The Most Important Decision in Giants History
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 12, 2011 12:15 PM PST
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PrintIt's non-tender day. And as much as I want to start a rumor that the Giants aren't going to offer tender a contract to Pablo Sandoval -- too expensive! Turns out the hats just sell themselves! -- today is all about Jeff Keppinger and Mike Fontenot. They're a pair of utility infielders who, if you glued them together, would make one pretty awful baseball player, what with all the glue.
But their skills are complementary to each other. Keppinger hits righty, and Fontenot hits lefty. Both are 31 and in the "not quite good enough offensively to start" zone -- Kepp is a career .281/.332/.388 hitter, and Fontenot is a career .263/.332/.406 -- but both provide just a little more offense than teams usually expect from a utility infielder.
Keppinger was a bit of a dud after coming over from Houston, falling into the same pit as the rest of the offense. But I have a feeling we'd be a lot more into him if he hit for something close to his career average. He's completely dependent on his batting average -- not walking enough or hitting for enough power to sustain his value any other way. Before his career is over, though, I could see him hitting .310/.350/.440 over 400 at-bats after he's forced into a starting role because of injuries. Which year will that be? Well, that's the problem with average-dependent players. No one ever knows. Just sit back, and enjoy wherever they're taking you.
Fontenot wasn't exactly inspiring last season, hitting .227/.304/.377. That was good for a 92 OPS+, which also happens to be his career average. That's Mike Fontenot, alright. Below average, but not by that much.
If I had to choose one based on offense alone, it would be close, but I'd go with Fontenot. I think that Keppinger will have the best single season of the two over the remainder of their careers, but I wouldn't gamble that the season would be 2012. I'd trust Fontenot's okay patience and surprising power a little more. But it would be close, and I certainly wouldn't raise my voice in anger if someone suggested Keppinger was a better hitter. It's really not a big difference.
But, ah, that defense. If Mike Fontenot were a defensive whiz-kid, he'd be starting at short somewhere. As is, he's perfectly acceptable filling in all around the diamond. Jeff Keppinger is an absolute lamppost of a defender. Maybe it was just the contrast of watching him after Freddy Sanchez, but Keppinger looked like Ryan Garko moving to balls to his left. FanGraphs had him at -10.4 runs last year, but I'd like to think the computer just spit out a string of ampersands and closed parentheses when it attempted to calculate that number. They had to call the IT guy in the middle of the night and everything.
And that's Keppinger at second base. He hasn't played more than a dozen games at short since 2008, when he was the starting shortstop for the Reds. Adam Dunn played behind him in left. I'd like to think that Keppinger, Dunn, and the pitcher all had to move together at all times, like the players in RBI Baseball.
The Giants need offense, offense, offense, though, so isn't there an argument to be made that Keppinger is the better hitter, defense be damned? Nah. Again, it's close. And while a lot has been made of Keppinger being a righty to Brandon Crawford's lefty, the infielder that will need more rest than the others will be Freddy Sanchez.
Then you take into account the player who is most likely to play his way out of a job. As in, no complement needed; back to the minors. That'd be Crawford. And if there isn't a Fontenot on the roster, that leaves your starting shortstop as Manny Burriss in the event of emergency. He'd be Crawford without the glove, which would be amazing in worst kind of way.
Nope, has to be Fontenot. The defense is the obvious tiebreaker, but it's really everything. Fontenot is just about everything better than Keppinger, other than hit lefties. I urge you to vote Mike Fontenot when you step into your polling place tonight.
(Also, a better answer would be "both," with Burriss going to parts unknown, but c'mon. The Giants didn't just discover oil out there. Cut them some slack. And I'm not kidding about the panda hats. Buy a couple for stocking stuffers.)
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What if it were based solely on looks?
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Dec 12, 2011 12:20 PM PST reply actions
Noah Lowry would still be pitching for us.
by djfivenine on Dec 12, 2011 1:26 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Agreed. And eye-candy too.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Dec 12, 2011 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe he can play Left.
Get Better Travis! Ishikawa - 2009 Tops All-Star Rookie and World Champ 2010!
I remember watching that game on Gameday. I was really, really confused as to what was happening. I was convinced that the person who was updating all of the stuff on there had messed up somehow, but sure enough he actually went in to play the outfield.
by fishmicmuffin on Dec 12, 2011 4:05 PM PST up reply actions
I was at that game
it was pretty hilarious
by FluLikeSymptoms on Dec 12, 2011 7:44 PM PST up reply actions
I give the nod to Font (slightly)...
…mainly because he was one of the ever-dwindling crew of those who played a meaningful role in the 2010 post-season run.
You just like Fontenot because he looks like you
"This is almost certainly a terrible idea. But I won't know for certain until I've actually done it." — Jez from Peep Show
by Giant Fan in Singapore on Dec 12, 2011 12:25 PM PST reply actions
Whoa, whoa, SLOW YR ROLL, Grant
I can barely keep up with all these threads!
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 12, 2011 12:26 PM PST reply actions
Fonty is cheaper too
#RDF!
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
This decision real tickles Grant's fancy
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Grant is married
So he doesn’t get his fancy tickled all that often.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 12:34 PM PST up reply actions
Keppinger has a higher batting average
Also, his name is almost like Jeff Kent, if you got rid of the NT and added “ppinger,” so there’s that.
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 12, 2011 12:28 PM PST reply actions
I have a better idea
Keep both, DFA Burriss.
by itlynstalyn on Dec 12, 2011 12:28 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Well la-di-da, Mr. Moneybags, with your two Major League-level utility infielder budget.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
This really is the best of the bad ideas.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Even better
Keep Font, dump Keppinger and Burriss.
"If it's weird, you know it's probably Wilson's." - Matt Cain
by EliminateMe on Dec 12, 2011 12:40 PM PST up reply actions
His abs foreshadow a beautiful swing coming this spring training.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 12, 2011 2:13 PM PST up reply actions
neither!
If we just go with Burriss and, say, Brock Bond, we can have more rain day funds!
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Interesting
The Rockies are making an aggressive push for Michael Cuddyer, tweets Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. Cuddyer is believed to be seeking a three-year, $30MM deal, and the Twins remain in the mix. Cuddyer does not appear to be close to a decision, tweets Scott Miller of CBS Sports.
Why wouldn’t you give this money to Beltran instead?
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
At one point, I was worried the Giants might overpay for someone like Michael Cuddyer this offseason.
haha.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
LOL This
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 1:29 PM PST up reply actions
I know!
I was really worried we’d give too many years to Jimmy Rollins. WTF was I thinking!
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Dec 12, 2011 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
I’m still worried Sabean will convince the ownership group to give extra money for Yuniesky Betancourt.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
This!
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 6:12 PM PST up reply actions
Also, he probably will have a enough payroll flexibility regardless.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 6:12 PM PST up reply actions
Beltran has the whole made of glass thing going on
I think that is his biggest sticking point.
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
Beltran has the whole made of glass thing going on
I read somewhere (here ?) that part of the issue with a Beltran signing is that no one will insure the contract without including conditions regarding his knee injuries as a "pre-existing condition ". If he were to be injured and it had anything with his knee’s it would not be covered by the insurance policy taken out on the contract.
Thoughts ?
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I read several years back that it had gotten impossible to insure contracts longer than 2 years and I’d guess that that market’s shrunk even more since then. I think insurance companies have mostly gotten out of the baseball business, just too much risk for the reward.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
The org has been down this road with Burks and Alou
Beltran is the exact same kind of player.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
Good call but
Burks was pretty darn good at 35, (oWARs: 5.6, 3.5, 4.1, 0.5)
Alou was pretty sporadic (0.4, 1.2, 3.5, 3.8, 2.2, and 2.2).
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
Thoughts ?
RDF issues.
If he wants to play year to year, we should snag him , take that risk one year at a time. If he expects 2+ years, he becomes the risk of being an expensive Mark DeRosa. Woo Woo!
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
Mariners!
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 12, 2011 2:08 PM PST up reply actions
San Francisco
He’ll be on vacation & the Rangers will email the contract over.
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.
Oh and because you reasoned this out and came to the correct decision that we should tender Fontenot a contract
Sabean will most definitely tender Keppinger a contract BECAUSE WE NEEZ RIGHTIES IFs
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
What is the difference between Pill and Keppinger anyways? Besides about 50 jokes, 3 million dollars and a few years?
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 3:07 PM PST up reply actions
There’s no room in the back seat for her, between him and his Personal Savior.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Dec 12, 2011 3:21 PM PST up reply actions
I must admit, at first glance I thought that said Lindsay Lohan
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
That seems impractical
Since she spends most of her time in Europe.
Practical
This way she’ll never bump into Tebow’s tomboy.
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 12, 2011 4:01 PM PST up reply actions
don't tell Skip Bayless
he’ll off himself
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
xx
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
LOL
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 4:16 PM PST up reply actions
Who's that weirdo behind her?
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
what do you mean?
I don’t see anything else
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
BLACK OPS!!!
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
Aubrey Huff: "Let's Get Weird"
by slackersphere17 on Dec 12, 2011 6:23 PM PST up reply actions
instead of kvetching
You guys should start thinking of other players to give animal nicknames to. Maybe if the Giants could sell Freddy Sanchez flamingo hats, or Barry Zebu back-humps, we could afford to fill out the entire roster with actual major leaguers.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Actually a zebu dewlap would probably be better than a back-hump.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
But I wanna hear the vendors walking through the stands yelling “Back-hump! Get yer back-hump!”
"If it's weird, you know it's probably Wilson's." - Matt Cain
by EliminateMe on Dec 12, 2011 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
On the other hand, “DEW! LAP!” could be the new “OOOO! RIBE!”
On the other other hand, that brings back memories of Mark Dewey.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
hmm
According to the search engine, Mark Dewey has only ever been mentioned twice – once by me about a week ago, once by someone else last month.
I find that impossible to believe.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
The search function has been tweaked to only go back a year or so. It’s a piece of crap.
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
not even, apparently
I did some googling, and it comes up with 20 results, the first of which is from this April.
And actually, that post is from…bgunn.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Turning-his-until-there’s-a-cure-day-ribbon-sideways-to-look-like-a-christian-fish hate I trust?
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
Indeed.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I get about 20 results but they go back to 2005.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22mark+dewey%22+site%3Amccoveychronicles.com
First result is http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2006/3/29/154749/343 from 2006…
"If it's weird, you know it's probably Wilson's." - Matt Cain
LOL JAMEY WRIGHT
As hated one-season middle relievers go, Jeff Juden is apparently twice as popular on MCC.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Actually, I guess Dewey was a Giant for more like a year and a half.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
What’s wrong with “BACK! HUMP!”?
Other than the obvious, I mean.
"If it's weird, you know it's probably Wilson's." - Matt Cain
by EliminateMe on Dec 12, 2011 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
Huff the Drunken Dragon!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 12:38 PM PST up reply actions
Melky “Moo Cow” Cabrera!
Angel “The Goat” Pagan
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 12:39 PM PST up reply actions
It’s actually someone who lives out in the country, at least if my memory serves me correctly.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 12, 2011 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
I think she was referring to Angel’s nickname, “Crazy Horse”.
"If it's weird, you know it's probably Wilson's." - Matt Cain
by EliminateMe on Dec 12, 2011 12:46 PM PST up reply actions
Really, hmm. Does he really like strip clubs?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 12, 2011 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
I’m now imagining Pagan as a sacrificial goat tied to a stake in center field. In a weird little bit of image association in my brain, I’m now expecting a T-Rex to bust out from the center field wall to consume him.
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
Bowker!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
'bowkermania' on Google Image Search is fun
Aside from the expected stuff, it turns this up, for example:
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Stupid, Grant.
Don’t you even know Keppinger hit .335 once? That’s way better than anything Fontenot has done. I looked it up – he only hit .305 in his best year, and he didn’t even play all the time. When I think of Keppinger I’m reminded of Mark Loretta and Darin Erstad. Did you know that Mark Loretta hit .335 once? And that was in San Diego, too, which is a way harder place to hit. Did Fontenot ever do that? I don’t think so!
Plus, Keppinger can play short and has some pop. I think the choice is pretty clear, here.
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
I'm surprised no one fell in here
I guess the offseason threads have fewer n00bs.
Sadly, I’m 99% sure this is Sabez’s thought process.
Hitler was a Dodgers fan.
by The Nick on Dec 12, 2011 5:27 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
No matter what they decide
It is sad that it has to come down to this.
But yeah, if it has to be one or the other, Fontenot should stay.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 12:36 PM PST reply actions
JUST FREAKING SIGN BELTRAN ALREADY!
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Dec 12, 2011 12:37 PM PST reply actions
Is Letter stil MIA? What about Jim? Have we sent out the search party for JIM?
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.
I don’t think either of them plan on coming back anytime soon.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
Not entirely sure. Seemed like it was a lot of little things. I talked to TL2 on twitter about it, but he wasn’t very specific.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
That is too bad. It is good to take a break from time to time. I predict they will come back. I hope they come back soon.
Jim HAS actually done this before, so who knows.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
It is the off season, and it’s been pretty depressing around here.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
We should stop talking about the Giants.
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.
I don’t see the point.
/emo offseason
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Emo turkey comes presliced.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
...
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I want to kill everybody in the world
Isn’t that goth?
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
Hey, I didn’t make it. That’s what Google is for.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
My presence here has so sporadic recently that I didn’t even know either of them were gone.
I keep thinking that xanthan is gone, because I don’t think I’ve been on at the same time as him in months and months, but looking at his profile, he seems to be commenting pretty regularly (though not the last few days).
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Whoever shot this was wise to keep me out of the frame.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 12, 2011 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
Ugh
Pagan CF
Keppinger 2B
Panda 3b
Posey C
Melky LF
Huff 1B
Nate RF
Burriss SS
Pitcher
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
We'll get that lineup against lefties if Kepp is tendered
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Move Huff to left field, remove Nate, add Pill to first. That will be the lineup against lefties.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 12, 2011 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
GP, 4 hours ago:
The obvious answer is KEEP BOTH OF THEM AND NON TENDER BURRISS.
Grant, nowish:
Also, a better answer would be “both,” with Burriss going to parts unknown, but c’mon.
Just how deep does the rabbit hole go?
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Apparently, only the milkman knows for sure.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 12:50 PM PST up reply actions
Now I’m listening to the Dead Milkmen on YT.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Heh, that one just ended. First was Punk Rock Girl. Hmmm… what next?
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Barry Zito: SURFIN COW!
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.
Just started that one.
Man you guys are freaking me out!
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
They’re a pair of utility infielders who, if you glued them together, would make one pretty awful baseball player, what with all the glue
I’m dying… people around me in the office are giving me weird looks.
I miss 2010
My girl does that to me all the time when I laugh at MCC at home
I have no way to translate to her either… I just let her know it is Baseball Nerd Humor.
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 1:27 PM PST up reply actions
Escuse me sir, there's no laughng at McC
We’ll have to ask you to leave if you can’t maintain a little dignity and decorum.
/propellors penis
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
I think we can all happily quote Lena Lamont in saying:
If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain’t been in vain for nothin’.
Though it is clearly well-informed, we find his argument unconvincing; however, the possibility that we are too stupid to comprehend it deserves serious consideration. Germane Literature: The Cutting Edge 13:2, 4/2006
“What do they think I am? Dumb or something? Why, I make more money than – than – than Calvin Coolidge… put together!”
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 7:21 PM PST up reply actions
lol calvin coolidge
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.
~memories~
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.
GOVERNNNMENT
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.
EARLY 20TH CENTURY VERSION OF THE TELEPROMPTER!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 7:30 PM PST up reply actions
/propellors penis
I thought we were done with Rowand Jokes
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
I played RBI baseball last night.
I blew a 12 run lead in the 9th. Kukrow was the pitcher.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 12, 2011 12:59 PM PST via mobile reply actions
In my next life I’m going to start a blog just like this one. Then I’ll make Grant post stupid comments all day long.
LUNCH THREAD
This place just rocked my mouth off. I got the spicy chicken sandwich with SRIRACHA AIOLI!
http://www.jerseysandwiches.com/
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
Golden Gate Beer Bars | Tweetybox
Hrm.
I guess that was kind of spammy, huh? Sorry about that… I’m not connected to them; I just found out about them today and it was good.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
Golden Gate Beer Bars | Tweetybox
by troymccluresf on Dec 12, 2011 1:01 PM PST up reply actions
Fairly new, I think. Green Apple wrote them up this morning so I decided to check them out.
Haven’t been to Lou’s (or even heard of it). Grew up in the Richmond, but I don’t make it back as much as I’d like.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
Golden Gate Beer Bars | Tweetybox
by troymccluresf on Dec 12, 2011 1:05 PM PST up reply actions
You are lucky
/ Tropical Trail Mix and 10oz bottle of Cran-Grape juice.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Salami Sandwich and greek yogurt
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
Ham sandwich with extra horseradish
And some Baked Potato Kettle chips. They seriously do taste like eating a baked potato covered in trimmings.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 12, 2011 1:03 PM PST up reply actions
I didn't have anything interesting for lunch, just leftovers
I am making baked macaroni and cheese for dinner, though, with gorgonzola cheese. Mmm, stinky.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I had trail mix from the vending machine and a bottle of water.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
For a moment, I thought you meant it was raining stale cereal (or possibly vending machine food).
“Making it rain stale cereal” would be a pretty good description of Sabean’s offseason so far.
"If it's weird, you know it's probably Wilson's." - Matt Cain
That deserves a rec.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
A combination of left over beef & broccoli and tacos made from filet mignot.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 12, 2011 1:17 PM PST up reply actions
That seems like a waste of such good quality meat.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
It probably was. It was the result of getting a bunch of frozen steaks from my mother in law (she’s trying to become a vegetarian) and not having room for the boxes, and then randomly grabbing steak out to defrost for tacos.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 12, 2011 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
I’m sure it was really yummy though. We just got some Omaha steaks, potatoes, etc… as a gift in the mail too.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Oh yeah, very tasty. I’ll just regret it when I’m eating some inferior cut for dinner.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 12, 2011 1:33 PM PST up reply actions
Safeway Tuscan Chicken Sandwich.
Tastes great with the artichokes.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 1:43 PM PST up reply actions
Again? That’s one big chicken pot pie.
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.
The idea that on a Giants baseball fan site, people mentally note the recent meals mentioned by others is really funny.
Though it is clearly well-informed, we find his argument unconvincing; however, the possibility that we are too stupid to comprehend it deserves serious consideration. Germane Literature: The Cutting Edge 13:2, 4/2006
Sandwiches
turkey bacon, roma tomato, avocado and a teeny bit of shredded cheddar on whole wheat English muffins.
NorCal passion trapped in SoCal pain...
I wanna rage.
OT: Dolphins fired Sparano
related story: water is wet.
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
SWOOP KC BRAZZ!
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I saw where KC's interim coach will be Romeo Crennel.
That’s a bummer, man.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
Well the defense is really the only bright spot so far this year. I don’t know really anything about foot ball coaches though.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
He was an unqualified disaster in Cleveland.
(Obvious counterpoint: the Browns are always an unqualified disaster.)
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
Jeez.
It’s the Monday Night of Long Knives in NFL coaching circles, apparently.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
I've seen the Greg Jennings injury = bad for going for perfect season argument a few times now, but...
I don’t get hoe Greg Jennings injury is point against going for a perfect season? Its not like it was a close game and they kept their star players in to win the game.
Kickham where it hurts
The Kansas City Chiefs!
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Two of their final three games are divisional.
Lions have been a thorn in the side for a few seasons now, and Packers/Bears is never a sure thing either way.
With or without Jennings, those two were always going to be the toughest of the stretch games.
I don’t think KC has enough talent to beat even a Jennings-less Pack, though.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Dec 12, 2011 2:28 PM PST up reply actions
Any excuse to post this is welcome.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
LOL
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
You should glue Grant’s face to Sullivan’s buttcheek!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
Then they could wash Jon Bois’ car.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
The only things the resulting entity would ever say is the names of random baseball players from the 1980s. Grant will pick one at random, and Sullivan would name one that rhymed.
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
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by troymccluresf on Dec 12, 2011 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
And they would make lots of lists.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 1:09 PM PST up reply actions
I was going to say I could do that myself, with no glue required, but then the first guy I thought of was Ken Oberkfell and I couldn’t think of anyone he rhymed with. :(
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
re: Oberkfell
We traded for him in 1989. Got him from the Pirates. We traded away a pitcher named Roger Samuels to get him.
Samuels in 1988, before the trade: 3.47 ERA in 23.1 IP
Samuels in 1989, after the trade: 9.82 ERA in 3.2 IP
…and then he never pitched in the Major Leagues again.
Thus again proving the adage that any trade we ever make with the Pirates always favors us.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Good call.
I did come up with Rick Reuschel, Tim Teufel. I guess that’s really more of a half-rhyme…but I like it.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
also, this
http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/mets-fans-perplexed-by-new-stadiums-prominent-tim,6664/
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
and I also came up with
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
And force them to write an operetta about duty?
by Monkeyking42 on Dec 12, 2011 1:13 PM PST up reply actions
That would be half talent and wit
and half Grant.
There is nothing wrong with me cheering for players that are former players for my teams. Unless they become a Viking.
by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 12, 2011 1:26 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
BURN!!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
There is nothing about Keppinger that makes him preferable to Fontenot.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
They should absolutely tender Fontenot, but just for the sake of being annoying, Fontenot’s slash line over the last 3 years (.247/.310/.376, 82 ops+) is not as good as Keppinger’s (.276/.327/.386, 95 ops+).
They both get buoyed by ridiculous partial seasons (2007 in Kepp’s case, 2008 for Fontenot), but it’s more dramatic for Fontenot.
by Monkeyking42 on Dec 12, 2011 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
Fontenot was the 6th fWARiest (non-pitcher) Giant
in 2011.
On a related note, Andres Torres was 2nd…
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
So, Sidney Crosby's career is probably over now, right?
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 1:16 PM PST reply actions
Hopefully it increases awareness of concussion-related issues.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
After the deaths of Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien, and Wade Belak this past summer, as well as the potentially career-ending concussions that stars Marc Savard and Sidney Crosby suffered, the NHL is definitely paying attention to concussions.
Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
and the end of the enforcer as a role?
That series in the NYT about Boogaard was mind-blowing.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Dec 12, 2011 3:28 PM PST up reply actions
The enforcer has really died out the past few years, what with the salary cap necessitating that money go towards a player that can contribute in a way other than their fists. There are still players who fight, but they’re also good defensively or can chip in 10+ goals.
But yeah, the Boogaard series was crazy.
Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
yeah saw that too
i don’t know very much about hockey, always thought it was pretty dull. but reading that just blew me away. it’s gone from being a dull sport to being downright disgusting. really just a horrible thing all around. they have guys who are just supposed to bare knuckle box on the ice night after night? for no reason, basically? it’s supposed to be a pride thing or what?
and to think he was told as a teenager, a TEENAGER, that he’d never succeed as a player so he better learn to throw a punch. that he’d be forced to live a life of physical and mental torture if he ever wanted to play hockey. just gross.
I'll take a draw at this point
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
I’m not sure who I want to win. I wanted Chelsea to lose so Arsenal would be top 4, but I wont be disappointed if they win.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 12, 2011 1:45 PM PST up reply actions
I'll take it
Good job Chelsea
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 12, 2011 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
Mike Fontenot Career K%: 18.0
Jeff Keppinger Career K%: 6.2
That number for Keppinger is obscene, by the way. League average is like 17.5%.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
Never. Strikes. Out.
The bummer is that the K% is what the Giants probably care about.
And they won’t see the BB:
Fontenot: 9%
Keppinger: 6.8%
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
This is a comment I can recommend
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Walks, I think, are great, but not particular memorable. I think the Giants like walks just fine, though they don’t value them especially. But a walk is seen and then forgotten. A strikeout lingers in the memory forever.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 12, 2011 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
The trick whenever I talk about K% is always that I don’t think anybody in the Giants org looks at the actual number. I just believe they are heavily influenced by actually seeing “frustrating negative outcome”, and the strikeout is the most visually frustrating negative outcome in the game, outside of dropping fly balls, so when a player on the team strikes out a lot, they see it, and they remember it, and then they perception bias it.
Jeff Keppinger, to his credit, had plenty of visually frustrating negative outcomes for the Giants last year, even though not many of them were strikeouts, so that complicates the decision on their end.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 12, 2011 1:25 PM PST up reply actions
LOL FRED!
the strikeout is the most visually frustrating negative outcome in the game, outside of dropping fly balls
4-pitch walks
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 1:32 PM PST up reply actions
Double plays with a runner on first
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Outfielders missing the cutoff or throwing to the wrong base.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 1:35 PM PST up reply actions
How're you doin ?
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Errant Throwin'
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Hey…Lars said “Outfielders missing the cutoff or throwing to the wrong base.” Only one Giant immediately came to mind. Thank God I never have to see that stance in the box again.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
In hindsight,
Scott’s whole gig had to have devolved into a ploy to get DFA’d and live in peace and quiet in his new Las Vegas mansion, right?
The endless strikes on backfoot sliders, the stance that just kept getting weirder, the bat propelloring more extreme – it had to be a sick joke and an exit strategy combined.
If it was, It was genius, pure genius.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I was asked to sac bunt last summer with a guy on 1st and after fouling off the first two attempts I looked into the dugout at our coach just in case he wanted me to risk it and try a 3rd time. He gave me this really exaggerated swing away sign and was visibly pissed. After fouling off a few other pitches I struck out swinging. It was not my finest baseball moment.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
The strikeout has the benefit of frequency.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 12, 2011 1:38 PM PST up reply actions
And, I mean, I could have put a lot of things in as my “other than” option. I just wanted to make the Fred Lewis joke.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 12, 2011 1:39 PM PST up reply actions
I remember K&K saying he had the lowest strikeout ratio league-wide.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Dec 12, 2011 3:29 PM PST up reply actions
In his 7-year career, he’s struck out fewer times than Ryan Howard has in any individual season since 2005.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 12, 2011 8:22 PM PST up reply actions
DSzymborski Dan Szymborski
Hiroyuki Nakajima projects at 276/322/389, OPS+ 89 in Yankee Stadium
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
So, Fontenot’s bat out of an actual defensive shortstop?
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
FIFY
So, Fontenot’s bat out ofan actual defensivethe Japanese shortstop?
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
If somehow the Giants ever get Hiroyuki Nakajima, they’ll put “Japanese shortstop” rendered in Japanese on his back. Sort of like Johnnie Lee and “Boo”.
Though it is clearly well-informed, we find his argument unconvincing; however, the possibility that we are too stupid to comprehend it deserves serious consideration. Germane Literature: The Cutting Edge 13:2, 4/2006
We are not, N-O-T going to get that guy
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves
Nishoika projections for 2011:
ZIPS: .281/.337/.403
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
Harrison said Monday he hasn’t heard from the NFL and doesn’t expect to. The 2008 NFL Defensive Player of the Year insists he did nothing wrong on the play.
“I don’t think it’s suspension-worthy,” Harrison said after practice Monday, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I don’t think it’s worthy of anything, but that’s just my own personal thoughts.”
Well, gee, James. I’m glad we got your personal thoughts on the matter.
Colt McCoy would contribute his personal thoughts, too, except that he’s having some trouble collecting them after they got scattered all over Heinz Field in a blatantly vicious, illegal, and unnecessary helmet-to-helmet hit.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 1:32 PM PST reply actions
Thug? No.
recklessly aggressive? Without a doubt.
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
"reckless aggressiveness "
Ah…well…at least we’ve returned to the pleasant times of sports writers wringing their hands about steroids in BASEBALL.
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 12, 2011 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
The new rules make it hard to play defense at times, but James Harrison is just a dirty player.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
There is no reason to lower your helmet. Proper tackling technique calls for the head to be up.
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
? The lower you aim the more likely you’ll get the player to the ground.
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.
Yeah, dropping your helmet is a fast ticket to a neck injury.
AND you could hurt the other guy, too.
That’s tackling 101.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 1:57 PM PST up reply actions
There is a point where this becomes untrue. You need only watch the replay of Brandon Jacobs, perhaps the least agile running back in the league, hurdling a cowboy corner last night.
by BestHyperboleEver on Dec 12, 2011 4:08 PM PST up reply actions
Harrison will be suspended
He’ll whine about it and the smug Steelers fans will whine about it.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
And Alex Smith will breath a small sigh of relief.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Today is Blerg day in the offseason
I’d rather be discussing having Reyes+Buerhle+Bell OR Pujols, instead of discussing Affeldt+Lopez+Keppinger OR Beltran.
BLERG
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
We can talk about
how much some niners fans are overreacting right now.
how much some warriors fans are overreacting right now.
nah. I’ll stick with Giants baseball.
I say keep Kepp.
I say both
Even at the expense of keeping Pill in AAA for a while.
But if you believe Pill can play 2B, Keppinger fills a smaller hole in the defense and PH play than Fonty does.
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
Am I the only one who chuckled at this?
Even at the expense of keeping Pill in AAA for a while.
If you didn’t chuckle, you at least chortled
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
The more I think about it
The more Pill looks like a younger, cheaper, Keppinger, with at least a power upside. Both could probably fill in for Sanchez at 2B short term, both you don’t want on the left side of the diamond.
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 3:21 PM PST up reply actions
Presented without comment
Blog: HoF Candidate – Edgardo Alfonzo – http://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2011/12/b-r-hof-candidate-edgardo-alfonzo/
@baseball_ref
Is it February 19 yet?
Per Baggs
Reports @MikeDiGiovanna: #Angels reached an agreement with RHP Jerome Williams on a one-year deal, avoding arbitration.
Is it February 19 yet?
do we wish we had gotten him? id rather have him than zito.
I has twitters https://twitter.com/#!/APR_studios
by Romosexual42 on Dec 12, 2011 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
I was kinda hoping the Angels non-tendered him and the Giants picked him up as a potential 5th starter.
"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 Dec 12, 2011 2:05 PM PST up reply actions
Sprinkle some Vogelsong sweat droplets on him
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
I imagine Bochy assigning them as road roomies. “Here you go, you two will get along splendidly.” /pushes them right next to each other
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.
Someone hurry and tell Martin
"If we had signed Guerrero or Sheffield, we would have been without Brower, Eyre, Herges, Hermanson,Tomko,Pierzynski, Feliz, Snow,Hammonds, Mohr and Tucker–obviously not being able to field a competitive team, especially from an experience standpoint"--B Sabean
by seyheystretch on Dec 12, 2011 3:03 PM PST up reply actions
Hey, his numbers weren’t awful last year. That makes me happy. I always liked him.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Speaking of the lefty-righty thing, the Giants suddenly have a lot of switch hitters (no jokes, please). Could have a line-up of:
Pagan (s)
Burriss (s)
Sandoval (s)
Posey
Melky (s)
Belt
Hector Sanchez (s)
Crawford
Timmy
Add in Beltran and we almost only need one line-up. Just kidding.
"What makes you think you're Jesus Christ?"
"Well, when I pray I seem to be talking to myself"
Who’s the guy you have hitting sixth? Other than that, this lineup is appropriately shitty.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Don’t we have some guy named Brandon Belt?
"What makes you think you're Jesus Christ?"
"Well, when I pray I seem to be talking to myself"
Oh, yeah. He’s probably been demoted because he can’t switch hit.
"What makes you think you're Jesus Christ?"
"Well, when I pray I seem to be talking to myself"
Why do the Giants have so many lefties/switch hitters? Isn’t this park supposed to be bad for LHH?
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
Think about the endless matchup possibilities!!
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Dec 12, 2011 1:59 PM PST up reply actions
And people say he has nothing left to prove in AAA
Go learn to hit right-handed, young man
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
the guy batting 6th
I think you forgot to fully spell out Beltran.
And it’s rather optimistic of you to think we still might get him.
LOL NO HUFF IN YOUR LINEUP!
Dude is going to bounce back HUGE this year! LAW OF AVERAGES!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
The Most Important Decision in My Day.
Do I kill an hour and go see Garrison Keillor do a reading of his Christmas book around the corner from my job, or do I go home and do the laundry I should’ve done last week?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 1:42 PM PST reply actions
When in doubt
err on the side of clean underwear
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
Have Garrison Kellar to your laundry and keep working
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
I went to see him, of course.
And it was awesome, of course. There were maybe a hundred people, max. He is best described at ‘rumpled.’ Dude’s got such a face made for radio, radio may have been invented in anticipation of his arrival. He signed a copy to my mom, thus checking off some Christmas shopping, too.
Go fuck yourself, laundry.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 7:30 PM PST up reply actions
Face made for radio
Eyebrows made for snuggling.
Winter. Time to eat fat and watch hockey. -- Margaret Atwood
Who's going to be the back up center fielder next season? Melky?
Why don’t they try Nate out?
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
The Melk Man Cometh.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Well there’s also Justin Christian
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
is Rikkert Faneyte on speed dial?
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
also blanco, who apparently is tearing it up with hector sanches
I has twitters https://twitter.com/#!/APR_studios
by Romosexual42 on Dec 12, 2011 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
not anymore.
his is a miami marlin now…the ginats just saved about 400,000.00
Ride the tiger...You can see his stripes but you know he's clean.
by James Westfall on Dec 12, 2011 4:38 PM PST up reply actions
Not anymore
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
It's in blockquotes so you know it's right
2008 Beijing Olympics:
Pos G Inn PO A E DP FPCT RF
CF 2 15.0 2 0 0 0 1.000 1.20
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
Yang Yang'd
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
You should send that to Sabean,
Probably a big enough sample considering the ST fettish.
RIP 2011 Giants Post Season
Those are some great hitting stats too. Maybe with a good spring he can find a spot.
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
Can't play him there until he's got experience playing there.
Ahhhyup.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 1:59 PM PST up reply actions
/kills kitten
This Nate in CF thing is one of the most bizarre re-occurring suggestions on this site
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
What’s bizarre about it?
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
What if Nate Schierholtz were black?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
his wife would have trouble walking
ZING!
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
Rowand and Finley would like a word with you
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
I don’t know why it’s bizarre. He played CF during the Olympics, for example. But, maybe it’s one of those things that we know will never happen, so we should just let it go?
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
He has never played CF before in his entire professional career
Players move positions all the time. But they move to positions that are LESS difficult to play than the one they play.
His only CF experience is 2 games in the Olympics. 3 years ago. It his hilarious that people use that as justification
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Nobody is saying sign him as a new CF playing free agent. I don’t see why he couldn’t at least be serviceable there.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
By all means keep suggesting something that isnt going to happen
Based on the fact that you all THINK he could play CF based on 2 games in the Olympics 3 years ago.
While also ignoring the significant difference between playing CF and RF.
Just throw him in CF and see what happens. WEEEEEEEE
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you all THINK
PLEASE REFRAIN FROM SHOUTING AT THE STORM!!
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 12, 2011 2:24 PM PST up reply actions
LOL
not sure how SWARM switched to STORM
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 12, 2011 2:25 PM PST up reply actions
Lt. Dan Taylor
disagrees
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
Just throw him in CF and see what happens.
Yeah.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Sound planning
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Lets say they give him 10-15 starts there just to see what would happen. What is the worst that could happen?
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Lets say they give 10-15 starts at 3b
Then they give Pablo 10-15 starts at catcher.
And then they give Buster 10-15 starts at 1b.
WEEEEE. Lets try all these things.
HEY WHATS THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
They've tried Belt, Burris and Ishikawa in the OF
I’d imagine that there have at least been discussions or practice with Nate in CF. For whatever reason, it’s not something they want to do.
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
Lets put Huff in RF while we are at it
He was a DH 2 years ago, so you know he’s good.
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
So then let’s have him spend some time there in March and see what happens. Does he lack the range or the arm to play center field?
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Spring training should be spent on more important things like checking out whether Burriss is truly in the best shape of his life®
Though it is clearly well-informed, we find his argument unconvincing; however, the possibility that we are too stupid to comprehend it deserves serious consideration. Germane Literature: The Cutting Edge 13:2, 4/2006
Blockqoute means it's true
Grant Frisbee on Sep 29, 2011:
Boy, it’d sure be nice to know if Schierholtz could play a cromulent center field right about now. I could really get behind a Ross/Schierholtz arrangement in center if the latter could play something close to rowandian defense. I think, with experience, he could have. We’ll never know.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 2:14 PM PST up reply actions
FRISBEE!
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
In a world where Emmanuel Burriss played LF,
why is Nate in CF so bizarre?
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
With Don LaFontaine voice.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
All the Burriss love
Must be just an “OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD WE NEED TO MAKE SOME USE OUT OF THIS DRAFT PICK”
I totally heard that in the Don LaFontaine voice. R.I.P Mr. Awesome Voice
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Everyone knows that if he were to play out of position it would be at 3rd. Then Panda can catch and Posey can play SS. Problem solved!
go rowand
by lincypoo i wuv u on Dec 12, 2011 8:41 PM PST up reply actions
Graham.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 12, 2011 2:49 PM PST up reply actions
...crackalacka?
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
One “c”
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 12, 2011 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
It took me like 3 reads to figure out what this said.
JonHeymanCBS Jon Heyman
yakult swallows post OF norichika aoki. multiple japan league batting champ.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 12, 2011 1:58 PM PST reply actions
Isn't it just yogurt?
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 12, 2011 2:31 PM PST up reply actions
But will the yakult digest Aoki's post?
Or regurgitate it later?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
I have a feeling Sabean won't be interested in the "Japanese outfielder"
unless he’s free
"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.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 12, 2011 2:06 PM PST up reply actions
I had no idea Japan created an outfielder too
Why do my owners like profit>winning? Championships are the wealthy's bragging rights in Yacht rooms. #RDF can go to #!@%^
by Myemail21479 on Dec 12, 2011 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
/LMFAO
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Dec 12, 2011 3:33 PM PST up reply actions
N-O-T interested
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 12, 2011 2:31 PM PST up reply actions
They need to post Hoshino Aki.
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
but *I* am interested
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
Bill Clinton'd
I did not have contract negotiations that “Japanese Shortstop”…. Hiroyuki Nakajima
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Would have a hard to doing a pick off move.
But batters would certainly have a hard time concentrating where the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand.
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
Would have a hard
You have no idea how right you are.
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
I was also going to use: release point.
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
WAIT SHE GOT MARRIED?!?!?
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
In a meeting right now discussin equipment noise level.
Apparently SEMI standard for semiconductor equipment is <72 dB within the enclosed area. Thou shall not design equipment louder than an Oakland A’s game.
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
Old news?
Travis Ishikawa signed a deal with the Brew Crew
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
Proud Adoptive Parent of one of the best Five Tool Players, The Machine.
I was happy to hear this.
After spending nine seasons with the San Francisco Giants, the first baseman signed a minor league deal with the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday. Ishikawa was a Giants’ draft pick out of Federal Way in 2002 and was a key reserve on San Francisco’s World Series team back in 2010.
The 6-foot-3, 220-pound left hander will attend the Major League spring training camp with the Brewers, but is not guaranteed a spot on Milwaukee’s 25-man roster.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Dec 12, 2011 3:37 PM PST up reply actions
Saito to the dbacks
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
Interesting
Good pitcher but 42 and injured
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'll have four good games, all against the Giants
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Dec 12, 2011 2:51 PM PST up reply actions
The Marlins signed Aaron Rowand to a minor league deal, according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports (on Twitter).
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
They would
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
If Rowand gets a GW RBI vs the Giants,
The universe will collapse upon itself.
Dogs and fucking cats.
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
i read that as giants save 400,000.00
and now might have an outside chance at resigning BOTH Keppinger AND Fontenot.
Ride the tiger...You can see his stripes but you know he's clean.
by James Westfall on Dec 12, 2011 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
The Marlins are spending like crazy
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Dec 12, 2011 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
Not in this case.
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 12, 2011 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
Of course – they’re signing all the greats!
(And LOL @ the Marlins and LOL @ Rowand)
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Rowand’s batting stance in 5 different Marlins colors is going to be hilariously awful
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
THOSE SONS OF BITCHES
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
You have to start posting at Fishstripes instead of here now. Sorry.
On the plus side, you’ll probably triple their traffic.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
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When spring training starts I will have a new name
In the lineage of my DFA name.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
DFAromo
best threads ever
and you could honor it with your user name
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Dec 12, 2011 6:27 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Quite obvious: DFAZito
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
Someone took this already
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Well.
I hope DFARowand has a good lawyer.
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
Preemptive
DFAYuni
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 6:55 PM PST up reply actions
DFAwhonow?
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
Yeah. For $400,000, he’s a perfectly decent backup CF.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Hahahahaha…
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
If the Marlins are interested in more Giants' albatrosses....
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
In related weather news,
rainy day fund levels up by a possible $480,000.
Though it is clearly well-informed, we find his argument unconvincing; however, the possibility that we are too stupid to comprehend it deserves serious consideration. Germane Literature: The Cutting Edge 13:2, 4/2006
It won’t affect his contract with us, I think.
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We’re still on the hook for everything but the league minimum.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Pro-rated over his time with them at the major league level. So yeah, I think you’re right; a minor-league deal doesn’t affect anything unless he gets added to the 25 man roster.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
interesting....
Veteran Major League infielder Cody Ransom is getting another shot with the D-backs, who re-signed the 35-year-old to a Minor League contract in hopes he could yet approach the stellar Triple-A production he posted last season.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
The Bastard of Ransom!
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Cody Hill? Or Waters?
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 12, 2011 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
They are just trying to sell tickets in Reno
they love that bastard here. Not real clear on the concept of age vs level in this town.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Not real clear on the concept of age vs level in this town
/50-year-old-showgirls
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
True...True
/ golf clap
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
OT: Finals
Is it just me that walk’s out of every final feeling like I got hit by a freight train or do other people get that feeling too?
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I used to for my undergrad stuff.
Grad school not so much and this last time for the AA degree I got, not at all. I don’t know if that’s wisdom, age, experience, or in the case of the AA degree being surrounded by numbskulls…
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
On my fluid dynamics final
the professor put in a question of liquid on a NON FRICTIONLESS surface, with the surface moving at a NON COSTANT VELOCITY, and it has HOLES IN IT.
Nobody. Not even the TAs, knew how to do that problem. It was a fucking asshole move.
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
That's pretty winner.
There are a couple of problems like that on the organic synthesis exam here. Something like “design a total synthesis of some statin that it took other people years to come up with.”
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
The test was out of 150
The Mean was 36.
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
Good Lord
What was the curve?
Proud adoptee of Dick Tidrow the mastermind behind Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Buster Posey and many more. Also known as "The Reason".
I don't remember. It was like 15 years ago.
My friend got an 8. She cried.
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
I had an intro to chem class one term, where for some reason we had an actual chemist taking the class. Needed units for something? I dunno. but the dude would fucking ACE every exam naturally… and the professor graded on a strict curve. So it was always one A and 45 C- ’s I hated that class.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
That use of a curve is statistically ridiculous.
I’m on the other end – giving the exams – and I usually try to cut people some slack on finals, especially if they’ve been working their butts off all term.
Just sayin.’
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Dec 12, 2011 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
Wow.
That’s even worse than synthesis. I think a couple years ago the mean was something like 30%. If you scored 40%, you pretty much got an A in the class. And one jackass scored 80+%.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I’m going to be done with the semester in 4 hours. I cannot wait.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Dec 12, 2011 3:44 PM PST up reply actions
Jeez
NHL GM’s are way too quick on the trigger with coaches.
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
agreed.
however in this case: they have the highest salary cap in team history, posted billboards with “Win the cup now” in the off season due to acquisitions of Richards and Gagne (currently sport a record of 13-12-4), they are the lowest scoring team in the NHL and the coach was heavily defensive minded. Something had to give
by Giant Colossus on Dec 12, 2011 4:11 PM PST up reply actions
29 games in?
40-50 games maybe. One good month and who knows.
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
true say
I think the players stopped responding to the coach -maybe out grew him.. but like you said, who knows, one can only hope for a positive spin on this
by Giant Colossus on Dec 12, 2011 4:18 PM PST up reply actions
Rumors that Darryl Sutter might take over
Bwah-hah-hah-ha-ha…
Winter. Time to eat fat and watch hockey. -- Margaret Atwood
Fontenot?
More like Fonte-NOT amirite?
[Poorly Wrought THING] is what Brian Sabean would have made if he were a [THING-maker] instead of a MLB GM
Fonte-N-O-T
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Fontewhynot?
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 12, 2011 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
Ugh...
http://cakeninjak.tumblr.com/post/13962398074/so-my-friend-is-an-ra-here-at-uc-irvine-and-he
What’s wrong with people.
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
Damned sei gweilo.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 12, 2011 6:11 PM PST up reply actions
NFL Network video: Breaking down Tebow's magic(Tebow Time!)
http://www.nfl.com/videos/denver-broncos/09000d5d824fc970/Breaking-down-Tebow-s-magic
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
PSA
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/nontenders2012
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Hey the Royals Tendered Jonathan Sanchez
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
tender melky sounds like something from urbandictionary
The first six innings are overrated.
Luke Scott didn’t get tendered by Orioles.
Obviously a conspiracy.
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 12, 2011 4:18 PM PST up reply actions
what's up?
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.
Rowand is sleeping with the fishes
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
This is Rowand now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-7RlL3YtiQ
The first six innings are overrated.
Still no news on the Most Important Decision. Aren’t they supposed to have done it by now?
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
we should make them do a secret ingredient showdown imo
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.
grits
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.
obviously
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.
they're both Southern boys so they're probably familiar
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.
It doesn’t matter, the clock would expire before Keppinger made it back from the pantry.
Is it February 19 yet?
Tough to get to the pantry
when you can’t walk
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
Maybe Sabean trying to trade one of them
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
by CalBear949 on Dec 12, 2011 4:57 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
To
a jockey!
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
by CalBear949 on Dec 12, 2011 4:51 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Oh, the Mammaries
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
Angels!
He’s Pujols little helper.
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 12, 2011 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
As expected
WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
The Clippers have matched Golden State’s offer sheet for DeAndre Jordan, league source tells Y! Sports
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
on to...
Praying to ze gods that Biedrins found his manhood.
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 Dec 12, 2011 5:00 PM PST up reply actions
TMZ Brian Wilson
http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/08/brian-wilson-piggy-back-photo/#.TuaZoVawVtM
The 8th comment?
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
no one cares
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.
.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 4:38 PM PST up reply actions
http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/200371/slide_200371_529173_large.jpg?1323371654
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
perfect answer
Ride the tiger...You can see his stripes but you know he's clean.
by James Westfall on Dec 12, 2011 4:48 PM PST up reply actions
ATTENTION PROSPECT NERBS
Community Prospect List season is starting, and voting for number 1 is up now.
WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS?
Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie, who wrote most of the songs for The Muppets
I’m about 10x more interested in this movie now.
The first six innings are overrated.
500 plus comments and a long post about 2 of the more unforgettable temp workers in SF Giants history.
No wonder they don’t put in the effort to score more than 3 runs per game.
If we cared less, they'd win more?
Well, that’s quite the conundrum, isn’t it?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 7:47 PM PST up reply actions
We, the McCoven, are not nearly legion enough to have any real effect, and we’re hardly representative of the fanbase as a whole.
I mean, when I was waiting in line at the dugout store at the park this summer, the guy behind me spent about 5 minutes making fun of Fontenot (he found the idea of a Mike Fontenot jersey for sale very funny), and he couldn’t even pronounce his name right.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Get a taser gun.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 5:04 PM PST up reply actions
4 hours until Kepp or Font get a pink slip
What could they be waiting for? Maybe a deal might be in the works.
N-O-T
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
With this Monkish Front Office
Its all about maximum secrecy all the time. They’ll be the absolute last to get their notification in, one minute from deadline.
Or Sabean disconnected his T1 line again…
FTFY
Or Sabean disconnected hisT1 line9600 BAUD modem again…
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Hey rotorueter
You sort of look like a young Stanley Kubrick
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
Thanks, I’ll take it.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
Natto, you seem so tiny behind that trophy.
From a physical standpoint, I don’t think I fit in here.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 6:08 PM PST up reply actions
He hit 6 in one season.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 6:16 PM PST up reply actions
Brewers just traded McGeehee to the Pirates for Jose Veras (a reliever).
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 12, 2011 5:52 PM PST reply actions
Wow, Micah Owings and Joe Saunders were non-tendered.
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
Sabez should swoop
Owings would probably be the Giants’ third best hitter.
The Saunders that pitched 200 innings last year?
Two blogs about baseball: Fish Stripes and Catch-28.
It was viewed as a possibility because they didn’t want to pay his arbitration. They were trying to work out a two year deal with him.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
Saunders, that is.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
Crack analysis
JonHeymanCBS Jon Heyman
like that veras anagram is saver (tho, he has only 4 saves lifetime). anyway, brewers got him from pitt for casey mcgehee
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 12, 2011 6:04 PM PST reply actions
crakalak analysis of the crack analysis
"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out." -Ty Cobb
Mayor of Smug.
I don' care about this sport really, but can someone tell me WTF is going with basketball?
Sounds like a lot of whining after they already “solved” their whining.
Also, I haven’t seen ESPN for non game coverage in like 6 years, and I ask, how is it even worse?
Short version
The Hornets owner, George Shinn, got tired of losing his shirt on the franchise every year, but no one else wanted to, either. So Stern got the other 29 owners to pony up equal portions of the cost to buy the club. The GM is promised that he’ll be able to act autonomously (because otherwise, what’s the point?).
So the lockout happens, the bitterness of which was driven in no small part by small-market owners feeling (not inaccurately) that the economics of the league prevent them from having any legit shot at a ring.
The lockout ends, and Chris Paul, the best point guard in the league, announces that he wants to move to a major-market franchise when his deal ends after this year. That totally undercuts his trade value, as no one but the 1% (as it were) will even think about trading anything of real value for just a rental. The NOLA GM works out a pretty damn solid three-team trade with Houston and LA in which the Lakers, arguably, come out worst (they’d lose most of their frontcourt depth, Kobe and Paul both need the ball to excel, knee problems all over the court, etc). But because CHRIS PAUL is the attention-getting name, ol’ Dan Gilbert broke out the Comic Sans in Cleveland and accused the league of helping the rich get richer.
Stern, stunningly, capitulated to the extremists and vetoed the trade, to the immediate scorn of pretty much everyone. Now, though, he’s painted himself into a corner and has to find a deal for Paul even better for the Hornets than the one that the Lakers have now decided to bail on. And there might not be any such deals out there.
Stern’s fall from his pedestal of infallibility has been abrupt and shocking. But 2011 has not been kind to dictators, has it?
Whew. And that’s the short version.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:06 PM PST up reply actions
Shift A
If someone uses PEDs, but in doing so they stop a Dodger from winning the MVP, then their actions, at heart, were moral – yes?
SF Giants' record in the eleven-year twenty-first century/Pac Bell era: five MVPs, two CYA, one ROY, the two highest single-season OPS of all time (and two of the other top eight), the single-season and all-time HR records, two NL Pennants, and ... one World Championship
He’s from LA, though. He probably grew up a Dodgers fan.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 6:10 PM PST up reply actions
Shift A
This offseason still sucks. The Dbacks improved, and the Giants are wondering if you are gonna eat that.
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
Dbags just added Saito to their bullpen
Proud owner of over 20,000 comments. (most of them in the wrong place) Oh yeah, and Buster Posey
Just hold it in Mike, jut hold it all in...
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
Aubrey Huff: "Let's Get Weird"
by slackersphere17 on Dec 12, 2011 6:29 PM PST reply actions
Why do the Giants have to wait until the last GD second!
"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 Dec 12, 2011 6:34 PM PST reply actions
Sabean’s begging for money
Proud owner of over 20,000 comments. (most of them in the wrong place) Oh yeah, and Buster Posey
I am imagining him in his office pacing back and forth flipping a coin.
Two folders on his desk, one with “Fontenot” another with “Keppinger” complete with head shots strewn all around. On the wall there is a dartboard bisected by a line with a picture of one player on each side, 3 darts apiece in each one.
Must be tough.
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
"I was elected to leeeead, not to reeead."
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:11 PM PST up reply actions
I, for one, cannot wait until Beltran signs a deal for like 10 million a year.
And this place freaks right the fuck out. Myself included.
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
If his contract totals under $36 MM, people probably should freak the fuck out.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
What if you never wanted Beltran in the first place? Should the freak out just be principle based?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Your results may vary.
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
If you don’t even want him at 3/30, you probably never wanted him at all. You were a big naysayer to him, if I recall correctly? That’s fine, I guess, but if you’re going not to want him even at 3/30, that seems odd to me.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I just don’t like the guy… sorry…
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Add me to this list.
Although I’m not sorry about it.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 12, 2011 7:07 PM PST up reply actions
I’m not going to take it personally. Though, I must say, given some of the people who have played for the Giants and had less than savory reputations, I do find it puzzling.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I probably didn’t like them either!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Fair enough. And I guess given the choice you would’ve jettisoned them from the team as well?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
probably…
If you are going to be a rich mother fucker just because you play some stupid game, don’t be an asshole about it too, some of us have to work for a living.
You can just ignore me now…I’m overly angsty tonight, not enough sleep lately.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
What is time that The FO has to submit the info to the league?
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 6:53 PM PST reply actions
Midnight EST
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Er, EDT I guess. Eastern, either way.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
EST.
We fell back some time ago.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:12 PM PST up reply actions
Is daylight time in the summer? I always get confused.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Yeah.
Daylight savings, as in, it’s saved til evening.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:20 PM PST up reply actions
I THOUGHT THEYD LET KERSHAW GO
Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers
#Dodgers tender contracts to @jamesloney_7, Clayton Kershaw & Andre Ethier; non-tender Hong-Chih Kuo
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
hey, sacmetro [fire] has a twitter account. Yay! On the heels of this mornings manhunt there was just an apartment fire up the street.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Dodgers will pay Harang,Capuano,Ellis, Hairston,Gwynn,Treanor,Kennedy,Rivera,Uribe more than Angels pay Pujols this year
Cue Agent Ned following his master’s style with “If we had signed Pujols…” comment.
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
by scout6 on Dec 12, 2011 6:57 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Sabean trained him well
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Ryan Spilborghs non-tendered
"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 Dec 12, 2011 7:23 PM PST reply actions
he sucks these days
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.
Last season
.210/.283/.305
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Ouch.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:15 PM PST up reply actions
Jason Grilli
got a one year deal with the Pirates for $1.1 m
Where’s Nate Bump?
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
by CalBear949 on Dec 12, 2011 7:30 PM PST via mobile reply actions
MAKE THE CALL SO I CAN SLEEP
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
they should have a sing off.
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
by CalBear949 on Dec 12, 2011 7:31 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Fontenot wins that contest walking away...
by literally walking faster than Keppinger to the finish line.
we already agreed they would do a secret ingredient showdown
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.
Watch they non tender both of them.
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
Then when Freddy gets injured, we’ll have the worst hitting middle infield in the history of baseball.
previous champion
2010 Giants
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
by CalBear949 on Dec 12, 2011 7:53 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Watch them tender Keppinger
And then both he and Sanchez get hurt next year so they have to trade for another decrepit player.
Or just play Burriss every day.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
This can't possibly need to take this long.
Waiting for this is worse than I’m pretty sure watching the SEA-STL game would be.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
do they have until 9pm EST?
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.
11 CST
So 9pm out here in Normal People Time.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
They are busy flipping a coin
But first they have to wrestle the coin away from Larry Baer.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 7:41 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
"YOU ARE STEALING FOOD FROM MY CHILDREN"
- Larry Baer, 2011
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Go ahead and count those Beltran bucks you greedy fucks
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 9:01 PM PST up reply actions
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111212&content_id=26149868&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
By midnight ET on Monday, clubs must decide whether to tender contracts to players under team control. More often than not, clubs will choose to go to arbitration with those players and attempt to work out a deal before a hearing.
It is both hilarious and sad that we’re hanging on this ridiculous decision.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
You guys know that he’s going to pick Keppinger, right?
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
since Fontenot is the obvious choice, yes
"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 Dec 12, 2011 7:54 PM PST up reply actions
It will be Fontenot
Brian already called Keppinger a luxury.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 7:57 PM PST reply actions
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4840141
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Wow. Hoped to land a three year deal. Dude didn’t even play this year, did he?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
It’s slightly adorable, in a way: a shitty, slow, fat, 35-year old catcher with declining offensive and defensive skills announcing he wants a three-year contract.
I mean, it wouldn’t have been adorable if the Giants had given it to him.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
IT LIVES! KILL IT BEFORE IT TAKES OVER
JeffFletcher1 Jeff Fletcher
This is a test tweet from Siri.
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
OMG IT'S LIKE CHRISTMAS WHAT MEDIOCRE UTILITY INFIELDER WILL SANTA BRING??????????
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
WHICH MEDIOCRE MIDDLE INFIELDER SHOULD I TAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKE
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 8:07 PM PST up reply actions
this decision is the only thing less exciting than the MNF game
"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 Dec 12, 2011 8:04 PM PST reply actions
i'll be their utility infielder
And I’ll do it for free. But then i’d probably swing at the first pitch every at bat and get a 4 year deal because bochy “likes my aggressiveness”
Alex Hinshaw, WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE
I really thought Gilaspie was going to be a somewhat productive hitter.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 13, 2011 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
Fuck
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
50 minutes from deadline to tender contracts. Pretty sure Giants will remember to throw one Timmy’s way. Keppinger/Fontenot a tougher call.
Dooo something
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Accidental Timmy Nontender!
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
the guy with a higher career OPS can also play SS and 3B
the guy with the lower career OPS can really only play 2B
hard decision
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.
but what if one of them struck out less and is right handed though
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
but Fontenot hit a triple in the postseason once
So he’s clearly CLUTCH.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
OH THE CONUNDRUM
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Dude didn’t even make it to the plate in the WS.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
yeah, but Keppinger has NEVER GOTTEN A HIT IN THE POSTSEASON
Clearly a choker.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Will this decision be announced on ESPN 2?
I can imagine Sabes saying, “I’m be tendering the talent from…”
"I don't get out of bed, for a million bucks!"
- Edgar Renteria or a hooker bribing a family man?
THE SHIRE
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
Fontenot is taking his talents to The Shire
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 8:15 PM PST up reply actions
WHY IS IT SO FUCKING COLD?
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
GIBLETS!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 8:16 PM PST up reply actions
Sounds like you could use a heat pack
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 8:18 PM PST up reply actions
CUZ IT'S WINTER?
It would be nice if every freaking day wasn’t a “no burn” day.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
.
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 Starks are probably really god damn annoying during winter.
“I TOLD YOU IT WAS COMING! AND NONE OF YOU LISTENED TO ME!”
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
what are their words during winter?
“Goddamn it’s fucking cold”?
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.
Winter came
/lights cigarette
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 13, 2011 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
It's here
And it’s horrible.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
imma sleep
will join freakout in the mornin
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
noooooo!!
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.
how can you leave us in our time of need?
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.
COMMENCE
mlbtrben Ben Nicholson-Smith
Giants, Mike Fontenot agree to one-year deal for 2012, avoiding arbitration I have learned.
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
Cool
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 8:25 PM PST up reply actions
WOOO
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
This is about my reaction
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Good.
Shit, what are we going to worry about now in this painfully boring offseason!?
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
The Font is back
"I don't get out of bed, for a million bucks!"
- Edgar Renteria or a hooker bribing a family man?
by Scooter Ellis on Dec 12, 2011 8:26 PM PST up reply actions
And I’m here to remind you
Of the mess you left when you non-tendered me
It’s not fair to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you Fontenot
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
by GiantPain on Dec 12, 2011 8:26 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
i'm glad you stayed up
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.
Checked twitter one last time before going
It’s always the last time that gets you
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
About this guy:
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 8:42 PM PST up reply actions
More
The Giants have agreed to terms with Mike Fontenot on a one-year deal for 2012, avoiding arbitration, MLBTR has learned.
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
Oops, reply fail
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
Good god, this is pathetic.
The Rams ran NINE plays from the Seahawks’ 1-yard line before getting a TD. And they only got that because some dumbass Seahawk felt the need to stand over a Ram and taunt him after swatting down a 3rd-and-goal try. Dude, taunting? You’re on the Seahawks. Glass houses and shit.
But I think even that sequence doesn’t sum up the Same Ol’ Sorry-Ass Rams as well as the subsequent onside kick attempt that rolled to a stop after just nine yards.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:27 PM PST reply actions
at least they got a TD
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.
What are those?
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 8:28 PM PST up reply actions
Tell Him
Fontenot – not – not – not – not – not – not – not – not
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.
N-O-T
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:29 PM PST up reply actions
And thus, Keppinger's fate is assured
as being about as memorable a Giant as, say, Mike Kingery or John Vander Wal.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
other way around
He was the throw-in we got in the Schmidt trade.
You see? Not memorable.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Well, I’m giving him that much credit. I doubt the Pirates would’ve traded Schmidt without losing Vander wal’s salary, too. So, by taking him on, it allowed the Giants to get Schmidt.
And then to eventually spin Schmidt on down to poop on LA's mound.
Ergo, John Vander Wal: Good Giant.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:33 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Orlando Cabrera
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
my replacement adopted Giant!
I’ll always remember how he replaced my REAL adopted Giant.
"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 Dec 12, 2011 8:41 PM PST up reply actions
The one thing I remember about Vander Wal is that he hit a home run in the same inning as Schmidt. I was six years old at the time, so I thought this was the coolest thing ever.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
I know a place where Fontenot Cars Go
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 love you and that's all I Fontenot
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.
God only Fontenots what we'd do without him
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.
Do you want to Fontenot a secret?
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 Forgot More than You'll Ever Fontenot About Her
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.
Should be
Do you Fontenot a secret?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:36 PM PST up reply actions
Aaaaand now I'm hearing Count von Count sing the Beatles in my head.
Do you Fontenot a secret?
Blah! Blah! Blah!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
They heard me asking for hitters and they told me to stop
Quit these expensive things and just buy a panda hat
These days my fandom, I feel it has no purpose
But late at night non-tenders swim to the surface
‘Cause on the surface thoughts of Beltran shine
Baer’s calling at me, we need a rainy day fund
Sometimes I wonder if the budget’s so small
That we can never re-sign Sandoval
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
omg
what is this? it’s like right at the tip of my brain, so to speak
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.
oh duh Sprawl II
nice
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 Sprawl II. From The Suburbs album.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
i'm currently trying to formulate an
everybody knows parody
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.
Fontenot's WAR is (barely) over (zero)
Fontenot’s why the good guys lost (the chance to sign an impact bat)
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:44 PM PST up reply actions
Nice, especially with that last rhyme
I feel like there might be a way to make it fit the meter more closely, though.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
yeah, it's imperfect
It’s been a while. I have rewriting-song-lyrics-to-snarkily-comment-on-the-Giants rust.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Once I did Leonard Cohen’s “The Future” as sung by Bruce Bochy. “I have seen the future, brother, it is veterans.” Something like that. I was very fond of it. I can’t find it now, though.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
remember…
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/nontenders2012
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Grant lives
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 8:30 PM PST reply actions
I'm pleased about this.
1) Because Fontenot is better than Keppinger
2) THAT’S MY BOY!
Adopted Giant: Mike Fontenot
He's like Grant, but fun size.
Occasionally, I tweet.
I agree with this, but
now I feel sorry for Keppinger.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 12, 2011 8:34 PM PST up reply actions
He’ll get a job with a salary of at least just south of $500K. Meh
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 8:36 PM PST up reply actions
No, but it's sad that the only standing ovation he's ever gotten
was when he first walked onto the field for us. And it’s still the only one.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 12, 2011 8:41 PM PST up reply actions
Hey, at least he got out of Houston.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:45 PM PST up reply actions
NOOOOO MY BOY
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Dec 12, 2011 8:35 PM PST reply actions
see you in the adoption fanpost
"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 Dec 12, 2011 8:42 PM PST up reply actions
Jeff Keppinger's better half
is Mike Fontenot.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:46 PM PST up reply actions
Grant is furiously typing one-handed right now.
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 8:38 PM PST reply actions
For the record
I still want Keppinger too. I hope they don’t non-tender him. He’s useful.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
but we have burriss
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.
Burriss is on the list too… maybe they nontender Burriss and sign Kepp?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
They already did one thing right tonight. Don’t get greedy.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
There’s a lot of Giants on that tender/non-tender list.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I read that as tendon/non-tendon
And thought of Mark DeRosa.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I think we have, like, ten more to get through.
Eighteen minutes!!
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Bye Greysides
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Fontenot signed to one year deal. Keppinger and Whiteside Non-Tendered.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Hop hop hop
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 12, 2011 8:43 PM PST up reply actions
Come at me, bro!
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
.
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 8:53 PM PST up reply actions
I'll always remember how he caught Dirty's no-no
and that grand slam in Houston during the game where Bip talked about his “Win the innings” theory.
that’s all I got.
"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 Dec 12, 2011 8:44 PM PST up reply actions
I’ll always remember how his hair made him look 60 years old and Phillies fans really, really hate him for tackling Polanco.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
:(
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
Remember when Sabean said he was comfortable with Whiteside and Stewart as our catchers for the rest of the year
LOL
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
DOWNSIDE
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 12, 2011 8:44 PM PST reply actions
Will always remember Eli
If only for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro109khfgWw
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
It's funny, but itt's also not.
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
DON'T GET USED TO WINNING, GUYYYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
‘Cause I’m Eli White side.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
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11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Dec 12, 2011 8:51 PM PST up reply actions
Later, Hopper.
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
I feel like we should use this more often
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Howie is still a top Google Image Search result for 'failbeard'!
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I remember having a beard that looked like that when I was 12.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
I’m kind of jealous of guys who can’t grow a beard. I don’t like having facial hair, but I’m also extremely lazy about shaving.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
You still have to shave every day when you can’t grow a beard. It’s nothing to be jealous of.
by Monkeyking42 on Dec 12, 2011 8:53 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t know, I know of guys who can go weeks and not grow anything but a couple of wispy hairs.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
It’s marginally better now.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 13, 2011 12:16 AM PST up reply actions
I will remember Whiteside for:
Catching a no-hitter
Hitting a grand slam
Taking Roy Halladay deep
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
And of course:
HOP HOP HOP
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
so, will next year's backup catcher be
Sanchez or Stewart?
That’s almost as exciting as Fontenot vs. Keppinger…right?
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
JohnSheaHey John Shea
Assistant GM Bobby Evans said It was Fontenot because of his ability to play short.
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
We're so excited by semi-competence
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
How ironic
It was because of the Rainy Day Fund that Fontenot was kept..
Andres Torres was a track and field star at Miami Dade, running the 100 meters in 10.37 seconds, the second fastest recorded 100 meter time for all major league baseball players, behind Deion Sanders' 10.26
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 12, 2011 8:55 PM PST up reply actions
Too much is being made over this issue
It’s not as if a utility infielder is ever going to hit a home run to win the World Series.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Dec 12, 2011 8:53 PM PST reply actions
JohnSheaHey John Shea
#SFGiants tender 2 SPs Lincecum, Vogelsong; 3B Sandoval; 3 OFs Cabrera, Pagan, Nate; 2 relievers Romo, Casilla; 2 UT Burriss, Fontenot.
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
Giants who have worn #22 since Will Clark
1994: Rikkert Faneyte
1995: David McCarty
1996-1997: Osvaldo Fernandez
2000: Damon Minor
2001: Eric Davis
2002: Kurt Ainsworth
2003: Jose Cruz Jr.
2004: Dustan Mohr
2005-2006: Mike Matheny
2007: Matt Morris
2008: Keiichi Yabu
2009-2011: Eli Whiteside
It’s…not the most distinguished list, is it?
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
It’s interesting how it’s been in near-constant use.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
it's a popular number
It’s also one commonly associated with sluggers, though, which hasn’t exactly been the case with the Giants on that list.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Giants list is up
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/nontenders2012
click on team to sort by, well, team…
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Two Minutes left!
get the champagne rea…do we at least have Boone’s Farm?
The Dude: Oh boy. How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus.
new thread
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2011/12/12/2632282/decision-2011-giants-keep-fontenot
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.
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