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It would be really cool if we could be all, “The 2013 HOF Class is a face-meltingly amazing collection of talent.”
The 10 pitches Clayton Kershaw wishes he had back
Brian Sabean: "We’re hoping like hell that Burriss can turn into the player we all forecasted him to be" / When it’s time for a change, think Barry Zito's fastball is a changeup. / ESPN: "The Mets swapped Carlos Beltran for Class A right-hander Zack Wheeler in July. Three months later, Baseball America has anointed Wheeler the Mets' top prospect." / Brian Sabean: "We didn't know specifically that we couldn't bring Carlos(Beltran) back" / The next time Freddy Sanchez gets hurt, it'll be time to Panik. / Brian Sabean: People really don't know the baseball card or the all around talent lets say, of a (Melky)Cabrera or (Angel)Pagan. And quite frankly, we're gonna have to hit on a (Aubrey)Huff coming back and being the player he was in 2010"
Hmmmm
The Yankees have “quietly checked around” on possible right field alternatives to Nick Swisher as they prepare for his possible free agent departure after next season.
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Of course
the source is Olney.
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Jctgamer would be pleased if the Giants were one of the four
There are “roughly six teams that have shown consistent interest” in Wei-Yin Chen, reports Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun. The Orioles are one, the Pirates presumably still another, and the other four are yet unknown.
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He’s the guy that posts all those elaborate gifs and stalks a waitress.
The first six innings are overrated.
by apistat on Dec 30, 2011 8:58 AM PST up reply actions 9 recs
Dang it
you beat me to the punchline.
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That's a reccin
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Do I get to rec this as a lurker?
I feel like I should have a rapport with jct before mocking him so.
jctgamer?
he’s the Asian engineer that does cool videos and has a daughter. :)
Seriously, this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AgwDAritjg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI1ipiD7tgs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Wei-Yin
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Wait
when did the Dragons change their logo to mimic the Padres? They were the Dodgers of Japan while the Tokyo Giants were well the Giants of Japan.
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When someone mentions wrist-tied-together knife fights, my first thought is always West Side Story. Must be a generational thing.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
There’s any other (wrist-tied-together knife fights)?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Michael Jackson
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 9:05 AM PST up reply actions
Tortured… I thought of your friends when I saw this… http://www.pcworld.com/article/247125/facebook_wreaks_havoc_on_onethird_of_marriages_in_the_uk.html#tk.rss_news
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Ha!
So it’s “trending.” It’s weird, too, because one of our divorcing couples was always so schmoopy schmoopy on facebook with each other just prior to announcing their divorce.
The other pair are teetering toward being unfriended. My. God.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
Send them the article… hehehe “Watch out guys!! Anything you post could be used against you in a court of law…” or however that goes.
/staggers out to kitchen for tea.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Cody Ransom's top career moment
Brian Sabean: "We’re hoping like hell that Burriss can turn into the player we all forecasted him to be" / When it’s time for a change, think Barry Zito's fastball is a changeup. / ESPN: "The Mets swapped Carlos Beltran for Class A right-hander Zack Wheeler in July. Three months later, Baseball America has anointed Wheeler the Mets' top prospect." / Brian Sabean: "We didn't know specifically that we couldn't bring Carlos(Beltran) back" / The next time Freddy Sanchez gets hurt, it'll be time to Panik. / Brian Sabean: People really don't know the baseball card or the all around talent lets say, of a (Melky)Cabrera or (Angel)Pagan. And quite frankly, we're gonna have to hit on a (Aubrey)Huff coming back and being the player he was in 2010"
hated that guy
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 drafted him on my Pokemonz team that year and had high hopes for him maybe not that season but the next. Needless to say, he lasted about five minutes on my team after that happened.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 9:24 AM PST up reply actions
HOLD ME BACK BRO!
Fielding a competitive team, Sabean style.
Brian Sabean: "We’re hoping like hell that Burriss can turn into the player we all forecasted him to be" / When it’s time for a change, think Barry Zito's fastball is a changeup. / ESPN: "The Mets swapped Carlos Beltran for Class A right-hander Zack Wheeler in July. Three months later, Baseball America has anointed Wheeler the Mets' top prospect." / Brian Sabean: "We didn't know specifically that we couldn't bring Carlos(Beltran) back" / The next time Freddy Sanchez gets hurt, it'll be time to Panik. / Brian Sabean: People really don't know the baseball card or the all around talent lets say, of a (Melky)Cabrera or (Angel)Pagan. And quite frankly, we're gonna have to hit on a (Aubrey)Huff coming back and being the player he was in 2010"
This pic would be great with a women 'shopped in to Tucker's spot
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
Get your mind out of the gutter..
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
But look at Ranson's face!
“Ooh nice!”
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Your ARod Update
Dating a former wrestler. Once again proving that Alex can’t stay away from blondes muscular women
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 9:30 AM PST reply actions
She's not aged well
Keibler is the better choice but she’s with Clooney.
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Clooney’s got the worst taste in women. I mean, he’s an Academy Award actor who can pretty much have any woman in the world and he’s been dating an endless parade of bimbos. How are the rest of us going to live vicariously through him if he keeps on dating cocktail watiresses in Vegas
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 9:38 AM PST up reply actions
What?
Clooney has dated:
Kelly Preston
Krista Allen
Elisabetta Canalis
Lisa Snowden
Stacy Keibler
Celine Balitran (who was a waitress but hot)
Sarah Larson (who too me is not super hot but is a model)
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Krista Allen was in a bunch of Skinemax movies so while incredibly hot, is not what you’d call classy
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 9:52 AM PST up reply actions
And, wasn’t she on Days of Our Lives? OMG, why do I know that?
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
It’s better than saying you know she’s been in Skinemax movies. Which I know only because, ummm, I stumbled upon her IMDB page once.
Yeah, that’s it.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 9:58 AM PST up reply actions
Sure
but still hot. He mixes it between classy and hot. Besides, he changes girlfriends every two years.
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he gives no fucks
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 is pretty cool how he just steam rolls through relationships like it ain’t no thing. He and Jennifer Aniston should get married some day, just to square things.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
In this time when gay people are trying to get married, it’s a balm and a comfort that the single life can still be unabashedly carried on into middle age.
He’ll probably do a Warren Beatty one of these days and marry a starlet and have a passel of brats like they all do. Unless he really is gay, then he’ll marry a male starlet instead.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
He was married once and I think he said that he would never get married again.
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A Clooney/Aniston relationship would explode the space-time-gossip continuum causing massive coronaries and spontaneous combustions at your average gossip rags/blogs. This should never, ever be allowed
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
He really is.
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.
And to bring it back to the original post, ARod and his wrestler friend spent a weekend or so in Cabo with George and his wrestling friend. Isn’t that cute?
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 10:02 AM PST up reply actions
Neither are Jeter or John Mayer level for sure though.
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The fact that there was enough of some sort of relationship to have Taylor Swift write a kiss off song about it just boggles the mind.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I am just going to ignore HoF balloting next year
Not interesting in the writer’s rationalization gymnastics.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 9:35 AM PST reply actions
might be an interesting olympic event.
“Oh no, Jim! Looks like he just pulled his frontal lobe!!! And this after having strained his neo-cortex just last week. I don’t know how he’ll ever recover from this one!”
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Barry Bonds does not belong in the HoF
because he had a recliner in the locker room
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I saw a picture of him once…and he had his recliner out in left field!!!
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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
got distracted...
Ryan Clowe got in my way
Bonds in his recliner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wcT3dtii8
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Would they have to take up a whole section of the HoF for him and put his recliner in it to make him happy?
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 9:59 AM PST up reply actions
Is this new?
http://www.youtube.com/user/sjsharksofficial?v=O4KnXC9Iav4&feature=pyv
Ryan Clowe ad.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
If Biggio doesn't get voted in
I’m lighting some bags of dog shit on fire on some doorsteps. He was my favorite non-Giants player growing up.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 9:52 AM PST reply actions
i'll be kind of surprised if he doesn't make it first ballot
gritty player, 3000 hits, no steroid stink, etc
i’d expect the writers to rally around 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.
writer’s do love them gritty white boys
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 10:02 AM PST up reply actions
He played on the same team as Jeff Bagwell. I think that counts as steroid stink.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Ken Caminiti
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 30, 2011 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
Sad Story
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
OK Tortured…..Sadder story when they end up dead. When someone chooses behavior that can lead to an shorter lifespan, that is sad. When they actually die after making that choice, it is sadder. :-)
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Yes
There is no argument against Biggio.
He played 3 defensively challenging positions, 3000 hits, and long and steady production at the plate.
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I think that he was kind of a dick to writers. That might harm him, but maybe not.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
COMPILER!!
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.
Wow, his 1997 was nuts
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
That was a great year
Top 5 MVP vote getters:
Walker 1.172 OPS/9 rWAR
Piazza 1.072 OPS/9.3 rWAR
Bagwell 1.017 OPS/8.1 rWAR
Biggio .916 OPS/9.6 rWAR
Bonds 1.031 OPS/8.8
Doesn’t matter though…I mean they were all roided up anyways.
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God, I hated Piazza. It was great when he pulled his nut getting out of the way of a pitch, tho.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
Two Dodgers I disliked the most
1a) Piazza
1b) Sheffield (and his stupid yet insanely intimidating bat waggle).
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CalBear doesn't CareBear?
Brian Sabean: "We’re hoping like hell that Burriss can turn into the player we all forecasted him to be" / When it’s time for a change, think Barry Zito's fastball is a changeup. / ESPN: "The Mets swapped Carlos Beltran for Class A right-hander Zack Wheeler in July. Three months later, Baseball America has anointed Wheeler the Mets' top prospect." / Brian Sabean: "We didn't know specifically that we couldn't bring Carlos(Beltran) back" / The next time Freddy Sanchez gets hurt, it'll be time to Panik. / Brian Sabean: People really don't know the baseball card or the all around talent lets say, of a (Melky)Cabrera or (Angel)Pagan. And quite frankly, we're gonna have to hit on a (Aubrey)Huff coming back and being the player he was in 2010"
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 30, 2011 10:29 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Nice
rec’d
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I hated Sheffield too. Total jackass
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
Friend, then frienemy?
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
They trained together and at some point Sheffield threw Bonds under the bus for steroid use. While he was also taking steroids. Which he blamed on Bonds
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 10:47 AM PST up reply actions
Bonilla?
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Sheff threw Barry under the bus when he got called to testify in the whole BALCO thing
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by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 10:47 AM PST up reply actions
Craig Biggio, Steroid User?
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2011/01/craig_biggio_steriod_user.php
Brian Sabean: "We’re hoping like hell that Burriss can turn into the player we all forecasted him to be" / When it’s time for a change, think Barry Zito's fastball is a changeup. / ESPN: "The Mets swapped Carlos Beltran for Class A right-hander Zack Wheeler in July. Three months later, Baseball America has anointed Wheeler the Mets' top prospect." / Brian Sabean: "We didn't know specifically that we couldn't bring Carlos(Beltran) back" / The next time Freddy Sanchez gets hurt, it'll be time to Panik. / Brian Sabean: People really don't know the baseball card or the all around talent lets say, of a (Melky)Cabrera or (Angel)Pagan. And quite frankly, we're gonna have to hit on a (Aubrey)Huff coming back and being the player he was in 2010"
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 30, 2011 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
I am not sure if
I like those old-school Astros uniforms.
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Ha!
But in the world of Jeff Pearlman, facts don’t matter because Pearlman has yet to produce any facts to support any of his statements.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
Biggio will be first ballot...
… just as a middle finger to the “steroid” guys.
Watching the Giants play baseball is like buying tickets 162 times a year to have Mike Tyson pretend your testicles are a speed bag.
by danieljgrant on Dec 30, 2011 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
gosh, it’s dark for 10am…
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Rams buy their own tickets to avoid blackout
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/30/rams-buy-their-own-tickets-to-avoid-blackout/
Brian Sabean: "We’re hoping like hell that Burriss can turn into the player we all forecasted him to be" / When it’s time for a change, think Barry Zito's fastball is a changeup. / ESPN: "The Mets swapped Carlos Beltran for Class A right-hander Zack Wheeler in July. Three months later, Baseball America has anointed Wheeler the Mets' top prospect." / Brian Sabean: "We didn't know specifically that we couldn't bring Carlos(Beltran) back" / The next time Freddy Sanchez gets hurt, it'll be time to Panik. / Brian Sabean: People really don't know the baseball card or the all around talent lets say, of a (Melky)Cabrera or (Angel)Pagan. And quite frankly, we're gonna have to hit on a (Aubrey)Huff coming back and being the player he was in 2010"
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Dec 30, 2011 10:18 AM PST reply actions
yeah the Bengals [and the Raiders] have been known to do buy one get one [or two] free ticket deals to avoid blackouts.
The Raiders thing irritates me since they did that to their own fool selves. Build Mt. Davis, destroy nice hilly views, put in more seats than you can sell, suffer continuous blackouts. Duh.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
owch Orioles projections
what happened to their highly touted pitching prospects?
Zach Britton projects at 88 ERA+
Brian Matusz projects to an 80 ERA+
Chris Tillman at 69 ERA+ (OWCH)
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.
Brian Matusz
I wonder if anyone good was pick right after him.
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tbf the o's had wieters
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.
btw
i think this just proves that top pitching prospects truly are far from a sure thing
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 about Wheeler?
He’s a sure shot no?
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Pretty sure that was a chasm
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Yes, but it was a snide comment.
I encourage you to check out Fish Stripes, Catch-28 and my twitter.
Although, to be fair, now that I’m looking at their minor league lines, none of them really jumps off the page and screams “I’M GONNA BE AN ACE!” Matusz’s and Tillman’s lines are ok, and Britton’s in particular is really full of meh.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Never underestimate the powers of the hype machine.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
oh my god i didn't realize how bad matusz was last year
1-9 in 12 starts
49.2 IP
10.69 ERA
WOW
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
He was hurt, wasn’t he? I still think he could be a good pitcher. He looked pretty good in 2010.
Ask me about my blog.
he must have been
he also only threw about 70 innings in the minors
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.
still, that's an impressive level of awful
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 wonder how many pitchers have had an ERA over 10 in 50 innings pitched.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
(Because I’m trying to avoid doing work.)
Rk Player ERA IP Year Age ERA+
1 Roy Halladay 10.64 67.2 2000 23 48
2 Micah Bowie 10.24 51.0 1999 24 44
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Generated 12/30/2011.
Ask me about my blog.
I don't even have to try to avoid work today
This place is dead.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 10:42 AM PST up reply actions
You bludgeoned them all to death by propellering, didn’t you?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I make sure to give my audience plenty of space before I propeller
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
People pay you to watch you propeller?
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A man has to make a living somehow
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by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
And Micah Bowie sounds like the name of some fur trapper from the 1840's
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by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 10:43 AM PST up reply actions
Micah Bowie settled this land
WIth a mighty propellering hand
He spread his seed far and wide
…
Uh, I got nuthin’]
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
Micah Bowie settled this land
WIth a mighty propellering hand
He spread his seed far and wide
Then covered his penis in buffalo hide
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
Trapping and skinning to pay his dues
Wearing worn muskrat shoes
Lady beavers were his treat
At shaving them and eatin’ them he wouldn’t be beat
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Odd
Micah Bowie was worth 0.0 fWAR that year.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
FIP was only 5.94!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Yeah
not a fan of fWAR for pitchers.
Dan Runzler in 2011: -0.8 rWAR; 0.3 fWAR
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i think it gets weird for players with really SSS
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.
Sure
but I just don’t get why fangraph includes fielding stats/UZR in determining fWAR and then completely includes it for pitchers.
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You mean excludes?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Yes
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because it's trying to isolate each player's actual contributions?
i don’t get what’s difficult to understand about that
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.
because it completely excludes the idea
that pitchers pitch to their defense.
FIP only account for Ks, BB, and homeruns. That’s it. I know the idea is that those are the only stats that pitchers directly control but ignores situational pitching and defense.
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Does situational pitching exist? Well. It probably does, but does it matter? And if so, how much does it matter?
Ask me about my blog.
It does exist especially for pitchers who don’t strikeout a lot of guys.
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You mean inducing bad contact?
I guess I’m unclear on that.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
It goes back to the Crash Davis speech
about strikeouts being undemocratic.
Double plays are probably the primary example. Pitchers do pitch to get DPs especially if they are not strikeout pitchers.
Pitchers would avoid certain pitches and location depending on situations, like man on third with one out.
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Pitchers would avoid certain pitches and location depending on situations, like man on third with one out.
And do some of them not? If they all do this, wouldn’t their success be more determined by luck/the defense behind them?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:13 AM PST up reply actions
Yes
because some of them try to strike out guys rather than trying to get the guy to hit it to a drawn-in corner IFs
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Yes
and we all agree that single-season defensive stats don’t mean much.
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and we all agree that single-season defensive stats don’t mean much.
Which is why speckops and I are confused as to why you want to see them included in a metric that is supposed to tell you how well a pitcher pitched.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Because
a pitcher knows 1) how good his defense is and 2) who is a good field behind him and who is not.
Now, a stud pitcher doesn’t have to worry about that as much because he can strike guys out (and thus negate the defense). However, a non-strikeout pitcher will to his defense and defensive positioning. How many times does Kruk talk about pitching location to negate a batter’s strengths?
On top of that you have situational pitching in which pitcher intentionally attempts to create a result.
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I'm not really buying it
If the third baseman’s a bad fielder, will the pitcher try to work all LHHs inside to avoid having the ball hit that way? Doesn’t seem likely to lead to happy results.
Similarly with trying to get a double play; a hard-hit ground ball is not something a pitcher should really ever be trying to induce, even if he could.
I guess I would agree that sometimes guys are “pitching for the strikeout,” but strikeout pitchers are already doing so, and non-strikeout pitchers are unlikely to succeed.
They’ve written articles about why.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
because that makes sense?
Pitchers, after all, don’t field the ball.
Mark DeRosa , he had his moments.
And when they do they throw it into center field!
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This still cracks me up, because, you know, you don’t believe in defense for position players, hence you cite oWAR. But then you believe in the same defensive adjustments for pitchers, so you cite rWAR instead of a DIPS based WAR.
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Oh boy…
Here comes the SABR rattling. TAKE COVER!!!
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Merope
I was just over on the atheists vs believers site that I used to frequent, telling them that they sound like SABREmetricians vs Strawhats over here.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
lol
those people can get downright beeeee-ligerent about stuff. Hooray for outgrowing / getting bored with that stuff.
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there does seem to be a lot of parallels.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
There’s only so many times you can refute Pascal’s wager before you want to kill somebody.
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Yep. And only so many times you can hear “provide some evidence” before you’re just done with it all.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
but but…
“You’re the one making the assertion…YOU provide the evidence!”
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Alright, now I gotta go find “a very fundy xmas”
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I love when the believers posit that the atheists are missing something. Like there’s a “believer’s gene.”
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
wait, are you talking baseball or religion? Didn’t Pascal pitch for the Senator’s in the 50’s?
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
My favorites were the ones who would come and try to “save us”. Somebody’d be helping one of the kids with homework and we’d get some wonk going.
“You’re all going to hell!!!”
or my favorite “If you don’t repent, you’re going to spend an eternity with satin!!!”
And so long as it wasn’t the cheap polyester stuff, we were all okay with that.
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Yeah, those people don't really last long
where atheists dwell. So fun to watch the flamouts, tho.
I have seen atheists flame out over being told they “believe in science.” Also delicious.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
which I won’t post here btw… inappropriate. If I ever find it.
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Is there really a message board for agnostics? That seems kind of funny in a way-
“what do you think about this?”
“I dunno, what do you think?”
“I dunno”
(writes the die-hard agnostic)
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
Well I’m referring to a IRC channel for atheists and agnostics. Mostly it was a way to hang out with like minded people. Talk about science and technology, debate philosophy… mostly while being interrupted by various flavors of Theists trying to score celestial brownie points for converting the heathen.
The strong atheists and the agnostics could really get into too. And the Rand-ians Objectivists with a capital O. They made for some interesting shouting matches.
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The site I'm talking about
was actually designed for atheists/agnostics to discuss the world with believers. It mostly works because there is one Christian pastor who started it who is very skilled at keeping people on message and not getting flame-y. He’s a very good debater who is well respected by the atheists as well as the believers.
He went away for a while and the place degenerated into an epic flamewar. Most epic I’ve ever seen, actually.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 30, 2011 12:50 PM PST up reply actions
I see it more like hedging your bets
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 1:05 PM PST up reply actions
The idea that it even needs refuting is boggling to me
The first time I leaned about it, back in high school, I thought it was one of the stupidest things I ever heard.
My reasoning
1) Most position players are average fielders. Some are excellent while others are awful but I don’t need a quantifying stat to tell me that. I do use dWAR for a career but don’t care to use it on a single season basis.
2) As for the pitchers, there is some connection between how a pitcher pitches and his defense. Pitchers do pitch to their parks and their defense and defensive positioning matters. Also, I believe that defensive matrix for an entire team is more reliable for that for one player.
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You do realize that how a defense performs for particular pitchers can vary, just like run support though, right?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Sure
but over a year, that should even out.
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it should
but it’s not perfect but it should be factored.
I actually think run support should be factored in somehow too.
I haven’t really looked into other matrices like SIERA, tRA, or CHONE.
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Metrics, yo.
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Okay.
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My comment was sarcastic. Run support can be wildly different, even after a full season, for 2 pitchers on the same team. Fangraphs chooses to not include defense into because it allows you to make a mental adjustment if you fell necessary, instead of giving you a number that has been adjusted, but you don’t know how much, and that adjustment could be horribly wrong.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
Sure
but the idea is that a team offense should play to its norm over the season. Some pitchers will get bad lucked while other get great luck but those are outliers.
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but the idea is that a team offense should play to its norm over the season.
But it doesn’t even out.
It doesn’t even out even over a number of seasons, which is why Matt Cain is 69-73 lifetime.
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It doesn’t even out even over a number of seasons, which is why Matt Cain is 69-73 lifetime.
I find this argument compelling.
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Sure
but Cain is an extreme outlier, the same thing about Cain as to FIP/xFIP.
Again, not perfect but to exclude defense completely is to ignore 1/3 of the game.
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Not sure how exactly ESPN calculates their run support, but look at this for 2011
Bumgarner 5.32
Lincecum 3.82
If defense saved 1.5 runs per game more for Bumgarner than it did for Lincecum over a season, don’t you think that would have a large effect on ERA?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
But neither FIP or xFIP accounts for that
and thus neither does fWAR.
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Yeah, exactly
Do you think Bumgarner should get credit because the defense played better for him than Tim? (In this hypothetical scenario that we’ve created, not saying they actually did)
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
I am not getting this
if Madbum got better defense play behind him, rWAR knocks down his performance and elevates Timmy’s performance.
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My problem with this is that you’ve just said that single season defensive metrics are near useless. What happens when you try to divide that into an eighth of a season? It becomes even more useless.
That’s what you’re trying to use to adjust performance.
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single season defensive metrics are useless because they are not true gauges of a player’s defensive talent.
However, that’s not a concern with respect to pitching stats. I don’t care if the Giants are actually a good defensive team. Just whether they were good behind a particular pitcher on the days he pitched. Maybe the team plays great defense behind only one pitcher on a team and that pitcher benefits greatly while the other pitchers don’t get that same defense.
You need to account for that somehow.
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Maybe the team plays great defense behind only one pitcher on a team and that pitcher benefits greatly while the other pitchers don’t get that same defense.
What in the world would cause this?
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It's an extreme example
my contention is that a defense will play to its abilities over an entire season whether good or bad.
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single season defensive metrics are useless because they are not true gauges of a player’s defensive talent.
So why is that not true when you’re trying to evaluate how they played behind a certain pitcher?
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Because
no one cares about their defensive talent for this discussion. Just the results.
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But they both have noise associated with them!
The results are noisy! While it is true that the true talent is going to take a longer time to become apparent, the results themselves aren’t 100% accurate either!
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Of course
it’s noisy. It’s not perfect but it’s a better gauge of a pitcher.
Better explanation:
http://www.patrickfloodblog.com/2010/07/16/war-problems-part-two/
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Madbum got better defense play behind him, rWAR knocks down his performance and elevates Timmy’s performance.
How does it know that Bumgarner got better defense? Doesn’t it assume that pitchers on the same team got the same defense since they had the same players?
Does it only look at the defensive stats from the innings that particular pitchers were pitching?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
No, it doesn't
It looks at the team’s defense over the whole season, for the very good reason that there’s no real reason to think that the defense might actually play better for one pitcher than for others.
(I suppose it might be interesting if somebody attempted to discern a significant effect from some really slow worker like Steve Trachsel or something, but those would be outlier-type cases.)
He probably is for his career, but this happens every season.
I mean, you really think MadBum was a .500 pitcher last year? Because he went 13-13.
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Again, not perfect but to exclude defense completely is to ignore 1/3 of the game.
1/3 of the game that the pitcher isn’t responsible for.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
but does affect the way his pitches.
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However:
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Most position players are average fielders.
That’s cool. I believe that most pitchers in the major leagues (because we’re dealing with a preselected group of pitchers) will have a league average BABIP and will play to their true talent level, regardless of the base state. As in, pitchers will generally be as effective with the bases empty as with runners on base. And those are some big reasons to use FIP rather than an ERA based WAR.
Also, I believe that defensive matrix for an entire team is more reliable for that for one player.
Why? You’re just adding noisy terms together. I mean, conceivably everything could cancel out, but you could also be left with a larger error term. Also, do you have evidence for this connection between how a pitcher pitches and his defense?
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1) That has nothing to do with fielding.
2)
You have more data points, which to me usually results in a better result.
Of course I don’t have “Evidence” but situational pitching is definitely part of the game and I feel that fangraph excludes defense because it can’t be quantified.
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I feel that fangraph excludes defense because it can’t be quantified.
Yes, exactly, like you do, which is why you use oWAR. The question was, why do you feel it is a good idea to try to measure the unquantifiable into pitcher WAR?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
I should say not easily quantified.
Again, the vast majority of a position player’s value comes from their offensive production. There are some great fielders that complement a lack of offensive production but generally speaking, position players noted for their offensive skills.
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Seriously
You can believe all u want that metrics don’t accurately account for defense. And that offensive is way more important (you’re right) but please please please stop saying this sentence:
Most position players are average fielders
It’s just so wrong
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Yes, 1) has nothing to do with fielding. My point was more along the lines of what Bayes would call a prior. You have someone that is good enough to be in the majors. Chances are, if he’s a position player, that he’s average defensively. Chances are, if he’s a pitcher, that he’ll have a league average BABIP and a league average ability to “pitch situationally.”
Does it make more sense why I made that analogy?
2) I’m pretty certain that adding more noisy data points together isn’t really going to help. Furthermore, you’ve said (and I agree) that one season of defensive metrics is not very helpful.
Ok, what happens when you take that too-small sample size and divide it into 8 parts? An even smaller sample. (Why 8? Well, a starting pitcher who throws ~200 innings will be responsible for about 1 in every 8 innings that the team pitches). And now you’re going to take that even smaller sample size and use it to adjust the pitcher’s true ERA? That seems completely nuts to me.
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I’m pretty certain that adding more noisy data points together isn’t really going to help
It’s pretty easy to show using probability that the team’s fielding metric is more reliable than any one individual (providing you make the appropriate adjustment to assume that each fielder should receive the major league average number of balls for his position). Not sure why you’d think otherwise, since you clearly have a very good understanding of probability.
by sarf_london_niner on Dec 30, 2011 3:43 PM PST up reply actions
I’m having trouble formulating in words my hesitance to accept it, and I’ve typed it out a couple of times, and it’s still not coming out right. I’ll need to think about it more.
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It depends how it's calculated
If it’s a truly team-based metric — something like outs/balls in play — that is unbiased and would be more accurate than individual player UZRs. But is the sum of individual player UZRs an unbiased estimator of team defense? I’m not too sure.
But even if you do have a good estimate of team defense based on a single-season’s sample (and that seems at least plausible to me), there’s no way you could use it to compare pitchers on the same team. In that case — only the innings pitched by a single player — your sample size is no bigger than single-season UZR for a single fielder.
Agree it’s how its calculated
Why can’t you compare? Say you have 5 starting pitchers on the same team, four of whom have an ERA of 4 and total team UZR of 0 per 9 innings, and the other has an ERA of 4.5 with a UZR of -1 per 9. Is the safer assumption that the 5th pitcher is better or worse than the other four?
It’s important to phrase this correctly – you make it sound like we are attempting to take into account something we can’t measure reliably, because it’s present in our calculation. But we aren’t – we are actually throwing out the bit we can’t measure.
It’s not about being certain – the inherent randomness means we can never be certain. Nobody is saying that this calculation provides a perfect analysis of a pitcher’s performance level, but BR would at least claim its more accurate than the alternative. Undeniably, it is wrong to assume the pitcher deserves full credit (positive and negative) for any difference between actual BABIP and team average BABIP (which is approximately what this achieves). Equally undeniably, assuming the pitcher has zero control over BABIP is wrong. The question we should be asking is “which is the least flawed”.
by sarf_london_niner on Dec 30, 2011 9:24 PM PST up reply actions
You can't compare
Because there isn’t nearly a large enough sample size, even over a full season, to compare the defensive performance behind one pitcher to another. There’s just no way that two hundred innings is a big enough of sample — even of team defense — that you could draw statistically significant conclusions from it.
Now if the pitchers were on different teams, then you could compare the two teams’ defenses across ALL of the innings for the season, and I do guess that differences in team defense over 1500 innings probably are statistically significant.
Can you give me an example of how you are comparing – I don’t follow how you can compare inter-team but not intra-team? We might be talking at cross purposes. Let’s say you have a pitcher on a team with high UZR, and another on a team with lower UZR. The two pitchers have superficially similar stats, so you might just assume the high UZR team’s pitcher was helped.
Or, to put it another way: The McCovey Creed says Matt Cain has the ability to surpress BABIP. If Cain can reduce his ERA by just 0.25, that’s just over 5 runs in a season. UZR would give the fielders, not Cain, the credit for this, increasing team UZR/150 by about 5. That’s the difference in the Giants’ defence being ranked about 8th to about 24th. So is the Giants defence only above average because of Cain, or is Cain only a low BABIP pitcher because of the Giants defence? If it’s a combination of the two, what combination? And would it really be more useful to give Cain zero credit?
by sarf_london_niner on Dec 31, 2011 5:16 PM PST up reply actions
If you read back up the thread
See this comment. CalBear was raising a hypothetical where “Maybe the team plays great defense behind only one pitcher on a team and that pitcher benefits greatly while the other pitchers don’t get that same defense.”
This might happen, but my point was that it would be impossible to measure. The best unbiased adjustment for the team’s defensive ability would be the same for two pitchers on the same team.
Your Cain example is slightly different but would suffer from the same measurement problems on a single-season basis. But I think over a career if a pitcher had a true ability to suppress BABIP it might be possible to detect by comparing the team’s overall defensive BABIP to the pitcher’s personal BABIP. If, over five seasons or more, Cain’s BABIP was .250 but the Giants’ overall defensive BABIP was .300 I’d be inclined to believe the effect was real. (I’m assuming some adjustment to make sure it wasn’t just an artifact of Cain’s high fly-ball rate.) Off the top of my head I don’t know how to construct the test statistic for that though.
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Didn’t he have a double?
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Aubrey’s greatest 6-3 ABs.
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I was thinking more along the lines of 6-4-3’s but okay.
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or the ever popular continuous groundouts into the infield with a runner on third
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what's your race/play style?
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That’s me, too. It’s the character-type I generally play in these types of games. I never play as the magic-type; maybe, once in awhile I’ll play a thief-type. I think I’m going to focus my guy on club weapons, maces and such.
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And that you can run into them and they don’t see if because you’re crouched and really good at sneaking.
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Yeah, at this point I can walk right into some people’s stupid face and then stab them in it.
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/slices dude’s neck
/slices neck of dude who was standing right next to his friend
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That’s one of my favorite video game things.
“Oh shit, my friend just died! Where did that come from? Well, I’ve looked around for 30 seconds and don’t see anything. Guess it was just the wind.”
Yes! It was the wind that made that dead body at your feet. Go back to standing guard like nothing happened.
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Magic takes too much work. Would rather bash.
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-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Sometimes it’s cool to develop all of those awesome magic powers and then unleash them in a literal storm. I did that with one of the KOTORs.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
i want to do a new game as a thief/assassin
but beating people up with maces is so satisfying
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.
Can you bash ’em so good that they go hurtling through the air? That sounds really satisfying. Particularly if you can hurtle them off of a cliff, say.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
oh yes
and they fall down the cliffs which is hilarious!
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 will play this game. Must beat Assasins Creed first.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Annoying though when you want to loot them.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
Giants killing you with a strike so great that it throws you miles away is one of the best things about that game.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
I have seen this. That Giant Bomb video is amazing.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I don't have enough finesse to play as a thief or ranger
The best mix for me is fighter-mage. Someone who can use magic but can also hack away with a sword.
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 30, 2011 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
UNPACKING THE HELL OUTTA THIS!!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
GASP
Another viking hater! What did the vikings do to deserve this?!
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
But the nords are like Vikings, she is playing as a viking who bashes brains. Not as one who bashes the brains of Vikings.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
So prejudicial. Vikings also had ballad singers and such.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
She probably sings while doing it.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
And writers of epic poems!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
And tasty mead.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 30, 2011 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
I started as magic because I went to that Hogwarts school in the north, but then I realized it didn’t really scale well. Now I’m a dual-wielding/sword and boarder with a little bit of archery for fun.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 31, 2011 11:12 AM PST up reply actions
I bought Oblivion years ago but never played it until leading up to Skyrim. I was surprised at how much I liked it but stopped playing it earlier than I expected when Skyrim came out. My original plan was to wait until a Game of the Year edition came out with some bug fixes. Couldn’t resist.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
I was close to that mark with Fallout 3. I’ll probably go over it with Skyrim once I get back into it.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
I need to beat New Vegas still. I feel like as I’ve gotten older (LOL OLD) my videogame playing time has gone out the window.
Ask me about my blog.
I loved Vegas and Fallout 3 but never actually beat either due to how busted they are.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, they are really buggy. I beat New Vegas once, then tried to go back and play as an “evil” character, but I lost interest halfway through.
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 30, 2011 5:07 PM PST up reply actions
I haven't played any videogames since my FFX binge a few weeks ago
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
According to the story
That was the armor that the real villian Yu Yevon created every time a summoner sacrificed one of their guardians to bring “the calm”.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 11:13 AM PST up reply actions
lol
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
My video game career ended in the early 90s with
“Super Tecmo Bowl”.
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
You’re missing out, man. Though that game was amazing.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I stopped at Tank.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
If you like the game “Combat” then you’ll love Saint’s Row: The Third!
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
You are not the only person here who doesn’t play videogames.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
All the games I liked from way back in the day either got cancelled (Pod Racer— which was frickin awesome) or was a sports game that was easy enough to play but difficult enough to play well (Blades of Steel). Most sports games I find now are way to difficult to play. Just let me move my guy with a puck and check somebody into the wall and I’m happy. I don’t need anything else
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
NHL '94!
Man, I loved that hockey game.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
http://www.boston.com/sports/lighter_side/greatest_sports_videogame/
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I got a hockey game in 2000 thinking it would be like those games but I had to press about five different buttons in order to make a pass and even more to shoot on the goal. Just let me shoot, damnit
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 1:11 PM PST up reply actions
Nowadays
Sports videogames are way too difficult for the casual player. I’m sure they’re awesome if you have 20 hours to learn, but….
I don’t play them. I sometimes help the Mr. play them. Uncharted is a good video game for back seat drivers, and Fat Princess. I don’t help with any of the first person shooters he plays. He played Quake and Call of Duty and all that mess.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I can't play FPS games
They give me motion sickness.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 11:53 AM PST up reply actions
I had that problem when he was playing portal. I had to leave the room.
I played Tank and the airplane one back on our Atari 2600 back in the day, I look at that ps3 remote now and it makes me dizzy just looking at the thing.
We had left, right, up, down, and fire. That was it. If I use the remote between games, like on Fat Princess, I spend most of my time walking into walls.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I spent an hour or two last night playing Megaman 3. Fuck is that game hard.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Another one of my all time favs
The first 3 Megaman games were awesome.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 12:08 PM PST up reply actions
beating Mega Man 1 is one of my crowning achievements
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Contra!
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I have beaten Super Contra. Great game.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
No video games here, either. Last time I remember playing one was Tiger Woods Golf in about 2004.
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 30, 2011 1:25 PM PST up reply actions
My video game career ended with Duke Nukem
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
Ball ball ball ball ball balls of steel.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 12:46 PM PST up reply actions
Played Skyrim ~20 hours
I’m having a hard time continuing. Many quests/actions feel too similar and grindy. After playing WoW for a few years, Skyrim quests seem very repetitive (not that WoW wasn’t, but there is more to do in WoW.)
Anyone have similar experience? Does it get better after more hours? Maybe it’s because I’m playing on a PC?
That’s one of the Mr’s big complaints: that the PC uh ports ? aren’t very good. Shit used to be designed for PC and then converted to gaming consoles now it’s the other way around and the apparently the functionality sucks. Something about leaning around buildings in one of his shoot ’em up games is now gone from the PC version of the game.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Almost all games are designed for the Xbox because that is where the big money is. Meaning when they take those games back to PC the graphics and controls are much worse than they should be due to old hardware and a more limiting controller. But you can’t blame them for going for the bigger audience.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
The PC port of MLB 2K11 sucks. I can’t get to the second inning without it obnoxiously crashing my computer. Plus, the port doesn’t seem to have automatic fielding.
by non sequitur on Dec 30, 2011 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
/checks out Natto
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
mods?
I don’t know where to look or to what to look for.
by non sequitur on Dec 30, 2011 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
http://www.mlbmods.com/
Try poking around the forums to see if they have something or asking around.
/only glances
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 30, 2011 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
Never played Wow but if anybody in Skyrim give me a “collect 10 cat teeth for no good reason” quest my response is to murder them. The PC version is far and away the best version.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
There’s no problem which indiscriminate murder can’t solve.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’ll admit Skyrim graphics look AMAZING on the PC. But the controls suck! Why do I have to look around to loot? I should be able to click on bodies and items to get them, not shift around in front of a bookcase for 5 minutes trying to get the dialogue to appear.
I’m also glad there are no “collect 8 frog legs but not every frog has legs” quests in Skyrim. But 1) run to dungeon 2) kill some mobs 3) run out of bag space 4) kill boss 5) collect weapon/armor 6) go back to quest giver gets really old after the 20th time.
Sweet
Gamestop has buy 2 get 1 free, but Skyrim was not in stock. I myself picked up Arkham City, Dark Souls and FO3 GOTY. FO3 was cool when I rented it, ill go back to it. Dark Souls is hard as heck, I will play it after I am done with Batman. Batman, might be my favorite game ever. Check that one out when your done with Skyrim.
Blerg
by Myemail21479 on Dec 30, 2011 12:07 PM PST up reply actions
Anyone who enjoys fun should play Saint’s Row: The Third.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
If you don’t play much online then I guess it wouldn’t be worth it. I use mine for Netflix, last.fm and ESPN but that’s all stuff I can get through my PC as well.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 12:36 PM PST up reply actions
Back when I played online RPGs
One of the things I enjoyed doing agroing a whole bunch of mobs until I created a train of death for anyone that got inthe way! This was back in the EverQuest days though. I am not even sure the newer MMOPRGs still allow you to do that.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
Killing other players in Diablo 1 hardcore mode was a pleasure to truly relish.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I loved
Diablo and Diablo 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
Diablo III: Attack of the PayPal. coming soon.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
Wait
there is going to be an expansion pack for WoW involving Pandas? WTH?
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
Pandas that make beer. I see that as a very appealing selling point.
by chilibean_3 on Dec 30, 2011 12:57 PM PST up reply actions
everquest ftw
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-biggest-dick-moves-in-history-online-gaming/
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 30, 2011 2:15 PM PST up reply actions
also this was a great one too
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-most-elaborate-dick-moves-in-online-gaming-history/
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 30, 2011 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
Most MMOs have some sort of lame guards that protect any player hubs.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 31, 2011 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
NERB!!
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
I'm worried about it basically taking up all my time
Then I realized I have nothing to do anyway.
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 30, 2011 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
This made me LOL
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Awww.
Just read your other comment. Now I feel bad :(
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
It's ok, I lol'd at myself
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 30, 2011 5:02 PM PST up reply actions
Portal 2 was on sale for $7 dollars last week on Steam so I’m playing that atm.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 31, 2011 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
I remember being amazed when I first started Portal 1. I probably spent 20 minutes just messing with the portals in the first room.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 31, 2011 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
Sport and the Brain
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/337209/title/Brainy_Ballplayers
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
“Drink too much and kill my cells!”
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 30, 2011 12:51 PM PST up reply actions
ruh roh
Fast Eddie and real-world athletes might choke when it matters most because the stress of the situation or outside life seeps in, Beilock and colleagues reported in May in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. The team is investigating what happens in the brains of athletes who fail to perform to their potential when the stakes are highest.
"In these stressful situations, athletes become worried about the situation and its consequences, and these worries disrupt ability to allocate attention to where they need it," says Beilock.
Malfunctions of the prefrontal cortex, the center of the brain’s reasoning, emotional control and focusing abilities, are primarily to blame, Beilock says. Stress prompts the prefrontal cortex to try to control information that should be left outside of conscious awareness, causing what she calls "paralysis by analysis."
Like Milton, Beilock studies golfers, and she has found that high levels of stress increase activation in the prefrontal cortex of experts, preventing scratch golfers from keeping their swings on autopilot. Such overanalyzing prevents the successful execution of fluid, habit-filled performances that should run automatically, she says.
duck and cover!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
That was a clutch post merope...
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Andruw Jones signs with Yankees for 1/$2 million
LOL Agent Ned
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
I just did an expense report for $109
and thought of you guys. I’ve done all the grunt work I can do today. Catch you all next year!
Happy New Years everyone!
I’m out as well.
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
Man, time off is cool and all, but I feel ready to go back to work.
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 30, 2011 1:20 PM PST reply actions
Offseason Madness!!
/quarantines you
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I'd like to have a job to go back to :(
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Dec 30, 2011 2:09 PM PST up reply actions
me too.
this staying home crap is nice, but it’s also boring as hell. Especially since much of my hobby / craft stuff is packed up and I stubbornly refuse to unpack it. One of these years we ARE moving dammit!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
and there’s no real point to looking this week. I’m hoping there’s a flood of postings once people don’t come back after winter break. (or that the people who I’ve sent applications out to finally return to their jobs…)
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
As someone who’s been unemployed a lot (A LOT) over the years, all I can say it’s one of those paradoxes that when you’re unemployed, all you do is want to work and yet when you’re working, you kind of wish you were unemployed. Or that’s how I’ve always experienced it. Everytime I get up at 7 in the morning I curse the fact that I’m working again
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 2:43 PM PST up reply actions
this is the first time I’ve been unemployed in 15 years. If I wasn’t worried about the $$ I could get used to it. Days like today when I have to stay at home drive me bonkers though.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
That stupid money thing always gets in the way of enjoying unemployment
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 3:38 PM PST up reply actions
Oh my god
fuck neptune and uranus
i hope they get pluto’d soon
/putting together a 3d solar system my son got for christmas
i feel like a 17th century catholic cardinal
i hate the solar system so damn much
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 30, 2011 2:12 PM PST reply actions 5 recs
Son, fuck Uranus.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Sorry but I had to rec this
It was just too funny.
so, I suffered a horrific tragedy this morning
I’ve been rewatching the entire 2010 postseason (well all the Giants games, I mean). It’s slow going because I’m always too damn busy. But I finally finished up the NLCS last night.
I went to start Game 1 of the World Series this morning. And, as I reached to pull the DVD out of the case….the disc BROKE IN HALF.
This is pretty much the worst thing ever to happen.
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.
SPOILER ALERT
The Giants won in 5 games
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
oh my… that sucks!
We still haven’t watched all of ours yet!
Ummmm if you are aching to see the game maybe Itunes still has it?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I am going to wait a few years before I watch them.
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 30, 2011 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
A quick search of the Google
indicates that there are (active) torrents of the 2010 WS games.
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
they do
But then I’d have to listen to the McCarver/Buck commentary.
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.
ewwww
hmmmm
somebody here had the knbr radio stuff in a fan post…
find the fanpost, download their mp3, synch it up to the broadcast!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
The WS links seem to work here:
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2011/7/1/2254750/download-old-knbr-game-broadcasts-nlcs-nlds
Can't spell "Colletti" without LOL.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Are you sure that wasn’t the Giants’ 2011 DVD?
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
/ blackdot.jpg
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
shift-A
One of my oldest friends knitted me a Jayne Cobb hat for Christmas.
I’m wearing it right now and god damn I look silly. Pretty much the best.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 30, 2011 2:40 PM PST reply actions
Like this?
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. 2011 NWL MVP .
Job 1:14-15
Just like no one reads the fanshots, apparently no one visits the mccwiki page.
Because it’s Friday before a long weekend and I’m bored, I cleaned up the mccwiki page. Go take a look.
http://mccoveychronicles.wikispaces.com/Home
I am particularly proud of the adoption page. I used all of merope’s hard work compiling the names to make a nice editable GoogleDoc spreadsheet embedded in the page with live html. You change the worksheet (in google docs) and it changes on the wiki page.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
by nvsfg on Dec 30, 2011 3:22 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
Awesome job.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. 2011 NWL MVP .
Job 1:14-15
Sweet ! Props From Alaska !
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Yes...
…It was hard to get the Pony Express to deliver the written message to the telegraph operator so he/she could transmit the “radio” signal down to civilization and have my liaison type said props in to one of them computer box thingies you have in the lower 48, so you coud read it, but we managed.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
Proud adoptive Father of Joe Panik. 2011 NWL MVP .
Job 1:14-15
I just had a nice long post thanking you for doing that and SBN ate it. Grrr…. thank-you for fixing it up!
I have problems using the wiki page, sometimes it lets me delete stuff other times it doesn’t, it doesn’t link things how I think it should link them, so I gave up trying to do it.
The other thing I was going to put on the wiki was a shortened version of an AT&T park visitors guide that we had all worked on [in answer to a Ranger fan’s questions] but this was done in 08 or 09 and now is unfindable. HEY SBN FIX THE FRICKING SEARCH FUNCTION!!!
Maybe during the off season we can add something like that to the wiki. IIRC the fanpost included things like tips on weather, transit, parking, restaurants, hotels, and nightlife in the area. A “what to see AT the park” might also be a good addition. Where IS the WS trophy? Where is Eddie Grant’s plaque? etc
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Anything you want added, just let me know. just email it or the links and I will add it. It might get a little hectic in Spring for me with Coaching my girls, the other league stuff, and actual work, but I will get to it.
I think the items you listed would be great additions to the page.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
It would be so much easier to add stuff like that if the SBN search thing was working better right now.
Yep…at this point a Google search is a much better option.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Holy crap
Wonderful job. That reminds me, its getting about that time of year that we start running the adoption draft again. I ran it last year, and I was afraid that the crapout of the SBN search engine would be a problem, but you and Merope have saved so much time. I would be willing to run the draft again (as I am tossing out my adoptee), and I figured I’d start that up sometime in the middle of January.
by free f.p. #14 on Dec 30, 2011 11:46 PM PST up reply actions
Nice job, dude
I was supposed to do it but got caught up with other stuff. The wiki is supposed to be a group effort anyway.
You built pretty much the entire page. A little maintenance is the least I could do.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I just want to say that I’m the one who rec’d your post. So all these other people are talking the talk, but, you know. I’m just saying.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
/flags it
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 31, 2011 9:17 AM PST up reply actions
We have an IRC?
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 31, 2011 11:49 AM PST up reply actions
From the wiki, epic threads, RyRohl callup. I almost lost my shit:
So we could see this lineup:
C. Sandoval
1b. Ishikawa
2b. Burris
3b. Rohlinger
Ss. Ochoa
Lf. Lewis
Cf. Rowand
Rf. Bowker
Sweet.
Speed, defense… and an almost fanatical devotion to getting picked off.
by SF Pete on Aug 13, 2008 10:05 AM PDT actions
or after the Olympics
RF Schierholtz
Matt Cain: He’ll save children, but not the Dodger children.
by jponry on Aug 13, 2008 10:06 AM PDT up actions
SIgn, surgery and Evalutate
Sign Gerald Posey and he plays SS. Have Lewis get foot surgery now so can rehab over winter and be Ready Freddie come ST. Call-up the HR kids Ishikawa, Sandoval and Rohlinger and give them a true evaluation the remaining 45 games.
by wilriv21 on Aug 13, 2008 10:17 AM PDT up actions
holy crap that would rule
I get this feeling like I’m going to read the rest of this thread and it’s going to be all "Nope! Not actually happening!"
Trent Kline: Decentish. Also, my website is called ChatterBalks Dot Com and on it I make jokes about things.
by groug on Aug 13, 2008 12:56 PM PDT up actions
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
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Job 1:14-15
Ishikawa, Sandoval and Rohlinger!
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Burriss and Ochoa…
“Sweet”, and “holy crap that would rule” absolutely slay me.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
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Job 1:14-15
The Burrchoacock year!
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 30, 2011 4:04 PM PST up reply actions
I could re-read this FanPost every day.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 30, 2011 4:06 PM PST up reply actions
Also
That Star Wars thread is unbelievable.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 30, 2011 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
I still list that thread on my resume under achievements.
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 30, 2011 11:24 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It was fun.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Dec 31, 2011 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
That post won "best fanpost" or something that year
I was a little ashamed that I was the one who nominated it. But I was literally in tears reading that thread.
WIN TRENDY ANUS
Even ButtPee made an appearance in that thread
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 5:50 PM PST up reply actions
I BUTT PEE ORANGE
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Dec 31, 2011 11:36 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
LOL
"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 31, 2011 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
Thierry Henry!
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 30, 2011 3:55 PM PST reply actions
About to sign a 2-month loan with Arsenal.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 30, 2011 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
He pulled the David Beckham “oh crap, why did I come to America to play soccer?” move, then. Are they still out of the Top 4?
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 4:31 PM PST up reply actions
6th place
The two Manchesters are tied for first and Spurs are third.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Since the Spurs are my designated “Team I want to root for but can’t seem to muster all that energy to care,” go Spurs!
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 4:38 PM PST up reply actions
They should be back to fifth, possibly even 4th this weekend.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 30, 2011 4:40 PM PST up reply actions
Whys that?
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 30, 2011 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
Competitive balance and whatnot
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
Oh I’m all for competitive balance. Just as long as Arsenal wins.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 30, 2011 5:00 PM PST up reply actions
dead thread is dead….
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
MLB Network’s Hot Stove show had an over/under question of Will the Giants score more than 4 runs a game. Two of the three there said over: Dan Plesac and Jon Heyman. Mitch Williams said under but that they would score more runs than last season.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
They will score more runs
I mean, not a lot more but it will be more than last season. My guess is somewhere around 600. My real concern is will they manage to prevent runs at the same pace as last season.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 30, 2011 5:44 PM PST up reply actions
So, Mitch Williams is the MENSA member of that group...
Good on ya MLB Network!
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
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Job 1:14-15
gonna file a homicide report, somebody killed this thread.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I can't apologise enough
So I won’t apologise enough.
by Eyeball Kid on Dec 30, 2011 10:07 PM PST up reply actions
MLB Network’s Prime 9 Best teams not to make the playoffs: #4: 1993 Giants (#3 was the 1908 Giants).
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
2008 Giants got snubbed from the list
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 30, 2011 8:30 PM PST up reply actions
I can’t see how the ‘93 Giants could never not be #1 considering they only won 103 games yet still didn’t make it into the playoffs. In part because a certain team from SoCal gave away their best players to the Giants rival and division foe for a couple bags of peanuts in the middle of the season
/still bitter
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 30, 2011 10:11 PM PST up reply actions
The real problem was that Atlanta was in the NL West. What the fuck?
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
SD State! LOL BIG EAST
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Still doesn't match the NFC West for a while
What was it… SF, Atlanta, Carolina, New Orleans and St Louis?
More than half those teams don’t even meet the 1800s definition of West.
The first six innings are overrated.
Meanwhile, Arizona was in the East, because
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
St. Louis is in the NFC West now.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
but they realigned the divisions when they went from three to four and fixed all of the weird NFL divisions
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 31, 2011 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
Oh, wait, I got my St. Louis’ crossed. The Rams used to be in LA so that’s one reason. They used to be rivals with Niners so that’s another. And where else would you stick them in order to fill up divisions? The other only two cities to the West are Denver and KC and they’re both in the AFC West.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 31, 2011 10:40 AM PST up reply actions
THat was pretty sweet
I remember that game where Owens scored in OT? or the final play of the game to beat em, that was like, 2000, or 2001
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
AGAINST ATLANTA
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
Dead thread
Happy New Year’s weekend McCoven! Be safe and have fun, and see you all in 2012
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
i saw it
i thought it was pretty good. i’m reading the book now and not enjoying it as much because the author includes so many boring and pointless details.
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 never saw the Swedish version, nor did I read the book.
But my feelings about the movie were that I liked it, but I didn’t love it. My thoughts were actually were pretty much in line with Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers: “From Fincher we get a faithful adaptation that brings the dazzle but shortchanges on the daring.”
I just thought it could’ve been better.
by free f.p. #14 on Dec 31, 2011 12:54 AM PST up reply actions
The writing’s supposed to be awful. Like worse than Dan Brown & Stephanie Meyers combined. And one has to wonder what was going through his head while writing it what with all the raping, incest and sexism.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 31, 2011 12:55 AM PST up reply actions
apparently
when he was 15, he witnessed three of his friends gang-raping a girl their age. her name was lisbeth. there’s something a bit off about naming the protagonist of his book directly after her, idk.
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 New Yorker had a great article about the author, both about how bad he is as a writer and also about he’s like the last person you’d expect to be writing such a huge and successful piece of literature:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/10/110110crat_atlarge_acocella
I’d buy the translation line as the reason why the writing’s really stilted but that doesn’t seem to affect Murakami, whose writing always just blows me away.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 31, 2011 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
and the writing isn't quite stephenie myer bad
but it is bad.
probably partly because it’s a translation, but it also needs an editor badly. like i just read this part that went something like:
“Blomkvist went down to town. He went to a café. He bought a newspaper and a coffee. He sat down. It was about 7:30. He drank his coffee. There was no news in the newspaper. He finished his coffee at about 8.”
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.
Hmm. Maybe it’s something that’s more readily apparent in print, but I wasn’t really bothered by the style at all when I was listening to the trilogy via audiobook.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
It feels very wooden to me, which again might be an issue with the translation.
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 think I read somewhere that that style was actually deliberately chosen, which would suggest that it plays out a lot better in Swedish.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
2 years ago I got The Lost Symbol as a Christmas gift from my grandmother. I have to say, I find it hard to believe there is a writer in the English language that is worse than that load of crap.
by free f.p. #14 on Dec 31, 2011 1:06 AM PST up reply actions
Saw it a few days ago, liked it. At some point I’ll watch the 2009 Swedish language one on Netflix.
by non sequitur on Dec 31, 2011 9:36 AM PST up reply actions
Man, Amazon just brazenly stole the iTunes business model.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Except if you sign up for Amazon Prime, you- amazingly – get stuff cheaper than you would if you used iTunes.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 31, 2011 12:56 AM PST up reply actions
Stole and improved upon I should have said.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Giants fans:
I have been offered Belt in a fantasy deal that I won’t bore you with, but I’d love your expertise to help with one part of it. If you look to the small non-cynical part of your heart, what does it tell you the answer to the following questions are?
1) Barring injury (to him), will Belt be in the starting line-up at least 90% of the time in 2012?
2) Will Belt play at least 20 games in the OF?
Thanks!
1) Absolutely not. I will eat my hat if Brandon Belt starts 146 games in 2012. It’s not happening unless he gets traded. I don’t know how to accurately convey how impossible it is.
2) Yes, but it’ll be in Fresno. In all seriousness, I have no idea. The front office is kind of inscrutable, and now they’re talking about keeping Belt at first, or something. It’s really hard to tell.
Cash rules everything around me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar dollar bill y'all
hmm, El Person is right...
146 games is a lot to ask for. Let’s move the over/under down to 135 games (if that makes a difference)
I'd still say under
Belt played in 63 games last year. At most, I’m going to guess 120.
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.
Currently, the FanGraphs crowd-sourced projections
have Belt playing 130 games next year.
LOL THEM
I'm on the twitters @FFFFFFFFreak55
2010: TGWTWS One of the most unbelievable, impossible, magic-packed amazing years of my life.
Before I even look at a giants lineup I'm already thinking LOLBELT
WHY IS CABRERA?!?!
The 2011 San Francisco Giants: comprised of extraordinary pitching and a black hole of suck that is their offense
Fangraphs formulas
Apparently need to be revised to include a dummy variable for Bork.
1)If the Giants got hit with a case of common sense, he would
2)OF definitely, especially since Buster is supposed to be playing some 1B to keep him healthy
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 31, 2011 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
I hate playing the waiting game…..
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Are you waiting for the Mr. to get home?
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
yeah, [it’s also a Simpsons reference]
his flight should be leaving Salt Lake anytime now, I pick him up at Sac sometime after noon.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Should've drove!
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
I’m glad you guys get to be together on NYE at least! :)
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
yeah, we’ve done this before, but this year, these 8 days have seemed like an eternity.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
and by “be together” I’m guessing we’ll both be asleep by ten!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
how you been merope?
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
tired, depressed and bored…
What’s up with you?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
:(
What’s up merope? I guess i kinda see what’s going on, from what you’re saying to kristin, Mr has been gone for a while and it’s kinda depressing not having him around?
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
yeah, that and not sleeping at night, which just exacerbates everything. Anytime I hear a bump or a rattle I wake up. If the cat’s not freaking out I know it’s okay, but I haven’t had a night of uninterrupted sleep since before Christmas. Hopefully the neighborhood won’t be too wild tonight.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Aw Merope! I’m sorry :(, i hope it gets better for you! At least Mr. will be back today! That just sounds incredibly stressful.
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
What are you up to? I think I read something about Chicago in a previous thread?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Yea… i just got back to the Bay Area from Chicago and the Midwest, I haven’t really gotten any responses from companies in Chicago, so i’m thinking of putting my friends address on my resume to hear some feedback.
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
things are especially slow this time of year too remember… lotsa companies shut down completely between christmas and New years, they weren’t working too hard the week before…and it takes them awhile to rev back up again afterwards!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Yea, good point. So I think i might give it a little bit more time before putting a different address down so i can start hearing something back from somebody, i’m also considering grad school in Chicago
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
grad school’s a good thing to do when you are younger, so good on you!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Hello!
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
Hi!
Big plans for NYE?
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Nah
think i’m going to just hang out and relax, still recovering from the drive from the Midwest. So i’m thinking of just being lame, ha.
How bout you?
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
I think it’s going to be pretty chill! The boss got me some expensive champagne, so I will probably have a little of that. :)
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
'sup?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 31, 2011 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
hangin
what’s goin on
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
Fixin’ to go do the weekly shopping for provisions. Slightly hung over.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 31, 2011 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
LOL. what?
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
sheeeeeit
Ken_Rosenthal #Padres announce acquisition of Carlos Quentin from #WhiteSox. #MLB
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 the odds Quentin out-OPS's Pagan and Melky?
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
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Job 1:14-15
by bigboneded on Dec 31, 2011 11:10 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Pagan and Melky are gonna have career years
at least thats what callers on KNBR keep saying
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
how many career years are these guys gonna have?
"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 31, 2011 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
AUBREY HUFF had one tho!
it could happen again!
Proud adoptive father of the fastest guy in the Giants system, Jarrett Parker
One of the best moments in Giants history, 11/1/2010
Ugh
I'm on the twitters @FFFFFFFFreak55
2010: TGWTWS One of the most unbelievable, impossible, magic-packed amazing years of my life.
Before I even look at a giants lineup I'm already thinking LOLBELT
WHY IS CABRERA?!?!
The 2011 San Francisco Giants: comprised of extraordinary pitching and a black hole of suck that is their offense
by Falconer88 on Dec 31, 2011 11:10 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
shit. He is someone i really liked
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 31, 2011 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
you should have sent him a note!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I have one of girlfriends on the padres pass him
a do you like me y/n note
but now i think she just flirted with him and stole him for herself
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 31, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
looks like the Padres are trying to acquire players they can flip at the deadline for better prospects than the ones they got. Or they’re sorta going for it, not sure
"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 31, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
the funny thing is that one of the guys the white sox got is the padres’ #20 prospect
but he probably shoots right up to the top 3-5 of the sox list
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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