A History Of Torture
by Natto on Sep 15, 2010 2:00 PM PDT
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PrintAs the season began, the crack Giants marketing team revealed their slogan for the year: It's Magic Inside. However, it wasn't too long before our beloved broadcaster Duane Kuiper came up with a more fitting one: Giants baseball... Torture. This season has featured a slew of gut-punching, soul-draining, disgusting, excruciating, rotten, no-good losses. Last night's debacle was one example of them. Since we're Giants fans and are, by default, masochistic in nature, why don't we take a trip down memory lane and revisit some more of them?
April 18: Giants 1, Dodgers 2
- Clayton Kershaw and Barry Zito are locked in a pitcher's duel trading zeros until Juan Uribe hits a home run in the 7th inning to give the Giants a 1-0 lead. Dodgers respond in the next inning when Manny Ramirez hits a pinch-hit 2-run homer in the next inning. This was especially fun since I was there.
April 19: Giants 2, Padres 3
- David Eckstein walk-off homer. 'Nuff said.
April 20: Giants 0, Padres 1
- Jonathan Sanchez pitches a gem, but the Giants lose even though the Padres only had one hit. Good thing that will never happen again, eh?
April 28: Phillies 7, Giants 6
- Going into the 9th inning with a 3-run lead and our stud closer Brian Wilson. Piece of pie. Oh. That's a double? I hate you, Jayson Werth.
May 22: Giants 0, Athletics 1
- Matt Cain pitched a complete game and didn't give up any earned runs! Unfortunately, he did give up an unearned run.
June 10: Giants 6, Reds 7
- Giants take a 2-run lead late into the game despite losing their starting pitcher early on (although that starter was Todd Wellemeyer).
June 26 - July 2: Seven-game losing streak (including a sweep at home by the Dodgers)
- That sucked.
July 18: Mets 4, Giants 3
- Phil F'n Cuzzi
August 25: Reds 12, Giants 11
- Giants come back from being down 10 runs and even take the lead. However, a series of blunders lead to the Reds retaking the lead.
August 30: Rockies 2, Giants 1
- Carlos Gonzalez hits a BS broken-bat triple and even manages to score on a flukey play at third. I've never been disemboweled through my groin, but I think I know what it feels like after that play.
September 11: Giants 0, Padres 1
- Madison Bumgarner looks dominant and only gives up 1 run. Unfortunately for him, the Giants didn't score any runs, thanks to some terrible situational at bats and umpire tomfoolery. That one run also happened to be an opposite-field home run hit by Giants-killer Yorvit Torrealba to the shortest part of Petco Park.
And yet, the Giants are still within striking distance of the playoffs. 17 games remaining, 1.5 out from 1st in the division and 1 game out of the Wild Card at the time I'm writing this. For each one of these agonizing defeats, I can think of two awesomely satisfying, triumphant, wins. Aaron Rowand hitting a 40-bounce dribbler walk-off single. Matt Cain throwing a 1-hit CGSO. ❤Buster Posey❤ hitting a grand slam. Bruce Bochy out-smarting the Dodgers. (I mean, seriously? Man.) These are just some of the moments that have thrilled us this year. No matter how this season ends, we'll look back at it as a memorable, exciting, insane ride. So here's to the rest of the season and hope for more wackiness. I just hope what hair that I haven't pulled out yet hasn't grayed prematurely by the time the season ends.
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This year
Really had its fair share of gut punches. Is it too much to ask for the Giants to make the playoffs in non-tortuous style?
"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!!
Screw you Flannery.
The Giants’ season has been quite tortuous, and I expect that to continue.
It’s also been quite torturous, and I expect that to continue.
Fun fact: "Mota" is Bengali for "fat".
lol me
I kept thinking I was spelling it wrong but I was too lazy to check.
"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!!
Screw you Flannery.
Yes
Should the Giants ever win a World Series in my lifetime it will be in torturous style ala the F’n Red Sox, they will have to go down 3 games to none in the playoffs to someone like the Dodgers only to pull it off.
Also, every single playoff appearance will be similar to every near playoff appearance…torture.
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
by Giant Torture on Sep 15, 2010 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
not tortured enough
once you are down 3-0, anything good that happens is just gravy.
For a truly torturous 7 game series, they would have to go UP 3-0, then blow 3 sure series victories in completely new and uniquely torturous fashion.
What game 7 torture would be like is left as an exercise to the reader. Especially if we actually win.
When this .sig was awaiting the Final Sabean Apocalypse, I never once in a million years suspected it would be a "good" Apocalypse. Bengie... Don't let the door hit you IN YOUR GIANT ASS on the way out!
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game totally stalled and basically dead at this point
This reminds of one game I thought I watched
once in 2002, but then I woke up and found out it was a dream.
by paboperfecto on Sep 20, 2010 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
GODDAMMIT
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 20, 2010 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
SUBJECT LINE
IT HAPPENED ACCEPT IT!
"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!!
Screw you Flannery.
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
by paboperfecto on Sep 22, 2010 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Not sure if this game is in here because I've blocked it out of my memory
But I remember the Giants losing a game this year in which Huff absolute crushed one to center in the 9th that would have given the Giants the win, but fell victim to Telephone Park and was caught.
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
I think there was a similar one against the Pirates where McCutchen made a diving play to end the game.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Was that McCutchen or Milledge? Either way, awful.
Also known to haunt as theghostoftravisdenker and theaccidentalghostofsergioromo.
Adopted parent of good old Wendell, he tries so hard. You'll get a hit someday son!
by theghostofjasonellison on Sep 15, 2010 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Makes it worse.
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 Sep 15, 2010 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
It was against the Padres
One of 3 home Padres losses I’ve witnessed this year, all by one run.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 15, 2010 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah, I thought this post was going to be about Michel Foucault.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
I thought it was going to be mostly Wu-Tang quotes.
My son is Madison Bumgarner, the Bipolar Stuffed Sheep of pitching prospects. My other son is a Porsche.
It is, if you read it carefully.
One of the most tortuous moments of the year came in a game we won. Wasn’t Kaz Matsui’s AB against Wilson this year?
by non sequitur on Sep 15, 2010 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Remind me . . .
why I need to be tied to the Tundra heading north and dragged back south over previously torturous terrain.
Because it’s good for me? Because my character could stand some building?
He is the World's Most Annoying Rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Sep 15, 2010 2:35 PM PDT reply actions
..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iqpzLixV_I
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 Jason Werth hit the line double, followed by a Eugenio Valdez error later in extras.
I thought he had Werth K’d prior to the pitch that he hit the chalk with.
I see Houston Street get strikes called all over the place, and Wilson
can toss some balls right down the middle and I see the ump call
Ball.
I've been meaning to ask you
What are you typing on that it adds returns in way earlier than necessary? It’s not a phone, as far as I can tell, since it would say via mobile, so what?
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, please keep hitting.
More of a Stayfree man.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 20, 2010 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
It's a poetry thing.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 20, 2010 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks… I think.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 15, 2010 4:24 PM PDT reply actions
Hey…at least we didn’t have a 9-2 lead going into the bottom of the 8th and then lose it in the ninth…
i can't stop watching this
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
April 18-20
That was a fun couple of days.
Adopted brother of Jason Jarvis who is stuck in the baseball purgatory called extended spring training.
Oy, I was interviewing in Chicago at the time
That was a crappy weekend of crap.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
Of course, it all ended in heart break.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 15, 2010 6:07 PM PDT reply actions
It’s torturous inside.
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
by Giant Torture on Sep 16, 2010 4:58 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s even torture when we win. Like tonight, or like Jonathan Sanchez’ 7 walks in 5 innings but still no runs in PETCO last weekend. Also, I was at the first one-hitter loss in San Diego. That game was ridiculous, but at least that time the hit actually contributed to the run, whereas last night the hit off Zito was immediately erased and the bums still scored.
by 24 Willie Mays Plaza on Sep 16, 2010 4:05 AM PDT reply actions
Uribe's two-run homer. . .
. . .caps a 5-4 comeback win.
by betterthanbochy on Sep 16, 2010 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Rowand's two-out 9th-inning blast. . .
. . .ties the Marlins, and we win it in extras.
by betterthanbochy on Sep 16, 2010 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
That one road trip almost justifies Scott’s existence on this team. Between the Marlins and Mets series didn’t he hit three late tying or winning HRs and make a couple great game-saving catches?
Man, that was so long ago that Panda was hitting .360 and surely on his way to superstardom and cult hero status.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Last night, with Fontenot and Sandoval driving in runs, Cain and Romo dominating, and Wilson giving up the homerun but also a couple of strikeouts.
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 Sep 16, 2010 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Burrell. Burrell. and Burrell.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
This, This and This
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
by Giant Torture on Sep 16, 2010 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Renteria’s 2-run homer vs Billy Wagner
by kingofthacove on Sep 16, 2010 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Lincecum shutting out the Dodgers and driving in 3 runs
by kingofthacove on Sep 16, 2010 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Andres Torres game tying homer in the 8th for eventual first win of the year vs Padres
by kingofthacove on Sep 16, 2010 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I remember that one
I was in a bar watching the Hawks vs Sharks and they put that game on another tv and I couldn’t pick a tv to look at. Then my friend’s boyfriend made fun of me for getting that pumped about a game in May.
Go jump in Toews Lake.
Aubrey: old German for king of the elves. Huff: English for...huff.
by shinkicker on Sep 16, 2010 12:56 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Buster Posey stretching a single into a double
Walk-off win against the Padres!
by withclubsauce on Sep 18, 2010 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Missing
all the torture suffered in the games we won.
When this .sig was awaiting the Final Sabean Apocalypse, I never once in a million years suspected it would be a "good" Apocalypse. Bengie... Don't let the door hit you IN YOUR GIANT ASS on the way out!
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game totally stalled and basically dead at this point
Does Kuip actually even say this line after the Giants lose? I wouldn’t know because I’ve never listened to the postgame after a loss. I’ve only heard him say it after SF wins.
by non sequitur on Sep 16, 2010 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks for taking us down memory lane
but oh man, just as others have said, it’s also often torture even when the Giants win
co-dad w/AfDC of
Ishikawa, the Topps Rookie All Star Team's First baseman. Does he get a chance in 2010?
"Because I don’t know what it means anymore, in the PCL. It’s almost like years ago."
"That’s not to say Buster isn’t fully committed or all-in. He is. He’s smart and he’s got the advance reports. Anybody who said he’s not ready to catch in the big leagues is crazy because he’s a pretty good catcher, especially throwing." - Sabean 7/11/10
I vote...
that we implement a script to replace all references to “Buster Posey” with “❤Buster Posey❤”. All in favor?
GiantsBabe seconds the motion.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 20, 2010 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Did someone already mention
allowing walk-off home runs to two different catchers on consecutive days- a first in baseball history, IIRC- while dropping three out of four to the Mess at a Citi Field doing its best windswept-and-freezing Candlestick impression?
Because I was at that series, and it sucked.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 20, 2010 9:40 PM PDT reply actions
The problem is that you are remembering the bad tight games
It is just as bad losing 7-6 as 2-1, and even worse if you are regularly losing 5-0 or 8-5, that is, by a crooked number.
The more pertinent thing to me is that this team has won so many games than it has lost, enough to put it in the playoff chase. I don’t find that torturous in the least bit.
Adoptive parental unit of Ehire Adrianza.
Godfather of Travis Ishikawa.
"Woo hoo!" - Tim "The Kid" Lincecum
"The objective is that World Series ring" - The Kid
"I think my role here has changed a little bit. I'm counted on a little more." - Posey after hitting 12-24 with 4 homers after Molina trade
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Sep 21, 2010 2:56 PM PDT reply actions
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