Community Projection Rejection: Pablo Sandoval
by Grant Brisbee on Oct 21, 2011 1:04 PM PDT
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In 2009, Pablo Sandoval was the only hitter worth watching on the Giants. Well, there was Juan Uribe's surprising season, but among the players who got the most at-bats for their position, it was all Panda, all the time.
| Pos | 2009 Giants | |
|---|---|---|
| C | Bengie Molina | 87 |
| 1B | Travis Ishikawa | 87 |
| 2B | Emmanuel Burriss | 48 |
| SS | Edgar Renteria | 67 |
| 3B | Pablo Sandoval | 144 |
| LF | Fred Lewis | 93 |
| CF | Aaron Rowand | 92 |
| RF | Randy Winn | 76 |
That's the kind of table that'll make you put Kahlua in your cereal in the mornings. Just gross. And it's always, always worth repeating that if you were told that Pablo was going to have a down year in 2010, you probably would have just skipped the season and caught up on your reading. Anything that was good about the Giants' offense had to do with Sandoval. Without him, the whole fetid enterprise would sink into the bay.
Pablo Sandoval played in six games during the playoffs last year, hitting .176/.263/.235 over 17 at-bats. And the Giants won the World Series. In the regular season, he wasn't that much more productive when he played than Travis Ishikawa was. And the Giants won the World Series. So, so counterintuitive.
And that was one of the reasons a lot of us -- myself included -- were so danged optimistic before this season. Imagine if the Giants had a real first baseman (because Aubrey Huff was so awesome), a real catcher (because Buster Posey was going to be around ♥♥4eva♥♥), and our regular Pablo back! That team was going to be awesome.
As such, projections for Pablo were done with the heart instead of the brain:
Projected:AB: 521
HR: 22
AVG: .319
OBP: .359
SLG: .524Actual:
AB: 426
HR: 23
AVG: .315
OBP: .357
SLG: .552
Turns out the brain is a stupid, cynical organ that deserves to be ignored. The heart, baby. The heart had it. And the heart even undershot Pablo's power by quite a bit -- he came close to a career high in home runs even though he missed close to 40 games. The Giants had a miserable offensive year, and just like 2009, there were only a couple of players worth watching, but Sandoval was one of them, and it was awesome to watch.
He's back, and he's also back to being a unique hitter. Here's a list of hitters who played more than 400 games before they were 25 with a 120 OPS+ or better. Dig through the list, and look at the names. When you get to Ben Grieve's name, say three Hail Marys and make the sign of the cross, but apart from him, the whole list is filled with Hall-of-Famers and Hall-of-Very-Gooders. From Sam Crawford to Andrew McCutchen, when a player comes up as young as Sandoval was, and hits like he has, the odds are pretty good that he'll be a ridiculously productive hitter for a long time.
If he had another year like 2010 and the Giants had a season like they did this year, the offseason would be a pretty miserable place. As is, they have at least a start on a middle of the order. They have Pablo Sandoval, who is a rare talent. I like that guy. Think he'll be around for a while.
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Pretty damn good on my part as well
Pablo E. Sandoval (Kung Fu Panda or Round Mound of Pound) (ummm ok Baseball Reference)
I believe
AB: 605
HR: 20
AVG: .310
OBP: .340
SLG: .523
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
all I talked about was fried food and music
I am content with my contribution.
I think my projection was spot on
My projection
Sandoval will weigh less than last year. I know that’s a pretty bold projection, but I’m sticking with it..
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Where is Dan Burkhart going to play ?
by nvsfg on Feb 18, 2011 8:12 AM PST actions
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Wouldn't mind getting him on a Longoria deal right about now
Though Longoria’s deal is ridiculously team-friendly, so not the most useful model.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
He's really good! He's an injury risk! But he's really good! But he'll be expensive! But he's really good! But he's an injury risk!
Well, obviously
You could say that for any remotely good player. I doubt there’ll ever be a Longoria-type deal again.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
How about...
A Nick Markakis or Dustin Pedroia-type extension?
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by Julian Levine on Oct 21, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
If we subtract Pablo’s 6 rWAR from the team’s 86-76 record, we get 80-82. That sounds about right.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Not just that,
but immagine the offense without him. Immagine sitting through the Giants half of every inning? It would have been a historic kind of torture.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
It was the year of Panda
I can’t wait for a full Panda+Posey season at the plate. You can add a Beltran or Fielder if you like. #it’salwayssunnyinsf no need for rainy day fund.
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
It was the year of vroom… the year of injuries… the year we traded away what was ours. It was the year without a playoff berth… the year of great sadness… the year of Panda… and the year of joy. It was a new age. It was the end of Rowand. It was the year everything changed. The year is 2011. The place: AT&T Park.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
/slow motion of Panda hitting a home run
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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Actual speed!
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Is CSN going to use this in the Year End Wrap Up ?
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The Babylon 5 nerb in me couldn't help but rec that.
Well played, sir.
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Large screen and z key make this a lot easier to read.
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Your post was the fifth post in this thread
Why would you need to Shift+A?
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Why do you insist on persecuting me?
Beside…I thought Shift-A just meant I have previous discussions and an excuse to post/talk about things already mentioned
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LIES
Shift A is clearly defined at the top of every thread.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I usually type Shift-A if I haven't commented in a long time and I need to type it
Oh yeah, Shift-A
Rally Jerry!
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wow, i actually made a semi-serious projection
i think panda will be awesome this year
AVG: .318
OBP: .368
SLG: .530
HR: 28
AB: Whatever. A lot. He’s not going to get injured and he’s not going to walk much.
MVP voting: 6th
Overestimated his OBP by a few points and underestimated his power. Perhaps more significantly, I didn’t think he’d get injured.
Freak injury for sure
One that was supposed to “rob power”. Funny, he still had a 30 hr\year pace.
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I was clearly not serious with my projections
Since Grant’s always right, I’ll just agree with his projections.
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by ResDog on Feb 18, 2011 9:30 AM CST reply actions
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
And right after your post I posted...
I’m in this line
I guess that makes me a non-leader, like Pujols.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
At least you’re here to answer to angry bloggers!
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2011 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
What actually did happen to him?
He was really good, and then, just when he reached the age when he should have been hitting his peak, he totally disintegrated.
Projection:
I think he finds a happy middle of his two years.
AB: 560
HR: 21
AVG: .301
OBP: .356
SLG: .500
Actual:
AB: 426
HR: 23
AVG: .315
OBP: .357
SLG: .552
I thought he would hit for less power than he did. And in 140 fewer ABs. So my projection was pessimistic in retrospect.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
WTFormat?
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
It's kinda fun
to look back and see Pablo outperforming the optimisitic projections.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
Pretty mediocre fruit?
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I like apples. Red delicious are pretty lame, though.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
That's a tremendous understatement
The Red Delicious is a scourge.
It's not good for anything
you can’t eat it. You can’t bake with it…apple sauce?
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If I had to choose an apple to throw I think I would pick red delicious
It’s large and seems most likely to explode on contact.
The first six innings are overrated.
depends who/what you're throwing at
If you’re looking for something harder that will hurt more, granny smith. If you’re looking to drench said person with chunky bits of apple, red delicious.
I would throw a horse apple.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
As I said in that previous thread…the red delicious is environmentally friendly single serving sized container of apple sauce. I’ve never had a red delicious that wasn’t mush in semi-spherical form.
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Red Delicious is to apples what iceberg is to lettuce
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They ship well.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't have a problem with iceberg
As long as it is included sparingly with a mix of other types as well. It provides a little bit of texture that can be missing from other kinds of lettuce.
I’m not down with wedge salads, though.
The first six innings are overrated.
This is apt
Both are unfortunately ubiquitous representatives of their kind.
YOU’RE A PRETTY MEDIOCRE FRUIT!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
When I figure out what that means...
I will be duly outraged.
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Had to see Schwarzenegger’s “guest appearances” on NBC-era Conan.
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Honeycrisp is the new "hot" apple variety.
/not mediocre at all
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Missed expectations, only $6.6 billion profit.
I rhyme with freak.
by shanghaijim on Oct 22, 2011 12:50 AM PDT up reply actions
AJ Hinch got hired as VP of scouting for the Padres?
Like backup catcher AJ Hinch?
Qualifications:
Hinch was fired from the Diamondbacks on July 1, 2010, following a 31-48 start to the 2010 season. Overall, Hinch compiled an 89-123 record in 212 games. His .420 winning percentage ranks as the second lowest in Diamondbacks history, just ahead of Al Pedrique.
and
He has a degree in psychology from Stanf[u]rd University.
I do not know which one is worse
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AB: 498
HR: 19
AVG: .274
OBP: .311
SLG: .489
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 1:46 PM PDT reply actions
I broke my own rule and read the Passan garbage
He really does get bent out of shape if guys don’t want to talk to the media. I mean, he acts like the reporters are the reason why baseball players make millions of dollars.
/soils self
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 1:50 PM PDT reply actions
Just like the meatloaf.
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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
How dare you discredit meatloaf ! Meatloaf is above reproach.
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Seconded. I love meatloaf. And no, not the aging balladeer. The actual food product.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
Not only do I love meatloaf, but I also love the proto-meatloaf products of my youth, like cevapcici.
Those things are good.
Meatloaf sammiches
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Cold Meatloaf Sandwiches
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Cevapcici does appear to have potential
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it's freaking delicious
Especially if made by your stepgrandmother to whom the very idea of vegetables on a dinner plate is anathema.
Geeez peoples, it was a Family Guy resonse to a Family Guy reference.
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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
True, but meatloaf must be defended
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DON’T TRY TO WEASEL YOUR WAY OUT OF MEATLOAF DISPARAGING!
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
WEAR BROWN TO FIGHT LOAFISM!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I like meatloaf when it’s prepared properly… formed into meatballs, and served with pasta and tomato gravy.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Meatloaf is meh
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Shocker
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Not if it is made correctly. That includes leaving off that nasty tomato sauce. It must include multiple meats ( beef, pork) onions,celery, good quality bread crumbs, and be served with southern style brown gravy.
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It’s good if it is made correctly… A lot of countries have dishes similar to meat loaf and they are usually pretty good.
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
It's fine
but I wouldn’t pick it from a menu at a restaurant. I prefer a good steak, good piece of fish, or even a roast chicken before I get to meatloaf.
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try it at Hard Knox
True, the fried chicken is better, but it’s good.
The spicy fried chicken there is amazing.
by S. Pickford #25 on Oct 21, 2011 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I have to applaud him for really sticking to his high-fiber diet, though.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow.
It is not his responsibility to be a spokesman for the Cardinals, either. Plenty of superlative players do not like engaging the media. Chase Utley(notes). Miguel Cabrera(notes). It’s understandable. Losses hurt. Talking about losses pours alcohol in that wound. The media can ask uncomfortable questions. It’s a weird give-and-take.
Until it’s not part of Pujols’ job description – and with the media money that helps keep Major League Baseball afloat and Pujols’ salary stratospheric, it is – it’s his responsibility to protect his teammates from having to swallow an excessive portion of that grief, especially when much of it is on him. Leaders do that.
Jeff Passan,
I really don’t care if Albert Pujols answers your questions or not. I doubt his teammates care much either. What people care about is watching the game unfold and being entertained by the athletic displays and competitive drama that take place on the field. No one really cares about whether or not Albert Pujos answers your questions. Your framing this like it’s some intollerable squashing of the proletariate by the bourgiouse. This is baseball. It’s not politics, it’s not social science, it’s not religion.
What this is, is you trying to make your work more important than it is. This fecal matter you posted on Yahoo is more about you than anything else. It has to be, because no one cares whether or not Albert Pujols answers your questions, except you and maybe a handfull of others like you, douchebag, self-important writers who revel in the opportunity to be the lone critics of people who have made themselves powerful through one in a hundred million combination of talent, self discipline and execution. It’s just not fiar that you don’t get your chance to put someone like that in their place is it.
In the future please write about stuff peole care about. We don’t need to have your persoanl insecurities flaunted so gratuitously.
Keep your chin up Jeff.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
by Cody_ransom on Oct 21, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
If I were a professional baseball player,
I’d ignore Jeff Passan, too.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
I'm not a professional baseball player,
and I still ignore Jeff Passan.
by mrs. owlcroft on Oct 21, 2011 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Looks to me like quite a few McCoven
are not ignoring Jeff Passan.
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
People definitely want to hear what the players have to say.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Really?
How often is that a player gives us something profound and honest?
I really don’t pay attention to player quotes. 98% of the time it is the least interesting content in a piece, be it on TV, print, radio or online.
So your bothered that you don’t have a Pujols response to what happened on that play?
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
I didn’t say I wanted to hear, I said people do. And they do.
What I personally want to hear out of athletes is well delivered, trite cliches.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
This is true
And I have no idea why. Approximately 0.01% of them have anything interesting to say.
ftfy
Jeff Passan,
I really don’t care if Albert Pujols answers your questions or not. I doubt his teammates care much either. What people care about is watching the game unfold and being entertained by the athletic displays and competitive drama that take place on the field. No one really cares about whether or not Albert Pujos answers your questions. Your framing this like it’s some intollerable squashing of the proletariate by the bourgiouse. This is baseball. It’s not politics, it’s not social science, it’s not religion.
What this is, is you trying to make your work more important than it is. This fecal matter you posted on Yahoo is more about you than anything else. It has to be, because no one cares whether or not Albert Pujols answers your questions, except you and maybe a handfull of others like you, douchebag, self-important writers who revel in the opportunity to be the lone critics of people who have made themselves powerful through one in a hundred million combination of talent, self discipline and execution. It’s just not fiar that you don’t get your chance to put someone like that in their place is it.
In the future please write about stuff peole care about. We don’t need to have your persoanl insecurities flaunted so gratuitously.
Keep your chin up Jeff.
Go fuck yourself and find a new job. Preferably one you don’t suck at.
The sucky thing about this is sports writers will often make decisions about the player’s personality and worth of a person by whether or not they play the stupid media games. Case in point, one Barry Lamar Bonds who never pretended to care about the press and got crapped on by them for it. Talk to the press all day and that player becomes loveable and a great character guy (DeRosa?)
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Oct 22, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
My Prediction:
AB: 484
AVG: .317
OBP .355
SLG: .518
HR: 21
He’ll be good.
Not bad! I also said this:
To be fair, they have a lot of good players this year. Tejada is the only one, I think, in real danger of cratering. But he could crater pretty badly. And there’s no depth at short.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Yea
Team looked loaded on paper before the year
Then Sanchez and Posey got hurt
Ross got hurt and under performed
Burrel got hurt and under performed
Schierholtz performed better, then got hurt
Torress fell into a hole or something
Tejada- no comment
Cabrera- no comment (okay not on team when started)
and
Panda tore the cover off the ball, still got hurt for 40 games, and tore the cover off some more.
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Aubrey Huff.
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by Julian Levine on Oct 21, 2011 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
OH yea
Huff destroyed 10 million dollars and hit 200 4-3’s
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
The only way I can keep sane about this is to imagine that the Giants signed Huff to a 3 year deal in 2010…4.6 rWAR in 2 years for $13 million.
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I guess
I wish we would do more of what the Red Sox do. Let a guy have a career year in contract year, and let them go. Sources: Jason Bay, Adrian Beltre
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Burrell hit .230/.352/.404 for an OPS+ of 113. I’ll take that underperformance.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Yeah..
ZiPS projected him for 106 wRC+
And he finished at 114 wRC+
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by Julian Levine on Oct 21, 2011 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Okay his per at bat production was good
I was expected a guy who would bring 20 homers to the team. His foot injury cut the year short. His power was missed, a disappointment to the team preseason on paper.
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
He was good when he was healthy and given playing time
First he was inexplicably benched and then he hurt his foot, so he wasn’t able to provide much value.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Maybe your timeline is reversed and the benching is explainable by the injury, which worsened over time..
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Possible, but I doubt it
We didn’t hear anything at all about an injury until long after he was benched.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Well, the Giants aren’t exactly forthcoming about that sort of thing….
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions
MLB MLB RT by Buster_ESPN
FACT: The winner of Game 3 has gone on to win 10 of the past 11 #WorldSeries.
LOL GIANTS
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
by Solidarity on Oct 21, 2011 2:08 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
lol Klaw chat
brian (brooklyn)
I just saw a picture of Gary Brown…the Bourn or Gomez type doesnt seem like a good comparison. Isnt Josh Hamilton a better comp or maybe Aaron Rowand
Klaw
We’re scouting off pictures now?
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by marcello on Oct 21, 2011 2:08 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I have no idea how Josh Hamilton and Aaron Rowand belong in the same sentence.
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Yup, crap
I missed the sarcasm of brian from brooklyn as well. Well played brian.
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He’s not brown at all!
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I think
he compares better to Peyton Hillis or Tom Rathman.
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Oh damn it,
you already made this joke.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
GARY BROWN IS WHITE?!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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Nobody tell this man about Reggie White
The first six innings are overrated.
He’s going to be so confused when he finds out about Moses J. Yellow Horse.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Or that Derek Holland isn’t Dutch, and Esteban German isn’t German.
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2011 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions
And Buster Posey isn’t a flower.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
He has blossomed nicely…
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
More importantly
but what if Michael Vick was white?
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no
no i will not let this sing along happen
The first six innings are overrated.
He'd be Nate Schieholz
So I guess this means the Phillies making it past the 1st round of the 2010 post season was a fluke.
You know what would be perfect?
If the Giants also had a prospect named Gary White…and he was BROWN!!
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
Also, TL2 burn
Mike (New York)
More likely to happen in the next five years: The Orioles win the World Series or you eat at an Olive Garden?
Klaw
Orioles. I am not eating that garbage.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
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dibs on the salad
The first six innings are overrated.
When mrs. nvsfg and I eat at Olive Garden (about once a year). It is salad, bread sticks and dessert. I don’t think they like us much.
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For this
http://www.olivegarden.com/menu/dessert/Zeppoli/512963-1085/
this..)
http://www.olivegarden.com/menu/dessert/Black-Tie-Mousse-Cake/512961-1085/
and even though this is considered a cake ( it’s really kind of a hybrid), this
http://www.olivegarden.com/menu/dessert/Lemon-Cream-Cake/512960-1085/
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That's a strong reaction to Olive Garden
Obviously it isn’t particularly good, but it’s not like it’s gross or anything. Unless you go in there expecting actual Italian food, I can’t imagine being especially repelled by it.
Also, how did the Orioles get to be as pathetic as the Royals? That’s some grade-A mismanagement right there.
I still like their soup and salad deal.
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This is shocking.
Shocking, I say.
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I won’t eat there because of their commercials. And I feel very strongly about that.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 21, 2011 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
How can this gone wrong?
The Theo Epstein saga dragged into Friday with conflicting information on the status of talks between the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs.
Sources told ESPNChicago.com Thursday that the sides were finalizing a deal that would make Epstein the Cubs’ president of baseball operations. A Red Sox team source told ESPNBoston.com that as of Friday morning, though, compensation for Epstein is still not resolved and there is no timetable on when it might be.
The sources told ESPNChicago.com Thursday that talks were at the “5-yard-line,” but if they can’t be pushed over the goal line, baseball commissioner Bud Selig told Sirius XM that he may have to step in to help mediate the impasse.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7130700/bud-selig-hints-mediating-theo-epstein-comp-talks
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The Red Sox initially asked for Castro!
LOL THOSE GUYS!
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Did they really?
I was hoping we could get him for the rights to Rowand and adding in Schierholtz
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
ZITO AND HUFF FOR CASTRO
Make it happen, Epstein. Make it happen.
deep thought
Is Epstein currently negotiating trades for himself?
The first six innings are overrated.
Gets Scott Boras to represent him.
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and then gets suckered into signing himself to a long term contract for too much money
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Oct 21, 2011 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Red Sox send Pedroia
Cubs get Epstein.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 21, 2011 5:17 PM PDT up reply actions
And then they asked for Garza!
They do realize they have no leverage whatsoever, right?
How good Panda was this year cannot be overstated
We’d have out-crap’d the history books of the 2010 Mariners were it not for him.
It’s happy to know that as long as he stays healthy and active, we’re going to have a hell of a corner infielder.
I think he would've if he were healthy
He spent a lot of the end of the year batting only from one side, and I seriously doubt even that was pain free. I’d also assume that those 2 weeks after he first came back from the hamate surgery and was only hitting singles may not have happened.
The first six innings are overrated.
Yea
His removed bone was supposed to “rob power” and he still hit 20+ bombs in 3/4 a year. I think you could easily say he would have hit 28-32 without the injury.
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Rob Power
That should be Matt Cain’s alias.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
by Cody_ransom on Oct 21, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm not mad or anything because it was disgusting journalism
But why did my fanshot about the ny post get deleted
I got the story from SB Nation’s facebook page itself so i figured
I just want to know what the line is so I dont cross it again
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
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by operation carrot on Oct 21, 2011 2:16 PM PDT reply actions
That picture is super gross.
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I didn’t see the FanShot, but I would have deleted it, too. Remember that each SBNation website has different standards, which are largely established by the writers, and that what flies for SBN Facebook is not a guarantee anywhere else. Grant’s site guidelines specifically beg against politics. In practice, the moderators give some wiggle room for benign topics or civil discussion. But that story is obviously not benign, to say the least.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
The captioner also confused hit rate with hit total, which should always be a deletable offense.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Giants' fifth starter?
There’s a widespread assumption that Yu Darvish will be playing in the Major Leagues next year. But the 25-year-old right-hander took to his personal blog to explain that “nothing is decided.”
“After the entire schedule is over, I will carefully think it over," Darvish wrote, according to Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker. "As soon as I decide I will let everyone know."
Mlbtraderumors.com
He’ll probably be a Yankee or Red Sox.
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No
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
That posting fee is going to be ridiculous.
The first six innings are overrated.
It's Japanese league
but his stats are pretty ridiculous…he’s also only 25
Career (4 years): 0.909 WHIP, 0.4 Hr/9, 4.36 K to BB ratio
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Sure
but if he becomes the Ichiro of Japanese pitchers…it would be worth it…the marketing aspect alone would make the deal more reasonable.
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Meh
There have been some good Asian player
Park
Kuo
Wang
Saito
Kuroda
Nomo
Choo
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43 Japanese, 12 Japanese, 6 Taiwanese
I also forgot to add:
Byung-Hyun Kim
H. Matsui
Koji Uehara (pre-Ranger)
Akinori Otsuka
Kenji Johjima
Fu-Te Ni is supposed to be very good.
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12 South Koreans
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Nah
pure unadulterated blind ignorance is preferrable.
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Aslan players in the Majors?
I count at least 17.
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
Yu has several advantages to the other high-cost flops. For one, he is very pretty. That helps sell tickets. For two, he’s half-Japanese and half-Iranian. I can’t think of a single other player of Iranian descent, though there probably are a few. That’s an odd combo that will also draw ticket sales. Finally, there are the good numbers. If he’s willing to cross over, I’m thinking that the guy is a good bet.
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HUH HUH HUH
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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Who?
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Nope. Beatles.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
That *if* statement has a high price tag
Massive downside
Moderate upside in dollars per production
I would not touch it with a pole. Besides Ichiro, and to a minor degree, Matsui, name a Japanese player that produced, longer than 2-3 years, at a really high level?
by Myemail21479 on Oct 21, 2011 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
More
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/yu-darvish-real-deal/
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I don't think so
Daisuke’s was $50M and it’s hard for me to imagine this guy going for more, considering that deal didn’t work out that well for the Sawx.
And they REALLY need pitching
It’s worth it for them. They can afford gambles.
especially with their pitching woes
They’d better hope they can hold on to Sabathia.
LOL YU!
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Oct 21, 2011 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
According to Joel Sherman
If had to list Darvish faves in order, #Yankees not in top 5: #Rangers #Bluejays #Nationals,#Mariners #Royals.
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I don't get that at all
The Nats and Mariners make sense. Rangers, I guess. I’m really struggling to see the logic for the Jays or the Royals though.
Toronto isn't totally inconceivable
The Blue Jays have been operating as a small-market team for a while, but Toronto is a very large city and Canada is an enormous market for them. I’m a bit surprised they haven’t expanded payroll by a lot.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
now is there chance to spend big on a free agent
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by Anonymous1337 on Oct 21, 2011 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s Just Not that into Yu
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
With or without Yu
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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Yu just too good to be true…
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Gotta to Get Yu into My Life
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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Yu are the sunshine of my life.
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I don’t wanna hang around with Yu.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
YU ARE NOT GETTING A BIG CONTRACT FROM ME!
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by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Yu Spin Me Right Round
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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
And Yu and I
/Yes reference
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That's a little close to the edge
Siberian KhatYu
Sing, bird of prey
Beauty begins at the foot of Yu
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
Having a japanese player on the Giants would make my wife pretty happy…
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
Isn’t the bullpen catcher asian too?
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
And we have some pitcher named Tim or something
I heard he’s pretty good.
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by Murray, Present on Oct 21, 2011 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
ftfy
Having a japanese good player on the Giants would make my wife me pretty happy…
sorry, punctuation fail.
Having a japanese good player on the Giants would make my wife me pretty. happy…?
we have a lot of good players…
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Pat Burrell
is an incredible player.
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I think this city would go crazy
If the Giants had an Asian star. It’s really a shame Ishikawa can’t hit.
Most people probably don’t know he’s half-Filipino. Then there are those who don’t consider Filipino to be Asian.
Would it then be considered “Pacific Islander,” or is that a whole different group?
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
I have always found that classification to be difficult – sort of a gray area between Asian and Pacific Islander – probably because the population of the Philippines is very heterogeneous. Or because I am confused and/or misinformed.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
LET ME UNPACK YOU
We are Malay-Chinese-Hispanic with a highly Americanized culture. Every now and then people try to be “more Asian”, usually the ones who were born American.
I rhyme with freak.
by shanghaijim on Oct 22, 2011 12:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Huh?
Really? What is it then, if not Asian? And I’m pretty sure most people, at least most fans, do know that Tim is Filipino.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
Oh. One of those people. Racist Natto strikes again.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I just polled three people as to whether they knew Tim Lincecum was Filipino:
1. “Duh, everyone knows that”
2. “yeah”
3. No response. (must be busy working)
WWRWD?
ok, I just asked my co-worker who is white and a pretty big Giants fan. She was really surprised and kinda doesn’t believe me. She wants to see a pic of Tim’s mom.
WWRWD?
SL
I started looking for a pic of Tim’s mom (because now I want to see one), but instead found Tim making out with a dog:
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
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SL
I started looking for a pic of Tim’s mom (because now I want to see one), but instead found Tim making out with a dog:
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Oh. Oops.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
It’s lagging on every comment I attempt to make.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions
You know
I’m kind of surprised that anyone is surprised about Tim’s ethnicity. Maybe it’s the green eyes? He looks Asian to me, tho, otherwise.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
meh.
It’s just subtle enough for me until it was mentioned, and then I noticed it in a more direct manner. At that point it was like “Oh. Yeah. Duh.”
I’ve always noticed his K count more than his facial features. Kinda like when you don’t recognize players out of uniform for a split second?
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
I totally know what you mean, but I thought Asian or half-Asian right away when I first saw him.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
I at first thought he was half-Japanese. Then he dropped into a squat for comfort and I realized he was Pinoy.
I rhyme with freak.
by shanghaijim on Oct 22, 2011 12:49 AM PDT up reply actions
His mom
I think she is the one with the peace sign.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Oct 21, 2011 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Mom
It’s a page on Lincecum’s Filipino heritage:
http://menversus.com/articles/Tim-Lincecum
I did a Google search of “Lincecum Rebecca Asis”.
This is her kissing him:
According to Lincecum, whose mother Rebecca Asis is the daughter of Filipino immigrants, "You know, I’m a Filipino. I have Filipino heritage in me. As far as the diversity of the city goes, it’s up there. It’s just great. I think the game is just getting followed more and more worldwide. To find that in your own city, to find that same kind of following it’s good.", referring to the Filipino fans.
It’s a shame that Filipino American’s don’t receive the same kind of attention that other ethnic communities do. They were right there side by side with US soldiers during WWII.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Oct 21, 2011 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Now ask them about Tedy Bruschi.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:48 PM PDT up reply actions
WATER MEXICANS!
We’re actually Latin American.
I rhyme with freak.
by shanghaijim on Oct 22, 2011 12:47 AM PDT up reply actions
No
He doesn’t “look” Asian. He doesn’t have an Asian name. People who follow baseball casually have no idea he’s Asian. Absolutely everyone who follows sports in the slightest knows Ichiro is Japanese.
I wouldn’t be shocked to find a good chunk who think Ichiro is Chinese.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Also
SF doesn’t have nearly as big of a Filipino population as it does Chinese and Japanese. Also also, my guess is that an Asian player would be more of a sensation if he were actually from Asia, as opposed to Asian-American. I don’t know why exactly.
The exotic scent.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions
….Tim is half Filipino…. my wife would be uber excited if we had a Japanese player… she used to be a Japanese citizen until receiving US citizenship in the past few years… just having a player from her home country would be cool… :)
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I'm telling you, get Chen Instead. No posting fee. Free Agent. Left handed.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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He's wearing blue and white.
That can’t be good.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
He's younger than Matt Cain
26 year old free agent lefty with stats like this don’t come around very often.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=chen—001wei
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Mathematicians Trace Who Controls Global Economy
Good read, The study was done by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, not some conspiracy nut, so it’s all good information.
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by Anonymous1337 on Oct 21, 2011 2:23 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Never trust a company with a name this generic
7. Legal & General Group plc
The first six innings are overrated.
Hahahaha
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by Anonymous1337 on Oct 21, 2011 2:28 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Yes, but how does this relate to smartphones?
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CLEARLY THE SWISS HAVE BRAINWASHED YOU
never trust the swiss!
I rhyme with freak.
by shanghaijim on Oct 22, 2011 12:54 AM PDT up reply actions
They invented watches as a confidence trick. The trained mind does not need a watch.
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 22, 2011 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
billbarnwell Bill Barnwell
RT @Grantland33: Could Alex Smith Become the Worst Quarterback to Ever Win a Super Bowl? by @billbarnwell es.pn/nCLuiO
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With
Jim McMahon and Doug Williams in that group…no.
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Relative to league, neither one is so horrible. Dilfer is the honest-to-goodness standout.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm actually think more about the entire career
Dilfer was average his whole career…McMahon and William were at best one year average wonders.
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Dilfer was just below average for about five years in the middle of his career, and terrible the rest of the way. McMahon was only clearly below average three times. His problems weren’t proficiency. Williams is similar to Dilfer, except his badness was less terrible for less time.
The trick, like I said, is looking at these players relative to the league.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Where do you get league-adjusted stats for football?
I’ve never looked into advanced stats for football at all, but I can see where adjusting for era would be quite important. I mean, think how ridiculously terrible Terry Bradshaw was by modern standards.
Pro Football Reference has +stats for quarterbacks for all the stuff you’d do your eyeball checks on: Comp%, TD%, INT%, Adjusted Y/A, Sack%.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
stats being adjusted for the league, just like OPS would be.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Grrr that autoformatted away my plus signs!
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
And I don’t see what formatting was achieved in the process…
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
plus stats being adjusted for the league, just like OPS-plus would be.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Dilfer was baaaad and still is bad on ESPN
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
The moment that should have probably sealed Nolan’s release should have been the desire to use Dilfer as a model for Smith.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, this is week 7 of a 16 game season. I don’t think the words “win the Superbowl” in any sort of future tense should be allowed to now unless you use the hash mark #nothingelsetowriteabout or #trollingforpagehits
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Oct 21, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
This
so very much this.
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Isn't next week "week 7" for the niners?
So I guess this means the Phillies making it past the 1st round of the 2010 post season was a fluke.
Oh but those are always so much fun!! It’s game 30 of a 162 game season…if the season ended today Barry Zito would be the Cy Young winner, Prince Fielder would have the most stolen bases and Juan Pierre would be the home run king!
Meanwhile the Royals, Orioles and Nationals are among the division winners!!!!
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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Well, it's about game 70
Obviously we don’t know anything for sure yet, but we can get a pretty good idea about who’s good and who isn’t. It’s pretty clear that the 49ers will at least make the playoffs.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Even relative to the league and making no adjustment for Smith’s rookie season, Dilfer was worse.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Hilarious appeal of the month.
Cop notices car parked in front of a “No Parking Anytime” (sic) sign. Goes to cite him, perp admits he has no license, and it’s discovered he’s on probation so he’s subject to search. Cop wasn’t even going to search the car anyway, tho, until he noticed the girlfriend in the passenger seat had fresh track marks. Lots of drugs and needles in the car and her purse, everyone goes to jail.
Appeal is based on the fact that the place the No Parking sign was posted is not actually listed in the municipal code as being a no parking area. This attorney represents the girlfriend with the track marks.
Can’t wait to hear the argument on this one.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
So glad the firm I work at doesn't do criminal
We just get money/take back equipment from small businesses and help banks foreclose on commercial properties. Hooray.
The first six innings are overrated.
You are the other half!
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-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Personally I always find sex appeal gets me what I want
So I guess this means the Phillies making it past the 1st round of the 2010 post season was a fluke.
It was on MLB front page
but I linked to the article or whatever it is assuming that MLB rotates their front page.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
It looks like the elemental cycle of feng shui.
I rhyme with freak.
by shanghaijim on Oct 22, 2011 12:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Prince Fielder, home plate, the Giants, Performance Art
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
I love this photo.
The first six innings are overrated.
Was it taken from a blimp or somethng?
It’s making me kind of dizzy.
todd greene i think
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Duh me, the subject line!
I totally forgot about that. Was this the play he got creamed on?
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
The photo is seriously great though
It’s like one of those early renaissance paintings where they just threw together a ton of people that are or were doing something with symbolic meaning but barely made sense as a single coherent scene. I’m pretty sure one of the players is indicating someone will soon be betrayed and another is secretly paying homage to the kind of spain.
The first six innings are overrated.
by apistat on Oct 21, 2011 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Man, that guy was too nice for his own good.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
No, I think apistat was referring to the Basque separatists. They’re not truly Spain, they’re just kind of Spain.
Thank you Edgar Renteria, for hitting the ball three feet higher.
What I want to know is when the ETA will finally arrive.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 22, 2011 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Good
cuz the Sharks apparently forgot how to play hockey so far.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I survived ATC. I’ve got one more shift of pitching on Saturday morning, and then the drive is over.
I hate these weeks.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
Did you meet your fundraising goals?
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
I’ll say…yeah…
It was a good day, but we did miss some of our hourly goals.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
?
How about those challenges? I get somewhat nervous when they say like they need 10 members in the next 90 seconds.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
ATC didn’t have a challenge today. We met one yesterday, and they usually go pretty well. When I was at Alabama Public Radio, the challenges were the most adrenaline-pumping moments of the drive. Those were some heady times.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
The ones they have at KPCC
are pretty serious…I think Tom Hanks/Rita Wilson had one for $25,000.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
That would be amazing. I wanna take over for Alex Cohen.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
I imagine you more of a Steve Inskeep
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I’m not going back to mornings. You can’t make me.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
Is Alex the Giants’ fan…I remember someone in the afternoon talking about the Giants winning the WS.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
He was with us, and will join us again tomorrow morning before returning to his place next to Madison on the shelf.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
He’s looked pretty sad this week without Buster.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
Madison, by the way, will get his turn in the sun during our spring fund drive next year. He’s already been tapped to serve as mascot.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
Forgot to mention: Our development director was pitching with me this afternoon, and she turned my Posey bobblehead around in a different direction. I asked her why, and she said she was checking out his butt. I told her the real thing was far more impressive.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
NO EARLY INDUCTION
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
That ass has yet to retire.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
How about this, then: We hold a Badonkadonk All-Star Game each July, in which MLB’s best and brightest butts can get the attention they deserve.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
This wouldn’t be a bad annual FanPost.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes
Still no reason there can’t be a Badonkadonk Hall of Fame.
I nominate Bernie Williams, Shawn Estes and (forgive me) Mike Piazza.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
Ray Durham
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
If it must be done.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I nominate myself!
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
You should get all agressive as a finale
GIVE R DIE!
BLOW THE DUST OFF YOUR WALLETS!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Threaten the listeners with 8 hours of Rush Limbaugh if they don’t donate!
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
Also an option:
Threaten the listeners with 8 hours of Rush Limbaugh if they don’t donate!
The first six innings are overrated.
Fly By Night on repeat would net huge money
Just to make it stop!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I once saw a Pop-O-Pies show where they played the chorus of ‘Sugar Magnolia’ repeatedly until the audience provided them with adult beverages.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
It was in 1984… were you in college then?
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
A little later….when there were still enough Dead Heads around to blast Sugar Magnolia all over town and tell you the difference between a Sugar Mag played at this show vs one played at a show a year later
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Oct 21, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Virtually anyone could tell the difference between the Dead’s version and the Pop-O-Pies’ version! And they still can!
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
My numbers
for Sunday’s game are: AL 9-NL 6, NL 9-AL 4 & AL 5-NL1
For some reason, Saturday’s game filled up before I got asked.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
And for that subsection of people who are both Dr. Who fans and fans of the Office...
Catherine Tate is getting a long arc for the season. As I thought she had the best “interview” in last year’s finale and thought Donna was a hoot, I’m okay with this
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Oct 21, 2011 3:48 PM PDT reply actions
That may give me a reason to watch The Office again.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Yay!
Love her.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
All right guys...I'm out
Have to go pick up the munchkin and celebrate her 2nd birthday :)
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Follow the yellow brick road!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s picking her up from a grueling 13-hour shift at the lollipop gift. She’s a pop-wrapper.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn it. Lollipop guild. I inadvertently rhymed.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
MC HTS STAND UP
MOON LANDING? BEAR GRYLLS!
by Anonymous1337 on Oct 21, 2011 4:15 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Not again!
I could’ve sworn I parked it in Lot B.
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
Someone was just throwing an apple
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Just Passan’s bowels. Move along.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Dear amazon
Kindle editions of books should not be more than both the paperback and hardcover editions.
Seriously, more people should be boycotting this, it’s way too common!
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
That is definitely the prime reason I won't get a kindle...yet.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
I just wait for the price to come down, but it’s getting to be a longer and longer cycle. I don’t think enough people are boycotting.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
My mother-in-law does not share your patience. (Though she LOVES her kindle and everything on it.)
I think her vented frustrations have subconsciously convinced me to not even worry about it.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
I’m a little shocked that sales would actually support a model that prices Kindle editions higher than physical media.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
What is it with Daryl Maday and teh gaiz?
Daryl_Maday Daryl Maday
I was like is Justin Bieber gay? Maybe, maybe, maybe, ooooo maybe, maybe, maybe oooooo maybe, maybe, maybe ooooo he defintely prefers guys.
Seems like he makes a lot of tweets on the subject of gayness.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
More like Daryl_MaGAY, right?
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
It will be tragicomic when he comes out.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh come on dude, don't retweet that
LoMoMarlins Logan Morrison
by Daryl_Maday
Whenever I Google a girl I know, I always put the word “naked” after their name. Just in case…
1 hour ago
Usually I just text him those ones. Seems easier.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions
The other day
I called him a douchebag and he responded by making fun of my pie avatar.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 5:51 PM PDT up reply actions
He wanted you to have sexual relations with it! Because he’s so funny!
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
People are so creepy about Justin Bieber, on both ends of the spectrum. If it’s not the people who seem angry with him for existing and do nothing but call him gay, it’s the fans who want to murder Selena Gomez for kissing him. Poor kid.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
He’s not poor anymore!
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions
fuck that, he's canadian
I rhyme with freak.
by shanghaijim on Oct 22, 2011 12:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Couldn't find what you're looking for? You're in the
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Now I just need to figure out where the right one is.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Couldn't find what you're looking for? You're in the
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
God Dammit
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
We have a Vietnamese restaurant up here called Pho King Restaurant.
Epic name.
Epic banh mi.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. 2011 NWL MVP .
Job 1:14-15
There should be a Pho Shizzle restaurant.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions
There's a Pho King Wei restaurant near us
so if it ever closes down everyone can say “No Pho King Wei!!”
I’m not kidding about the restaurant name either!
NorCal passion trapped in SoCal pain...
I wanna rage.
reminds me of .........
i wonder what Zagat rated it? anyone know?
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
November 1, 2010: Best/craziest/drunkest night of my life.
by GIANT stoner on Oct 21, 2011 5:31 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL SHARKS
proving my decision to not buy season tickets correct
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Oh, shit
I hate east coast road trips. I am going to miss pretty much the whole game because I have a hair appointment after work.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
So far looks like you aren't missing much.
Can we just skip to January, when the Sharks apparently decide the season starts?
by WhatsAMataHari on Oct 21, 2011 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I was hoping for the Sharks to distract me from the off season in baseball, but it’s not working so far.
Last year there was so much celebrating to do, so much swag to buy….sigh.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
I miss the 70’s – great for football and for basketball, the sports I can no longer watch.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
The NIners sucked in the 70’s.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Who said I cared what team you were a fan of?
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Oakland teams were really good in that time period
The Raiders won the division every year from 1967 to 1970 and from 1972 to 1976. The A’s won the division every year from 1971 to 1975.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
This is why when we played against each other in the back yard my older brother would usually be the A’s/Raiders and I would be the Giants/49ers. The results matched up.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Last year they started pretty darn poorly too...
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Oct 22, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Appropriate for this post
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
My Friday night plans just fell through
I’ll be without spouse or kids, and was planning a GNO with a friend, who can’t make it. Now what?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
I’m planning four or five hours of X-Men: The Animated Series.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
We did just get the blu-ray of Star Wars IV - VI
That might be something.
Or maybe some Lord of the Rings shenanigans.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
I am CONVINCED that if we had attended the same college at the same time we would have been pretty good friends.
Yeah, that reads a little awkward now that I typed it out. :/
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
You can always fap
MOON LANDING? BEAR GRYLLS!
by Anonymous1337 on Oct 21, 2011 5:29 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
OKAY, IF YOU INSIST!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I shall attend to a depleted gallo and perhaps exercise. So far, we’ve watched Social Network and Monty Python. He was much more amused by Monty Python; this is a mark in his eternal good stead.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
He is a man of discriminating tastes. I wish him well.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 22, 2011 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL LOL LOL SHARKS
Giving the other team a penalty shot WHILE YOU ARE ON THE POWERPLAY is not how you win. 2-0 Not!Sharks
How the hell did they even manage to do that?!
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
trip on a breakaway im guessing…? uber fail
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
I was right!
Panda Bear projection?
Tomboy is going to be album of the year.
Matt Cain: He’ll save children, but not the Dodger children.
“Out, out, Fred Lewis!” – JCTillam Gamerspeare
by jponry on Feb 18, 2011 6:33 AM PST actions 1 recs
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I also started a solid Radiohead puns thread
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I just broke my All-Time sleeping in record! 4:41!
But, like usual, I didn’t make a projection.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 21, 2011 5:27 PM PDT reply actions
OT: Person of Interest
is an awesome show. i’ve replaced baseball with it, which is kind of like eating mcdonalds when you really wanted in and out. but this past episode was the best yet
Ignoring Tim Mccarver since 2002.
i replaced baseball with chopped
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Those judges are such assholes.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha
I love most of them, tbh.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
That Guarneschelli lady annoys me. She better make a damn good showing on the Next Iron Chef.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 6:21 PM PDT up reply actions
She annoyed me at first, but I’ve grown to like her. She has nitpicky criticisms, for sure, but I really feel like she gets invested in the success of the contestants, if that makes sense? I mean she starts crying like every other episode.
My favorite judges are Geoffrey and Aarón, though.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I have a soft spot for Aarón from Chefs vs. City… the show was fairly ridiculous, but those two had serious skillz.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Oct 21, 2011 6:40 PM PDT up reply actions
is that what they're calling it now?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
:(
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I remember when Aaron was on Next Iron Chef
Mike Symons deserved to win, tho, I thought.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
I’m not gonna lie, I’m excited about Geoffrey being on the new season of TNIC. If he goes out after like 2 eps, I’ll be pissed.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
When is that on?
And isn’t the next season of Top Chef coming soon?
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
I think it starts next week?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
yeah, Oct. 30
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
The show feels really fake
I get the feeling a lot of the stuff they make is terrible, and the judges try way too hard to build drama.
The first six innings are overrated.
It is and the editing is awkward
but I still love it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Love Chopped.
Cannot wait for the new “The Next Iron Chef” Hate what they have done with American Iron Chef, but the actual show and competitions they do are awesome.
Plus this season is all the top celebrity chefs.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
said that last night... show is pretty awesome
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
subject line
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2011 6:00 PM PDT reply actions
I don't want a Bush to die either.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. 2011 NWL MVP .
Job 1:14-15
Dick Chaney
Please stay alive
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
DAMMIT SOMOENE HACKED MY PHONE
I rhyme with freak.
by shanghaijim on Oct 22, 2011 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions
109 players on that list!
"There was no torture in the end. Only rapture." - Mike Krukow
Flags Fly Forever
"Orlando before Zod" doesn't have the same nice ring to it.
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants
by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 21, 2011 6:58 PM PDT reply actions
That would explain his unreliability that season.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Oct 21, 2011 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry if this is Breaking
It’s from 10/9 but I saw it for the first time yesterday:
Matier & Ross:
What was up with San Francisco Giants President Larry Baer presenting Larry Ellison with a World Series championship ring at the opening ceremony of Oracle OpenWorld?
“Oracle is one of our oldest corporate sponsors,” Baer told us.
So along with Coca-Cola, AT&T, Chevron, Bank of America, Visa, Charles Schwab and other big advertisers at AT&T Park, they are entitled to a championship ring.
And not just any ring, but an “A” ring – the highest of the four grades handed out to 400 or so people associated with the team, from Giants starters to minor-leaguers to ballpark workers.
“Everyone got a ring of some kind,” Baer said, adding: “And by the way, until the Series is over, we are still world champions.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/08/BA6O1LEVC1.DTL
Farscape’s an odd little show.
The main character’s pretty annoying, though.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
You’ve known this lady for less than a day, dude. And she’s your enemy. You don’t love her. Now get the fuck out of there.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Can’t handle another one after that. Let’s see how much of Tron: Legacy I can deal with.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 7:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh. Sam’s already annoying me.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 7:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Looks like it took 7 minutes for that to happen.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 7:58 PM PDT up reply actions
God, he’s such an asshole.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Heeled platforms are not practical for software.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions
“Am I on the Grid?”
Stupid question, kid.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Setting Sam up as a rebel kid who hates his Absent Father was useless because the plot isn’t in any way based on him dealing with those feelings. He should have been searching for his father his whole life, because that’s what the plot wants him to deal with now.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Psh, yeah. Just totally happy to see his dad and shit.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait, why is Flynn doing his The Dude impersonation?
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, it’s Anakin Skywalker Flynn.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoa, subtle Apple product placement.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, they’re going to make him mad at his dad for completely different reasons. Oh.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I made it to the end, but I stopped watching carefully right around the night club.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions
The real problem is that the movie never should have been about Flynn’s son. We watch Tron because we want to see Flynn and Tron. Sam just took valuable screen time away from them. But, it being about Sam, they should have at least made his emotional journey consistent.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
It is pretty good-looking.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I hope he loses his first game.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I LOVE Farscape but the first season (until the finale) is pretty meh
by WhatsAMataHari on Oct 21, 2011 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s fun to watch. That guy is just bugging me. You’ve been out here for like a month, dude. Stop acting like the moral authority on complex alien social politics you know nothing about.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, and don’t fall in love with your stated enemy after an hour. That too.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions
And stop making pop culture references like anybody will get them.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
From the Desk of the Red Sox
CHICAGO – The Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs jointly announce this evening that, effective immediately, Theo Epstein has resigned from the Red Sox in order to become the new President of Baseball Operations for the Cubs. The Clubs also have reached an agreement regarding a process by which appropriate compensation will be determined for the Red Sox and that issue will be resolved in the near term.
An agreement as to a process by which compensation will be determined? But what about the pre-meeting committee to discuss the pre meeting hearings?
Right after the ice-breakers.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 7:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Baggs
Buster Posey. The cleanup-hitting catcher and the Giants’ most important position player, Posey began taking on-field batting practice Monday and also started running on his surgically reconstructed left ankle. He caught pitching prospects in the bullpen during instructional league workouts, too. He’ll remain in Arizona until Nov. 5, when he’ll return home to Georgia.
http://www.mercurynews.com/giants/ci_19168377?source=rss
Pitching and defense wins championships, but oh those dingerz....
squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
The first six innings are overrated.
“It makes us feel he’s ahead of schedule,” Sabean said.
Notice how Sabean hedges by saying “feel”. You really don’t know how much and how well Posey will play until he does. It could take most of the season to get a definitive answer.
Sabean said he probably cannot acquire another full-time catcher as insurance, though, because resources will be needed elsewhere.
What a joke. So if Posey can only go part time behind the dish, Stewart will be in there for the rest? The approach of ownership has really changed. I think we are going to miss Neukom. Sure, he was wasteful in signing and trading for players like Tejada and Cabrera, but at least he was willing to do the things it took to make the Giants a top contender. And I’m sure next season I’ll be asking a lot about why certain expensive relief pitchers are on the payroll while the offense continues to struggle to score runs.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Oct 22, 2011 12:32 AM PDT up reply actions
And some injuries take a while to fully heal. Poor Torrey Mitchell broke his leg [horrifically] and it’s taken him really 2 years to get his speed and agility back. Of course he got injured again last night. I think I saw his arm fly off into the stands…but the Sharks, of course, just say “upper body injury”.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
The first two things they appear to be looking into is a SS and a leadoff hitter/CF type player. Those will cost bucks. Then throw in all the money to make the starting pitchers happy and keep most of the bullpen and there really isn’t that much money left unless they’re going to seriously increase the budget (break into Rainy Day Fund). That leaves very little room for a backup catcher.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Oct 22, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
True, but they could also end up needing a catcher for half a season. I’m assuming the market for quality SS/CF is thin unless the Giants are willing to spend big bucks or trade their top talent.
I just don’t like the idea of Sabean not having the money to provide the team with the proper insurance behind the dish. Posey’s health and abilities are a huge question mark.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Oct 22, 2011 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think the Giants are going to make the playoffs next year and I think Cain is going to leave if they don’t make the offense better.
If that happens, I’m done with this stupid fucking team.
What's great about BABIP becoming mainstream is now the fan never actually has to admit his team flat-out lost.
<3 Kanani Madison
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
hometown team love can only go so far I suppose; if management is gonna fuck over the pitchers then I don’t want to care about it anymore
What's great about BABIP becoming mainstream is now the fan never actually has to admit his team flat-out lost.
<3 Kanani Madison
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh man, now I’ve got half a chubby. BRB.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 22, 2011 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Need a minute for the other half to catch up?
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Have you seen Tron: Legacy?
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, because I’m seeing how far I can go watching it.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Pretty colors, but it’s fairly frustrating as a narrative.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 21, 2011 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions
shift-a
New SBN iPhone app rocks! Can “z” or “shift-a”. I just did!
by capn on Oct 21, 2011 8:33 PM PDT via iPhone app reply actions
It is the single biggest improved app from v1 to v2 I can recall...
They made something that had been utterly worthless into something quite useful. Can they do that with Aubrey Huff?
by capn on Oct 22, 2011 2:21 PM PDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Hello
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
and... that Louisville highlight came on with the guy who broke his neck... jesus
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
wat
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
Can’t root for teams other than the local ones?
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
nonsense
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
Begs the Question:
so, if the Giants hadn’t TGWTWS last year, would Theo Epstein now be our guy in charge?
proud son of greatgiantfan; b. Apr 29, 2009, d. Jul 30, 2010.
/that's not what begging the question means
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Is Epstein considered a good GM?
MOON LANDING? BEAR GRYLLS!
by Anonymous1337 on Oct 21, 2011 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Go TREE tomorrow?
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
I counter your TRON with a Dick Tracy
I know I’m gonna win
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Hey Tracy who ever did on the bad man
they didn’t take a dime
everything alright?
why don’t you shave off that silly mustache?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Baby your mine on the platter baby
I’m gonna love you when you are alone
I’d helper out there
This time like… my,…
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
chicken negotiation
dick tries it on
MAYBE WE SHOULD STEP OUTSIDE
we got a place to treat guys like this
go suck a lemon
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
NOT THE BATH
anything less than the bath
kid
BUT
Alls fair in LOVE andbusiness
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Take the bad men away
can’t do this
get me mumbles 
get me more mumbeles
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
behbey gal behbehgil!
neverhappen
he’s got no case got no case
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
You're breaking and entering you know
You know it’s legal for me to take you down to the place. Maybe that’s what you would expect
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Touch it easy....
But MOOOOORRRRE
MOOOOOOOOREEE
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Alls fair...
Just taking you home, Ms.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Sometimes you don't know who to hold close
You can trust the kid:
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Toys was the worst movie I have ever seen
Followed closely by Jason goes to hell.
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Toys is charming.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Clearly still some little issued to iron out
The first six innings are overrated.
That’s thoughtful.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I can post from my iPhone now
Woo I like turtles and pandas
Well this is signature.
by Snack on Oct 21, 2011 11:58 PM PDT via iPhone app reply actions
Dude's got RIMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D156oBJGOo&feature=related
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
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
We're still alive?
Harold Camping was wrong again!
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Ryan Doumit
In a pronouncement that comes as no surprise, general manager Neal Huntington said that the Pirates intend to decline club options for Ryan Doumit and Chris Snyder after the conclusion of the World Series. The catchers are two of four Pirates who hold club options for the 2012 season.
Any player who doesn’t have an option exercised will become a free agent.
“I hate closing doors,” Huntington said, “but I think it’s realistic to assume that neither option is realistically in play at this point in time.”
Snyder’s club option, which was negotiated when he was with Arizona, would pay him $6.75 million in 2012. Doumit’s option would trigger a $7.25 million salary next season and $8.25 million in 2013. Generally speaking, neither cost is exorbitant. They become a little more so, though, when you consider that both players are 30 years old and have been plagued by injuries throughout their careers.
Watch out, he’s evil Sabes.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Oct 22, 2011 12:58 AM PDT reply actions
Whatever the price, they are going to need plenty of holy water handy.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Oct 22, 2011 1:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Today's weather - Saturday edition
A cold start for many of us in the East, with frost advisories up-and-down the Appalachians. Things should warm up this afternoon, with highs in the 60s as far north as Boston. Some showers are expected for upstate New York and the northern parts of New England.
Fair skies and pleasant temperatures for the Ohio Valley, south to the Gulf Coast. In the Midwest, a cold front brings lights showers and cloudy skies to Nebraska and Kansas, with the rest of the region looking at scattered showers later in the day.
An area of north Texas and southern Oklahoma may see some severe thunderstorms tonight. More on that below.
A frontal system in the Pacific Northwest brings showers and clouds to Washington, Oregon and parts of Idaho today. Sunny and warm for California, Nevada and the southern Rockies.
For game three of the World Series tonight in Arlington, the NWS is predicting a 50/50 chance of rain for the 7-10 p.m. CDT window. There is a possibility of some strong storms as well, but we won’t know more about that until this afternoon. First pitch temperature is expected to be 81, falling to the mid-70s by the end of the game. Winds will be blowing from the south at 10 mph.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
by TheLetter2 on Oct 22, 2011 7:39 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Also, would it be possible to add a shot of the argyled one?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Sullivan? What’s his weather condition?
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
He’s from Seattle right? So he could be rainy although I’m sure you already have a rainy icon…. maybe some variation of lighter or heavier rain than the regular rain dude?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Dang it, get Lance Berkman away from me. And I don’t think I really need creepy Zito watching me from the southern half of the state, either.
Then again, I just saw the NOAA’s report on weather patterns for this winter. La Nina should be bringing extra cold and extra wet weather this winter, so there may be a lot of Berkman in my future.
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
i thought the joke was
Posey = hot
Berkman = not hot
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Berkman is rain, Posey is sunny/fair skies.
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
Yeah….is there a “snow” icon? Snow Miser needed: apply within.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Whiteside’s hair.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Damn. You win again.
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by howtheyscored on Oct 22, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
If you continue to criticize TL2’s use of the Creepy Zito, sirrah, we shall meet upon the field of honor.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Oct 22, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh Yay Zeets
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
by calgiants86 on Oct 22, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Creepy Zeetz looking at me from the heavens?
Oh dear
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Oct 22, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
CALIFORNIA IS ALL-BUSTER THIS WEEKEND
AND LOVING IT
proud son of greatgiantfan; b. Apr 29, 2009, d. Jul 30, 2010.
I’m off to buy ice… to add to the draaaahma of this craptastical year…. our frig konked out. At least we don’t have to pay to replace it….just have to eat everything in it….fast!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
GP's tryin' to butter me up
The way to a man’s heart is through donating to his public radio station.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/950467578790c2ed/
I’m here to kick ass and drink sweet tea, and dammit, I’m all out of sweet tea.
Awww.
For the record, I do not mean well.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
He's really good! He's an injury risk! But he's really good! But he'll be expensive! But he's really good! But he's an injury risk!
Drink, drink, wherever we may be
We are the drunk and disorderly
And we will drink
wherever we may be
For we are the drunk and disorderly…
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
LOL NEWCASTLE
Hes coming home hes coming home Alan Shearer’s coming home……
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
by calgiants86 on Oct 22, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Ooooh Ahhhh Cantona!
/United fan…
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
by calgiants86 on Oct 22, 2011 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
It won’t last
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 22, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
At least that Barton fuckface isn’t a part of it, though.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Oct 22, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m pretty sure they wont get relegated…… I would be very impressed if Newcastle manages to stay high in the table and end up in the Europa leauge
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
by calgiants86 on Oct 22, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
What happened with my post on the Taiwan All Star team
I thought it was a good discussion starter. Also, baby pandas.
Perhaps it required too much unpacking?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Finally I get a chance to see a World Series game! I’ve got mixed feelings as to who I want to win. Anyhow, for Pablo, I didn’t see my projection, but remember I was optimistic.
AB: 575
HR: 34
AVG: .318
OBP: .373
SLG: .575
He’s going to get his first MVP award in 2012.
What's great about BABIP becoming mainstream is now the fan never actually has to admit his team flat-out lost.
<3 Kanani Madison
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