Post-game thread: Giants sweep the Dodgers, triumph over evil
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 8:14 PM PDT
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Matt Cain: 14 starts in his career against the Dodgers, 0 wins. It was of the most ridiculous stats in baseball. Don’t even look for hyperbole in that statement. When a pitcher as good as Cain goes winless in 14 of anything -- night games, games in May, away games -- it’s a total fluke. Fluky fluky fluke fluke. He doesn’t lack some sort of viscous rival-pummeling gland next to his inner ear. In 2008, Cain had a 2.79 ERA against the Dodgers in six starts. No wins. Fluke.
And wretched offense. But we’ll focus on the fluke part for now. It was The Stat That Must Not Be Named around these parts. It meant nothing. Cain is good. Cain is fantastic. Cain can be my wingman any time. It meant nothing.
So while it’s always amazing to watch the Giants sweep the Dodgers, getting rid of that phantom monkey on Cain’s back makes this victory ridiculously satisfying.
Suck it Blake, suck it Pods, suck it Kemp, suck it Paul! Suck it Loney, suck it Theriot, suck it Martin and Furcal! To the side of home plate, right on back to the pine! Cain’s seven kinds of awesome, go suck it and whine!
Hey, it kind of feels like Christmas. I can’t help it. The Giants swept the Dodgers. The Giants swept the Dodgers. The Giants swept the Dodgers. C’mon, type it a couple of times. Feels good. Give it a whirl.
And while tonight feels like it belongs to Matt Cain, quietly one of the better starters in San Francisco history before he’s even turned 26, let’s not forget Edgar Renteria. While I was waiting for him to completely implode, I kind of missed that he’s been doing just fine. He certainly picks some pretty sweet times for his August hits. He hates the Dodgers and Russell Martin. He’s good people. I’m down with Edgar now. Sorry for coming around so late.
The Giants swept the Dodgers. The Giants swept the Dodgers. The Giants swept the Dodgers. So this is what it feels like to kick a Cobra Kai in the face.
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Way to go . . .
J.Lo . . . in your Giants debut. 0.1 IP, ground ball out.
by NiceGuysFinishEtc on Aug 1, 2010 8:16 PM PDT reply actions
Player of the game.
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
by bigboneded on Aug 1, 2010 8:18 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Javy nice day, Scotty Pods!!
Yeah I know, corny!
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
by rxmeister on Aug 1, 2010 9:08 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
FUCK YEAH!
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
The Giants Swept the Dodgers?
The Giants Swept the Dodgers!
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Aug 1, 2010 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
It's just a plant, it grows in the earth, and if you happen to set it on fire there are some effects...
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
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 Giants Swept the Dodgers
American Heroes: Joe Pavelski, Buster Posey, David Backes
Proud member of the "Doug Wilson for Governor" Club
Fools and Sages
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
Proud parent of Bengie Molina: Buster who?
by The Enchanter on Aug 1, 2010 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
"Pablo Sandoval, coming around third like a runaway beer truck." - Kruk
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
-Kurt Vonnegut
by Classy_Argonaut on Aug 1, 2010 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
The Giants swept the Dodgers
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 1, 2010 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants swept the Dodgers.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
The Giants swept the Dodgers.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants Swept the Dodgers
Vi Victa Vis
by cicero on Aug 1, 2010 8:52 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
The Giants Swept The Dodgers!!!!!!
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
The Giants Swept The Dodgers!!!!!
Worth making my first post ever on this website after tons and tons of creeping
The Giants Swept Those Cocksucking Motherfucking Dodgers!
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?
I am Gallo del Cielo
and I admire the arch of this demi-thread.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants Swept the Dodgers!
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
The Giants Kicked The Dodgers Ass, C-C-C-Combo Breaker
DUBfan4life!!!!
by BayAreaKidd650 on Aug 1, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
The Giants Kicked The Dodgers Ass, C-C-C-Combo Breaker
DUBfan4life!!!!
by BayAreaKidd650 on Aug 1, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
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Sweep Mother Fuckin L.A.!
Undefeated in August!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
by bigboneded on Aug 1, 2010 8:17 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
im so ready for this post-game wrap
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Aug 1, 2010 8:17 PM PDT reply actions
/lights a cigarette
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
/coughs for a while
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions
/puts out cigarette
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions
/wipes tears from eyes
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions
/brushes teeth
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions
And with varying degrees of success!
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
/face turns green
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
/dresses to go/
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions
/leaves with shred of dignity/
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
/sees him at work the next day, awkward greeting ensues
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
/excuses self to bathroom, cries for 10 minutes
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
/is very uncomfortable in the next stall
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
/has uncontrolled IBS and prefers to poop in solitude without all this crying shit
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
/asks for spare roll of TP
"That's tasteless, offensive and disgusting -- I like it." - Droz
by El Brazo Dravecky on Aug 1, 2010 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
/hoarding all the TP
Wait....Why is everybody clapping? Everyone around me is clapping.... I guess I should be clapping too... GO LAKERS!!! I hate living in So Cal
/can't tell if this is Seinfeld or Mad Men
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
My feel good music at the moment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw&playnext=1&videos=iTfqJSBnASs
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
Thanks Howie
I’ve listened to this song non-stop since Friday.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
I’ve just been watching the video on mute.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Booooooooo
That’s A’s music.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
Can you imagine a band nowadays being called, unironically, Kool and the Gang?
Fulfilling your Gus Benusa needs since 2009!
by Giantsfan4life on Aug 1, 2010 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I like how it is “Mississippi 1870”, so band member Mikey Craig doesn’t have to portray a slave.
"If we had signed Guerrero or Sheffield, we would have been without Brower, Eyre, Herges, Hermanson,Tomko,Pierzynski, Feliz, Snow,Hammonds, Mohr and Tucker–obviously not being able to field a competitive team, especially from an experience standpoint"--B Sabean
by seyheystretch on Aug 1, 2010 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
That was fun
Wayne Rooney, 1/27/10: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Man
Green and Gold Till the Club is Sold- LUHG
"If City play a game against United for 89 minutes, maybe they’ll have a chance." -King Eric Cantona
Eat a bag of dicks Casey Blake!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
by bigboneded on Aug 1, 2010 8:27 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Eat a bushel of dicks, Casey Blake!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Aug 1, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Eat a cornucopia of dicks, Casey Blake!
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
Be cut down in a hail of depleted uranium dicks!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
A cock of dicks.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
THE GIANTS SWEPT THE DODGERS
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
LOLDGERS
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 8:18 PM PDT reply actions
The Giants swept the Dodgers!
Feels all kinds of good.
Yay Matt Cain!!
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
I love life tonight. I’m not kidding. These are moments I wish could last forever.
And then I remember I’m writing cheesy ad copy.
I love Matt Cain. I love Andres Torres, Brian Wilson and Aubrey Huff. And those other 21 guys. Whoever.
Point is, I’m full of love. Beat L.A. Absolutely goddamn right.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
by TheLetter2 on Aug 1, 2010 8:18 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Hey! I’m also writing cheesy ad copy!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Have you considered how our product is awesome? It is, you know!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Haha! I was just writing some maudlin phrase in a comment, you’re actually doing it. Respect.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I was looking at your profile
What part of Alabama are you from? I have relatives that live there.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
From east Alabama originally, just outside Birmingham. These days I live on the other side of the state, in Tuscaloosa.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
You live in enemy territory
My relatives live on the plains in Auburn.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
Haha. My parents are Auburn fans. I work at the University of Alabama. There is peace on Earth nonetheless.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I hope you don't work in the Athletic Department
I hear the Nicktator can be a pain in the ass.
/Loves College Football
//Doesn’t hate or love Alabama or Saban.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
God, no. I hate college football. I work for the state’s public radio network. Our office is directly in front of the stadium. I could strangle all those fans.
Nick Saban came to our studios one day to record some voice overs, and I wasn’t impressed in the least.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
You hate college football and live in Alabama?
You’re strange…………….:-)
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
Good!
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
Aw.
Well, I also love Matt Cain, Torres and so on.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I love the whole world!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
I've enjoyed more series than I haven't lately
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Ain’t nothing gonna break your stride?
Proud parent of Bengie Molina: Buster who?
by The Enchanter on Aug 1, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Indeed.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Never Forget
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7oWNTsdG2o
(watch my video too, since I don’t have a blog!)
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
by jctGamer on Aug 1, 2010 8:19 PM PDT reply actions 11 recs
I saw it yesterday or this morning, it’s beautiful.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 1, 2010 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I dare you to keep this song out of your head
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYT4t4B9aA8
Rooting for the Yankees is like cheering the tanks at Tianamen Square.
Get outta town…on the train…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScXXaBu1Ing
and unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your pov I have to get to bed now.
Holy shit
please keep making these. Because they are fucking awesome
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Rec'd
That’s awesome. I’m really glad you made that.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
This makes me angry-happy!
FUCK SHIT THIS IS AWESOME!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Kick @ss vid!!
This vid is awesome!! just watched it. gotta luv it
by Mikaele Ambagis on Aug 1, 2010 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
One day it's Burrell . . .
. . . the next it’s Renteria. There must be a lot of people out there eating their hearts out.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Key words being “one day”?
Except, I suppose, in Burrell’s case. He gets two days.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Just remember . . .
. . . who, on the “guess the next 38” thread, was exactly 1 win off. Weshall see, we shall see . . . .
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Eh, I’m fine with both of them for the most part. I’m not in this fight against you. I just think this “one day” stuff is a bad way to brag.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Burrell HAS been pretty good though...
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Burrell is a Pimp ...
on AND off the field!!!
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
And he's from Santa Cruz County, betches!
Rooting for the Yankees is like cheering the tanks at Tianamen Square.
Perhaps.
But I don’t like to think of it as “bragging”, because I don’t think it’s any great accomplishment to see the values of these players, and that so many have what I see as irrational dislikes of them bothers me, so I speak up for their reputations. Not that they need it, they do what they do, but it would be nice to see them get some love for what they do, instead of being treated as lucky freaks when they perform well and pariahs when they have—as all players of any quality do—a bad day.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Renteria had about 2 years worth of "bad days" before recently
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
But I agree on Burrell
I’ve come around on him, he’s looked pretty ok so far
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
where the fuck were you for the Smith discussion 15 mins ago
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
with or without bondslegend
you are still so, so wrong on this.
by scottishgiants on Aug 1, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
we'll see.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
/end subthread
I really can go either way on the issue
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Yes. It's called . . .
. . . in technical terminology, “injuries”.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Yeah and injuries can finish a baseball career
no need to be a dick about it
by eldingo on Aug 1, 2010 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
And they can not finish it.
So that’s all nicely wrapped up now, yes?
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I think what he is trying to convey and you're not getting is
You like being a dick to people to show how “smart” you are. We do not appreciate it very much. Stop it.
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
lol
tell him, gamer!
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
He's usually right, though.
For whatever that’s worth.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I think you are missing the point.
It is that you don’t have to be smart to see these things. Just unbiased.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Giantsraincroft
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
lol
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
IAWTC
While I enjoy the knowledge and insight you bring into the community here, you present it as such a prick sometimes.
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.
Well.
I see you have managed to conquer your fear of being rude.
If saying what seems to me to be so, and disagreeing with those who like to use words like “prick” as part of their reasoned discourse, makes me a prick, so be it.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
You really have been coming off as brusque lately. The grammar digression in the Torres thread especially. It’s really cool that you are posting here and it’s awesome to have a sabermetric celebrity on board, but scout6 and jctgamer are hardly the only people who think that you have been kind of, well, a jerk lately
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I must have missed this. Owlcroft is a celebrity?
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
John the Baptist
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.
Russell Crowe
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Richard Karn
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.
Richard Nixon
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
He’s Tim Franco
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
He’s actually Celine Deion
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
FRENCH CANADIAN
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 I see.
In future, perhaps I will just restrict myself to acceptable posts—misogynistic snarks and Buster Posey adulation and “Beat LA!” heads with no text. Will that fly OK?
And I happen to be someone who takes the English language very seriously. I am not best pleased with the Humpty Dumpty attitude that words mean whatever a particular speaker want them to mean, aka “idiolect”. Assaults on the tongue are, for me, on a par with cheap sexist jokes. If that bothers people, their botherment is their affair.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
More tactful?
Link up a post of mine where I called someone a prick. Link up a post of mine where I called anyone by any comparable term. People here critiquing “tactful”?
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
More tactful?
Link up a post of mine where I called someone a prick. Link up a post of mine where I called anyone by any comparable term. People here critiquing “tactful”?
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Post fail.
Let me try again.
I am not the one who called another a “prick”. Link to a post of mine wherein I called someone a prick or any closely comparable term. We seem to have divergent views of in what “tact” consists.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
What, so now if you’re not throwing around words like “prick”, your posts are flawless paragons of virtue? If you can’t see how the ‘tone’ of your posts are rubbing people the wrong way, I don’t know what to say.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I like how you went
From “if I have a problem with the way people write, it is my duty to intervene”, to “if people have a problem with the way I write, fuck ’em” in one paragraph.
I was promised lasagna.
I noticed this too but I was afraid to say anything. Dude’s a celebrity, after all.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Meh
He poops like everyone else.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you sure of that?
Maybe he does it while hopping on one foot?
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.
Well, that would explain the disagreeable attitude
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
See, now I know your messing with me. Not enough chair throwing.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
JERRY!!! JERRY!!!
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions
No he isn't
He’s Joe Morgan
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
You don't see the difference?
The “way” in one case is, right or wrong, manner and attitude; the “way” in the other case is grammar, usage, and diction. Those are not parallel.
If someone comes here and says something about “dingers and ribeyez” being the true essence of baseball analysis, one will note the occasional, ah, corrective post; if the someone then vigorously defends their proposition and asserts that analysis (or sabermetrics or whatever term one likes) is just modern piffle and out of touch with reality, the corrective posts will likely take a much sharper tack. Do you find that highly objectionable? I doubt it. But if the topic is instead English, suddenly the corrective posts become anathema. I find that hypocritical.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Good for you, but you don’t get to dictate the level of English grammar used here. It’s not your site.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
What did I "dictate"?
If you’re offended, you’re offended, and I daresay nothing will change that. But if you look back, the post that started all this was simply a statement of the correct form. No comments, no criticism, no personal remarks, no anything but the correct form. I have seen many another here from other hands. The rest then followed from others’ comments.
Though they are becoming increasingly rare, I still occasionally run into people who like to know when they have used a nonstandard form, and what the correct one is. Over on alt.english.usage, people frequently post just to get such information.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Every time I make a grammatical error, I would like to be called on it. No joke.
That doesn’t mean everyone will appreciate it, but I will.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Bah, grammar.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Contrary to what appears to now be popular opinion . . .
. . . I am not inclined to the role of Grammar Cop. Being Grammar Cop in most public forums would be like being the village idiot in the shtetl of Frampol, who was given the job of standing at the village gate to wait for the coming of the Messiah: The pay is not high, he was told, but he didn’t have to worry about running out of work.
I have only—here and elsewhere—very occasionally intervened when the nonstandard usage was one that was at once especially detrimental and also still possibly within the bounds of recovery for the tongue. We seem now to have forever lost such once-useful words as “transpire” or “connive”, but plural data may, just may, yet be salvageable. (The chiefest linguistic ill of our age is probably the singular “they”.)
Taking you at your word, should I notice anything egregious—which I have not yet ever—I will PM you, or whatever this forum can do.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Do you listen to yourself?
It’s posts like this that are rubbing others the wrong way.
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 have absoultey no fucking clue
what the fuck is going on
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
What is going on is . . .
. . . that I am answering Grant.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Being Grammar Cop in most public forums would be like being the village idiot in the shtetl of Frampol, who was given the job of standing at the village gate to wait for the coming of the Messiah
I feel like I’m being Dennis Miller’d
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s what makes them so fun!
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 2, 2010 12:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Meh
Easier for me just to skim by them. Whatever information is contained in his posts is not worth having to machete through the jungle of dickheadedness.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 6:35 AM PDT up reply actions
I like his posts. A lot of thought goes into them. I don’t think that the tone is intentional, it’s just the way he writes. I had a boss like that once, she always sounded angry or upset in her emails, even when she wasn’t.
Osiris, Lord of the Dead, and relief pitcher for the Fresno Grizzlies.
this
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
he makes a lot of really great points. They are usually worth it.
Except for the grammar pedantry. Grammar pedantry is never worth it .
(Sorry Howie)
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
+1
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Grammar pedantry isneveralways worth it.
Fix’d
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
One should pick their moments though. Some people misspell or Yoda-speak things on purpose, some things are typos or “I’m in a hurry-o’s”.
From what I recall this site likes its good grammar, spelling and punctuation EXCEPT in GDT’s and other times of great excitement and hurried typing.
If I see someone who obviously isn’t a native speaker, or is a consistent their/they’re/there your/you’re/yore then/than misuser then yes I will try to correct them.
L33t 5p34k and txt msg abbreviations drive me crazy though, I’m glad there’s not a lot of that here.
It is a quotation . . .
. . . from Joseph Epstein’s Introduction to Ernest Gowers’ book The Complete Plain Words.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Cool. Still sounds like Dennis Miller to me.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 2, 2010 12:00 AM PDT up reply actions
What about typos? You did leave out a word in the 2nd sentence I think:
Matt Cain: 14 starts in his career against the Dodgers, 0 wins. It was of the most ridiculous stats in baseball.
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
Well, jctgamer basically told you that he’s perfectly fine with using the non-standard grammar form but you continued to persist.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
McCovey Monocles
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
by CB30 on Aug 1, 2010 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
FISH N CHIPS
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 GTFO
would you like some TEA?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Not a big tea fan actually.
Don’t like it at all actually.
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.
Came along and saw this with 2 recs
Happy to green it.
We should convert it in the offseason to a fancy blog. Yacht talk!
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.
Indeed. And non-baseball matters are never discussed.
I’d say more, but it might be thought of as bad attitude.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
They are discussed. So? People posting in baseball blogs are expected to know a thing or two about baseball. Or, at least, to be open minded about it. Because it’s a baseball blog – it’s meant for baseball discussion, and that can’t happen without some combination of knowledge and open-mindedness.
off-topicness does appear quite frequently, but the standards are different. You won’t see anyone ridiculed for not knowing too much about marine biology.
I was promised lasagna.
THAT'S A BOTTLE NOSED DOLPHIN!
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 sea was angry that day, my friends – like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. I got about fifty feet out and suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence, he let out a great bellow. I said, Easy, big fella!" And then, as I watched him struggling, I realized that something was obstructing its breathing. From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great fish.
—
Well then, from out of nowhere, a huge tidal wave lifted me, tossed me like a cork, and I found myself right on top of him – face to face with the blow hole! I could barely see from the waves crashing down upon me but I knew something was there. So I reached my hand in, felt around, and pulled out the obstruction.
Nor did you see anyone ridiculed for a language error.
Go back: read the post.
Even the persistant argument that standard acceptations are not standard was not “ridiculed”. My, there are some awfully tender skins hereabouts.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I don’t think the grammar thing is that big of a deal. Howtheyscored is quite the pedant, for example. So is WalrusMan. Wait, no, he’s not a pedant. Never mind. Got confused.
Here’s the thing: there’s a way to use logic to come to the conclusion that a 33-year-old shortstop with OBPs of .317 and .307 in two consecutive years might not contribute to a major league offense in a positive manner, both now and in the future. By constantly referencing Renteria’s success this season in a scolding, chiding manner, you’re making it seem like the people who aren’t fans of Renteria are devoid of logic and rational thought. It’s frustrating.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m just curious, did you read the original thread in the Torres fanpost?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I reread my own posts a few times, post some weird .gifs, and then check back with my posts to see if anyone has rec’d them.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I dunno, I thought it went a bit above and beyond grammar pedantry…
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/7/30/1596533/andres-torres-decisive-battle#43307238
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I mean, come on
Those who feel violently that following reasonable and long-established convention is somehow constrictive of their abilities to express themselves are free to soldier on for their cause, but do need to be aware that not everyone supports it.
This is in reference to using a singular form of data.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Eh. That was like reading MGL and another saber guy go at it. It’s not my forte — pronounced “fort”, thank you very much — but if that’s a passion for folks, there will be passionate responses.
English is a living language, though. I don’t get why people get so bent out of shape when common usage dictates its future.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
See: meymey
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 was jct being “passionate” (before he got angry)? He just told him to lay off.
I was promised lasagna.
I just saw the walls of text and inferred passion.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it was more “extreme irritation” on his part.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Eh Whatever
I just made another video, so that other thread is dead anyway~
uploading right now.
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
Comma between “Eh” and “Whatever”, and the whatever really shouldn’t be capitalized.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
A tilde is also not sufficient punctuation for the end of a sentence.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
He must be from Portugal or something.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Down South America way, eh?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
generally speaking I don’t really care about being called out when I make mistakes.
The problem in that thread that got me going was : I DID NOT MAKE A MISTAKE. DATA AS SINGULAR IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE. IEEE, the engineering society, specifically dicatates that we use data as mass singular noun.
As an Engineer, I follow IEEE.
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
For what it’s worth, jct, your English is generally better than mine.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I iz yelow boy
inglish ok u bai guld watch?
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
Thank you
for knowing the correct way to pronounce “forte”!
by mrs. owlcroft on Aug 1, 2010 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/7/18/1575926/post-game-thread-giants-sweep-mets#42361793
I guess criteria have changed.
I don’t want to seem too sarky here, or personal, but once upon a time speling "whine" as "wine" and not initial-capping sentences were not indicators of prime, top-tier university material.
Just to make it clear, this wasn’t in the heat of argument. It was a civil discussion about the SAT (of which owlcroft wasn’t even a part), and he essentially comes out of nowhere and calls wcw an idiot for not capitalizing and for making a typo.
I generally appreciate when my grammar is corrected. But this isn’t normal HTS pedantry.
I was promised lasagna.
I am a serial corrector.
But I think I can tell a typo from an actual “mistake.” And I’m very glad to hear from many of you that you want to be guided from misuse.
I do too, but in the proper forum.
BTW . . . I love owlcroft, whatever he does.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
birds of a feather gotta stick together
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Man, I really have a reputation.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess I did go a little nuts with that “it’s two words, not one” thing a while back, though.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Like, once.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Likeonce.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 2, 2010 7:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Can’t take a leak in an Arby’s restroom without reading about it.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Not when it spills all over into the other gender’s “restroom” and the Gustine police have to restore order.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 2, 2010 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
You’re confusing “pedant” with “pedo” in WM’s case
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
LOL
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Ugh,
you still do not seem to understand. You talk with an air of superiority, that your opinion should matter more than others. That is the part people take offense with.
I am sorry but “acting like a prick” sums it up pretty well.
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 has been reminding me of another sabermetrician lately, one MGL.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Bah
Man, MGL can be weird. A few weeks ago I saw a commenter on his blog genuinely ask him if he has Asperger syndrome.
I was promised lasagna.
he’s got an unusual background. professional gambler who once owned a laundromat?
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
Who is this MGL and why have I never heard of him?
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
He invented UZR and he co-wrote “The Book” with Tom Tango.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Wrong
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I will delete that comment and hack into cornball’s account and make him reply to my comment instead
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I see this whole subthread went well.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Whatever do you mean?
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.
Well as could be expected, howie. No good resolution, think I.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
omg let me bow down to your genius
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
AsI said . . .
. . . no genius, and that’s the very point. This really isn’t rocket science, and that so many dislike competent players for no rational reason both disturbs and puzzles me. Not that I want to re-start a discussion here of their merits—been there, done that, got the T-shit (and the scars).
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
t-shit
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I think Freud would have something to say about that typo.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
After he finished lining up another rail.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
off a hooker's ass?
Oh, that Freud. Always getting into trouble.
/laughtrack
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
I have a question for you that I've thought about for some time
So you hold to the belief that most hitters will hit around their MLB career averages. I was just wondering what you do with minor leaguers. Also, how do you factor in aging? Just curious.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Back when I did minor-leaguers . . .
. . . I used a minor variation of the basic Bill James formula (about all that was different was some pro-rating of end results to keep plate appoearances constant through the transformation). It seemed to work satisfactorily.
It is not quite so that I think most players will perform at about their averages; rather, I think that is their basic, normative ability, around which their results will fluctuate from season to season. No one can really predict from prior history what a given man will do in a given year, but—if you have those normative values correct—you can make a pretty decent projection of what an assembly of 25 men will do. Even that will typically be off, but not usually by anything like the degree to which individual’s performances vary.
Age will typically deteriorate a man’s batting average; ceterus paribus, power and walks will remain about the same (I read that walks rates actually show a small increase with age, and muscle strength in men remains pretty flat through the 30s, 40, and—many medical sources say—even into the early 50s). But things are not always equal: an aging batter can force tradeoffs with his approach. Back when I was first doing professional Iwork, an obvious case that I pointed out to the Giants was Al Oliver, who was propping up his batting average by cutting down his swing, thereby reducing his power from medium to low. A vice-versa case was Jerry Martin, who felt at the time that he had to carry the team power-wise, and so surrendered batting average to what Kruk would call a yucka-doo swing, boosting his power totals. Mike Ivie once said to me in jest that if he wanted to cut down his power swing, he could hit .800; well, he couldn’t, but more limited tradeoffs of that sort are indeed possible.
While the cheap and easy way to project current performance is to simply pro-rate career stats, probably a better way, and what I used to do, is to look only at the man’s five most recent seasons, or even just his three most recent—provided always that one makes case-by-case allowance for external factors, such as injuries or reduced play time.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Did you ever run weighted regression projections like what Bill James and Tom Tango and others do?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
In a word, no.
As to MLEs, I was always tempted to strike out anew, as I had been meaning to those many years ago when I first ran across James’s work, but what there was worked quite well enough for all practical needs and I never went on.
As to aging effects, I did some semi-scientific things (which supported the idea of 29 as peak age) but nothing comprehensive, but that doesn’t worry me: people who have spent a very great deal of time and effort studying the subject, using high-level tools, have been unable to agree on even some basic propositions (such as peak-performance age)—I don’t have the link on this computer, but I have posted it more than once recently. I am satisfied with the idea that at almost any age till the middle-to-late 30s, most palyers are tolerably well represented by their past few years’ performance; or, in their early to middle 30s, by their career.
I think, as a generality, that people using stats nowadays get a bit confused as to the difference betwen precision and accuracy, something I have written about at some length on The Baseball Analysts. The ability to calculate metrics to three or more decimal places does not in and of itself make those metrics as reliable as the stated precision suggests. (“Park factors”, for example, are a laugh.) The uses of numeric measures—besides starting and, occasionally, settling literal or figurative bar arguments—are, ideally, to help those in control of a baseball club to maximize their team’s chances of winning. Whether a man with a metric X value of .763 is “really” better than another man with metric .759 is a rather absurd argument, and it doesn’t get very much less absurd till the differences are substantial, because all of them have some fuzz on them. (Most especially anything that relies nontrivially on any defensive metric.)
And in the real world of baseball management, where choices are somewhat less free and more constrained than those in fantasy leagues, there are only occasionally really close calls to make. The typical failing of a major-league club (no names, of course) is not being unable to make nice distinctions between comparable players, but to wildly mistake men with high numbers in the “classic” stats for true talent. (But don’t forget that many men with true talent also put up pretty good numbers in the “classic” stats as well as the newer, analytic ones, so that they, too, can stand out, even if for wrong—or at least incomplete—reasons. (Which is why no GM is ever 100% wrong or bad.)
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
In a word……..
10,000 words later…..
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:57 AM PDT up reply actions
SERIOUSLY, hi would you like to read a 5 minute long passage?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I prefer reading dozens of content free one line posts myself.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 2, 2010 7:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, it takes less time to read a long post than it does to skim through a 50 comment, one-liners based random conversation.
I was promised lasagna.
It’s tougher when I have to consult OED every other sentence because I don’t know what ex nihilo nihil fit means
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
Less wear on the Z key as well.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 2, 2010 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, gee . . .
Pika, hi right back atcha — but it took me less than 90 seconds to read and comprehend that post.
by mrs. owlcroft on Aug 2, 2010 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Tangent
I still don’t understand why you’re so against park factors, when even you admit there are obvious discrepancies between parks. And please don’t say SSS, because you supported Torres last season despite his super small sample size and you’ve thrown out y-t-d defensive stats too.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Look . . .
. . . at this. (Since people seem not to like answers here whose length is proportioned on the question asked.) Don’t miss the follow-on link (on the word “examination”) at the end of the parks discussion.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Hypothetical
Let’s say that you still worked for one of the Bay Area clubs and one of them wants to sign a righty pull hitter who plays for Boston or Houston or Philly. They ask you how much the move to AT&T would affect them. Would you still respond “We don’t know and we shouldn’t try,” or would you try to give them an approximation? Or both?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
So what method would you use to do that?
Wouldn’t you at least consider looking/generating park factors?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
An approximation . . .
. . . based on very approximate park factors (because that’s all we have). “Move him from Philly to SF and he loses 10% of his value—understanding that that could be 5% or 15%.” You look at everything, but you try very hard not to confuse precision and accuracy.
And, in the real world, it rarely makes much difference. The opportunity to get men of less than substantial (and thus obvious) differences in net worth for comparable prices does not often arise, and such cases can be examined individually. If Man A is, on some scale we need not discuss, worth 800, whether alternative man B is worth 650 or 675 is not really important, nor is whether alterative man C is worth 950 or 975. Cases where B (much less some C) is also worth right around 800 are few, and other factors, from contract size and length to asking price in players, normally overweighs close differences.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
SUCK IT CLOLAYTON
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
MAGIC
we have it. the Dodgers don’t.
First ever adoptee: Steven Michael Decker, our 2012 San Francisco Giants Manager/starting catcher.
Dodgers fans eat their young.
Yeah we have like Lotus and Moxes and shit.
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
If you didn't like this game
You are a terrorist
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
DON'T LET THE TERRORISTS WIN
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.
Speaking of which ....
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Players of the game!
Kuip picks Javier Lopez.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
dude got lefty out
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Welcome to the Giants, Lopez!
Keep doing what you did today!!!
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Money Down the Stretch, Nerds!
I’m down with Edgar now. Sorry for coming around so late.
The money lies in the RBIs
-- Jeff Kent
by hokysmksbw on Aug 1, 2010 8:23 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
It IS August now!
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.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
MATT CAIN!
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Aug 1, 2010 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
... IS ABLE!!!
… the LOLdgers aren’t.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Especially that Matt Kemp guy.
/Rihanna
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
What a great Sunday...
I went 3×4 in my own game. Drove in the go ahead run. Scored the eventual winner, clinching a playoff spot and taking over 1st place. Met a hawt Latina waitress with a pretty smile and got the digits. The Giants sweep the Bums. And Matt Cain gets his win. Can’t wait to get to work tonight and get in Pudres fan’s ear again: ‘Here come the Giiiiii-unts!’ like I have been the last month.
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
by bigboneded on Aug 1, 2010 8:25 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
You are the man, ed . . .
. . . now, if you’ll just send me your address, I’ll send you your tickets to the Catz/Grizz game. You’ll find my PM on my profile page. Tell me if you want to sit with a particular person.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
pics or it didn't happen
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Oh my god yes
That was awesome. Grant you perfectly captured my giddyness. THE GIANTS SWEPT THE DODGERS
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
What a great day
Earlier today I found out that I’m being promoted at work and then the Giants sweep the Dodgers tonight. GREAT FUCKING DAY
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
YAY!
Congrats.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Thank You
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
So...
A month ago I wrote this fanpost about this 38 game stretch which ended tonight and we all tried to figure out how the Giants would do.
Final record: 23-15. Fittingly for this weekend, beat_la25 got it exactly right.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
I got it exactly right too!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
23-15
Bully
20…optimistically and without any rational basis predicting something happens in Borkland to create my predicted scenario.
Surprisingly the Giants are 40 percentage points and 3 games below their pythagorean winz expectation. This is probably due to bad luck bork.
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ’Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn’t sound right)
by bigboneded on Jun 22, 2010 2:52 AM PDT reply actions
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
So long, kid, and best wishes
“I’m excited,” said Bowker, reached on his cell phone before traveling to join the Pirates’ Triple-A club. “Obviously, I wanted to be a Giant. But I also want to get the opportunity to play every day. I think there’s going to be more opportunity over here.”
Right-hander Joe Martinez, who joined Bowker in the deal for left-hander Javier Lopez, also will join Triple-A Indianapolis at Norfolk, Va. Bowker said he spoke with Pittsburgh GM Neal Huntington, who told him they didn’t have a plan for either player yet. But it’s likely that both will be called up on Sept. 1, if not earlier.
Bowker said he appreciated the Giants giving him a chance in the major leagues, even if it wasn’t quite the opportunity he was looking for.
“It’s tough to have success when you’re platooned,” said Bowker, who was optioned in June after hitting .207 in 82 at-bats. "I understand they’re trying to win now and they didn’t want to go through that. But that’s how a hitter develops.
“I’m definitely thankful to the Giants. At same time, I wish they’d
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given me a little more. But I’m happy where I’m at now.”
Was a good Giant, and a class act.
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
by jctGamer on Aug 1, 2010 8:28 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Good luck Bowker
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
I will miss him
I hope he has a terrific career for Pittsburgh
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.
Good luck in Pittsburgh, son.
Bowkermania runs wild...in Indianapolis.
by rightcenterfielder on Aug 1, 2010 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Best of luck, John
Very classy exiting statement. I hope he does well for the Pirates.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
/sad
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Aug 1, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Good Luck John
Hopefully Bowkermania will run wild in Pittsburgh.
"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.
All the best man
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Go get 'em Johnny!
Except against the Giants, natch.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Huntington said they don’t have a plan for him yet. Sounds like the place he just left.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
by rxmeister on Aug 1, 2010 9:21 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I want him to turn into barry bonds
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
If he does blossom like we want him to
Dear God, that Pirates outfield is going to be scary if they keep their numbers up. A good Bowker along with McCutchen and Garrett Jones? If they fix/improve in other areas, they’re going to be a sleeper team in the NL Central.
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
Platooned?
He was never platooned…Bochy said so!
"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
Good luck, Bowker. Good luck, Joey.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 1, 2010 11:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Rec'd
Good luck, John. Bowkermania will live on forever.
My adopted son is RHP Steve Edlefsen, no longer above Gerald Posey on the catching depth chart!
PEW PEW PEW PEW!!! She's pointing at me
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Now that I see this again...
I think she’s saying “Pow!” ;-)
"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
My fuse for that kind of thing has been getting really short lately.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
The positives vastly outweigh the negatives.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I like breasts.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
is sure seems like
there’s been more misogyny here lately.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Shut up, bitch!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I feel like I just gloss over it these days :\
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
And really we shouldn’t. The blog is growing quickly, and once that crap gets started it can be difficult to reign it in.
Ooooooooooorrrr… we can just start posting pics of nekkid dudes while telling “stoopit husband” jokes.
I’m okay with more nekkid dudes.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I'd really just prefer
less nudity in general. I mean hell, if you want that, there’s 90% of the rest of the internet.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Your wish is my command....
Went to a gay bar on Friday and personally shoved a dollar in some dude’s underwear. Knock yourselves out. I’m all for the new brand of freak out.
Actually, that’s probably a terrible idea.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
lol
fun night.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I got a kiss out of it! From a girl! Really!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I enjoyed it too!
/smooch
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
/blush
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The taste of her cherry Chapstick!
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Nathan Fillion, coincidentally enough, is a bit of a misogynist dick.
He is cute though.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I had no idea. He seems very charming in interviews.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I guess that charming thing could easily be vile seduction.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
There were strong rumors that he called his co-star on Castle a “cunt” and a “whore” and he tweeted this the other day:
If someone says, “…that’s what she said.” I respond, “…to her friend, who was also a slut.”
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I saw them in an interview together and they seemed to get along rather well. Of course, they are actors.
No, he’s Canadian. You must be wrong.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Well, his sense of humor tends that way… I’ve never heard anything bad abouit him from his Firefly or Dr Horrible co-stars. If nothing else, I doubt Felicia Day would interact with him so much on Twitter if he were such a dick.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Aug 1, 2010 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I didn’t say he was an awful person. But that joke is pretty much misogynist in every way.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
So are Lars’.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Especially my riff last night on alien languages. That one was horribly sexist!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
U R SHATNER
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
LOL THE GIRL WHO SAYS WHATEVER THAT SEXUAL INNUENDO IS A SLUT LOL BECAUSE SHE SAYS THINGS THAT ARE SEXUAL INNUENDO
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
“Oh, it’s way harder than I thought”.
“TWSS!”
“To her friend, who was also a slut!”
…
?
I was promised lasagna.
Well, yes, it can be both a really stupid joke and a sexist one.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I'm not denying that
I just wouldn’t really call that a joke. It’s more like a random sentence.
I was promised lasagna.
You mean he is Captain Hammer in real life??
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
I loved the Halloween episode on Castle where he dressed up as Mal.
Daughter: Weren’t you that like five years ago?
Castle: Yeah, but I love it!
Daughter: It’s time to move on!
ok that's hilarious
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
ugh I hate Barrowman.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
boring and plastic looking, kind of a douche, once pooped on people and laughed about it, attracts hordes of annoying fangirls
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
How do you have all this knowledge about celebrity dudes?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I read celebrity gossip sites, duh
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Yeah, I have absolutely NO idea who this guy is but based on your “pooped on people and laughed about it” story, I don’t want to.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess what I’m saying is I find people who poop on other people UNsexy
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
who WOULD find that sexy?
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
.... uhh ....
are you gonna shit on me if i do?
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL WALES
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
i could understand naming a kid Lando ...
as in Lando Calrissian …. but LanTo?? what the effing fuck???
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Howie really needs to get in this subthread. This is right up his alley
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
His alley is busy right now
I should be done soon.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
HIS BACK STREET IS JEALOUS
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 actually could post a shirtless picture of myself.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 1, 2010 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions
/troll fed
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh lordy.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Howie,
if you do it, I will too.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 2, 2010 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh lordy.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Don’t worry, I’m not going to do it.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions
It is a pretty awesome picture, though.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions
i got abs of beer man, dont make me
but i bet it is howie! haha
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I have a side by side cleavage shot of me and my wife from Cancun. I posted in my wow guild forum once. I was banned from posting it ever again.
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
world of warcraft?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Oompa loompas?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions
WoW
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:12 AM PDT up reply actions
k, i didn't want to do it either
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Thank goodness.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions
gross, i'm so glad i subject lined this nonsense
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
So this is what it has come to?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
do not want
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
har har
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
what have i wrought
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
you have started a nightmare, jponry ...
i hope you’re happy.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
THIS IS YOUR FAULT
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.
wtf
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
i can imagine his twitter:
‘havin a bath, a beer and talkin on my cellie lol cant wait for vegas ladies!!!!’
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
LISTEN HERE, well i wont say it
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
u know where i was goin with it
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I’m always confused with how many half naked pictures are posted here (and how much people like them). Like, have you been to the rest of the internet? They’re not exactly hard to find.
I was promised lasagna.
well, jponry, would you be happy with ...
Pat “The Bat’s” model shoot? HAHAHAHAHA!!!
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
MADE YOU LOOK!!
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
whats with the nakeds lately
DUBfan4life!!!!
by BayAreaKidd650 on Aug 1, 2010 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Pat the Bat is a handsome enough guy, but this picture is not cute. At all.
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I think this is just it. MCC is growing exponentially the last couple of years, and while it was cool when 200 ppl in game day threads and it felt like a football team locker room, it is a lot different when there are 2000 people in the same game thread.
I’ll try to refrain from doing this in the future. Of course, no guarantees! My nipples get too hard sometimes.
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
Just twit pic them all.
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.
honestly i am a fan of the pew pew pew girl even though she doesn’t get me all excited or nothing
but she’s a familiar face
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Yeah, I’ve always interpreted the pew pew pew girl as more funny than sexy … but there’s a line here somewhere. I’m just not sure where it should be.
The line should be leading outside of my bedroom door, and it should consist of a bunch of sexy .gif girls. Oh, yeah.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
here's your first one, Grant ...
enjoy!
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Agreed. I think 6 months ago if you pointed out a comment as being sexist or misogynist the poster would apologize with something akin to “Sorry guys, didn’t mean to be offensive but my bad”
Now if someone points it out the poster just attacks them for being too sensitive/not having a sense of humor. No me gusta.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup
Its the whole. Deal with it. Don’t be so sensitive it’s the internet thing going on.
"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 think part of it
is that there’s a generally accepted level that we’ve allowed so far, but we’re getting an influx of new people who see that, and haven’t seen the discussions that have happened before, post something, and wonder why their scantily clad lady is drawing more ire than one posted by a regular.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
perfect example
the 2 ladies dancing gif in the gdt.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I missed that. I’m guessing that’s a good thing.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah that was one was pretty bad. Raunchy bad. I told ESPN today if I wanted golf I’d find the golf channel, and likewise if I want pr0n I’ll go the playbeing channel.
I don't see
how that one was really any more raunchy than others that get posted semi-regularly by regulars without comment.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Maybe it’s becoming a volume issue.
“Okay, I’ve made the white people can’t dance joke before and it wasn’t a big deal.”
“Maybe the 12th time this hour was a little much.”
I chose an intentionally worthless example, but the concept is there.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, really, I just meant: When it was just pew pew pew girl, it was kind of whatever. Then, it was pew pew pew girl and champagne shaking girl. Then, it was pew pew pew girl and champagne shaking girl and eating a hot dog girl. Then it was….
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions
exactly this
and, again, I think the problem is that we’re getting an influx of people who aren’t familiar with the site decorum, inasmuch as we can be said to have any. They just see pew pew pew girl and champagne shaking girl, and assume that since hot dog girl and dancing girls aren’t really any worse in a vacuum, they’re fine to post too.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
it was just a black and white gif
of 2 girls in their underwear dancing, posted amidst many other dancing gifs after the victory. IMO not worse that the one above, but it got like 10 comments about how it was inappropriate.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
what are you doing on the computer??
get back in the kitchen
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Too bad women have opinions huh?
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Thanks for letting me know!
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
NO GIFS IN POSTGAME THREADS
though with this one it’s hard to object
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
THIS IS THE ONLY ONE THATS ALLOWED
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
fucking sexy right there!
mmmhmmm.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Incisive.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
i try.
:)
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I prefer to be on this side of the sweep
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Aug 1, 2010 8:30 PM PDT reply actions
hell yes
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Shotgun Cained them!
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
in the shadows ....
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Nice foto, sega.master
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
haha thanks ...
but i didn’t take it. it’s from yahoo. i thought it was cool.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve heard of yahoo. I’ve heard they are cool.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 2, 2010 12:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm still not sure
Did Joe Morgan play baseball at one point in his life?
Insanity is just a state of mind.
He keeps it so quiet, I can’t even remember. He typically doesn’t like to play it up too much. Real humble guy.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Now that you mentioned it, Jon......
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
Yeah
But apparently he did it while asleep for his whole career.
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.
True story
My friend (who is most definitely NOT a baseball fan) and I got home in the 4th inning and switched on the game. Somewhere around the 6th he turns to me and says, “Man, that guy talks about himself a lot” in reference to Morgan.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I liked how he was correcting Jon on “No, no Jon, that’s NOT pitching around a guy. Pitching around a guy is when BLAH BLAH”.
God he’s so stupid.
This
Nobody puts Jon Miller in the corner. Nobody.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah that upset me. Usually he acts like a dumbass but he had a bit of an ego going tonight.
“Oh yeah, I TOTALLY saw that Huff’s foot was off the bag, you guys were saying otherwise.”
What a douche.
Even if you didn’t see that Huff’s foot was off the base, you could clearly see the ump give the sign for the foot being off the base. Morgan probably saw that and pretended he saw the whole thing.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
by rxmeister on Aug 1, 2010 9:29 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
The thing with Joe Morgan is he mixes very good observation with just over the top old schoolness
I appreciate his insight when talking about pitchers tipping off his pitches, or how the hitter is cheating on a side of the plate. Those are astute observations that lends credibility when coming from a player of his caliber (go back to his stats, Joe Morgan is arguably the single best player in MLB during a 5 year stretch).
His downside is when he tries to talk anything about stats. He is super super super old school, catcher calling games, RBI is the name of the game, type of old school. If only there is a way to tune that out and just listen to his explanation on the technical side of baseball, that would be perfect.
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
I find it hard to wade through the garbage for the few nuggets of wisdom he supplies from time to time.
I had to mute the ESPN feed and just listen on the radio.
Eh.
I think it’s closer to 50-50. Look, there are a lot worse. Don’t make me mention Timmy. Oops.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Joe Buck is terrible.
Probably my biggest problem with the national broadcasts is that they spend a good portion of the time not talking about the game being played right in front of them.
So agreed. ESPN actively tries to not broadcast the games they pay billions of dollars to acquire the rights to broadcast. They’re not shy about this either. I remember reading an interview with an ESPN producer who said things along the lines of “getting celebrities to talk about themselves and not the game(s) is good for our ratings”. Really? Cause it makes me want to turn the TV off. I really couldn’t care less what Eva Longoria has to say about Desperate Housewives.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
You mean how Morgan and Orel started talking about Strasburg during the game tonight? God that pissed me off.
"I AIN'T HAVIN IT." - Buster Posey
How would I know? I don’t watch games that don’t include the Giants.
I just mean, during a Nationals broadcast in which Strasburg was pitching, I doubt they’d just start talking about Posey.
Looking at Joe Buck and Tim McCarver in the booth it’s like having the game presented by two reanimated corpses.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Joe Buck is a dispicable act.
Q: Did you ever make an offer for Vladimir Guerrero?
Sabean: In a word: No. If we had signed Guerrero or [Gary] Sheffield, we would have been without [Long list of replacement level vets]—obviously not being able to field a competitive team, especially from an experience standpoint, given our level of spending.
I think it was mentioned here earlier
That it’s amazing that Morgan is so down on Sabermetrics, when he was one of the best players based on sabermetrics.
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.
rec'd
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
I had a pretty fierce cringe going when he was talking about how if one pitcher loses and the other wins, the winning pitcher simply pitcher better. That’s so silly and wrong that it also defies belief.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
BUT MAYBE THE OTHER GUY JUST PITCHED REALLY WELL
THAT’S WHY THE ONE PITCHER CANNOT WIN AGAINST THE OTHER TEAM. HE CANNOT COMPLAIN THAT MY OFFENSE DID NOT SCORE ANY RUNS, IF THE OTHER PITCHER IS PITCHING WELL
Sometimes I wonder if he ever listens to himself.
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.
Maybe it would be like a robot when presented with a logical paradox
and his head would explode.
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 make so many typos.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
He was in rare form tonight with his whole “Maybe the other pitcher just pitched better than Cain” POV
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Joe Morgan's commentary
I remember an old Rob Neyer entry where he observed that Joe Morgan badmouths the very statistics that favor analysis of him.
"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
How can I go to bed now?
I’m so jacked up from the game.
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
I'm moving today/tomorrow
this series took some of the shittyness away. WOOOO
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
wooooooaaaaaa, bondslegend, details please
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
nothing exciting
just across town. But a pain in the ass nonetheless
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Ohhhh ok, i was wondering where you've been lately
so ur stayin in Fargo eh? And yea, definitely moving is a pain in the ass, had to do it here just a few weeks ago
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Just logged in to say “heh.” That is all, night nerbs.
Crazy Crab despised in the 20th century and beloved in the 21st century. Hey it only took over 20 years, so don't give up hope.
Heh back at you
"Dodger fans aren’t happy when foul balls get into their section, because it interferes with their playing with the beachball"- Mike Krukow
HAH
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Nice.
I like the subtle reference to The Wire you got in there.
Great to see Cain get a win against the Dodgers. I’ve been to three Cain games in person, one a complete-game shutout, and each of the other two a victory. Hard to believe that this is his first. Hopefully there will be plenty more.
Didn't catch the Wire reference.
Sorry for being obtuse – where’s it at?
Proud adoptee of Dick Tidrow the mastermind behind Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Buster Posey and many more. Also known as "The Reason".
He hates the Dodgers and Russell Martin. He’s good people. I’m down with Edgar now. Sorry for coming around so late.
He’s good people. They definitely dropped that phrase a couple of times on the show.
Not sure if the reference was intentional, though.
Yeah, you need to read my tweets for intentional Wire references.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Seriously...some tough teams coming up...
2 @ Col (WTF?)
4 @ Atl
4 v. Cubs
3 v. SD
3 @ Phi
3 @ STL
3 v Cin
"some tough teams"? GOOD, i'm glad!
because the giants have to prove they can win against these “tough teams” or else you can write them off, i’m very satisfied with this homestand, 2-2 vs. the Marlins? 3-0 vs. the Dodgers?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Haha
Was about to type this same thing.
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.
watch out for those crabs too ...
the Dodgers have them.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Fresh batch dropped off by Alyssa Milano
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.
Sadly
I will probably be here all week.
And the veal is not even that good.
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.
damn ...
i was looking forward to that veal.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
So long as no calves were injured.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
WTF
is up with the 4 game series 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.
who knows, definitely seems a lil odd
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
One more time: MATT CAIN!
"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 Aug 1, 2010 8:49 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
thanks for the subject line... gonna have another issue with my brain
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
dammit dude ....
2 fucking seizures in one day is NOT cool!!! lol.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Giants win headline nowhere near ESPN's front page
2nd to last headline on their MLB page. was this game not on ESPN?
by TimLaser and MattyC on Aug 1, 2010 8:52 PM PDT reply actions
ESPN
is like some guys opinion.
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.
/BBTN ranks the Giants eighth in their power ranking tomorrow
/Kruk complains that the Giants didn’t get Fielder at the deadline
Though, during a Votto highlight on BBTN last night, the inevitable MVP talk came up and Eduardo Perez threw Huff’s name into the discussion.
I later e-mailed him a certificate worth 4% of my respect.
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
July now has 32 days and counting
Proud of my Colombian child…
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
SBNation sucks right now
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Aug 1, 2010 8:55 PM PDT reply actions
JUST GOT BACK FROM THE YARD! SWEEP!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
Weirdest part: seeing Chris Cosentino in the bleachers two rows behind me.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
No wonder he wasn’t tweeting tonight.
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
He wasn’t rocking any Giants gear, but the people he was with were… I wanted to say something but then I thought I’d do my part not to make him regret sitting in the bleachers.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I know him a little. He’s a cool dude, and pretty easy to talk to.
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
Andrew Baggarly extrabaggs
Edgar Renteria, after he followed Rowand’s iBB with a two-run triple: “Never wake the baby.”
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 8:57 PM PDT reply actions
I was actually kind of surprised by how not pumped he seemed by the Burrell HR yesterday, so it was good to see him pretty excited after his triple today.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
looks like thats whats happening
by iCANwatchMOLINAneverCLEANUPagain on Aug 1, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
think he was talking about Kaliber
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
You don't understand
Edgar was like baby, baby, baby, ooh, like baby, baby, baby, no, like baby, baby, baby ooh, and he thought you would always be his.
Proud member of the Adopt-a-Giant program (Aaron Rowand)
I am sightly confused by this 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.
The Riot, for one.
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.
Boy, I'm so happy that the Dodgers mortgaged their future
so Ted Lilly can start Tuesday against the Padres.
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
I was just realizing tonight how many of their acquisitions were so Sabesalicious…
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I fail so hard
Kevin Mitchell has a black belt in keeping it real.
by kbsofaraway08 on Aug 1, 2010 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Except it's not. Denver is next.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
It’s so true.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
redemption?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKLADTmXiho
Kevin Mitchell has a black belt in keeping it real.
by kbsofaraway08 on Aug 1, 2010 9:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Edgar Renteria -- Sleeping Baby
Edgar Renteria, after he followed Rowand’s iBB with a two-run triple: “Never wake the baby.”
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
rent wants it to sleep
by iCANwatchMOLINAneverCLEANUPagain on Aug 1, 2010 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Rent was actually just babbling about not being able to sleep last night, Baggs didn’t care.
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
by Scooter Ellis on Aug 1, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe he wants the couch Griffey Jr. had?
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.
Love it when guys get pissed by an IBB
And follow it by winning the game. Especially 8 hitters
Fulfilling your Gus Benusa needs since 2009!
by Giantsfan4life on Aug 1, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the nickname is because of his soft pudgy face, sort of “baby” like.
Have I stated the obvious?
/goes away/
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 1, 2010 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
The dodgers will be 12 games out of first place if they get swept by the padres
But I’d prefer them to split that series if not win 3 out of 4.
"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."
never wish the bums a single win
DUBfan4life!!!!
by BayAreaKidd650 on Aug 1, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's hard to ever wish for the dodgers to win
but that would be unfortunate if they lost all 4 games and we lost ground.
"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."
Holy shit, that was an awesome game to attend.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Wow, rub it in, why don’t you?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
HEY, GUESS WHO WAS AT THAT GAME?
IT WAS ME, GROUG.
AHAHAHAHAHA
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
I can never read “groug” without thinking of The State. Which I watched on NetFlix streaming last night. I can never think of The State without thinking of Grant.
Twisted, and possibly sick, yep….
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
TWSS?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
And just as enjoyable on TV!
Fulfilling your Gus Benusa needs since 2009!
by Giantsfan4life on Aug 1, 2010 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
YES!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
should we
pack our brooms to purple belly territory?
by iCANwatchMOLINAneverCLEANUPagain on Aug 1, 2010 9:10 PM PDT reply actions
I tried unsuccessfully to get a ’What’s the matter with Kemp? Ri-Ha-Na’ chant going… but at least I think I impressed my niece by knowing who she was and that she was dating Evil.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
/crumbles bits of Giants sweep of Dodgers into rolling paper
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Or just look at Ninja's win gif
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 am watching Public Enemies
I dunno what everyone else’s excuse is.
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 am not impressed so far.
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 im just angry at life, and i'm bringing my anger to McC
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
DON'T MAKE ME BOCHY-GRABBING-HIS-AMPLE-BAT-WARN YOU
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
i can say that about half the BS towards the upper half of the thread
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
hahaha, i'm actually joking
but actually, i’m looking forward to going back to ohio in just about 3 weeks?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Are you PiKA’s life coach in the way that I am your life coach?
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
And he's told me to talk to you too
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
WHO IS MY LIFE COACH THEN?
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I just asked Lars. I will report back.
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
i can try :D, tried last night
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I was already asleep, but it was appreciated. :-)
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Routine maintenance.
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
NO HAZ SAD PLEEZ.
Best advice ever.
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
HAHAHA, this is so true, i laughed the whole night
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Wow.
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 crap. I can never say anything that does not seem suggestive.
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
TWSS?
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions
This one is not very suggestive.
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.
Craig T Nelson?
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.
Manhunter is on the TV and Grissom from CSI is alarmingly young looking.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
YAY, MADMEN AT 11:00!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Or 10:00.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
marquise the rat grissom?
by iCANwatchMOLINAneverCLEANUPagain on Aug 1, 2010 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
/annoying Flock of Seagulls music masquerading as a movie score
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I keep thinking of it as being like the first 5 minutes or so of Dream Theater’s Octavarium
On loop
Forever
Oh god make it stop
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Yes, I once listened to Dream Theater it was a dark time in my life okay
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
WHAT DAY IS IT MY LAD?
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 love Dream Theater
But I hate that album.
"Buster Posey" anagram = OYSTER PUBES
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 1, 2010 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw Inception!
Conclusion: good. Possibly very good. Not as good the hype.
I was promised lasagna.
I was going to go see that last night but I decided not to
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Do NOT take your 77 year old father to it
That’s eight hours of my life I’ll never get back
Fulfilling your Gus Benusa needs since 2009!
by Giantsfan4life on Aug 1, 2010 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m considering seeing Predators on Monday.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
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The plot is very good, Nolan clearly worked on it for a while. The characters, though, are pretty damn flat.
We have no idea why anyone does anything. Well, Cobb wants to be with his kids, OK. Why do the rest join him? Do they do it for him, or just for the money? It’s never even brought up. I mean, Yusuf is just a fat chemist from India, and he joins a group of mostly strangers in a really dangerous mission without even thinking about it. Ariadne is supposed to be a good person, and pretty much a genius, but she doesn’t seem to care about whether or not these guys are the “good guys” or the “bad guys” – they just ask her to help them and she goes “sure, why not”. And how about that evil corporation? That’s pretty much all we know about it. That’s not really enough.
It’s still definitely a good movie, and I’d like to watch it again, but things like these, imo, keep it from being AMAZING. I’d like to see the director’s cut and see if there’s more information about the characters there that was cut out in order to skip to the action.
I was promised lasagna.
I agree with all of that, which makes for a pretty boring conversation.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
SPOILERS
SPOILERS
Though, I thought that the whole thing was a construct of Leo’s subconscious, so if he needs a genius to be an architect, she’ll be a little one-dimensional because she isn’t real.
…or did I misinterpret the whole movie?
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Not necessarily. There’s a debate whether the whole thing was Leo’s dream or not. All because of that stupid top at the end.
well
there were other clues it might be a dream earlier in the movie
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Don't the kids look exactly the same as "two years earlier"
And are wearing the same clothes too?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
yeah
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 what convinced me
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
I think the shoes are different, actually.
And there’s no reason for them to not look the same – as far as we know he’s only been away for a few weeks. Remember, they don’t even know that their mom is dead yet, it’s all happened pretty recently.
I was promised lasagna.
I was thinking it before the top. So that totally reinforced it.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
I first got the idea during the chase scene in the “real world”
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
The first thing he always said to clue people in dreams was, “How did you get here?”
Throughout the movie you never see how he gets anywhere (as far as I remember) but neither do most movies.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:13 AM PDT up reply actions
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
A part that I was a little confused on was then the AZN guy got old. I thought he was in the same dream with the wife and the girl? How is it that he got old and Cobb didn’t?
It also didn’t show how he got back to being conscious after that part, I saw that they had a gun, but what about all the kickers needed to get everyone else out?
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:35 AM PDT up reply actions
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
My take on the movie is that what we thought weren’t dreams throughout the movie really weren’t dreams. I’d rather take what I can from what the movie spent 2 hours conveying, and not just subtle hints that suggest it could have all been a dream.
I wouldn’t be opposed to believing the ending where he sees his kids is a dream, but I don’t think the entire thing was some long dream. Sure the clues and possibilities are there, but you could lead the movie in any direction with the possibility of it all being a dream.
Was his wife trying to plant an idea in him to wake up?
Is he just some normal guy dreaming the entire thing up?
I really think the idea of the spinning top at the end was just to sort of get you thinking about what could have really been, brainstorming about the possibilities, but I doubt there was some big answer behind it all.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I guess this is what happens while you play Call of Duty, listen to music, and watch the 1am replay of the game, you start talking to your self about a movie you saw today.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:47 AM PDT up reply actions
He was in limbo, not in a dream. The only other people who spent significant time in limbo are Cobb and his wife (before the movie begins), and they did get old. Near the end he reminds her that they grew old together, and then we see them holding hands on the rail tracks, and their hands are clearly wrinkled.
I was promised lasagna.
According to Wikipedia
However, after the credits, the sound of the top dropping can be heard.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I think people have put too much thought into Inception. It’s an action movie with some compelling themes about human perception. Not a lot more or less. Good but not great film.
I don’t care if it was all a dream. The characters were not very important. Even Cobb.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
That's the only explanation for the flatness
But then, why, for example, do we see him at various points in the movies spin the top and see it stop? I mean, if we’re talking about some crazy dream that breaks all the rules the movie is based on, then what’s the point? That’s just random.
I was promised lasagna.
remember, the top wasn't originally his
it was his wife’s.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
is she dead?
or wuz she rite?
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
But why would she design a world for Cobb in which she’s dead? What’s the point?
I was promised lasagna.
Why not wonder about the dozen other plot holes?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
There aren’t many. Usually you think you found one, but if you think about it, there’s an explanation.
I was promised lasagna.
the physics really bugged me.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
yeah they were sorta inconsistent
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
SPOILER
And I thought that each of them carrying 1,600 pounds of explosives was pretty silly. Also, what’s his face being jolted back to life.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Only matters if she’s alive and built the world for him (a world in which she is dead). But why would that make sense?
I was promised lasagna.
if she was right
about the “real world” being a dream
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
The totem will act the way he expects (top stop spinning) if he’s in his own dream or if he’s in reality right? If it keeps spinning he’s in another person’s dream?
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
no
he’s just in a dream, period. Doesn’t have to be someone else’s. But hopefully he’d know if he was in his own dream. That’s the point of the totem, once you’ve been in a dream in a dream in a dream, it’s hard to know when you’re all the way back out again
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
Here is where I got that idea, see the alternate theory below:
If the top really does keep spinning at the end and Cobb’s reality really is a dream, then why didn’t it keep spinning when he tried it earlier in the film?
A: Assuming for a moment that Cobb is still in the dream when the movie ends, it doesn’t necessarily mean he was in a dream for the entire film. The Cobb we see at the end could in fact be a man still trapped in limbo. This seems unlikely though since the film seems to indicate that Saito and Cobb killed themselves to escape it, right before waking up on the plane. See alternate theory.
Alternate Theory Ivan in the comments below suggests that it’s still possible that the entire movie could be a dream because the totem may only work to ensure you’re not in someone else’s dream. “Think about it, YOU know your totem’s trick exactly so if you were in your own host dream then you could replicate it perfectly. It is only when you are in someone else’s dream that your totem does not behave in it’s trick form since that host cannot architect it so. This is why nobody knows the trick functionality of anyone else’s totem!”
The Giants don’t fare well against pitchers.
I didn’t stay through the credits, but Wikipedia says you could hear the totem drop at the end of them.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
GODDAMMIT I HAVENT SEEN IT YET!!!!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
DAMNIT WHY WASNT THERE A SPOILER WARNING
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
DAMN YOU COOKYMAN
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I haven’t seen Toy Story 3. This site pretty much fucked that over.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’m pretty passionate about SPOILER alerts. I’ve had too many movies ruined by spoilers.
I was promised lasagna.
And when someone goes “yeah I didn’t like the part of the movie when SPOILER the main character died”, that’s just useless and annoying.
I was promised lasagna.
I have seen people put the SPOILER after the actual spoilage.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Can you still do that thing here with the font colors? Making it white or whatever it was so that people had to highlight it to read it? Or am I thinking of someplace else? That’d be good for spoilers.
+1
Aquabats are awesome.
"Buster Posey" anagram = OYSTER PUBES
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 1, 2010 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Were you aware that the guy who draws their stuff also designed for Paul Frank and is a co-creator of Yo Gabba Gabba? If you did, sorry, but it seemed up your alley.
Good guy, he helped my friend get a job at Paul Frank before he left and now she’s designing a lot of the women’s clothing line. He made a hilarious (and yet kinda crude, which is surprising for him) drawing for her baby shower this year.
This is it, if FB will let it display
That’s her and her husband, and everyone took turns taking pictures with their faces, arms, legs, hair, whatever sticking through the hole.
lol
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
she's all, "GET ME OUTTA HERE"
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
kinda reminds me of Ace Ventura II ...
when he came out of the Rhino’s ass. lmao! i fuckin love that movie.
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Stop being so sexist. you slut.
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.
That must be the biggest chasm . . . .
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 2, 2010 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh hey guys
Did you hear we swept LA?
by DFARowand on Aug 1, 2010 9:13 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
could be
its magic inside
by iCANwatchMOLINAneverCLEANUPagain on Aug 1, 2010 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I am drunk off the precipitous exultation of a Dodger sweep.
The Balvenie is calling.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
I bet you scotch lovers also like Scott Atchison too.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Went to Balvenie tasting once. There was a bunch of whiskey, something happened, and then I had a headache.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Which Balvenie? I’m all out of the Doublewood, and can’t really afford the 21-year-old Portwood I like…
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
Hey, anyone else hear about the thing with Schierholz' brother?
Not that it’s any of our business, of course. Just a thing Nate has to deal with, hope he’s okay.
Sorry, buzzkill.
Fulfilling your Gus Benusa needs since 2009!
I read the news article about it. That shit is INSANE.
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 1, 2010 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Umm, I was out of town this weekend and missed this. Do I want to know?
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Well thank god he didn’t kill anyone.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
well, he is a Dodger fan.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
drugs fuck some people up. thats usually what leads to ideas like this.
by iCANwatchMOLINAneverCLEANUPagain on Aug 1, 2010 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
smoke up brother
When the Giants come to town,
It's BYE BYE BABY!
I will bleed orange till I die.
by (_0_)sega.master(_0_) on Aug 1, 2010 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
CTHULHU
TAKE ME OH MERCILESS MASTER
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
That’s not cthulhu. It’s the flying spaghetti monster.
Only McCoven not to get one of his comments rec'd in the Post Game Thread after that Epic win over the Dodgers.
by cybermaldonado on Aug 1, 2010 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
CTHULHU HAS SPOKEN
He will eat you… THIRD TO LAST.
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
Holy crap
(08-01) 20:39 PDT DANVILLE — A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Danville Sunday morning after being detained by a group of bystanders who saw him strike a bicyclist, a pedestrian, two other vehicles and a light pole, authorities said.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/01/BAJ61ENG73.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0vQ2PsRrT
Cainan Schierholtz – the younger brother of San Francisco Giants outfielder Nate Schierholtz – was arrested on 10 criminal counts, including hit and run, driving under the influence and driving without a license, said Danville police Sgt. Phillip Wisotsky. He was booked at the county jail in Martinez in lieu of $350,000 bail.
Dustin Pedroia agrees
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
by Scooter Ellis on Aug 1, 2010 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I've met Cainan
Seemed like a nice enough guy, though he’s older than me by a few years. That’s a bad mistake, and one that will be with you for years.
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.
At least no one died
As far as I can tell from the reports.
WHOO MARTINEZ SHOUT OUT REPRESENT!
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Uh oh.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I think we can also take from this
Aside from I will happily eat crow if Renteria leads us to the post season and gives a WS winning hit, Rowand could go on one of his streaks.
Rowand went 1-2 with 2BBs one intentional.
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.
"Giants sweep the Dodgers" anagrams
STEEP, DOGGED WRATHINESS
SWEET GESTAPO SHREDDING
THE SWAGGER, NOT DESPISED
TWIST EGGHEADED PERSONS
And one hereby donated to the Dodger fan base:
GOD, THE DEPRESSING WASTE!
"Buster Posey" anagram = OYSTER PUBES
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 1, 2010 9:21 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
I like the third one.
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.
OT: Saw Inception tonight
Really good movie. It was long, but it didn’t really feel like it, and it left me in crazy dream mode.
Jeaaaggaahh
we’re now tied 6-6 in the season series with the dodgers. That’s a pretty nice comeback after being 1-5 against them this season a few weeks ago.
"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."
saw highlights
Scott’s play on Furcal’s liner in the top of the sixth — he must have been looking right into the sun.
you can say Rowand, indeed, saw high lights.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
rowand > sun/shadows
simple equation
by iCANwatchMOLINAneverCLEANUPagain on Aug 1, 2010 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
not really an equation...more of an inequality
…but i see what you’re saying
And sun/shadows > Mr. Rihanna
Ergo… Scott >>> Mr. Rihanna?
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
the new giants theme song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Q_fO7fhJI
Los Angeles Lakers, San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers and the University of California Berkeley FAN. Lakers=2010 Champs, Giants= 2010 NL West Champs, 49ers= Super Bowl 45 Champs.
Lakers!
I prefer this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fWvub_WBho
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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.
Ha,
I like it.
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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.
before I click
“In a young girls heart?”
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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.
Damn I am good.
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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.
There is magic inside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TrJOGhRRwM
Section 314 FTW!
by KingofDucks1987 on Aug 1, 2010 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxoSlPFqKvY
No?
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
LOL WUT
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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.
It's Mazzik inside!
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
WATCH OUT DILLINGER IT'S A SETUP!
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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.
OT: KNBR caller: Today is Jerry Garcia's Spiritual Birthday...
Complete astrological analysis of Cain now…he won because he was a Libra.
I have no idea what the heck those things mean…
This is why I do not listen to KNBR outside of Giants game broadcasts.
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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 was trying to get the local LA radio broadcast but they only have the ESPN national feed..
lame…wanted some whining Dodger fans.
Try this
http://www.truebluela.com/2010/8/1/1600349/dodger-offense-continues-its#comments
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
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Oh man this made me laugh
Done in by renteria and mota yesterday. Giants have a fucking time machine.
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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.
Like that...also the discussion about 49ers destroying the Rams (miss those days)
And this
But who would you upgrade with at C? Russ has been struggling but the number of good and available catchers is so small it’s ridiculous. Carlos Santana would have been nice, but he’s gone and not an option.
LOL Casey “not Carlos Santana” Blake
Liked this too
We are the Giants that we made fun of in April. Nothing hurts worse then (sic) that realization.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
I kinda dug this one:
I think what disappoints me the most is not that the season will likely end without a playoff appearance, its that we had an opportunity to cut some dead weight and maybe bring in a few interesting young players, but instead we brought in more veterans. Now we are forced to play out the season with the likes of Pods, Theriot, and GA. Ugh!
Dodger FO is now caught up in Sabes-think hype! MLBN and ESPN analysts follow like lemmings! Water is wet!
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
Schadenfreud is fun!
postgame recap template for you eric
(dodger sp) went (x) strong innings and deserved better, as (mediocre veteran) came through the big hit in the late innings, which was all the offense the (opponent team name) would need on this night, as the impotent dodger lineup was able to muster only (integer less than 6) hits and (0 or 1) runs.
the dodgers dropped their (nth in a row and/or nth out of x) to fall further out of the race. incredibly, ned colletti said after the game that he would not hesitate to (throw away useful player x for replacement level veteran "help") to aid the team’s "playoff push."
joe torre (describe inexplicable managerial move here), though it did not matter on this night when all he had available were two and maybe three players who deserve to be in a major league starting lineup.
blake dewitt had three hits for the cubs and ryan theriot looks like a retarded hobbit.
the dodgers will be back in action —-sday, and you should no longer give a fuck.
by lchristmas on Aug 1, 2010 11:43 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 4 recs
Ahem
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/8/1/1600442/post-game-thread-giants-sweep-the#43470225
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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.
yay!
I’m a libra.
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.
Me too!
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 1, 2010 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
also, me!
actually, Matt Cain and I were born only a few days apart.
/dates self
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
by MonochromeGarden on Aug 1, 2010 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
not in CA
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
by MonochromeGarden on Aug 1, 2010 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Only here, and in Mississippi
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
So...
The Rotowire fantasy update(s) app on my iPhone has an update on Javier Lopez… And they refer to him as a “LOOGY”! Wasn’t that started here? I thought it was pretty cool.
LOOGY is a pretty old term. I’m not sure where it originated.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Awww...
I’m bummed now. I’d never really seen it prior to here. Shucks.
/Kicks dirt with hands in pockets
You arent the first person to think something originated here
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
I hate that rule.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I invented post-its.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I invented post-tits
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Thank goodness!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I consulted on the internet with Al Gore.
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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 invented post-it's-its
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
VICARIOUS RAGE FOR JCB9
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
So does that make you Romy or Michelle?
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
Yes
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 6:40 AM PDT up reply actions
frealz?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
TASTE THE SAD
http://www.truebluela.com/2010/8/1/1600349/dodger-offense-continues-its#43467550
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Does Joe Morgan post there?
if kershaw had any heart
We would have won today. Bills must have stolen it
Your idea of God is silly. Your lack of faith is silly. Xenu is too silly.
by nolander on Aug 1, 2010 8:01 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
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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.
blake dewitt had three hits for the cubs and ryan theriot looks like a retarded hobbit.
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
They traded away Dewitt and good prospects so Ted Lilly can start Tuesday against the Pads.
Well done, Agent Ned. Well done.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
congratulations on the sweep
but this may require a tune up
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
reminds me of us, tbh.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
pretty much 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
I love that in that thread, they’re all pissed because the Dodgers are now the Giants team they mocked in April.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
This definitely sounds familiar:
Since the All-Star break, the Dodgers have scored 36 runs in 17 games, an average of 2.12 runs per game. They have scored two or less runs in 12 of those 17 games.
But still:
LOL DODGERS.
Osiris, Lord of the Dead, and relief pitcher for the Fresno Grizzlies.
LOL WUT?
If you had told me that going into August we’d have the most solid 1-5 pitching staff in baseball,
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Bochy: What’s this fancy stat here?
IT Guy: That’s how often they get on base. I do not know why you keep asking me, I am here to fix your server.
he must have mean the GIANTS
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Giants Rotation ERA+
138
127
136 (will go up after today)
121
159
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Awesome.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Speaking of which…with all the days off coming up, you think they’ll skip Bum? I really hope they do something to limit his innings.
I imagine they’ll skip Bum if they get the chance.
I wouldn’t mind just keeping him to 5 innings a start
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Limiting the load on a 20 year old is just good sense.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
So much this.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 1, 2010 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
weeee
If you had told me in April
that Sandoval was going to suck and yet the Giants were going to kick our offense’s ass I’d said you are fucking crazy. Huff is a pretty good argument about how strong the AL East pitching is compared to the NL West. Really makes me wonder what any of the so called NL West pitchers would do if they pitched in the AL East and faced those offenses on a regular basis.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
by Phil Gurnee on Aug 1, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
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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.
..
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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
God Dammit I'm pumped up right now
I just might do a video recap of this weekend and try to pump it out before I go to bed.
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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
TWSS
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 1, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
PIMP IT UP!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Listen to Rotoworld, Dodgers!!
Casey Blake struck out all three times he was up Sunday night in the loss to the Giants.
Blake has turned into a major liability against right-handers these last couple of months, and one wonders if the Dodgers might not be better off giving Ronnie Belliard a look at third. Blake simply isn’t getting the job done.
no, keep playing blake every day
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Same with theriot
Hopefully torre keeps theriot in the 2 spot and moves blake up to the 3 spot to “get him going”.
"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."
Meanwhile in Cleveland
One Carlos Santana plays with his guitar nightly…
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
by Scooter Ellis on Aug 1, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm hearing it from fans from Cleaveland BUSTER POSEY IS NO CARLOS SANTANA
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
HOW CAN HE EAT IF YOU DON’T MAKE HIM A SANDWICH?!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
HOW WILL HE HAVE ANY PUDDING IF HE WON’T EAT HIS MEAT?
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
YOU! YES YOU! STAND STILL LADDIE!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 1, 2010 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Laundry is sooo much work. Gotta scrub all dem clothes, then run them thru the ringer, then hang them out on a clothesline and wait for em to dry before you can fold them.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Aug 1, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Dammit guys
Marking spoilers for the original comment doesn’t mean much if you continue to discuss the movie in this thread and the auto-refresh + z takes me to your new comments.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
by jponry on Aug 1, 2010 9:54 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
DAMN IT COOKYMAN
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
MORE LIKE JERKYMAN, AMIRITE?
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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.
POOPYMAN
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
THIS
I would like to see this movie without knowing what is going 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.
French ex-girlfriend opinion:
I escaped to the cinema for the first part of the night, I went to see Inception, I didn’t understand a thing of what was going on! Complicated story…I saw it in French as well so not that great.
So don’t worry about it.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
meh
I manage to z through food threads without picking up on what everyone’s eating
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
again though
this really cries out for a “hide subthread” feature for SBN
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
LOL
BusterfuckingP Party still going on in the clubhouse. Geno Velez is wearing a lampshade on his head and I swear we don’t have any lamps in the building.
BusterfuckingP Bochy’s giant head has a confetti shooting machine built into it. His head is like a swiss army knife.
"I AIN'T HAVIN IT." - Buster Posey
LOL, YEA BOCHY GET IT FUCKIN DONE
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
WATCH OUT, DILLINGER THEY ARE ALL CONSPIRING AGAINST YOU.
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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.
John Dillinger Died for You!
Only McCoven not to get one of his comments rec'd in the Post Game Thread after that Epic win over the Dodgers.
by cybermaldonado on Aug 1, 2010 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
It was a $1 rental
No reason to turn it off.
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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.
hah:
All I can think is
"Not like this. Not like this."
by Eric Stephen on Aug 1, 2010 8:01 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
That sounds tasty.
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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 will teach you to brag.
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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.
milk makes it tastes so much better
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I have a ginger cookie, cookies>pie
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
i heard somewhere that ginger is actually somewhat good for you
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
It’s great for fighting seasickness, I found.
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
woa, no way!!! i'm not seasick anyway
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
My first time (and only time, thus far) on a whale watching trip, I got hella seasick. They gave me some ginger candy, and that knocked down the nausea in like one minute flat. I was amazed.
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
Wow, that’s awesome! i had no idea ginger was good for you in that sense…. by the way, props for you doin whale watching, it’s awesome
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
It was an incredible trip, with half a dozen greys, and 20-30 dolphins just next to the boat.
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haha, that is sweeeeet, that's something that everyone should do at least once
somewhere here in the bay area
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
It was great, despite all the puking. I’ll definitely go again someday.
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I did! They were spectacularly ineffective, as they are for some people.
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haha, guess you wont be takin that no more
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
We almost ran over a Humpback pulling into Sydney.
Good thing we dodged him. Green Peace was already waiting to protest us as it was.
Went whale watching in Santa Barbara last summer. It was definitely a good time. Also, fun to get the sea-legs back after almost a decade and laugh at everyone else clutching the rails.
oh yes! i've done that before
it helps a ton
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
ohhh so you just dont like the taste... hmm, pumpking chocolate chip?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
best part about baking by yourself? making random pastries
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
FUCK IT!!!!
HOW BOUT SOME CHOCOLATE CHIP AND SPRINKLES!??!
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Trust me, a taste of MaryAnne and you'll forget all about Ginger.
Heard it directly from Gilligan.
"You can always recover from the player you didn't sign. You may never recover from the player you signed at the wrong price." --Billy Beane
"I am not an idiot."--Brian Sabean
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 1, 2010 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Section 314 FTW!
by KingofDucks1987 on Aug 1, 2010 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't have dessert
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Yes :(
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
STOP POSTING PORN DAMMIT
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
Time for the revelation: I hate chocolate.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
That’s not that unusual. There’s a whole website for people like you.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
THAT'S NOT TRUE
THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Who loves pie more than posters at the MCC?
NO ONE!
Section 314 FTW!
by KingofDucks1987 on Aug 1, 2010 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
You, sir, were burn in hell for all eternity for using the lord's name in vein!
Section 314 FTW!
by KingofDucks1987 on Aug 1, 2010 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
CAKE>PIE
YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THE SONG “ARCO ARENA”? you sir are dumb
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Apparently, I am
I’ve never heard it. Which, in turn, makes me dumb.
I, also, was being sarcastic.
Section 314 FTW!
by KingofDucks1987 on Aug 1, 2010 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually I’m dead serious. Any type of birthday cake, wedding cake, etc. I don’t like.
One bite maybe, but that’s it.
Pie is 1000000x better.
Dude, Blackberry pie kicks the living shit out of ANY cake that any TEN cake maestros can bake up.
"You can always recover from the player you didn't sign. You may never recover from the player you signed at the wrong price." --Billy Beane
"I am not an idiot."--Brian Sabean
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 1, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I had an amazing banana cream pie three days ago. I’m still thinking about it.
I was promised lasagna.
Some nights I stay awake, thinking about what I would do if I had to Sophie’s choice banana cream pie or coconut cream pie.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
cant say i've had coconut anything
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
How much up could an upchuck chuck if an upchuck could chuck up?
"You can always recover from the player you didn't sign. You may never recover from the player you signed at the wrong price." --Billy Beane
"I am not an idiot."--Brian Sabean
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 1, 2010 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
/backs away slowly….
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
As questionable as our deadline trades were
Holy crap, the Dodgers’ were bad.
- 4th place in division (8GB)
- 5th place in wild card (6.5 GB)
- Farm system already very thin
And they were BUYERS?
The thought of theriot hitting 2nd for the dodgers and playing 2nd base for the dodgers everyday is extremely comforting.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Yeah I thought he still had crazy range but that does not appear to be the case anymore. Hopefully torre platoons him and garrent anderson and does us all a huge favor.
"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."
Against lefties having anderson/pods/reed johnson now THAT would be a comedy show.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
He is
He’s been hurt and he finished rehabbing on thursday so he’ll probably be on the dodgers bench at chavez latrine tomororrow.
"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."
probably not gonna hit 2nd
it was because ethier was out. torre said he wants to hit him ninth a la juan pierre. LOL DODGERS
I said it once I'll say it again
LOL DODGERS
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
OT
Dinner for Schmucks thoughts? It provided some good laughs, and Carrell played his role well, I thought.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
i haven’t seen the new one but i’m going to assume that the original is better
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Rewatching Rent's triple
I think the best part is Kemp shading his eyes, then scrambling after the ball when it lands 20 feet away from him.
It was also great to watch Paul attempt to play RF 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.
i like it when kemp and ethier fuck up
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Remember when everybody laughed at Torre for being down on Kemp?
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
Well Torre is the one that kept putting Kemp down in the lineup.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
Torre is the one that kept putting Kemp down in the lineup.
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
I liked Rent’s wild arm gesture after sliding into third.
by non sequitur on Aug 1, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Invisible Q-tip
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
by CB30 on Aug 1, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Bwahahahaha!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 6:44 AM PDT up reply actions
INVISIBLE RAIN TO SING IN
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.
Invisible toreador cape!
Yes, really, I have not updated my blog in a long long time: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
Jazz flute!
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Ian Anderson!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 7:58 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL true blue la
All I can think is
this is what it was like to be a Giants fan the past 4 years. I definitely took it for granted, and now it hurts.
by robotmadeofnails on Aug 1, 2010 9:20 PM PDT reply actions
Suck it dodger fans.
"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."
Sabean > Colleti. If they’re really getting cheap now, they’re going to really suck.
I was promised lasagna.
I hope they own them for the next 15 years and continue to fight in court.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Dodgers fans have no feelings. They’re experiencing sympathetic vibrations, a la the soulless ghouls one can find in the Haunted Mansion.
by Every6thDay on Aug 1, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
They are Nobodies
They only remember what it was like to have a heart.
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.
Well
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER
So much for Dillinger.
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 have no clue what is going on in Manhunter
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I never saw Manhunter, only Red Dragon
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.
Public Enemies
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 too.
the spoilers were kind of tongue in cheek.
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.
Still have not seen it.
Probably not till it hits DVD. It’s just too expensive to see movies in the theaters
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 9.50 for me, and wanna know what happens in it?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I payed 35 bucks for 2
I Imaxed kind of by mistake…Afterwards I didn’t care. So fucking worth it…Although I feel pretty stupid right now
by Artimus Clyde on Aug 1, 2010 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
yea... i'd rather just see it in a movie theater without imax, dont need all the noise
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
It was more of the fact that Imax was the earlier showing and I made a quick impulsive decision that I immediately regretted. But no regrets after. Movie made up for it
by Artimus Clyde on Aug 1, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha, OH NOOOOO, u idiot!!! but yea, that was one of those movies where you’re like, actually, it wasn’t a bad thing i just did
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
also this video helped me want to see the movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vf7B_GUHto
The music by Hans Zimmer was unreal
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
lovin hans zimmer
even Trons soundtrack
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
nah, I want to try and actually be surprised.
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.
A guy in my writers’ group hated the movie because people are calling it “Brilliant.” Never mind that we often misuse words these days, but he said he liked the movie and thought it was good, he just couldn’t recommend it or say it was good because everybody else was hyping it up too much.
As far as I could tell, he wasn’t a hipster. He wasn’t named Alderson Dibbley or anything. Fuck post modernism.
A lot of movies are probably getting that way.
I still have not seen avatar, but I am sure I will not enjoy it as much as I should because of the hype around it.
Inception will probably be the same way for me.
Toy Story 3 was the last movie I felt was as good as the hype.
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.
With that guy, I thought it was somewhat laughable that he wants to work in the entertainment industry and yet bristles at the thought of heaping praise on things that are produced by “our” industry. Too, most people tend to think the general population is filled with idiots, so the fact that people use a perceived idiot’s opinion to color their own about some third party’s production just to be contrary and “unique” is an enterprise that is laughable. Laughable, I say!
i've never seen Avatar either...
Inception i thought would be that way, but the only reason why i saw it? my friend told me how awesome it was, and it was just a movie scientists have even written something about
After i saw it? My mind was totally blown, made me just question everything
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I haven't watched Avatar
But I don’t think this is even the same ballpark. I always get a Transformers feel off of everyone raving about Avatar, just special effects yada yada. Inception was just insane. It was just a great mixture of everything. I couldn’t believe what I was watching. I need to see it many more times
by Artimus Clyde on Aug 1, 2010 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I still want to see it a second time, but
Since I fall in the fairly unpopular camp that believes that i* w** a** a d****, I’ve been ridiculed so much on the internets, I’m kinda soured on the whole movie. For now.
I finished watching The Prisoner today
Man, that show was weird.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
The new one or the old British one?
Because the old British one is amazing
Croix De Candlestick: You'll be a better person for reading
The old British one
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
OT: Can i make a pitch for possible theme song for the outfield? it’s obviously been said before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X75oCf9iG6Y&feature=related
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Not that anyone cares about my day
But I felt it necessary to announce how awesome it was.
-Watched Inception (Crazy Awesome)
-Came home to watch the Giants Sweep LA (Ridiculously Stupid Awesome)
-Then had a little…activity…with the Giants Postgame wrap on as background music (Almost as Awesome as the sweep)
Seriously, today was the best. I heart Matt Cain Soooo Much!
So, I just got this email
Hi love I’m a beautiful young girl looking for real love and protection, I am very happy to contact you for us to know ourselves. please remember that distance, age and color cannot stop true love. So darling, I will appreciate receiving your response at my private email(marian.mabou@hotmail.com ) So that I send you my pictures and information about myself . Awaiting for your positive response.. yours in love marian.
I was promised lasagna.
so, what are you waiting for...
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
This looks totally legit.
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.
You idiot. You posted the e-mail address. Now we can all take a shot.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t need to ask the Wizard about that de-greenification!
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
i was idly singing “The Wizard and I” just as i read your comment
/TWILIGHT ZONE
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
by MonochromeGarden on Aug 2, 2010 7:20 AM PDT up reply actions
mom?
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Bro?!
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Whoa, is there a revelation going on here?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:37 AM PDT up reply actions
i really don't want to know
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I think we need a moment, do you mind?
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:38 AM PDT up reply actions
ya know, since graham and i got told to STFU like 3 months ago
we really haven’t been talkin much anymore… just thought i’d point that out bud
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I am very happy to contact you for us to know ourselves
She does sound like this, I used to think she was kidding
I would like to talk to you about my pokemonz
Oh wow.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:41 AM PDT up reply actions
SHE HAZ A WEINER
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 Aug 2, 2010 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions
cool story bro
you gotta pound it out, shit’s so cash
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
I get those e-mails all the time to my Yahoo! Hooray for Spam filters.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
/shift a
I was at the game on Saturday and drove by today and there is a totally different atmosphere around this team. I got to listen to the dodger postgame show driving back to LA and I was loving the pessimistic whiners complain about their shit team!
GO GIANTS!
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?
Not a good week for my Pokemonz
but Cain totally saved my ass 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.
scout
if you bring up your “Pokemonz” again, my well-trained flock of avenging gallinas will come to you at night and peck out your eyes.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 2, 2010 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions
So you would send your pokemons at me?
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.
LOL Dodger fans
We are the Giants that we made fun of in April. Nothing hurts worse then that realization.
But this is where the LOL comes from:
The Giants have been freaky this year. Posey is every bit as good as advertised. Panda=Kemp; tons of ability, still no consistency. And who knew Valez would take Rowands job?
I want this Valez guy!
another highlight clip up
What the heck was going on with Joe West and Casey Blake and the batter’s box? Apologies if this was discussed in the GDT. (Actually I’m not sorry.)
Blake rubbed out the back line of the batter’s box.
West took Blake’s bat to measure and see if Blake was trying to cheat and stand a little outside of the box
I see. Lots of people do this. I guess West just picked now to theatrically enforce this rule? Is he trying to boost sales of his latest CD?
by non sequitur on Aug 1, 2010 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Grant is a total hipster
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Note the ringed collar and ironic shirt
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
oh wow... bad ass, or at least trying to be
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I’m 6’3" with abs of steel and fists of fury.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
shit, ur my height, although i'm fat :(
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I’m 6’12" with ridonculoids of mabyeium and eyeballs that launch Robb Nen fastballs at the unwashed wicked..
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I am 7'13
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 Aug 2, 2010 8:27 AM PDT up reply actions
If that’s not a trucker hat, I’m going to be extremely disappointed.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
mind blown
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
If you can think of another way to form opinions, I’d like to read it.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Pitchfork was cool when it was hard to find independent music earlier last decade, but they’re a complete joke now. Or you know you can like music and not be told what to like by garbage like PItchfork. Check rateyourmusic.com.
I use rateyourmusic
But the ratings for albums from the last 10 years are crap
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I liked Pitchfork before they got popular and sold out.
When they were underground, they were the shit, man.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
How is this not...
… just another site telling me what to like?
by BestHyperboleEver on Aug 1, 2010 11:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I read Pitchfork everyday! But mostly for the news.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I’m ridiculously good at guessing the numeric rating by just reading the blurb. Within 1.0 eighty percent of the time, no hyperbole. I’ve been doing it for years.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Baggs trying to outdo Hank's bizarre Palin line in his game writeup
The Giants followed up a 20-8 record in July, their winningest month in almost a decade, with an Aug. 1 victory. They are 16 games over .500 for the first time since 2004.
And in front of a national audience on ESPN, they pantsed their archrivals.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Fuck this grammar bullshit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5snf1GDP7As
Watch my video bitches.
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
by jctGamer on Aug 1, 2010 11:07 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Hawt video bitches! I bet that link goes to the video for “Cradle of Love.”
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL the last frame
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
:D
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
Why did I even bother making a video when I could have just linked that
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
I’m so glad.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 2, 2010 7:43 AM PDT up reply actions
This is a nice relief from the sour taste left in my mouth from the rest of this thread.
Seriously, though, why do people seem more pissed off after wins than after losses?
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 1, 2010 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I dunno, I’m actually in a great mood.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
You can’t have your pie and eat it too.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 2, 2010 7:45 AM PDT up reply actions
uh oh... i'll try not to do anything stupid here then
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
HEY FUCK YOU
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
why can’t we be friends, why can’t we be friends, why can’t we be friends, why can’t we be friends?
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 1, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
That was awesome.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I love it
“I’m gonna fuck him up” is so awesome.
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...
I was searching for another image when this came up. Sorry, owlcroft, but I think the cosmos pointed me to this image…
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:14 PM PDT reply actions 6 recs
Hello, you are my facebook picture.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
It’s funny because it look like owls have eyebrows.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Angry owl is angry.
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by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 1, 2010 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
They are so stern.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
At the moment . . .
. . . quite beside my desktop being down, so that I have to use a notebook with which I am not well familiar, our local ISP has decided that 1 or 2 K/sec is an adequate wireless rate for those who insist on living outside the town limits, so I have had to trurn off images to load anything at all. And their idea of 24/7 service is maybe 7 hours a day maybe 24 days a month. So I am unable to see whatever it is, but I trust in your good taste.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
It’s an owl getting sprayed with a hose. The look on its face is Pulitzer-worthy.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 1, 2010 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah.
It is considered unwise to agitate owls.
Meanwhile, on another planet:
I don’t know if this includes today, but the Giants are now mid-pack in offense, eight teams above and seven below, and in easy striking range of the two just above. Meanwhile, they are second in runs allowed, with only one team in striking distance behind them.
In numbers, they are at 4.45 scored and 3.67 allowed. A games-won projection for the season, if those levels continue, would be 96 or 97 wins. And those totals include the Molina era.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I believe they also have the best pythag record in the National League.
I think even the most strident of haters have to admit that this team is pretty damn good.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Well, those AL East fellas are somewhat myopic.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I guess not “haters” so much, but I feel like the Giants still aren’t getting a whole lot of attention. And a lot of people are still beating the “GREAT PITCHING AWFUL OFFENSE” horse when that really isn’t true anymore.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Nah
Total pitchers park. Depresses runs like all hell.
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 traded him for Steve Finley
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
There is a way....
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
It is an owl enjoying a thorough shampoo and some highglighting. A glam owl to be, in fact.
Nothing to do with us, though; thanks for the thought!
by mrs. owlcroft on Aug 2, 2010 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Gallo
has your tail feathers.
/though not in that way/
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 2, 2010 12:51 AM PDT up reply actions
pretty funny
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
/shift-A
SWEEP LA FUCK YEAH
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 1, 2010 11:27 PM PDT reply actions
yes.
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by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 1, 2010 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
BOUT DAMN TIME
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.
WHAT WITH ALL THE WEIRD SUBTHREADS TONIGHT HERE BOUT TIME WE TALK ABOUT A SWEEP
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Hey guys, I just fixed my irony meter and-
GOD DAMMIT PIKA
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
I DON’T KNOW, I HAVEN’T READ ANY COMMENTS ASIDE FROM GRANT’S OWL ONE AND THE BOWKER THING.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 1, 2010 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
It's probably best if you are blind to all else.
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.
yea, that's a good thing, just move on
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Well, I just scrolled up. Bad idea.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 1, 2010 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
NOT WELL IDEA YOU MEAN GRAMMAR FAIL
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
WHAT
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 1, 2010 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
hahahaha, this is fantastic
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
LOL
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 1, 2010 11:55 PM PDT up reply actions
That is the worst kind of weather in the Bay Area
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.
Kemp should have brought his
umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh.
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
by Scooter Ellis on Aug 1, 2010 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
You're on fire lately
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Isn't anyone going to help that poor man?
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.
LOL blurry pixels where Kemp should be running.
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 1, 2010 11:55 PM PDT up reply actions
The llama actually hit him with so much force that he ended up under the ground and the pixels you see are Kemp running UNDER the grass, similar to a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Or shockwaves in the grass
That’s one heavy llama…I’d get that looked at, Kemp.
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Wow.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 1, 2010 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions
walked rowand to get to Rent
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Just because they’re evil, it doesn’t mean they’re smart.
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Torre was overthinking himself all over the place today
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Welcome to bizarro world
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.
Lots.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions
But it’s dark in there.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions
cut a hole in the box
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 mean another one?
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:19 AM PDT up reply actions
A man's got to--ahem--breathe.
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:31 AM PDT up reply actions
As the Brigadier said to the Doctor about the Yeti . . .
. . . you’ve maddened it!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Did anything interesting happen after the naked men? I just skipped the rest of the thread.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
More naked men.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
I guess I’ll have to go back through, then.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions
nope... i subject lined all of em and got mad at natto for posting one
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Equal opportunity sexism
Because this is not a misogynistic site.
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions
I think this was just catharsis thread.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:12 AM PDT up reply actions
My video!
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
I don’t know. I just got here … somewhat recently.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions
HATE
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
/subject line
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Winning; still the key to victory.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
It is most beneficial for the baseball club one is wishing success upon to cross home plate a higher positive integer amount of times than their rival baseball club when competing against said club in head-to-head contest of valor.
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions
kinda OT: Ozzie Guillen
….thoughts? I personally think he’s got a point (and that’s saying something, considering it is Ozzie Guillen).
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
He's a douche
Seriously, a pro team at almost any level is going to have at least 10 guys and 2 coaches who speak some mix of English and Spanish.
How many teams have even one guy, other than the player most directly concerned, who speak Japanese, Korean or any other Asian language?
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below .500
"You never wake up the baby." - E. Renteria, 01 August 2010
Lowering the Quality of Internet Discourse Since 1985™
by S.F. Giangst on Aug 2, 2010 12:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Had an argument about this many hours ago. Too tired to continue.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
My mistake, I didn’t see the Gameday Threads or Pregame Threads. To anyone who thinks it’s superfluous, please ignore my post.
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by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:37 AM PDT up reply actions
“And then I realized, our outfielders are just fluous!”
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Forgot where this is from
Obviously I had some undue subliminal influence from this when thinking of that particular SAT word.
Things that can survive a nuclear holocaust: Cockroaches. Twinkies. Warriors fans. ...Also, Giants fans; but we'd find a way to blame the nukes on Brian Sabean.
by lurkers UNTIE on Aug 2, 2010 12:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Scones!
Ibrahimovic!
Couch!
My day in three words.
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:38 AM PDT reply actions
what about Gorillaz? THEY SUCK, U JACKASS
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Whoa. I went off the page to turn on a Gorillaz song and came back to see this. Pika, be real with me, do you honestly think Lil Wayne is good?
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Actually for reals. I actually like Lil Wayne, his old stuff was great, but lately it’s been kinda bad
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
ohhh, and i have no problems with the GOrillaz
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
You are lost child.
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:42 AM PDT up reply actions
? don’t wind down that path dude, all i’m saying is that, Wayne has been good in the past, lately it’s been bad, Drake is pretty damn good, and as a guy that’s a fan of rap and hip hop, i’m a fan of Cudi, Kanye, B.o.B, Jeezy
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I can enjoy some Lil Wayne, but I really truly hate Drake. I have no idea why he is so popular.
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Me neither actually… but i do like some of his stuff that hasn’t been played up on the radio
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Ok. Some of Drake’s older stuff before he sold out was good.
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:47 AM PDT up reply actions
i'll go with this, his mixtape was good
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
You and Tim Couch played soccer against Zlatan Ibrahimović and then ate scones?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Close enough
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Getting colder.
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:42 AM PDT up reply actions
You found scones on a couch in Ibrahimovic.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:42 AM PDT up reply actions
No.
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions
You went to Candlestick today?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Near it.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 2, 2010 12:52 AM PDT up reply actions
i thought what chop said was true for a second
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
You watched Ibrahimovic on a couch while eating scones near Candlestick.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe he saw Ibrahimovic inside a couch while eating scones around candlestick
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Or Ibrahimovic was eating scones while Graham was sitting on a couch around Candlestick.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 12:59 AM PDT up reply actions
When did Candlestick come into the picture?
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:00 AM PDT up reply actions
i hate that damn stadium
always a pain in the ass to go to a niner game there
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Never been there.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:02 AM PDT up reply actions
good, you dont want to
it’s pathetic, and almost pointless
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
When you said you were near it?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Graham isn't too smart tonight
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
But why did you even bring it up? YOU CANT CHANGE THE RULES
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:04 AM PDT up reply actions
SAYS WHOM GRAHAM!?!?!?!?!?! huh?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Sez I
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:05 AM PDT up reply actions
k, so you got to know this person
Ibrahimovic over a scone on the couch
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Wrong
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:07 AM PDT up reply actions
About time you got one.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:09 AM PDT up reply actions
It was an orange couch.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:09 AM PDT up reply actions
You’re still workin the 0-fer unfortunately.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:10 AM PDT up reply actions
SHIT THAT'S FUCK
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Fail
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Sorry, one at a time son.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:15 AM PDT up reply actions
woa woa woa
since when can you call me, son? i’ll go with black
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Not your day today hombre.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Blind squirrel, nut, etc.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Red.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:18 AM PDT up reply actions
k, so you shoved a blueberry scone
into the dudes mouth on the couch
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Regression!
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:10 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s an interesting image.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:11 AM PDT up reply actions
“interesting”
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I WANT TO SEE A PRINTED LIST OF RULES
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:06 AM PDT up reply actions
1. I MAKE THE RULES
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:07 AM PDT up reply actions
2. Always use a coaster.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:08 AM PDT up reply actions
ITS A FAMILY HEIRLOOM DAMNIT
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:09 AM PDT up reply actions
I'LL USE THE DAMN FLOOR THEN
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
MY GRANDPA BUILT THESE FLOORS WITH HIS HANDS. HIS HANDS.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:10 AM PDT up reply actions
3. make her open the box
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Finally starting to get the respect I deserve.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:09 AM PDT up reply actions
you're such a pompous asshole haha
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
WHEN DID YOU BECOME KING OF THE INTERNET
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Its always been that. I have just been laying low to see who I should kill when I make my triumphant return to the throne. Howie is going to regret that banning.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:11 AM PDT up reply actions
he's been too busy on facebook
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
…okay, then.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, big mistake. The king is not amused with your indifference towards an alternative reality.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I WILL OVERTHROW YOUR REIGN, GRAHAM.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:17 AM PDT up reply actions
/guillotined
LOL U
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:19 AM PDT up reply actions
CHOP
how many times do i have to tell you, DONT MESS WITH GRAHAM
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I’M NOT GONNA LOSE TO HIM, DAMMIT.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
/comes back to life
LOL U
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:20 AM PDT up reply actions
NAH UH THATS NOT POSSIBLE YOU HAVE NO HEAD
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:20 AM PDT up reply actions
/Puts head back on Chop
and revives chop
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Nope. That’s against the rules.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
guess what bro...
chop and i made the rules for this fiasco
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
That’s against the rules too. Man, you’re really in trouble now.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:24 AM PDT up reply actions
NO WAY!!!
Fine, /punches graham in the face
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
As long as you use a coaster.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:26 AM PDT up reply actions
FINE, I'LL USE THE DAMN COASTER
can i at least choose the coaster?
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
Sleep on it. I’m going to bed.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:27 AM PDT up reply actions
same, i got to get a good
work out goin for tomorrow, gonna lose some weight FINALLY
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
EVER HEARD OF THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN? THAT’S ME, BRO.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
An asian girl?
Man, that would have been a plot twist.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:25 AM PDT up reply actions
/twists plot
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I AM THE MASTER PLOT TWISTER.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Alright, fine.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:30 AM PDT up reply actions
RIGHT FOOT, RED
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Hey Lars,
I think Howie’s trying to get in on our game of Twister.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
LEFT FACE, GREEN
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
You should be careful, Howie
kdl is really good at twister. Very bendy!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait wait wait, am I on the couch or is Ibrahimovic on the couch?
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions
this is a fun game Graham, keep it up
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
You’re on the couch.
…man, that sentence could start an odd thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t even know anymore.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:04 AM PDT up reply actions
You never knew. You were all wrong.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:05 AM PDT up reply actions
NO U
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:26 AM PDT up reply actions
U NO KNOW
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:26 AM PDT up reply actions
In other prediction news...Evan correctly predicted the Javier Lopez trade.
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/7/5/1552884/halfway-point-where-do-the-giants
They’ll hang around about where they are now, not really in this thing but close enough that Sabean trades for Cody Ross or Javier Lopez or some other nonentity. Team finishes within a few games of .500, reloads with more vets in the off-season, repeat ad infinitum.
by Evan on Jul 5, 2010 9:00 AM PDT reply actions
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
Damn
I had never even heard of him, and thats saying something.
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 Aug 2, 2010 12:56 AM PDT up reply actions
The only thing that will always stick in my mind about Lopez is when he was pitching for Boston in a blowout game and they had him play in the outfield when Jonathan Van Every (a position player) came in to pitch.
He misplayed a ball, iirc.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Noah Lowry!
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:04 AM PDT up reply actions
:(
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Aug 2, 2010 1:06 AM PDT up reply actions
uh
… Sean Marshall?
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:08 AM PDT up reply actions
you said noah lowry dude
poor guy
His name is Bond, Brock Bond, and his adopted father? ME, any questions?
I'd much rather have Ross than Lopez
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Meh
He’s really not that good. Barely an upgrade over Burrell/Schierholtz.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:00 AM PDT up reply actions
He's a helluva lot better than Lopez
And he’s actually a decent upgrade over Nate
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Okay, but probably not worth it, and not what we were looking for. Lopez was the better acquisition.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Dude, really
A crappy reliever who only gets out lefties at a decent rate v. a 3ish WAR player?
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Maybe 2.5ish WAR, but still
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
But we didn’t need Ross. We needed a reliever.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
“Dave, look at this LV purse, it’s on sale for 500 dollars, that’s 30% off!”
“yeah but we came to the mall to buy Jeans”
“30 PERCENT OFF!!!! That’s way better than Jeans!”
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
Why is Dave buying a purse?
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Dave wants to buy jeans.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
But he is considering the purse.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Not necessarily. All he says is “yeah but we came to the mall to buy Jeans!”
For all you know, the next line of dialogue here is “We’re not buying the fucking purse!”
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
“it’s a carry-all”
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
But why are they even discussing the purse?
It shouldn’t even be discussed. Dave should have immediately shot it down.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
If we're giving up Bowker+Martinez
I’d rather get a player, who would both help in the short-term and the long-term (unless you want one of Rowand, Nate, or Ishi getting the bulk of the PA’s for the rest of the season), than a reliever who is better than Alex Hinshaw but probably not by a whole lot.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
McFAQ for all you newcomers out there.
Thanks for the gloom, ed
Send me your address and I’ll send you your Grizz ticketzz.
My e-mail is on my profile.
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Aug 2, 2010 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I sent you a FB request.
Name’s Brendon BTW…
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
I AM PAT BURRELLZ'Z DADDY! (wait, that doesn't sound right)
Early night:
Cats to the vet tomorrow: country vets keep country hours.
Nitey night.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wow I need to watch on tv more
I recapped the first two yesterday and today got home from my B-day dinner in the bottom of the 6th. Every time I flipped it on the Giants took the lead. Also of note, last time they played LA I didn’t watch any of the games.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Aug 2, 2010 2:05 AM PDT reply actions
Scratch that
I did last time when they took 2-3. The time before that I didn’t.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Aug 2, 2010 2:20 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL KEMP
From Baggs’ notes:
Apparently, Kemp said he could have caught Edgar Renteria’s two-run triple if he hadn’t lost it in the sun.
Kemp didn’t get a good jump, but neither Bruce Bochy nor Joe Torre thought the ball would be caught. To me, it split the gap.
Normally I take the player’s word for it, but Kemp is enough of a knucklehead that I think he might’ve just been puffing out his chest.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 2, 2010 6:26 AM PDT reply actions
And from the comments, an LA Times article addressing the Dodgers’ lack of effort.
Delicious schadenfreude.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 2, 2010 6:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Kemp also said that he wouldn't have been caught stealing last night had he not been leaning the wrong way...
and a ball would have been a strike if it was in the strike zone…lame
yeah well if my aunt had a dick she'd be my uncle
STFU Kemp
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
MLB Radio this morning
Dibble: “The Giants FINALLY got Buster Posey into the lineup by trading Molina.”
Of course, he killed the Giants for trading Molina at the time though…
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 7:00 AM PDT reply actions
He was having fun trolling the Busterphiles too. Kept twatting that Buster couldn’t frame pitches, but I think he was just trolling.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 2, 2010 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Shift-A...Sweeping the Dodger is like getting a good pizza
It may be even better a day later!
Oh yeah…Beat LA!
Wow. First time I’ve missed an entire series in 5 years and the Giants sweep the Dodgers. I’m going to stay away for awhile. I’ll talk to nerds after they lose.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Aug 2, 2010 8:59 AM PDT reply actions
I sense a rift in the force...
Fire Sabean,
Quit trying—you’re not gonna be allowed back on the bandwagon.
You made it clear to anyone familiar with this board that you don’t have the stomach or heart to be a real fan of our beloved San Francisco Giants.
And that goes for the rest of you whiners who jump at the chance to dump on Renteria, Rowand, Bochy, Sabean, and any other Giant who is slumping. Those brilliant posters who can’t grasp 162 games mean you need to stick with the girls who brought you to the dance even when they aren’t moving it well b/c they can and will still shake it.
The rest of us get to enjoy these moments with unadulterated joy b/c we kept the faith and we’ll keep the faith during the next cold stretch (which will come by the way).
"The fans are super supportive. I mean, I heard nothing but good things from everybody."
How does it feel to know Matt Cain would dome you whiners before he’d throw at Casey Blake?
I don’t know what feels better—sweeping the Bums or seeing the whiners suddenly talking about how much they love this team despite its warts.
OK, it’s beating the Bums.
But the whiner 180 is a close second.
They could be Giants...but not really.
Regardless
I’m glad the Giants have a day off so all of us (the haters and the Pollyannas) can enjoy this sweep a bit more. Plus, I’m pretty exhausted by the last 2 weeks.
They could be Giants...but not really.
wtf is this from?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
To be precise, here:
LOL, all Fire Sabean posted was:
Happy for Cain, and happy the Giants got the revenge sweep.
Giants-Dodgers have split the season series 6-6, now THAT sounds like Giants-Dodgers.
They could be Giants...but not really.
It’s this sort of thing that makes me fear for the future of the human race. Really people you CAN criticize something AND like it too. Just because you don’t follow along blindly with a prozac smile on your face… ugh…I get soooo tired of this either/or, no shades of grey thinking.
+100, that is an issue with the internet age, where everyone can go back and look at what you’ve “said”
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Also, I hate people referring to teams as “we” and to a lesser extent “our”. And I also hate the concept a “true fan”
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Reminds me of people who blindly follow the government, then when someone questions/criticizes it, they start yelling about how if they don’t like it they can go somewhere else.
People criticize it because they want something better for it, get a brain morans!
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow...can't even enjoy the LA sweep
Passion is good…hatred is not…
Just would like to say that the bandwagon is wide wide open…more the merry…the earlier you get on…the funner the ride!
On a more positive point
Brian Wilson quote about his spikes:
I asked him if the orange shoes were still magical.
"Well, they’re still orange underneath," he said with a grin. "When you get close to ‘em, you can tell they’re digitally remastered."
New Giants motto: It’s Orange Underneath
It's Orange Underneath
I love that!
♥ NATHAN ♥ Posey ♥ Eugenio ♥ Andres ♥ Sergio ♥ Travis ♥ baetown415 ♥
/peeks underneath
Yep, orange!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
whoever wrote that should go fuck themselves
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, who's mind is currently elsewhere
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
/mentions fantasy baseball team
LOL, nobody likes Matt Kemp
Apparently, Kemp said he could have caught Edgar Renteria’s two-run triple if he hadn’t lost it in the sun.
Kemp didn’t get a good jump, but neither Bruce Bochy nor Joe Torre thought the ball would be caught. To me, it split the gap.
Normally I take the player’s word for it, but Kemp is enough of a knucklehead that I think he might’ve just been puffing out his chest.
I think Kemp has set a record for how many individual people can refer to you as a knucklehead in the span of two weeks.
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 2, 2010 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Buster Posey Ain't Havin It...
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
Haha, that reminds me of youtube doubler
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http://www.youtube.com/v/HsF_2CNV9v4&start1=3&video2=http://www.youtube.com/v/06CvUjLgK5g&start2=0&h=1
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
From Extra Baggs
Sometimes a player will be more forthcoming after a streak like this ends, maybe reveal a little more of their true feelings. Not Cain.
When asked why he hadn’t beaten the Dodgers in his first 14 starts, he just shrugged.
"Didn’t pitch well enough to win," he said, in a way that drew a few chuckles.
Cain interrupted. "A lot of times, I didn’t," he said.
DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO WIN
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
I think this is true
At some point you have to decide if these are your mo-fos or not. This is not to criticize the nay-sayers (the realists?): so much of what has been written here critical of Sabes, Rowand, Rent, Bork, et al is true. But, thirty-someodd years in, if I just wanted to root for a winning team reather than for my team to win, I would have sold my soul and become a Yankee fan.
These are definitely my mo-fos. And, THAT’s what makes this sweep so darn SWEET.
Elitist!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL from the comment section
"Buster's basically a 21-year-old hot-chick that's an old soul" - Barry Zito
by Prussian Creole on Aug 2, 2010 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
You shouldn’t soil Mr. Wonka like that.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 2, 2010 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually, that topcoat is not bad
I want it.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
OT – I scrolled right down to the end of this page, so uh…why do we have so many pics of nekkid guys?
They could be Giants...but not really.
Balance.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Aug 2, 2010 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
shrug
Plenty of half-naked girls on this site, I’m not gonna hate if the ladies and hey gays want theirs, too.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Aug 2, 2010 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
OT:
I went to a beer tasting in SJ yesterday and met the guy who runs betterbeerblog.com! Cool guy and fun, informative beer tasting.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
Haven’t had the pleasure myself, though I think we just missed each other at the Public House opening. But I’ve been in contact with him for a while now; always struck me as a really nice guy (who doesn’t get to near as many Giants games as he’d like).
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Aug 2, 2010 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I was pleasantly surprised to learn about http://www.thewineaffairs.com/, and it being a 10 minute walk from my house. I really think they should re-brand, it’s not all about wine there.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
I love it when places list their beer menus online. It makes them about x12 more likely to get my business.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I know, right? I’ve really been trying to think of an easy tech. way for businesses to do this. I’ve got a few ideas.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
Assuming there’s not already a “Menu” page on the website, why not just a Google Doc? Or a Twitter account that lets you know what’s coming?
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Aug 2, 2010 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I was bitching about this on Twitter a week or two ago with my beer geeks. It’s such a stupid way to do things, considering how big a beer scene there is here. I went to Dosa and their “Wine & Beer” page has absolutely no mention of beer anywhere (and they do have some good stuff).
Basically if there’s no beer list, I assume you might have Sierra Nevada Pale, but that you don’t really give a shit- a favor I’ll return.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Aug 2, 2010 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Kind of NSFW…(no nudity)
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/7037/jessicabielchucklarryd.gif
http://i39.tinypic.com/1j8co4.jpg
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
How far the Giants have come
SJM Game story following the July 5th 1st game of the 4-game MIL sweep. Giants were 7.5 games out at the start of the series.
Huff paraphrases Burrell:
The Giants are trying to move up from fourth in the NL West standings. Pat Burrell told Huff before the game that San Francisco should work to try and gain one game in the division race per week. The Giants are 6 1/2 games behind San Diego.
“That makes sense, man,” Huff said. “One game a week. That way it doesn’t seem so overwhelming.”
Now guys, continue keeping your eye on the prize.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
UGH
FresnoGrizzlies
INF Ryan Rohlinger has been optioned from the Giants back to the Grizzlies roster.
Thanks for laying down that bunt, Ryan.
They could be Giants...but not really.
I knew they were going to do this and everyone was all, “no, they’re not that stupid, they’ll get rid of Bautista.” They are that stupid. This makes 13 pitchers again, right? Pffft.
Oh well, at least I get to see RyRohl when the Grizz are in town in August.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
honestly, it’s good for him. He gets zero at bats here. The only scenario in which he is going to be used is the last man on the bench pinch hitting in the 13th inning, and he won’t contribute because he’s been sitting on the bench for a month.
Get him some at bats for his development, I can understand this.
Keeping Bautista on the roster, on the other hand………..
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 just worries me with Uribe and Renteria going down with injuries on a regular basis.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
Also, just let me have my irrational sad, okay? I know it’s irrational, and there are reasons for it.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
I ran a world of warcraft high end raiding guild. I know all about irrational love and sad~
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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
HA!
That shit is stressful, man.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
you have no idea
3 of my officers were going after the unconditional love of the same female raider at the same time. Shit got real.
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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
wut
damn that’s crazy.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Ughh, I always hated listening to people flirt in vent when I played MMO’s. I never wasted my time trying to date a girl because I could always walk outside and do that. However, it seemed like any time a girl was in vent there was someone trying to give her free shit and/or flirt with her.
Then, when we’d PvP or do something important we’ve got to bring this dumb girl with us who’s horrible at the game all because some guy thinks he’s in love with her.
I would get so tired of it that I would eventually just be like “DUDE, you’re never going to see her in person, neither am I, why do you waste your time? If I want to spend 100 hours on a chick I’m going to do it with one who I can actually touch.” They always responded by telling me I was jealous.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
The female raider in question lives in Saudi Arabia.
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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
wow.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
lol at you for taking WoW so seriously.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
dude
raiding is srs bzns.
It was never that bad for me tho, most of the guilds I’ve been in had a good amount of females, so having one in vent was just par for the course
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I didn’t mind them if they weren’t just mooching.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha, it wasn’t WoW, it was a few other MMO’s that I should have taken less seriously than WoW. I’m just not a fan of losing, or listening to that bs, I just felt like I was the only sane one in a group of idiots.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
MAPLE STORY
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Aug 2, 2010 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Luckily I’ve never played that, I’m going to avoid listing my pathetically long list of MMO’s I played from ages 14-18.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
end of list
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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
Where all gamers go to die.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
oh wait
now that I think about it, when I played Dark Age of Camelot back in the day, my guild went through pretty much the same thing you describe.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
…
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
hey man
that game was the shit.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I haven't played an online RPG since EQ!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions
camp here for 48 hours and tag this mob !
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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
ENC FTW, yo!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Runescape!
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I never have.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!
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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
I’ll make a deal. You try rocky mountain oyster’s and I’ll try WoW or something.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions
no dice
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
They aren’t THAT bad.
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Dug this out from the archive
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/jencheng/lovebunnyclassy.jpg
It’s worth a read, I promise. nataku feels my pain here.
Basically, leading WoW guild / admin for wow forum prepared me well for internet flame wars.
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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
Yep. Back to 13 pitchers, it looks like:
Timmy, Zito, Cain, Sanchez, MadBum, Romo, Wilson, Casilla, Bautista, Mota, Ray, Lopez, Ramirez.
They could be Giants...but not really.
why 13 pitchers I wonder… don’t they have something like one off day a week during August? or is this a “We’re skairt of cololrado” kinda thing?
Dunno but if we get into another extra innings game there, I hope the short bench doesn’t bite them in the ass.
They could be Giants...but not really.
Yeah, I hate it when they come marching in, crawl up your leg, and bite the inside of your ass
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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
Ughh! What do we gain from having Casilla and Bautista? They’re pretty much interchangeable.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 2, 2010 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
I'd rather take this as good news
Uribe’s hamstring must be feeling better.
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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
coors field inc
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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
And the extra guy on the bench (Rohlinger) wasn’t being used anyway…
They could be Giants...but not really.
That said, I still would have preferred 1 more guy on the bench.
They could be Giants...but not really.
Maybe Kelly Johnson Incoming EH EH EH ?
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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
I have something I’m kinda writing right now. Debating whether to fanpost it or not. Will probably post it after Grant put today’s thread up. This one is about to break like Heidi Montag’s back.
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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
From SFGate about the waiver trade period:
If the Giants placed Eugenio Velez on waivers and the Brewers claimed him, for instance, GM Brian Sabean might call counterpart Doug Melvin in November and say, “You really want him? Let’s work out a deal.”
LOL
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
I saw that… ’cuz the headline of course was “how the Giants can still get Dunn” and I groaned a little bit.
should have been "how the Giants can still gitr' Dunn" mirite?
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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
/would still love Dunn
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.
Brewers just gave Hart a stupid contract
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Not as bad as Rowand, but similar in flavor.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I think hart’s contract is better in both length and dollars.
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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
For some reason
As soon as I saw that, all I could think was ERIC BYRNES
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.
Exactly
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Baseball Prospectus analyzed our deadline
“Sabean didn’t give up much. Neither Bowker or Martinez had much shot of contributing.”
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=11637#SFN (Subscriber only)
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.
I don’t think im going to subscribe.
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think it is either.
Reliever ERA: 3.35 (Rank 7th in Majors)
Reliever FIP: 3.66 (5th in majors)
Reliever xFIP: 4.21 (11th in majors)
We have a good bullpen.
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.
How much of that is Wilson and Romo, though? Especially Wilson.
They could be Giants...but not really.
they are part of our bullpen!
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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
Kevin Goldstein and the seven dwarves.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
did you just compare Kevin Goldstein to snow white!?!?
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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
MadBum
Is an awesome nickname.
It was in April 2008, Bumgarner’s first month as a professional ballplayer. Judging by boxscores, it was either April 6 or 18, and the highly touted lefty had struggled on the mound for Class A Augusta. He walked off the field, went into the clubhouse and attacked his glove with a pair of scissors.
They could be Giants...but not really.
FTFY
It was in April 2008, Bumgarner’s first month as a professional ballplayer. Judging by boxscores, it was either April 6 or 18, and the highly touted lefty had struggled on the mound for Class A Augusta. He walked off the field, went into the clubhouse and attacked his glove with a pair of scissors, exclaiming ‘FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF’.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
OT: Why is Linkin Park trending on Twitter?
Unless somebody OD’d, I don’t get it.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
Because Grant hates them
His is a pretty powerful opinion negative or positive.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
They are doing the soundtrack for the new medal of honor game
and some single is coming out soon or something
by panda revival on Aug 2, 2010 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
PikaGiant
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 Aug 2, 2010 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
it's the same reason why shit like this happen
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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
Matt Graham is an anagram for .... why don't you ask the scrabble expert!
by say hey nation on Aug 2, 2010 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Limewire!
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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
I wonder how hungover most of the Giants are right now. I mean, they swpet the Dodgers on MadBum’s 21st birthday before an off day. They definetly went out.
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
Ya, tell me if Burrell got laid last night Eric!
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
Ew.
But, yeah Graham, I had the same thought. I bet they had a lot of fun. :)
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I really don’t want to know, just reliving Karros’ tasteless comments from Saturday’s game.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
Yeah, I understood you. My “ew” was in reference to Karros. I brought that up yesterday — his comments were weird and gross.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Sooooooo glad I had KNBR on. What did he say? Clean version only, please.
They could be Giants...but not really.
that Burrell’s getting laid after hitting that HR.
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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
To be honest
I would have done him after he hit that HR.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Or at least played Twister with him.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
That too
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
It was just something about how Burrell would go out and celebrate the home run, and how he’s a “single guy.” The implication was obvious. AND CREEPY.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Or what jct said.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
This gives me an idea for how I should go out and celebrate finishing this report.
"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.
Postive Q2 results released today
I need to celebrate!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
extrabaggs
Talked to Todd Wellemeyer yesterday. He was supposed to learn plan from Bochy and Sabean. Don’t be surprised if he takes Bautista’s spot.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
Because he throws strike and Bautista doesn’t mirite!
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
YAY
I love going from “not good” to “bad”
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
So, basically, Ryan got sent down to make room for Todd. :(
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
basically. But by doing it this way, it goes from “oh god Wellemeyer” to “Oh fuck yeah Wellemeyer get in there”
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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
(this way being Wellemeyer taking Bautista’s spot)
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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
I dont' think
todd’s really an improvement =/
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I don’t know if I like Wellemeyer better than Bautista.
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
Yes: I’m seeing this as a douche bag/shit sandwich kind of deal.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Casey Blake / Russell Martin?
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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
Yes. Except that’s more douche bag/douche bag.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
this seems like an unexpected pull
"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.
He’s barely better than Bautista about the walks, and he doesn’t have the stuff to get the strikeouts that Bautista does.
To top it off, despite how terrible he was early this year he was actually getting BABIP lucky.
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
Wellemeyer’s L/R splits are pronounced, thanks to the slider being his only real pitch, so you can leverage him out of the pen a little bit by making sure he doesn’t see many lefties.
Sooner or later he’ll see a lefty. Platoon pitchers that really get killed by one side or the other are usually a disaster waiting to happen.
ALSO HOLY SHIT LIFETIME FIP OF 5.98 VS LHH!!
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
or a righty!
he can be out NOOGY
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
NOGY
the we go
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
Even though Bautista is pretty bad, I think he’s a lot more useful than Wellemeyer
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I think they both need to be left on the side of the road.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
For all of you bagging on Bautista walking Kuo on 4 pitches
Dude has serious pop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPv2l5-uz4g
Check out the bat flip and the extreme slo-mo.
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
first Taiwanese player to hit a Home Run in MLB history.
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
He's an out
Walking him was stupid.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
You and Ozzie
if only you can see it without your AZN BIAS
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
The only bias I have is against walking a career OPS+ 54 relief pitcher.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate Wellemeyer's attitude
His body language on the mound makes me want to run out on the field and kick him into space.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
The puppies will appreciate the reprieve.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Couldn't care less
As long as he’s a serviceable long reliever, which we need with RIP Yeah Joey.
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.
FOUR MORE YEARS
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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
I bet
the plan is to use Wellemmeyer in the bullpen and let him poach a few of Mad Bum’s starts in an effort to keep Mad Bum’s innings down.
Soak it in.
Some good times on this Dodger fan blog, particularly in the comments.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
hankschulman
Baggs more of a granola/talapia kind of guy than I am. (shaddup @dylanohernandez) RT @BPDerouen: you and Baggs having lunch together?
Tilapia?
They could be Giants...but not really.
how do granola and tilapia fit together?
foods that end in ‘a’?
"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.
What, you don’t like granola with your fish?
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I think they are both stripper names
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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
Tilapia, or 吳郭魚, makes excellent dishes in Taiwanese Cuisine.
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
I’ve tried things way more fishy than Tilapia……….
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
/Eric Karros
"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.
why do fish taste like fish?
"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 don't mind fish...but tilipia and catfish are too much
Much bigger fan of halibut, sea bass, tuna, or salmon…
Love Orange Roughy and Chilean Sea Bass too but have stopped eating them…
Curious
I don’t think tilapia and catfish taste all that much alike, but what don’t you like about their taste?
They could be Giants...but not really.
It's the "gaminess" of the type of fish...
very pungent and strong fish flavor…good fried but not much else for me.
BECAUSE THEY ARE AWESOME!
It isn’t their fault that you can handle the taste of awesome.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
but I like fish
even those little oily suckers, like anchovies.
"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.
Schulman asks a toughie
hankschulman
I have a question for you guys: First on Heyman list is Figgins. How’d you like him. 33 next year. Three years/$27 million left on his deal.
Me, I’d take him in a second.
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.
not a fucking chance
Scott 2.0
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
DNW.
The Giants FO, on the other hand, probably would.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I like him to recover some, but not for the money he’s owed.
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
Yeah, the question is how much of his salary you can get seattle to pick up. For $5 million per year, I’d be happy to have Figgins.
The question is whether you'd take him off waivers
Which means his full contract, nothing from Seattle.
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.
I think you guys are crazy
Career .360 OBP with a BABIP slump to the tune of .40 points below career average. I think he’d do well here, and the money isn’t completely unreasonable.
His last three seasons: 3.2 WAR, 2.7, 6.1
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.
He's Scott.
2.0.
Average player who got too big of a contract coming off a career year
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
except, you know
total overall value
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Figgins is definitely a better player than Rowand and they don’t have similar skillsets at all.
I still think 3/27 is a lot to take on for a guy who’s been replacement level so far this year. Even if you bumped his BABIP up thirty points, he still wouldn’t be all that good.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
And the 3/27 is for his 34-36 years
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
That’s my issue. There is almost always a decline at that point. See: Renteria, Edgar; Rowand, Aaron; Molina, Bengie.
Adopted Giant: Ryan Rohlinger (on loan from Shanghaijim).
Buster Posey: He knows the rules!
by kdl on Aug 2, 2010 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
how is he definitely a better player than Rowand?
I get that their skillsets are different, but their total overall value (judging by WAR) over the last 5 years has been nearly identical.
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Well, the last five years for Figgins includes this season and a really bizarre 2006 where he had a 0.0 WAR because of a weird -18.6 UZR, which is completely out of character for him.
Other than that, though, he’s been a fairly consistent 2.5-3.5 win player, with the one 6.1 outlier last year.
Whereas Rowand has the two five win seasons under his belt, but outside of those seems to be a 1.5-2.5 win player
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Because Rowand's been so stellar this year?
over their careers, their wRC+ are essentially the same (1 point difference)
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
I like him, but he has to get all the way back to that .360 OBP to be a good player, and he’s 33. And where are we going to play him?
Another problem
When his speed starts to go, there isn’t much of a player left.
Mark DeRosa is playing exactly the same amount of professional baseball as his adopted father, these days.
I think you guys are crazy
Career .360 OBP with a BABIP slump to the tune of .40 points below career average. I think he’d do well here, and the money isn’t completely unreasonable.
His last three seasons: 3.2 WAR, 2.7, 6.1
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.
boy you could say that again
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
Ah fuck, did that post twice?
On a train with spotty Amtrak WiFi, can’t tell what I’m doing.
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
and it was still just as wrong the 2nd time :p
Sharlon Schoop - de favoriete Nederlandse honkbalspeler van McCovey Chronicles.
You always have to be one step ahead of your drunk friends
--Daisy Owl
Nah
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 2, 2010 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Shift + A
I was hopng for an Off Day Thread. :(
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
I prefer when others get the ball rolling. Less work.
The Magic is inside all of us.
Proud father of the man taking your hard-earned money.
hey look
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2010/8/2/1601701/the-most-interesting-team-in-the
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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
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