of the Brewers.
Mark DeRosa just got the damn surgery.
Accuscore is pretty bad
Vegas lines are much more reliable and they have it at ~52% for the Padres.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jul 23, 2010 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Zimmerman
I like this guy. Panda + pitching?
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
zimmerman ain't getting moved.
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
probably not, but he’ll be better than Sandoval for the rest of his life
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
fuck and no
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
fuck and you [dude]
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
YOU CANT HAVE MY PANDA!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions
/swings and misses
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
/hits doubles against Dodgers
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
You won't get much for Panda right now
But if they can get something for him, they should move him. Sad as it is to say.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow.
He is having a down year. It could be just a sophomore slump. It is far too early to be talking about dumping Panda.
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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.
Uh, no.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Geez...People are so flavor of the month...
Panda can play…he’s a player to build around not trade bait.
Look at Mauer…worst year of his career…should the twins move him…of course not
It's not flavor of the month
For just about any rookie there is sophomore slump in which the league adjusts and they have to adjust back. Look at how many ROY’s went on to lackluster careers. Pablo is unable to adjust to the league because he has zero plate discipline and command of the zone. I really like him and like watching him play, but I just don’t see it.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Now this makes sense
Panda doesn’t have a body where you can miss it that easily.
Sigh, this is why I don’t come here too often anymore to comment…
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"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
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by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
He's basically been average for 1/2 season...and is showing signs of picking it back up
The free swinging thing worked well for Vlad.
wow
just stop talking. You’re pronouncing that a 23 year-old is “unable to adjust” based on barely half a season of evidence.
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Less!
His OPS was over 1.000 at the end of April.
Adoptive parental unit of Ehire Adrianza.
Godfather of Travis Ishikawa.
"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
"I think my role here has changed a little bit. I'm counted on a little more." - Posey after hitting 12-24 with 4 homers after Molina trade
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Lincecum was better than Waino last season
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Waino? No way.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Lincecum was better than everyone not named Grienke.
Brandon Crawford: Your SF Giants 2011 Opening Day starting SS!
Just a play on words…
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
It has to do with his approach
I have to stop talking because you don’t agree with me, doubtful. How many players significantly increase their walk rate from one year to the next in the minors? Let along in the big league’s. He had the same approach last year and in the minors, but they hadn’t found the holes in his swing. And I’m not saying that he is totally “unable to adjust” just that it’s highly unlikely. Everyone was shocked when John Bowker changed his approach in AAA and significantly increased his walk rate, that’s how rare it is. It just doesn’t happen very often.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I think he should be given the chance to adjust
The guy will be 24 in August. It is too early to tell if his career is going to tank or if he can stay at the level he played at last year.
If they were to follow your plan, and they trade him off an he flourishes for the next 10 years on another team, I would be extremely pissed.
Even in his “slump” he still has been an average hitter.
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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.
They can’t trade him (and should not). His face is all over town and plus what would people do with those Panda hats?
And in all seriousness (are you being serious), you are going to regret taking this position…
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Good, I was very puzzled.
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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 hope I'm wrong
And I hope I regret it, but I’m not going to be dishonest about what I see just to keep from ruffling feathers. I like Panda, I hope he turns it around, but I don’t see it.
He has been an average hitter, but is below average defensively. If he has value now, then I think they should sell high. Of course that would require Sabean to make a good trade and one in a year is already pushing it.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Without doing the book work on it just how many of those PA have come with Molinia batting behind him while being considerred part of the order? Not that would mess with a guys head or tend to make him more aggressive. Not that is current group of managers & coachs have a many year tradition of preaching being agressive at and more agressive to young hitters.
If your selling Panda stock I am still buying.
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
Holy shit this is so fucking idiotic
HE IS TWENTY THREE FUCKING YEARS OLD
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
How many ROY's went on to lackluster careers
Granted Pablo didn’t win ROY, but there have been a number of players who turned out to be a flash in the pan.
See: Ron Kittle, Gregg Olson, Pat Listach, Bob Hamelin, Marty Cordova, Ben Grieve, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Eric Henske, Todd Worrel, Jerome Walton, Raul Mondesi, Hideo Nomo, Todd Hollandsworth, Scott Williamson, Jason Jennings, Dontrelle Willis and that’s just the last 30 years.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 7:39 PM PDT up reply actions
No.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d trade him for Heyward
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Jul 23, 2010 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Dejesus
reminds me a lot of Freddy Sanchez last year, only because I see quite a few people saying they want him, and I just don’t see why.. I totally agree on that one Grant. He’s a decent enough player, but yeah. I don’t get the love at all.
And just no on all the others. Just please god no
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
he lengthens the lineup. Whatever that means.
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How is that worth trading, like, anyone?
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by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Because size does matter?
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Seriously though
we already have a better version of Dejesus RIGHT NOW and he’s playing every day…I mean I guess he’s “not Aaron rowand”, which is a good thing…but whatever. The most I’d give up for him is like Ehire or something.
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by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
This
It’s moot now, thank heavens. We can’t trade rotation starters for at best marginal upgrades
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by Giantsfan4life on Jul 23, 2010 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
well we can
just not THAT marginal upgrade.
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by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Point taken: shouldn't
Please God, don’t. Is what I meant to say
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by Giantsfan4life on Jul 23, 2010 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Bob will explain it...
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Has this site discovered
that rush now has an iphone app??
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call me when they have pinball
like Slayer
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the band
though I’m sure the other…..thing has one too
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by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Only cool kids have iPhones. Cool kids don’t care about Rush.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Jul 23, 2010 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
i am not cool
have an iphone
care about Rush
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
that is to say
i cared about Rush once up to including the mid-1980s
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
/ turns on spinklers
That will fix those kids and ther EyePhonics!
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by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
That app sucks.
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YOU SUCK
side note: ATT is coming imminently to where I live. So finally I will actually have an iphone. I’m not sure how to prepare for that wondrous occasion.
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by bondslegend on Jul 23, 2010 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
celebrate!
my new iphone is coming next week.. so excited!
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Prepare something to bang your head on.
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by AndYourBirdCanSing on Jul 23, 2010 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL FACETIME
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by KINGofCRA5H on Jul 23, 2010 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I feel like I’m charging my iphone daily. If I plan on listening to a Giants game I make sure it’s charged up before gametime.
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uh
that’s how smartphones work, though. You charge them every night. I don’t see how that’s a problem… unless you’re camping or something, and in that case you probably can’t use your phone anyways.
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Same in SD but I plan on going with Verizon. ANDROID FTW!
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nope
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Yeah but now that I have froyo I can see all of those annoying flash ads!
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I've had froyo for 2 months, slacker!
It’s pretty nice. But I still want an iphone.
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I waited patiently for the push down from t-mobile.
So far the best thing is being able to be a wifi hotspot. Although the flash support allowed me to watch mlb.tv. That was nice.
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I think it’s because the droid isn’t powerful enough to pull that off. IDK. But it is pretty cool
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As an early adopter I sure wish I weren’t still stuck on 1.6.
That said, considering I have the first Android phone ever marketed and still like it as much as I do, I see myself sticking with T-Mobile & Android for quite some time.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I had the G1, the Nexus, and just got the EVO yesterday. Very good progress in the OS IMO. I had the iphone for 2 years before that. I don’t miss it.
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I still have the G1.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
you had the iphone before it became what it is now
of course you don’t miss it. That was probably before there was even an app store
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My wife has one so I use her iphone from time to time. Like I said, I dont miss it.
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well, whatever
to each their own
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I’m probably gonna switch to Verizon when I move because T-Mobile doesn’t have coverage there. I’m thinking about the Droid X but I wasn’t very impressed with the first Droid.
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the droid x is a piece of shit
wait for droid 2
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sorry, but it’s not a piece of shit.
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yeah, actually it is
it’s a fisher price phone. It sucks. I was massively disappointed with it, the incredible is so much better.
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So when did you use it? And exactly what about it makes it a piece of shit?
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I used it like 2 days ago
and see my post below.
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You say that but the hardware looks good. What about the Droid X is shitty?
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it looks fine
until you turn it on. The interface looks like “my first smartphone”, it’s not noticeably faster than the original droid (and even that is way to slow compared to the incredible), it’s too big, it doesn’t have a camera on the front (which is inexcusable)…. yeah. If I was getting a new android phone on verizon I’d get the incredible 10 times out of 10
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too big? its supposed to be big. 4.3" screen. incredible doesnt have a camera on the front either.
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I know
and that’s too big, especially when the resolution on the screen isn’t any better. I know the incredible doesn’t have a cam on the front, but the x is based on the evo, and it should have one. It’s a cheap imitation.
Also, the camera on the incredible is a lot better.
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how can the x be based on the EVO when they were released so close together?
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Let's see
they’re the exact same phone. But one is a lot better. That usually means the worse one is a knockoff.
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Seriously – these phones take a long time before hitting production. Do you have any idea?
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OK
yes, I’m sure they were totally independently constructed. It’s a wild coincidence that they are both almost exactly the same in every way.
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aaaaand
I’m finished with this conversation.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
and the screen being too big is your opinion.
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I was asked for my opinion IIRC
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and there’s not that much difference between the sense and blur UI’s.
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wow
yes there is. I personally don’t really like either but blur looks like a kid’s toy
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No camera on the front is inexcusable?
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
It's a cheap knockoff of the evo
they should have copied that feature. It’s ridiculous.
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WHAT?
They have their own UI? That sucks. All I’ve ever owned is G1 and Nexus One. They both have stock Android UI. I wonder if you can choose which one you want.
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nope
if you want stock, get the droid 2. Evo, Incredible, droid x- all have their own UIs. You could root it and choose a different one I guess.
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you don’t have to root it, you can disable the custome UI’s
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Well if that's the case then the x goes up a little bit
but I’d still much prefer the D2 or incredible.
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HOW WILL ANYONE LIVE THE 2 WEEKS UNTIL IT IS THOUGH?!
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Oh sweet! Droid 2 launches in August! Anyone want to buy a Nexus One? I’ll probably end up selling it on ebay.
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I would love one
I really wish they’d have put it on VZ :(. The incredible is OK but not as good IMO
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That reminds me…I need to call T-Mobile and get out of my contract. Wonder how much I’ll have to pay for my phone :\
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If it's a nexus one and you're in the middle of a contract....
it’s a “metric shit ton”
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Couldn’t find it on a quick Consumerist search but there are ways to make them let you out if their coverage sucks where you live/work.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
(just root your phone)
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I could, but I’m not quite that geeky. If something went wrong, I’d be pretty much helpless and screwed. Though in six months I can upgrade; maybe I’ll keep the G1 to mess around with.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
If nothing else you could install the skype app and use it as a home phone via wifi. Oh nevermind. I think that idea surpasses the geekiness of rooting it.
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rooting my phone let me put froyo on it 2 months early
I didn’t do it “just to be a geek”. It makes the thing like 200x better and more functional
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I know, I know. But the time where I was comfortable digging around system files on a computer is long gone (circa Mac System 7.1).
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
nah
you don’t have to do any digging. It’s “drag this file here, click this, you’re rooted”. It’s literally that simple. I’m way too stupid to know how to do anything advanced.
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Hrm.
Perhaps a weekend project is in order.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
There's all kinds of forums with support for it
and links to files. It’s pretty simple. But there is SOME risk to it, obviously.
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Home-phone? What in blazes is that?
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Ha I agree.
It could be a good use for an outdated phone though. At no cost too.
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It's not that hard
though I do understand. If I hadn’t gotten mine on ebay I might be more hesitant. But it’s relatively simple and opens up a LOT of stuff.
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Yes, I gave my G1 to a co-worker when I upgraded. She had a question about it the other day and I was kind of sad after messing with it because I missed it :(
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isn't it woefully underpowered?
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Not really. Admittedly, I didn’t do much with it (she doesn’t even have a data plan) but it was snappier than I recalled. Probably because of upgrades.
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huh could be
but after using an OC droid and even thinking THAT’s too slow, I doubt I could use one. I’m a bit of a freak with my usage habits though
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there are other good phones besides the iphone.
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there are
in the same way that there are other good pitchers besides tim lincecum. But I prefer Timmy.
Ergo, anyone who doesn’t like the iphone hates the Giants. SCIENCE
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Hey, the iPhone is an impressive device in many ways, no doubt.
But they were embarrassingly late to the party with some key features (MMS, Multifinder) and iTunes has grown too clunky to use for music management & playing… I don’t even want to think about having to use it whenever I need to do something with the phone. I can update my Android OS & apps on the bus.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the Iphone is great
but the lack of Flash just kills me…classic Apple…it’s like picking the betamax over the VHS just for the heck of it.
betamax is better
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flash will be dead very soon
it’s nice to have it on a phone right now, but html 5 will be replacing it very shortly, and with that your phone’s battery will do a dance of delight.
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ok
go do some research. Flash sucks and is very short term right now.
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I'm sure they could
but they want to facilitate it failing. And having 5 million-odd devices out there that are on the internet but won’t support flash will push developers onto platforms that those devices WILL support.
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I know it's more than 5 million
but IDK the exact number. “a shit ton” I guess
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sigh
I’m a well-informed geek. Thanks though.
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Obviously you aren't if you think flash is a good technology that will be around more than 18 months.
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Um
OK. I didn’t say flash was a good technology, and I’m not claiming a timeframe for it either. But I’m pretty sure it will still be around in 18 months.
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It won't be as big of a deal to not have it on your phone as it is now
it’s going away, and pretty fast.
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it's not a big deal now
most phones don’t have it
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Well then why does EVERYONE say that "DERR THE IPHONE DUSNT HAVE FLASH!!!"
Is some sort of huuuuuuge down side? Interesting.
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I think so, considering how many site elements are based on Flash (screw Flash websites, I can’t be bothered with those on a real computer).
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, it's definitely frustrating
but since, like, .05% of the phones available have flash, I don’t understand how the iphone is expected to have it. It’s a stupid technology, and most phones ALREADY don’t have it.
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I think Apple sets themselves up for shit like that (especially with their highly publicized tiff with Adobe) with their, “It’s like magic, it does everything,” attitude.
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personally
IDGAF about the company’s “attitude”. How about we just look at their products?
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Well, Apple’s attitude can adversely affect their products. Especially the iPhone.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
/sell 2 million on launch day
pretty sure most people don’t mind. It’s not just “apple zealots” either. It’s pretty much everyone.
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Yeah, and like I said, for all its faults it’s still a very impressive piece of technology by pretty much any measure. But it also came with a LOT of complaining, and not just about AT&T service.
I mean, no picture messaging?! Come on.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
yes, that was annoying
but it has that now. I think it’s silly to ridicule a phone for what it USED to not have. Also, I’m pretty sure that was more ATT than apple. But whatever.
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Normally I’d agree but that and that fact you couldn’t run multiple apps are such huge, laughably glaring omissions you have to wonder what the fuck was going on, and if something similar will happen in the near future. Like if the iPhone is inexplicably missing 4G capabilities for the next five years or something. Fixing something that big that late makes me not trust them.
And I don’t say this as an Apple hater… I had an Apple II and I run an iMac now. Love the Mac but there are major problems with how the iPhone is being handled, and I don’t want to get caught in whatever pissing match Apple got itself into, whether it be internal or external. I’ll take a well-done open source OS any day. Bonus that I like T-Mobile.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
meh
to each their own. That’s what it comes down to. The fact is that without the iphone, there’s a pretty good chance that all of this mobile technology would have been delayed quite a bit. Think about it, how many of these kinds of phones were there before 07?
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My point is that Apple tries to "direct" technology
rather than provide the best technology for the public. Yes, iphone is great and flash will die eventually but why not make everyone happy and make your phone flash and html5 compatible….
It what held back Microsoft for years…freaking trying to force IE down everyone’s throats.
It sure seems to be holding apple back...
as their market share grows and grows. Maybe flash ISNT the best tech.
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That does work sometimes, though. Everyone thought Apple was batshit when they dumped floppy drive from the original iMac but it turns out they did it with perfect timing.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
It's like they're a few years ahead of the curve or something
/ipod /laptops /iphone
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compare the early powerbooks with ANYTHING ELSE that was available at the time
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Because that's totally what I was saying
wow. I was also saying they invented mp3 players and phones, apparently.
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Sorry
Overbroad statement…what I mean to say was that the iMacs was not the reason why Laptops became popular like the ipod did for mp3 players and the iphone did for smartphones
no
but they were ahead of what the marketplace was doing at the time, that’s my point.
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I don’t think you are right about this and would not want to own stock in Adobe
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pretty much this
any piece of technology that Microsoft AND Apple hate is in for rough times in the very near future
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I don’t know a lot about Flash, but I always always always hated working with it when I was still working.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
here's what I know
youtube uses 85-90% of my CPU in flash, and 15% in html 5. MLB.tv destroys my computer. And I have a fast computer
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I hate Flash websites… we have an internal one at work and I get so pissed when I want to copy/paste text. Of course, the possibility of me just being lame is always strong…
Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
No, that was a HUGE FUCKING PROBLEM for me when I was working. It’s not laziness. It could seriously cost me two hours of work to have a Flash site for reference.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I think Flash in a site can be cool but it is waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy overused most of the time.
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Less is more.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
None is most.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn’t go quite that far. I’d go almost that far, though.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Big is Beautiful
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Like my hips.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
lol wow
Michael Beasley used “too much marijuana” in the past but Minnesota’s new power forward is maturing and was worth acquiring from Miami despite his off-court issues, the president of the Timberwolves said Thursday.
“He’s a very young and immature kid who smoked too much marijuana and has told me that he’s not smoking anymore,” team president David Kahn said in an interview on 1500 ESPN Twin Cities, “and I told him that I would trust him as long as that was the case.”
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no such thing as “too much”
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by KINGofCRA5H on Jul 23, 2010 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Kahn's lost it completely
I’m sure everyone’s really surprised that Beasley smoked marijuana, but to reveal that kind of conversation to the public? That’s awful.
As a Heat fan
this explains why he wasn’t living up to number 2 overall pick standards. He needed to be gone
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by Newcomb29(EDGE) on Jul 23, 2010 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I think he's trying reassure the fan base
Who are wondering why he just traded his best player to the Jazz for nothing.
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by Giantsfan4life on Jul 23, 2010 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I think he could have managed it without getting so specific
Nothing like a GM that devalues his own assets.
For nothing?
They got 2 first-round draft picks.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
yeah
one top 9 (i think) protected, and the other that will be in the early 20s at best. It was a terrible trade.
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Oh, OK.
Disclaimer: I don’t know shit about NBA.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
basically
in the NBA, you need at least 1 all star and 1 almost all star caliber player to even make the playoffs. You almost never see those guys drafted outside the top 5 or so, much less the top 10. And Jefferson was an All Star caliber player.
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“All Star caliber” means less in the NBA than it does in the MLB. Al Jefferson is a good, but not even close to great NBA player. Getting rid of his salary AND getting 2 first round picks (even if they will likely be mid round picks) is a very solid deal.
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it's really not
I don’t know why you think AJ isn’t a good player, but he is.
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actually I said he IS a good player. I said he isn’t great.
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yeah, actually he IS fucking great
HE AVERAGED TWENTY AND TEN before his injury. There aren’t 10 guys in the NBA who can do that.
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I'm not sure how you can make that argument
Go look at the MLB All-star rosters this year.
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jul 23, 2010 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
2009 all star Allen Iverson says hello
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John Buck
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jul 23, 2010 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Was he being paid? How does it impact the cap room?
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yeah.
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by non sequitur on Jul 23, 2010 6:00 PM PDT up reply actions
facepalm
Al Jefferson was the best player on the TWolves like Barry Zito is the best pitcher on the Giants
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
more like
Al Jefferson was the best player on the TWolves like Matt Cain is the best pitcher on the Giants staff
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ok fine, but the Wolves roster isn’t to the rest of the league what the Giants’ pitching staff is to the rest of the league. Jefferson compared to the rest of the NBA is much more Barry Zito than he is Matt Cain.
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
you're fucking insane.
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thank you
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I'd say he and Love are neck and neck
But I think he’s far better than you give him credit for. You aren’t mistaking him for Al Harrington are you?
I don't get the Love for love.
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FUCK STOP REMINDING ME
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Seriously, a GSW fan...my only hope in the draft this year was for Kahn to screw up...
Didn’t happen but even a blind squirrel…
Kahn’s crappiness as a GM is way overrated
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Really, drafting two point guards in successive picks
Only to have one not ever show up on your team…oh yeah…
He passed up Curry and Jennings…
/cough DARKO /cough.
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who are actually both pretty damn good values at 4 mil per year. Everybody keeps blasting him for acquiring all these PGs without acknowledging that he’s bringing pretty decent players to Minny without having to overpay. Thats not and easy job and if the only guys you can get are PGs then its better to accumulate talent there and then attempt to make trades rather than trying to overpay a free agent wing player.
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
oh my god
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1. I’d take Flynn over Jennings right now. Jennings’ TS% was .475 last season and that was with a ridiculously hot start from 3pt range. When he combines with Corey Maggette next season that duo will still be below average in terms of offensive efficiency. Not many players in the NBA could combine with Maggette and do that. Jennings is also much, much worse on the defensive end than Flynn.
2. Rubio could very well be the best player from that entire draft. Not taking him in the middle of the lottery would’ve been a ridiculously dumb move.
3. The non-PG available players slated to go in that range were Jordan Hill and DeMar DeRozan. Kahn didn’t miss out on much there.
So basically it boils down to drafting Flynn over Curry was a terrible move in hindsight. If thats the argument you want to make, thats fine, but most GMs have many similar draft blunders, and it wasn’t the ridiculously horrible draft everyone makes it out to be. Stop listening to Bill Simmons, he sucks as a basketball analyst. Rubio still has very good value. Perhaps he’ll never suit up for the T-Wolves but if he doesn’t he should still fetch them something pretty solid in return.
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Rubio probably would've been a project actually
Terrible shooter, poor scorer in general, can’t defend his own shadow…
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Rubio
is Jennings + hype.
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Rubio=Jennings+amazing court vision+recognition that he isn’t a good shooter+much better defense
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lawl
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you’re making great points here.
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RUBIO IS NOT GOING TO FUCKING PLAY IN MINNESOTA
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HE DRAFTED TWO FUCKING POINT GUARDS
when he could have had stephen curry. That is a fucking terrible draft. How the hell are you actually defending david kahn?! He is terrible!
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OKC passed on Evans AND Curry. Why aren’t you blasting them?
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lol wow
yeah, why am I not blasting a team that WON A FUCKING PLAYOFF SERIES AND ALMOST BEAT THE LAKERS as opposed to a team that won FIFTEEN fucking games last year?
Are you serious, or just being a douche on purpose?
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He actually drafted 3 point guards. Lol. Ty Lawson too.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
then traded him for nothing
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also
if you’d take Flynn over Jennings, I really don’t know what to say.
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well an argument to the contrary might be a decent start. Seeing as how they both had pretty bad assist to turnover ratios and Flynn was the only one of the two who showed he could play a little bit of defense and not continue to throw the ball at the rim with epically horrible shooting percentages from all over the floor I don’t think its that crazy.
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See my argument above
Advanced statistics (you brought up the TS%, so I assume you look at the others) show that Jennings was a FAR better player than Flynn last season (and yes, defensively by far as well).
I'd agree that the Flynn and Rubio picks weren't horrible
Although, by advanced statistical measures, Jennings blew Flynn out of the water last year. The TS% is the only area Flynn had an advantage. Otherwise, rebound, assist and turnover percentages are squarely in Jennings favor. And for defense? Jennings rating last season was 104, which is significantly better than Flynn’s 111.
Really, two things stand out – he absolutely got hosed on the AlJeff deal. 20/10 guys don’t grow on trees, and if you have one (that’s only 25), you really should find a way to either build around him or get better value for him. I mean, if you are a team like Minnesota, shouldn’t you be stockpiling young talent? That team wasn’t going to be contending for the playoffs in the next season or two, so why not hold onto Jefferson and see if you can get something better for him down the road?
The second item is just a feel thing for me – I watched the Webber interview, and now after reading about the interview where he made the Beasley comments, I got the impression he’s a bit vacuous – I just didn’t sense a guy who had a real in-depth knowledge of the game.
The TS% is huge though as Jennings chucked at such a high rate and so much of his game is based in scoring. If he continues to score so many points at such a low efficiency he’ll hurt more than he helps. I’ll admit I was basing my defensive analysis only on what I saw from each of them last year and I don’t know much about what goes into defensive rating. However Flynn is a much more physical player overall. Rarely are any rookies actually good at defense but it sure looked to me like Flynn could definitely grow into that role while Jennings still seems like he could care less about that half of the game unless he has the opportunity to get a steal to lead to another shot.
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"so much of his game is based in scoring"
wut?
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PPG is pretty much his best stat. Its also pretty much a worthless stat.
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
they aren’t even close to as much better than Flynn’s numbers as his TS% is worse. And TS% is a pretty big part of value.
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
TS% can be just as empty statistically if you don't do anything else
But the point is, Jennings does do other things – you can either ignore the stats that show it, or chalk it up to a one year fluke, I guess.
Here’s the top listing of TS% from basketball-reference.com:
1. Nene Hilario-DEN .630
2. Dwight Howard-ORL .630
3. Marc Gasol-MEM .617
4. Steve Nash-PHO .615
5. Amare Stoudemire-PHO .615
6. Corey Maggette-GSW .615
7. Kendrick Perkins-BOS .613
8. Paul Pierce-BOS .613
9. Andrew Bynum-LAL .609
10. Kevin Durant-OKC .607
11. J.J. Redick-ORL .606
12. LeBron James-CLE .604
13. Ray Allen-BOS .601
14. Chauncey Billups-DEN .601
15. Carl Landry-TOT .600
16. Carlos Boozer-UTA .600
17. Jarrett Jack-TOR .599
18. Channing Frye-PHO .598
19. Anthony Morrow-GSW .597
20. Al Horford-ATL .594
There are some good players, some elite players…and quite frankly some fairly craptastic players. Meanwhile, lets look at PPG (the “worthless” stat):
1. Kevin Durant-OKC 30.1
2. LeBron James-CLE 29.7
3. Carmelo Anthony-DEN 28.2
4. Kobe Bryant-LAL 27.0
5. Dwyane Wade-MIA 26.6
6. Monta Ellis-GSW 25.5
7. Dirk Nowitzki-DAL 25.0
8. Danny Granger-IND 24.1
9. Chris Bosh-TOR 24.0
10. Amare Stoudemire-PHO 23.1
11. Joe Johnson-ATL 21.3
12. Derrick Rose-CHI 20.8
13. Zach Randolph-MEM 20.8
14. Stephen Jackson-TOT 20.6
15. David Lee-NYK 20.2
16. Tyreke Evans-SAC 20.1
17. Corey Maggette-GSW 19.8
18. Rudy Gay-MEM 19.6
19. Aaron Brooks-HOU 19.6
20. Chauncey Billups-DEN 19.5
I dunno, I think I’ll take list 2.
And Maggette is in both
But my point still stands…none of these stats are solely indicative of the quality of a player. You have to look at the whole, and Jennings outpaced Flynn pretty much across the board last season.
well I’d argue that PPG is worthless without a look at TS% in the same way that TS% isn’t AS valuable without PPG (or better yet, pts per minute) Here’s the difference though: If a player like Jennings scores a lot of points per game or points per minute AND does so with a terrible TS% he HURTS the team. If a player like Anthony Morrow has an incredibly high TS% but low ppg then he’s still helping the team. The PPG leader list is going to be an inherently flawed argument for the worth of ppg because the players who score that many points per game have to do so efficiently enough or do enough other things to justify their teams leaving them on the floor. But I’m sure you know that.
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Sure
I don’t disagree with you on those points. But as a Kings fan, I know how a TS% can be a bit overrated (Kevin Martin is annually one of the best at this). If Flynn and Jennings were equals in most other categories, I might be inclined to agree with you on the overarching point.
But Flynn’s TS% isn’t great either (.511) and he shoots 14.7 shots per 36 minutes (Jennings is at 16.4).
I just don’t see the huge disparity there on TS% that would disqualify the other aspects of the game where Jennings clearly outshined Flynn.
An extra 2 shots per game while shooting A LOT worse is a pretty substantial difference. The difference in TS% between Flynn’s pretty bad numbers and Jennings’s atrocious percntage is much greater than the difference in TS% between LeBron James and an NBA player with average offensive efficiency. I get that Jennings brought a little more to the floor in terms of turning the ball over a little less, picking up a few more assists per 36 and rebounding at a little bit higher rate, but I think you’re underestimating just how epically bad his shooting was. I mean Allen Iverson only got even close to that bad in terms of taking so many shots while scoring with such low efficiency one time in his entire career, and it still wasn’t as bad. You might be able to blame Jennings’ age a bit, but I’m still not optimistic about his future. All the R.O.Y. hype couldn’t have helped drive home the point that he not only needs to become a much, much, much better shooter but he also needs to shoot less. I don’t recall a player ever scoring that inefficiently in his first season and ever improving enough to become average.
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I don't think there's any question
That Jennings shot the ball horribly overall in his rookie season. I also know (from watching Milwaukee) that he was expected to be a large part of their offense, especially with Michael Redd on the shelf.
It’s really hard for me to believe that Jennings won’t improve in that category – and considering they’ve added Corey Maggette, there won’t be so much pressure for Jennings to carry that offense.
Seriously, I think you are way too hung up on TS%. I have a hard time believing that one piece of statistical superiority contradicts every other aspect of the NBA game.
/cough ROY discussion on GSOM last year /cough
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Rarely does a player’s offensive efficiency change dramatically with the addition or subtraction of a teammate. Jennings is not particularly great in those other aspects either. He turns the ball over a whole lot and he’s not a strong defensive player. Its not so much that I’m hung up on TS%, its that I’m blown away by just how bad a .475 TS% is especially when you shoot the ball as much as Jennings did last year.
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
He's better in all those areas than Jonny Flynn
Most notably on defense.
And that’s really the genesis of our disagreement. So if you’re amending your argument to “Jennings and Flynn will both be marginal NBA talents in the long haul”, I might be swayed based on the evidence presented.
But when every bit of statistical data outside of TS% shows a disparity (sometimes a large disparity) between Jennings and Flynn, that should probably be taken into account.
So if you’re amending your argument to "Jennings and Flynn will both be marginal NBA talents in the long haul"
fair enough, thats pretty much how I felt to begin with, but Flynn’s marginal NBA talents are ones I would rather have. His rookie year struggles (below average efficiency, bad ast-to ratio, some defensive issues) look like the kinds of issues a lot of PGs who have gone on to be pretty solid players had in their rookie seasons. Jennings’ issue look different to me.
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
jennings
was better in EVERY category you mentioned, except efficiency. His usage rate was only like 3-4% higher.
Also, what Otis was talking about before about Jennings looking better with better shooters around him centers more on his usage rate going down than his efficiency going up, imo.
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Point guards are weird
How do you explain a guy like Chauncey Billups? 5 teams in 6 seasons, most of which were pretty mediocre. Now he’s a borderline HOF guy. Steve Nash’s career arc isn’t quite that unusual, but fairly similar.
I think PG’s are hard to get a read on at a young age – probably moreso than bigs or swingmen.
So you may be right about Flynn v. Jennings in the long haul. But I’d say Jennings has just as much potential to correct his flaws as a guy like Flynn – and if he does his upside is much higher IMO.
Overall offensive rating comes into account there
Jennings bests Flynn in that category as well.
I think Flynn’s going to be a decent player, but I think Jennings has a chance to be GREAT. And if anything, I think Jennings will improve his shot selection (and efficiency) over time.
The basic issue is that he picked two PGs back to back
He could have traded up…he could of picked one and the a non-PG…but he didn’t…he picked two…he picked Rubio because he thought Rubio was the best PG of the draft but wasn’t sure he would sign. He then went complete opposite and picked the safest but lowest ceiling PG in Flynn. Then he signs two more PGs…you don’t need 4 PGs on the team! Just like the Warriors did not need 6 SF and 4 SGs.
You can throw all the advance stats you want but under no circumstances will Flynn come close to Jennings and definitely nowhere near Curry.z
He could have traded up
With who? What deal could he have made? Trading up in the NBA draft, especially high in the lottery is very hard, and very costly to do.
he picked Rubio because he thought Rubio was the best PG of the draft but wasn’t sure he would sign. He then went complete opposite and picked the safest but lowest ceiling PG in Flynn.
Which makes perfect sense to me
Then he signs two more PGs…you don’t need 4 PGs on the team!
Well he only signed one of them last year. The Wolves were desperate at PG in ‘08 and since Rubio wouldnt be coming over getting a young veteran with big upside like Sessions to backup Flynn was a pretty smart move. If you’re Minnesota and you can’t attract big time free agents this offseason but you’ve got money to spend why not invest it in a guy like Ridnour who had a remarkably productive season last year and still isn’t exactly old? Maybe he doesn’t fill a position of need, but a rebuilding team shouldn’t be so concerned with filling “needs” that they overpay mediocre players to fill them. Based on the seasons they posted before being signed neither Sessions or Ridnour was overpaid. If you want to bash Kahn go ahead and blast him for passing on Curry or severely overpaying for Darko, but few NBA GMs haven’t made similar moves. I don’t think he’s a great GM, I just think all the Kahn bashing is out of control and I suspect much of it is founded in Bill Simmons’ jealous rants.
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"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
It doesn't make sense...
You can’t draft Rubio unless you know for sure you can sign him…because in essence you spent two top-10 picks on him just for the chance to have him on your squad. Rubio may be good but he is not that good.
As for the “need” issue…that’s completely the wrong way to do it…it’s what the Warriors have done for years…let’s pick up the best athletes/players for the same positions and work out the rest later. In the NBA, you need a superstar, a few above average players, and then complementary players. For example: See OKC and Portland (and NO before David West and Tyson Chandler forgot they were basketball players)
You can’t draft Rubio unless you know for sure you can sign him.
Yes you can. He was an extremely high value pick there. He probably had the highest ceiling of any player in the draft, and at that point he probably had the highest “floor” as well. Teams have drafted players and left them overseas fairly often. Usually they aren’t as high profile as Rubio, but he still has great value whether its as a player or just the ability to trade his rights later.
As for the "need" issue…that’s completely the wrong way to do it…it’s what the Warriors have done for years…let’s pick up the best athletes/players for the same positions and work out the rest later.
Except the wolves aren’t getting the best “athletes.” They are targetting the best bargains willing to come to Minnesota. Few teams get really really good without a little draft lottery luck to land them a franchise player. (see your examples OKC and Portland) That type of player doesn’t exist on the TWolves current roster and it didn’t exist on their team before they traded Jefferson either. But if they get lucky in the Harrison Barnes sweepstakes or Rubio comes over eventually and is that type of player then they’ll have assets like Sessions or Ridnour who are very tradable.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
You can’t gamble with your first rounders (esp. top 10) picks like that…Draft is the only way a bad team gets better in the NBA. First rounders are expected to start and have a big impact on the team…if you don’t get that type of player…your team will continue to suck
If Kahn was even sensible he would have picked up Curry (best signable) and DeRozan (best non-PG) left…you wouldn’t like to have those two rather than Rubio and Flynn…this isn’t a situation where hindsight plays a role…people groaned when it happened!
You can’t gamble with your first rounders (esp. top 10) picks like that
NEWS FLASH: about 70-80% of the teams in the top 10 each year are taking a gamble with their pick.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
They make educated guesses as to talent..
But don’t gamble with not being able to sign the guy at all
ok but they make bigger gambles with talent than Kahn made.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Not enough you can't sign the person..
He could be Michael Jordan but if you can’t sign if…it doesn’t matter.
Who has made bigger gambles with talent than Kahn?
Are you david kahn?
that would explain a lot
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Are you Bill Simmons? That would explain a lot
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
EPIC COMEBACK!
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That actually wasn't a terrible comeback.
Bill Simmons is way too narrow-minded when it comes to denouncing Kahn, who, incidentally, I believe is a pretty shitty GM.
"Thank you, Coach (Theus). I'm about to kill y'all this half." --DeMarcus Cousins
Um what exactly has he said about Kahn that you think is unfair?
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I don't think you can stash away top-10 picks
Like you can with players later in the first round. Waiting three years for a guy, when your team already isn’t very good, is just a waste. There’s still some serious questions revolving around whether Rubio will want to play in Minny, and the longer he’s gone, the more his trade value diminishes.
Someone mentioned that if you’re taking Rubio that high, you have to have an assurance he’s coming over. Kahn dropped the ball on that – hell, I think everyone knew he wouldn’t report for any team lower than Sacramento in that draft.
If you’re a team as far away from contention as Minnesota and you feel that Rubio is the only true impact player on the board why wouldn’t you? Yea he didn’t evaluate Curry very well, but that seems like the only truly terrible move he made in the draft that year in much the same way that signing Darko is really the only really bad move he made this offseason. If he continues to have one bad move per offseason then he should eventually be fired, but its a little early to start calling him the worst GM in the league. Each year most GMs miss out on a player better than the one they draft. OKC took Harden over Curry AND Evans, but for some reason that pick isn’t judged nearly as critically. Sure they’ve made some other fantastic moves like the Westbrook pick, but I suspect lucking into Kevin Durant covers up a lot.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
They didn't pick up Evans or Curry
because they already had Westbrook and Durant! Harden fits in to their team perfectly.
Drafting 2 PGs with the 5 and 6 picks and one of those not signing is one of many reasons why Minn. is still not in contention.
Really
You think Kahn would have drafted Rubio if he thought for sure he’d have to wait 3 years?
I’m guessing he gambled that the allure of playing in the NBA would be too much for Rubio to resist and lost the bet.
Let me put it this way – I have my doubts that Rubio is going to ever play for Minnesota. And I have my doubts that Kahn will trade him and get the value he could have gotten choosing another player in that spot.
You think Kahn would have drafted Rubio if he thought for sure he’d have to wait 3 years?
thought for sure? no way. I dont know what gave you that impression. But considering Rubio’s talent the reward was worth the risk to him. It hasn’t worked out. I don’t see how thats much different than drafting a huge upside player with a very low floor. If he’d passed on Rubio there who would he have taken? I really doubt he’d take two PGs if there was no chance one was staying overseas and he obviously had Flynn graded higher than Curry. So that leaves DeMarr DeRozan and Jordan Hill? You don’t think he can trade Rubio now for a player like that? Like I said before, passing on Curry was his biggest sin in that draft and its a big one, but its not like he made multiple mistakes
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
I think our only disagreement
Is in taking that chance with a top-10 pick.
Honestly, I think Rubio is a prick. If you put your name in for the draft, prepare to go play for whoever picks you. If you aren’t man enough to want to play for anyone that picks you after the top-4 picks, then go play in Europe until you’re sure you’ll go that high.
I agree, but considering his talent I would’ve called his bluff and taken him too. He still has the ability to be the best player in that draft class. Honestly I thought the Flynn over Curry pick was stupid at the time, but as a Warriors fan it made me very happy. I’ve disliked Jennings’ game since well before the draft so I’m probably biased against him, but I still think I’d rather have Flynn.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
yea it was terrible
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
He could very well be a genius
I’m just not seeing it (yet). If he can find a way to finagle a good player with the trade exception he received, and does some damage with those 2 first rounders, I’ll look at that trade much differently.
yea, its much like the Pau Gasol trade that was judged by many far too criticaly and far too early. It was bashed for so long that a lot of people still fail to recognize that the Grizzlies may have helped themselves almost as much as they helped the Lakers. I guess the main difference is that Pau Gasol was a great player while Jefferson is only a good one.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Now you really lost me
The Paul Gasol was horrible because the Memphis GM only solicited offers from the Lakers! After the trade was announced, the GMs for the Spurs, Mavs, and a host of others teams were flabbergasted that they did not get a chance to bid.
What could the Spurs and Mavs have offered that was better?
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
I’m asking you to come up with one. Neither of them had a young center as good as Marc Gasol to offer in return. I don’t think either of them could’ve offered a giant expiring contract like Bown either.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
The problem with the Gasol trade
Is that Wallace probably could have (and should have) gotten more for Gasol, who was already recognized as an upper-echelon player in the league.
And I still don’t get why you’d even want to get rid of a young Pau Gasol? Why can’t you build around that guy??
like I said Pau was a great player while Jefferson is only a good one. But if the reports that Pau was growing increasingly unhappy in Memphis and the chances of competing before he reaches free agency are slim then I can see the case for dealing him. When you look at all the players and all the cap room they got, it really wasn’t an awful trade.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
We will probably never know the truth
And there’s plenty of conspiracy theory that Jerry West pulled the strings on that one to help the Lakers.
But it’s pretty well documented that Gasol wasn’t really shopped around the league. And with a guy like that, I think you’d want to make sure EVERYONE knew he was available before pulling the trigger.
See, I think there’s a possibility that the Jefferson and Gasol trades can still be “bad” trades, even if you get decent return. The question’s still going to be “did you get ALL that you could have?”
There’s an interesting article about this particular trade (the Grizzlies owner even somewhat questioned the trade):
no, he is not a genius
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No, it's really not
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please tell me you aren’t citing the Al Jefferson trade as evidence that Kahn is a BAD GM. The TWolves were going nowhere with Love and Jefferson trying to coexist in the frontcourt. Recognizing that Love is the much better player is worthy of some recognition at least. And then managing to dump an albatross contract AND get 2 first round picks? Thats a pretty good deal. I’m not sure that Corey Maggette isn’t a better basketball player right now than Al Jefferson. Like Jefferson he rebounds his position well and scores at a pretty high rate while playing almost no defense. But Maggette gets his points amazingly efficiently while Jefferson is well below average there. The Warriors didn’t get cap room when they unloaded Maggette. They didn’t even get all expiring money. And they certainly didn’t get two first round picks. Unless you think Charlie Bell and Dan Gadzuric are going to make strong contributions to the Warriors, Kahn made a much better deal with Jefferson than Riley did with Maggette and I don’t even mind the Maggette deal much. Beasley and Webster are the kind of “buy low on still young former top prospects who have really struggled” trades that a rebuilding team that can’t attract top free agents should be making. Not drafting Rubio, perhaps the best player from that draft and almost certainly the best player overseas now that Splitter has come over, would’ve been a terrible move. Aside from Curry there was nobody projected to go in the middle of the lottery range that Kahn really missed out on last year. In Kahns position I probably wouldve taken Cousins over Johnson but that likely would’ve decreased Jefferson’s trade value even more and I can’t blame any team for being scared off by Cousin’s issues. Wes Johnson projects to be a very solid wing player, something they don’t have much of in Minnesota. That article is crap.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Meh
Basketball, who cares?
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
There was no compelling reason to deal Jefferson right now IMO
I like Love, but I’m not convinced he will be a better player than Jefferson.
And why is Jefferson’s contract an albatross? 3 years at $42 million for a guy that’s only 25 and is extremely productive on the court – that’s a bad thing? Aren’t those the types of players bad teams should be stockpiling? Get talent, then get more talent…then deal your surplus when you absolutely have to.
By the way, those two first round picks are going to be in the 20’s, so Kahn would have to be an extremely cogent evaluator of talent or extremely lucky to pull a player better than Jefferson out of those two picks.
Now, if he’s able to parlay that cap space into something tangibly good for the Wolves, it might change my POV.
The avocado
would have had $18M more. Just sayin’
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But Al Jefferson isn’t “extremely productive”
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
in what way is he not?
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Defensively he’s a mess, and in terms of offensive efficiency he’s below average. Rebounding is the one area where he truly excels…. but you could say the same of Anthony Randolph and he’s not making 15 mil a year or hurting you as much defensively
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
lol
Anthony Randolph DRTG – 108.
AJ DRTG – 106.
Lower is better.
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The more I read about defensive rating, the less I’m impressed with it.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
It's a useless stat without context
Kind of like TS% (to be fair, you’ve noted that as well).
I’d be interested to see the more advanced defensive statistics (from Synergy) that break down how these guys defend situationally (isolations, pick and rolls, etc.), but I’m a cheap bastard. ;)
yeah, this
so i go with what i’ve got
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How can you be so wrong so often in one small string of posts?
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He was doing it unchecked before
but now he has told me he has stopped. ALL IS WELL.
La La La La La!
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Formally....
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WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS FUCKING MORON HAVE A JOB
I would prefer that Sabean run the Twolves.
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Double failure:
he NBA fined Minnesota Timberwolves president of basketball operations David Kahn $50,000 on Friday for his radio remarks about power forward Michael Beasley’s past marijuana use.
The league also fined the Timberwolves organization $50,000 for what it called inappropriate comments.
what about a Justin Morneau type hitter?
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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He's had a horrid June and July, but
Does anyone else think Ty Wiggington would be useful to have off the bench?
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nah
I’ve never liked him at all. I don’t know why but I just think he would be as bad as Hillenbrand
by 49erEmpire on Jul 23, 2010 12:13 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
meh.
As a waver wire pick up? I could be down with that. Actualy give something of value up and pay a contract? Not so much.
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by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
KILL IT
BURN IT WITH FIRE
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lol flying timmy
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iFly is pretty fun
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by ResDog on Jul 23, 2010 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It’s pretty cool.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw this when I was in LA a few weeks ago, sadly Timmy wasn’t in it.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Jul 23, 2010 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I want to try this.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions
just heard that
He was a damn good journalist and will be missed.
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bummer, me too. talk about lolold, though!
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by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
at that age, who hasn’t?
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by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
.
Utter frustration and futility.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Heard this about Guillen
Jayson Stark chat from ESPN.com
Trevor (Reno)
Can I get a Giants rumor? How about answer one Giants question since they are in the hunt? (Weird how ESPN tends to ignore the West Coast)
Jayson Stark
Still bat-hunting, but not interested in paying a whole lot to get one. LOTS AND LOTS of Jose Guillen talk is what I hear on them.
by Rowand's Greatness on Jul 23, 2010 12:29 PM PDT reply actions
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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That makes me feel better
Stark knows nothing
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I agree the national media doesn't know shit about the Giants
but it’s still disconcerting. I want absolutely no part of Jose Guillen. This is the same national media that looked at our record last year and declared Bochy and Sabean geniuses for what they did, so I always take their commentary with a grain of salt.
by Rowand's Greatness on Jul 23, 2010 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
that grain of salt shold be the size of Rhode Island.
BTW how can a state with only water on one border be an island?
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by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes, I said LOTS AND LOTS of Jose Guillen talk
adding a nice sane player who never strikes out and plays gold glove caliber defense should put us over the top.
by Rowand's Greatness on Jul 23, 2010 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Do we get a side of Kila & Alex Gordan to go with that?
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by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
If they were open to trading Gordan before, they won’t now since DeJesus has been fucked with.
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Why not? I mean they aren’t in the hunt of 2010 so their moves should be about 2011 and betond. Say your sending of Bowker as part of the package then teh question comes to just how far down they are on Gordan, No?
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by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Trade Rosterbation
What about Darren Oliver? Dude’s having a good season, although the salary is a bit high. I’m not sure what his contract looks like, but he’d be a good lefty out of the pen if you don’t have complete faith in Runzler/Affeldt down the stretch.
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they should make a movie about it
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Nah, they’d probably cast Jonah Hill as Buster.
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LOL.
I’m going to be a non-paid extra in Moneyball. Should be fun, except I have to pretend to be an A’s fan.
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That’s so cool! How did you swing that?
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I read about it in the Chron, and then signed up at the website they gave. I will be one of hundreds in the crowd (then they’ll CGI it so thati t looks like the stadium is full — just like a real A’s game!), so I doubt I’ll actually be seen in the movie. But, some of the actors may be there while the filming is happening which would be cool.
My favorite part is that they have to remove the tarp, so that it will look like the park did in 2002.
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will be one of hundreds in the crowd (then they’ll CGI it so thati t looks like the stadium is full — just like a real A’s game!), so I doubt I’ll actually be seen in the movie.
…or you’ll be visible a few dozen different times!
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If they even use the film from the day I’m there (there a tond of days of filming, and I’m only going to one session). I’m more in it for the experience. :)
But, I will definitely be seeing the movie the day it opens.
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cool!
you’ll have to tell us all about how it went!
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I will!
I’m pretty sure it will be mostly a lot of sitting around. But, I will have 4 good friends with me, and the production company is feeding us so it should be fun, regardless. :)
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and maybe, just maybe, you'll get to see Brad Pitt
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Yeah I know one of the producers from the movie Gladiator, and they did the same thing when designing the Colosseum. They only built and filled 1/4th of it on set and then used CGI to duplicate that one section and make the entire arena filled. So technically the crowd extras are in each scene in 4 different places
I think Return of the Jedi did an early version of this. I’m not really sure how old the technique is, though.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
One of the attorneys I work with is doing this.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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So you will be an A's fan?
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I’ll be a member of the crowd in a scene from the 2002 season. It could be opening night or during the 20 game win streak. We won’t know until we get there. We don’t have to wear A’s gear, but we can if we want to and they encourage it.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
Let me try this another way
except I have to pretend to be an A’s fan.
Like all A’s fans?
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not your fault
It was poorly worded.
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Haha, I was gonna ask you about this on twitter the other day, actually.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, if I’m aweesome enough, I might get selected to be a paid extra. With a speaking part!
/will never happen.
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I will also be an unpaid extra, pretending to be an A's fan
and thus I won’t be at the stadium.
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Your joke was better than mine.
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My doctorate is in comedy
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Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
I thought that was not legal in this country?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Not exactly
in other countries I can practice medicine.
Ridiculously tight standards here in the US.
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
OT: I went to the Dead Weather show at the Warfield last night. I cannot hear anything and it’s been about 14 hours since the show ended.
Anyone else attend?
Sometimes, there's a man...well, he's the man for his time and place.
dude, earplugs.
get some.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Awesome! I wanted to go to that but (apparently) forgot about it.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I went to the Tool concert at the Bill Grahm earlier this month without taking a pair of ear plugs from work and it made for an interesting couple of hours after the show. Didn’t matter since it was an amazing concert and I was buzzing from the high (figuratively and mildly literally as there were a few recreational smokers standing around me lighting it up the entire two hours).
my dog just licked my package
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 12:41 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
tmi
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Those eyes...
I cannot deny this dog love.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
it’s plant fertilizer…yum
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
/shift-A
Trade rosterbation?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 12:43 PM PDT reply actions
No more DeJesus, a dash of Werth, some Willingham, some Dunn, a bit of Matt Capps, and a few people dreaming of a deadline where Sabes sits on hands.
Also: “lots and lots of talk about Jose Guillen”.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
/ stomache does slow burnign roll with reading the last line.
Threat level that the 2010 Pads finish with more wins than the 2010 Giants is currently at: 61%
Spoiler: Grumpy older Giants fan is Grumpy.
by daveinexile on Jul 23, 2010 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a bad feeling about this trade deadline, then.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
It depends on how reliable you think Jayson Stark is.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
Meh, I don’t really find him to be THAT reliable. But I still don’t want to see Sabean kicking tires.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Not the most reliable
He had Oswalt going to the Phillies earlier this week.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Luke Scott and Will Ohman!
That’s my new drum to beat
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
OT: best way to make music online
"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 Jul 23, 2010 12:55 PM PDT reply actions
My fear
The Giants do a trade with the Indians for Not-Choo.
Adopted father of Eric Surkamp, the next great big-eared soft tossing lefty in SF Giants History!
OT: I hate Jim Rome
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 1:37 PM PDT reply actions
Dude is an idiot.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Way way way better than Gary Radnich from 9 – noon. Also does great interviews and often is good for a laugh or three. I like him.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Jul 23, 2010 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
The Royals have lost their best outfielder and their best trade chip. David DeJesus has a complete ligament tear in his right thumb and is out for the year, according to Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star (via Twitter). He will undergo surgery Monday.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 1:37 PM PDT reply actions
/Gives Up Wheeler and Bowker
DeJesus only plays in 25% of remaining games and Giants sing him to big extension after the season. Bowker goes on to hit 10 dingerz in the second half.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
25%
Plays in 25% of games because surgeon said the injury had healed when it hadn’t, Giants training staff befuddled.
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
thumb just needs to calm down.
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
I wonder what song they would use.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
If I had a million dollars, by barenaked ladies
Except it’s the remix, “If I had 100 million dollars”
*typing fail
Giants best trade option: Bowker for Rowand
by Giant Torture on Jul 23, 2010 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Lol Dayton Moore
That’s the danger in waiting
More lol Dayton Moore
A source tells George A. King III of the New York Post that the Royals will listen on all of their players, including Zack Greinke. As one MLB source explained to Yahoo’s Jeff Passan, the Royals would really need to be blown away to trade their ace (Twitter link).
Why in gods name would he even consider dealing Greinke
He hates his fan base.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 wish these owners would actually get penalized for their cheap ways and for torturing their loyal fanbases. If only the value of the team were based on the winning percentage during the ownership regime….
/Chris Cohan makes $250 million profit
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
Greinke signed through 2012
Anyone here think the Royals are contenders by 2012? If they could trade him for multiple players who could all be helping the team in 2013 and beyond, it could make sense.
"I don’t think I’ve ever heard a louder chorus of boos than when the Dodgers made the third out of the ninth. It was awesome.." - Aubrey Huff
Injured. That and he and Santana are the best players the Indians have.
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by Speedforthewin on Jul 23, 2010 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
ahh, didn’t catch that. I just can’t see the Indians giving up their best player in a trade right now. It seems like they are building a good offense. If anything, they’d trade their pitching.
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by Speedforthewin on Jul 23, 2010 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Isn't there a possibilty he will have to return home and serve in the miliatary or something?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Yes.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone want to see Jonah Hill as Paul De Podesta?
Too Bad.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
the fuck?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope he is extremely pissed.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Will the role of Jason Giambi be played by Michael Cera?
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
Kat Dennings
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
I know Hill is LOLFAT
But he is also freaking hilarious. I am 6’0", 180, but I would love to have Jonah Hill play me
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
This movie should not be a comedy.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Why not?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
There might be funny parts (Beane appears to be pretty hilarious), but it’s not a Johah Hill slapstick comedy.
Also, Sorkin wrote it and it’s being directed by the guy who directed Capote. It sounds like a drama. Unfortunately for you all, I won’t be able to tell you what I find out because I have to sign a non disclosure agreement. Lulz.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
I have the pre-Sorkin draft of the script, if anyone wants to read it (I don’t have the download link anymore).
Is it the draft where Beane is kind of a manwhore?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
IIRC (it’s been at least five months since I last read the draft), there were multiple times where he was mentioned as being with a different girl. This was one part I remember:
DePodesta: “What happened to what’s-her-name, the last one?”
Beane: “Traded her.”
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, that might be a different draft. In that case, I’d love to read it. My email is the same as my username here (except it’s all one word), at gmail.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Thank you!
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I am Tiger Woods
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
My friend is a security guard at the ASS and she’s going to be an extra… won’t have to fake it though.
I just think unless you’re going with a serious doc kind of vibe, humor can actually be an effective vehicle for conveying dry information (or at least making it more palatable for general audiences)… maybe not a slapstick comedy, but a movie with a strong comedic element.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
this should not be a movie
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
well, just like game day
that’s just like, your opinion, man
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
I heard they were going to originally cast Demetri Martin
WTF happend?
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Demetri Martin and Jonah Hill? Is this a comedy?
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Jul 23, 2010 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
it does deal with the A's organization
so yea
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
/raises fist in victory
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Speaking of Moneyball, how did that whole draft written in the book work out for them?
I remember reading it a while ago not recognizing most of the players other than Swisher. Bonderman part of that draft?
Wilber Bucardo: Missing?
They got Nick Swisher, Mark Teahen, Joe Blanton, and this other catcher who now starts for Florida.
So compared to the typical draft class, the first 6-7 picks were a coup.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
shift-A
what’s up guys
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I still haven't seen TS3
Maybe I’ll go tonight. Or something. I probably won’t.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I loved it!
BIG 3: SF GIANTS, NY JETS, MIAMI HEAT
HATED 3: LA Dodgers, NE Patriots, MIAMI DOLPHINS
BIG 3 Players: Dwyane Wade, Brian Wilson, and Shaun Ellis
by Newcomb29(EDGE) on Jul 23, 2010 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
STORY IS STORY DAMN IT
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Long boring basketball thread in there somewhere
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
ban anybody lately?
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
ANARCHY
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Looking forward to Sons of Anarchy S3.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
The new Arcade Fire leaked, btw. I’m only three songs in.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
It’s actually better than I was expecting. But it’s long as hell, so we’ll see. I’ve heard that a lot of the less conventional instrumentation the band used to use (accordions, etc.) are all missing this time around which makes me sad.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Nice
I grew up with too many accordions. Also, I have an irrational hatred of Owen Pallett.
Torrenting … now. Thanks for the update
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
I've got a fever!
I saw that skit the first time it was broadcast, essentially by accident, since I am hardly a regular viewer. So good.
Best part of it was that the people involved was trying so hard not to laugh
while Ferrell and Walken were dead-panning it…one of the greatest SNL skits ever
Polkacide says ‘no’.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a feeling I’ll think it’s a solid but not amazing album. I’ve felt like that for awhile. It hasn’t surprised me yet, it’s pretty much exactly what I was expecting.
…and then the intro to Empty Room came on with a bunch of violins. Hmmmm.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Also
Anything else good leaked / recently? Need to make a car CD and have space for three more albums.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
Not as far as I know
I’ve been waiting for a few albums to leak for awhile – The Suburbs, Grinderman 2, Tomboy and False Priest specifically and this is the first one of them to do so (in non-Skype recording quality).
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
But my five favorite albums of the year are...
High Violet, The Archandroid, Jonsi – Go, Sleigh Bells – Treats and Villagers – Becoming a Jackal.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
♥ High Violet ♥
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Darn
I’m officially banned from putting African music on the car CDs, and that’s all I’ve been downloading the last couple weeks.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
Oh wait
the new Sun Kil Moon came out the other day, but it’s a slow acoustic album so it might not be great for driving.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I like SKM
But he’s been putting out the same album for a long while now. Ghosts of the Great Highway kicked my ass though.
You check out the new Books?
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
Admiral Fell Promises honestly doesn't sound much like Ghosts or April at all
It’s just him with an acoustic guitar doing some honestly pretty incredible flamenco-y stuff. There’s none of the feedback, extended jam type stuff that’s his forté.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
It’s good though! I really like it!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I'm actually speaking through a time warp from the late 90s
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
Rome is?
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
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT EM?
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
Arise, Fair Sun, and Kil the Envious Moon
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
OK
Just finished listening.
It was way better than I was expecting going in. It’s going to take a few listens to really sink in. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) was a surprise – a synth pop club anthem type thing with Regine on lead vocals that ruled.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Sab should be working a deal for Rowand. Even if the Giants have to eat the majority of his contract. Let’s get a couple A A prospects and let the young kids take over. Don’t touch the pitching and see if we can get a little help from AAA. We lose nothing in jettisoning Rowand. We have equivalent hitters right now on the team and in AAA. They are also better fielders.
by Longtimewaiting on Jul 23, 2010 2:23 PM PDT reply actions
3.5... felt a little bigger than that
(TWSS)
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
3.5?
Jeez. How did anybody feel that?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
It was just barely bigger than a gust of wind or a truck for me to even think “earthquake.” My co-worker insisted it was a truck.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m always surprised when anybody can even feel anything smaller than a 4. I’m like wtf?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I fart with more seismic force than a 3.5.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Ray Ratto makes a 3.5 just by not putting on his pants in the morning.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
The he makes at least a 4.0 when he squeezes out a deuce
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
Ratto has never squeezed out anything smaller than a quatre.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Okay, yeah, I felt that too. Quick jolt here in the Western “Don’t You Dare Cal It NOPA” Addition.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Heh
My area is now called SOPA. Fucking retarded mini-neighborhoods.
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South of Palo Alto?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Um, yes
It’s a hip new “neighborhood” which is between the Panhandle, Haight, Masonic, and Divis. For god sakes it two fucking blocks wide.
I also can’t stand people who live in the Haight and claim they live in Cole Valley.
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I used to live at Fell and Stanyan and they called that Cole Valley
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WTF
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I had a friend who lived at Waller & Cole and claimed Cole Valley. Also, she’s an A’s fan.
NOPA really pisses me off. It’s a pretty blatant attempt to get white pussies who’re scared of black neighborhoods to buy homes.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Indeed, but by my assessment it's around 70% white
But damn, there are some nice houses there. Probably the best collection of Victorians in the City. Fucking Fillmore redevelopment project.
My favorite though “Zen Valley” (Hayes Valley near the Zen center)
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The Divis corridor in fairly white but Western Addition is historically and currently Black.
It’s a great neighborhood and always has been… that’s why it pisses me off that realtors are trying to rename part of it and distance themselves from such a rich area.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Well
It’s better than what they were doing to the neighborhood in the 60s…
I live down at Masonic and Oak, and I’m shocked by the amount of new, mostly white, people moving to the area where I am. I am, to be fair, one of them, but it’s a stark change from the neighborhood I knew when I was growing up. Also, I’m a bit more heartened that the people moving into “NOPA” are largely younger professionals with a bit more of a connection to the city than those that have recently flocked to the Mission. Not the ones buying, but the renters.
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check out the census data for the last few decades
SF populace has changed an awful lot from 1970 – 2010
yeah
way more hot asian girls now
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In Berkeley
I heard my house shake, but I didn’t feel anything.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
I’m in SF, and I definitely felt it.
I moved here a few years ago, and I still haven’t experienced much in terms of earthquakes. I know I’m going to freak out at the first remotely serious one. Even this brief little shake got me a bit nervous.
by Seasick fish on Jul 23, 2010 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
There are plenty of places online that will help you disaster proof your home. Easy stuff you can do, and what to pack in a disaster kit. I highly recommend doing so. Gives you peace of mind and could save your life, or at least make it more bearable after an ’event."
When the big fire hit up the street, we were glad we had everything (insurance papers, medical papers etc) all in one easy to evacuate bag. We were able to load up the cars, move them out of harms way, and come back and help extinguish sparks.
Felt it in Pacifica
Heard a loud boom followed by a couple seconds of shaking. Though now, I’m more shocked that we are appear to be getting sunshine on consecutive days.
Bowkermania is running wild over the PCL, brother.
by rightcenterfielder on Jul 23, 2010 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
My standards of ‘sunshine’ have become pretty low in last week. There’s still plenty of fog here, but for a brief moment, I saw blue sky and there were even shadows on the ground. Time to break out the shorts!
Bowkermania is running wild over the PCL, brother.
by rightcenterfielder on Jul 23, 2010 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Anybody just feel an earthquake?
Outer Richmond area…
I didn’t feel a thing in San Rafael.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
ANYONE ELSE IN FRESNO FEEL THE BORING?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
For the Kurt Suzuki fans out there...
susanslusser The Chronicle has learned approx. figures on the Suzuki deal: $16M guaranteed, $25-26M if option vests for 2014.
"I AIN'T HAVIN IT." - Buster Posey
Giants Twitter feed
With 21 RBI in July, Buster Posey is 4th Giants rookie to drive in more than 20 runs in one calendar month since team moved to SF in 1958
Wilber Bucardo: Missing?
he better win player of the month
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
benched today!
15-game hitting streak not enough to earn him a start vs. the wild righty
or maybe
given a day of rest? OMG THEYRE RESTING A CATCHER!
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
NOOOOOOO!!!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Shift-A
Holy shit the comments.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
I now understand why my off topic overnight adventures make everyone crazy.
Buser Posey: He knows the rules!
The phone conversation is out of control.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, I have At-Bat on my Android, I get to listen to ballgames old school transistor-radio style.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s only like 15 comments or something.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm so sorry for that :(
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
HEY WE CAN SEE YOU GAIZ TALKING ABOUT US!
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
It's really funny to me
because I already now how the phone war is going to end up, and the relative advantages of each of the phone design, droid vs iphone…etc has no bearing whatsoever on the inevitable outcome.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Cortical implants?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
you will be assimilated.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
You had me at you will be ass.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
So…. the outcome is going to be?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Iphone is going to win
It has nothing to do with the actual product offering. Smart Phones today require flash memory (and larger and larger capacity of it) to run. There is a severe shortage of flash memory on the market because Apple has cornered the supply market.
Apple is the number one customer in the world for Flash memory. Because they buy during both down turn and up turn, they have the ability to go to Samsung, the largest flash producer in the world, and say : I want all of your 34nm flash capacity. Either you give me all of it, or I take away all of my business. if you give me all of it, I’ll guarantee contract volume in both upturn and downturn.
As a result, Samsung told Kingston : sorry, you have to look elsewhere for your flash. I’m selling all of it to Apple.
Apple also fronted Intel / Micron Flash company a substantial up front payment to setup a new fab, and received guaranteed 50% capacity output from them.
TLDR version : Let’s say Apple makes 200,000 phones a month and Motorola makes 50,000. If all of the Apple demand goes to Motorola, Motorola will not be able to make 250,000 phones. they are stuck making the same 50,000 phones because they cannot get flash memory on the market to make those phones. Apple has bought them all out.
The phone war was over before it even began, the consumers just don’t know it.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
they have all the flash, but they don’t have flash
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
you're pretty desperate
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
I am not sure it's that cut and dry
For example, Samsung is starting to make their own smartphones to compete with the iphone. HTC has a pretty good source of flash memory makers in Taiwan….I think there may be a critical point when Apple can dictate this but it’s certainly not there yet…
I cannot divulge more than that
Sorry, I know a lot more of the details, but they are strictly customer confidential. I’ll just say I know exactly how much each fab produces and what technology nodes they are in because I work in front end semiconductor industry.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
/looking feverishly for AAPL shares in after hours market
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
I"ll link an article here that kinda expands on what I said
So — when Apple introduced the iPod, it hit some really big problems ensuring suppy of those hard drives used inside. When the iPod nano appeared, it hit problems ensuring supply of the flash memory inside. In both cases, Apple reached deals to ensure supply, but in doing so nailed most of the available market for the component, meaning competitors were paying more for their supply of components while also being unable to get hold of sufficient supply.
History is repeating itself. Reports from Taiwan tell us that the strength of iPad and iPod touch demand is causing tight touch panel supply, meaning Apple has a big slice of the very market competitors need some access to in order to launch their own iPad (and iPhone) killers.
http://9to5mac.com/apple_has_already_won
Basically, I only know it from a flash supply side because that’s what my job is. However, Apple has cornered the supply market on more than flash memory. Panels and components are apparently completely dominated by Apple as well.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
isn’t there some sort of shortage for the components of newer types of screens, like AMOLED?
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
amoled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEWkDQI0jN4
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by jctGamer on Jul 23, 2010 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I am sure that you are right
but I still think that it’s not as simple as that…for example, Apple picked LG over Samsung for the ipad but that means that Samsung is free to make AMOLED screens for ipad competitors. So unless and until Apple buys from both LG and Samsung…there is still hope
PHONES AND BASKETBALL
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
FUCKING CARTOONS
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Those are called Hentai
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Yes, I’ve seen one.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Bible Black or Prison Battleship?
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
This dude turned into a giant penis with regular sized penises coming out of him. He also had to go through a series of sexual trials before he could turn into the penis monster.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
TENTACLES
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
HOW DO THEY WORK?!
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Giants have interest in left-hander Will Ohman.
I approve
TRADE SANCHEZ FOR OHMAN!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
OH MAN
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
yes please
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Pretty.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
CAN WE GET HOSHINO AKI INSTEAD
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
just cause you want to yell “AKI IT TO ME BABY, YEAAAH” in your best Austin Powers voice
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
They probably picked it up off McC
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 bet you here's where they got it from
Total speculation on my part. O’s LH reliever Will Ohman. RT @MDP23: Who ends up in a Giants at the deadline?
— Henry Schulman Twitter
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Couldn't agree more...
Grant nailed it all. Does anyone else think Ralph Barbieri should be tried for “Baseball Treason?” He constantly comes up with stupid ass ideas, peddles them to the Giants Faithful, and then belittles Sabean and Co. for not agreeing with “us.” He’s like the Glennnnn Beck of sports talk.
Brian Sabean is akin to a treatable form of cancer... just get rid of it before it kills you
He’s a Grade A Whiner. I’m all for sports talk show hosts getting under the general manager’s skin, but all he does is grate.
Gryateballs?
Isn’t that what Posey calls for in 0-1 counts?
Brian Sabean is akin to a treatable form of cancer... just get rid of it before it kills you
uh oh
"There he goes. One of god's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
Enjoy your cortical implant, nerb.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
i dont know what that is. Enlighten me. Hopefully in 300 or more comments
by aaroncallagher on Jul 23, 2010 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
it is difficult to remove
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
It’s easy to remove if you do it wrong.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
No, then it would be hard to remove.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Jul 23, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
here's my 3-way trade scenario
SF sends John Vanderslice to Montreal
Montreal sends Arcade Fire to Athens
We get of Montreal
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
NEVER
How many other music producers does SF have?
My option:
SF sends low level indie folk prospects and remaining members of the Dead to Chicago
Chicago sends Wilco to Brooklyn
Brooklyn sends Sufjan to SF
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
But I'd do your trade
If they Athens in Mangum. Volatile, erratic, but could use a change of scenery.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
FUCK THAT
we have more than enough freak folkers in this lineup. i hate this trade.
Howbout:
we send Girls to L.A.
L.A. send Dengue Fever to Toronto
Toronto sends us Fucked Up
I will throw in Bob Weir just to get rid of Bob Weir
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
GET ERR DUNNNN
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Can you take me Higher?
To a place where blind men see
Can you take me Higher?
To a place with golden streets
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
Maybe not the worst band ever
But definitely the most annoying band of my childhood (and the douchiest frontman).
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
LOL Grant
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2005/11/21/162649/99
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
Awesome
It turns out that Scott Stapp, The Voice of Creed – and, hell, let’s not kid ourselves, an entire generation- has a new solo album coming out.
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
Twenty comments! I spent hours on that.
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 23, 2010 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks for the words.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
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by troymccluresf on Jul 23, 2010 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions
And now that I’ve listened, you guys are pretty damn good.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
the Truxtons?
thanks, man!
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Yeah. Is Dec 21st really the next show? I’ll be living right up the block from Kimo’s by then.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
oof
I think 12/21 was probably an ‘09 show. We’ve been hiatusing and writing a new record, not playing out so much. Maybe friend the band on Facebook for timely updates? If you’re so inclined?
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Peter likes TRUXTON.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
by SF Pete on Jul 23, 2010 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
<3
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I am now a lurker/liker.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Bob Weir is the Eugenio Velez of music.
"I don’t think I’ve ever heard a louder chorus of boos than when the Dodgers made the third out of the ninth. It was awesome.." - Aubrey Huff
you sure? dudes like Michael Angelo Batio have way more vrooooooom….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rutyA12z3Ok
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I wasn't thinking in terms of vroooom
more in terms of trade value.
"I don’t think I’ve ever heard a louder chorus of boos than when the Dodgers made the third out of the ninth. It was awesome.." - Aubrey Huff
John Vanderslice is a really nice guy. His show at Noise Pop was really enjoyable too. And this is not even considering his Bill Gates Must die classic…
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
i’ve heard he is a good dude, and is a great engineer.
but for a trade to be successful, it’s gotta be painful for both sides, right?
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
I don't see why Montreal would do it
I mean, I like Vanderslice, but he’s certainly not going to bring them the buzz that Arcade Fire does.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
s'a good point
I think AF’s HASIP (hits average of songs in play) is ridiculously inflated right now — i don’t think they can sustain this level of production at all. But they do look awfully shiny right now, and you could probably ask for a Vanderslice plus a Jon Brion-level utility guy for AF.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
Oddly enough I saw Jon Brion tonight down in LA.
He did amazing renditions of Heroes and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
This subthread is hilarious, by the by
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
Torres cf
F. Sanchez 2b
Huff lf
Sandoval 3b
Ishikawa 1b
Renteria ss
Schierholtz rf
Whiteside c
Sanchez p
22 GIGANTES WUZ RITE
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That dude from the crappy blerg wuz right!
Kyle Stratford : Brian Sabean :: Toby Flenderson : Michael Scott
fuck.
Also, This lineup looks pretty dicey 5-9
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 if Buster comes off the bench to pinch hit and go 0-1, his hitting streak is gone rite?
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i don't think he cares much
and honestly, he shouldn’t. But it still kinda suxxorz.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Yes.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep
I am pretty sure this means Buster is not available at all tonight. So shortened bench all around everyone! Good thing Sanchez is always a lock to go deep in games.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Does anyone really care more about a 16 game hit streak
…than winning an important game?
Adopted Nut: Paraparaumu, New Zealand native, Andy Skeels
It’s not like he has a 55 game hitting streak or something
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You can’t get to 55 if you don’t get to 17.
by Uncle Russel on Jul 23, 2010 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I care about it.
And really I am not sure Bochy cares about winning this game with the lineup he regurgitated out today.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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 crap this lineup is awful
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Jul 23, 2010 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Grounded.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Although I am coming around to the idea
That Nate and Ishi are being showcased for potential trade value. With their playing time recently skyrocketing.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
welcome to San Francisco, Jose Guillen
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noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
righties can’t hit righties
It could be worse guys. It could be Rowand.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
In July, he’s hitting .162/.304/.162
HEY, IT LOOKS LIKE THOSE TAMPA BAY STATS MIGHT MEAN SOMETHING AFTER ALL
GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.
He's 6-for-37
That’s not a huge sample size. Jayson Werth was 8-for-44, .182/.275/.227 with 15 SO at one point this month , and I didn’t hear anyone saying his career is over.
Burrell is in his eleventh year in the majors. He’s had an OPS+ over 100 for eight of his first nine seasons in the league. Last year was certainly a step in the wrong direction, but he has shown signs this year of regaining his form. Even after his recent slump, he’s still OPS+ing 115 for the Giants, which definitely sets him apart from Scott (78), Nate (84), and Vrrroooom (68). I sort of get the impression that some are writing Burrell off as too old, but he’s only 33.
The defense is a problem. I’ll admit that. That’s where I guess having Nate in the lineup makes some sense. On the other hand, I just have zero confidence at this point that Nate has anything to offer the Giants offensively. All in all, I’d rather see Burrell in the lineup.
Either that, or make that blockbuster Velez and Pucetas for Willingham deal. GET ON IT SABEZ
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
meh
it’s fine if Posey has to rest
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
watch it scores 8 runs
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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
Going to get no hit tonight by….oh…Edwin Jackson. He’s already thrown one. Technically.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Jul 23, 2010 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm so glad I'm playing magic tonight
instead of watching this fucking mess.
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
it is less about the game for me, but more about the fellowship and playing with friends that I’ve known since 1996 from playing Magic.
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
Ahh k.
Good memories playing Magic. Or actually getting my ass kicked by little asian kids. Lol.
Wilber Bucardo: Missing?
I was that little asian kid
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
jctGamer is asian?!?
Next you’ll be telling me Brandon Crawford is white.
"I don’t think I’ve ever heard a louder chorus of boos than when the Dodgers made the third out of the ninth. It was awesome.." - Aubrey Huff
I know someone who might be going to the game tonight.
I feel sorry for him.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 23, 2010 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
FNM?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
we run our own friday night draft with ppl i’ve known from playing magic, some since 1996
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
awesome
I occasionally will hit a FNM. I definitely prefer drafting.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
soooo posey's on a 14 game hitting streak? annnnnnnnnd he wont play?
don’t tell me because we have to protect him since he might be tired… the dude is 23?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
he's also a catcher?
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
More OT: Psyched for this...
http://majicjungle.com/chopper2_iphone.html
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BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE FLASH SO IT'S A PIECE OF SHIT
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
just can't take a joke, can you
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
i think it's his first
he’s started every non Sanchez game at catcher and he started the other Sanchez game at first base.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Ah that’s right, I guess this isn’t all bad.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Jul 23, 2010 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
SFGiants Tonight marks 1st time Buster Posey has not started since June 29. #SFGiants
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
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
The Emperor implemented an austerity program throughout the Empire
He put a coin operated machine on Vader’s breathing apparatus, in order to raise more money so that he can hold more cards at the Friday Bingo game at the Death Star senior citizen center. (Unfortunately the Bingo operator had latent Jedi attributes and was subconsciously countering the Emperor’s use of the Force on the Bingo balls falling out of the chute; curses, foiled again!).
Adoptive parental unit of Ehire Adrianza.
Godfather of Travis Ishikawa.
"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
"I think my role here has changed a little bit. I'm counted on a little more." - Posey after hitting 12-24 with 4 homers after Molina trade
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The thing is, people fear the trade rumors for no reason
As Sabean famously said, “I’m not an idiot”. And he’s not.
If he really was as dumb to make any of the stupid trades that the Giants are rumored for, don’t you think that trade would have been done years ago? Don’t you think there must be some good reason why our rotation is one of the best in the majors, if not the best now that Bumgarner is #5 starter? If he didn’t believe in them, he would have dumped them long ago for the pretenders on the list above of the usual suspects. Instead, we can look forward to years of goodness, even if one or two of them should, god forbid, fall to TINSTAAPP. And we still have Wheeler who could be up in 2-3 more seasons.
Adoptive parental unit of Ehire Adrianza.
Godfather of Travis Ishikawa.
"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
"I think my role here has changed a little bit. I'm counted on a little more." - Posey after hitting 12-24 with 4 homers after Molina trade
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 4:10 PM PDT reply actions
“For no reason”?
We can and have listed many reasons why we fear them. Maybe our reasons can be characterized as hysterical or overblown, exaggerated, etc., but this isn’t some knee-jerk reaction. And fear is something most people harbor all the time, irrationally, too.
I note again
If he was dump enough to make any of those trades, do you really think our rotation would like like it does right now, the most dominant in all of baseball?
Adoptive parental unit of Ehire Adrianza.
Godfather of Travis Ishikawa.
"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
"I think my role here has changed a little bit. I'm counted on a little more." - Posey after hitting 12-24 with 4 homers after Molina trade
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jul 23, 2010 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions
So because he hasn’t made “any of those trades” he won’t make “any of those trades,” which means we can safely say that he didn’t make “any of those trades” so he is not dumb? I am fine with giving Sabean credit where credit’s due, but I can’t give him credit for something he hasn’t done… until after the trade deadline passes and it’s assured that he didn’t do it.
And I am going to guess that “the most dominant [rotation] in baseball” refers to post-All Star Break?
4:20, bros
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
6:20
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
DANKIN YO
"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."
rec’d
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey guys! What's going on?
/auto-defenestrates
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Jul 23, 2010 4:28 PM PDT reply actions
phones and video games with a side of rage
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
there was some good movie talk too
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
And a small subthread regarding the food industry
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Where the hell is this Padres offense crap coming from?
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Wow
Scott Podsednik has 28 steals this season. I did not think he got on base that many times this season.
Proud Adoptive Parent of Jesus Guzman, RHP. 2010 Line: 0 H, 2 BB, 0.00 ERA. CALL HIM UP!
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.
Batting .300+ helps.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
and Alex Rodriguez has 599 homeruns? when did that happen?
/pfffft, junior circuit
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions
This thread is hot.
Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.
so, Pika is in Panama again
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
more like, in a house that had no internet
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
rec’d?
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
HEY, DON'T TELL US TO DO IT IN TWITTER AND THEN GET MAD
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
when aren't you calmer than that dude?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
not an achievement
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
WE LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU, DAD
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
funny thing is?
i wasn’t even in this thread until now
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Looking at some of the "rumors" from Yahoo Sports
Dan Haren available
Cody Ross is hot
Washington wants either Carlos Quentin or Gordon Beckham from the White Sox for Dunn
Fielder can be had for a starting pitcher (Danks or Foyd)
Question:
Should the Giants get either Haren or Ross?
Some one explain to me is Washington asking for crazy value in return and is Fielder available for the Giants?
a starting pitcher? As in 1!?
adois WeLOLemeyer
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I use my iphone to abuse food animals.
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
with all the weed they smoke
it is easy even without flashing them
"Being a McCoven is like being a member of the Green party. It’s powerlessness is part of the appeal." - oldjacket
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys." - Washington Senators First baseman Dale Long
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
HAWT!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Soooo… was there a consensus decision on whom the everybody was a fan of? Personally i’m a fan of Jose Bautista
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Im not a fan of Bautista, but I would be opposed for someone like Burriss
Dunn I guess
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
yea, that's how i feel... although i hardly think that would be the trade
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I'd do that... I'd give up Burriss...
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Cars sucked
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
November is usually nicer.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions
fixed
It’ been November in Chicago this entire week in SF.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
I’ll buy that.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions
huh? fuck that noise, i aint going to phoenix for any reason
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Dejesus with a severe torn ligament in this thumb just like I thought
Season ending surgery, lol royals, etc. Good thing that happend because the last thing I wantedt o see was belt and wheeler traded for him and another ryan garko debacle.
"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."
Fuck you pirates
You better shell kevin correia and make it up to us giants fans after we let you win two games in the season 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."
Go Phils!
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jul 23, 2010 5:33 PM PDT reply actions
I'm pretty sure that the injury scared DeJesus out of Sabaen
BIG 3: SF GIANTS, NY JETS, MIAMI HEAT
HATED 3: LA Dodgers, NE Patriots, MIAMI DOLPHINS
BIG 3 Players: Dwyane Wade, Brian Wilson, and Shaun Ellis
by Newcomb29(EDGE) on Jul 23, 2010 5:34 PM PDT reply actions
HAH
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
ITS GREAT TO HAVE INTERNET AGAIN SO I CAN PISS PEOPLE OFF HERE!!!!!
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
LOL NERD
"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."
nerds are people who say "omg" "lol" "unf unf unf" "swooooooon" wonder who says that here
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
"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."
Bad fucking Ass
BIG 3: SF GIANTS, NY JETS, MIAMI HEAT
HATED 3: LA Dodgers, NE Patriots, MIAMI DOLPHINS
BIG 3 Players: Dwyane Wade, Brian Wilson, and Shaun Ellis
by Newcomb29(EDGE) on Jul 23, 2010 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions
SHUT UP
lol
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions
HEY FUCK YOU
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jul 23, 2010 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions
lol aaron cook
“Quality major league starter”.
"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."
Just saw that
Hopefully mccutchens return tomorrow allows the pirates to win the series handily.
"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: Saw inception last night… yea, i’m still speechless
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Word, it was excellent. Also props to whoever recommended “Following” in this thread — I thought I’d seen all of Nolan’s films
haha, Christopher Nolan is unbelievable in everything he touches, i heard the guy who wrote the script was writing it for 10 years
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
blecch
Dark Knight was garbage. I hope Inception was better than that pile of shit.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
gtfo.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
i thought Christopher Nolan wrote it?
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
hey, that mighta been me!
if so, you’re welcome.
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Adopting Denny Bautista until someone tells me he's already spoken for.
But not fingerless
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Dingerz gland pulsing
"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 padres line up tonight is absoutely horrific..
That line up never fails to disgust me, all you gave to do is IBB agon and its game over. That line up literally is worse than the mariners yet they have the best record in the NL LOL bud black magic.
"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."
Not with the right handed johnathon sanchez on the mound
He takes the word “effectively wild” to a whole new level especially against the giants. Kruk is gonna make love to the “Two pitches tonight who’ve both thrown no hitters going at it!” all night.
"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."
their 4 run inning started off with a gift triple where Tabata (CF) just stood there until the ball was over his head and tried to catch it, then an infield single to 3B, a shattered bat ducksnort double to LF, and 2 sac flies
that good eatin’
LOL PADRES
It seems they do this every single night, I wish the giants could as well.
"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."
Have to say, JT "Nice Piece Of Hitting" Snow is a lot more comfortable on the air now
He’s made some strides
He sounds good now
Can’t say that when he first started.
"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."
#comments says 2002...
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
I know, rite?
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
The world series was cancelled
And I did not turn into a prolific stoner and alcoholic due to the events of said world series that did not happen.
"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."
fortunately, it did not turn me into an alcoholic
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re fucked up in the head dude, i totally remember 2002, i went to an A’s game, got a few autographs, went to a 49ers game versus the Cardinals, i think i remember going to a giants game in october versus the cardinals… but i think they played the Angels? Anaheim, right?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
LALALALALALALA CANT HEAR YOU
"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 get it, is this an urbandictionary fucking thing? wow you're a nerd
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
No
its from south park, nerd.
"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."
exactly my point, u are a nerd
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
How would people feel about
giving Wellemeyer or Joe Martinez the start sunday vs Az, and giving Tim and the whole staff an extra day rest?
might not be so good for the 10 game winning streak that started yesterday
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, fanGirlies--they're all here...
by greatgiantfan on Jul 23, 2010 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
no Wellemeyer please. I’m open to Martinez but it seems like the kind of outside the box thinking that would never happen.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
I am not looking forward to timmy pitching in 105 degree heat on 1pm on sunday
Knowing the diamondbacks people they’ll have the roof wide open with the heater 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’ve been worrying about this, too. I just can’t see them doing that to their fans
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Jul 23, 2010 6:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I doubt they'll care about the 10,000 in attendance
If anything they’ll do whatever it takes to annoy the shit out of tim tim.
"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: Inception
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Jul 23, 2010 5:57 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
i literally talked about inception 20 mins ago, just look up
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
yeah, but his was funnier
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
burn
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Jul 23, 2010 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions
funny, because YOU are not funny
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
lol
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who is currently having a second half renaissance
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Took me an hour..
But I finally read all the comments. Wow.
Brandon Crawford: Your SF Giants 2011 Opening Day starting SS!
I'm gonna have to say yes
I got half way through and said fuck it and scrolled to the bottom.
"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 sucked
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces DP's
by Giant among Angels on Jul 23, 2010 6:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I hear Barry Bonds is looking for a team?
I know it sounds smartass, but my budddy is a DIE HARD Giants fan and literally everyday he’s all “O would take him in a sec, even now”
I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast
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