Post-game thread: Giants take first game, Lincecum cures lepers
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 7:52 PM PDT
Email
PrintWell, that was satisfying. After worrying about this series for a couple of months, the Giants marched right into Petco and beat the Padres at their own game. The Padres had two baserunners all night -- two! -- but, of course, they were in exactly the right sequence. It was a single that followed a double, not the other way around. It looked like the Padres were going to cain Lincecum again, doing the timely hitting thing at Petco once ag...
...
...
Wait, that was against the Rockies? At Coors Field? Two baserunners in a game at Coors Field?
There’s...no canned response for something like that. We just watched a chupacabra mate with a centaur in the shadow of a full eclipse. Hope your cameraphone was charged.
Tim Lincecum has had goofy, otherworldly games. He’s struck out 15 batters in a single game, making hitters look like they’ve never seen anything other than an 84-mph fastball. He’s pitched a two-hitter before. But considering stuff, performance, and situation, this was the best game he’s ever pitched. Take a look. It isn’t a clear favorite, but I’m sticking with this one. This was a special outing. I’d like to take this game, stuff it in the center of a lead pipe, and travel back in time one month to take out the kneecaps of the people who were saying that Lincecum was done. Metaphorically take out the kneecaps, of course. Maybe.
And I don’t want to go too far out on a limb here, so I’ll choose my words carefully: I’m starting to think that, considering the price the Giants paid for him, Pat Burrell just might turn out to be a worthwhile acquisition. The jury is still out, but I’m holding a good thought.
That’s how to start a series at Coors Field. That was beautiful. No one wants to read 500 words on the brilliance of Jhoulyshyllous Chacin, even if he would have deserved it. Nope. Tonight was Lincecum’s night. Burrell will take home an award for his supporting role, but tonight was Lincecum’s. Lincecum Lincecum Lincecum. And Lincecum.
Brian Wilson was pretty good too. But Tim Lincecum.
1807 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
Fuck Yeah!
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
Oh yeah
Lincecum will always be better than Ubaldo
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
missing pitcher
where the heck is Dan Runzler?
by routemanager on Sep 25, 2010 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
TIMMEH!
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 7:54 PM PDT reply actions
just watching on the DVR
Is it just me, or are Lincecum’s breaking pitches uniformly beautiful?
Krukow keeps calling them ‘crisp’ but I think that is an understatement.
Chacin’s fastball is pretty damned good too.
This game in a picture:
"I don't know how the six-pack got in my hands." -P.T.F. Bat
by deuce deuce on Sep 24, 2010 7:55 PM PDT reply actions 6 recs
Nobody gave him an ass slap did they?
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Well yeah...
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
At the risk of being a complete loser...
Burrell is looking a mighty bit like the movie version of Voldemort in this photo. Someone check if he is using an elder bat…I apologize, sometimes I can’t help myself
Pat bringing out the Nuschler
A good time to do so, too.
Why couldn't McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?
Lincecum?
LINCECUM!
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Sep 24, 2010 7:55 PM PDT reply actions
8IP, 2Hits, 1R, 0BB, 9K
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
by jhiat00 on Sep 24, 2010 7:55 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
that is the most beautiful stat line I’ve ever seen. In Coors, in September, with first place on the line… kid is a big-game pitcher it appears
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
not to mention one of those hits was a bloop double, which resulted in the IF being pulled in, and the other hit getting thru the drawn in IF.
simply, magic
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey Purple Row
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
by 49er16 on Sep 24, 2010 7:56 PM PDT reply actions 6 recs
I'm not a troll
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
This
I’m not trolling other sites.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
I was wondering earlier…did you have a bad feeling about this series?
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
don't wanna lose victor uh
I mean niner
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions
The preferred way to do it is to read the opposing team’s post-game thread and chuckle silently.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:06 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It’s a great way to kill time between raids.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
Ha! my AP english teacher showed this in class for some reason today…
...Tater Salad
by nick217Giantsfan on Sep 24, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
MA! MA! BAFROOM!
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions
i stopped in there and told them it was a great pitching duel, and that Chacin is a great pitcher and they are in good fortune to have him. They were friendly about it, IMO they kissed their season goodbye in ARI so they weren’t as bummed as we would be had it been the other way around
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s actually where I got the idea. Andrew wrote that in the comments section of PR once, and I was like, dammit, why didn’t I think of that?
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Everything has been done under the sun
by someone or another by someone and his brother
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions
But clearly they either are all-too-willing to turn their trolls into martyrs (see: mondogarbage) or they just don’t care.
I think Mondogarbage is not reflective of other posters there.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
The poster in question doesn’t troll here, though.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
No, he got banned because I hid his — and everyone else’s — comments in a particularly ugly thread. When you hide, though, the default is to also ban, which I didn’t realize.
He stayed banned because of how proud he was of being banned, and because he wasn’t likely to contribute to this community in any positive way.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah. I didn’t realize that a delete was an auto-ban. Strange that it’s set up that way.
My comment about martyrdom stands though.
When you delete all of the poster’s comments at once it is. I’ve learned.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
oh no!!! not a million Rowands swinging for you cause you look like a slider!!
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Amazing
What finding your release point and delivery can do for you.
Fastball back up 92-94, breaking stuff has bite, and most importantly, the command of the strike zone is back.
Way to go Timmy.
ONLY TWO RUNS THEY SUCK
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Sep 24, 2010 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Now, now just wait...
Sunday they’ll score eleventy billion runs…
Of course tomorrow they’ll only score one.
I know that, and you know that….. but I was hoping maybe we could just shake things up a little bit and skip that part. I also don’t think Zito can win a game with only 1 run of support… but oh well….
their pitcher has a dead arm and is supposedly limited to 80 pitches tomorrow… i think we got our offense back on track. Chacin really was that good. We worked him, and it finally paid off as he fatigued. The pitch to Burrell wasn’t even a bad one, really.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Because you are saying this, that means he’ll throw 80 pitches in a 9 inning shutout. Giants lose 1-0 on a one hitter.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
not to this “new” offense. Working pitchers? UNHEARD OF!!!
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s masked by the glorious taste of victory and Timothy Lincecum, but minus the swing by Pat, that is an UGLY offensive performance. The one positive – it was not slop-hacking, and they really did work some counts, which is encouraging. Chacin did throw a helluva game, that breaking ball was not being picked up by a lot of the hitters tonight.
Non-jokingly
Chacin was money tonight, I think the offense actually did pretty well to force him to throw so many pitches. I feel like most of the season this would have been a 90-pitch shutout.
VAE PVTO DEVS FIO
Yeah, this wasn’t the Giants doing poorly (Randy Wells? Come on.), this was Chacin having great command of some nasty pitches.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, if we’re lucky, they’ll have footage of that game on loop in the Randy Wells Wing of the Hall of Fame.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Sep 24, 2010 8:03 PM PDT up reply actions
And the Giants did the best job working the count and fouling off pitches that I think I’ve seen them do all season.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
I totally agree. Both the Randy W’s games were just a product of crap offense.
Tonight was a good pitcher, that we worked and finally it paid off.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
It reminded me of mid-year Timmy. Absolutely filthy stuff, but threw a ton of pitches and couldn’t last down the stretch.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Sep 24, 2010 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah.
The silver lining was that they worked Chacin hard. If you noticed, the 6th and 7th inning the pitch count caused Chacin to lose the snap on that filthy slider. Just have to find a way to find some gaps.
by BustaTheRippa on Sep 24, 2010 8:01 PM PDT up reply actions
They also played "standard" defense
which, for them, was above average.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
The only part of the game I saw
Was the last out. I was watching TCU-SMU
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Torture and all that
Plus Robb Nen and Neifi Perez.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
At least your Red Sox won!
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Sep 24, 2010 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions
My favorite part of this game
Cargo: 0 for 3, K
Tulo: 0 for 3
Helton: 0 for 3, K
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Sep 24, 2010 7:59 PM PDT reply actions
I like that Gonzalez and Tulo only had three at bats.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
by rxmeister on Sep 24, 2010 8:01 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Thiiiiiiiiiiiis.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
Helton's K was brutal
Seeing such a historically great hitter just wave weakly at a third strike was almost kind of sad (in a totally bitchin’ way).
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~ Rogers Hornsby
Anybody know how I would look up the record for fewest combined hits in a game at Coors? 5 seems like it could be the lowest ever.
no idea if this has been posted already, but...
#Rockies drop first game of series with SF 2-1. 5 total its tonight are the fewest in Coors Field history.
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 24, 2010 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Just finished the DVR of it all.
Chacin was great. The Giants hitters weren’t that bad. And Lincecum was 90% otherworldly, with three or four hangers with which he got away. But the other hundred pitches ranged from pretty good to stellar.
Oh, and Brian Wilson was quietly brilliant. I could get used to that.
I’m tempted to retweet that except then RealRockies will become aware of my existence.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
just steal it and tweet it like it’s your own :P
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 24, 2010 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Adrian Gonzalez almost pulled a fast one on Drew Stubbs.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Saw that. I've seen it work on steals a lot.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Yeah
That was close, decent move though, only works if the 1B has to stretch for one in the dirt.
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
by Giant Torture on Sep 24, 2010 8:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Yay! We’re at the game getting ready for happy fireworks!
Proud parent of Bengie Molina: Buster who?
by The Enchanter on Sep 24, 2010 7:59 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I’m not surprised in a game where it looked like everyone was feeling the pennant race pressure, it was the guy with the World Series ring who hit the big homerun. This win should relax the rest of them.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
by rxmeister on Sep 24, 2010 8:00 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
What about Edgar Renteria’s ring?
And Juan Uribe’s?
I have to say I trust them both down the stretch.
And Aaron Rowand’s.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
Someone needs to show the bench guys how to grit out a ring.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 24, 2010 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Now, go Reds!
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
Nate Colbert
Padres all-time HR leader, LOL
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
A more relevant stat for them would be...
all time annoying bloop single leader. It’s weird; no one keeps a stat for that.
David Eckstein has to own the MLB record in that category.
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
by Giant Torture on Sep 24, 2010 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Nate Colbert kicked ass in a doubleheader no human has ever done;
Colbert’s best day in the majors was August 1, 1972, when he slammed 5 home runs – one of two players to have done so – and drove in 13 runs in a doubleheader, breaking Stan Musial’s record of 11 runs batted in.
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Nate Colbert heckle
I was at Jack Murphy back around 1974 & some guy yelled out “There’s a banana boat leaving in the morning Colbert, you be on it!” We were down there that Summer trying to become surfers. Fortunately, no one drowned.
by Comrade Conrad on Sep 24, 2010 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't believe I missed this
But bra-frigging-vo!
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
He didn't even walk on water tonight!
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
can’t pitch under pressure
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Sep 24, 2010 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Say what you want about the Rockies
At least their fans showed up. Not much in San Diego it appears.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
It’s not like the Rockies fanbase these days are great, though.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
They usually draw a big crowd when they do well. You could tell this was a fireworks game, though. Huge cheers for every fly ball, huge cheers for moving a runner to third with the second out, etc….
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Fireworks?
That explains the big crowd.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
They’re at the park, they’re just never in their seats because they’ve got to keep moving.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 24, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
We’ll see how it looks on Sat. and Sun. without the fireworks draw. Even Oakland sells tickets on fireworks day.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
I wasn’t in the GDT thread tonight but did anyone else see the Colorado broadcast put up a CG with a quote from Tulo about how he likes to beat the Giants more than others
He grew up in the South Bay as a A’s loving, Giants hating fan.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Tulo was an A's fan growing up
Had an interview with Marty Lurie awhile back saying that he loves playing the Giants and beating them because he hated the Giants growing up.
In other words, Tulo can go f*ck himself.
by BustaTheRippa on Sep 24, 2010 8:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I read that he grew up in the wilds of Canada as a Blue Jays-loving, Expos hating fan.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey our team is better than yours eh. But that’s ok because your a good person and I like to think that I am one too. Hey, wanna go grab a Molsen and go fishin?
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
News Flash
Troy Tulowitzki is an asshole. I like watching him fail in high pressure situations more than just about everybody else, especially because he always throws a fucking tantrum about it.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
This
Dude is a full of whine and cheese. He’s a douche. Great talent though, my lord.
by BustaTheRippa on Sep 24, 2010 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Meh. I honestly think he’s overrated. Good, but overrated.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
like that strikeout against Lincecum last time in SF, he stood there and argued with the ump while the ball went to the backstop and Posey just lofted the throw over, b/c Tulo never even ran, instead argued a losing cause.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:22 PM PDT up reply actions
You would like him as a Giant I bet.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll buy that he was in the South Bay and hated the Giants
But growing up? Hold the phone.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Sep 24, 2010 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Surprised nobody has mentioned that Linceum threw that ball out in the sixth, saying “fucking juiced ball.” They showed it in the post game.
Buster Posey: Let's enjoy him before he goes to the Yankees.
by rxmeister on Sep 24, 2010 8:03 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Wow
Reds catcher….sucks. Too bad the Giants are comprised of water buffaloes or they could run all over him, should they…uh…never mind.
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
SUCK IT DAVID ECKSTEIN
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Oh he does
Believe me he does.
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
by Giant Torture on Sep 24, 2010 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Does the little things perfectly.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
venable was out
but I’ll take a pop up
by Bring Back Barry! on Sep 24, 2010 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I love FJM takes every opportunity to rip the guy
While the media loves him.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
If there isn’t room anymore for a guy like David Eckstein to suck it, then sucking it might as well be dead.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Sep 24, 2010 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions
This is very appropriate
considering Ecksteins walk up music
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
by Gobroks on Sep 25, 2010 2:08 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Which is…?
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 7:31 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
I love that song, and I love how much airplay it gets these days.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Just got here
Our pitchers = gods
"Buster Posey" anagram = OYSTER PUBES
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Sep 24, 2010 8:05 PM PDT reply actions
Cthulu’s all “TIME TO DIE, BITCH!”.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
That sounds about right, coming from him it.
/goes mad
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 7:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Fuckin Padres
Tied at 1
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Just need
a little breathing room. Please oblige, padres
by Bring Back Barry! on Sep 24, 2010 8:06 PM PDT reply actions
Damn Bronson
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
This one goes out to all my Windows 3.1 homies.
by Natto on Sep 24, 2010 8:07 PM PDT reply actions 12 recs
Love you Natto
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
Oh man.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
I’m pretty sure this is another Lemonparty.org link.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions
When I purchased my first computer it had 3.11 with a free upgrade to Windows 95.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
95 was a very stable OS.
That’s why it lasted for 3 years….and it still had a gigantic user base until XP/2000
95 was so much more stable than any Windows before or after until you started getting to the NT based versions, with XP being the first Windows system to beat 95 IMHO.
The software engineer sitting behind me vehemently disagrees, but he’s busy with his pokemonz tonight. Something about 2 versions of ’95…first release bad, 2nd release better… but not better than ’98se… He will grant ’95 being better than ME.
Wow, I remember making courses in this all the time.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 24, 2010 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah!
I forgot all about Linerider… that was awesome.
I think Win 3.1 was about the only time I preferred Macs. Those early versions of Windows were just brutal.
And it was probably Dark Castle and Tetris on the Mac SE that made me realize I’d better not really get into computer games. Complete time sucks I couldn’t turn off.
"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
That guy had teleportation powers or something
I’d get past him, but then he’d immediately show up farther down the mountain.
Bowkermania runs wild...in Pittsburgh.
by rightcenterfielder on Sep 24, 2010 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy fucking shit, rec’d.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
I used to sit and play that on my mom’s work computer whenever I was forced to go there with her.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 24, 2010 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Timmy, Posey, Burrell with an assist to .... Guillian
Timmy threw his ass off. He has been clutch when the Giants needed clutch. Posey has been everything you expect and more. Burrell rules! But that 7th inning swing was setup by the man who broke up the double no-no. Guillian has the first hit of the game, and not some shitty Texas\San Diego leaguer. Giants put the Rox pitcher on the mound in the 7th with about 100 pitches. Posey worked a 5 pitch walk, Burrell and 2-0 count with Guillian and his previous AB looming. It’s crazy he got picked off, marginally genius to … meh. But… he had a small part of the win.
Sometimes.. you win by applying pressure on the other team. Like a 2-0 meat ball with a man on first.
It's better to be lucky than good.
Miguel Tejada may indeed suck it!
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
Are the Rockies done?
They needed a sweep and lost the first game.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
No. Let’s save proclamations for afterSunday’s gamethe season ends.
"Buster Posey" anagram = OYSTER PUBES
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Sep 24, 2010 8:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Giants get 2 of 3
Yea they’re done. Provided ATL and SD do not just tank the WC.
It's better to be lucky than good.
by Myemail21479 on Sep 24, 2010 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Reading their post game thread
In their minds the Rockies are done.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
if the pads/braves keep sucking
They may have a shot at the WC.
Did anyone happen to catch Timmy accidentally give a low five to Rowand’s balls after the game?
Hahahaha, poor Rowand…
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't. - BLB
first good contact
he’s gotten in months
by Bring Back Barry! on Sep 24, 2010 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Bazing!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
waaaooohhh!
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't. - BLB
$6M per ball
"Buster Posey" anagram = OYSTER PUBES
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Sep 24, 2010 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
So, I hate the Rockies and their stupid park, but…
They let the fans ON THE FIELD for fireworks night. That is pretty fucking cool.
by The Double Deuce on Sep 24, 2010 8:10 PM PDT reply actions
I went to a July 5th A's game a couple of years ago
in which we were allowed on the field. It was only the Coliseum, but it was still pretty cool.
The only problem was that I had to watch an A’s game before the fireworks.
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
They should do it at the end of the year. The field is completely fucked anyway due to the Raiders. (Not that concerts don’t fuck up our field, too.)
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions
It was a rude awakening when I went to FanFest this year, only to discover the remnants of a supercross show. Ick.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
Yeah, that gets pretty gross.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Thisssssss. Plus, I missed Bowker, Cain, Schierholtz and Righetti in the autograph line by like, 20 minutes and had to settle for Dunston and Gardner. I still bitch about that at work.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I did get to see the Medders/Affeldt Q&A, though, which meant I got treated to another round of Affeldt bragging about his hitting. Hilarious.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
Last year, season ticket holders were invited to a special autograph session throughout the day. The “players” I got? Dave Roberts and Ron Wotus.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
My roommates got Lincecum this year. There’s a picture of them both standing with him, but the Giants logo is plastering right over one of their faces.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
One of the most surreal things I’ve ever seen was the moment Tim came out to the KNBR stage for an interview. The place went nuts, and there was this dense throng of people around him the whole way. I’d never seen such in my life.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Lincecum could run as a Tea Party Republican mayor and win in San Francisco.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
No lie, my instant reaction was, “This sucker could rob a bank and get a parade down Market Street.” It was nuts.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Well, robbing a bank ranks pretty low in the list of SF offenses. You could easily win election as a supervisor as a bank robber. Often are.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Well, I meant more in the realm of public reception. That Tim could commit a serious crime and suffer no significant loss of popularity in the city.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I was there, and when he was coming out of the dugout I said loudly “Make way, here comes the president” because he was surrounded by Security. Timmy looked right at me and gave me a cool smile.
Speaking of which, we have this week’s Onion.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw that a few days ago
The Onion is pretty awesome.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
Not sure if that’s a worthwhile trade-off
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
by Giant Torture on Sep 24, 2010 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions
After tonight, I think it's safe to say:
Game 7, Yankees in AT&T, Steinbrenner’s ghost looming over the field like a giant cloud of cigar smoke? Timmy’s the guy I want on the mound.
And I’m out to a house party. Cheers, McCoven.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Sep 24, 2010 8:12 PM PDT reply actions
Cain
Timmy is 1 and 5 all the way through… cuz you know Giants sweep until series.
It's better to be lucky than good.
by Myemail21479 on Sep 24, 2010 8:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Definitely don’t think the Yanks are going to the WS. I mean they can bat the ball around, but their pitching is kind of … um … rickety?
Will the Twins, Rangers and Rays beat them?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Combined? Definitely.
Individually, I’d go with possibly, no, and probably in that order..
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
"infielder Miguel Tejada" anagram
I’M AN ILL-JUDGED, EERIE FAT
"Buster Posey" anagram = OYSTER PUBES
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Sep 24, 2010 8:14 PM PDT reply actions
Wow Petco
I thought Arroyo hit that out for a minute.
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
Bronson can crank one every once in a while.
Adoptive father of the enigmatic Michael Sandoval, and living vicariously through his proximity to Joe Mauer and the Panda.
LMFA OFF STAIRS IN LF
Makes a routine fly ball at the track look like he just climbed 50 flights of …. Irony… stairs.
It's better to be lucky than good.
I'm just going to leave this here. It took me over an hour to make, and I'm never going to be able to use it again. Bittersweet.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:15 PM PDT reply actions 16 recs
that's like that snl skit
where the guy comes up with the perfect comment like 5 minutes later
by Bring Back Barry! on Sep 24, 2010 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Worth the wait
Rowand=2
"There's not many things to do in a trailer park." - A. Huff
Giants Front Office....Torture!
by Giant Torture on Sep 24, 2010 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions
HOLY SHIT! Rec'd!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Awesome payoff
It even stands up to repeat viewings.
Bowkermania runs wild...in Pittsburgh.
by rightcenterfielder on Sep 24, 2010 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
Still in despair.
"Use the stencil! Do it!"
konakona:「つかさに教われと...なんか非常に負けたような気がする。」
Shun Kakazu: MOAR JAPANESE PROSPECTS PLZ
by Zetsuboushita on Sep 24, 2010 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was going to be because he had a boner. Needless to say, I was a little disappointed.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I can see this being re-done a la Downfall.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
my god…Grant…fantastic.
Billy Ripken is not a fuck face
by Karlifornia on Sep 25, 2010 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions
One cent to anyone besides grant who can tell me what music video that takes the piss out of
Billy Ripken is not a fuck face
by Karlifornia on Sep 25, 2010 12:18 AM PDT up reply actions
No Postgame?
Can’t find it on KNBR or TV.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
So what's the story on Lincecum and the Rockies cheating?
My dad told me about it and I’m intrigued.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
i was forced to watch the rox feed
the comcast feed shows timmy in the 6th tossing back a ball and saying…fucking juiced balls bullshit
i will take timmys word over the fucking cheating rox
they took a perfect game away from him
fuck em
LOL!
It's better to be lucky than good.
by Myemail21479 on Sep 24, 2010 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions
What if ESPN is coming here for news, Grant?
Did you think of that?
The baseball Satanist
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
"I told the family lovingly slide"
by thehavenot on Sep 24, 2010 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Rec’d for Excellent use of Meme.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I just noticed that too and then came here and was cracking up.
by VizquelQuest on Sep 24, 2010 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
S'okay
You’re not a national sports news channel & website.
are you?
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Finally corrected
Though it was still like this 15 minutes ago.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
18 games 3 runs or less
I know people find weird ways to cut stats. But that is impressive!
It's better to be lucky than good.
Umm, I’m going to reach across the aisle and ask my colleagues to help me approve Lincecum as well. This country is tired of Washington politics and they’re asking for a new pitcher for a new era.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Whatever the eventual result, I’d like to be under Posey.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I have no qualms about Buster’s strength and stamina.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Definitely. He can be the Secretary of My Interior any day.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
shut up.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
NO U
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
…
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I relinquish my being first in line for Buster, as long as I remain first in line to geek out about his cannon of an arm.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Meh, I just really like seeing him throw out runners more than anything.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
So what you’re saying is, you like it when Posey gets to second and possibly third base?
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Damn, I hate euphemisms.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll be the first to admit
I was reaching for that one. But you asked for it. Kinda. Not really. But I wanted to say it.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
You son of a biscuit eating bulldog.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
There’s apparently a sort of game played in boarding schools and boys’ dorms involving a biscuit—
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
NOM NOM NOM
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, there’s something wrong with this biscuit.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
OT
Did anyone see Colbert appeared in front of Congress?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Yes. It was awesome.
Just like most members of congress I haven’t read the bill.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Next year AT&T should have a Pat Burrel/Bat Purell Day. A mini bat autographed by Burrel but filled with Purell
by inthesquat on Sep 24, 2010 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
And it comes out of a hole at the tip?
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
If you twist the know just so.
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
So – anyone listening to KNBR? Did anyone see Lincecum mouth the words “fucking juiced ball bullshit” while in the game, pitching to Miguel Olivo? I guess they threw a ball to him, he looked down at it, tried to rub it up and ended up throwing it back to Posey and asked for a new one?
Anyone catch this???
Yeah, I wanna see this too.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
i have the postgame taped, im gonna go check it out
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
please upload to youtube
i was forced to watch the rox feed…and they cut away when he said what he said
fucking homers…you shouldve heard how depressed they sounded when burrell hit the dinger
and how it took them 2 innings to admit that chacin had tossed a hanging slider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K74NUqrli5M
by Norcalnappy on Sep 24, 2010 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Wow
I thought you guys were seeing things but he really does say “fucking juiced ball bullshit”.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 24, 2010 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep no mistaking it.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
I feel like he’s saying “fucking juiced ball is bullshit”.
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
Fucking juiced balls bullshit. The plural of ball is what makes it unmistakable.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Just because Grant sends you a warning with some weird Mussolini genitalia picture doesn’t mean you have to agree with him.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
It was Pol Pot, and it wasn’t genitalia. It was…wait, no, it was genitalia. And how!
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I think that’s Mussolini.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw "ball" and "bullshit." Not saying he didn't say it...
but I was trying to figure out the rest of the statement.
Congratulations! Good to have you, if only for a little while.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Congrats!
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks. Yeah, two girls. 16 months apart.
Everyone says they should be best friends, except from ages 13-16.
I was excited when the Giants got Metheny.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
why do you hate the giants so much torrealba?
is it because we didn’t offer you arbitration?
by Bring Back Barry! on Sep 24, 2010 8:26 PM PDT reply actions
Damn it 2-1 Padres
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
SOB PADRES
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
I THINK IS KINDA A GOOD THING THE PADRES WINNING TODAY. THEY GET A GOOD CHANCE AT WILD CARD BECAUSE THE BRAVES ARE CHOKING BIG TIME AND WE GET TO FACE THE REDS WITH HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE INSTEAD OF THE PHILLIES IN THE PLAYOFFS.
ACTUALLY SINCE THE BRAVES SCARE ME AS THE WC WHICH WE WOULD FACE I KIND OF AGREE WITH YOU
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
I DON'T KNOW
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LOUD NOISES!!!
seriously, why can’t Dusty do us a solid tonight….just for old time sake?
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
C'MON REDS!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Oh yeah. I forgot.
This is the time of year when our stupid ABC affiliate delays Nightline to 11:05 for a high school football clip show. Fantastic.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
You don't like all those players in tight pants?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
They’re high schoolers. I could get arrested for even knowing they exist.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Some are 18 (unless that isn’t legal in Alabama).
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I think it’s hinky nonetheless. I’m seven years their senior.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Why don't you have a seat over here?
/chris hanson
Personally football uniforms don’t do anything for me.
Now, rugby … which I also prefer to watch game-wise …
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Timmy- “Fucking juiced balls bullshit”
I just watched the taped postgame, and he def said that after rubbing a ball, didnt like it, then threw it back
i dont know how to make a gif of it. its on my at&t dvr
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL @ ALL THE LOSERS WHO WEREN'T AT THE PUBLICK HOUSE
It was fun
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
by jponry on Sep 24, 2010 8:38 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Hey that's like 1000 miles away 'nstuff.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
I could have gone, but colds can be transmitted through sucking up. So I stayed put. I regret not having a Philly Cheesesteak.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah well guess who was there!
Steven FUCKING Moskowitz
Bet you feel stupid now!!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
by jponry on Sep 24, 2010 8:41 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I didn’t know that Moskowitz was such a slut. Steven is pretty dreamy, though.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions
We were almost like, “Hey Steven we are big fans of your work, we love your commercials, will you take a picture with us?” but we chickened out.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I really should have asked him to sign my pants.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
His neck is like 3 feet tall
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
by Gobroks on Sep 25, 2010 2:22 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
My Philly Cheesesteak was delicious.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
YOUR OVERLORD IS JEALOUS!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Hey, he could have gotten one
Instead, he had to stay home and not infect others with his disease.
LIKE A LOSER
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Syphilis has no expiration date. I’ll have another chance.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
A lot of people for the opera showing?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
There actually were a ton of people there for the opera thing. We considered sneaking in and enhancing the performances with some “STFDs!!”
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
by jponry on Sep 24, 2010 8:43 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
DAMMIT. I knew I should’ve gone. Darn school.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I DONT GO OUT AFTER DARK WITH STRANGERS
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Shooty Babbit says Tim Lincecum is the
Alternate Competitor
ax him if he don’t!
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 8:38 PM PDT reply actions
rewind...
He says alternate competitor!!
I CAN’T BELIEVE THE REPORTING THESE DAYS!
TIM LINCECUM IS THE ALTERNATE COMPETITOR!!!
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I just think this is terrible. All the sentences we write
and I get to hear this “street talk” donated by a one year MLB player Oakland native gifted a job
because of a nickname and no talent.
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL PADRES!!!
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LOL PADRES "DEFENSE"
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Wow they called a dropped popup a hit.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
MVP voters don't consider defense.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Tied at 2.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
This defense is awesome.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
Damn Webb has a ridiculous fastball. Lots of movement.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Tim's pleasant surprise.
When the Giants needed a superb pitching effort Tim Lincecum delivered a one run 2 hitter for 8 innings and stood tall once again with Brian Wilson closing out the 9th and Pat Burrell kept the pace by belting yet another dramatic come from behind late inning 2 run blast to cement the Giants victory and push the Rockies further into oblivion. The Giants offense was held to only 3 hits after their mauling of the Cubs the night before so expect more run & hit support tomorrow. The Giants are a game ahead of SD who are tied 1-1 with the Reds and could be 1.5 games ahead with 8 to play if SD falters. The Giants are doing great and have what it takes to run away with the NL West during the final 8 games. They’ve blended excellent pitching with timely hitting and have managed to convert it into huge victories, like we saw tonight.
Hey, all you fuckers that keep whining "What if someone came here for news?"
Nailblubberina’s gonna cast Wall of Text (+3 Obvious Information Summary modifier) on your ass!
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s gotta crack the top 100 of things that sound dirty but really aren’t.
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
Tight End in football is top 5.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Wide Receiver/ End Zone/ Illegal Use of Hands/ etc.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Baltimore chop
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Not a walkoff, though
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Unpossible. Would have been nice though.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
I said that because of walkoff baltimore chop
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Look at a certain McCoven’s screen name.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
And that, my friends, is what she said.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
So
Has Duane Kuiper’s son posted here yet?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
And the post in question that spurred his registration here was jponry saying Cole Kuiper > Tess Krukow that day that Krukow’s daughter sang the national anthem.
Nothing on McC that I saw
But there was something on Twitter.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
HI DAVE!
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoa I feel famous now
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
by jponry on Sep 24, 2010 9:00 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
it’s been 15 minutes since you said that.
OVER
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Whatever
I’m only waiting for Dave
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
That’s one solid metaphorical lead pipe there.
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 24, 2010 8:56 PM PDT reply actions
I love all these infield singles
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
HAHAHA
Padres announcers are complaining about “scratch hits.”
Oh my god, the irony!
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
THIS
LOL this makes me happy. For god’s sakes over 162 they even out!
It's better to be lucky than good.
by Myemail21479 on Sep 24, 2010 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL Padres announcer, “Can you believe this inning??! ANOTHER scratch hit!”
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
THIS!!
It's better to be lucky than good.
by Myemail21479 on Sep 24, 2010 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
wonder how many times the opposing announcers have said that about the Padres? probably a 100:1 ratio. bout time it levels out
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, my signal is like 45 seconds behind you guys
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
Wow… that’s nucking futz!!!! We bought tickets on Feb 4th for the game on Oct 3… We paid $70 a ticket… we just looked on stubhub and the only tickets in that section are priced at $999 each!
Funny thing is, that could be a meaningless game.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Lots are still cheap on StubHub (I dunno about the 3rd, though). I just bought two AZ tickets for $7 and $8, and my SD tickets for the last series weren’t that much, and I bought them last week.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy Stubhub!
I’ll take 2 please.
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
by Scooter Ellis on Sep 24, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate all that shit. It looks like most of the players do, too.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
texas bullwinkles
nope, I’m with you on this. that whole deer/moose thing makes texas players look so stupid-why are they on board with this?
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
Somehow, 18 beers deep
I forgot a word. Dusty was a good Giant.
It's better to be lucky than good.
by Myemail21479 on Sep 24, 2010 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
So was Bud Black
In fact, Dusty managed him.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Ah, but first he was a Dodger
And at the time I overheard some old ’Stick lifers still mutter against him for that.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Fuck You! 42 YEARS YOUNG
23-7 2.60 LL22cg’s 1.11 WHIP
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
He had bad falling out with Tommy Lasorda. He also didn’t like how Glenn Burke was treated by Lasorda and the Dodgers.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
FUCKING JUICED BALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K74NUqrli5M
You know I spit technique to the freshest freak
Gimme a call you will see results in just a week
With the soul of a LOST HAWK
Is there a heaven for a Rap Cat, let's talk
by LostHawkGSW on Sep 24, 2010 9:05 PM PDT reply actions 7 recs
BULLSHIT
You know I spit technique to the freshest freak
Gimme a call you will see results in just a week
With the soul of a LOST HAWK
Is there a heaven for a Rap Cat, let's talk
that’s fantastic.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 24, 2010 9:08 PM PDT up reply actions
HAHAHA
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions
i have it taped on my large LCD tv, and running it through slow-mo, it is unmistakeable. “fucking juiced balls bullshit”
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I GOT YOUR SUBTITLES RIGHT HERE
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
To Be A Giant
To do giant things
To take giant steps
To leap giant leaps
To stand on mountains
To be a giant
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Of course, his OBP was awful, so he’s a pretty sketchy source.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
One of my top ten
OBP= OUTCOME BASED PLAN
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I can do Giant things!
/swings at first pitch in the dirt
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
A tad late but...
Fuck yes Miguel
/Win the inning
//Renteria - Still not a VD but I crush a lot
///Willism is Realism
Listened to the game on Rockies Radio
The announcers discussed this new, very good looking catching prospect on the giants. They discussed his classic catcher’s bottom heavy physique. They discussed his large thighs and “rear-end.”
What is it they say about San Francisco?
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - SLC
winter-like weather in the summer
great seafood
MLB’s most beautiful ball park
most on fire pitching staff
offense who doesn’t seem to be allergic to runz anymore
hmmm, what else do they say about SF?
oh, and Wilson is just crazy enough to try to molest a moving target…SO WATCH YOUR BACK ROX!
AT&T Park and Disneyland-so much magic inside!
WE GON FIND YOU
WE GON FIND YOU
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
FIRE UP THE TRUCK!
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
All right. I’m retiring for the evening. As always, good talking with all of you.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Goodnight, Letter!
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
BK commercials are almost always just extremely creepy. Doesn’t help to have that king mascot they’ve been using with that scary looking mask.
So obnoxious, and kind of an obvious Anchorman ref/ rip-off.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Luke Gregerson? Is that even a real name?
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Luke Iamyourfatherson.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
They should be trying to get Jar Jar.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
I told my wife I was gonna go there and try to get some free drinks.
She was like , “Meh if you think you can.” Wasn’t exactly the reaction I was going for.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Dusty Baker, the model of how to handle a pitching staff.
by BustaTheRippa on Sep 24, 2010 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions
that would be such sweet irony when we meet them in the NLCS, and he removes his starter up 5-2, and Burrell hits a GWGS
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Say what you will about Dusty
and I really disliked him as a gameday manager, but he’s been a winner everywhere he’s been.
Yeah, FJM was all over that shit.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Technically he’s won one ring in four trips to the World Series.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 7:37 AM PDT up reply actions
He's a wrecker of bullpens, potentially great pitchers, and a premature starting pitcher taker-outer
There is no cure for delay posts.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 8:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Fopr those who don’t know or who care, Keith Law is at the Padres game tonight. Hopefully he’ll write up something about the ballpark/padres
great move, Dusty.
Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Sep 24, 2010 9:27 PM PDT reply actions
cause I thought Rhodes was, but he’s obviously using him in the 7th here
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
You’ve got a fast car.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
american muscle, baby. or did i miss that one?
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
don't you leave me!
/hiring another writer to make McC better
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions
HOLY SHIT
Throw strikes.
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
FFFF
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
Way to corrupt an innocent childhood memory.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - SLC
Lopez, Kennedy, Enright, IIRC
or something like that. I did the math on it and posted it in yesterdays PGT.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I swear Rhodes I am raging enough already
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
C'mon dude. Role that shit up!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Fuck
Double clutch by Cairo. Might have had 2 there,
CLOSE OUT THE INNING DAMNIT
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
Does anyone else have the same fucking commercial on mlb.tv 5 times every break?
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 9:37 PM PDT reply actions
Yep. There's a way to get around those. I think there was a post about it on the Cardinals SBN site.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Might have to look into that.
They never really annoyed me until now.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Was that you that gave me that link?
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Lol Dick Enberg!!!!!!
Here comes Baker to get Dusty Rhodes.
GOOD LUCK OR WHAT!!
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 9:38 PM PDT reply actions
In the first game of the 1954 World Series, Rhodes had a pinch hit home run in the bottom of the tenth inning off Bob Lemon to win the game.[2] The next day he delivered a pinch hit single in the fifth inning and then remained in the game to play left fie
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
In the first game of the 1954 World Series, Rhodes had a pinch hit home run in the bottom of the tenth inning off Bob Lemon to win the game.2 The next day he delivered a pinch hit single in the fifth inning and then remained in the game to play left field. In the seventh inning he hit a homer off Early Wynn to help ensure the victory.3
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
American Dream
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
by Gobroks on Sep 25, 2010 2:37 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
DONT DO IT MASSET NO NO NO
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
RAGE IS BUILDING
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
THROW STRIKES [Reds Pitcher]
ITS DAVID FUCKING ECKSTEIN!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Really? “Padre at every pillow.”
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
I don’t know why Rhodes was taken out. Eckstein has no significant platoon split and you lose the lefty for Gonzalez.
Who in the hell
walks David Eckstein with Tejada on deck?
You better not screw this up, Reds Pitcher
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 24, 2010 9:41 PM PDT reply actions
A quest for psychological insight.
By way of preface, yes, as far as I’m concerned, the Giants can rot in hell, and I’m well aware of the mutuality of that sentiment.
That said, I find MCC much more entertaining to read than TBLA, primarily because Grant is funny and also hilarious.
Most of the anti-Dodger sentiment here I take in stride, just because, well…mutual sentiment. There’s one I don’t get, though, and it confused me enough to register so I could pose the question.
If the Dodgers are “worthless pieces of shit,” how can there be any expectation of them beating the Padres/Rockies for you? The very definition would seem to preclude that. Also, evil implies “beyond redemption,” which suggests to me that even assuming the capability to get up for those teams, the state of being evil would militate against the possibility.
That said, please make the playoffs and ruin the Phillies’ year. If the Dodgers can’t do it, nothing would please me more than for our biggest rivals to do it. It’d be kind of like the Middle East equivalent of smacking them in the face with a shoe that’s stepped in dog shit.
But you’re expressly forbidden to win the World Series unless you thoroughly humiliate the Phillies, and maybe not even then.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 24, 2010 9:42 PM PDT reply actions
There is no expectation of the Dodgers winning even one more game this season.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
I can't disagree with that.
Problem is, given our ownership, I can’t even root for the draft pick. There’s no expectation they’d use it properly.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 24, 2010 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
You are really putting too much thought into this
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
It's a bad habit of mine.
But it’s also an itch I can’t scratch.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 24, 2010 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Well fine, here is the best answer I can give. There is no expectation for the to beat good teams, like the Padres and Rockies, but there is hope.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
…and that hope is that it is never too late to become a Giants fan.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
I think it’s more likely to be a three-day pass situation. “Kill the Phillies.”
Outside of that? Not in this lifetime or any other.
I’m actually hoping you guys win the wild card so you can crush PHI in the first round and not put me in the position of rooting for you to win the pennant. Is that so wrong?
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 24, 2010 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Can we agree on strange bedfellows?
With the specific goal in mind of leaving no two stones touching one another in Philadelphia?
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 25, 2010 1:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Is this a trick question? Something about my stones touching someone else’s?
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
What you do with your stones is your business.
It’s Philadelphia’s I want strewn asunder.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 25, 2010 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
It boils down to “Go not Dodgers,” making a deal with the devil, lesser of two evils, etc.
I’d like nothing more than for the Giants to make the playoffs and destroy the Phillies. I’ve really come to dislike them in the last few years.
See, we can get along. I tried to explain this to friends in marching band, how I could co-exist with Dodgers fans. Other than your unfortunate team affiliation, you’re not so bad.
Red Sox fans however can die in a large fire.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I went to the University of Missouri, and my best friend at the time was a student at the University of Kansas.
I do, in fact, have friends who are Giants fans, and we give one another shit mercilessly.
I dunno, I just find that more fun than yelling at someone from across the divide, you know?
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 24, 2010 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
It is. I hope for intelligent discourse at the very least. Blind hostility is better served when we’re booing Suck It Russell Martin. If I can find a Dodgers fan who can actually hold a conversation with me, I call that a win.
PS your team sucks
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Intelligent discourse requires a sober Dodger fan. Those don’t seem to be plentiful, but maybe I just sat in the wrong seats when I lived in LA.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 24, 2010 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m a polisci nerd who has had in-depth discussions on political science theory totally trashed, with other trashed polisci students. Seven years of college really has taught me something!
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
But in-depth is not the same thing as intelligent!
Nor coherent, for that matter.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 24, 2010 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
It was fun at any rate.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Anywho, back to the subject at hand. I once said that God needs Satan. Batman needs the Joker. The Giants need the Dodgers. I don’t know if being a Giants fan would be as good as it is if we didn’t have the centuries-old rivalry with the Dodgers. It’s gotta be sad being a Padres fan. Big rivalry with Seattle! OMG!
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m trying to reconcile your analogy with 1962, 1989 and 2002.
But yeah, poor Padres. They’re the annoying kid brothers who yell out “Watch me, watch me!” every so often, but not often enough to go from endearingly annoying to “go die in a fire” annoying.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Sep 24, 2010 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
My life
Except I’m always sober. I swear to god, one more drunk student telling me about what Locke ACTUALLY believed…
I’m pretty sure he didn’t want them to leave the island in the first place.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
FINISH HIM
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
nm, didnt see the 1.1, thought it was .1
disregard me!!!
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
gotcha
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
you guys are funny
I bet there isn’t half this much passion over at the Reds blog
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
bah
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 24, 2010 9:44 PM PDT reply actions
HABEGURK DSFARGEG
"Skillet, we just spent $64,000 in that bar. So we're gonna have to get jobs to cover up the fact that we rob banks" -Mouse Fitzgerald
Fucking Dusty.
Great job you useless fuck. Still find a way to fuck the Giants over.
Also, the Padres are acting like they just won the WS in the dugout.
Padres are gonna lose.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Why is everyone blaming Dusty?
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:45 PM PDT reply actions
That was like an anti-answer.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
In the sense that it didn’t make any sense.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
And you have regained it with that answer. Kudos.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Habit.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Bullpen gave it up
therefor it’s Dustys fault.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Actually first it was the shortstop (OCab) who failed to turn the DP who gave it up.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
I know
but Dusty is the reason people jumped on him because of his history with bullpen guys.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
for a more reasoned answer, he took out a pitcher after he walked a guy, and the next guy gave up 1H, 1BB, next guy gave up 1H, 1BB.
Dusty is a bullpen fool. That’s why we didn’t win the WS in 2002
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Stupid Padres
Don’t they know to lose already?
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:46 PM PDT reply actions
It’s what they do. They’re life ruiners. They ruin team’s lives.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Like the Roxs last year?
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
They just called the WBC the "Baseball World Cup"
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
That's the functional equivalent
Though IIRC, there’s actually a whole separate tournament that calls itself the “baseball world cup” but which doesn’t attract the same amount of talent.
I love the WBC.
There is an entirely different Baseball World Cup. It’s existed for a while and they play every two years.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Who plays in it?
Maybe I’m just a slave to the corporate machine, but I really dig the WBC – can’t wait for it to come around again.
Mostly guys in the minors, at least from nations other than the US. Travis Blackley played for Australia in the 07 Cup.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Gas
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 24, 2010 9:48 PM PDT reply actions
TWSS?
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I like you.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
STFD
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Padres took the lead,
Quick, show web gems to show more Yankee Red Sox
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:49 PM PDT reply actions
He just completely blew away one of the best hitters in the league.
I find it hard to believe that he wouldn’t have done the same against Eckstein. Regardless of handedness.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 9:50 PM PDT reply actions
Thank Goodness
NFL live is on now.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:50 PM PDT reply actions
Bonds now or in his prime?
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
That would be interesting. Bonds has the fastest top hand I have ever seen.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Bonds would have been considered by the baseball world to be the greatest to EVER PLAY THE GAME had he not gotten greedy for the HR record and juiced.
Personally, true-talent wise, I believe Barry was the best to ever play.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think he’s the best Giant to play.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
WUT
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
#24
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
How so?
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
#24
I concur. And I loved watching Bonds hit, and he absolutely is the best Giants hitter of all time.
But #24.
#24
Agreed.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
#25. sorry, but best all-around true talent of all time
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Your opinion and you have right to it. Just like we think Mays was the best ever.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
oh yeah, im def not depriving anyone of their opinions, esp when it comes to who was the better player. stats could argue it was bonds, stats could argue it was mays, but stats can also say anything anyone wants them to say.
my point? i think it’s great that everyone believes in someone as the best. no stat can disprove an opinion
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and every one but mine stinks.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
but stats can also say anything anyone wants them to say.
Find me the stat that says Rowand is a phenomenal slider hitter.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 12:28 AM PDT up reply actions
here’s the stat:
Rowand phenominally swings at hittable sliders.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions
OMG, why doesn’t he get any playing time?!
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 12:32 AM PDT up reply actions
also, in order to have a stat that you can make say anything, you have to at least have an occurance to draw off of. And Rowand doesn’t have one, lol
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Guy named Willie was pretty 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 Sep 24, 2010 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Willie was bad ass. Bonds was other worldly.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Bonds, all-around. 7 MVPs, countless Gold Gloves, 40-40, (50-50 too?), all-tim HR record, most BBs, most IBBs, walked with the bases loaded.
True talent level, greatest to ever play the game. I get misty watching replays of 756. I grew up watching Bonds play, losing him was like the end of a part of my life. I will never, never forget Barry, nor the game I was at when he hit 70 and 71.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
lmfao that replay on Tejada running to first base after his single. He was going batshit insane. I know it’s a pennant race and all but seriously? I hope they lose just to rub it in his face.
we really need them to lose. I still don’t feel so safe with remaining COL, then ARI to play.
we need to put space in the division lead.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes. Seriously.
If, say, Edgar Rentaria got that same hit in that same situation and reacted the same way, we’d be fucking stoked around these parts.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
and if it was Edgar, he would have the class to not be showing up the opposing team and doing cartwheels at first base. Not to mention showing up a team that is better than yours. That’s asking to get beaned tomorrow.
IT WAS A FUCKING SINGLE IN THE 7th, NOT A GAME WINNING GRAND SLAM.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't really think that the Reds felt "showed up."
It was a pretty huge single in the seventh, as singles in the seventh go. The Padres’ announcer went so far as to describe the 3-2 pitch as “season-defining” before it was thrown.
And considering the Padres’ bullpen, any lead they took was a near-lock to be game over.
Besides, you’re ignoring the premise of my statement, which included the phrase “and reacted the same way.”
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:31 PM PDT up reply actions
at this point, every pitch can be season-defining, so that’s a moot issue.
im not ignoring your premise. Yes, we would be stoked, but the players doing that on the field, in front of the cameras vs what we do in our living rooms is two totally different things.
you kinda seem to be talking from a fan’s perspective, because if you’re the reds players, and you know that if you lose the lead late, youre finished, then its even more like being shown up. it’s just a cocky way to play.
i dont really condone much showing off, etc on the field of play. in the dugout, diff story.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
You probably like your press-conference quotes to be straight out of Crash Davis' little book, too.
Any pitch can be season-defining, but 3-2, bases loaded, late innings, tight game, pennant race is pretty damn close to an early-90s No Fear shirt. Shrugging that situation off as being no more or less important than nobody on and two outs in the third is disingenuous. So, no. Not a moot issue.
And you’re really arguing that even though everyone is equally aware of the stakes, the guy that succeeded is the only one that isn’t allowed to be happy?
Come on. He didn’t even look anywhere but his own dugout. He wasn’t pulling some Braylon Edwards chest-thumping here. He didn’t taunt the guys that failed to do their job (and for whom, I might add, the stakes are considerably lower). He celebrated a huge moment in a huge game with his team and fans. I find it honest, not unsportsmanlike in the slightest, and refreshing.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Any pitch can be seen any season-defining, in the truest sense, but unless it’s a high leverage situation, it usually isn’t, was why I said it is a moot point. but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
the guy who succeeds should be happy, but professionalism comes into play. I didn’t say he couldn’t be happy. I said that Tejada waaay overdid it. 4 fist-pumps, that arm-over-the-head thing, the hopping up and down, etc.
I said I don’t condone much showing off, a fist pump on a huge late inning XBH to knock in the tying or go-ahead run is fine, because you saw the ball and roped it for a huge hit, ie you had good control of the outcome, but on a seeing-eye single where it’s just pure BABIP, nothing more (which is what Tejadas was from what I heard), it’s not like you “saw it early” and crushed the ball – you just got lucky. But that can all be argued with the same BABIP argument, so I’m not really hitting the nail on what I’m aiming for here.
Basically, if the players’ little celebration (not the guys in the dugout, the baserunner, the fans, just the player who did it) is enough to make people take note of it like his did, then it’s over the top. Due to the millions of different conditions any hit could occur, whether it was over the top or not is left up to how many people question it. And in Tejadas case, quite a few people were obviously left wondering if he pushed the line. And when people question that, then it’s too much. Pablo has been known to do this too.
It varies from sport to sport. Football is all about celebrations, because it’s more of a contact, masculine sport. Baseball adheres to a different standard, a more refined one if I may say so. Which is why celebrations like Tejadas seemed excessive to some.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Any pitch can be seen any season-defining, in the truest sense, but unless it’s a high leverage situation, it usually isn’t, was why I said it is a moot point. but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
Soooo… “3-2, bases loaded, late innings, tight game, pennant race” isn’t high leverage? Got it.
the guy who succeeds should be happy, but professionalism comes into play. I didn’t say he couldn’t be happy. I said that Tejada waaay overdid it. 4 fist-pumps, that arm-over-the-head thing, the hopping up and down, etc.
Exactly what every other Padre and Padre fan was doing, you mean.
I said I don’t condone much showing off, a fist pump on a huge late inning XBH to knock in the tying or go-ahead run is fine,
Or, in Tejada’s case, the tying AND go-ahead runs. Though I note your-singles-are-for-pussies argument.
because you saw the ball and roped it for a huge hit, ie you had good control of the outcome,
Now that you mention it, it seems weird that more hitters don’t choose to get XBH when they come up.
but on a seeing-eye single where it’s just pure BABIP, nothing more
You know a Padre made it to the Hall of Fame on the strength of singles in the exact same spot, right?
(which is what Tejadas was from what I heard),
Wait, so you’re arguing this whole thing without even having watched it? That makes your case so much more convincing!
it’s not like you "saw it early" and crushed the ball – you just got lucky.
It was a 3-2 count with two outs and the bases loaded in a one-run game. Everyone in the park knew a get-me-over fastball was coming. Tejada saw it early and ripped it. I’m sure he sends his apologies for not putting an uppercut swing to try for a double when he only needed a) to not strike out and b) a single.
But that can all be argued with the same BABIP argument, so I’m not really hitting the nail on what I’m aiming for here.
So I’ve noticed.
Basically, if the players’ little celebration (not the guys in the dugout, the baserunner, the fans, just the player who did it) is enough to make people
You mean you. No one else is arguing this. There aren’t even any complaints about it in Red Reporter’s GDT
take note of it like his did, then it’s over the top. Due to the millions of different conditions any hit could occur, whether it was over the top or not is left up to how many people question it.
One… um… one… uh… Ooh! Tw- nope, never mind, that was just scratching his ear… One…
And in Tejadas case, quite a few people
OK, that’s two… Nope, wait, that’s a hit-and-run sign… one…
were obviously
Quite.
left wondering if he pushed the line. And when people question that, then it’s too much. Pablo has been known to do this too.
It varies from sport to sport.Oh, here we go. I love this one.
Football is all about celebrations, because it’s more of a contact, masculine sport.Of course, the guys who do the most celebrating after a score (QBs, WRs, the Brothers Grammatica) almost never hit anybody and in fact have the most rules in place to protect them from getting hit themselves.
Baseball adheres to a different standard, a more refined oneJust say white.
if I may say so.You may say anything. I’m a big fan of the First Amendment. But you probably shouldn’t count on being taken seriously.
Which is why celebrations like Tejadas seemed excessive to some.Maybe past-their-expiration-date moralists like Rick Reilly or Murray Chass, if they paid any attention to the West Coast. But since they don’t, you’re still stuck on one.
This has been your killjoy report from G4L83.
Stay classy(er), San Diego.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 8:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Formatting fail.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions
you’re just not getting what I’m saying, but that’s ok. Celebrations are a matter of opinion, I thought it was over the top, and didn’t even bring it up in the first place.
Taking part of each sentence out of context and responding to every other word (and in some cases, just a word), isn’t a very good counter-argument. But, I’m gonna leave alone cause I don’t want to really get into it over opinions. And because I don’t know how to do formatting so I could break down your argument letter by letter. Boy, if I did that, I could take every letter out of context and make whole new words.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
/shrug
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
ALL THE FAIR WEATHER FANS CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES
Seriously, anyone who thought lincecum was done because of 5 fucking starts deserves to be shit on (metaphorically….or maybe not?). He’s one of the 5 best pitchers who currently hurls baseballs.
Oh yeah. And Miguel Tejada can go fuck himself. I mean really?!? MIGUEL FUCKING TEJADA?!?!!?
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
Don't ever change
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
seriously, Miguel Tejada. what the fuck has the world come to? everytime the pads score, he has a hand in it.
I stuck up for Timmy. I can’t believe scouts were telling reporters that Timmys career was finished. I mean, finished? wtf? he just won 2 Cy Youngs, lol
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
BUT HE HAD 5 BAD STARTS IN AUGUST!!!! HOLY SHIT THAT MEANS MORE THAN 2 WHOLE FUCKING SEASONS
It was probably the scouts whose asses were chapped than TIm (DESERVEDLY) got the cy last year.
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
by bondslegend on Sep 24, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
that would be Cards scouts, pissed ’bout the diss (carp and wain)
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
She took a shit on my face, literally!
Literally?
No, that’s disgusting.
I don’t think questioning Lincecum makes you a fair-weather fan. It makes you over-skeptical. If someone stopped watching games because of it then sure, that’s fair-weather.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 24, 2010 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Tejada really annoys me for some reason. It isn’t just that he’s been helping the Padres lately, he’s always annoyed me.
Because he's a lying and (probably) cheating sack of shit?
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 was a Mitchell Report Customer.
A cheating juicer.
One could make the same argument for Bonds, but I wouldn’t hear of it.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
BUT I'M 19, REALLY I AM
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
by bondslegend on Sep 24, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Have something to do with the fact that he hot dogs every one of his seeing eye single hits?
by BustaTheRippa on Sep 24, 2010 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
this
Kevin Mitchell has a black belt in keeping it real.
by kbsofaraway08 on Sep 24, 2010 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah well I’m jhiat00 and he’s not!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
It needs to be understood . . .
. . . that the cover and the article were a part of SI’s sempiternal campaign against Barry Bonds, one that began many years before sports writers learned how to spell “anabolic”. See the Bonds-related articles listed here, especially “Media War on Barry Bonds” and “The Persecution of Barry Bonds”. Or, most immediately germane, “Sports Illustrated’s Curious COVERage of Barry Bonds”.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Yeah, last time this pic was posted,
we all agreed that Jeff Pearlman is a hack-writing douche.
But similar to the debate surrounding the amount of “it” Buster was willing to have back at FSU, the image has taken on a life and meaning of its own.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Ground attack!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
OT: Look guys it's Randy Johnson's Big Unit.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:53 PM PDT reply actions
Oh, and
Tim Lincecum has, very quietly, retaken the NL lead in strikeouts at 220. He lost it during his month in the wilderness, but it’s back.
He’s 7 back of the MLB leader, Felix Hernandez, but I think it’s safe to say that if he never got pulled for a pinch hitter he’d be higher.
no pitcher has ever led the league for 3 straight seasons in their first 3 seasons.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
MATHEWSON 663 BEFORE AGE OF
23 …FUCK CAPS LOCK
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
that’s what Tim Kurkjian said the other day, and I take his word on stuff. He’s a smart feller.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m just wondering if no pitcher has ever led the league for 3 straight seasons in their first 3 FULL seasons. Because Tim Lincecum obviously did not lead the league in strikeouts his first season, in 2007.
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 24, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
maybe it was lead the league in Ks for 3 straight seasons, regardless of ML service time. I dont have it taped to tell ya for sure, but it’s something like that. It was only mentioned when timmy was struggling in august, that he might not set the record
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
oh, ok. well whatever it is, that’d be cool! :)
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 24, 2010 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Well you also have to realize that he gets to throw to opposing pitchers, so that more than cancels out the pinch hitter factor.
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
GOMES
Bay Area Ties!
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 9:53 PM PDT reply actions
101, 102, 103
STFD, All-Star.
Why the fuck doesn’t Chapman come in when Masset goes 3-2 to Tejada? Fastball, right down Broadway; go ahead, Miguel, hit it if you can.
As a larger question, why don’t managers make mid-AB pitching changes? It seems like it would be terribly disruptive to a hitter. I believe it’s is fairly common in Japan.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 9:54 PM PDT reply actions
uh, just puts a little a pressure on the pitcher too you know
Wait a second…that's it. That's the melody to funky town. Won't you take me down to funky town.
As a larger question, why don’t managers make mid-AB pitching changes?
If he leaves a pitcher in a batter too long, the manager gets some shit for it but the pitcher also gets a lot of blame for not being good enough.
If he puts in a pitcher mid-AB and it goes badly, the unconventionalness of the move will make people completely blame the manager. “That’s not fair to either pitcher,” fans will say. “It was a panic move,” perhaps. “He needs to trust his guys.”
The manager looks a lot worse when he makes a bad unconventional move than when he makes a typical bad move.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
it’s not a bad idea, but it has mostly to do with the fact that most people don’t do it, and in our society, that’s not acceptable.
In the end, we all lose. Except some people.
by rain.TheMist. on Sep 24, 2010 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
think he did it with Affeldt, after another bad outing was getting worse
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Fucking Ramon Hernandez
In the end, we all lose. Except some people.
by rain.TheMist. on Sep 24, 2010 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh that’s how you turn a double play so two unearned runs don’t score.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
You think they would watch film on the Giants
and see how other teams do it.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Damnit.
Game Over. Thanks for the bullpen use Dusty.
Hey guys
Just know that the Reds can’t beat competitors. Since the Padres are still in it they will lose games against them.
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 Sep 24, 2010 9:59 PM PDT reply actions
we know how bad the Reds pen is. We torched it for 3 days, mounted a 9 run comeback off it, then when we really needed it to blow, they held us down for 3 innings to win that 12-11 game.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL Petco fans can't tell when a ball is a HR!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Sheeit, my roommate and I were sure that was out.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
they play in Petco Canyon
In the end, we all lose. Except some people.
by rain.TheMist. on Sep 24, 2010 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
LOLPetco fansSoCal fans can’t tell when a ball is a HR!
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
LOLPetco fans SoCal fans can’t tell when a ball is a HR!
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Hey
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Scroll up.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
BREAKING!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
HOLY SHIT 105
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
109
If he throws any faster his arm will literally explode.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Correction 105-107
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Try not to
It will keep you up at night
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
he will be having tommy john surgery within the next year. Guaranteed, esp with the way Dusty uses him
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I haven't had a chance to look at his mechanics.
So I couldn’t agree or disagree. From what I’ve seen however, he uses his body a lot so, he may not be putting as much torque on his arm as Strasburg. I called Strasburg as soon as I saw his mech. dude was Prior-esque, lots of torque load, all arm, no body leverage.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
timmy is almost all body torque, so he could last quite a while too
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
The only problem with Tim
Is if his mechanics get out of wack for whatever reason, he becomes hittable, as we saw in august. Tim will pitch for a long, long time.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
People asked me how I knew Tim's Mech was off
I said, look at his Velocity, its way down, when he gets right, it will go back up. Tonight he was hitting 94 in the 8th inning.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Not like August
He Still had control in April.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
People asked me how I knew Tim’s Mech was off I said, look at his Velocity, its way down
and
The only problem with Tim is if his mechanics get out of wack for whatever reason, he becomes hittable
So might point is that you said velocity down = mechanics off = hittable. And my counterargument is that he was sitting 90-92 mph all of April and he was pretty god damn unhittable.
Courtesy of bbref, Tim’s April line: .175/.218/.254. No, that’s not his batting line; that’s what he held opposing lineups to. 43 K/7 BB in 35.1 innings, which is ridiculous.
Agreed
You got me there, the only reason I can see in April is he had amazing control thus the k/bb ratio. I think in April the velocity is down for another reason then. When he’s right his control is uncanny.
Also, Fuck the Padres.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
his velo was as good in April as it is now
Both are down from what he featured a couple years back:
Velocity is affected by so many factors, including time
I wouldn’t be worried about it if he still has the control he does at the moment
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Also
If you want a good read on Mechanics check this out: http://www.chrisoleary.com/projects/Baseball/Pitching/RethinkingPitching/Essays/PitchingMechanics.html
It’s mostly theory, but he’s right.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
i think i may have actually read that before, and yep, he is right.
timmys problem was that he wasn’t throwing “over the top”, more of less, to put it simply, and his release point wasn’t good.
his arm slot had gotten to around madbum style, so he couldn’t locate, thus losing the torque generated by his body as well=MPH dip
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup that's all related.
Tried to mess around with the mechanics, and couldn’t generate the power he was before, dead on.
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
That is a pretty awesome article. I especially love his pitchers to stay away from list: Chris Carpenter, BJ Ryan, Kerry Wood, Mark Prior. All of them had major arm injuries. Hmm.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
He also said he liked Joel Zumya(SP?) of the tigers
and his elbow exploded earlier in the year, its not a proven science, but he’s on to something
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Of course. It’s about improving your odds of not wasting money on a pitcher who’s arm will explode. Those odds will never go to zero, but teams should be able to improve them. The real lesson: don’t spend money on Kerry Wood.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Whose money?
The team’s money. Wins are largely correlated with payroll. Not wasting money on oft-injured players is a good way to maximize payroll.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
That was just a grammar correction.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
It was supposed to be in "quotation marks", but . . .
. . . they somehow didn’t take.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
There is some weird quotation auto-format that’s been messing with people lately. I think it was a failed part of the last update.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2010 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions
The way Dusty uses him?
This was his eleventh game as a Red.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Like I said, I haven't seen his mechanics
but I guarantee you Tim could pitch like that, no issue, all body torque. I’ll give you Dusty does overuse his relievers, he did it to us in that year we shall not speak of. In a pennant race, I think Chapman will be good to go at this rate, its if he makes 90 appearances next year that I’d worry.
11th App 9 2/3 innings if i’m not mistaken, thats not too bad, he’s been a LOOGY before recently
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Like Gloff said (which I concur with) Dusty overuses his bullpen by playing too many matchups (like you saw tonight) which means pitchers make too many appearances. Yes, total IP matters, but if you make too many apps, that’s too many days worked. Too much warming up, not enough rest=broken pitchers in aug/sep
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm a little bit old school
I think he can handle it right now, he’s still fairly fresh. He also has 4 years Cuban pro experience, and god knows what the “regulations” and unwritten rules are tthere
"Yo Paul, if it hurts, don't swing." - Mike Krukow
Zito: 7 Yrs $126 Million
6 Pack of beer and a month of TV: $70
Sitting down to watch Zito Strike out Helton looking on a Curve four times: Priceless
Dipping under 100?
Slacker.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 12:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Guy on the Reds just threw 105.1
Is that hte record?
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Sep 24, 2010 10:06 PM PDT reply actions
Can he play outfield?
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
That cannot be a fun at bat
104 and he has no idea where it’s going
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 10:08 PM PDT reply actions
::yawn::
c’mon red just hurry up and win
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
…err Reds
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Commie.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 24, 2010 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
In the end, we all lose. Except some people.
by rain.TheMist. on Sep 24, 2010 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Lets all just let this sink in:
We’re watching what’s been arguably the most dominant month of pitching a team has ever had in the live ball era. And it’s coming in September, from a team that’s locked in a dead heat for the division title.
How fucking awesome is that?
it’s nice. but it’d be nicer if the offense showed up consistently
In the end, we all lose. Except some people.
by rain.TheMist. on Sep 24, 2010 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Great
I hope they keep it up all the way through the playoffs. Can you imagine that rotation stomping through the NL pitching like that. It will be a thing of beauty
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Question mark fail.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Enberg just said that Chapman can "masticate with the best of them"
LOL
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 10:13 PM PDT reply actions
Aussie Football on ESPN 2
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I get MLS crap
which as we all know is crap.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
it would be nice if the reds scored
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Sep 24, 2010 10:15 PM PDT reply actions
Oh and
Tim Lincecum became the first Giants pitcher since Juan Marichal (1963-66) to post three consecutive seasons of 200 innings and 200 strikeouts. Before Marichal, the previous Giants pitcher to reach that benchmark was Christy Mathewson in 1903-05.
Good company to be mentioned in.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Amos Rusie
1890-1893 was the MAN! Lead the league in K’S 3 of the four seasons,and 5 out of six.
Traded for Christy Mathewson. Our BEST TRADE EVER!
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 24, 2010 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Love to see the Pads lose
in heartbreak fashion.
bell would cry
In the end, we all lose. Except some people.
by rain.TheMist. on Sep 24, 2010 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d settle for any fashion
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
There is a start
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 24, 2010 10:16 PM PDT reply actions
Does he realize what he’s gotten himself into by joining McCoven?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Oh lordy.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Posted something nearly identical in the game thread.
Kevin_Goldstein
Watching Chris Young pitch AND get people out baffles me to this day
I don’t remember a Giants pennant race where it came down to a head to head series, like this one is sure to do (I’m sure there have been some..I just don’t remember).
This math is simple but I hadn’t really thought about it before:
Most likely the Giants and Padres will either be separated by 1 or 2 games, or they will be tied. It’s also likely that neither team will be able to sweep the other in that last series (a sweep obviously takes the division), and if that’s true the trailing team will only be able to make up 1 game.
Therefore, if either team is up by 2, they will probably win the division by winning a single game. And if they are separated by 1 game, a tie is very possible.
So bottom line: I seriously hope the Giants have a 2 game lead by next Friday. I’m not sure I can take a series where we have to win 2 games and I definitely can’t handle a 1 game playoff with the eff’n Padres.
I’d seek out and kill Cuzzi, even if we do survive the one-game playoff.
There is another scenario you neglected to mention- if it plays out like you said, all things considered, the loser of the playoff game may get the WC, if the Giants and SD run away with the lead over ATL
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Good point. That would take some of the pressure (and torture) off, but I still hope we are up by two games. I don’t think that will happen though.
well, if SD loses on Monday, we get a full game lead. Which gives us 5 games to pick up a game on them. If all else fails, and we don’t pick up ground, then we just gotta win 2 of 3 to take it.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
TO HELL WITH THIS BLAME PHIL CUZZI
I’m sick and tired of this. Remember two 1-0 losses where the Giants gave up ONE FUCKING HIT? I do.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
remember the game we won, but didnt win????
can’t do anything about the 1-0 losses, every team has them, that’s baseball.
but the games you come from behind to win, but dont win, yeah, those fucking suck!!
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
That's an awful argument
The Giants have won plenty of games 1-0 as well.
But losing because of an umpire is fucking bullshit.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
ONE FUCKING GAME! ONE!
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
And I repeat, the Giants were AWFUL in RISP situation that day.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I’m just so sick of whining. Sounds like a bunch of damn Raiders fans who STILL whine about the Tuck Rule.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I hate the Raiders
But no Raider fan should ever stop bitching about that. That was absolutely awful. And they had a potential championship stripped from them.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
They had one given to them by kicking the ball forward for a touchdown in the 70s… bunch of fucking whiners.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 8:11 AM PDT up reply actions
One game is a huge deal. Especially since a season probably comes down to about 5-10 games (you typically know in the general area how many wins you’ll have), so one game like this is extremely significant.
And it’s how it was lost.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
There were other games that the Giants could have won. He was shitty yes. But it gets tiring to hear about every 2-3 days (usually by the same 2 people).
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Okay. But name any other games that the Giants DID win.
Exactly, you can’t.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
I don’t remember last week. But to whine about it every 2-3 days is too much. I think if the Giants lose by 1 game I will have to join TexasRanger and quit this site because the whining will occur daily.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
And this is the last I’ll say of this. We could be here all night discussing this. You want to whine OK. I hate the whining.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Well, they SHOULD whine. There will be many reasons, but it’s still inexcusable.
I’ve gotten over it, but I still think about that game from time to time. It’s not even the game that pissed me off the most. Aside from the Padre bloop to death victories, the Werth game still bothers me the most.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
I am unclear on this.
Being upset because a championship and post-season play rights were, or might be, or might have been—depending on your viewpoint in time—stripped away from your favorite team by gross incompetence on the part of a person generally known to be incompetent at his job is somehow an excessive response to the circumstances? If I lose money because I gambled it away, or because I didn’t comparison shop carefully, or because there’s a hole in my pocket, that’s all the justification needed for a robber to hold me up at gunpoint? And it means I shouldn’t feel too bad about the robbery because I also occasionally lose money on my own?
Save me the trouble of holding you up: just PayPal me the full contents of your bank account. I deserve it, because you no doubt lose some money every once in a while.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
It’s the whining over and over again that gets to me. OK. He sucks. He cost the game. But these 2-3 people don’t have to mention it every 2-3 days.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
When I mean he, I mean Phil Cuzzi.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Why not?
I feel it, strongly, every time I consider the standings. Umpires make mistakes all the time—at least, most of them do, it’s been a scandal for decades at least—but few of them lead to the actual turning of the outcome of a game. Fewer yet so definitely do so as does a blown call on a game-ending play. Phil Cuzzi simply took a game the Giants had won and denied them the win. If the Giants lose by two or more games, it will soon be forgotten; if they win, it will soon be forgotten; if they lose by one, it will never be forgotten, nor should it be.
If someone stabs you deep with a knife, is there something wrong with remarking on the pain and injustice every few days? Especially while the pain is active and fierce? Anyone can mention l’affaire Cuzzi as often as they like; it’s a deal more relevant here than 49eers football, what one is having for lunch, movies, music, or the price of butter in Chicago.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
What in the hell kind of comparison is that? A ball game and being stabbed? WTF?
As I said, I done with this conversation. I put my opinion down. I guess if people want to whine every day, I should just ignore it.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Ah.
The embodiment of “Just Doesn’t Get It”: What in the hell kind of comparison is that? A ball game and being stabbed?
’K, bye, nighty-nite.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
It’s people like you are the reason why I’m probably quitting McCovey Chronicles. You sir are a jerk.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
People like him?
Because he made a reasoned argument and you wanted to stick with “shutupshutupshutup everybody just shut up!”?
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 8:22 AM PDT up reply actions
To be fair—comparing getting stabbed and having a game taken away from you by an umpire?
In the next 8 days, the Giants can make that call totally irrelevant. Unless there’s a miracle cure for 17 stab wounds in the back, a stab victim will never feel the stabbing was irrelevant.
Thing C
Conversely, we shouldn’t have to worry about making it irrelevant. Phil Cuzzi should’ve taken care of that at the time.
The analogy simply translated the terms into physical pain rather than the “Giants Baseball: Torture!” sort of pain that it is. At least he didn’t go the standard internet route and use a Nazi analogy, right?
(But I mean, “Cuzzi”… “Nazi”… the connection’s there if you look. Pass it on!)
(I also heard Dustin Ackley’s got a coke habit that makes Lindsay Lohan look like Rainbow Brite. Pass that on, too.)
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m personally agnostic about how we should treat such events.
NFL fans tend to have a very “GROW UP! BE A MAN! PLAY BETTER AND IT SHOULDN’T MATTER!” attitude that I find very blunt and unrealistic.
OTOH, I can understand how it could get frustrating to have to read the recounting of events that happened months ago. The Cuzzi incident was a very clear example of an umpire blowing a call.
Then again, I’m sure there were other instances of near-misses, bad calls and lucky bounces that went both ways. To pick that one as the pivotal event in a 162-game season is a bit silly. There were so many thousands of events taking place this year that I would find it hard to say with any authority that, overall, the Giants got screwed.
Thing C
I don’t understand how this is that complicated…We did, in fact, get screwed.
We won that game. This wasn’t bad luck, a near miss or an unlucky bounce.
If we lose a race by one game, it will be horrible.
Let’s hope it doesn’t happen.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
If NFL fans feel that way, it’s only until their team is on the short end of the stick. Ask a Raider fan about the Immaculate Reception or the Tuck Rule, or a Bills fan about the Music City Miracle, or a Pats fan about Sugar Bear Hamilton’s hit on Ken Stabler, or a Seahawks fan about Super Bowl XL, or a Chargers fan about the Holy Roller.
And yeah, it’s hard to say how most calls really affect the season, because who knows how the next pitch would’ve gone etc etc. But on that play, there is no debate. The game should’ve ended, full stop.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Heavens.
Does no one grasp what metaphorical extension is? Yes, I would rather have the Giants unfairly lose a game to Phil Cuzzi’s longstanding and known incompetence than get actually, physically stabbed in the chest. That has nothing to do with the concept of Cuzzi’s malfeasance being a metaphorical dagger in the chest, causing nontrivial amounts of agony and anger and feelings of helplessness.
Not every simile is to be taken as dead literal, so long as it’s a plausible metaphor. English 101. OK?
Only peripherally relevant, but worth quoting for its amusement value, this passage from Avram Davidson’s wonderful, wonderful collection of tales titled The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy:
The marketplace in Poposhki-Georgiu smelled like a barn—that is, assuming a barn to have borne, in addition to the usual odors of hay and dung and animals, a strong scent of ripe fruit, cheap perfume, kerosene, hot grease, fried meat, and fresh-baked pastry.
.
A rather unlikely combination for a barn, it must be admitted. But there you are. And here we are. In the marketplace of Poposhki-Georgiu. Tuesday, since time immemorial (that is, for the past seventeen or eighteen years), has been Little Market Day. Great Market Day is Friday. Little Market Day is largely reserved for trading in mules, oxen, and he-goats; only the men come to Little Market Day. Little Market Day really smells like a barn—that is, a barn in which someone has been spilling a great deal of beer and a great deal of the cheapest variety of distilled spirit (known in the local dialect as Maiden’s Breath). Few cooked or baked goods are offered on Tuesday, the men bringing their own lunch, and “lunch” to the peasantry of Poposhki-Georgiu traditionally means a hunk of goat sausage, a hunk of goat cheese, a hunk of bread (not exactly black, more like gray), and a bunch of dried sour cherries. Sour cherries are believed to be good for the lower intestine. In Poposhki-Georgiu the lower intestine is regarded as the seat of the deeper emotions. “When my best mule broke his left foreleg,” one might hear it said, "it felt like a Turkish knife in my lower intestine.
.
Also, they tell this story:
.
First Peasant: Yesterday I came home and found my wife in bed with the goatherd-boy.
.
Second Peasant: What did you do?
.
First Peasant: I ate some sour cherries.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I guess if people want to whine every day, I should just ignore it.
Well, yeah. It’s preferable to your insistence on decrying whining…by whining.
There’s plenty of conversations I ignore around here due to my ignorance of the subject matter or general annoyance with the people involved.
It’s why God invented the scroll button.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~ Rogers Hornsby
C + X
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think I’m the one who should be getting smart.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Fine.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
:D
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
You could’ve been gald.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Yick.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
U GLAD
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
She was asking for it, officers!
Look at that outfit!
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 8:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah and forced him to cover that pitch with 2 strikes.
I swear, the Padres have a 90’s Braves strike zone all the time.
by BustaTheRippa on Sep 24, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Pujols gold glove
In the end, we all lose. Except some people.
Ugh
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
Meh.....
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:19 PM PDT reply actions
They are really dwelling on all of the "scratch hits."
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
DICK Enberg is aptly named
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
LOL MLB.com
Headline said Tejada gets clutch hit and has a pic of a Red.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:21 PM PDT reply actions
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck the padres
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Sep 24, 2010 10:21 PM PDT reply actions
I hate Heath Bell
I hate him and that stupid folded bill on his hat.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
Looks like something Larry the Cable Guy would do.
Waking up stressed out because you’ve been running from zombies all night is a stupid way to spend your adulthood. - Howie
exactly
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
by calpolynate on Sep 24, 2010 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
and I hate when he talks
Did anybody catch that stupid quote of his the other night, about running out of gas, and then refilling at the gas station, etc? Jesus.
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
by calpolynate on Sep 24, 2010 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Do you have an Excitebike avatar?
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
yes :)
"Bengie Molina - the quintessential double play possibility." - Jon MIller
by calpolynate on Sep 24, 2010 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Love it
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 24, 2010 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Well... FUCK
Dusty fucking us in the playoffs yet again
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
back of VW bus is not bad. not that I would know…
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Sep 24, 2010 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Well
That was stupid.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 24, 2010 10:23 PM PDT reply actions
HOLY SHIT!
I knew on the radio they said Pat the Bat hit it far but that was a JACK.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:23 PM PDT reply actions
I love him
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Don’t you love him for other reasons though?
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
GUNZ
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Sep 24, 2010 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Re-live the double rainbow home run
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Sep 24, 2010 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
What does it meeeean?!?
/sobs
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
You know guys- if we keep winning, and so do the Pads, and it comes down to the final series, and we’re tied after that series, we will play a one-game playoff. but you already knew that… so here’s food for though. If SF and SD run away with the WC, that one-game playoff will determine who DOESNT face the Phils in the NLCS.
A modest proposal
Human sacrifice of Phil Cuzzi during the 7th inning stretch of that one game playoff
If the Giants and Padres are tied where one would be the NL West winner and the other would be the WC winner, there is NO one-game playoff.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
what, season series head-to-head record comes into play?
that’s bullshit. Really?
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
If the Giants, Pads and Braves tie. The Braves are the WC and the Giants/Pads have a one game to decide the division champ. The loser will then have a worse record than the Braves and get to go play golf. That system is broken.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Sep 24, 2010 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Only if season played is tied
which it won’t be.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
If they beat us more times then we beat them in regular season play
then they get the nod. Then it comes down to our record against the Braves, if were tied with them in regular season play then we play them in a one game playoff.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
San diego already took the season series from us.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Also
So did Atlanta. So lets just win it outright.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
As I said a couple nights ago, if we go on a 10 game win streak, we don’t have worry about San Diego or Colorado (or anybody).
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Just want to educate so if it does happen people aren’t yelling saying it’s unfair.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
so if SF, SD, and ATL all tie, why does ATL “automatically” get the WC without having to play a playoff game? i dont think that is right, by that i mean are you 100% sure about that?
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
SD and ATL
have the season series against us so they go and we stay.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
what a fucked, broken system.
isnt the point of a whole 162 game season to determine who the better team is AT THE END, the final records, not “who did better against who”. THAT DEFIES THE ENTIRE LOGIC OF MLB, in that teams with the best overall records play in the postseason. If they tie, everyone should get a chance to play for the spot.
I dont know if you’re right about this. The season series only determines where the game is played, not who automatically gets in. There are teams A, B, C and they all play, for what I just read.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah I think the general rule is that to decide who gets into the playoffs there have to be extra games, but head-to-head records are for seeding.
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 24, 2010 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, that’s how i understood it as well, look below, they backed me up on that. no way does a team automatically make it because they played better (by a game, at that!!) against another
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
You might be right.
Checking the official rules and not seeing anything on it. It might just be for seeding. I was told awhile ago that head to head was what determined it.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
what “official rules” are you talking about? the only one I know of that’s accessible to the public is only for game play.
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 24, 2010 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Yea your right.
What a waste of time that was.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I do think they should make all the other official rules available to the public, though.
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 24, 2010 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Selig is old though so good luck with that.
I don’t think it is a bad idea to make the head to head record count toward making the playoffs. Makes you want to beat your division rivals. Also, if a team keeps losing to you and then gets one game to knock you out, I don’t like that formula.
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 Sep 24, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
head-to-head already counts towards seeding/location of games, but you can’t DQ a tying-record team because they lost the season series 3-4 to another team.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Why not?
If you lose to them then they were the better team. I just think that giving a team a second chance after you beat them in a series over a season then it’s not fair to the team that won more games over the regular season. I just think it is fair to the team that won more 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 Sep 24, 2010 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
then what would be the point of playing 162 games, where teams have up-and-down periods and if at the end, you have two teams tied, but hey, you were in a losing rut when we played you, so we get the playoffs and you dont. Cheer up, you did just as good as us, but we beat you while we were hot, and you weren’t doing too good.
of course not, are you crazy? it’s a game of momentum, you play 162 games, because the best team doesn’t always beat the lesser team.
if anything, your logic is backwards. Say team ‘A’ has a better record against team ‘B’, and ends the season tied. That would mean team ‘B’ won more games against opponents that weren’t team ‘A’, hence are the better team. Look at this year, vs the Pads. Had we not played them at all, we would be 3 games up in the division. We’ve played better against everyone else not named SD, than SD has against everyone not named SF. See what I’m saying?
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes I do. But we did play them and we lost to them. To go to them and say " Hey we know you beat this team in your division more times then they beat you, but were going to give them one chance to knock you guys out. Hope your ok with that." If we beat the Padres more and they got one chance to beat us then I would not be happy with it.
Having to play a team during the season is why you do it. If you go winless against a team but end up tied then you get a chance at sending them home. Doesn’t seem fair to me. The part that I agree with is that we got ATL 3 times here but played them 4 times in ATL. But the key is that they beat us, so I feel that they deserve to move on. I just feel that head to head should count more then it does.
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 Sep 24, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
ok, so going by your logic, if they beat us more times than we beat them, then they should have no problem playing that extra game, since they are “the better team”.
ahh, but the better team doesn’t win every single game, every time. that’s why we play 162, so everyone has a chance to win. and if you end up tied, then hey, if you beat us that many more times, than why can’t you do it again?
because it’s baseball, and anything can happen, which is why everyone who is tied should have their fair shot to advance
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I get what your saying so don’t get me wrong. I just feel that it is unfair to keep a team out that was better against you. It rewards them. It really makes me think of a fighter that beats a guy twice in order to get a title shot, but because the champ gets hurt he has to fight the same guy again and loses on a lucky punch and doesn’t get his chance. I know I’m going outside the box of baseball but it stands.
What if the team in question is the Reds? They beat up on the lowest teams in the NL where the only weak team was for awhile the D-Backs. Your saying that the team in the weaker division deserves to get one more go at it even though they have a losing record against the Giants and the other teams in our division? That seems strange to me. I have my stance and that is how I feel about it. I see your side and you make a good argument for it as well.
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 Sep 24, 2010 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
your analogy that lines boxing, that’s a totally different sport, not even a sport by some peoples standards, so I can’t really make a case on that one.
i just feel that comparing W-L records, as opposed to the playoff game that at least gives teams with equal overall, 162 game, 6 month seasons is the fair way to go. many things happen in a season, and sometimes you may not be at your best when facing an opponent, and the endless final standing ties are impossible to fathom, so teams are who they are at different parts of the season. take the rockies, for instance. they played sub .500 ball all season, then win 21 of 22 to go to the WS. by your logic, that would mean they never got to the WS. the team at the end with the best record should be given a chance to defend that record against a team that ends up with the same record.
you make a good argument too, but ultimately, after 6 months of playing ball, it isn’t fair (IMO) to hand the title to one team over the other that won the season series because one team was slumping when they played them, or had numerable injuries, or any number of things. that’s why they play 162. to see who is the best at the end. and 163, well, that may or may not seem fair, but 163 is the same as 162, just another game in the overall view (pressure on 163 is high, but overall, whether you win that extra game in april or not avoids this 163rd situation)
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Nah.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 8:13 AM PDT up reply actions
This.
With an unbalanced schedule, you play your division opponent an odd number of times, so someone has the inherent advantage of an additional home game.
The prize for winning the season series is hosting the theoretical 1-game playoff. That seems fair.
Also, from a fan’s perspective, a one-game playoff is vastly more compelling than comparing W-L records. Remember that crazy Game 163 between the Padres and Rockies, where Holliday never touched home but was the winning run in extra innings? I wouldn’t trade a game like that for counting up all the games the Padres won against the Bengie/Wellemeyer-era April Giants.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought we play each of our division opponents a total of 18 times.
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 25, 2010 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Hmmm.
You seem to be correct. I could’ve sworn that it was 17. Well, I stand by my latter two paragraphs, anyway.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah, I agree with your last two paragraphs too.
by sfgiantsgirl on Sep 25, 2010 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions
thank you for the support. just because varying factors come into play during the season that determine head-to-head records is not grounds for cutting a team out when the two have tied records.
and yes, I agree that it is much better for the fan. Some teams get better over the course of the year, just like the Giants this year. Some teams get worse. It’s all about where you are at the end, and everyone who qualifies should get a shot. Giants shouldn’t be penalized because they lost to a superior Padres team early in the year, and are now much-improved.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Just don’t make anymore predictions.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
lol i havent for a few days now… and we’re winning!!
that brewers series haunts me. SD lost 3 of 4 to STL, and we get mauled by the MF Brewers? goddamn
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:57 AM PDT up reply actions
it’s so they can change them at will to create preferred matchups. Baseball is very shadowy in this regard.
What, the Yankees are gonna be in a tiebreaker? Change the rules, give them home-field, NOW!!
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope, loser of division game plays for the WC
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100923&content_id=14991826&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
If two teams are tied atop the division and share the Wild Card lead with another club, the ties will be broken in the following fashion:
• The teams tied atop the division will play, with the winner taking the division.
• The losing team will then play the remaining Wild Card contender, with the winner making the playoffs.
beat me by 5 secs. Wiki agrees:
* Three teams are tied, with two teams from the same division, tied for the lead, and another team from another division, with that team not having the best record in their division, but having a better record than all of the other non-division winners.
-The two teams in the same division play a one game playoff, with the winner declared the division champion, the next day, the loser of the first game, and the other team from the other division play each other, with the winner declared the wildcard.
Thing C
so basically, we would just have to play two games, because of our records vs SD and ATL.
personally, I like that we’d play two while they play one- because the odds of winning one of two are better than winning one of one
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
so if we lose the playoff game to SD, then we would play ATL, who only get one shot at it, while we would have to only win one of the two games to get in.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes.
Our records versus SD and ATL have nothing to do with anything other than (I think) the site of the division playoff versus SD.
Thing C
exactly. and if we lose the playoff game in SD, we go to ATL for another.
so we would have two shots, both in unfriendly… wait, nm, we’d be at home (petco) for one, and ATL for the other.
the odds of this happening are still pretty low, as ATL is fading. Though since SF and SD will beat up on each other next weekend, if ATL wins some vs PHI, it could force a 3-way tie.
The odds are still very remote.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
One More Note
Home field for the one-game playoff is determined by our head-to-head records, so Giants will be on the road for any potential tiebreaker game.
that’s what I thought, if you look at the last paragraph of my post above yours here.
nobody “automatically” gets the nod because they played better against a team than another did
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
fuuuuuuuuuuck the padres
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Sep 24, 2010 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions
This could be good.
If they win the WC then that sends the Reds to us and they go to Philly, I like that first round match up for us.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
so, hope that it stays this way?
that’s asking for the pads to win more than the braves, but less than us… if we didnt play them head-to-head, id say Yeah Sure, but I dunno.
That’s like being in between a rock and a hard place.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Or hope for the Pads to lose the rest and ATL to lose the rest also.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah
As Al Davis says, “Just win, baby!” (for the Giants)
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
+109
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Dusty Baker
Fast forward to 2020. Dusty Baker is at his home, a elderly man reaching the end of his life. He looks back to his days as a MLB manager, and is content at what he has accomplished so far. He cannot go outside today because the roof has been leaking and they called someone to fix it. A man rings the doorbell. He introduces himself as Mark, and says that he has come to fix the roof. Dusty notices that Mark has many scars on his shoulder and arms, and comes to the conclusion that he has had many surgeries in his life. The man fixes the roof and leaves. Then he remembers that he has forgotten to ship a box of fresh meat to his son in San Francisco. He hurriedly packs up the contents, and goes to a nearby UPS to send it. UPS accidentally sends the box to the Giants clubhouse, where the staff mistakes it as the post-game meal materials. It turns out that Dusty had forgotten that the meat was very old. The Giants players feast on the meat after a glorious 26-0 win over the Padres, despite a 4 for 4 night by David Eckstein. The only person that does not get sick from the meat is Buster Posey. Pablo Sandoval is out for a week due to stomachaches from eating 10 pounds of meat.
In the end, we all lose. Except some people.
i thought that was gonna end with “Dusty Baker, still fucking us over from his deathbed”
you might wanna rewrite that
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Didn’t see that coming. I was expecting the guy with the scars on his shoulder to kill Dusty because he over-worked him to the point where he had to get an unsuccessful Tommy John surgery, thus ruining his career and forcing him to work on roofs.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 24, 2010 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Cool story, bro. I guess.
I don’t think Dusty is only ten years away from “reaching the end of his life,” though.
Actually, the story’s kinda lame.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
burn
And Posey is having amother great game.
You're the worst Al Capone
by JohnnyDangerously on Sep 25, 2010 2:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I happen to be flipping over to see what the Rangers-Oakland score was and CSN-CA showed Bengie. I swear he is even fatter than he was back in June.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Saw him live and up close at the Angels series.
Still the same size, yet slower.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
how are the pads still hanging around
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Sep 24, 2010 10:41 PM PDT reply actions
regressing to the not so nice
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Sep 24, 2010 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
No one threw them away.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
the roxs beat them down, then the dogs tried to pick them up and give them ice by laying down.
then we beat them down and once again, the dodgers picked them back up and gave them whatever of the Force they had left.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
The Movie Red looks good.
Might go see it.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:44 PM PDT reply actions
Turns out, it’s an older version of the guy she hasn’t met yet.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks
your worse at keeping secrets then Morris Leela
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 Sep 24, 2010 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
All of a sudden the Phillies have the best record in MLB. Remember when they were floundering a month or two ago?
Thing C
LOL
I got it.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
my funny AVG usually sits way below the mendoza line
even that isn’t sustainable.
...Dr. Vader will see you now.
Timmy's K/BB ratio for September is 41:4
That’s Cliff Lee territory
daaaamn
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
i'm worried about him
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
But he is magic.
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 Sep 24, 2010 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Should I watch Zito pitch on Saturday?
Or will there be a ton of torture going on?
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Zito is generally awesome against the Rockies.
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
Proud Aussie father of Roberto Kelly
by Tim LinCyYoung on Sep 24, 2010 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
…for some reason. They’ve put that one on the shelf next to “Aliens Landing at Roswell” as something that may never be figured out.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Prediction
92 wins takes the West.
We need 5 moar wins.
depends where those wins come from. if they come from SD, then 5 it is. but if we sweep COL, then ARI (5 wins) then get swept by SD, then no, 5 wins doesn’t win the west.
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
See that's why they call it a prediction
I went through the remaining games and looked at what I thought would likely happen and came to the conclusion.
SD will not sweep us. That’s my prediction. And given where each team is likely to land, I think 92 wins will take it.
And even in the scenario you painted, there’s a good chance that we would still tie for the division at 92 wins or even win it.
you can have your predictions, personally I could care less. I’m just saying that at this point, WHO you lose to can be worth more than who you don’t lose to.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I like how there are only 2 more road games left
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
i like how we are guaranteed a winning road record this season (at least 6 over .500 on road, IIRC)
by giant4life83 on Sep 24, 2010 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Got an e-mail today from the Giants
My postseason tickets will arrive early next week. I hope I get to use them all.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Congrats
Hope when they make it you have a great time cheering them on.
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 Sep 24, 2010 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
If we don’t make it, I’m finding out where you live.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 24, 2010 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Taken from coolstandings.com
ESPN.com lists the Rockies chances of making the playoffs at 1.1% Giants are at 79.2%
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
so theres a chance? well, let’s just take that away from them tomorrow
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions
SAY IT AINT SO BUSTER
As a public service to the fine folks at MCC, I showed a certain little Youtube video to Buster Posey in the clubhouse today. It’s a highlight from a College World Series game in which Posey hoses a runner at second base, then in a tight camera shot, appears to repeat, "I ain’t havin’ it!"
It’s a great little moment that shows Posey’s extreme confidence, leadership and intolerance for losing – the kind of attitude you’d expect from the Chosen One to lead the Giants out of decades of darkness. No wonder it became a meme.
One little detail, though. Posey says it’s not true.
He laughed out loud –as loud as I’ve ever heard him – when I told him what the lip readers surmised.
"C’mon, does that really sound like something I’d say?" Posey said, very amused.
Then something dawned on him.
"You know what, I was probably saying I didn’t have it, like I didn’t have a good grip on the ball," he said. "I’ll bet that’s what it was."
If you watch the clip, you’ll see that it wasn’t a great throw. It was high, wide and it definitely looked like it slipped out of Posey’s hand a bit.
OK, but what about the slightly annoyed, disapproving, "go to your room" expression on his face?
"That look was probably `It’s 115 degrees and I’m dying out here,’" he said.
So there you are. But don’t go blaming me for ruining a perfectly good meme.
I ain’t havin’ it, either.
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 Sep 24, 2010 11:35 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
WE LOVE FLEM TOO
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
AND COLE
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 24, 2010 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Cole pisses me off.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I liked the Goofus mention.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
You can tell Buster is really humble. He would never make it as an NFL WR like Chad Ochocinco or Terrell Owens or Michael Crabtree. He’s not arrogant MLB player like Ryan Braun or Troy Tulowitzki.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Whoa format fail
I had a whole comment there about how if you look closely, you can totally see him say “I didn’t have it – I didn’t have it”
/flagged
//for fuck’s sake, he isn’t having it
///HE AIN’T HAVING IT
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I believe Buster
It kinda looks like he was apologizing to his shortstop for the bad throw. The facial expression doesn’t exactly match up with a cocky look.
/BACK AND TO THE LEFT
//BACK AND TO THE LEFT
///BACK AND TO THE LEFT
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 24, 2010 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Buster .
Posey.
Ain’t.
Havin’.
It.
This discussion is over, young man… and just you wait ’til your father gets home and hears about this!
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions
But don’t go blaming me for ruining a perfectly good meme.
…because all I did was ruin a perfectly good meme.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 24, 2010 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
lol. now we know he says he didnt say it, he didnt say it :(
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions
actually, upon further review (seeing the video), yeah… he def WAS NOT HAVIN’ IT
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions
You know what Baggs?
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 24, 2010 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Who is this quote from? Fuck it, I’m still saying it and you can’t stop me!
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 12:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Also, I wonder if KDL (who I haven’t seen posting lately?) and her shirt made sense to him at that moment.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions
I think a lot of our younger posters disappear this time of the year due to school and stuff.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
She’s a lawyer. Wait, maybe she’s some sort of Doogie lawyer!
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2010 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s not why she’s lurking instead of posting.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
EVER
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
It doesn't matter whether he knows it or not.....
but Buster just AIN’T HAVIN’ IT.
End of story
Monday Monkey lives for the weekend, sir.
amen. i always wondered where that saying came from. someone was up all night youtubing to find it
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 12:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Straighten and fly right
we’re going post season
if you can’t handle the pressure
and cling to tightly to history
stand aside and let Gmen
go through
to the higher plain
by Always Keep A Diamond in your mind on Sep 25, 2010 12:13 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Have a beer or 10 on me
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
FUCKING JUICED BALLS BULLSHIT
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Sep 25, 2010 12:48 AM PDT up reply actions
That was all good and well till
they tasted our chocolate salty Ballz
by Always Keep A Diamond in your mind on Sep 25, 2010 12:57 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Ha!
I kinda like that. I always thought the insistence to grab a player and ask the same stupid questions within 90 seconds of the final out/play, when all they could possibly be thinking is “Fuck yeah, we won” or “God fucking dammit we lost” and expecting them to give some brilliant new insight is a waste of time.
Don’t even get me started om in-game manager interviews, or even cameramen running onto the field during play.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 25, 2010 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
When I Become Commissioner,
one of the first things I do is ban in-game interviews and cameramen on the field until after the cessation of play. Why is Selig such a jerk anyway?
by mrs. owlcroft on Sep 25, 2010 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
And that shot they always get is so shitty anyway! a foot off the ground, looking up toward the player’s belt and right into the lights. Someone at Fox has clearly watched The Natural a few too many times. How about we show the player AND THE THOUSANDS OF SCREAMING FANS IN THE STANDS?!
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 25, 2010 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, because everyone on twitter is who they say they are.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions
I BELIEVE!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions
duh. because fame+fortune+power=happiness. Did you miss 3rd grade?
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey there, McC.
I haven’t posted in what feels like forever.
Joe Mauer is from Minnesota. My adopted son, RHP Steve Edlefsen, is from Minnesota. Joe Mauer is very good at baseball. Call up Steve Edlefsen, Giants! Science™ is begging you.
You missed Duane Kuiper’s son is now a McCoven.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
No way!
That’s awesome.
Joe Mauer is from Minnesota. My adopted son, RHP Steve Edlefsen, is from Minnesota. Joe Mauer is very good at baseball. Call up Steve Edlefsen, Giants! Science™ is begging you.
I think he goes as colemk here.
Proud father of 2-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Remember to tickle the balls while you’re fellating him.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 8:16 AM PDT up reply actions
the crazy cat lady? i thought she was just a cartoon character. btw did you know that her backstory in the simpsons is that she was a 2x PHD, high-power doctor and lawyer, then had a bunch of cats, and turned into the crazy cat lady? lol
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey cool
Lincecum calling out the Rockies on their cheating ways got some national attention.
FUCK THIS JUICED BALLS BULLSHIT
http://www.bugsandcranks.com/marktownsend/baseball/tim-lincecum-mutters-under-his-breath/
Every Third Game
fail
no one is asking why Lincecum didn’t walk up to home plate umpire Laz Diaz to show him his findings
1) It’s be near-impossible to prove at that juncture
2) I can’t imagine any pitcher wants to talk to Laz Diaz longer than is absolutely necessary.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 25, 2010 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
what would you say? “hey, can you throw this in the humidor-ball checker? I’ve got a feel’ bout this one…”
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Of Course!
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Sep 25, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
OT
Due to the fact, I maybe deleting my account, my “son” is now available for adoption.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Can I have your X Box too?
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Sep 25, 2010 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't know if this has been talked about
but Pat says “you know” about 10 times per minute in his interviews. We have fun counting the “you know”s after a big night from Pat. I counted 27 tonight AMIRITE?
http://www.csnbayarea.com/pages/video?PID=OQ6EE46gVyXUPqy480wUYLv1tDUc2OsH
Every Third Game
“You know” is a repeat offender in most athlete interviews. Also, “basically” “really” and “just.” I’d estimate 1/3 of the word counts in my interviews are made up of those words.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2010 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I find my interviews with athletes tend to contain the most editing for clarity. I’ve been fortunate so far — I’ve never had an absolute dud of an interview with a sports figure — but sometimes it’s difficult to get a concise answer without risking audible edit points.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Buster Posey
Ain’t havin’ your lipreadin’.
Therefore, Timmy said either “Mr. Umpire, would you please save this nearly, nay, not nearly, perfectly humidified ball for the attendant, so I may sign it for him later?” Or, “Tell Jim Tracy I found his suppository.” I’m not sure which.
I just like to say
I that was only here last night for the bottom of the 6th and top of the 7th and demanded/predicted Pat to hit that homerun.
Yes…I am saying Giants won the game because of me…it’s science…
Seriously, the difference between great game and incredibly sucky game is razor thin at this point…hopefully Giants can go back to the 13 run mode…
they worked him hard over 6 innings (to that point) and he made a mistake around pitch 95. i’d like to think they earned it, not just got lucky.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Really Yahoo..really?
Headlines on Yahoo Sports:
Aroldis Chapman threw the major’s first 105-mph pitch, overshadowing Tim Lincecum’s victory in the heat of a pennant race.
Henson writes entire article about the pitch and how great Chapman is going to be…and the article lists the fastest pitches ever thrown and the great pitchers who have thrown them…
Aroldis Chapman Reds 2010 105 (MPH)
Joel Zumaya Tigers 2006 104.8
Aroldis Chapman Reds 2010 104
Mark Wohlers Braves 1995 103
Armando Benitez Giants 2002 102
Jonathan Broxton Dodgers 2009 102
Neftali Feliz Rangers 2010 102
Bobby Jenks White Sox 2005 102
Randy Johnson Diamondbacks 2004 102
Matt Lindstrom Marlins 2007 102
Robb Nen Marlins 1997 102
Justin Verlander Tigers 2007 102
Who can forget the greatness of Joel Zumiya, Mark Wohlers, Armando Benitez, and of course Jonathan Broxton…
lists the fastest pitches ever thrown and the great pitchers who have thrown them…
Tubby wasn’t on the Giants in 2002 and I don’t remember him breaking 95 very often, let alone 100. He definitely wasn’t great either…I am pretty sure he broke 100 routinely when he was with the O’s and Mets, though…
Maybe I am misremembering…
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 8:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I think “overshadowing” was a poor choice of words. That seems entirely subjective.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Yes, really.
OMG someone did something that, as far as we know has never been done before in the history of the sport- or possibly ever! LOL BORRRRR-ING! And this asshole dares to write an article about it and stay on-topic!
I do agree that ‘overshadowing’ might be pushing it, though.
As for your (rhetorical) question, plenty of people remember otherwise no-name pitchers from years past with super-live arms.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 8:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait, has Nolan Ryan really never been recorded above 102? That alone seems fishy to me. Or, more likely, that radar guns haven’t been around NEARLY long enough to settle anything with the time frame “ever.”
So who is the fastest pitcher in baseball? Baseball Almanac honestly does not know. Major League Baseball does not recognize radar speeds as an official statistic. The Elias Sports Bureau, Stats Inc and The Sporting News are all highly respected resources who publish some form of record book every season, yet none of them recognize any pitcher as the fastest ever.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/fastest-pitcher-in-baseball.shtml
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 25, 2010 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
You might actually have been havin' it then (though, to be honest, I doubt it),
but you certainly ain’t havin’ it now.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
How cool is Timmy's new slider?
He has always had the change, the velocity is back and now he has a nasty new slider? Good luck, baseball.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 10:01 AM PDT reply actions
From the Rockies' perspective,
“good luck baseball” is is the only reason they didn’t suffer a perfect-game loss last night.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
This might be the awesome thing about Timmy. He’s remarkably adept at learning pitches. He learned the change-up in the majors. He relearned his curveball in the majors. Now he’s added a new slider. Amazing.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Nats/Braves about to start
Maya vs. Lowe
Zimmerman is sitting again
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 10:04 AM PDT reply actions
Of course
I can’t watch DC baseball because I am four hours and 2 states away in NC
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Doesn’t that mean you’re in the Braves market? I’m further away from DC than you, and I’ve got the Braves on right now.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
He's in North Carolina.
They outlawed baseball there after Jordan’s stint away from the official sport of the state.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Consulting the ol' blackout map...
Depending on where he is in NC, the state is split among Washington, Cincinnati and Atlanta markets. He should be able to see it. Wonder what the deal is.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
I can’t watch us play ATL or WAS on mlb.tv
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Right, because you live in the blackout region. I was saying you should be able to see it on television.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Aaaah…
I don’t think it is on TV here…I have basic TW cable…
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, darn. I’ll describe it to you: The Braves went down handily in the top of the first. Now it’s the bottom with one out and some guy on base. There’s another guy trying to hit a ball, presumably to advance the runner, perhaps toward home plate.
The guy on second might be Nyjer Morgan.
And Derek Lowe is incredibly sweaty right now.
I’m not a very good color guy, am I?
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Yeah…I’m listening to the Nats’ broadcast right now…When mlb.tv doesn’t let me watch the game, they let me listen to it…
Nats’ guys haven’t mentioned how sweaty Lowe is yet….Although, it’s STILL 90 here in Durham, NC every day, so it’s probably about the same temp up in DC.
You are a far superior color guy to Nats’ broadcast, btw.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
That fucking goldbricker Strasburg.
Your arm was mostly severed in a threshing accident? Quit whining and get the fuck back on the mound. You’re all that stands between the Nationals finishing dead last and a million games out of first, and the Nationals finishing dead last and OVER a million games out of first.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Technically and geographically I'm in both
In reality, I am in neither….I might be the only person in the state watching a sport right now, that isn’t college football.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I think I see what you’re saying. I dread weekend television this time of year because it seems as though 89,000 channels are carrying one football game or another.
The only appointment viewing I do on the weekend is catching the network evening news broadcasts and 60 Minutes. And damned if I won’t get to see them consistently until February.
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing Matt Cain.
Wow, PR is really offended by Tim’s five seconds worth of muttering.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
He said the F word! Panic!
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 25, 2010 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ve been very skeptical about the whole humidor kerfuffle, mainly because of Andrew Fisher’s point about the pitchers’ ability to feel the difference (smaller, lighter, harder. TWSS) between humidor and non-humidor balls… I suspect having a pitcher actually identify and reject a ball during a game (in a high leverage situation no less) could make them a might touchy about the subject. Particularly if the lip reading is accurate.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I agree – I don’t think there’s a whole lot to the humidor stuff. But, geez, it was five seconds that happened to get caught on camera during a moment where Lincecum was probably a bit frustrated. Get over it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I’ve been trying to figure out alternate wordings. I mean, that was a pretty bullshit doink hit that broke up his perfect game and I’m guessing he was pretty peeved. Especially considering the score at the time and the likelihood of an imminent Caining. Haven’t come up with anything.
Alternately, he could be saying the juiced ball is bullshit, meaning there’s nothing to the rumors.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
As he gets a new ball? Seems unlikely.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
this
It’s not like he held a press conference. He muttered something out of earshot when he was frustrated.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
Well, I’m offended by their fucking juiced ball bullshit.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
this
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Also, LOL IRONY
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
I was going to comment on that over there
but I don’t want to get close to the troll line.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
Tracy is just like PR’s posters. Put on the appearance of being holier than thou do-gooders who you can trust, when really they’re just hiding the fact that they’re snakes in the grass.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I want to rec jctgamer’s post, but that would require joining PR and … no.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Now I’m wondering if that would constitute as trolling.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean, all it’s doing is making a reasonable comment more visible, and they wouldn’t really know who did the rec’ing.
sharksrog
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah, okay.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s green now
"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.
Probably just makes them hate us even more now. We ARE the most classless fans in sports though.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Too bad I don’t care. They’re whining about it and it’s just stupid now. How juvenile is that headline seriously.
"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.
Oh I don't care either
I just think it’s funny. Because we’re classless.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
It is funny and no I’m definitely no Randy Winn on the class scale. You’d think him playing for SF the classiness would have rubbed off on us
"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.
So
we brush the Padres’ teeth?
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
Do they drink our milkshake, drink it up? Because it brings all the boys to the yard.
What? It’s just your usual There Will Be Blood/ Kelis reference, you pervs.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Well…I like being a dick….kind of.
"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.
Hah, same. Sort of. I like giving my uncle shit about the Dodgers.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
But of course.
Most of us have finished our edumacations, so we don’t have any classes to attend.
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
Man, that’s crazy.
Tim got a ball he didn’t like, he got a new ball, and he said something.
Something that somebody pretended to lip read from a shot of him in profile.
This is completely meaningless. As far as I’m concerned, he said “Enough of this doubles bullshit.”
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2010 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean seriously: (from WIKIPEDIA on lipreading!)
Each speech sound (phoneme) has a particular facial and mouth position (viseme), although many phonemes share the same viseme and thus are impossible to distinguish from visual information alone. Sounds whose place of articulation is inside the mouth or throat are not detectable, such as glottal consonants. Voiced and unvoiced pairs look identical, such as [p] and [b], [k] and [g], [t] and [d], [f] and [v], and [s] and [z] (American English); likewise for nasalisation. It has been estimated that only 30% to 40% of sounds in the English language are distinguishable from sight alone; the phrase “where there’s life, there’s hope” looks identical to “where’s the lavender soap” in most English dialects.
So maybe 40% of whatever Tim said is actually identifiable by sight alone.
In addition, speechreading takes a lot of focus, and can be extremely tiring.
And even that 40% is difficult to distinguish and requires serious focus to pick up.
Other difficult scenarios in which to speechread include: lack of a clear view of the speaker’s lips. This includes … the speaker’s head turned aside
AND the whole thing is obscured because he’s being viewed in profile.
So this whole “Tim said this” thing is kind of completely baseless. Good. Awesome.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2010 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Vacuum choose Bill!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Except if you’re in a soap shop, you’re probably asking for the lavender soap. If you’re asking for a ball and throwing one back that hasn’t even been in play, you’re probably commenting on the ball.
So maybe 40% of whatever Tim said is actually identifiable by sight alone.
I think you’re misunderstanding that. Isolated sounds might be 30 or 40%, but put into the context of a proper sentence and the context of, uh, context, lip reading is way above the 30 or 40%. Otherwise, you’re suggesting that hearing-impaired people can understand only 40% of everything they attempt to read. That’s not true.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2010 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, mostly, I just don’t trust the lip-reading of laypeople, and I took the easiest way out by going to wikipedia. I’ve seen silent clips where I don’t know what somebody is saying. And then somebody makes a guess. And suddenly it looks like a perfect fit. And then I find out what it is, and it’s different. Yeah, it looks like Tim was saying that. And it may even make sense. But he was mumbling in profile. I don’t know that it’s really so clear. There’s something that might be a J and something that might be a B or a P.
I mean, we have a head on clip of Buster Posey clearly saying the words “I ain’t having it”. And now he’s said that he never said that. Getting worked up over bad lipreading seems dumb to me.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2010 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I lip read just fine, tyvm.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
But Will Clark read Greg Maddoxs’ lips and knew there was a fastball coming!!
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
HOWIE AIN’T HAVIN’ IT!
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
PERSONAL ATTACKS
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
It’s so ridiculous. A guy got mad about something in public and muttered an obscenity to himself. No one could hear him. People do this all the time. I have no problem with people swearing under their breath. And does this really suggest that he “believes” the Rockies are manipulating the humidor/baseballs? No. It means he got a bad ball and didn’t want to throw it. I’ve known many pitchers (at lower levels, sure) who referred to bad balls as being “juiced”. Whatever.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.
He needs to be aware of the public relations effects of his actions because he was pitching worse than Armando Benitez that inning and is too much of a hippie stoner to man up and admit that he isn’t as good as UbJim and CarGo and Tulo and JhoulCha and TodHel and JorDeLaRo and he just had to accuse our beloved Rox (GOOOOOO! TEEEEEAAAAAMM!) of cheating and OMG played out storyline and now I hate MCC and the Giants and their fans and their stupid classless city and state and I hope they all get beaned and our players are super good and it’s totally a coincidence that they always have cartoon numbers at home and always suck on the road and they should get MVP and ROY and Silver Slugger and Gold Gloves each because bless their li’l hearts they just never quit! Rocktober!
/Rowbot’d
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
You win, sir!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Needs more green.
Certified McC lurker since 2006
by DividedByZero on Sep 25, 2010 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait, wait, wait.
“Bitch” isn’t a swear on PR?
Why in the heck?
/English Osaka
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
About the humidicheat
Probably ain’t much to it, but the outright dismissive attitude that some have taken toward the accusations strike me as a little naive. Baseball players cheat constantly. Even Derek Jeter, Paragon of Virtue. It’s a part of the game. It isn’t at all absurd to suspect that the Rockies, given their unobserved and unique system of producing baseballs, have tried to get themselves an edge.
As for what Tim was muttering, I couldn’t really tell. Just Tim being competitive. He swears and mutters all the time.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
dunno if it’s been posted on here but timmy posted this on facebook:
I had a “ball” last night and it’s awesome to be a part of this team. Calf will be fine…nothing could keep me off the field next week.
maybe referring to the juiced ball?
also, what happened to his calf?
FREE BUSTER
by TimLincecumIsGod on Sep 25, 2010 10:53 AM PDT reply actions
Amy G or someone twitted that his calf was a bit sore after the game, but that it was no big deal.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Sep 25, 2010 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Breaking News: Nats Suck
Braves score run on a Derek Lowe double, infield pop-up lost in the sun and throwing error by thirdbaseman.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 10:59 AM PDT reply actions
Oh, bother.
Bud Selig Says He’s Willing to Talk About Expanded Baseball Playoffs
I hate this idea. I like that MLB has the fewest teams in the postseason. I like the World Series on October. I like that there’s next to no chance a losing team will make the playoffs.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
Seriously, this is the worst idea ever. Balance the schedule or switch the divisions around, but an 8-team playoff is FINE.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
LOL WNBA’s West this year
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Because . . .
. . . there are no used cars in baseball.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Twas a thing of beauty.
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 25, 2010 11:35 AM PDT reply actions
Cubs batter Sam Fuld hits line drive into
Cards pitcher Blake Hawksworth’s face
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 25, 2010 11:41 AM PDT reply actions
off the field on his own power
but when he was hit he did that frozen man thing when he went down and his head never hit the ground. third baseman came in to look and called for trainer right away. Sheesh
by iloveddickdietz on Sep 25, 2010 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m listening to the archived game of Sanchez’s no-hitter against the Pads. It’s amazing how different both teams’ lineups are this year.
Everth Cabrera SS
Tony Gwynn CF
Kevin Kouzmanoff 3B
Adrian Gonzalez 1B
Chase Headley LF
Kyle Blanks RF
Eliezer Alfonzo C
Luis Rodriguez 2B
Josh Banks P
Aaron Rowand CF
Randy Winn RF
Pablo Sandoval 3B
Travis Ishikawa 1B
Edgar Renteria SS
John Bowker LF
Juan Uribe 2B
Eli Whiteside C
Jonathan Sanchez P
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Sep 25, 2010 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The Rockies Mascot of the Purple Triceratop is original, however I’m wondering why MLB allows it to try and distract the opposing team’s pitcher with its antics directly behind home plate? I haven’t seen this in any other ballpark, or from any other team in the MLB.
Come to think of it, I’m trying to think of a ballpark where a walkway is (more or less) directly behind home plate like it is in Colorado. It’s a very strange design, and the Mascot needs to go – even if the Pitcher probably doesn’t see him / it.
The Rockies’ entire franchise is a retarded gimmick.
by kingofthacove on Sep 25, 2010 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
They actually wanted a generic purple dinosaur
but feared that most of their fanbase would be kids under the age of 5 who think the team mascot is the title character of a certain kids’ series.
Not like there’s much of a difference between that and what (most of) their fanbase is now.
OT: Dinger is essentially a hybridization of Barney and his yellow triceratops friend.
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
This offends me more than any supposed humidor nonsense. I really, really, really can’t believe it’s allowed to take place.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2010 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm okay with it.
Adds to the mystique of Coors Field.
"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 pretty ridiculous given that batters aren’t allowed to wear anything shiny. I vaguely recall Jerome Williams (hah!) being forced to take off a puka shell necklace because it was too shiny. Also, if we’re going to make Wilson color his orange shoes black, why the fuck should a team’s mascot be allowed to cavort around like an exotic dancer?
No way. Adds to the endorphins of some man-child in a dinosaur costume. But it’s nonsense in the context of baseball.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2010 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, yes. But so is Coors Field itself. That’s the whole thing of it. It’s like choosing Big Blue as a level in Smash Brothers
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
And it only makes sense that it’s tacky nonsense.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
What doesn’t make sense is that there’s a Rockies employee transparently attempting to influence events on the field and it’s tolerated by MLB.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s not a triceratops, it’s a juvenile torosaurus.
Ryan Rohlinger lives in my basement. I let him out to play baseball.
Thanks for the clarification.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Breaking Humidor News
JohnSheaHey
Breaking news from San Francisco Chronicle: MLB now will oversee use of humidor balls at Coors Field following complaint filed by Giants.
The right thing to do regardless of whether they cheat or not
SUCK IT ROCKIES FANS
by kingofthacove on Sep 25, 2010 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Well there you go, then. Bound to rile up the PR folks.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
JohnSheaHey
Starting tonight, umpires are to closely monitor process in which balls are humidified, transported to Rockies’ dugout to pitcher’s hand.
It’s not the Rockies fault that this wasn’t SOP. It’s horrible that this was even a topic of conversation. Oh, MLB.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2010 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
They have bigger matters to address
Like expanding the playoffs.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
What 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
THANK YOU
"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.
I'm elated about this
It will finally kill all this conspiracy junk.
Only two things will change. The umpire will monitor the transportation of the balls to the field from the humidor, and the ballbag will be in view of all umpires in-game. It was already in view of the 1B umpire, and a camera will be trained on the ballbag operated by MLB as it always was.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
My concern is how wide is the umbrella "monitor"?
Are all the game balls delivered from the humidor in one trip? That sounds like an awful lot of balls (90, I believe) to be carried at once. If there is more than one trip, is an umpire going to go off and monitor each one? How are they going to assure that balls taken from the humidor weren’t put into it 20 minutes before removal? Some of those questions may be nonsense, depending on what they’re doing now, but the word “monitor” strikes me as awfully broad.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Come on, you can trust 'em!
They don’t even like to curse!
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~ Rogers Hornsby
That’s a lot of ballbags.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2010 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions
My word, SBN is being bitchy for me today. Not only has it refused to remember my login since the last big maintenance, but now it’s only even functional for about ten minutes at a time before going completely catatonic for the next fifteen.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
As a Rockies fan, I was hoping Lincecum's August was an indicator of the future
He looked every bit as dominant as the last two years. If the veteran bats can produce again in 2011, the Giants will run away with the division.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 1:13 PM PDT reply actions
I don’t think anybody will run away with the division anytime soon.
It’s amazing how quickly the Dodgers ran away from the division, though.
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
Los Angeles and Arizona won't be players
and I’m not convinced San Diego will repeat their 2010
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
And Ubaldo is probably closer to post-May Ubaldo than sub-1 ERA Ubaldo.
And hopefully Gonzalez doesn’t put up a 1.2 OPS at home again.
by kingofthacove on Sep 25, 2010 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I think Arizona can surprise. They have a lot of latent hitting talent, and Hudson and Kennedy might be pretty good for a while. I just can’t believe they traded Dan Haren for a pile of cashews.
by Grant Brisbee on Sep 25, 2010 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Cashews are proven winners though.
I mean, what did you expect them to get? Almonds? Ridiculous.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
"You all are just blinded to reality by your hatred of Armando just as the Bonds haters are." -grm
Hey hey hey.
Almonds are Blue Diamonds in the rough.
(I’ve always suspected that the Blue Diamond factory in Sacramento is in fact the secret lair of a Kingpin-style supervillain with a namesake massive, possibly magical blue diamond pinky ring. )
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
/thinks about possible Almond Rowand jokes.
/stops thinking about that.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2010 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Surprise, maybe so. But not contend for a division title.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, everyone thought that the Padres were idiots for not trading away Bell and Gonzalez to the Yankees, because everyone knew that the Padres were going to lose 100 even with them. Funny how that worked out.
I didn't think they could compete for the division
But I was positive they would do at least 4th, perhaps third in the division.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I think they can contend
the only thing that’s seriously wrong with them is the bullpen. And Kevin Towers can make a good bullpen out of paper towels and used chewing gum.
Mark DeRosa, still existing.
I believe the Snakes will be a surprise team next year too.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
A rebuilt bullpen will do wonders for them
But their offense was still below average, and their rotation is still riddled with question marks. So was San Diego’s coming into this year, and Richard/Latos stepped up, which could happen with Dan Hudson et al.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
They got three(?) prospects back? I’d be willing to bet one of them hits (by which I mean turns out to be pretty good—I know they’re all pitchers.)
Four actually
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
And that Rodriguez guy probably isn't gonna be much
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
It was mostly a salary dump
I doubt they’ll come out on top in terms of WAR comparisons at the MLB level, but if the salary relief affords them some legitimate relief arms next year, it could be worth it
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, but reportedly there were better offers available to dump Haren's salary
and I believe Haren’s actually paid below market price.
Buster Posey>
"Screw it, Redbull time"-Brian Wilson
I misread that as players
My bad.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree
But that leaves your team, which is who I see the Giants competing with.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
I'm honestly not sure what to make of the Rockies in 2011
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
and I’m honestly not sure what to make of the Veteran Bats in 2011….
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
TWSS
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
Huff and Burrell probably will, just Uribe I’m not so sure about. Unless they find a better option, he’ll be there opening day
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Uribe is actually having a much worse season than Burrell, Torres, and even Guillen
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not going to look up stats
but I gotta think Uribe is having a better season than Guillen once you take defense into account
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 25, 2010 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Defense sure
But Guillen’s wOBA with San Fran is 30 points higher than Uribe’s. SSS and all.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm surprised Mr. Rhianna is still with Rhianna
The rumor is she liked guys who could “hit.”
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Dude.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
OVER THE LIIIIINE!
Mark it zero, Dude.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
+0
+1 ballsy joke
-1 a little too ballsy
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
But minus another one for lazy, sophomoronic humor.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s not a ballsy joke. What is ballsy about “LOL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE”? It’s an awful, not funny joke.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
It’s ballsy in the sense that a man is much, much, much more likely to make that joke than a woman is.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Ok…
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Because women, you see, don’t have testicles.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I got it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Whereas men do.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
This is a productive line of thought.
Utter frustration and futility.
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Sep 25, 2010 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Just don’t go to Colorado. When you go to Colorado, people have to monitor your ballbags at all times.
"I just struck out looking three times, but in any other ballpark those would have been home runs." - Aubrey Huff
by howtheyscored on Sep 25, 2010 5:51 PM PDT up reply actions
OT: What is Kim Kardashian thinking being with Chris Brown?
sorry that type of “ability” in a man doesn’t exactly go away without serious help.
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I would consider it ballsy by definition.
Ballsy
ball·sy adj \ˈbȯl-zē\
Definition of BALLSY
sometimes vulgar : aggressively bold
vul·gar (vlgr)
adj.
1. Crudely indecent.
2.
a. Deficient in taste, delicacy, or refinement.
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I suppose I think of “ballsy” as being someone who’s risk-taking or something.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
that is another way of interpretation
so you are definitely not wrong, as you could sub out ballsy for gutsy and so on and that would imply risk taking, but there are other usages as well!
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
fight the powers that be
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Sep 25, 2010 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
If the veteran bats can produce again in 2011…
This is a pretty big “if,” unfortunately.
by Seasick fish on Sep 25, 2010 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't disagree
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Sep 25, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Atta boy, Votto!
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 25, 2010 1:23 PM PDT reply actions
Which game is on Fox up north?
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 25, 2010 1:24 PM PDT reply actions
Screw you guys them.
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 25, 2010 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
ack
*then
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 25, 2010 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I would’ve answered, but I don’t get FOX.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
They better win with that scrub Garland pitching.
by kingofthacove on Sep 25, 2010 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Dude, Scott Rolen
C’MON MAN
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
dinks and dunks
Wait a second…that's it. That's the melody to funky town. Won't you take me down to funky town.
SFGiants
Tonights Lineup: Torres cf, Sanchez 2b, Huff 1b, Posey c, Burrell lf, Guillen rf, Uribe ss, Fontenot 3b, Zito p #SFGiants
Nice
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond, Brian Anderson.
Jeremy Affeldt induces strained obliques
by Giant among Angels on Sep 25, 2010 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
A win tonight and the Rockies’ elimination # is 3, meaning their season is basically over.
by kingofthacove on Sep 25, 2010 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
he’s 2-1 with a lifetime 3.25 ERA at Coors, so idk.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
oh yeah, definetely.
but since its Coors, I can take some of it into account. What does this mean, for the most part? he’s had a whole lot of NDs at Coors
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
he’s got a 80 pitch count limit, and with a dead arm, he won’t locate well.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Torres cf
Sanchez 2b
Huff 1b
Posey c
Burrell lf
Guillen rf
Uribe ss
Fontenot 3b
Zito p
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 1:56 PM PDT reply actions
I'd think bork would move Guillen up to 4th or 5th bc of his recent timely hitting
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Sep 25, 2010 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
True
but Guillen just seems more like Bochy’s prototypical 4th. With the slowness and what not.
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Sep 25, 2010 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
TORRES FTW!!!
Wait a second…that's it. That's the melody to funky town. Won't you take me down to funky town.
The Reds are fucking garbage
All they do is beat up on bad teams
OH MY GOD
Are you kidding me? How damn lucky can those fucking Padres get?
FUCK YOU CB BUCKNOR!
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
wild pitch hit the ump, run didnt score from 3rd.
just like what happened to us vs the Pads recently
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
nah, i was just watching gameday and said it “ball in the dirt”, then you said how lucky can they get and fuck the ump, so i made an educated guess.
not too educated, it seems
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Basehit up the middle
Easy score for Phillips, but it hits Bucknor and is ruled dead. Phillips has to go back to third base.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Shift-A
Since when did Baggarly become such a patronizing c-sucker of MCC?
My word, indeed.
Don't listen to this guy, Baggs!
We like having a tangential relationship with the MSM!
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
What
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
22gigantes, is that you?
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Sep 25, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
If the ball hits the umpire it should be fair game. It’s like hitting the base.
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
Umpire= base
I also advocate stepping on their toes while rounding the bases
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Sep 25, 2010 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
or if someone hits a line drive, and it hits the ump (when no one would obviously get to it), they have to go back and try again. bs
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
didnt we not get a run in a one run game vs SD because a WP hit an ump with Torres on 3rd?
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL Jon Garland
finally starting to pitch like…..Jon Garland
These announcers are praising the ump
for basically being a confrontational douche after his asshat partner messed up.
My mom: "I see so many Giants fans on TV at Petco, it's like you're at Pac Bell."
Me: "Almost, just with a substantially greater amount of douchebags."
VOTTO!
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 2:32 PM PDT reply actions
why do you hate Votto?
I find him refreshing- a new kid on the block
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Toronto is his hometown. I learned this listening to him peddle a product on the Reds’ radio network.
Because Votto’s from there.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
HE KILLED THE GIANTS ON AUGUST REMEMEBER? THE GAME WINNING SINGLE IN THE 12 WITH TWO OUTS! AGAINST ZITO
we killed ourselves. zito should never have even been pitching. what did you expect once zito came in?
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
we made him look pretty damn bad twice on international TV (with Lopez) and considering we totally had our chance to win the game (had pablo not done a panda airmail in the 9th), i find it hard to hate votto based on that one incident, where he got a seeing-eye single after zito allowed 5 baserunners in 1 inning.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
yea what i meant was i hate him in that GAME just in baseball. but as a person hes pretty cool. i saw hes interview on sportcenter he sounds like an honest chill guy. hes not arrogant like other baseball players today.
yeah that was more or less my take on him, was that he wasn’t an arrogant asshole, so barring what he’s done to us in games, outside of the game he is a cool dude, refreshing to see
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Showed you what, exactly?
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Look at his counterargument
It just destroys mine (not Grant, the Rockies fan).
"Catch that, Eckstein!" - Duane Kuiper
LOL. I wasn’t expecting a serious answer.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
U GLAD
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
you must not be familiar with PR. if you can’t win an argument, resort to 4th grade tactics
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
clearly Posey's power is derived from thine earhole....
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
by slackersphere17 on Sep 25, 2010 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
What he wants to do with Posey’s earhole tonight.
Jeaaaggaahh
by Soulbrother16 on Sep 25, 2010 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
yep, he owned you on that. imagine, being owned by a 12-year-old.
by giant4life83 on Sep 25, 2010 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Grant handled that situation too well.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 25, 2010 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
That
was one of the most satisfying baseball games I’ve ever been too. I was only disappointed Timmy didn’t have a no-hitter or Perfect game, because he had the stuff for it.
The Avs are under the cap floor, and others laugh at them, but when the Tornado comes, they'll be the only safe ones.
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Sep 25, 2010 3:16 PM PDT reply actions
OT: college football upsets
UCLA is killing Texas right now in the 4th, 27-6.
Also, Arkansas is beating Alabama in the 4th, 20-14.
Not an upset
But Stanford is leading Notre Dame 19-6 in the 4th. More like Notre Lame, am I right?!?
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Winners pop up with the bases loaded, Mark Grace.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 25, 2010 3:36 PM PDT reply actions
That is news?
He also has an extremely irritating voice, and mannerisms to match.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Please, [any team playing the Padres], do not live up to your season-long reputation. Please roll over and die for our division rivals. Much thanks.
Sincerely,
torture
The Dodgers lived up to their season-long reputation AND rolled over and died against the Padres.
So boom.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
that is a good point.
I saw Jersey Shore on and I assumed it was the Dodgers game.
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Gameday says injury delay after Eckstein’s AB? Que pasa?
Did somebody swat Eckstein with a fly swatter?
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 3:42 PM PDT reply actions
Tejada tried to beat out a bunt and it looks like he hurt his groin running down the line.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 25, 2010 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
says line drive to left fielder?
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 says foul bunt earlier in the AB…I am assuming he stayed in for the rest of the AB and then got PR for…
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
The bunt went foul. Tejada got a hit on the next pitch and got pinch ran for.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 25, 2010 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
So....
Gameday says A-Gone flew out to the track and Ludwick hit a liner to the pitcher?
Did the Pads just get Padred?
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Line drive is a bit of an exaggeration. It was hit very weakly.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 25, 2010 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
its the Padres
we can assume this :-P
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, Alabama just won. Picked off Mallet with a four-point lead and 1:48 left. Damn.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Hey Fox, how does a graphic of all the Red’s last at bat heroics make any sense with them on the road?
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 25, 2010 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
An OPS+ of 134 is supposed to be bad?
Rolen’s been great this season.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~ Rogers Hornsby
So what?
Guy made an error, it negates everything else he’s done this season?
Either back up your initial statement, or just admit you made a mistake…easy peazy lemon squeezy.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~ Rogers Hornsby
BEAT LOLORADO!
I’m going to see David Hyde Pierce in the new Broadway show, La Bete, newly arrived from the West End. I’m hoping that it’s the same show as I saw in Ashland about 15 years ago, which was essentially the same as the movie Amadeus, but about Moliere. The entire play is written in rhyming couplets, and Moliere enters with an I’m-not-shitting-you twenty minute monologue (entirely in rhyme!) that earned a mid-scene standing ovation.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 3:57 PM PDT reply actions
Angus Bowmer.
Giants Baseball: The Thing Is, It Keeps Happening.
Proud parent of William Nuschler M.F. Clark.
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Sep 25, 2010 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
C'mon Local Ties
It is your destiny to help us
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 3:58 PM PDT reply actions
STAN
FORD
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Sep 25, 2010 3:58 PM PDT reply actions
STAN
FERD
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Sep 25, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait. In the thesaurus I bought, the last three refer to Cal.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I read the whole thing from the first page to the last page and memorized it. WHAT NOW.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I refuse to.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 4:13 PM PDT up reply actions
lol u mad
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
YES
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Taht ball almost got by
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
More Reds fail….
Granted, I don’t exactly fear the Padres offense.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Sep 25, 2010 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
poop
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Sep 25, 2010 4:01 PM PDT reply actions
DAMMIT GOMES
stop trying to hit stupid HR’s and get the man home from 3rd with a base hit.
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
Also: how the hell do the Padres not sell out a Saturday afternoon baseball game in the middle of the September pennant race?
And: why is Fox Sports so terrible? Can they just stop the Saturday game of the week, since obviously all they care about is having the rights to the World Series? At least that way we get back to 1:05 Saturday starts at The Big Phone, and it won’t be radio only.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
It’s a disgrace. Looks like half of the stadium is in red.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 25, 2010 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Totally.
Padres never sell out because it’s San Diego and there are 1000 other things those asshat fans would rather do than cheer on their team.
Fox Sports is atrocious, just as bad as ESPN. I would very much like to go back to having my 1 pm saturday games so I can blame my afternoon drinking on something.
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Sep 25, 2010 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
They'd rather.
I seem to recall that it was MLB that insisted they do a national once a week. Complain to Emperor Seligula, not King Rupert.
Sabean delenda est!
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
I think that’s what bothers me the most about Fox, is their obvious disinterest/disdain for the whole broadcast. They seem to put their production B-team on it, have fewer cameras, etc. You’d think Selig would care about how his sport is being presented to the casual fan every week, but apparently not.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
101
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Sep 25, 2010 4:05 PM PDT reply actions
FUCK YOU SCOTT ROLEN YOU FUCKING PIECE OF DOG SHIT
YOU ARE FUCKING TERRIBLE EXCUSE FOR A BASEBALL PLAYER
Did he refuse to sign an autograph or something?
You seem to have a rather large bug up your butt about Rolen.
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~ Rogers Hornsby
He was miserable today
On both sides of the plate. The Reds just anger me because they couldn’t beat the Rockies, and now they can’t beat SD.
FUCK THE PADRES
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
by walkoff baltimore chop on Sep 25, 2010 4:15 PM PDT reply actions
Thank You Padres
Making sure that the Giants get the second best record and home field advantage
Let's bring the...
Scott Rolen is garbage
0-5 with 4 lob and an error that gave SD the win
off-topic: angry birds
My wife is obsessed with this game on her droid. How much should I mock her for acting like a gamer nerd?
I tease my wife
…about being hooked on “Bejeweled” on her Ipod.
Proudly adopted Aubrey Huff. You can't beat that!
FUCK
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
READ MY BLOG!!!!
by sadison bummedgarner on Sep 25, 2010 4:26 PM PDT reply actions
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
Related FanPosts on McCovey Chronicles
Related FanShots on McCovey Chronicles
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
Recommended FanPosts
Recent FanPosts
In Association With
Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
- Get a grip: Reds’ Todd Frazier loses bat, still connects for home run (Video)
- Eric Hosmer redefines the Baltimore chop with infield double (Video)
- College player makes impossible over the fence catch to save tournament game (Video)
- Security!: Camden Yards guard collides with Royals’ Mike Moustakas
- The Juice: Nelson Cruz matches career high eight RBIs, Pujols stays hot in Seattle
