Andres Torres, Ramon Ramirez Traded for Angel Pagan
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 6, 2011 7:16 PM PST
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PrintAs a baseball move, I can get behind Andres Torres and Ramon Ramirez for Angel Pagan. Torres and Pagan have very, very similar skill sets, backgrounds, and injury histories, but Pagan is younger. All things being equal, without emotion involved, I'd rather have Pagan. It's close.
The difference between the two: a right-handed reliever coming off a career year, heading towards his final year of arbitration. I liked Ramon Ramirez. He probably wasn't going to put up another year like last season, but he was a very nice third or fourth option out of the bullpen. As the difference between Torres and Pagan, he makes sense.
But there's the context. Oh, that pesky context. First, the good news; nay, the great news. Melky Cabrera will not play center field. Melky Cabrera will not lead off. Again, I don't hate the idea of Melky as an outfielder for the Giants, but he wasn't a great option for the leadoff/center role that the Giants seemed to want.
The bad news, though, is that the outfield is most likely set. Barring a move that sends Nate Schierholtz somewhere, or a move substantial enough to put Schierholtz or Pagan on the bench, it's going to be Melky/Pagan/Nate in the outfield. That's not bad defensively. It's ... not good offensively, but then, remember: the Giants.
That probably means no Beltran. I was still holding out hope. He is the absolute perfect fit for the Giants, who are built to win now with a little offensive help on a short-term deal. It was always a pipe dream for the Giants to get Reyes, Fielder, or Pujols. But Beltran, man, he was already here. We already saw what he could do with Sandoval in a lineup. It was a beautiful dream.
The fallout goes deeper, though. If the outfield is set, forget about those outfield chores for Aubrey Huff. He'll be back at first base.
So Brandon Belt ...
...oh, god ...
Look, if Bochy wasn't going to pay Belt over an out-of-shape, awful Huff, he's not going to play him over the best-shape-of-his-life Huff, which is what we'll hear in the spring. It will be Huff and a right-handed complement. Brett Pill, most likely. Belt will get yo-yoed again.
Stop me when this gets too unrealistic or cynical. I know I have a tendency for that sort of thing. But while I kind of like Pagan for Torres with a Ramirez kicker, I think the Giants just finished the offense. And it's not exciting. It could have been worse -- and there's still time! -- but it's a deflating offseason so far.
The love letter to Andres Torres will come. He is, and always will be, one of my favorite Giants of all-time. I'll miss him, even as I appreciate that Angel Pagan is a pretty good player.
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Belt is never starting
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
I think he means this guy
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=belt—001jam
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Dec 6, 2011 7:27 PM PST up reply actions
ALL THE OUTFIELDERS
BRING US ALL THE OUTFIELDERS!
What do you mean we have to have a middle infield?
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
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“I think what you heard me say was ‘Give me a lot of outfielders.’ What I said was ‘give me all… of the outfielders… you have.’”
by saveuszito on Dec 6, 2011 7:37 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Pagan played shortstop in the 5th grade or something I'm sure...
At USC we're not snobs, we're just better than you.
The love letter to Andres Torres will come. He is, and always will be, one of my favorite Giants of all-time.
This. Right here.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 7:18 PM PST reply actions 18 recs
shedding multiple tears
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Dec 6, 2011 8:15 PM PST up reply actions
/rec
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:05 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe he can win that Gold Glove he deserves,
playing in a big market. Andres, you are and will be missed.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 6, 2011 10:47 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
NEVER FORGET
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=13110023
Andres Torres will always be a Giant.
(Yeah, I posted it in the last thread, but it’s even more appropriate now.)
"If it's weird, you know it's probably Wilson's." - Matt Cain
by EliminateMe on Dec 6, 2011 11:41 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I disagree
They’ve made a lot of noise about Huff in LF and Belt getting the 1b job.
I think he gets the chance. Granted he’s going to be platooned with Pill.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
They’ve made a lot of noise about Huff in LF and Belt getting the 1b job.
I don’t believe anything Bruce Bochy says about playing time.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
I don't mind the trade
but I will miss Andres like crazy.
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’d like to stand in this line…if possible.
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 6, 2011 7:22 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Reposted from last thread, buy your tickets now
Giants at Mets April 20th-23
Mets in SF July 30-Aug 2
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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Sooooooo
Will Brandon Crawford break .200?
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Nate Schierholtz and Brian Wilson for Jed Lowrie is coming
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God, please.
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do you think that's fair?
it seems like it to me.
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I’d be okay with it.
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Shea confirmed the Giants are not in on Lowrie, at least tonight
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 7:20 PM PST up reply actions
Sneak attack!
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Not happening
Last time I checked, Lowrie is not an outfielder
Jed Lowrie went to Stanford
just sayin’
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.
Torres traded. Luck won’t win the Heisman. I think the sports gods need to shit on my life a little more this week.
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Patrick Willis hurt!
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 7:37 PM PST up reply actions
I suppose there’s that, but I haven’t followed the 49ers since 2003 or so. The Giants and Stanford football are all that I really follow right now. I suppose Stanford Women’s Soccer did win the national title on Sunday, but meh.
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I bailed out on the NFL entirely around 1995. I just had enough abuse from the grandstanding players and the TV coverage baloney.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 8:15 PM PST up reply actions
Same here.
Baseball I have time for, it can happen while I do other things.
Football got to be too big a commitment. You have to sit and watch football. All day Sunday, and Monday night.
Then they added Thursday night. Then some Saturdays.
Then it was all FOXed on every channel.
Blech. I do like hearing the Niners are doing well. There was no greater excitement in my house growing up than “The Catch”. Many years of wishing concentrated in one moment.
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Only true fans. We shook off the bandwagoners.
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Luck won't win the Heisman?
I thought he was still the favorite by quite a lot
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Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
Aubrey Huff: "Let's Get Weird"
by slackersphere17 on Dec 6, 2011 8:07 PM PST up reply actions
Probably Trent Richardson is the new favorite. RG 3 might get some votes, too.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
This is stupid because I watched all of that LSU game (unfortunately), and Trent Richardson was not good at all. With the offensive line he has, any decent running back could put up those numbers.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
SEC
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If Toby Gerhart didn’t win when he was clearly the best, Luck won’t win now.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
If David Shaw is to be believed re: Luck calling the plays, part of it is Luck’s own damn fault. The second half rushing attack with leads against Washington and Notre Dame come to mind. Without the ground game, Luck could’ve been throwing for TDs rather than doing the right thing and chewing up the clock to ice the game.
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Again, I don’t follow professional handegg, so what Luck does in the NFL matters little to me. If he does end up playing for Indy, I might be forced to splurge and check him out if I’m still nearby.
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For all the bashing Luck has taken, I think he’s had arguably a better season than he did in 2010. His stats are virtually identical to last year, but his surrounding talent is just not as good as it was.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 9:09 PM PST up reply actions
Wouldn’t the o-line be better this year? DeCastro and Martin have been pretty ridiculous this year.
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Well mostly I guess I just mean his targets were all diminished and hurt and stuff.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 11:01 PM PST up reply actions
no
apparently, the requirement is that you are the last guy voters see.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 6, 2011 8:24 PM PST up reply actions
Relive the glory!!!!
I’ll miss you, Andres Torres. :( Have fun in New York. Live the dream.
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That reminds me...
Torres should have won the gold glove in 2010.
Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Madison Bumgarner,
L2WIN.
FFFFFFFfff...
I'll miss Andres
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by Viva Jon Miller on Dec 6, 2011 9:24 PM PST up reply actions
At this point Nate makes great trade bait.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 7:19 PM PST reply actions
Man I’m gonna miss Andres,.
And I’ll have to find another sig line.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Dec 6, 2011 7:19 PM PST reply actions
I just hate everything.
We have a worse outfield, no room for Beltran, Huff will be cemented at 1B, which is about as well as he may hit,
I HATE EVERYTHING
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
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by scout6 on Dec 6, 2011 7:19 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
SL2
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:08 PM PST up reply actions
Proof
That cats are evil.
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How do you think Boch broke the news to Andres?
Quick, like a Band-Aid?
I will miss him so much. Quality guy that was a great SF Giant.
"Tonight they get a ring. For the rest of their lives, if somebody asks them about that ring, they will tell them the story of 2010."-Kruk
I don't think he's even in the country.
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Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I <3 Andres
I’ll miss that beautiful man.
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Well said, Grant. I could still see Belt getting significant time, though, as I doubt Nate has a lock on right field, given his propensity to get injured and/or suck.
by Dan from NM on Dec 6, 2011 7:20 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
LOL BELT!
How will they sell the Baby Giraffe hats now?
Offset by "Pagan" jerseys.
COMIN' ATCHA, FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!
Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
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Like so?
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classy dame
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 6, 2011 7:42 PM PST up reply actions
DAMNIT
If Belt is benched so that Huff can play, Bochy out to be fired. That is rank incompetence.
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
This is going to be fucking hilarious when they non-tender Pagan in a few days
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by jctGamer on Dec 6, 2011 7:20 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
o_0
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
LOL!
#RDF
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 6, 2011 7:23 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
LOL GIANTS LOL GIANTS LOL GIANTS
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LETS NOT FORGET THAT EVEN IF HUFF WERE REMOVED FROM STARTING
BELT HAS TO GET THROUGH THE OFFENSIVE JUGGERNAUT THAT IS BRETT PILL
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
Bochy has said that Posey will play a lot of first base. That finishes Pill.
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I think that he also played third base and some outfield in the course of paying his dues, unlike selfish Belt who not only rose through the minor leagues too fast but did it almost entirely at first base.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
by El Person on Dec 6, 2011 7:24 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Yep. No worries in believing what Bochy says.
He has never gone back on his word.
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
What did he say?
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 6, 2011 7:25 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
“Bowker is our starting out fielder”
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
to be fair, he never said “Bowkie is our starting RF FOREVER”
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by Little Napoleon on Dec 6, 2011 8:24 PM PST up reply actions
Thank you Andres for meeting my brother on his Make-A-Wish day
by 49er16 on Dec 6, 2011 7:21 PM PST reply actions 21 recs
lol, sleeping
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sweet!
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by SituationalLefty on Dec 6, 2011 7:21 PM PST up reply actions
Do you emphasize the “h”, like as in ‘ha-wipes’?
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Hwhy are you talking that Hway
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Fathaigh go mbuaimid!
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I hwish you guys would cut it out hwith the haitches.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:09 PM PST up reply actions
Trade Keppinger and Melky for a cheap shortstop.
Sign Beltran.
???
Profit.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
aren't too many cheap shortstops though.
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by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 7:22 PM PST up reply actions
this would be a good idea
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I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Seriously, there is no place for Melky Cabrera on this team.
Get him the fuck off of it.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
That would be so, so ludicrous.
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I don’t disagree that it’ll happen.
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But you don’t disagree that it won’t, either.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 8:19 PM PST up reply actions
that'd be awesome
I don’t think Sabez is that creative, though. And yeah I guess it’d be hard to find a cheap shortstop who fits.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 7:23 PM PST up reply actions
I’m trying to think of shortstops who are both cheap and really bad. That would fit Sabean’s strategy.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
David Eckstein isn't officially retired.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
Get something. Get a rack of bats if you have to.
Just get rid of them.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
Melky's not worth getting rid of just to get rid of
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
He doesn’t have the defensive skills to play center field, and he doesn’t have the bat to play a corner. Unless we’re switching to youth softball league rules and adding a left-center fielder, he’s entirely miscast as a Giant. I’d just as soon sell low on him as soon as possible than let him take a roster spot and at-bats from Schierholtz or Belt, or money from trying to sign Beltran.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
i wonder if there will still be a second trade.
Gotta think its for either Keppinger or Schierholtz right?
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im not sure
it just doesn’t seem like he fits on this team really.
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by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
Still freaking out
I have the tweets to prove it.
Pagan will make 2x as much as Torres in Arbitration. We saved no money by trading Torres and RamRam. What’s worse, is that with the salary difference for basically the same player, it’s ridiculous we would have to include RamRam, who could’ve netted us some other team’s RHH utility guy.
and everyone liked torres. i dont know pagan not sure i want to either
by orange velvet on Dec 6, 2011 7:24 PM PST up reply actions
Pagan is better than Torres
He’s also not a total washout from the right side of the plate, so he can play everyday.
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injury prone though
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by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
At this point, Torres' ability to stay on the field is certainly in question
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I am incensed.
I’m close to snapping and becoming that fan from Major League 2. Every move this offseason has made us worse.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
I thought you said you were "licensed"
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by NuschlerFace on Dec 6, 2011 7:30 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
TWELVE MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS FOR FRANK FRANK!?!?!?!?!
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He won't have any fans to hit with chairs in CitiField
That park will be empty.
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I need to drink now. I'm done working
and find a girl that will remind me that there are things that matter other than the 25 man roster of the SF giants.
That girl is not worth having.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 8:22 PM PST up reply actions
damn straight
Unless she keeps chickens. Or bees.
by wcw on Dec 6, 2011 8:34 PM PST up reply actions
Or ferments hootch while fomenting revolution.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
A fermenting fomenter? /swoons
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I was just thinking how much I missed a good freakout thread
Though this hasn’t been a complete freakout night… yet
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
I don’t hate Pagan. I think it’s a decent pickup. But I just don’t understand these trades. It seems like all they’re doing is trading for the hell of it.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:26 PM PST reply actions
Well
if we’re being honest, Andres was probably going to be non-tendered once the deadline hit.
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I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
True. But what about RamRam? Funny thing is one of my friends (Braves fan) offered a hypothetical trade to me of Torres and Ramirez for Jair Jurrjens and Sean Gilmartin, and I was still meh about it. It just seemed pointless to me.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
he'd give up Jurrjens for 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.
Jurrjens is worse than I thought he was lol
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.
His ERA from the 1st half covered up a lot of meritocracy.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 7:33 PM PST up reply actions
FUCKING AUTO CORRECT
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 7:41 PM PST up reply actions
My wife installed some program that acts like an auto correct.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 7:47 PM PST up reply actions
Why?
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
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Honestly I’m not sure. I think it might have been piggybacked on some other program she was installing to print coupons. Whatever, I don’t use this computer often.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 7:52 PM PST up reply actions
That’s what happens when we play GMs. And still, the Giants do better with someone else at the helm.
Anyway he and I were chatting about this not three hours ago. Eerie.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:39 PM PST up reply actions
omg whoa
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
I think they hate the strikeouts.
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If I were going to be completely and speculatively honest, I believe they also got tired of his “bad soldier act” last year. I think he sealed his own coffin the day he got on a plane for home. This trade stinks of the same shit that got Sanchez traded, to me.
To reiterate the disclaimer, though: This comment is speculative. And probably reactive.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 7:42 PM PST up reply actions
Given the way that Neukom was ousted this year, I’m kinda on board with this.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:43 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t understand how anybody could dislike Andres Torres, though.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Exactly. Unless he shows something different to management, especially faced with losing everything he worked for and an uncaring talking head telling him things he didn’t want to hear.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:45 PM PST up reply actions
From Jamyee Sire...
JaymeeSireCSN Jaymee Sire
Was just telling SNY people that MT @AlexPavlovic Whoever was considered nicest guy in Mets locker room just lost that title. So long Torres
I has a sad.
He was so much fun.
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by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 6, 2011 10:33 PM PST up reply actions
Or, and I know we’re talking about Sabean, but it could be because he’s 34 and indications are that 2010 was a fluke.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
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If you look at the numbers he’s put up over several years, it seems far likelier that 2011 was the fluke.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
the same is likely true of Pagan
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You could post that in reply to every comment about Torres in this thread.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
the same is likely true of Pagan
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 know you are, but who's Pagan?
Peanut Butter outside, Chocolate inside... Butter inside, Cheese outside.
How many times does a 33 year old have a breakout year, followed by a decline when he’s 34, with the latter being a fluke? Pagan has been a good player for a lot more seasons than Torres.
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Was he even in the majors in 2008?
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
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Minor league numbers from a 30 year old are pretty useless.
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Why? You can’t project from them, obviously, but they provide a measure of his talent level.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
But the only point of minor league numbers are to project.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
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You can't project forward from them, I mean
With a 30-year-old you can’t make adjustments to say that he’ll mature and become better in the future and say how he’ll be in the future as he develops. You can, however, say how good he is right now.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
To reiterate the disclaimer, though: This comment is speculative. And probably reactive.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:27 PM PST up reply actions
so.......
Batting order… Pagan.. Cabrera… Beltran… Sandoval… Posey… Huff/Belt… Sanchez… Crawford.
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by ayeyoJERM on Dec 6, 2011 7:26 PM PST via iPhone app reply actions
LOL BELTRAN
That ship has sailed
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I still don't know if that's the case
Where else is he going to go? I still think this might be bargaining leverage. We’re now set with viable starters at all three OF spots and could feasibly go on without him. We could still pick him up and offload Nate if he lowers his price a bit.
Zips projects
Beltran 126 OPS+ and Belt 121+
If Beltran signs with the Giants, Belt spends the entire year in AAA. Is paying Beltran worth 5 OPS+?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Dec 7, 2011 8:41 AM PST up reply actions
that bastard
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by ayeyoJERM on Dec 6, 2011 7:27 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
When did Cabrera become a middle infielder?
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
by El Person on Dec 6, 2011 7:27 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Orlando Cabrera will be back in a 3/$19mil deal. Huff/Belt in LF.
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by TehGreekStallion on Dec 6, 2011 8:50 PM PST up reply actions
I should flag this.
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by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 6, 2011 10:33 PM PST up reply actions
Do it! I dare you!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 10:41 PM PST up reply actions
You can’t stop me, I’ll do it man!
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by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 6, 2011 10:50 PM PST up reply actions
DOUBLE DOG DARE
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 10:50 PM PST up reply actions
AFTER THIS TRADE I'M ON THE EDGE!
DON’T TEST ME!!!!
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by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 6, 2011 10:52 PM PST up reply actions
maybe I should add LOLBELT in this lineup
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by ayeyoJERM on Dec 6, 2011 7:28 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
I think one of the Mets writers said Pagan doesn’t like to lead off. Not that it necessarily matters.
That's not good
How is he supposed to play CF on this team if he isn’t leading off?
why are making trades for defensive players? am i missing something?
did we hit in 2011 and i missed it?
werent we supposed to improve our scoring in the offseason?
the last three years, Pagan has hit
.284/.336/.422 for a .336 wOBA and a 110 wRC+
he can actually hit.
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compares to Andres over last three years at
.252/.332/.436 for .342 wOBA and 113 wRC+
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.
Out of all the starting center fielders in the league, Pagan was the only one with a higher 2010 WAR than Torres.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
OK – who emailed this info to Sabean?!
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 6, 2011 7:36 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Downward trend
SF Giants' record in the eleven-year twenty-first century/Pac Bell era: five MVPs, two CYA, one ROY, the two highest single-season OPS of all time (and two of the other top eight), the single-season and all-time HR records, two NL Pennants, and ... one World Championship
well
same thing goes for Andres
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 Pagan hit better last year
(though he did have a much worse UZR)
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 started the year hurt
I don’t remember the injury. He very well might have been going 3/4 speed all year to nurse a hammy or something.
His BB rate has gone up 3 years in a row. K rate down this last year. 3.5 mil, priced right.
I think the move will prove to be alright in the end.
He's no Torres, but I think Pagan is kinda vroomy
Torres runs under that ball
Smokes a cigarette. Then makes the catch
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Pagan is a lot bigger (6'2!) so it doesn't look like he's moving as fast
But I think he covers a lot of ground.
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Angel Pagan is pretty much Andres Torres.
Just without all the sentimentality and awesomeness.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
and meds.
Turns out you can spell Ugnio Vlz without 4 E's
by The Gene Hackman on Dec 6, 2011 9:51 PM PST up reply actions
Is Nate really such a sure thing in RF?
You guys all pay more attention than I do, but its hard for me to imagine he precludes any potential upgrade in RF. Obviously he makes a better backup outfielder on a good team.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Cabrera ended up in right. They’re not getting Beltran, of course.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
We're only allowed to have inferior defenders in RF.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
I like this deal
I just don’t see Torres being good again.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 6, 2011 7:27 PM PST reply actions
I’m not so certain. I hope he makes a come back and earn a hefty paycheck.
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sure, I root for the guy on a personal level, but it just seems like he was a flash in the pan and it was time to move on.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 6, 2011 9:55 PM PST up reply actions
I know what you mean.
But for a while, he really looked like he knew what he was doing at the plate. Of course, there were times when he looked terrible. It’s hard to see him go because when he was doing well, he was definitely the best lead off man on the Giants in recent memory.
At least he has a believer in NY.
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I feel they didn't trust his ability to get his A.D.D in order.
And last year was what they felt they would be getting going forward. I hope he does well in NY, just not when he play against SF.
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by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 6, 2011 10:37 PM PST up reply actions
right
I really believe it was the meds he was taking that were wearing off and not giving him the boost he needed. ideally, he’ll be able to solve that issue.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 6, 2011 10:49 PM PST up reply actions
Unless I'm missing something here
The Giants currently have 2 outfielders under contract for next year. Three if they tender Pagan.
They absolutely have room for Beltran if they wish to go that way.
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Huff
Cabrera, Nate, Pagan
See, there’s 5. And throw Burriss and Pill out there
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Whoops, math fail
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Ugh
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
LOL.
Way to go guys. Should have just put Timmy, Cain, Pablo, Huff, and Zito because they aren’t going anywhere this year.
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by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 6, 2011 10:39 PM PST up reply actions
I think another move is coming,
and since Pagan can do something important for a year in CF that Cabrera cannot (lead off), I wouldn’t be surprised if Sabean now packages Cabrera and another piece for SS help or just to create space to play in the FA market, which is moving at a glacial pace for the second-tier guys.
Responsible for the last great homegrown Giants team.
Like I've been saying (hoping)
Cabrera was just a pick-up to get whatever they could for Sanchez, and they will hopefully flip him for a player that makes more sense for this team.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
love the optimism
this would require sabean to be savvy and I somehow doubt he’s thinking more than 1 step ahead.
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by Giant Voodoo on Dec 6, 2011 10:22 PM PST up reply actions
Has anybody wandered over to the Met’s blog?
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It was because Andres Torres wished it back
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by j14 on Dec 6, 2011 7:28 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
What other choice did it have?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:15 PM PST up reply actions
Andres Torres doesn't glare.
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He sparkles
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Pronunciation question
Angel like the ones that work for Tebow.
or
ANGEL like LaGuerta calls Bautista on Dexter
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the second
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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AN-hel Pa-GAN
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.
Yup
Though the Mets announcers often called him Angel—as in the heavenly one.
The principal supporting business now is rage. -- Richard Hugo
En Español the g is soft.
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Si
I refuse to buy this Angel bullshit they force on us.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:32 PM PST up reply actions
uh
Grant, girl, gorilla, gas, goggle….
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In most languages, it’s the vowel that follows that dictates the value of the “g.”
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 8:31 PM PST up reply actions
In many languages (German, for instance) it has the same value at all times.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Perhaps that was an oversimplification
Word-final devoicing of consonants is an entirely separate phenomenon, as is the “ng” digraph.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
/ng/ is it’s own phoneme is the English phono-bet.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:54 PM PST up reply actions
so it's "Pahan"
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by nostocksjustbonds on Dec 6, 2011 8:27 PM PST up reply actions
Hard G before A
That’s why it’s Hee-gone-tes.
ONHELL
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by NuschlerFace on Dec 6, 2011 7:33 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
It's the latter
But the ironic juxtaposition is nice if you just pronounce his name as English words.
Watching Bochy try to navigate who’s playing 1b and the one remaining outfield spot between Huff, Nate, Posey, Belt, and Pill should be worth some LOLs as well as a lot of alcohol to get through it
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 6, 2011 7:30 PM PST reply actions
Only made more hilarious if we re-sign DeRosa
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hurry up and run back to the buff spot before patrols
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Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 6, 2011 7:48 PM PST up reply actions
Will stairs be involved?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:31 PM PST reply actions
are you back from the DR?
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Nah, I leave on Sunday. Naturally I get sick the week before I leave. I have almost all of my schoolwork done for the semester so I have nothing to do for the next few days. Hence, Golden Girls, but the episodes cut off halfway through. >:|
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:33 PM PST up reply actions
word mi amiga
Crappy all around.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:35 PM PST up reply actions
Aw thanks Chilibean. It’s been cool, but at times it’s been really stressful. I’m kinda going nuts these last few days because I want to go home but I still really like it here. I swing between homesickness and not wantong to leave.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:50 PM PST up reply actions
You’re young… you can go back.
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I definitely want to come back. Next time I want to go to the northern part of the country, especially the north coast and the Cibao valley where they grow tobacco. I saw many parts of the south and southeastern country but only went north a few times. And next time I want to stop over in Puerto Rico for a few days, too.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:00 PM PST up reply actions
You’re coming home for good?
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Yep. As much as I’d like to defect for good, I don’t have a jorb here and the guys are really lame. I miss my skinny white dorky boyfriend.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:09 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I could see myself feeling the same way. Good luck with the school work and have a safe trip back!
Thanks! Doing the research project for my history class, I stumbled across Trujillo’s 1937 All-Star team where he signed a bunch of Negro Leagues players for the Ciudad Trujillo team. It was a huge political and scandalous thing and so fascinating. I’d love to write a book about that team.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:03 PM PST up reply actions
Baseball and Dominican politics?
I would read the shit out of that book.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Basically Trujillo combined the two teams in Santo Domingo (Escogido and Licey) in ‘37 as the Ciudad Trujillo team to crush his political opponents, who owned two teams: Estrellas (in the east) and Aguilas (from Santiago). He bought up all the best players, including Satchel Paige, even though he loathed black people and enacted ethnic cleansing policies against black people in the DR. Paige was quoted as saying he knew better than to lose on El Jefe’s team. Trujillo threw the entire team in jail the night before the championship game of the winter season to keep them off the streets of Ciudad Trujillo and out of trouble. Paige got the hell out of dodge after the season and the team was disbanded. Licey and Escogido went back to normal. Trujillo’s son Ramfis was a big Escogido fan which helped the Giants get Juan Marichal. Marichal was heavily recruited by Licey but Ramfis pitched a bitchfit and said no way, and got Marichal to sign with Escogido…who turned out to be affiliated with the New York Giants. The rest…es historia.
I poked around and saw some roster info for that Ciudad Trujillo team. One name on the roster was Pedro Cepeda, with Perucho in parenthesis. That would be Orlando’s papa. I haven’t been able to confirm if the elder Cepeda was on that team. I even asked Orlando via Twitter and I got no response. So who knows?
At any rate, I’d love to write a fictionalized version of that season. I already have my non-fiction book mapped out. It’s going to be about all the good that baseball development does in Latin America, basically a continuation of my research here. I even have a title: Mira que buena es la pelota—Look how good baseball is. :)
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:18 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Trujillo bleached his skin white. One of the craziest dictators that not a whole lot of people talk about.
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That guy was loony. For real. My final project in history class was all about Trujillo, which included the stuff about baseball. Also the Parsley Massacre, where he ordered troops to kill people who couldn’t pronounce the word perejil correctly. French and Haitian Creole speakers have trouble with the R sound, and Spanish speakers don’t. 30,000 people were murdered over five days on the DR/Haiti border.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:22 PM PST up reply actions
Perejil is parsley, so the DR troops would hold up a spring and ask “what is this?” And then shoot to kill. Trujillo said he wanted to secure the border to reduce illegal immigration and black market trading, but he was just a racist bastard.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:26 PM PST up reply actions
Ah, just like the biblical story of the shibboleth. Classy.
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The Parsley Massacre is listed under shibboleth’s Wikipedia page. :)
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:45 PM PST up reply actions
Those religion classes finally paid off!
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Under Trujillo there was the institutionalized racism in the form of antihaitianismo, wasn’t there? The old pictures of the Negro League stars in their Cd. Trujillo uniforms have always fascinated me.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Yes. The DR has had strong antihaitianismo sentiment since the beginning. Mulattos were hated from the start. Even now, the prevailing attitude against dark-skinned people here is the disparaging attitude I see against Mexicans in California—those dirty people who work construction and don’t speak out language, so we don’t like them.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:24 PM PST up reply actions
I would imagine that the Haitian occupation of the country left some lasting resentment, too.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
True. It’s a complex issue. But I have spoken to several Dominican natives who think the racism is unnecessary and would like to see change.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:39 PM PST up reply actions
Also Dominicans think they’re sons and daughters of Spain. Dominicans=white, Haitians=black. It’s so screwed up.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:27 PM PST up reply actions
Funny that you mention this now, for I’m halfway through “Satchel” (by Larry Tye) and he is just discussing the late 30’s issue that brought Paige and other American stars to the Carib.
It discusses Trujillo and his system at great length. On the whole, the book is too dry in dealing with a cartoonish character like Satchel, but plenty of good information.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 8:36 PM PST up reply actions
I need this book too. That’s why I want to write a fiction story based on that team, because I think a character like Paige would be the perfect fictional main character.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
Satch himself bounced between the Americas for his entire carreer, oddly homing up in Bismark, ND, for most of the summers and spending most autumns in Pittsburg.
He did not honor contracts. He honored checks.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:57 PM PST up reply actions
Can’t blame the guy for that.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:58 PM PST up reply actions
That would be wild because I lived there for eight years.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 10:01 PM PST up reply actions
Si. My gran and I went to the New York Landing seafood festivals every year. One year my sax quartet played a set there.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 10:04 PM PST up reply actions
No. The one in western Penn, the one I was born in at the very moment in August of ’52 that the Pirates and Phils were playing a mile away at Forbes Field. It was probably the 6th inning. No black players were on the field. The two teams were among the four who had not yet integrated.
In 1952, Satchel Paige pitched for the St Louis Browns and achieved is greatest MLB season at his presumed age of 44. He pitched 138 innings, struck out 91, and walked 57. But the Browns were a terrible team and Satchel was an attendance toy. He mostly started and went 12-10.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 10:35 PM PST up reply actions
Would you recommend the book?
Or are there other better one you’ve read that you’d recommend first?
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For authoritative fact, it is fine. But a book about Satch should be fun, and it’s not.
No, I don’t know of another book. But there is a terrific long “profile” of Mr. Paige by Richard Donovan collected in The Fireside Book of Baseball, edited by Charles Einstein (one of the Mays biographers and a former Chron beat writer.) The Donavan piece appeared in Collier’s magazine in 1953 while Satch was with the KC A’s.
I don’t know if the Fireside Book is still in print, but it is on the shelf of the used book stores I attend. I think every fan should have it and read it. It collects all the iconic pieces (all the words to “Casey at the Bat” and Thurber’s “You Could Look it Up” and Arnold Hano’s description of the Mays catch from his bleacher seat), as well as photos of the moments: Cobb sliding hard, Eddie Gaedell taking a high pitch, a Brooklyn fan punching out umpire George Magerkurth at Ebbets Field.
Most of the pieces are from magazines of the day, a very popular form, or excepts from books, all well chosen. “Ol’ Diz” is by Al Silverman and describes Mr. Dean, who was a friend of Mr. Paige for 50 years. They barnstormed and partied together until the end. You can find this book if you try , and it should be on the shelf of every fan. You can drop in to it and have 15 minutes of great fun from baseball’s past.
Satchel informs, but it isn’t much fun.
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 7, 2011 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
Well, many Afro-Dominicans would think differently about Dominicans=white
But yeah, Trujillo’s hatred for black/dark people didn’t come out of nowhere. The bullfights and the skin bleaching and a lot of the “Spanish” stuff that he did came out of the desire to promote hispanidad (which occurred in most other Latin American countries too), i.e. white Spaniards’ culture. And what El Person said above about prior Haitian-Dominican relations.
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I go to a private university here, where everyone is basically white or international. It’s one of the top schools in the country but I get the impression that it’s basically a rich kids school. I get the vibe from them that they identify with the elitism associated with white Dominicans. It’s a total mindfuck for me to be considered an upper class white person, because I’m light skinned next to Afro-Dominicans and I go to the rich kids school.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:43 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, it’s like whoa in the DR. Jumping to another subject, but have you read Adrian Burgos’ baseball books? He writes about Latino players and baseball and I think mostly in relation to Negro League players. I’m jw because I just found out about them and wanted to get some feedback from people who have read them.
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No, but I will read them immediately. Sounds totally up my alley.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:56 PM PST up reply actions
I’m hoping to read them eventually, but I have so many other books I have to read (both for class and outside of class) that I’m not sure how long that’s going to be.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:20 PM PST up reply actions
OMG
Please write that book.
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Hm
An underwhelming offseason, to say the least. There isn’t anything wrong about this deal, I’m just not sure there’s a whole lot that is right either. I’m curious how much Pagan is going to get in arb.
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It’s such a lateral move.
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Getting 3 years younger on similarly talented players is not lateral.
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But he also costs more
And probably weakened our bullpen.
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If RamRam is replaced by Hembree
It made our bullpen better.
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As much as I like Hembree,
to say that he would immediately put up a 2+ K/BB in the Majors is a little odd.
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I don't think Ramirez is going to put up a 2+ K/BB in the majors next year either.
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He has a career 2.08 K/BB. You can’t just predict that he’ll fall out of line with that without any evidence.
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Sure I can
He’ll be a year older, and he’s had one good year of the past three.
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I hope it's Hembree too
But if we’re replacing BP arms, RamRam probably wouldn’t be the first one I’d go after.
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I imagine it'll be ST reliever gauntlet
Winner over 7 IP takes all.
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I think it will be Hembree.
They want to see if he is the replacement for Wilson.
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by Giant_in_la_area on Dec 6, 2011 10:44 PM PST up reply actions
The extra years of control for Torres would not have meant much after he was non-tendered in a few weeks.
So you're justifying a bad move with a stupid decision.
Man, Sabean’s fucked us but good.
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But is that extra year of control of Torres even worth having?
When he’ll be two years older than he is now and in a relatively expensive 3rd arb year?
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Maybe these lateral moves can cover the gaping whole at shortstop!
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
If that was the plan, you figure they would start in the infield first.
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Glad somebody got the joke.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
Replacement for Ramirez?
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You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
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priceless
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by Giant Voodoo on Dec 6, 2011 10:24 PM PST up reply actions
haha
HeathHembree Heath Hembree
@
@Daryl_Maday hahaha you’re an idiot!
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:51 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Correct usage of "you're"?
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It’s a shame that we need to commend people for that. This isn’t even a matter of who and whom.
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If it’s so DUMB then how come I can HEAR it all the time!
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My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
It has it's good features
And alphabet instead of pictographs, no grammatical gender, extremely simplified case system, no formal/informal verb forms.
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I’ve never had any trouble with the case system in Bengali, although that’s probably because I’m a native speaker. One nice thing that it does is allow for flexibility in word order. Verbs can be a nightmare, though; in Bengali, verbs are inflected not just for person, but also for formality (three different levels of formality, and it applies even to the third person). I don’t even know all the forms. It’s nice that English doesn’t do that, but the verbs are so irregular that I wonder if it makes a difference.
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More important . . . have you found your left hand since yesterday?
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by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:59 PM PST up reply actions
Lay Lady Lay
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
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Giants can still sign Beltran...
LF Beltran
RF Cabrera
CF Pagan
4th OF Schierholtz
I’m curious to see if Sabean trades Keppinger as the 2nd trade :-)
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Sure, and they can sign Pujols while they're at it.
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LOLPTIMISM
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by yankeessuck8991 on Dec 6, 2011 7:34 PM PST up reply actions
And they can sign Rollins
Who’s holding the bake sale to raise the funds?
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They are gonna take the saved 2 million and get Betancourt.
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You forgot...
Huff/Belt
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by kdl on Dec 6, 2011 8:25 PM PST up reply actions
On the bright side
Pagan was the Mets starting CF, meaning that they are now left without one. Jason Pridie logged a few innings there, but it looks as though Torres may start. He wasn’t going to get that opportunity here.
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:34 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
This is like the one piece of solace I take.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
Me, too.
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by kdl on Dec 6, 2011 8:26 PM PST up reply actions
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Angel Pagan committed 10 — TEN! — errors in CF last year. Among NL OFs, only Arizona’s Justin Upton (13) committed more.
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pretty much tells you that stat is worthless
since Upton is gold glove quality
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All the Diamondbacks outfielders could have gotten Gold Gloves last year and I would not have complained
Instead, two Dodgers outfielders did.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
how many?
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by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
TEN!
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Why are we assuming he’s not going to play right/bench Nate?
by Into the Void on Dec 6, 2011 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
Easily done
Since Pagan is a good center fielder.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
Well, if he was a good center fielder I don’t think he would have ten errors…or are you saying his range is much better than Cabrera’s?
by Into the Void on Dec 6, 2011 7:41 PM PST up reply actions
lol errors
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I know, but everyone keeps posting that same stat.
by Into the Void on Dec 6, 2011 7:42 PM PST up reply actions
You know who had more errors than Pagan last year?
Justin Upton. Justin Upton is a really good outfielder. Errors are not useful. Stop looking at them.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Gotcha. it’s just that people posting the “10 errors thing” (including Baggs), but then they say Cabrera is even worse. I haven’t watched much of either of them so I don’t know what to believe.
by Into the Void on Dec 6, 2011 7:44 PM PST up reply actions
I would bet a lot of money that he is.
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:41 PM PST up reply actions
On the upside
I never trusted Ramon Ramirez. I know he was good for us. But I never trusted him.
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Same
Conveniently, the narrative in fine focus colors him as somewhat of a choker.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
On the double plus side
Ramirez is going to get to face Rectum Face a lot next year.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:23 PM PST up reply actions
This offseason has been an exercise in how far this team will go simply to get rid of players they don’t like.
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Getting the best players is not very high on the list of things that Brian Sabean considers when making moves. He just has other priorities.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
It really makes me worried for Belt, since the organizational opinion of him seems to have fallen so far..
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 7:45 PM PST up reply actions
It will be because Ramirez was too steep a price to pay, since he liked Ramirez a lot.
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Mr. Owlcroft says
he’s more interested in the goings-on of an anthill in Tunisia than what Brian Sabean does at this point. He also says if he wants to throw up, he can just drink too much.
by mrs. owlcroft on Dec 6, 2011 10:55 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
And now, the starting lineups for your 2012, 3rd place, 72-90 SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS!!!
Batting first, in center field, Angel Pagan!
Batting second, at second base, Freddy Sanchez!
Batting third, the third baseman, Pablo Sandoval!
Batting cleanup, the catcher, Buster Posey!
Batting fifth, at first base, Aubrey Huff!
Batting sixth, in left field, Melky Cabrera!
Batting seventh, the right fielder, Nate Schierholtz!
Batting eighth, playing shortstop, Brandon Crawford!
And batting ninth, warming up in the bullpen, the pitcher, Barry Zito!!!
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
Can you imagine a parent taking their child to this game and expecting said child to still love them afterwards?
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by yankeessuck8991 on Dec 6, 2011 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
Oh come on
There’s plenty to love it that lineup
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I think this is the worst part of the whole deal. Belt is definitely going to be in Fresno this year until Aubrey craps his pants
No, Pablo will be moved to first and we’ll get 70 games of Conor Gillaspie hitting an empty .260
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by yankeessuck8991 on Dec 6, 2011 7:41 PM PST up reply actions
Imagine if Pablo's 2011 was like his 2010
There would be absolutely no reason to care about this team.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
The Giants get a younger, slightly more expensive, less volatile version of Torres. I’m not thrilled that it had to be Ramirez to bridge the salary and talent gaps, but it’s possible that the Mets just didn’t want Affeldt. The worst thing about this move is that it blocks Belt, and the best is that it moves Melky the fuck away from center, as many have said. I don’t think the Giants are out of the market for a corner outfielder yet (neither Nate nor Melky inspire much confidence), but I think it will more likely be just another complementary piece than a real change.
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I guess I’ve never understood the conviction that a guy who didn’t have a good year until he was 31 and then had a pretty bad year when he was 34 is actually a guy worth depending on.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
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Because he didn't have a really bad year at 34.
He had a worse year at age 34, but not a bad one. Stellar defense in center is worth a lot, and Torres has it.
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@Logan Couture: Heard Charlie Sheen had an interview I missed tonight, damn! He might be the only person in the world thats #winning more than us right now.
What if
The “rainy-day fund” is for a retractable roof? That would almost be funny enough for me to forget about our putrid offense.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
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by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 7:46 PM PST up reply actions
Since I wanted the giants to re-sign torres and non-tender Ram Ram
I’m ok with Sabean trading Torres for basically himself. Take the emotion out of it, this basically gets us back to what we wanted. Andres Torres’ twin starting in CF.
What this deal means? Repeat after me
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costs too much for a fungible reliever
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RamRam>Affeldt
The Giants just paid Affeldt $5.5 million. If there’s something they could have done differently…
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Meh I never trusted Ram Ram
Affeldt is overpaid, yes. But his left handedness and his even split against both righty and lefty has value.
Not many people would want Ramirez in a trade, but a lot of teams would want Affeldt.
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His even split against lefties and righties renders his handedness irrelevant.
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to hitters with platoon splits they are not irrelevant
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Does he suddenly become a better pitcher when he’s pitching to someone who has had difficulty against lefties in a small sample size? He pitches the same, regardless of handedness, and, over a long period of time, that goes for everyone.
In that same period of time, Ramon Ramirez would be better.
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Actually yeah
When you do hitter-pitcher matchups, you have to take both the hitter’s talent and the pitcher’s talent into account. So even though Affeldt has no platoon split, he’s likely going to pitch better against Mike Fontenot than against Jeff Keppinger.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
His numbers to date include such matchups, though, and they show p in the stats. You don’t just give him a bump because he might pitch better than those people, because he already has, and he’s still worse than RamRam.
Also, there’s a school of thought that says that batter platoon splits are completely useless, but I’ll leave that too owlcroft and Bill James.
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Again
The hitter is part of the equation. The hitter-pitcher matchup isn’t independent of how the hitter performs against different-handed pitchers. I agree that I’d rather have Ramirez.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Unless you only expect Affeldt to face Mike Fontenot, it makes no sense to cherrypick matchups. Affeldt’s pitching sample is against everyone, and should be taken as such. He doesn’t automatically become a better pitcher because he throws with his left hand. If he was actually discernible from a RHP in his ability because of platoon splits, then it would matter, but he isn’t, so it doesn’t.
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OMG
This is simple. Yes, Affeldt has no discernible platoon split. That doesn’t mean any hitters he faces don’t have platoon splits. While Affeldt himself does not really show a split, that doesn’t mean that a HITTER who has a significant platoon split +/- against lefties will magically lose his split.
Got it?
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Gah.
I understand what you’re saying, but I’m talking about the big picture here (sorry, that sounds corny). Affeldt has faced hitters with significant splits before. Affeldt will face players with significant splits in the future. Affeldt has compiled a very even platoon split in the past, and that will probably continue. The fact that he is a lefty doesn’t matter. His being a lefty does not make those platoon splits any better. Those stats are what they are, and he doesn’t get a magical boost for throwing with his left hand. Any boost that he gets has already manifested itself statistically.
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I would say the effects are not as drastic for Affeldt as they would be for someone like Javier Lopez
But they still matter if the hitter shows a discernible split.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Would anyone take Huff in a trade
for cash? Like, alotta cash?
I was thinking maybe Huff for Figgins+3 mil in 2013. The M’s get a potential DH candidate and shed 3 mil total off of Figgins’ contract. The Giants save 3 mil this year and, worst case scenario, have Manny Burriss with better defense on the bench. And obviously the biggest benefit is clearing an everyday job for Belt. With Rowand, Huff and Sanchez coming off the 6 mil added next year would still hurt but probably wouldn’t prevent them from retaining anyone major. Perhaps the added 3 mil this year even allows them to pursue Beltran.
Thing A
There weren't any?
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unfortunately, i think there's no way the giants even shop wilson
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no there were. cant think where i saw it though. probably my not to be trusted web search results
by orange velvet on Dec 6, 2011 7:43 PM PST up reply actions
I never trust reports without proper punctuation and capitalization.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:25 PM PST up reply actions
Lots of teams totally want a reliever with declining velocity, declining K rate and recent injury history!
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
One may extend him 2-3 years
Baer wants to keep selling those fake beards.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
:(
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
didnt i hear Bochy say yesterday that Belt will be the regular 1B and Huff will play LF, in a manner similar to Burrell?
No
That was for when Posey gets “days off” and plays first.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Dec 6, 2011 7:43 PM PST up reply actions
He talked about Huff playing left, but he never said Belt would be the regular first baseman.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
I think he said something like “He deserves a shot”. Not that he is actually going to get that shot he deserves. Or that I believed Bruce Bochy.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
The giants were ready to pay Huff + Uribe 17M per last year and now they cant scrounge up any money when real solutions to their problems are available? Unbelievable
by haroldandsivakumar on Dec 6, 2011 7:42 PM PST reply actions
Need a new villain, it’s not the Sisters anymore!!
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 6, 2011 7:50 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
My goodness, what happened in the Sharks game? We just turned it on and the goal tender is injured because…….?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
oh my we saw the replay … that’ll be some whiplash.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
It was rumored that the Giants were making progress on two trades, right?
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
i think i read the other one could possibly include Keppinger and an AL team
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.
Cash for RDF
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Well we’re not getting anything of value of Keppinger.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:46 PM PST up reply actions
Eh?
With all the money people seem to be giving to MIFs, I wouldn’t be surprised if we extracted some value out of Kepp, especially since he’s valuable as a util guy who “can” “play” “shortstop”.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
yeah if bloomquist/hairston/etc are getting that kind of money
kepp must have some value.
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 I meant
I don’t think we are going to get anyone who provides any sort of upgrade for this team if we only trade Kepp.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:49 PM PST up reply actions
Keppinger for MILFs!
/Party begins.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:54 PM PST up reply actions
Back to Houston?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:48 PM PST up reply actions
i got really confused for a second
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.
Almost corrected you.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:49 PM PST up reply actions
:)
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:52 PM PST up reply actions
Sing, Muse, of Andres Far-Ranging
who was driven on far journeys,
after he had taken baseball’s sacred citadel.
Many were they whose cities he saw,
whose minds he learned of,
many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the grassy center sea,
struggling for his own life and the championship with his companions.
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
by Ott on Dec 6, 2011 7:44 PM PST reply actions 7 recs
And the Fitzgerald translation
Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Dallas.
He saw the townlands
and learned the minds of many distant men,
and weathered many bitter nights and days
in his deep heart at sea, while he fought only
to save his life, to bring the championship home.
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
by Ott on Dec 6, 2011 7:48 PM PST up reply actions 6 recs
Bullet dodged. people
mlbdailydish MLB Daily Dish
Pittsburgh Pirates Agree To Deal With Nate McLouth sbn.to/rVmpig
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
He was really good a couple of years ago.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:49 PM PST up reply actions
He was decent a few years ago. Not really good.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 7:51 PM PST up reply actions
He had a 3.9 WAR in 2008 and a 3.4 WAR in 2009. I’d call that a good player.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:53 PM PST up reply actions
bWAR says he was worth 4.6 and 1.7 in those same years. I’d say that was more a fluky year than a good player as 1.7 is his 2nd highest bWAR season.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 7:55 PM PST up reply actions
In 2008 his BABiP was .011 points higher than his career average. Fluky or not, he wasn’t lucky, he was good.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:56 PM PST up reply actions
He had a good year. No doubt, but I don’t anyone would have classified him as a really good player.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
A CF that posts a wRC+ over 113 3 years in a row?
He must have been awful defensively though. I don’t know how you can post a 118 wRC+ in CF over 137 games and be worth 1.6 WAR. Apparently, you do it by posting a -7.8 UZR.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 8:02 PM PST up reply actions
We had him a few years ago. He just went by a different name.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 7:50 PM PST up reply actions
Sigh
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
What the heck did Torres do in that inning?
He didn’t get a hit, but he wasn’t out either…weird.
/mailman’d it
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
He walked, Fotenot got HBP
Then scored on a shallow bloop to left. From 2B.
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
chasm'd
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
D’oh
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I think they’re missing the rest of the sentence. Walked…. to the dugout? To the cooler? To get a bat?
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
To first after accidentally hitting the catcher with his back-swing on a ridiculous over-swing thereby incurring catcher’s interference, ’natch.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
Reposted from the other thread
Given the way the Giants offense is shaping up right now, I think the Giants are going to fall short of the playoffs by a 4-6 wins again. With that in mind, I’d probably bet on a high risk, high reward commodity than a known player since a 50% chance of playoffs with a 50% chance of a .500 season is better than a 100% chance of a 86-76 season.
Andres, you will be missed.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Sabean has always been about reducing uncertainty and risk.
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Wheeler for Beltran. Although I suppose at the time we were leading the division, weren’t we?
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Williams for Kent was a helluva risk
Though one could argue that the statute of limitations has run out on citing that trade.
by Stoned Slacker on Dec 6, 2011 7:55 PM PST up reply actions
That trade happened two weeks after my second birthday. I’d say that the statute of limitations has run out.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
My lawn is fucked.
Where do I send the bill?
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 6, 2011 8:12 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions
Williams for Tavarez you mean.
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
Is LBJ going to quit on the Yankees?!?!
KingJames LeBron James
The Marlins signed Jose Reyes #NICE and if they sign Albert Pujols as well #WOW. #MiamiMarlins
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
It is the fourth quarter of the year.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
And grew up a Bulls fan.
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Dec 6, 2011 7:51 PM PST up reply actions
Grasping at straws
Beltran and Pagan are close friends. Beltran originally moved to right to accommodate him.
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Grasp like the wind!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:29 PM PST up reply actions
It’s hard to keep up with these threads sometimes.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
or at least not smoking it.
P
U
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Merope and I don’t agree on hockey but this we agree on.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
/tokes up
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:29 PM PST up reply actions
I thought they were going to let Andres go for nothing, so I’m pleased by this development.
Now can I have a shortstop?
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Short what?
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
Like hell I will be.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I have the Giants calender that they gave away on opening day. The December player?? Andres Torres.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
So. It's going to be the sad kind of drinking tonight.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Break out the cheap stuff.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Peebers, some kind of red wine, airplane bottles. Bot it.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Pagan looks to have a horrible 2011 UZR
are we sure that we’re not looking at a 4th OF here with Melky in CF?
In this post-2010 reality, I occupy a resurrection body.
UZR is a little too volatile to be taken seriously in a one-year sample.
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
so
are we sure that we’re not looking at a 4th OF here with Melky in CF?
In this post-2010 reality, I occupy a resurrection body.
dammit
I knew we weren’t… well, I thought I knew
In this post-2010 reality, I occupy a resurrection body.
And his past three years overall make him look pretty average. Just because it is only one year does it mean it should be ignored.
Well, I mean if he can hit enough and field CF he should start. (Re Pagan). What you are saying is right in that he’s pretty average. But Cabrera is a TERRIBLE fielder so why put him in CF?
I was really only addressing the UZR comment garbanzo made. As soon as anyone posts a single year UZR, someone else will say that they are worthless/misleading/etc., but generally provide nothing further. One year of UZR is better than nothing.
My own opinion is that a single year of UZR
can be worse than no data at all since you may incorrectly use the UZR information.
I never said that you should ignore the long term sample…
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
I was just countering the assumption that Pagan was a poor fielder and merited only a 4th outfielder’s spot based on one year of UZR data.
(He’s a career 4.4 UZR defender, so barely above average, still making him not inconsequentially better than Melky)
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
add to this
the fact that Pagan is 30… my guess is that his decent UZR numbers in previous years bespeak youthful production. If his outlier year came when he was 25 or 26, I’d be less concerned. He looks quite like somebody who used to be a CF and is now more appropriately placed at RF/LF. I hope I’m wrong, but the Mets seem to be happy about Torres because he is a defensive upgrade… hell, Pagan’s probably just a one-year bridge to Gary Brown – that’s fine with me. But he’s probably a fourth OF and this means SF now has no true CF.
In this post-2010 reality, I occupy a resurrection body.
I would say that Pagan is still definitely a better CF than Cabrera.
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
he was more than a “true CF” for two years in a row before 2011. Chances are he will bounce back to being an above average CF this year.
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 great the two years before 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.
Any chance the Rays would give up Sean Rodriguez?
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
I will use this as a segue into a map
Kinky Friedman’s run for Governor in 2006; he got 12.4% of the vote.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Never underestimate the power of a good nickname.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
What does this even mean?
Buster_ESPN Buster Olney
Meta moves will play on new York talk radio tomorrow like Giants’ blown playoff lead to 49ers. Run for cover.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
It means they’ll be angry. They lost Reyes, and this is what they’re doing in response.
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I think it means the Mets are in the darkest timeline
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
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by Murray, Present on Dec 6, 2011 8:05 PM PST up reply actions
Hurry!
We have to fill up this thread so Grant has to make another one if the Giants make that second trade! Make Grant work!
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
I love, love, love Torres
And will miss the crap out of him. I hope he plays well for the Mets.
But this is a fair move. I like Pagan.
Can we start tooting the "Fontenot for starting SS" horn again?
Just because I’m holding out hope still
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Just heard....I'm gonna miss all that VROOOOOM :(
Happy Holidays McCoven! :)
Off to Disneyland, in search of that long lost Giants magic that was once inside...
Pagan has 70 steals over the last two years
He can vroooom pretty good.
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I like Pagan, but I'll miss Andres
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
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What is this I don't even
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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That GIF makes more sense than this deal.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
baycityball Chris
Angel Pagan’s nickname is apparently, according to BB-Ref, “Crazy Horse.” QUICK, TO THE ANIMAL HAT FACTORY! #thisjokewontdie
Is it February 19 yet?
by j14 on Dec 6, 2011 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
did you just summon me?
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
Come on you shits
THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SECOND DEAL
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
No more trades until after finals week please. I have to learn a quarter of chemistry by tomorrow.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 7:59 PM PST up reply actions
I once learned two centuries of Art History in a weekend.
Got me a C-.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:00 PM PST up reply actions
I’m all ramped up now. I need this. I’ve got the momentum.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Pagan traded for Gutierrez
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
NEVER GO WITH A SABEAN TO A SECOND LOCATION
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
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by Murray, Present on Dec 6, 2011 8:06 PM PST up reply actions
MORE MYSTERY TEAMS
Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal
Sources: #Angels pursuing Pujols. Ongoing conversations. #MLB
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Kendrys Morales please.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 8:03 PM PST up reply actions
The Angels of “Oh Shit You Guys Said You Wouldn’t Pay These Free Agents So Much and Now You’re Making Me Look Like A Dick” Arte Moreno?
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
RamRam in the NL East
somewhere in Hawaii, Rectum Face just dropped his coconuts.
Oh, I guess Pagan brings the vroom on the basepaths? I’ll miss Torres =(
"I don't get out of bed, for a million bucks!"
- Edgar Renteria or a hooker bribing a family man?
THIS
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 7:58 PM PST reply actions 25 recs
/tearful rec
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
The team is less stylish now
Cue Posey in skinny designer jeans.
"I don't get out of bed, for a million bucks!"
- Edgar Renteria or a hooker bribing a family man?
by Scooter Ellis on Dec 6, 2011 8:00 PM PST up reply actions
Loads of class.
Suarez, el Pistoliero. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the Rectification of the Vuldronaii, el Pistoliero came as a large moving Torb! Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zulls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day, I can tell you!
by Uribe nee Gonzalez on Dec 7, 2011 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
Apparently the entire lobby becomes a bar at the meetings
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
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
I hate this. It make some sense but god dammit I loved Torres. I really hope he’s awesome with the Mets, against everyone but the Giants. And especially against Philly.
The first six innings are overrated.
I’m looking forward to hearing the audio of him saying “Hi, sorry” five times as he rounds the bases at Mays Field.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
by waelwulf on Dec 6, 2011 8:00 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I can’t say I’d be too upset if he went and destroyed the Giants when they play next year.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
by El Person on Dec 6, 2011 8:02 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
we'd probably deserve it!
The first six innings are overrated.
*scratches head*
Trading those two for Pagan only makes sense to me if the payroll is expanding.
I was under the impression that isn’t the case.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Dec 6, 2011 7:59 PM PST reply actions
Why? If we add a pitcher for the league minimum the payroll would only increase about 600k or so
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Dec 6, 2011 8:00 PM PST up reply actions
Not sure I'd have the same faith in some random minisal guy as I'd have had in Ramirez.
But maybe Sabean can pull a Vogelsong in the 7th inning, I dunno.
This deal just makes me tilt my head quizzically.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Dec 6, 2011 8:03 PM PST up reply actions
Well, Hembree was basically Kenley Jansen with less walks in the minors, so the Giants do have a bit of upside behind him. Also, thanks to Sabean, they have the $10 million lefty tandem in the bullpen, too.
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
They do look like pretty similar players. Interesting.
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Dec 6, 2011 8:12 PM PST up reply actions
No, I bet this means Huff or Belt in the OF, with Nate back to the bench. Or platooning, occasionally allowing Pagan to come off the bench as a switch hitter/pinch runner.
I’m not mad at this trade… I’m more upset by picking up the Affeldt option, which paved the way for getting rid of Ramirez, who was cheaper. I wonder what kind of SS offers we’d get with some sort of package centered around Brian Wilson and Pill. I would’ve looked at that, moving Romo to closer, Affeldt, Lopez, Ramirez and Hembree in the pen.
Apparently everyone is getting married this offseason?
bcraw35 Brandon Crawford
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"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
PTB WAS married
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which sadly means he’ll never be inducted into the Hall of Fame
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 6, 2011 8:16 PM PST up reply actions
Andres tor...
oh wait
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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Wilson, Timmy, Pablo
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
If Torres gets off to a slow start those Mets fans won't be pleasant
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hey you actually get to watch him play now eh?
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
ugh me too
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:04 PM PST up reply actions
He is a braying jackass.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:32 PM PST up reply actions
Also, this means Beltran is gone
You know, wouldn’t want to actually keep the guy who had a .900 OPS (or near it) last year. The guy you traded Zach Wheeler for. GOOD JOB SABES!
I’m just frustrated because Belt is going to get screwed by Bochy and Sabes again, while Brett Pill will probably make it because of his “grittyness.”
Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
"We won the World Series," Torres said by phone from Puerto Rico. "How would I ever forget the Giants, the fans, all the people? I’ll always respect them and always thank them for everything. I always said I’ll put some part of the Giants in my heart."
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
by GiantPain on Dec 6, 2011 8:04 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
"I always told the Giants, `You could release me and I’ll never say a bad word,’" Torres said. "The organization, the city and the fans – they treated me like family. Everything is great and I love it."
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
by GiantPain on Dec 6, 2011 8:05 PM PST up reply actions 9 recs
All class all the time
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
i am so touched
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
God damn it. I love you Andres.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 10:06 PM PST up reply actions
officially locked in to looking for Mets v. Giants tickets next year
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
OT: I want this!
would rather have this than an iPhone 5 http://gizmodo.com/5865517/man-just-got-a-little-closer-to-leaping-like-a-dolphin
Awesome, but as a doctor...
…were you watching that and thinking “What, no helmet?!”
Seems like it would be easy to go headfirst into an underwater rock
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
Is another trade coming?
Giants now have 2 centefielders even though Gary Brown lurks in the minors. Belt is sort of blocked because of Huff. Shierholz now looks like the 4th outfielder. No movement on getting a right handed hitting SS.
I’m starting to think that maybe a Keppinger and extra outfielder or extra 1st baseman for a SS is a possible trade option, especially if the Giants are still serious about signing Beltran, which I hope they are.
They're not trading Brown
If anything, they appear to be focusing on getting OFs who will only be here for one year so as to not block Brown.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
wow this guy just said he makes sushi out of locusts
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.
Giants Baseball: It's Fucking Annoying.
C Posey
1B Huff, Belt, Posey, Pill
2B Freddy Sanchez for less than 10 games
SS Brandon Crawford, someone else who sucks
3B Pablo!!!
LF Cabrera, Belt, Huff
CF Pagan, Cabrera
RF Schierholtz…
I’m confused.
Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Madison Bumgarner,
L2WIN.
FFFFFFFfff...
Cabrera in RF
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Every time I see Cabrera, I think of Orlando and I get ill.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Is there anyways we can make a package for Hanley Ramirez without including MadBum?
Follow me on Twitter @MTLJosh
by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:10 PM PST reply actions
I doubt Hanley gets traded for anything less than a blockbuster
Jeff Sullivan wrote a good column comparing it to the Michael Young situation, where Young bitched about getting moved positions, demanded a trade, and then sucked it up and did what his team wanted to him to (and quite well, at that.)
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 8:12 PM PST up reply actions
he got a first place MVP vote!!
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.
Evan Grant, you are the Harys Swyft of baseball writers
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 8:13 PM PST up reply actions
THERE'S A TURNIP KNIGHT!?
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.
well yeah in like 80th place
I think that’s the part of the ballot reserved for fucking around.
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 8:20 PM PST up reply actions
I prolly would, but I'd hesitate.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
He's signed for, what, like 3 years 47 million?
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
How about Belt, Brown, Nate, ++?
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:17 PM PST up reply actions
WOW!
lindacohn Linda Cohn
Message to Bud Selig from Mets fans. Please tell your friend Fred Wilpon to sell the Mets! It would b a step in the right direction. #Mets
Linda Cohn doesn't watch sports
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Wanna go over to the Mets site and tell them that they’re going to love Andres Torres.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Angels are in on Pujols now?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
this
I actually thought they were going to land Beltre last year.
Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Madison Bumgarner,
L2WIN.
FFFFFFFfff...
Hi from a Mets fan
Enjoy Pagan. He had a down year in 2011 at the plate and in the field but was super awesome in 2010. For whatever reason it seemed Sandy Alderson never liked him. He’s also very good friends with Beltran, they grew up in the same town, so maybe this ups your chances at signing Beltran?
Peace.
A deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.-Professor James Moriarty
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.- Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
by Blame-everyone-else on Dec 6, 2011 8:15 PM PST reply actions
Take good care of our cantaloupe.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
cantaloupe?
A deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.-Professor James Moriarty
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.- Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
by Blame-everyone-else on Dec 6, 2011 8:17 PM PST up reply actions
He runs really fast [somebody post that gif?] and instead of antelope somebody called him cantaloupe.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Then we all had a good chuckle over wine and cheese.
Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.
by Giant among Angels on Dec 6, 2011 8:44 PM PST up reply actions
And RamRam
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- SF GIants Baseball 2011 = *sigh* Home of 6 World Series Titles
- SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ??? Home of the 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
- WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US???? NOOOOOOOOOOBODYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- A fan of the Warriors and Lakers.
You treat Torres right, you hear me!?
by chilibean_3 on Dec 6, 2011 8:17 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
Andres Torres will deliver you from evil.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
The way you described Alderson and Pagan is like Sabean and Torres.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Was thinking the same thing
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
Back at you.
Minus the Beltran part.
You will love Torres. You can’t not love Torres. Have fun.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
Thanks for the kind words
It’s been a pretty wretched offseason so far for us, so I’ll take any reason right now to smile.
A deadline has a wonderful way of concentrating the mind.-Professor James Moriarty
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.- Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
by Blame-everyone-else on Dec 6, 2011 8:23 PM PST up reply actions
Here you are...
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
Holy crap bit...
Sorry. At least there’s a subject line?
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
.......................
Big.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
Stupid, ugly hats.
Ugh.
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 6, 2011 10:14 PM PST via iPhone app up reply actions 1 recs
OH HOLY HELL SHARKS THIS EVENING HAS BEEN BAD ENOUGH…
STOP SUCKING!!!!!!!!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
TIED?
TIED???
HA!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
And the Sharks had no end of good chances.
Rookie minder on the Wild. Ughhghghghghg!!
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
Remember Torres' reaction to Renteria going deep?
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I still want Samantha Posey at shortstop.
Also, I’m going to miss Andres.
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
Mets fan here chiming in
I hope you guys can sign Beltran, my favorite Met. With all the trades we’ve had lately, I feel we have swapped blood, and now we are brothers.
Andres Torres will make you weep with joy.
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
See that orange on your hat?
We were inside you all along.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
HAWT BORDERLINE RAPIST ACTION
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I guess GP swapped something besides blood
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Duh, you are a Giants fan.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I DEMAND TO KNOW ABOUT THIS 2ND TRADE
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
uhhh
THIS
Adoptive father of 18th round draft pick and future ace, BRANDON ALLEN
by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 8:25 PM PST up reply actions
Yes please, me too!
SpongeBob been bely, bely good to me.
I'm writing a corny essay
Is this grammatically correct?
Throughout my college experience that lies ahead
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
nope
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by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 8:25 PM PST up reply actions
Throughout doesn’t work at all. Say something like “As I stare out at my……” or something that doesn’t use throughout
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 6, 2011 8:26 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t know about correctness, but it could be worded a lot better.
“For the remainder of my college career” would be better.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
Yeah that could work, thanks.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 8:27 PM PST up reply actions
On a related note, I’m graduating college soon and my writing and/or editing skills are available to the highest bidder! So get in line folks!
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
Grammatically it is not incorrect, but stylistically it is wordy and awkward.
Cheno is essentially right. “Throughout” and “that lies ahead” are redundant and cloudy. But it’s not a grammar error. It’s worse.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:19 PM PST up reply actions
"I'm graduating college soon..."
could probably use some work
Bold Prediction: Pablo Sandoval finishes 1st or 2nd in 2012 NL MVP voting. I'm Twittering now (well maybe not literally now): @GoofusMcP
no, it doesn't
You should never write tripe like that. Things that sound dumb, simple up. What are you trying to say?
by wcw on Dec 6, 2011 8:31 PM PST up reply actions
Agreed
There must be a better opening sentence.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Revising people’s UC essays was refreshing because I had to cut out everything unnecessary in order to get it under the word limit. It made for much nicer writing.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
It’s not glaringly wrong, but it assumes a kind of prescience and is awkward overall.
Maybe “over the course of” instead of “throughout”.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Technically okay but still unfortunate.
Andre Ethier: Gross-o-Matic 5000
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
So do we sign and trade Beltran and get Wheeler back? Or BJ Upton?
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- SF GIants Baseball 2011 = *sigh* Home of 6 World Series Titles
- SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ??? Home of the 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
- WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US???? NOOOOOOOOOOBODYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- A fan of the Warriors and Lakers.
HOW COULD YOU FORGET TO MENTION THAT
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Forgot to mention in blog post: Sabean said there’s no realistic chance of getting a 3, 4 or 5 hitter. So Giants lineup could be…
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
ahahahaha he’s just flipping us all off at this point
by haroldandsivakumar on Dec 6, 2011 8:27 PM PST up reply actions
what the hell is this guy doing
Adoptive father of 18th round draft pick and future ace, BRANDON ALLEN
by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 8:27 PM PST up reply actions
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Angel Pagan, Freddy Sanchez, Melky Cabrera, Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval, Aubrey Huff, Nate Schierholtz, Brandon Crawford, Pitcher.
Belted!
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Dec 6, 2011 8:29 PM PST up reply actions
And there it is. /sigh
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
FUCK YOU GUYS, I AM HERE FOR TWO MORE YEARS! – Brian Sabean
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I think without the RDF, we have Beltran signed already. Doesn’t really make the moves he has made great or anything though.
we don't need one
we need a fucking SS who can be an ok hitter
"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 6, 2011 8:55 PM PST up reply actions
I think the Giants are just making up for the looks they lost in Torres.
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
actually, I love Crawford, but he can’t hit well enough for my tastes. I’d be glad with him, but I’m just fearing the eventual Yuni signing.
"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 6, 2011 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
I love Crawford, too,
and if this team had anyone who could hit, I would be happy to watch his defense. But this team is all kinds of fucked up.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
From the Desk of Brian Sabean
I have traded
the centerfielder
that was on
our team
and who
you were probably
hoping
we’d keep
Forgive me
the trade was delightsome
so swoop
and so cold
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:26 PM PST reply actions 7 recs
rec'd
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.
any parody of that poem is an insta-rec for me
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.
carlos williams'd
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
From the Desk of Bruce Bochy
So much hmmm depends
upon well you know
a new center
fielder who’s paid his dues
under the hmmm foggy
mist
beside the melky
cabrera
by Hyoton on Dec 6, 2011 8:30 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
This one required little work:
Poem
As Brian Sabean
climbed over
the top of
the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot
carefully
then the hind
stepped down
into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot
The principal supporting business now is rage. -- Richard Hugo
by Timorous Me on Dec 6, 2011 10:53 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
extrabaggs …Angel Pagan, Freddy Sanchez, Melky Cabrera, Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval, Aubrey Huff, Nate Schierholtz, Brandon Crawford, Pitcher.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Oh come on
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
To be fair, this is the fault of ownership, not Sabean. I miss Neukom.
Proud owner of over 20,000 comments. (most of them in the wrong place) Oh yeah, and Buster Posey
Silly me
I thought Sabean gave Rowand and Huff their awful deals.
And that he can’t see that Belt is the 3rd best hitter on this team.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
by DFARowand on Dec 6, 2011 8:33 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Definitely
But other teams are able to fix mistakes, while he is not being allowed to with payroll limitations. A team that sold out the entire season should not be penny pinching.
Proud owner of over 20,000 comments. (most of them in the wrong place) Oh yeah, and Buster Posey
So can we blame both?
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
THis about sums it up
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 8:29 PM PST up reply actions
lol
Adoptive father of 18th round draft pick and future ace, BRANDON ALLEN
by Nnamdi Asomugha on Dec 6, 2011 8:36 PM PST up reply actions
at least until Freddy gets injured
Then we’ve got Burriss!
And when Buster needs a rest, Huff or Pagan sits for Chris Stewart!
by Lies and Perfidy on Dec 6, 2011 8:30 PM PST up reply actions
I love Chris Stewart!!!
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:23 PM PST up reply actions
Gunna be lots of “StarWars” threads next season….
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I forget if the original one was after a victory or defeat, though I was deeply involved.
I think a victory, but I could be wrong. I don’t go back to review it.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:24 PM PST up reply actions
Matt Cain threw a one hitter and lost
The entire blog was on suicide watch
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:27 PM PST up reply actions
Yep
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
Clearly, I’ve pushed the entire event into a dark place of recall.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 10:14 PM PST up reply actions
it was after another soul crushing torturous loss.
so lets see….
LotR
Back to the Future
all the muppet movies!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Don’t know if I’d go with the original Muppet Movie or the Great Muppet Caper.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Well you have to have at least 3 movies for a marathon don’t you?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
We were up until the early hours after a day game.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 10:15 PM PST up reply actions
The one I posted above is better
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- SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ??? Home of the 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
- WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US???? NOOOOOOOOOOBODYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- A fan of the Warriors and Lakers.
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
You’ll note that lineup is very left-handed. Giants are keen on a right-handed infield bat to break it up.
But wait! Keppingers RH bat is unstoppable!!!!
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Dec 6, 2011 8:30 PM PST up reply actions
Ideal lineup if Bochy isn't an idiot and doesn't start Huff or Pill
Pagan-CF
Sanchez-2B
Posey-C
Panda!-3B
Belt-1B
Melky-LF
Nate-RF
Craw-SS
PITCHER
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:29 PM PST reply actions
Can Melky or Belt play right?
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:30 PM PST up reply actions
Better lineup because Nate is nothing more than a 4th OF and Huff WILL start
Pagan CF
Melky RF
Pablo 3b
Posey C
Huff LF
Belt 1b
Sanchez 2b
Crawford SS
P
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Huff in LF = LOL
Play Belt
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:32 PM PST up reply actions
Both Bochy and Sabean have talked about Huff in LF
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Do you remember this?
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:35 PM PST up reply actions
That was when he was playing RF
Big difference..
He was also in terrible shape
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Why play him in left when Belt is the superior athlete?
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:38 PM PST up reply actions
Because Belt is potentially a gold glove 1b
But merely an adequate LF. And 1b is where he’s going to play long term.
You downgrade two positions by putting Belt in LF. You downgrade just one with Huff out there.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Respectfully, I disagree.
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:41 PM PST up reply actions
With what part?
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
I donno
I am with you. Huff will be in LF. Schierholtz will be our first PH, a role he was very good doing in 2010. Also nice insurance if anyone gets hurt.
Comon do I need to remind you about Jose Castillo?
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:32 PM PST up reply actions
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
You’ll note that lineup is very left-handed. Giants are keen on a right-handed infield bat to break it up.
Just sayin’ we do still have Keppinger…
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:30 PM PST reply actions
Pillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpillpill
by Grant Brisbee on Dec 6, 2011 8:34 PM PST up reply actions
PILL NYE THE STARTING GUY
The first six innings are overrated.
Its not even that left handed
If you don’t bat the three actual lefties in the lineup all in a row. Moving Melky or Freddy to the bottom 3rd of the lineup would help.
Thing A
OT
Just installed Windows 7 today. Still getting used to it.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
XP > Vista
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- SF GIants Baseball 2011 = *sigh* Home of 6 World Series Titles
- SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ??? Home of the 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
- WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US???? NOOOOOOOOOOBODYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- A fan of the Warriors and Lakers.
I hated XP
I had so many problems with that OS. I see it now and it makes me angry.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
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Plagued by visions of XP
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 10:57 PM PST up reply actions
All of these are better than Windows Me. I had major problems with that one.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
For a minute, I thought Windows 7 screwed me up. It did an update about midnight, rebooted and my internet didn’t work. I shut down, rebooted, my firewall didn’t work. I did it a third time and everything is finally back to normal.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Windows 8 is coming out next year
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From what I've seen so far
I’m gonna stay away from it.
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Dec 6, 2011 8:35 PM PST up reply actions
The “jump lists” on the Start Menu are a nice feature but they “stick” on me — they don’t jump. I have to hover over the jump arrow for a couple of seconds instead of clicking on the arrow immediately to access recent files. I’m thinking this didn’t use to be how it worked.
I wish when click the start menu that the “All Programs” would stay up.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Yours doesn’t? “All Programs” is always there for me. Maybe it’s one of the things I customized that’s buried under 4 or 5 layers of UI.
It’s there. I have to click it every time to see all programs. I just want it to stay up.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I HATE EVERYTHING
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I’m watching Chopped.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Good
There’s this crazy Italian guy who kind of reminds me of Andres Torres.
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.
"My last girlfriend turned into the moon."
“That’s rough, buddy.”
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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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Dec 6, 2011 8:41 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
You all are going to make me all mushy with your Torres pics :-(
Too late actually
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Love this.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Could I be any more excited?
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Dec 6, 2011 9:07 PM PST up reply actions
I would have tried to lick him, I think.
I admire your restraint.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
He’s such a doll.
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I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Dec 6, 2011 9:10 PM PST up reply actions
Did he smell good?
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:44 PM PST up reply actions
I’ll bet he smelled like puppies that have been laying in the sunshine.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
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/kicks him into space
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:46 PM PST up reply actions
HAHA
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
That would be good?
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Definitely. Haven’t you ever snuggled with a puppy fresh from the sunny outdoors?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
I like to put mine in the dryer with a fabric softener so I can have it year round.
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
.
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.
smoldering
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
you don't find
hot?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
maybe that’s it!?!
the answer to our shortstop / hot latin dilemma….
Re-sign Omar!!!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I mean jeeze
We lost Sanchez AND Torres. I need my pretty Latins!
Ooh, Marty Havlat sighting! Squirrel!
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
One of the worst days for me
Lost my job today….then took a final….came home to Torres, one of my favorite Giants, getting traded.
Always will appreciate him for showing what a fellow person with mental health issues can do when they overcome. Even if Zips projections turns out to be right, I would rather have Torres representing the Giants.
Perhaps a new start for all parties will be beneficial
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Though if you end up making an angry call to your former boss, you can always end it with “THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT I WANT TORRES BACK!!!”
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
That’s shitty. I’m so sorry.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:47 PM PST up reply actions
Sucks about the job man, sorry that happened to you. Hopefully you’re back somewhere else soon.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
thanks for the heartfelt replies
Just gotta get back on the horse…kinda wish I had been traded like Torres though
/hug
May better things (and jobs) come your way…
NorCal passion trapped in SoCal pain...
I wanna rage.
So...
I just have to say, I hope Sabean and Bochy are gone soon.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Dec 6, 2011 8:42 PM PST reply actions
In geologic terms...
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
2 years at least.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
It’s not going to matter anyways as long as the RDF exists
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 6, 2011 9:19 PM PST up reply actions
Any news on a backup catcher? I'm kinda fed up with Eli
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Dec 6, 2011 8:43 PM PST reply actions
They keep saying Hector’s looking goooooood.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I want Max Ramirez up.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
he isn't a catcher
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.
in name only
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’s only one start a week & a better PH batter than any of the other options we currently have at the position.
Just noticed he’s a FA.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
There’s always Stewart.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:44 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, by mid-season
I was sold on Stewart over Whiteside.
Whiteside has more power but he really was awful defensively behind the plate.
I would prefer he get consistent playing time in the minor leagues.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
but my dream has died….
Sanchez winds up and throws to Sanchez, the runner has taken off from first so Sanchez throws to Sanchez to throw the base stealer out at 2nd.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Posey
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- SF GIants Baseball 2011 = *sigh* Home of 6 World Series Titles
- SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ??? Home of the 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
- WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US???? NOOOOOOOOOOBODYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- A fan of the Warriors and Lakers.
Jon_Heyman Jon Heyman
Josh bard agrees with #dodgers. Believed to be $750,000 for 1 yr
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
What the fuck are they doing down there.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
The shitty thing about this trade
Is that I can’t even muster up a good rage session over it, because it’s not that terrible on paper. This is one where you can understand it and realize that maybe it had to be done (ok, not really), so it’s all sadness. It’s like having to get a sick pet put down.
I DEMAND TRADE RAGE.
The first six innings are overrated.
When Andres Torres hits .275/.343/.490 for the Mets, I’m going to insufferable.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:46 PM PST up reply actions
I keep losing my to be verbs.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:47 PM PST up reply actions
I’ll be happy for him and insufferable.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:48 PM PST up reply actions
But he won’t be here to stop me. :(
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:54 PM PST up reply actions
Torres watch, 2012
Oh my
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
It’s going to be eight times louder than Fred Watch, pretweet.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:58 PM PST up reply actions
What will you do when he hits .240/.315/.360 for 150 ABs and spends the rest of the season on the DL?
I won’t mention it.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 11:02 PM PST up reply actions
I’m going to insuffer right with you.
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by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:46 PM PST up reply actions
Oh I am super angry.
But it’s more a conglomeration of how this offseason has gone.
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
Basically this team should not be penny pinching.
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
They’re not even penny pinching. Everything they’ve done has cost significantly more money than an obvious alternative.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:48 PM PST up reply actions
Coordinated plans are for pussies!
PUSSIES, I SAY!
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
OK, I'm giving up for the night. Second deal can happen while I'm sleeping
Also, side note: If no one else is going to give him a contract, it’d be worth seeing what JD Drew has left in the tank on a one-year deal.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I'd accept that as a valid criticism
If the Giants weren’t planning on 250+ PAs next year from two guys who suffered catastrophic season-ending injuries.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Sorry
1000+ PAs.
The most delightful ecumenical contradiction in nomenclature.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
No no no no
No no no NO!
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
GerardMulligan1 Gerard Mulligan
Did the Marlins’ rich uncle die and leave them a fortune?
This brings up an excellent idea, maybe Loria was contacted a few days ago by the Prince of Nigeria with a financial transaction proposal.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
it all makes sense suddely
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
He's just going to sign everyone he can
then the feds are going to come down on him and they’ll have to void all the contacts… but hopefully (for them) after a title
Sign and trade Beltran for Wheeler?
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- WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US???? NOOOOOOOOOOBODYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- A fan of the Warriors and Lakers.
What team is Beltran going to go to anyways?
Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Madison Bumgarner,
L2WIN.
FFFFFFFfff...
I wonder if he even has a clue
His agent is all tied up in Pujols. If you know what I mean.
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 6, 2011 8:54 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
LookoutLanding Jeff Sullivan
According to new compensation rules, Mariners receive two Miguel Olivo unintentional walks for Josh Bard signing elsewhere
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
OT
Is it just me or does this New Years Eve movie make anyone else want to kill themselves? Who pays money to see that shit?
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
I can’t wait for “Flag Day” starring eight B-listers.
Bruce Bochy would like you to look at the career numbers and stop complaining.
Bob Howry's #1 (and only) fan!!!
The Merkin Valdez of McCovey Chronicles!!!!!!
Good Friday is going to be a real downer, though.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
I will probably end up seeing it with my wife.
She drug me to Valentines Day too
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
you are a better man than I
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
Why do all romantic comedies now seem to require about 8 different couples to be involved?
The first six innings are overrated.
To keep you from realizing how incredibly far fetched the storylines are.
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
Those are porn movies
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Sometimes you can watch those with your significant other.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:07 PM PST up reply actions
“Tonight’s romantic comedy is about a pizza delivery.”
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 9:08 PM PST up reply actions
“Well I don’t have any money to pay for it.”
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
brown chicken brown cow
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:10 PM PST up reply actions
At least she had the decency to drug you first.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 8:57 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The last movie my BF and I saw together was a midnight showing of Iron Man 2.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:59 PM PST up reply actions
No wait I lied. We saw X-Men: First Class together. He took me for my birthday. <3
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:59 PM PST up reply actions
That movie was pretty cool. I loved Hugh Jackman.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 9:00 PM PST up reply actions
I don't understand why they decide to create plotholes in movies that were made before it though.
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
Explain. I wasn’t paying a ton of attention to plottiness.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
Umm, look below.
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
Like Professor X meeting Wolverine, but in the original movies has no clue who that guy is,
Like Hank McCoy creating Cerebro and not him and Magneto.
Then if you go into the Origins movie, Professor X could still walk at the end of that when Cyclops was a boy, whereas in the end of first class he was already paralyzed, and Emma Frost was a young girl in that movie, but in First Class she is a grown up lady.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
The Origins movie was so terrible that I wipe it from my memory.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:10 PM PST up reply actions
I am pretty sure the Deadpool movie is going to pretend it never happened.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I’m thankful for that because I’m over Ryan Reynolds in comic book movies.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
Pretty sure they still want to cast him though. And he is perfect for the role and is a huge Deadpool fanboy
by WhatsAMataHari on Dec 6, 2011 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
I think he is already signed on.
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
Why does he have to make such terrible movies?
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 9:15 PM PST up reply actions
IDEK. I used to really like him. I had no interest in the Green Lantern at all, and it was only partially due to him.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:16 PM PST up reply actions
I heard bad things about Green Lantern
but I finally watched it and I did not think it was that bad. I think the comic fans really hated it, because they totally neutered Parallax.
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
Oh hell why is it posting twice?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:15 PM PST up reply actions
i do kind of feel like
XMFC is supposed to start everything over
and they just couldn’t resist bringing in Jackman
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.
Exactly.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
Well if that's true thats fine
But it’s still weird when you look at it all. And wasn’t first class originally written as Origins: Magneto?
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
A lot of the material from the Magneto movie was written into XMFC, yeah.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:17 PM PST up reply actions
Oooooh.
I never say Origins, so there’s that. And I can definitely see Professor X forgetting that encounter with Wolverine. The Cerebro thing is yeah.
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by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 9:13 PM PST up reply actions
origins sucked
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. It's a pretty shitty movie.
I like Liev Schriber though.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I find him to be one of the most attractive actors in Hollywood
And I don’t know why.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
He’s hot, not gonna lie.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:26 PM PST up reply actions
hugh jackman is hotter
he can sing!!!!
he’s going to play Valjean!
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.
yes I am in!
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:28 PM PST up reply actions
disappointed about russell crowe as javert though
especially after there was the suggestion of paul bettany
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.
LOL RUSSEL CROWE?
Fightin’ round the world! the world! fightin’ round the world!
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."
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The beginning (the opening scene/montage) was cool and the 70s/80s commando sequence was decent. Everything after was pretty shit.
by WhatsAMataHari on Dec 6, 2011 9:24 PM PST up reply actions
I’m so mad they criminally underused Agent Zero and Daniel Henney. And Taylor Kitsch. Seriously so many fine men and awesome characters and it was still a shitshow. I can’t even fathom how they messed it up.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:27 PM PST up reply actions
I know. I was sooooooo excited when I saw the character/cast list come out. And then it was shit.
by WhatsAMataHari on Dec 6, 2011 9:29 PM PST up reply actions
It went the Mortal Kombat 2 route with their characters
LOOK AT ALL THESE CHARACTERS! AND THAT’S THEIR SCREEN TIME! BYE NOW!
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
Exactly. But it generally wasn’t even a cool cameo. I mean Ryan Reynolds as pre-Deadpool Wade Wilson got some good one liners, but then he and most of the other cool characters were killed off senselessly.
If you need Red Shirts Hollywood, create your own!
by WhatsAMataHari on Dec 6, 2011 9:32 PM PST up reply actions
I enjoyed it quite a bit. My BF took me to see X-Men because I’d been going on and on and on about Emma Frost, Sebastian Shaw, and Beast as main characters for about a year before the movie came out and he was smiling and nodding the whole time. He puts up with a lot of my obsessive crap. Bless his heart.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
SAMUEL WE ARE GOING TO GO SEE GIRATINA AND THE SKY WARRIOR RIGHT NOW AND THEN WE MIGHT WATCH IT AGAIN NO TIME FOR SHOES LET’S GO
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Dec 6, 2011 9:05 PM PST up reply actions
This is how our conversations usually go. Howie gets an A.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:07 PM PST up reply actions
We just went to The Muppets on Sunday.
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
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Hubby & I went to see The Muppets.
FTR, I am female and I HATE romcoms.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
me too
I was pissed they lovey dovied up LotR
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Idiotic and senseless use of screen time that was needed for other things.
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
by Ott on Dec 6, 2011 9:03 PM PST up reply actions
I am also female and I also hate romcoms. I really want to see The Muppets!
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:03 PM PST up reply actions
Perfect date movie. It’s bottled happiness
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
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I fear Giant Steps (aka Boyfriend von Current Events) is a plebe and doesn’t know/care about the Muppets, so if he bails on me I will go by myself. Sometimes I talk about stuff from the 80s and he has no idea what I’m saying.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:12 PM PST up reply actions
You don't need to know the history of the muppets really, it recaps everything for you
and it’s more a movie about dreams.
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
Plus lots of stupid jokes, metacommentary and crazy cameos. And fun songs.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
Yes. Yes yes.
Dave Grohl may have been my favorite cameo.
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
He was the Moopets version of Animal.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I didn’t even notice.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
I laughed especially loud cause he was back to being a drummer.
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
Also there was like 10 people in our whole theater.
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
Whoa. I saw it opening weekend and the place was packed. Tons of young parents introducing their children to the Muppets.
It was great. Like having the place to ourselves.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I was the only person cracking up during his musical performance. And there was more than 10 people in the theater.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
I laughed. I think the other 9 people did too.
Then when they showed areal views of the streets and the Cars 2 billboard this little kid kept yelling “CARS 2!”
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
Me & my sis took our kids to see Cars 2 at that theater (El Capitan) on 4th of July. If only they were filming that day, I’m kind of a muppet of a man.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Jason Seigal muppet creeped me right the fuck out.
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
But that’s why it’s so awesome.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
You said on the faces of McC that without the beard your boyfriend looks 12. Maybe he’s younger than you think he is.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I’m dancing on the line already, based on the age appropriate dating formula: half your age plus seven. I’m almost 30, so it’s 15+7=22 is my cutoff age. He’s 23. Any younger and I’d be in cougar territory.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:25 PM PST up reply actions
My wife is not into a lot of movies, so I drag her to a fair share of ones she does not want to see.
It’s only fair I repay in kind.
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
that crap is still at #1 ?
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I watched part of that for the first time ever the other day when a BP article linked to it. It was some weird “baseball” scene with this awful slow motion thing doing and what on earth was whatever her name was doing with that wind-up?? I can’t even remember what the original article was about.
I lost so many brain cells that day.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
Film Critic Hulk’s takedown of Twilight was pretty good.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
I want to throw up every time I see the TV spots for that film. And that’s not the traveler’s sickness talking.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 8:58 PM PST up reply actions
Well terrible yes. Equally terrible? Nah. I wouldn’t take a whole bottle of sleeping pills before going to The Sitter. Just one or two.
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
For crying out loud, yes. I don’t like Jonah Hill anyway, and the movie looks stupid and needlessly vulgar and gross. I enjoy a no-brain gross-out comedy from time to time, but that movie ain’t it.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:04 PM PST up reply actions
I love when Rosenthal tweets stuff and its immediately refuted
MikeDiGiovanna Mike DiGiovanna
Spoke to one prominent AL GM, whose response to #Angels’ rumored pursuit of Pujols was: "No way.
nickcafardo Nick Cafardo
Cubs definitely not in on pujols
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
its the giants
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.
Sabean is going to be pissed that someone dared suggest he might be spending the owners’ money. Next up: “We are not in on Pujols. N-O-T. Is that clear enough for you?”
I'm as tall as Mel. Why can't I hit 500 home runs?
by Ott on Dec 6, 2011 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
/Pujols signs with Giants, 7 years $126 million.
/hits .270
/Zito wins Cy Young pitching for the Yankees
Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Madison Bumgarner,
L2WIN.
FFFFFFFfff...
Luis Pujols
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LOL
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 6, 2011 9:03 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Beckett did this before.. with Derek Jeter..
I’m not posting the pic of him in a Giants uniform.
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
Don Carlos
Poverty is being screeched from the Book Depository to the Bay, but who knows for sure.
If Beltran is still out there with no 3 year deal on the table, maybe something happens.
They got him a leadoff hitter in Pagan, a guy he moved to RF for and from his hometown. They got Melky, who you could argue is an improvement over Ross, but definitely an improvement over Rowand. That’s what Don Carlos asked for.
I almost guessed this trade in a fanpost about avoiding signing Coco Crisp. Just missed the throw in of Torres. I love Torres, I hope he does well in NYC. Angel Pagan is an underrated, pretty good player though.
Its early in the offseason, until somebody signs Beltran, anything can happen.
Do you need any cash to help out?
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Dec 6, 2011 10:53 PM PST up reply actions
Hanley Ramirez said he doesnt wanna move to 3B
You follow me, I'll follow you --------> http://ayeyooojerm.tumblr.com/
- SF GIants Baseball 2011 = *sigh* Home of 6 World Series Titles
- SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ??? Home of the 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
- WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US???? NOOOOOOOOOOBODYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- A fan of the Warriors and Lakers.
CAIN FOR FIELDER!!!!!!!!
oh wait…
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
huff what?
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
DEREK JETER = G.O.A.T
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- SF GIants Baseball 2011 = *sigh* Home of 6 World Series Titles
- SF 49ers Football 2011-2012 = ??? Home of the 5.5 Super Bowl Champs ( Aaron Rodgers should of been a Niner)
- WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US???? NOOOOOOOOOOBODYY!!!!!!!!!!!!
- A fan of the Warriors and Lakers.
To which the Marlins will respond:
“About which we do not care very much”
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
You deserved better than the Giants anyway, Andres. They did you a favor.
JaymeeSireCSN Jaymee Sire
Of course, just to further demonstrate what a great guy Torres is, he told me he hopes me and my family are well before talking about trade.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:15 PM PST reply actions
I actually hope Jaymee has marriage issues so I can swoop
douche move?
"I don't get out of bed, for a million bucks!"
- Edgar Renteria or a hooker bribing a family man?
by Scooter Ellis on Dec 6, 2011 10:02 PM PST up reply actions
It's your call, man
I mean, even chipmunks need love too.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 10:03 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
We’ll see…Andres had a ROUGH 2011.
Godspeed.
Where have you gone John Johnstone?
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Dec 6, 2011 10:36 PM PST up reply actions
Shhh
Don’t give em any ideas
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Dec 6, 2011 9:18 PM PST up reply actions
So who plays 2nd after Sanchez does his thing?
Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Madison Bumgarner,
L2WIN.
FFFFFFFfff...
Winn at 2nd
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
What do you mean?
Sanchez is good for 162 games and will hit like the former batting champion he is!
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
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrround into double play!
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
lol 1100 comments
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.
We have to send Torres some flowers or something.
Let him know how much we care.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
A good ol’ McCoven freak out
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
NEEDS MOAR RAGE
Like the Fred Lewis civil wars
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Or the Sanchez trade
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Or the Denker DFA
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
Or Bumgarner getting called up when he still hadn't rediscovered his velocity
AND the GDT that night. Every pitch was pretty damn tense.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Or the accidental Romo DFA
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
Or the Cabrera trade
If we want to go more recent
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
The first one
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
TORRES
BVCE
XMEN
SHITTY OFFENSE
NO MIDDLE OF THE ORDER BAT
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
DR HISTORY TOO. I’m doing my part to bring gravitas to this operation.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:25 PM PST up reply actions
BELT OR GTFO
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:24 PM PST reply actions
Holy Crap - Mighty Mighty Bosstones released a new CD today
/adds to Christmas list
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Dude. I was so into them in high school. /old
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:28 PM PST up reply actions
Best news all day
Can’t wait to get this!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
The crack reporting of Ken Rosenthal
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
hehe balls
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:28 PM PST up reply actions
multi-colored!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:29 PM PST up reply actions
I mention balls, Lars shows up. The world makes sense once again.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:30 PM PST up reply actions
It is my version of the bat signal
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:32 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
<3
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 9:54 PM PST up reply actions
Conversation with my daughter on Saturday while decorating the tree:
Me, because I’m 12: Okay, time to put the BALLS on the tree
Kid: snicker
Me: What?
Kid: “Balls”
Me: Why is that funny?
Kid: You know. Balls. B-O-Y-S. Balls.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
And that was when I put in my first application to own a gun.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I’m dying over here. A+
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:33 PM PST up reply actions
Your kids are awesome.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
LOL
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
squeeeee!
I want one!
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
Aubrey Huff: "Let's Get Weird"
by slackersphere17 on Dec 6, 2011 9:43 PM PST up reply actions
Right after this picture was taken
Someone tied a hook around Ken’s head and used him as a tree decoration.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:45 PM PST up reply actions
Two Towers on Starz
Nerding out wicked haad right now.
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
Darren Ford just posted a farewell message to the Giants on his Facebook wall.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:31 PM PST reply actions
It will just get thrown out.
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 6, 2011 9:32 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
LOL. Damn
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
More like picked off
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Sad day for me because I interviewed him about a week after he was traded here. Really nice fellow.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:32 PM PST up reply actions
I really like the idea of him. The reality was less valuable.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 9:41 PM PST up reply actions
Wut?
I really want to thank the Sanfransico Giants and the great fans for being behind me through everything. I will never forget my first time putting on a major league jersey in the club house thinking everything was a dream .I will always thank GOD and the Giants for a great time and most of all a world series….. Thank you and GOD BLESS…..
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
IT'S A BLESS
I’m going to miss Torres so much.
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
off topic..
I just bought LOTR Extended Blue-ray Editions.
Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Madison Bumgarner,
L2WIN.
FFFFFFFfff...
Nice.
My friends and I once watched all three extended editions back to back. While drinking spiced mead. It was amazing.
by WhatsAMataHari on Dec 6, 2011 9:39 PM PST up reply actions
I have done this...
…minus the mead. Now I feel like I missed out on something important.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
I wants.
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
Great stuff
Can’t really watch the not-Extended Version LOTR anymore
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
The movies were so long and boring to begin with. Why extend them?
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
by El Person on Dec 6, 2011 9:47 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Isn’t it past your bedtime, young man?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Because it means another couple of hours of Howard Shore.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
I listen to that soundtrack for study music
In fact, I’m listening to it right now. LOL Studying!
by free f.p. #14 on Dec 6, 2011 9:56 PM PST up reply actions
I started listening to RoTK after I typed that post…
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
BUT THE THIRD ONE HAD THAT SMILEY GUY
I totally understand why they left him out. It’s supposed to be this tense scene where humanity is about to ride into insurmountable forces, and everyone in the theater would have been laughing their asses off at that guy.
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
wait what scene is 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.
The Mouth of Sauron extended scene from RotK
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
That was a funny scene
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
It doesn’t seem like I took it the way that the book portrayed it.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
He’s a miserable syncophantic creature puffed up with false pride. There’s something ridiculous about it. Not sure if it should really be funny, though.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
What happens to him in the book?
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Get's his head cleaved off in the movie.
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
Aw
No fun
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Then the Messenger of Mordor laughed no more. His face was twisted with amazement and anger to the likeness of some wild beast that, as it crouches on its prey, is smitten on the muzzle with a stinging rod. Rage filled him and his mouth slavered, and shapeless sounds of fury came strangling from his throat. But he looked at the fell faces of the Captains and their deadly eyes, and fear overcame his wrath. He gave a great cry, and turned, leaped upon his steed, and with his company galloped madly back to Cirith Gorgor. But as they went his soldiers blew their horns in signal long arranged; and even before they came to the gate Sauron sprang his trap.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
Related...not really.
At the uprising of the great light the servants of Morgoth fled into Angband, and Fingolfin passed unopposed through the fastness of Dor Daedeloth while his foes hid beneath the earth. Then the Elves smote upon the gates of Angband, and the challenge of their trumpets shook the towers of Thangorodrim; and Maedhros heard them amid his torment and cried aloud, but his voice was lost in the echoes of the stone.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
Then Fingolfin beheld (as it seemed to him) the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redress of all their houses; and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar. Thus he came alone to Angband’s gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Last of all Húrin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Húrin cried: ‘Aurë entuluva! Day shall come again!’ Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive, by the command of Morgoth, for the Orcs grappled him with their hands, which clung to him still though he hewed off their arms; and ever their numbers were renewed, until at last he fell buried beneath them. Then Gothmog bound him and dragged him to Angband with mockery.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
with mockery?
I think I used to throw that party.
Yep.
Laughed my ass off when I first saw it. Seeing it in motion and talking is hilarious.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
The look on Aragorn’s face is priceless when that guy comes out of the gate.
Matt Cain, Tim Lincecum, and Madison Bumgarner,
L2WIN.
FFFFFFFfff...
Last two tweets in my timeline
JimBowdenESPNxm JIM BOWDEN
Source: Pujols down to Marlins and Cardinals period.
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply
Retweeted by mlbtraderumors
jonmorosi Jon Morosi
Latest on Albert Pujols at FOXSports.com: on-msn.com/s4pkNN Story with @Ken_Rosenthal, includes #Angels pursuit and DeWitt quotes.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Deadspins daily hot stove roundup always includes a link
Ken Rosenthal throws shit against the wall
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
Marlins super-team wins 2012 World Series, immediately disbands when it turns out Loria’s spending was driven by Nevin Shapiro’s Ponzi scheme. Third Marlins’ championship, third complete off-season overhaul immediately following that.
Giants sign cast-off fat closer. Heath Bell. ALL THE PIECES FIT
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:43 PM PST up reply actions
DEAR MR. LORIA
I HAVE CONTACT YOU WITH GREAT FINANCIER OPPORTUNITY. I REPRESENT A GROUP OF INVESTORS FROM CHINA MAINLAND. THEY HAVE GREAT INTEREST IN BASEBALL FORTUNES AND HAVE AUTHORIZED ME TO ADVANCE YOU UP TO 300 MILLION DOLLARS UNITED STATES.
ALL WE NEED TO WIRE SAID FUNDS TO YOU IS 500 THOUSANDS DOLLARS UNITED STATES FOR RETAINER AND ELECTRONIC WIRE TRANSFERS COMMUNICATIONS NUMBERS.
MONEY WILL BE DELIVERED UPON JANUARY THE FIRST OF THE YEAR, BUT YOURS TO SPEND.
THANKS FOR THE DOING BUSINESS.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
We ever find out who bid on Nakajima?
I kinda liked that non-move.
Proud of both my adopted son, Baggs, and my ward, Ryan LOLlis.
That makes….one.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 9:46 PM PST up reply actions
I forgot, this is “Pathological Infatuation with Andres Torres” board
I’m really going to miss his bat…not.
FOR THE SWARM!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:51 PM PST up reply actions
I’m going to miss you, Andres. You will always be GIANT in my mind.
Corollary, Angel the Giant just isn’t nearly as cool a nickname.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
Joe Angel is long gone.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:47 PM PST up reply actions
Thank gods.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
HE IS IN THE GONE COLUMN!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:50 PM PST up reply actions
YOU CAN WAVE HIM BYE-BYE!!
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
crap i gotta work tomorrow. decide!
joecapMARLINS joe capozzi
I’m told no ultimatum from #Marlins to albert. Will b either fish or cards. Coming down to wire, possibly before sunrise.
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by sadison bummedgarner on Dec 6, 2011 9:47 PM PST reply actions
Sunrise, when Loria will turn to stone.
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
I know right?
When the Sharks game is over I’m going to bed. I’ll have to find out in the morning.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
very
this whole year has been annoying, so I guess I should just stop expecting anything to change until 2012 comes around.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
I'm really trying to keep with it
but the Sharks are so frustrating to watch.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
NY Times story
says Pagan was a ‘divisive’ figure in the clubhouse, had a bad attitude reflected in his defense. Great news.
I can only be nice to one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.
wow new york sports media throwing someone under the bus for a bad attitude
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.
So right
10 errors was the NY Times’ fault
I can only be nice to one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.
by GiantMalcontent on Dec 6, 2011 9:51 PM PST up reply actions
lol errors
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.
FIELDING PERCENTAGE!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
but look
there’s no question he had a poor defensive year. but it was out of character for him and i dont’ think 10 errors / -17 UZR is his true talent level.
nor does a bad defensive year necessarily reflect some kind of bad attitude or whatever.
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.
Paging Alex Sanchez.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:50 PM PST up reply actions
hey!
when are you going to be stateside again?
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by sadison bummedgarner on Dec 6, 2011 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
Hi Sad!
I return to the Best Coast Sunday night. I change planes in Philly and then a nearly seven hour flight (due to the time zones) back home. Yuck.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:53 PM PST up reply actions
sweet!
how was it?
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by sadison bummedgarner on Dec 6, 2011 9:54 PM PST up reply actions
The DR is lovely and the people are lovely. I met a lot of cool people and worked hard. But I’m ready to come home. I’m tired of being the clueless foreigner speaking a fucked up hybrid of Dominican Spanish and what I learned in the US. I’m also really lonely and it sucks. My roommate went back to New York three weeks ago and I’ve been on my own most of the time since she left. Since I’m really social by nature, being alone has driven me a bit batty. I miss my friends and my boyfriend a lot, too.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 9:56 PM PST up reply actions
wat
“Why should I catch that ball? How come Beltran never catches it? He’s so selfish. "
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 9:51 PM PST up reply actions
ESPN story
Says that Pagan has a low baseball IQ and constantly missed the cutoff man.
Sounds all Rowandy.
Not soon enough
On the other hand, I’m still holding out hope for more offensive upgrades.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Don't laugh at me!
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Jon_Heyman Jon Heyman
Nothing decided yet but a good number of executives still seem to think #marlins will win pujols derby.
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
this shit is fuckin ridiculous
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's like poetry
it repeats
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 really have absolutely no idea where any of this is coming from. Even if well-heeled Miamians were lining up left and right to pay cash up front for ten seasons worth of luxury suites, the team still wouldn’t have this kind of money right away that Loria’s throwing around, could it? Is this just Loria trying to placate taxpayers by showing that he’s not just going to sit on this publicly-funded ballpark?
by non sequitur on Dec 6, 2011 10:01 PM PST up reply actions
Now that everyone knows he’s turning a huge profit, he needs to start spending money.
"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."
Oh, so those Wikileaked documents last year?
by non sequitur on Dec 6, 2011 10:04 PM PST up reply actions
And the comment of the day goes to....
So I guess trading with Brian Sabean is the new market inefficiency
by cjmulrain on Dec 6, 2011 9:35 PM PST reply actions
from Amazing Avenue
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Alderson's really cornered that market
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
has anyone fond the MCcoven brick yet?
McCovey Chronicles - The repetition is awesome. Proud Adoptive Parent of BRETT PILL.
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by sadison bummedgarner on Dec 6, 2011 9:58 PM PST reply actions
I fondled it.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Dec 6, 2011 10:00 PM PST up reply actions
Wow
Goaltender for the Wild has got to be fearing for his job right now.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
he’s probably got too much of a headache to care.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Fangraph says...
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/angel-pagan-heads-to-san-francisco/
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
So we are back to the ton of shots, few goals Sharks
Ok. Seems like early to mid-season Sharks of last year.
frustrating
if I wanted to watch frustrating, low scoring, losses… I’d watch the Giants
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
It was kind of like that game when the Giants lost to Sosa.
Rookie goaltender, lots of chances, nothing.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
fearthefin Jason Plank
Looks like that Hackett kid can hack it.
by WhatsAMataHari on Dec 6, 2011 10:07 PM PST up reply actions
LOL Mythbusters
Launched a canonball all over Dublin.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
I read this as launched a moneyball all over Dublin. I suppose it would work. There’s a Dublin in the Least Bay.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 10:08 PM PST up reply actions
BALLS!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 10:08 PM PST up reply actions
B-O-Y-S. Balls.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
by can of corn on Dec 6, 2011 10:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I’m still cracking up that she spelled boys but not balls.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 10:10 PM PST up reply actions
That was the best. And then she got all shy about it and ran off to her room, giggling all the way.
My husband just stood there slackjawed.
It was an awesome day.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
That’s the one.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
I always forget these dudes do stuff in the Bay Area.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 10:10 PM PST up reply actions
With the frequency they mention San Francisco or Alameda that is pretty surprising.
by WhatsAMataHari on Dec 6, 2011 10:10 PM PST up reply actions
It’s one of those things I have on in the background. Boyfriend von CurrentEvents watches it with closer detail than I.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 10:12 PM PST up reply actions
You must be from Ireland, because when I look at you, my penis is Dublin
"I don't get out of bed, for a million bucks!"
- Edgar Renteria or a hooker bribing a family man?
by Scooter Ellis on Dec 6, 2011 10:12 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I need to steal this.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 6, 2011 10:13 PM PST up reply actions
Currently residing in San Jose.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Dec 7, 2011 10:27 PM PST up reply actions
touche
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Dec 6, 2011 10:48 PM PST up reply actions
hahaahaha
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved solar powered broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Dec 6, 2011 10:56 PM PST up reply actions
I would do this.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
SPRING IS IN THE AIR!!!
And I say that without irony.
>
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 6, 2011 10:21 PM PST reply actions
It’s been in the 70s-80s all week in SLO.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 10:22 PM PST up reply actions
It is about 30 degrees outside right now.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Dec 6, 2011 10:25 PM PST up reply actions
I sort of miss cold weather. We’ve had, like, 3 cold days since I got here. The weather is exactly the same every freakin 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 6, 2011 10:27 PM PST up reply actions
yep......
:(
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by sadison bummedgarner on Dec 6, 2011 10:26 PM PST up reply actions
If he doesn't hit
I hope February is next to be released: Huff.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I don't think I've ever had a baseball calendar without several guys who were not on the team by the time I used it.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
Guys, super quick so I don't get embarrassed.
What does CP3 mean in baseball chatter.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
On second thought, that was a perfect opportunity to feed you something stupid….maybe I did….
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
I’m still receptive. Give me your blurst.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
That is...
So very anticlimactic.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Go Napoli/Bayern Munich/Basel!
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Dec 6, 2011 10:38 PM PST reply actions
Hubby was just imitating
Timmy in the dugout imitating Torres’ running. And I burst into tears.
Just play a Brandon or two, come on!
There's overflow?
On a Tuesday pm in December, regarding the trade of non-stars?
You people are animals.
> > , , ,
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Dec 7, 2011 12:04 AM PST up reply actions
Been trying to avoid the offseason rosterbation, because I get enough of the torture during the season. But tonight I saw on a friend’s facebook that her favorite player Torres was traded to New York. I quickly ran to McC expecting Reyes(!!).
Did you guys know Reyes already signed with some expansion team in Miami? What the hell is going on in baseball?!?!
Nate Schierholtz wasn't born, he was built.
Sabean philosophy
This offseason is another indication that given a pile of money, Sabean would rather split it into even piles rather than lopsided ones. He’s rather have two six million dollar men than an 11 and a replacement level player.
This was most apparent with the Edgardo+Ray Ray replacement for Kent. This season he’s gone with Melky + Pagan instead of Beltran. It makes it even more obvious he would have never made the call to shell out for Zito.
I think as fans we’d probably vote for the uneven splits. But that isn’t necessarily better.
"Your curses do not compare to those of Houston fans or Detroit fans, and especially not to those of fans from the northside of Chicago. You are not Hamlet. You are Valerie Bertinelli. Your victim act is schlocky, and totally unconvincing. You fancy yourself tormented. You are merely insecure."
-- Scott Burton to Red Sox fans, 6/12/02
http://espn.go.com/magazine/burton_20020612.html
Surprised ...
I expected much more cynicism in the OP. Now I do not know what to think about this trade. Don’t make me think for myself please!!
My wife is going to be pissed.
Do I tell her before or after the holidays?
Also: I love you Andre. Good luck. You will always have a place here by the Bay.
Suarez, el Pistoliero. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the Rectification of the Vuldronaii, el Pistoliero came as a large moving Torb! Then, during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zulls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day, I can tell you!
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