Community Projection: Pat Burrell
by Grant Brisbee on Feb 9, 2011 9:37 AM PST
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When I think of Pat Burrell and the 2010 Giants, here’s what I think of:
| PA | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| facing Jonathan Broxton | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.500 | 3.500 |
This is because the San Francisco Giants won the World Series1. Had the Giants lost to Texas, this is how we would likely remember Pat Burrell:
| Year | Tm | Series | Opp | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | SFG | WS | TEX | 4 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | .000 | .133 | .000 | .133 |
The indelible postseason memory: Burrell waving at a Cliff Lee pitch and asking Jeff Kellogg if it was a strike. When Kellogg answered affirmatively, Burrell mouthed, "Wow." After putting the Giants on his back in the second half, he looked like he was swinging a 15,193-oz. bat throughout the entire World Series. He looked utterly lost and broken.
The indelible regular season memory: Burrell hitting a home run in every eighth inning in which the Giants were tied or trailing. Look it up. Every single eighth inning.
So which Burrell should the Giants expect for 2011? The one-man cavalry of the regular season, or the husk of a slugger who flailed around in the playoffs? Please note that this is the internet, so it has to be one extreme or the other. We can’t just take the middle ground. That’s no fun.
PECOTA shows more Rays and less Giants in his projection, spitting out a slugging percentage that’s a little over .400. And that durn computer didn’t even watch the World Series. There’s something about a mid-30s, one-tool slugger who almost played himself out of the league in the year-and-a-half prior to the Giants acquiring him that projection systems just hate. Jesus Guzman is projected to outhit Burrell, according to PECOTA. Yes, that Jesus Guzman.
Pause for dramatic effect.
And if Burrell isn't hitting, he's not a good player. He wasn't glove-up-the-nose bad in left, but his range is obviously limited. He can't really run. Here's here to hit dingerz and take walks. Once he stops doing either, he's nigh useless. But I can't just write the guy off because of a 13 at-bat sample size of misery. I certainly can't predict a complete implosion because that's exactly what happened in three-quarters of the past couple of seasons. Well, I can probably do that last one pretty easily, but that's no fun.
The best part about Burrell being back is that there are no illusions that he's going to play 160 games for the next three seasons because of a bulky contract. He's here for part-time money -- Jeff Suppan money, even -- and if the postseason struggles carry over, well, the Giants have a one-dimensional lefty-masher off the bench. He's even underpaid for that role. The offseason went something like this, then:
Burrell's agent: We're opening up the bidding.
Every AL Team: We are interested.
Burrell: No DHing. I don't like it.
Every AL Team: We are absolutely not interested.
Burrell's agent: Fine. We like the National League better anyways.
Every NL Team except the Dodgers, Giants, and Padres: We'd rather have you in our IT department than in left field.
Burrell's agent: Uh, well, I'm sure you can start a bidding war between a couple of teams, at least.
Padres: Yeah, maybe we have a little interest.
Burrell's agent: Let's see...if you were to play in Petco Park, you would hit .189 with two home runs in 559 at-bats. That'd be with an OPS+ of 119, but I'm not sure if that's good for a walk year. Hold tight while I go to the bathroom, and we'll discuss this offer.
Dodgers: We are interested in your services. Absolutely. Here's a sack of cash.
Burrell: Hey, cool. Here's something for you, Dodgers. Grabs crotch menacingly. Drinks Bud Light from a can. Throws can at the Dodgers. Hits on Rhianna. Grabs crotch menacingly again, waggles it in general direction of Los Angeles. Flips off the Dodgers. Mutters something under his breath about Juan Uribe.
Giants: Uh, would you come back for $200K?
Burrell: Yes. Yes, I would.
Giants: Oh, wait, that's against the rules. Here's a million.
Burrell's agent: Okay, I'm back. Now I...wait, why are you shaking hands?
Maybe it wasn't a Mechian level of sacrifice, but it's pretty impressive that to stay with the Giants, he's taking a little above the minimum with no guarantee of a starting job. Here's to Pat Burrell, prodigal son, who came to the Giants when they needed a bat and gave them a division.
Pat Burrell
AB: 422
HR: 18
AVG: .252
OBP: .359
SLG: .463
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I haven't seen a projection that sexy since Princess Leia
by Every6thDay on Feb 9, 2011 9:43 AM PST reply actions 6 recs
1983 or 2011 Princess Leia?
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Feb 9, 2011 9:55 AM PST up reply actions
How dare you.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
ICWYDT
Help us, Pat the Bat. You’re our only hope.
Anagram of "SF Giants World Series Champs" = SHARP, ORGASMIC, ENDLESS SWIFT
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Feb 9, 2011 9:59 AM PST up reply actions
Pretty sure that Paddy would misconstrue her entreaty. “You just got Force’d by Pat The Bat.”
by Rorsavelt on Feb 9, 2011 6:30 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
/NL just fucked Pat Burrell
AB: 475
HR: 23
AVG: .282
OBP: .363
SLG: .481
...Dr. Vader will see you now.
I hope you are correct, lame one, and that around 80 BB’s are included there. If so, he would score 75-80 runs even hitting 6th.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 9, 2011 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
AB: 300
HR: 10
AVG: .278
OBP: .340
SLG: .450
Belt gets called up and replaces Huff at 1st base and Huff replaces Burrell in LF.
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
I'm on the Twitters
2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
This is closer to what I would actually expect.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 9, 2011 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
26 cocktail waitresses
6 flight attendants
7 bartenders
4 real estate agents
2 bloggers’ moms
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
by bgunn on Feb 9, 2011 9:46 AM PST reply actions 15 recs
Same, although I’m pretty sure he can bag a couple more bartenders than that
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Feb 9, 2011 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
Cut him some slack. He’s not as fast as he used to be.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 10:17 AM PST up reply actions
sounds like a down year for the machine - must be in a platoon role. BTW, I think your "bloggers' moms" stat is quite conservative.
Hell, he’ll have that before he gets out of spring training.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Feb 9, 2011 5:30 PM PST up reply actions
Dude already is and will be a Machine
wait…
Tommy Joseph is the Dingerzball Wizard
by SoFa King Mike on Feb 9, 2011 9:47 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
AB: 411
HR: 15
AVG: .259
OBP: .348
SLG: .470
Even though Burrell didn’t hit in the World Series, he was putting together some good at-bats. With as many hacktastic players we have all watched over the years, it was pretty refreshing to see a guy who knows how to work a count.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 9:48 AM PST reply actions
TAINT PAINTER
AB: 379
HR:14
AVG:.239
OBP:.355
SLG:.488
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
AB: 444
HR: 24
AVG: .255
OBP: .355
SLG: .475
To be honest, if Pat Burrell is going to get out I want him to K. Dude is insanely easy to double up.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
Possibly, that should be the plan of “attack” for Sandoval and Tejada, as well.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
not Panda 4G
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Feb 9, 2011 5:20 PM PST up reply actions
AB: 325
HR: 14
AVG: .245
OBP: .360
SLG: .440
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
Twiitter: @gobroks
Blog: GMPotential.blogspot
Oh and -7.5 in LF
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
Twiitter: @gobroks
Blog: GMPotential.blogspot
by Gobroks on Feb 9, 2011 10:42 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
The answer to the question of who would’ve chugged Bud Light at the 2002 parade is obviously Tom Goodwin.
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
No, Aurilia would have cracked a ’59 Haut Brion and savored it.
by Grant Brisbee on Feb 9, 2011 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
Kent.
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
Twiitter: @gobroks
Blog: GMPotential.blogspot
I just looked up the 2002 roster on BR
Troy Brohawn. I remember that name…I feel like I thought he was really good.
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
Twiitter: @gobroks
Blog: GMPotential.blogspot
Brohawn sounds like a made up term of endearment that massive douches call each other.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
I could see that
Like people on Jersey shore calling each other that name
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
Twiitter: @gobroks
Blog: GMPotential.blogspot
It just goes in their Brostension dictionary, just a few entries before Broseph.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
Wassup, brohawn?
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
Totally being oppressed in Brohannesberg. The brotidian slog is becoming a bit much, bro.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
should have said bropressed
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Reminds me of the Union Carbide disaster in Bropal.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
It’s brofoundly disturbing.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, but he didn’t mention the Cherbropyl catastrophe.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Or Septembro 11th.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Browanda?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
Tabroma
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The Broleventh will never be brogotten.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I think it’s fun to pronounce union like onion.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I think it’s fun to pronounce it like a mysteriously charged particle.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
Wendell, the Uncola Man?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
THE RIDERS OF BROHAN
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Feb 9, 2011 3:48 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
BROSIDON, KING OF THE BROCEAN
BROMETHEUS. BROUGHT STUNNER SHADES TO THE BROS.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
My D&D party went on this absurd side-quest which involved a tribe of satyrs. Our GM described them as “basically supernatural forest-dwelling frat boys,” and we promptly dubbed the three most talkative Chadocles, Tuckeros and Waynomedes.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Feb 9, 2011 3:57 PM PST up reply actions
Cool story, bro.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Man, you can’t tell me there’s not enough nerbz on this site for that to be relevant.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Feb 9, 2011 4:01 PM PST up reply actions
LIGHTNING BOLT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
If you killed the satyrs
and took their stuff, I’ll allow it.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 4:01 PM PST up reply actions
There were 30 of them pillaging that village
I killed 10 because that’s what the quest said, and left the other 20 to continue pillaging the village.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
The satyrs return home
“Hey, you’re missing ten satyrs.”
“We were attacked.”
“Did you call for help!? What’d you do after the attack?”
“Continue pillaging.”
I killed all 30, but still had only gotten 7 Pristine Satyr Eyeballs, so I had to wait for their children to grow.
It's Johnnie Walker inside.
by Lies and Perfidy on Feb 9, 2011 4:06 PM PST up reply actions
I call people “my brohan from the region of rohan.”
brospeak and nerdspeak at the same time!
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
by yankeessuck8991 on Feb 9, 2011 6:06 PM PST up reply actions
Aaron Fultz
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
All incorrect
Ryan Jensen
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Yeah, I could see Sadowski as a loveable protagonist in a Pixar movie. Like the chef guy in Ratatouille
Life is not about this Dirty Sanchez
Jeff Kent
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
I'm on the Twitters
2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
I think he’ll be closer to the regular season figures, but not necessarily matching them. He didn’t do much in the postseason while playing in philly if I recall correctly
Haha, Jon Dowd and R(oster) Player (of early NBA Live games) are the greatest video game sports heroes ever.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Feb 9, 2011 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
I still have ’04 and ’05 and play them both. Not at the same time though.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I think my greatest achievement in 05 was getting Woody to win the Cy Young.
I loved that game. Last video game I ever spent any time with.
I played it through the 2011 season. Like the Mayan calendar, I am worried that baseball ends after that.
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
it is indeed. i wanted something giants related without numbers and not like giantsfan4lyf.
and thus i went with an obscure white and fictional giant
What’s wrong with something like giantsfan4lyf???
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 1:31 PM PST up reply actions
LOL he used half of my name and half of yours, thought we were the same person. I might just change my username, though I don’t know how to do it.
I want to personalize mine.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
You’d have to make a new account.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 2:41 PM PST up reply actions
ah, really? fuck it. I guess I’m stuck with my Looks-Computer-Generated-Screename
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Now that the other 82 are gone, it shouldn’t be a problem.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
i didn’t think people really made such unique usernames- this is my first blog!
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I SWEAR! THE FIRST!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 3:00 PM PST up reply actions
I thought so – that game’s awesome.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 1:31 PM PST up reply actions
Didn't one game have his replacemnt as Joe Young?
I found it MIGHTY funny
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Feb 9, 2011 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
The MLB 2K series had that as a tribute to Joe Montana and Steve Young.
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Disappointed
Are you sure it’s not a tribute to a 20 foot silverback , who could probably play a mean left field
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
by slackersphere17 on Feb 9, 2011 5:34 PM PST up reply actions
I completely forgot that the Giants signed Jeff Suppan.
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Projection
AB: 415
HR: 20
AVG: .242
OBP: .350
SLG: .487
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By “it”, I assume you mean “a pulp”.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
He’s been wasting his talent as a pitcher.
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I would take that from Jeff Suppan in a heartbeat.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
Fuck. Ten seconds later than Grant.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
I still consider that as going at the same time. Since it happens rarely I think some leeway should be given.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Pat Burrell?
I’m still too excited about Elmer Dessens. I’ll “Carmelo” my way through this projection though for the good of the site.
AB: 350
HR: 13
AVG: .255
OBP: .340
SLG: .450
I think he’ll start the season off as a starter then slowly move to more of a bench player
AB: 322
HR: 13
AVG: .252
OBP: .339
SLG: .464
Rooting for the new Giants to be Stopgap Heroes.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
by SneakToBetterSeats on Feb 9, 2011 10:17 AM PST reply actions
With so much being made about his dislike of the DH role, I wonder how he’d take to the bat-off-the-bench role, if things end up playing out that way. I hope, if needed, making that kind of adjustment might come a bit easier after his positive experiences here last season. My vague and entirely useless prediction would be that a situation develops where Burrell is pushed into the pinch-hit specialist role, and he ends up doing pretty well with it eventually.
And if not, then I’m still okay with paying someone a million dollars to punch Aubrey Huff in excitement.
this is exactly what I have wondered more than once
At least the DH gets to bat 3-4 times per game. Sitting in the fog for 7 innings is probably not his idea of a good time, but like you I don’t see why he couldn’t do that.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 12:42 PM PST up reply actions
What was that quote from the town hall session?
“I’ll be here when they need me” or something along those lines.
I think he’s got a realistic view of his role and capacity in the coming year.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
This.
I think he’ll go on being the unofficial captain too. Bochy used him that way and it’s obvious the other guys regard him as a serious ball player.
Well – who is the hippie that’s happenin’ all over our town?
Tearin’ up chicks with the message that he lays down
Who is the coolest guy, what is, what am?
That’s fast-talkin’ – slow walkin’ – good-lookin’ Mohair Sam.
Chicks are makin; reservations for his lovin’ so fine
Screamin’ and shoutin’ he’s got ‘em all waitin’ in line
Who is the coolest guy, what is, what am?
That’s fast-talkin’ – slow walkin’ – good-lookin’ Mohair Sam.
Chicks are makin; reservations for his lovin’ so fine
Screamin’ and shoutin’ he’s got ‘em all waitin’ in line
Who is the coolest guy, what is, what am?
That’s fast-talkin’ – slow walkin’ – good-lookin’ Mohair Sam.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Pat Burrell’s OPS+ for the last three years is 109.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
Pat Burrell as a DH!
I Split HR BA OBP SLG OPS tOPS+
as LF 251 .259 .369 .489 .858 105
as DH 18 .209 .306 .348 .655 58
tOPS+ uses the players OPS as average.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
That DH line is embarrassing
to even READ. I can barely imagine how frustrated Burrell must’ve been.
PTB
AB: 376
AVG: .239
OBP: .343
SLG: .428
HR: 15
moar runz n stuff
by wanna Ishikawa? on Feb 9, 2011 10:32 AM PST reply actions
AB 386
HR 16
BA .254
OBP .365
SLG 423
"Don't trust anyone under the age of 30" - Brian Sabean
by Smotheredinhugs on Feb 9, 2011 10:48 AM PST reply actions
Mayans were off by 24 years
Apophis Asteroid is back in the news after a Russian report concluded it could hit Earth in 2036. They even have a date for the potential impact.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/09/apophis-asteroid-2036-video_n_820800.html
Someone call Bruce Willis!
Is that Mr. Horse?
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
REN & STIMPY!!!!!!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
would you like to buy som rubber nipples?
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Damn i miss that show, was awesome
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Please Don't Whizz on the Electric Fence.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
whew, thank goodness, now i'll die at what... 46 years old now
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Pfft. May 21, this year, brotches.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
kinda cool.
it would be cool to actually watch something like that. except for, you know, the death.
I am totally optimistic about The Bat.
AB: 398
HR: 20
BA: .243
OBP: .360
SLG: .450
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
In this line
We’ll have a nice problem in June when Pat is leading the team in HR and Belt is destroying the PCL.
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
Optimistic?
Or just plain crazy?
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 9, 2011 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
He had a 30 HR pace last year
with the Giants.
I honestly think it’s going to be tough to keep him under 500 AB’s I think he’ll be that valuable.
Which brings us back to “what do we do when Belt is going all .350/.450/.600 on the PCL?”
"Do you smell that Kenny? That's hard news. Notice the lack of fornicating horses."
I’m still bummed about 2002 too, but who from that team would have chugged Bud Light at 11:00 a.m. on a cable car in the parade?
KIRK RUETER
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
I had already completely forgotten that Burrell struggled in the World Series. Probably because it no longer matters. I’m glad he’s back, even though I have no clue how well he’ll do. If Belt comes up quickly, Burrell might end up with a lot less playing time through no fault of his own. Let’s say that’s the case:
AB 300
HR 11
BA: .240
OBP: .350
SLG: .420
Heck, that’s still worth a million bucks.
San Francisco Giants ***GLORY ACHIEVED 11/01/10***
OT: Tim Alderson
For those with espn insider, interesting article about young pitchers losing velocity that focuses on Tim Alderson:
http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/insider/news/story?id=6102459
by busterbarelyevenknowher on Feb 9, 2011 11:08 AM PST reply actions
Timmy and MadBum make a cameo as well.
by busterbarelyevenknowher on Feb 9, 2011 11:09 AM PST up reply actions
Mr. The Bat
AB: 383
HR: 13
BA: .260
OBP: .340
SLG: .410
Proud supporter of the Fightin' Hydrants.
by Little Napoleon on Feb 9, 2011 11:08 AM PST reply actions
The Yankees continuing to party like it's 2004
The Yankees have signed Eric Chavez to a minor league deal, according to WFAN’s Sweeny Murti. ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick reports that the deal is done and that Chavez will earn $1.5MM if he makes the big league team
I wonder how much they would pay for an overpriced inning-eating left-handed starter.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
over
I wonder how much they would pay for an overpriced inning-eating left-handed starter.
^
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
hint
less than $126M.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 12:44 PM PST up reply actions
The Giants will pick up his 2011 salary, in return for Gardner and Montero.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
Don’t forget Sabathia, they can eat his salary just like he eats everything else LOLEOELEOELEOEDLLLOL
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 1:43 PM PST up reply actions
I’d rather have Gardner, who should remain an undervalued assets. Because OBP and defense are not the sexy.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 1:44 PM PST up reply actions
saw yesterday that CC has gone all Pablo and lost 30 lbs this season.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Dude has some crib tho. It was in Architectural Digest. It was so tasteful it was tacky.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
CC is also a Warriors fan
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LETS GO WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Besides playing at least 2 games completely shit-faced off of Bud Light and Jose Cuervo between innings.....
AB: 285
HR: 8
BA: .262
OBP: .363
SLG: .455
The low at bats will have nothing to do with Belt, and everything to do with “the Clap”….which Burrell will contract on 4 separate occasions this season.
Monday Monkey lives for the weekend, sir.
I believe he has already invented a new strain of the clap...
…also, for any of you who have been to Monaghan’s, The Bat is hooking up with one of the bar tenders. So watching some Par Burrell Tail is another reason to go to the bar besides the $3 Jamesons.
AB: 325
HR: 12
AVG: .225
OBP: .325
SLG: .422
Please tell me we have moved past the dark ages of post hoc ergo propter hoc.
by Yeti Monster on Feb 9, 2011 12:53 PM PST up reply actions
I love Pat. He exceeds his own legend on a daily basis.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Let’s Go Burrell! Clap Clap Clapclapclap!
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 1:00 PM PST up reply actions
As a Fresno guy, I’m inclined to judge players by their performance in a Grizzlies uniform — yes, logically I know that this doesn’t make any sense, but there you are.
So I don’t think that it’s really that much of an insult to compare someone adversely to Jesus Guzman — who did his share of “mashing” while in a Grizzlies uniform.
Hell, I’m still wondering if the Giants really really REALLY had to give up John Bowker to get Javier Lopez.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 11:17 AM PST reply actions
LOL PAT BURREL LIKES SEX
UNLIKE EVERY OTHER MAN ON EARTH!!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
He might indeed like sex on occasions and in places unlike those preferred by every other man on earth.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
Your mysterious alternasex is jealous.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Cryptic. Are you a Sherlock Holmes villain?
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Or isn’t he?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Me, as Professor Moriarty? I like the idea!
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
OR IS HE?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
LOL!!!!!! SO TRUE!!!!! What man on earth honestly likes sex
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I only do it for the cuddling afterward.
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
by ResDog on Feb 9, 2011 11:42 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
HE'S A WITCH!!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
HE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
hmmm
Here I thought Python quotes were uninteresting/unfunny/overplayed among the British. And there you are quoting!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
Python quotes are never over-anything. Unless awesome, in which case, yeah, they’re overawesome.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
I would tend to agree.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:00 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, and XKCD quotes are the new Python quotes.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 2:03 PM PST up reply actions
Ass-quotes.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:20 PM PST up reply actions
Here’s here to hit dingerz and take walks.
What’s here? What’s here, Grant?
WHERE’S WALLACE? WHERE’S WALLACE AT, GRANT??!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
WILLIAM WALLACE!!!!!!!!!!!
WHERE’S ALEX’S ZUCCHINI
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
OH GOD IT'S BEHIND YOU
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Wishful Thinking
Turns out the Rockies didn’t just spend the offseason handing out megabucks contracts to their young stars. They also did some serious teeth-gnashing while watching the San Francisco Giants win the World Series.
Rockies manager Jim Tracy said Tuesday that the rivalry between the teams has escalated to unprecedented heights.
“Yes, it’s become more of a rivalry,” Tracy said during an interview with The Denver Post. “It’s safe to say we aren’t real friendly with one another because they have something we want. We know how we’ve played against them the last few years. They felt that we were the ones standing in their way. . . . There’s a rivalry there, there’s no question about it. It’s good for baseball.”
Why is it that, when two teams have any sort of conflict or are, for one season, competing for a division title, the word “rivalry” gets thrown around?
The Mets and the Braves were said to be in a “rivalry” in the 90s. I’m sorry, but when one team bitch slaps the other team for 14 straight years, it is not a fucking Rivalry. Me masturbating to Jessica Alba does not mean there is a Rivalry between Cash Warren and I. It just means one is getting it, the other is dreaming it.
When I go to the park there are no chants of BEAT COLORADO. There are no signs that say KILL THE SNAKES. For a couple of times I guess I saw BEAT THE PADRES but that’s because we were competing for a division crown in the final days of the season. There won’t be any BEAT SD signs at the yard this year. Those are not Rivalries. There is one Rivalry that involves the Giants. Two if you count the six games a year we must play against our Green and Yellow brothers on the other side of the bay (who I respect fully and recognize that they handed our ass to us in 1989). It is the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. It’s Jackie Robinson retiring instead of joining the Giants. It’s Willie Mays refusing to go to the Dodgers and go to the Mets instead. It’s Marichal and Roseboro. It’s Bonds doing a 360 rounding the bases. THAT is what “Rivalry” means.
Everything else is just the fabric of some writer’s imagination, trying to play up something that isn’t there. Dear Rockies : Get your own division titles. Get your own world series ring. FInd your own god damn Rival. There is only one Rivalry concerning the San Francisco Giants, and it is the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
by jctGamer on Feb 9, 2011 11:27 AM PST reply actions 13 recs
I consider it a rivalry. My fucking blood boils to almost Dodger level when they play the Rockies.
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Feb 9, 2011 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
The Phillies and the Giants might end up developing a rivalry, as well. I am starting to hate those guys. The Phillies fans regarded the National League pennant as some sort of divine inheritance and look at the Giants as usurpers of some sort.
There is also the Cliff Lee factor.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
I hate them and the Rockies at roughly the same intensity.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Same
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Feb 9, 2011 11:36 AM PST up reply actions
If there is a Giants-Rockies rivalry, it might be based on what I would call the “Neifi Perez” factor.
The teams play differently, depending on whether they are playing at AT&T or at Coors Field. Over the last 13 years of their existence, most Rockies teams have been inferior to most Giants teams, and there is a perception that the Rockies can only steal victories from the Giants at home by taking advantage of the unique features of their ballpark.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Want to hear about a bad Phillies fan?
I was listening to sports talk radio in Philly the other day. I know, major mistake but philly has really crappy music stations.
So the host was doing this thing, where he compared Phillies top 3 all time athletes to all other cities and came to the conclusion that Philly’s three were better than any other city.
He listed Philly as: Reggie White, Wilt, Scmidt
He said that those three beat, Mays, Montana, Berry and Ted Williams, Brady, Walton… I just hung my head
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
WTF Walton?
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Bill? He was there a year, and hardly himself.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 9, 2011 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, he actually said that.
Someone had to correct him that it was Russell.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
That’s better. And those three are better than Phillie’s, though it’s a silly “debate” that only a desperate talk show host would initiate.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 9, 2011 12:04 PM PST up reply actions
Rice.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 12:06 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Some SF fans called up and siad that. But he was ALL QB IS MOST IMPORTANT EVEN THOUGH RICE WAS BEST ALL TIME
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 12:07 PM PST up reply actions
If that’s his argument, Steve Young is better than every Phillie quarterback ever. And he’s only the second best to play in SF. And I don’t even like football.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Yeah, who in the world would rank a defensive player over Rice/Montana/Young!!!!!!??
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 12:17 PM PST up reply actions
And it’s not like SF has had miserable defenders over the years.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
It is true that Jerry Rice was a lousy quarterback: 3/10, 71 yards, 1TD, 1 INT.
But, really, it’s almost overwhelmingly obvious that Jerry Rice is the greatest player in the history of the league, regardless of position. He was that much better than anybody has ever been.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
where does that put his qb rating?
Big Ups to Matt Downs
"He told me he was gonna do it"- Andres Torres
50.4.
But 60.2 as a 49er.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
also
i think that still makes him better than alex smith
Big Ups to Matt Downs
"He told me he was gonna do it"- Andres Torres
iirc
Rice ran for like 10 TD’s in his career too, which is an intriguing statistic.
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
lololololololololololololololol
I have seen the future of rock n' roll, and its name is Buster Posey.
"Practice is a crutch for the talentless."
by atxgiantsfan on Feb 9, 2011 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
Is sports talk radio any different than the Bay Area where people would call up and suggest the Giants trade Mark DeRosa for Albert Pujols (no one did but these type of trades are what people have called up about)?
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 can't hate the Phillies... yet.
They’re sort of spiritual cousins to the Giants/San Francisco, and they have assembled an enviable roster. Ruben Amaro has made some really bizarre moves, of course, but there is a lot to admire there.
I can
for making Rowand look good.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Really, just the center field wall did.
And then, when it really counted, that same wall made Shane Victorino look bad.
Plus that fanbase has suffered so long
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
I know.
Living in a crappy city, being really fat and obnoxious, having a bizarre sense of entitlement, have that weird thing where their eyes are really close together, lacking intelligence, having that whole vomit thing, not producing anything of value over the past generation or so, being forced to watch that lame football team that chokes all the time, rocking that gross comb over, and so on, I’m telling ya, it ain’t easy.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Cheesesteaks too!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Being turned down by J.D. Drew
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
FUCK THOSE THINGS
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
SOOOOO TASTY!!!!!!!!!!!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I don’t think I have the energy for another rant, so you’ll get away with this for now.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’m joshing with you. I don’t know why, but I feel a little mischievous this evening. I’m sure it’ll pass.
LIVE EST
Tape-delayed for the West Coast
Andre Eithier?
ewwww. I’m sorry, but I had to say it
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I'll say it
Andre Ethier?
ewwww.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
yeah of course I’m not attracted to him, but I look at Andre and I don’t even see how someone would think he is handsome.
But, looks are very, very subjective.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
z-ing through, I thought you meant Andres Torres for a sec and I was gonna cut you
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
STEROIDS
Your argument is invalid.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
INDEPENDENCE HALL
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
/hoisted on own petard
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I imagine all philly fans looking like Carl from ATHF
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 1:36 PM PST up reply actions
I followed them in the ‘08 & ’09 postseasons.
I wasn’t rooting for them, really, but I did prefer them over the alternatives.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
i agree. But the thing is now WE ARE the alternatives. That is why I’m starting to hate them.
I have seen the future of rock n' roll, and its name is Buster Posey.
"Practice is a crutch for the talentless."
Except I don't hate the Phillies because of their competition to the Giants (see also: 2010 NLCS)...
…I hate the Phillies because their fans generally don’t have a lot of class. Yes, we’ve got a few friends on this very board who come over for polite, intelligent discussion, but as a whole their fans have developed a rep for belligerence.
Last year they were the team with fans getting kicked out for drunkenly puking on little girls and their dads. They were the ones holding up games and getting tasered on the field for running around like dumbasses.
And finally, at games, they tend to make more signs that insult the visiting team rather than promote their own. Proclaiming Lincecum as the best is a matter of opinion I could express at AT&T, but if I made a sign about what a loser Cliff Lee is or whatever, the national media would jump all over us. Yet Phillies fans wolf-whistle at Timmy as if he’s a girl, make signs about straightening his teeth, etc.
You already had a pretty good defending NL champion team with a kickass rotation that most people were favoring to win the series; why resort to insulting the other team to make yourself feel better?
Randy Winn is disappoint.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Grand Marshall Julet III.
29 Hands.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I don't see how this is a matter of a high horse. I'm not making up or exaggerating anything.
Sure, there are drunken Giants fans at any given game, but their antics don’t make it to national media proportions very often.
Unless you’re suggesting this is one of the subtle gifts we enjoy from LOL EAST COAST BIAS.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
I believe that's absolutely true. I wasn't suggesting it, but I'll go with it.
The narrative is that we’re all queer wine & cheese eaters who view sports like a real American views European art house films.
I'll admit you bring up a good point that I'd forgotten.
Thanks for keeping me in check.
Either way, I’ll never hate the Phillies or their fans as much as I do the Dodgers. Can we at least agree on that?
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Always!
You can hate whomever or whatever you want, but I took issue with the reasons you listed. You can, of course, tell me to go to hell and ignore me.
The narrative is that we’re all queer wine & cheese eaters who view sports like a real American views European art house films.
\
you mean some of us AREN"T???
/looks around suspiciously
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
A lovely roquefort, Sir?
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 4:22 PM PST up reply actions
In fariness with counter-point
The Good Phight has some pretty terrific people who were very civil during the NLCS, and they often bemoaned the stuff that was going on from the people you mentioned.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Like we bemoaned the people on sfgate and ESPN boards?
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Some moan louder than others.
But the principle is the same.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
TWSS!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
you were just waiting to hop on that one, weren’t you?
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
TWSS!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Agreed.
If you saw, I tried to be careful to not include that, because I know some of the Phight guys (and girls?) were here providing healthy, intelligent banter a few times last season. They’re not ALL terrible.
I just have more contempt for Phillies FANS as a group in recent years than I do for this year’s specific team or the franchise as a whole.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
I agree with you… there aren’t many other fan bases that hold up signs with derogatory comments about the visiting team – either that or they aren’t sitting in [what would be PhoneBoothPark’s] Field Club level and getting themselves TONS of screen time. We noticed that during the games and thought it was a pretty asinine thing to do.
And hell, I spent part of my childhood as a Phillies fan. A very short part of it ‘74-’76 to be sure, but it ticks me off to see fan bases villianize themselves and think it’s soooooo coooool… Yeah I’m looking at you Oakland Raider fans.
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I'm CONVINCED that if you and I were somehow colleagues at the same school, we'd get along just fine.
Thanks for saying it better than I could.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
How dare you.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Really though
I love the Giants, and I love you guys, but talking baseball with run-of-the-mill KNBR listening Giants fans can be urg. Every team has some good fans and some awful ones.
Except the Dodgers. All turrible.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Mine, too, but that’s not because of a deep-seated rivalry.
It’s because they’re so goddamn annoying.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
I may be throughing “rivalry” around too lightly. I fucking hate everything about them though.
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Feb 9, 2011 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
WOW
T-H-R-O-W-I-N-G.
Dumb ass
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Feb 9, 2011 11:44 AM PST up reply actions
Your ass typed that?
That’s one dexterous ass.
by The Double Deuce on Feb 9, 2011 4:06 PM PST up reply actions
Dexterous, but illiterate.
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Feb 10, 2011 9:58 AM PST up reply actions
I'd say it's more a feud right now
If the McCourts turn the Dodgers into the Pirates, and we’re fighting the Rockies for the division for the next 10 years that may change.
My hate for them we’ll never reach Dodger level. Too many factors: history, geography, etc. for that to ever change.
The Rockies didn't even exist
when I’d long hated the Dodgers. The Rockies aren’t even worthy of such hatred. Maybe someday Tulo will be as obnoxious as Steve Garvey. Maybe some day the Rockies will have someone as great and fiery hate-able as Jackie Robinson. Not yet Rockies, not even close.
I admit Rockies, you are annoying, and so’s your stupid mascot.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
The weird thing to me about the rivalry with the Rockies
is that the “rivalry” seems pretty one-sided. The quote above from jctgamer and the remarks made by Rox fans who have visited here or on Purple Row look more to me like exaggerated inter-division contempt than RIVALRY.
Do I like the Rockies? No, I’m a Giants fan.
Do I HATE them? No, they’re just annoying and another opponent we have to keep in mind if we want to repeat.
As others mentioned above, the history with the Dodgers goes back longer than we’ve all been alive. That’s a bit easier for me to tap into. (TWHS)
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
If the McCourts turned the Dodgers into the Pirates
I would dance on their fucking grave.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
Too much money. They could become the Orioles, though.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Or the Mets.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
Pat Burrells' favorite
kind of blood!
Brian Sabean: Sing His Praises To The Heavens!
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game that seems to have resurrected itself in my absence...
Pretty much this.
To me a rivalry requires no outside context. And if you need some, then it isn’t a rivalry to begin with.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
Exactly. I think the term is used too liberally. It should really only apply to teams with such long-lasting animosity that context isn’t necessary to build up the match – they just flat out hate each other because that’s the way it’s always been.
That being said, there are definitely match-ups that I think of as second-tier rivalries – mainly because I don’t have an alternate name to call them. For me it’s an issue of linguistics. The Dodgers are our rivals. The Rockies are our “they’re-not-quite-on-the-level-of-rivals-but-we-really-hate-them-but-we-don’t-hate-hate-them-the-way-we-do-the-Dodgers-but-we-don’t-know-what-to-call-them”. Quick, someone come up with a word for that.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Feb 9, 2011 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Rivalite?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
You know what's worse than the Rockies?
Rockies Fans.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
this
I actually don’t mind the ballclub, but like the A’s their interweb nerdragers have totally turned me off.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
You know what's worse than Rockies Fans?
Their fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by BusterHomerun on Feb 9, 2011 1:17 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
“Fuck the Braves” is my word for that.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
BOOYA!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
USF vs Santa Clara, for example.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Because while there was football
Saint Marys vs Santa Clara is the rivalry. Don’t know if that is true anymore though. Sad.
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
FUCK SANTA CLARA!!!!!!!!! GO GAELS!!!!!!!!!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Pika you a Gael?
Or just a fan?
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
His pic is his school
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Lived right next to SMC
from Randy Bennett was our neighbor
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Got it, I seem to now remember a conversation on the LaMorinda area.
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
There’s plenty of outside context that defines the Giants/Dodgers rivalry, or any good rivalry. The real difference is that the context for that one is old. Older than you.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
Your not the boss of how old I am.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
My so the boss of how old you are.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
I’ve been making a lot of typos today.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
As a Kings fan and Laker hater, I can only shrug.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
As a Warriors fan and Kings hater, i can only shrug…. wait… Kings warriors… there is no rivalry
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Yeah, I don’t care about the Warriors. I guess I’m pleased when they win.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Why would you hate the Kings? What’s to hate?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
They stole our idea of Grateful Dead night. And Bill Walton is somehow associated with it.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
Bill Walton is awesome.
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
by Viliphied on Feb 9, 2011 12:36 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Ha. i mean, do people really think there is a rivalry? ha, i know the Kings Lakers was pretty big… warriors lakers… there is none because the warriors never win… it was pretty big in 07 when the warriors were decent and back in the day
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I think I hate the Lakers even more than I hate the Dodgers.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’m almost there on the hate for the Lakers, going to a warriors lakers game in 07 or 08 was just unreal, SO much hate for LA, it was awesome
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Fucking Lakers. Their fans don’t even know. Going to Kings games when the Lakers are in town is so depressing. Their douche fans come out of the woodwork and fill the arena. Purple and gold all over the place. Drunk. Hooting. It turns my stomach. I miss the good days. If that team could pull itself out of the crapper, Sacramento would energize in a pretty spectacular way. But I’m not seeing it. Not for a while.
Fucking Robert Horry.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Pretty much what i was seeing this year… and in years past at Oracle… And to be honest, i got a little pissed when Kings fans would run Oracle too…
I swear i thought the reason why they built Arco in the middle of nowhere was because of the noise, and how loud it’d get… Also, back in the day, like in the early to mid 90s, i was not only a warrior fan, but a huge Blazer fan, because of Sabonis, HATED the Jazz and Malone, and HATED the lakers with their fake ass fans
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Heavens, no.
It wasn’t the noise at all. They would put a new one next door to a hospital if they could get public financing for it. They built Arco in Natomas because the land was available, not far from the freeways, and the surrounding land was “pre-developed.”
They stripped the “Arco” off the building last week. Nothing yet has replaced it, though the new sponsor has been named.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 9, 2011 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
Power Balance Pavillion
fuck that shit. I’m gonna keep calling it Arco.
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
Heck… people from cleveland still call Progressive field, the jake…. same with Gund Arena… i’ll always call Candlestick “The Stick” even when they called it 3COM
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I feel the same way. Candlestick is always Candlestick. No corporation paid me any money to call it anything else.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 12:17 PM PST up reply actions
Holy fuck, what an awful name.
Yep, let’s head over to the PoBal to catch a game. Get a PoBal Pretzle with some icy cold PoBal Pilsner to wash it down.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
mmmm pilsner....
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
GO PRO WITH PROBAL ORIGINAL!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
POBAL
dammit
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The Kings certainly do play po’ ball.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 9, 2011 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
getting better!
slowly improving!
/optimism
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
“According to the Kingston Trio, ‘po’ ball is bound to die,” he said, hinting at his age.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
HAVE FUN UP IN SAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
WE WILL
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Is Grant Napier still alive and offending the world with the sound of his voice
and the vapidity of his opinion?
Oh yes.
Turn on the sprinklers, etc.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
He's really not that bad of a PbP guy, as far as they go
his radio show is absolutely terrible though.
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
He's horrible
He’s only SLIGHTLY better than Bob Fitzgerald.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Didn't you spend a lot of time in Fresno?
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU
yea, went there every other weekend as a kid… mom grew up there, grandpa lived there… Gotta love Fresno>Sac
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
oh god no
I grew up in Fresno. I live in Sacramento. Fresno is a foreboding wasteland of hate and perpetually injured puppies. My family once entered into a feud down there. OVER A ROOSTER. That shit is silly. Better left unseen and unspoken of.
Good raisins, though.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
is that where your dad's persona comes from?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Nope. Totally independent.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Downtown Fresno is absolutely pathetic, i’ve never seen a more depressing downtown, kinda like Detroit… But, i was more over around Fig Garden, and over near Clovis, since my family owned Simonian Farms, it was pretty fun being down there for a bit.
But i can’t say i’ve spent much time up in Sacramento, i mean, there’s no point for me spending any time up there if i dont know anybody either
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
You know me!
Fig Garden is pretty nice. Always had good steak.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Haha, dude, fig garden… over by Elbow Room… but damn that place is now so built up… always went to Hungry Bear cookies, SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I DONT KNOW YOU
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF WHO I DON'T KNOW
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
OR AM I!?!?!?!?
YOU HAVE NO IDEA
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
My family once entered into a feud down there. OVER A ROOSTER
Feud or rivalry?
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
Definitely a blood feud.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Shit... sounds intense
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I’d explain, but it’s kind of unbelievable.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Maybe for another time
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
The McRickett family has more than enough land of their own, you see. They complain that we don’t use our own plentiful acreage to its full potential. For years, they impinged on our territory, allowing their chicken to range free on our land, rationalizing that somebody ought to use the damn land for something. Well, we put and end to that. When young Alex_Lewis caught old Pat McRickett herding the damn foul over the delineating fence, he ran home just as quick as a tack and told paw what was happening. Well, paw, he grabbed his father’s pistol and marched right down to Pat McRickett to confront the old coot. Two rounds was all it took to end old Pat.
And for seven years after, it seemed those same two rounds were all it took to end the chicken business for good.
But then, one day, we found a rooster.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
Fowl? Stupid birds.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
2 rounds? DAMN!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
One in the head. One in the chicken.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 1:10 PM PST up reply actions
Eerily similar.
But it involved a shot gun, some Mexicans, two roosters, and a chicken.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Sounds like a typical Pat The Bat night
…Oh wait, you’re discussing something different
"You think someone that big would be more well endowed" Aubrey Huff's mother on Pat Burrell
I thought he was going to punch me and I was totally accepting of it. I was planning a reason to thank him if he did." Brian Wilson on Buster Posey
Twiitter: @gobroks
Blog: GMPotential.blogspot
Thanks, Howie.
Your telling is great! Even so, I guess I’d better put down what I remember. Every word is true.
We bought a big old house on about an acre in the Fig Garden area of North Fresno. On one side was the back yard of a retired fireman, still living with his ex-wife. They had separate sliding glass doors into the back yard. From our second floor bedrooms—the only second floor in the ’hood— they could be heard squabbling profanely late on many nights.
One day a chicken showed up. Then another and another until something like a flock was moving among four or five yards there on Gettysburg Ave in Fresno County, just outside of Fresno City. This matters because the County had no laws against the maintenance of chickens, though the City did. It was a County island within the City proper, and it had a rural feel: no sidewalks, low fences, eccentric dwellings. And roaming, eccentric creatures of all sorts.
This all matters, and I’ll get to the crux of it soon. If you need to get to bed, just go. I’ll tell you about it tomorrow.
Hmm. Hmm.
OK. The chickens became a bit of celebrated cause as they ran or flew across Gettysburg in front of the gallant cars of the town. The street was lined with cork oaks trained as a canopy across several blocks. The chickens liked the protection of the trees and the acorns and, I think, the view from those trees. That’s where they hung out when they weren’t in the various yards scratching about.
This also matters, and you’ll soon see why.
The single lady living next door decided that the gallinas needed a gallo. So she got one. He was a handsome, colorful fellow of Rhode Island lineage. His head came up to my waist when he rose to full height, which he often did prior to attacking me or any other human that approached him or the gallinas. He disappeared one day about a week later, but not before impregnating one of the gallinas. She laid eggs in the hedge between our houses, and they hatched a bit later into actual freeborn chicks.
That’s when the trouble started, and I’ll tell you about that soon also.
Hawks got the first few chicks, but then the single lady swooped in and collected the rest. I was traveling on business that week. When I returned, Rhody had disappeared and two peeps were in my house. They were cute but noisy. Alex took one of them to school with him for Show and Tell. The legal documents say that his mother suggested he should do this. She denies it to this day.
Rhody Rooster had disappeared, as I said, and the gallinas seemed to have multiplied to around ten. Maybe they just danced in from other yards or they propellered in on the wind from other ‘hoods, but there they were, pecking each morning on the lawns, looking down from the cork oaks, and running across the street just ahead of cars. That’s what chickens do. They earned a front page article in the Fresno Bee, pictures included: “Chickens Roam in Fig Garden.”
I did nothing to discourage the distribution of rice, seed, or grain, so each morning, there they waited.
They became more and more attached to my house. I might have even thrown some of the rice, seed, or grain myself. Usually, I didn’t. I’m telling you the truth.
Most of you should go to bed now. Go along. See you on the thread tomorrow regarding Fontenot’s prospects for the coming year.
I don’t know where he came from, but Rudy appeared one morning. He was much smaller than Rhoady but redder and brighter. From day one, he was clearly in charge of the flock of gallinas, except for Helena (whom I’ll discuss later, after the adults have gone to bed.) He didn’t abuse them in any way that I saw. Rather, he herded them with his head gestures and staccato crows. They were glad to be herded. They were a pack to behold. They were, indeed, a family. Unlike in the families being founded among my friends at the time, I saw no significant dysfunction in that chicken family. I saw order based on masculine command. That’s what I saw, and that’s all I’m saying.
Now comes the interesting part. Thanks for reading this far.
The pack developed the habit of roosting (with by-the-clock predictability) in the Giant Sequoia just on my side of the property from the retired fireman; you no doubt remember him from up the page. The Giant Sequoia, I must tell you, wasn’t a “Giant” at all in 1992, though it was full and thick in its youth. It must be quite large today. At the time it was about twenty feet tall, and it doubled the height of the fence between my lot and that of the fireman, then retired, and his wife, then -ex, and both probably still.
Now begins the interesting part.
As I do today, I then worked outside on my house and yard on a regular basis. Helena the gallina, who seemed to be the chief of the flock, would often scamper by to pander for seeds, and yes, I started by giving them seeds from the pantry, but then I actually bought bird seed and threw it for them in the classic way one throws seed for chickens. Their enthusiasm amused me. I came to shout for them to come for the feed: “Here, chickee, chickee.” I’m not proud of this, but I’m not ashamed. They came to love me. I don’t say that casually. Though they pecked through many yards along Gettysburg, when I came out to dig or rake or wipe or spray, they would soon be around. I think they knew that I would keep the neighborhood dogs away from them. I’m not sure.
Again, I don’t know where Rudy came from, but once introduced to the others he was the leader and he had to establish terms with me. I was not yet Gallo del Cielo.
I, of course, am not a rooster, though I do play one on a baseball website. Even so, Rudy chose to approach me as an equal. I don’t know what he understood. I’m not especially macho in manner or appearance. Rudy left the flock one morning when I started work outside the house, and he walked to within a human stride of me. He looked at me straight and he spread his wings slightly while crowing small. I crouched and made a similar noise. Our heads were a yard apart. Rudy pecked up a piece of decomposed granite from the driveway and tossed it toward me. I picked one up with my hand and did the same. For the rest of that day, and for another month, Rudy ran to greet me when I went outside in my work clothes. He made noises that sounded damn near to talking. While I was outside, he would be predictably near, pecking or looking after the flock. The flock, too, was always near and always well corralled, except perhaps for Helena.
Which is when the story gets weird.
The flock, at exactly an hour before dusk, went to the Sequoia at the edge of the fireman’s property and found their ways variously to upper branches in order to roost. It took them an hour or so to scramble and scratch up the tree. I never broke the code for which branches for for which gallina, but Rudy always was on the highest branch. Not the highest of the tree. The highest of the group.
Scientific literature describes this behavior. To save themselves from predators, of which there were plenty in my ‘hood and in their past, these fowl go to trees. And there is the hierarchy. In farm yards, owners build hen houses in which the rooster is occasionally welcome and occasionally shut out. Hen house nests resemble roosts in that they are high, thus comforting the easily comforted hens. The Sequoia in my yard granted these protections also. Nearby, my house and I granted other protections that I hadn’t planned to grant.
That story will have to wait.
I must go to bed.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 10, 2011 12:55 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
i didn’t plan to read your whole post. but dammit, now that i have, I have a need to finish when you post the finale
/shakes fist!
...Dr. Vader will see you now.
I'm hooked
I would very much like to read the whole story.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 10, 2011 8:01 AM PST up reply actions
keep going!!!!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Tonight.
This damned job and these damned kids.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 10, 2011 8:39 AM PST up reply actions
How the hell am I supposed to concentrate at work not knowing the conclusion to this fine yarn?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 10, 2011 8:42 AM PST up reply actions
There’s nothing like having 35 teenagers come into the same room as you to force the issue of “concentration.”
I simply couldn’t stay with it for another hour last night.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 10, 2011 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
I’m not concerned with your well being! TELL ME THE STORY!!!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 10, 2011 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
But seriously, I was enjoying the story. Have a rec.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 10, 2011 12:20 PM PST up reply actions
Thanks, all.
I’ll try to get to it this evening. It’s a fine story, and true, and will take about the same space as the previous, though I hope not to be pushed up against this right wall. I didn’t expect to go on like that.
But my grades are due on Monday, and I must process papers. That’s the life of a high school English teacher. Are you sure you want to do this, jponry? Howie? Chop?
I’ll post it on the thread of the day, probably in the late evening.
History Channel in the background. Modern Marvels: The History of Grease.
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 10, 2011 7:08 PM PST up reply actions
Lakers fans in LA are pretty great, actually.
I hate the Lakers quite a bit, but the non-bandwagoners are as loyal as any team’s fans.
Say what you want about Jack
But he stayed with the Lakers even in the bad years.
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 it really a rivalry when one side always wins?
The sad fact is, I think the SF-LA rivalry in general is largely one-sided. LA people have their heads too far up their asses to care.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Feb 9, 2011 11:44 AM PST up reply actions
LA everyone have their heads too far up their asses to care
i just dont see LA as a real sports town, since i just never see that they care enough about their sports… when they’re good, they care, and thats bout it
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
SOME Laker and Dodger fans are pretty good. But the legions are unwashed, ignorant, slightly dangerous, and definitely ugly.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
You're right.
I should mentioned the defective chromosomes.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
*should have
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Is this the wrong time to mention I think Ethier’s kinda cute?
LIVE EST
Tape-delayed for the West Coast
GET out of here
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
:*D
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
D#:
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
D():
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I’ve missed auto-defenestration around here. One World Series win and suddenly windows aren’t good enough to throw yourself out of.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Feb 9, 2011 1:54 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I still reserve the right to throw myself down the stairs during the draft though.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
That probably has to do more with the NBA refs than anything else.
Overplayed memes:
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2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 11:41 AM PST up reply actions
Half that, and half them being the spawn of Satan.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Watching the NBA Finals with a Celts fan, I could believe the way Stern handed the Lakers that win.
Overplayed memes:
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2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 11:45 AM PST up reply actions
Ugh.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Forgive me if I am unsympathetic to a Celtics fan complaining about Stern rigging anything.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Well this my brother-in-law, and he is a die hard NE fan (but not a douche), the amount the Ref’s got involved was unreal.
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Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
Game 6, 2001-2002 season.
FUCK NBA Refs.
27 free throws in one quarter my ass.
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
also
whenever anybody mentions the state of refereeing in the NBA, Mike Bibby’s nose starts bleeding.
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
The officiating in the NBA really turned me off from the sport. That and the meaningless regular season.
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
This.
Looking at the league standings right now… the league is a disgrace. An utter sham and embarrassment to professional sports. Maybe worse than the NFL. Maybe.
/elbows you in the face, gloats from the free throw line.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
OMG HE TOTALLY DID
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
I’m still trying to see how the Rockies Giants series is a rivalry…. still dont see it as a rivalry
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
So, i can expect to hear shit if i were to go to a Rockies Giants game in Colorado now?
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
THEY think it is a rivalry. So if you go to a game in COL, yeah, you’ll hear shit.
When you do go to a game in COL, all you gotta do is make a sign that says “I have better things to do than be your rival” while wearing all your Giants gear. Simple
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Also 2010 World Series Champions
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I attended a small private jr/sr high school in Southern California.
There was another such school, a Dutch Reform school called Valley High.
They were our rivals. No doubt about it.
Every year, we looked forward to our matchups.
Softball, football, baseball, basketball, soccer, even cross country.
It was fierce. Emotions ran high.
They regularly beat us with humiliating scores, but that only inflamed our hatred.
To this day, Valley High students, staff, and alumni alike say “Who?” when they hear the name of my alma mater.
It was intense.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
… were they sweet, this Valley High? If so I’d hate them too.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
And by these terms
wouldn’t we be rivals with the whole league?
It’s safe to say we aren’t real friendly with one another because they have something we want.
Overplayed memes:
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2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
It’s nonsense. "They felt that we were the ones standing in their way. . . "
I don’t recall hearing a lot of “Oh, if it weren’t for those damned Rockies!”
Look out. I'm having a thought.
Were have you been the last few years? Every year its the Rockies that we began the season worrying about.
Overplayed memes:
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2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
Swing and a miss assessment right here.
The Rockies have always been a problem. Even when the Giants don’t play them directly, they find a way to screw the Giants.
See 1993.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
short memory
2009 was an If Not For the Rockies year.
We had literally no offense, and probably would have been wasted by Philly in the NLDS, but our pitching that year just might have given us an outside shot to advance.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Jessica Alba — YECCH! I’m not in a rivalry with you over access to her.
Did Mays really refuse to go to the Dodgers? I don’t remember that.
I knew about Jackie Robinson not going to the Giants, but I think that — publicly anyway — he said that he was just ready to retire and that the Giants needed youth more than they needed him.
Duke Snider didn’t refuse to go to the Giants. He even had a big 2-run 9th-inning homer against the Dodgers on May 2, 1964 to force extra innings in a game that the Giants eventually won.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN196405020.shtml
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 11:41 AM PST up reply actions
Jessica Alba is gross & icky.
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
You hate sex
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
DONT SAY THAT
I’m trying not to think of how having a kid will ruin my gfs body. Thanks man.
Yes, I’m shallow when it comes to looks.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
UNLIKE EVERY OTHER MAN ON EARTH!
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
PRECISELY!!
…not.
I admit I am shallow with looks.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Sex killed my brother
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Sex created your brother in the first place.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Sex is the creator and the destroyer.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 12:04 PM PST up reply actions
your brother is David Carradine?
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
lol Bangkok
Fucking juiced ball bullshit.
by gallo del cielo on Feb 9, 2011 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
Yikes dude....
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Chasm
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
DAMN
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
LOL U
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Now she isn’t top 10, but she is right there.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
Top 10? in no particular order... (except Keira is #1)
1 Rachel McAdams
2 her “sister” from Wedding Crashers
3 Jennie Finch
4 Mila Kunis
5 Laura Vandervoort
6 Keira Knightley
7 Natalie Portman
8 young Jennifer Aniston
9 Scarlett Johanssen
10 Hayden Panettiere
11 Megan Fox
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I wonder how many of those people have had a kid.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Megan Fox has I believe. Natalie Portman is currently pregnant.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 2:20 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t think Fox has had a kid, that I know of?
Portman is having a kid? She’s one of the hottest.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
man you like really skinny girls
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Scarlett Johanssen isn’t skinny, she’s waaay curvy.
But for the most part, you’re right.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I like Scarlett a lot
But she’s no Salma Hayek. There is a special place in my heart for that girl.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
‘heart’
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 2:43 PM PST up reply actions
SALMA’S MINE!
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
DEFEND YOURSELF
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Considering his baseline is Natalie Portman
I can see that. It’s all relative.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
I think you’re right. Sorry to steer you wrong regarding Ms. Fox, Brohawn.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
Megan Fox is the skaniest skank who ever skanked a skank
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
Lohan is so much worse than Fox.
At least Fox isn’t some crazy drug addict
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Amy Winehouse says Hi
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Number 2 is Isla Fisher & she’s adorable.
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Your list needs more Haley Bennett
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 2:13 PM PST up reply actions
I have many lists
Most of them start with
CF Andres Torres
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
If time machines are allowed, I don’t see how you can’t possibly have Young Frankenstein Teri Garr or Fast Times Phoebe Cates. Srsly.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:22 PM PST up reply actions
Natalie Wood
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
Olivia Hussey
From Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo & Juliet (1968)
Of course, she was 15 when that movie was made and I was 15 when I first saw it.
I had a MAJOR crush on her in 1979.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 2:45 PM PST up reply actions
i was 3 in 1979.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I WAS ALSO THREE
LIKE OMG
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Audrey Hepburn
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 2:30 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
is who my wife and I named our daughter after
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Ingrid Bergman
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
WUZ BLACK
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
WRONG!
1 Mila Kunis
2 Jessica Szohr
3 Jessica Biel
4 Halle Berry
5 Marisa Miller
6 Eva Mendes
7 Natalie Portman
8 ANY Jennifer Aniston
9 Scarlett Johanssen
10 Sophia Veranga
“I only have one flash of greatness a day, an
Overplayed memes:
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by say hey nation on Feb 10, 2011 5:52 AM PST up reply actions
mine weren't in order
and mmm, I forget about Jessica Biel.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
by giant4life83 on Feb 10, 2011 1:13 PM PST up reply actions
I got your rivalry right here.
/grabs crotch
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
LOL THE ROCKIES RECORD AFTER SABEAN COMPLAINED ABOUT THE HUMIDOR
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 11:48 AM PST up reply actions 7 recs
Oh, there's a rivalry. But it doesn't rival the Giants-Dodgers rivalry.
I’m amazed that Jim Tracy said all that. Maybe he has lingering Giants-Dodgersitis, I don’t know. My impression of the Rockies (players and fans) is that somehow the division became their God-given right (Rocktober, I presume), so acknowledging any other team as being at or near their equal seems like progress to me.
somehow the division became their God-given right
ICWUDT
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
The funny thing is
They have never won the division in their existence.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
It's not a rivalry
I’m gonna hate the Dodgers whether they are in first place or last place. Fuck those guys. If the Rockies had the same record as the Diamondbacks the last couple seasons, I wouldn’t give a shit about them.
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
This
A real rivalry is when you don’t care what the standings are, you just wanna beat their ass.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
I think Dan O’Dowd genuinely hates the Giants organization.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
But doesn’t O’Dowd hate anything that isn’t Christian and pure?
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
I consider them rivals. Although I kinds of have three tiers.
1st tier: Fuck the Dodgers.
2nd tier: Oakland (Not me personally but I understand it), Rockies.
3rd tier: Rest of NL West, Phillies (Another NLCS and they’re 2nd tier, two more and they’re possibly fuck the dodgers level) And I see the Yankees as a dark horse, if we could meet up with them in a WS I can see some very old feelings coming back up, along with the fact that they’re the Yankees.
I have seen the future of rock n' roll, and its name is Buster Posey.
"Practice is a crutch for the talentless."
by atxgiantsfan on Feb 9, 2011 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
nah
2nd tier: Oakland (Not me personally but I understand it)
Yawn.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 12:54 PM PST up reply actions
I agree, mostly, but I do hate the Rockies more than other non-Dodgers teams at the moment. I don’t think it’s quite a rivalry, but there’s got to be a word to describe it beyond just “we play them sometimes”.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
‘Rivalito’, coined above by bgunn, is pretty good, I think.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Inter-division rival. Applies to all the teams you see 19 times a year. Not at the level of Giants-Dodgers, but still a rivalry of sorts.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
Fuck the purple Jesus dingerz
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
I have it on good authority that only the tip is purple.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
I think we're allowed to have two rivalries
Especially when we’ve played such ridiculous games against them for the past two years.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
lolololol
O jct, how could you forget all the memorable rivalries born the instant Midseason Exhibition Interleague Extravaganza was born? Don’t you know about the Padres-Mariners bloodfeud? or the Phillies and Orioles? Or the classic Twins-Brewers battles?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 12:53 PM PST up reply actions
the Rockies wish someone would be their rival, so much, that they accuse other teams of being their rivals.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
It really reminds me of that McDonalds Commercial
Giants and Dodgers are Larry Bird and Michael Jordan.
Rockies is Charles Barkley asking : Hey guys, can I play?
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its true
i have some family in CO they have this weird un-reciprocated animosity toward the giants.
Big Ups to Matt Downs
"He told me he was gonna do it"- Andres Torres
It really is strange
It’s like they’re a stalker.
someone with more free time than sense.
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Me masturbating to Jessica Alba does not mean there is a Rivalry between Cash Warren and I.
That’s true, although, you may have a rivalry with something else.
by KrazyKrabMeat on Feb 9, 2011 3:54 PM PST up reply actions
The Rockies certainly annoy me. I want to beat them because they’re whiny little brats. It’s not like the Dodgers. I don’t respect the Rockies.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
As I always say… the Rockies are like your snot nosed younger brother who always wants to tag along with you. Annoying pain in the ass = Rockies.
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Bullish on Burrell
Even if I think he’s amazing
AB: 400
AVG: .250
OBP:.340
SLG:.460
HR: 20
jokes about Burrell’s sexual exploits: 109,109
Aaron King, please pitch better.
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I would be very happy if he did something close to this.
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I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Feb 9, 2011 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
Pat the Bat will produce.
AB: 401
AVG: .249
OBP: .353
SLG: .456
HR: 17
STD’s: 101,612 normal strains; 76,201,699 mutated omega-infections-that-will-probably-kill-your-children-in-20-some-years.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I can’t tell if you guys are jealous of or repulsed by Pat’s off the field exploits.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
Being an adult, Pat repulses me. But if he can hit, I’ll ignore until he leaves the team.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Being an adult male, I cheer for Pat as a person. Getting chicks is the easy part- it’s finding new ways to sleep with them without making them your gf and without making them hate you later that’s the hard part. Not to mention the roommate switch I’m sure he’s pulled, which I have tried, and failed at.
Bravo, Pat
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Pat Burrell is going to sleep with my children in 20-some years?
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
To be fair, it will be anal intercourse and he probably won’t stay over. So I don’t know if ‘sleep with’ is the right term.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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It all depends on what your definition of “is” is.
by Grizzlie Antagonist on Feb 9, 2011 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
being penetrated by pat burrell
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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YOUR GRANDCHILDREN ARE JEALOUS!
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by jhiat00 on Feb 9, 2011 12:36 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
But if I don’t have children for another 10 years?
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by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 12:27 PM PST up reply actions
I’m afraid that Pat’s only option will be to penetrate you. As your children are the core of the issue, if you are a man he will be forced to ejaculate directly into your testes. I understand that this may be painful to learn, but I want you to look on the bright side: This is a reason to get married and have kids! :)
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Well, I guess its a good thing I’m getting married this weekend then!
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by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 12:32 PM PST up reply actions
That was a close one!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
really?
That’s awesome. Congrats. Looking forward to a liveblog/open thread this weekend.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
I’ll predict it right here.
/making advance
…
/shut down
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by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 12:57 PM PST up reply actions
Man, where is everybody? Have I been chopped?
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Blue Jays want all our player that we don’t utilize correctlyby say hey nation on Feb 13, 2011 2:57 AM PST
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 1:00 PM PST up reply actions
Man, what is all that ruckus coming from my bedroom?
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don’t utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 13, 2011 2:59 AM PST
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
Whew, that was a long 2 minutes
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don’t utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 13, 2011 3:01 AM PST
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
I forsee a lot of “DEARLY BELOLVED” and “What’s everyone having for rehearsal dinner?” threads.
And at least one way-too-serious discussion about a grammatical principle no one cares about.
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HYPHENS
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
We are doing more of an elopement type thing. We’ve been together going on 6 years now. We have been trying to hold out until it was legal for everyone but my finance needs insurance now that she quit her job so she could spend time with her sister.
Overplayed memes:
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by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 1:00 PM PST up reply actions
As a member of the disenfranchised group, I give you my blessing. Go get ’em.
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While it may be true that none of us will ever get married, I’m one of the few legally bound from doing so.
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Aren’t most marriages? I KID!
How ‘bout you, sir? You in town often? That’s great.
How ’bout this? Did you see this in the paper?
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BUT TEH SANKTITTY OF MARRAGE!
/gets divorced
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While it may be true that none of us will ever get married, I’m one of the few legally bound from doing so.
I would imagine that most of us will all be married someday. I’m not sure what the numbers are for adults over 40 not married, but it’s gotta be 80% or higher.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
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I was kidding. ‘Internet users = loser who will never get married’ was the joke.
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ahh. That’s a fair assessment, actually. But now I’m wondering what the marriage numbers really are for people over 40.. must google.
And TheLetter, you can still marry in CA or something, right? or has same-sex marriage been re-banned?
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The ruling against Prop 8 has been appealed.
The 9th Circuit court has referred the decision as to whether or not the defendants (pro-Prop8 parties) have standing to the CA Court. Until it is resolved there is a stay against same-sex marriages in the state.
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CANADA
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DC, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Also Iowa, but the state legislature is moving to repeal.
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To be completely honest, I’m a little conservative when it comes to same-sex marriage. I wouldn’t vote against it, but I wouldn’t vote for it. I’m just kinda in the middle ground.
I really don’t want to piss anyone off here, but I figure I’ll be honest (which is sometimes to my detriment- typical Sagittarius, lol)
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It's not really a matter of voting *for* or *against* it,
which has really been the whole problem.
Some assholes got together and thought it would be best to make it a law to block an individual’s right to formally recognize under law to whom they are married.
Some assholes got together and thought it would be best to make it a law to block an individual’s right to formally recognize under law to whom they are married.
See, this is my dilemna. I wouldnt go out of my way to make a law to prevent it, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to create a law for it, either.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Every time they make a law it takes away a right.
There was never a need to create a law. The law was already there.
but I do believe that anyone should be allowed to do what they want to do, if you want to marry a person of the same sex, that’s fine, but the other half of me feels that marriage should be for a man and woman.
My parents are 100% split on it too. Like, perhaps same-sex can enter into civil unions, but just something that’s not called marriage.
I’m all for equal rights, but half of me feels one way and half of me feels another
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
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Recognizing the split is important. It’s the first step toward really thinking critically about things.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
seperate but equal
sounds good to me.
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yeah, exactly. A man and a woman enter into a marriage, and man and man or woman and woman enter into union, but but get the same benefits by law.
Seperate, but equal.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I’m pretty sure he was referring to brown vs board of education.
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I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
yeah but brown vs board overturned that iirc
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Um. Wow. This needs something may better than a rope. Maybe a tractor beam? That chasm there is awfully deep.
A distinction that needs to be made is the difference between the law’s definition (and privileges) of marriage and that of a church. I’m sure there are those that just want to be able to file joint tax returns and couldn’t care less about the marriage being blessed by the Pope. Seems to me that those passing these laws don’t see a difference. Whether a gay couple wants their church to recognize their marriage is a separate issue IMO.
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The church will happily marry me, a non-practicing Jew enjoying a life of following an alternative faith, so long as I’m marrying woman, if I ask them too. Happily. If they balk, I can get baptized, continue not practicing anything that resembled their religion, and get married without argument.
It will not marry two dedicated, faithful, loving Christian men.
This seems weird to me.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 3:23 PM PST up reply actions
Why is that weird? It makes sense to me.
The church (or this theoretical one, at least, I don’t know which one you’re actually talking about) doesn’t consider sex between a Christian woman and a fake Christian man a sin. It does, however, consider sex between two men, Christian or not, a sin. So, naturally, it’s not going to marry two men – that would be giving them permission to have sex (since that’s an integral part of the traditional definition of marriage).
There are civil marriages in all states, anyway, and legalizing same-sex marriages wouldn’t force any church to do anything, so what the churches think really isn’t relevant. It would only force public officials to marry same-sex couples. – churches would actually be given more freedom, not less.
Well, it’s not weird if you accept that all those things you said there are also not weird.
I don’t.
It does, however, consider sex between two men, Christian or not, a sin
That seems weird to me.
So, naturally, it’s not going to marry two men – that would be giving them permission to have sex (since that’s an integral part of the traditional definition of marriage).
That seems weird to me. Also, ridiculous.
They (this theoretical church, which I frame as a blanket church, dangerous though that kind of framing can be) can reason out something weird with as many weird things as they want. All it does is amplify the weird.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 4:12 PM PST up reply actions
Are you seriously asking a church to make sense?
Seriously?
This is right up there with watching Glee and expecting it to make sense.
Actually, worse.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 4:17 PM PST up reply actions
Why is it we always step into these discussions way over here? Never enough margin space.
I will be happy to attempt to explain at least the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality to anyone interested. But not in this text box.
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I read through vatican.va documents now and then myself. What irked me was that howie expected ‘a’ church to make sense. Which strikes me as tilting against windmills, millenia of exegesis or not.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 4:22 PM PST up reply actions
Well, you’re wrong, unless we’re not defining “making sense” the same way.
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Yeah, it makes sense if it’s internally consistent. That’s the criterion. Not whether or not you approve.
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I’ve done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!
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Of course it’s UNHEARD of for a document compiled over at least two and a half thousand years by dozens of different writers in various different literary forms to ever have any inconsistencies whatsoever. What were you, a Baptist who believed the Bible was like the Koran, written upon the walls of heaven in perfect form?
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[ psssssssst…. that’s a Ned Flanders quote.]
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Ned Flanders is probably most people under 20’s exposure to what a Christian is supposed to be. And then they meet Michele Bachmann.
I swear, sometimes I don’t even know how to deal with this.
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Michelle Bachmann is more of an egoist than a Christian (in my view)
It’s about her and attention.
I can’t stand the saying “God Bless America”…God does not care.
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Maaaaany believers and religious authorities believe the bible was dictated in its entirety by God.
This discussion seems to be double sex in the champagne room
but I’m game.
I actually don’t think there are any contradictions in the Bible.
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Just off the top of my head, I believe there are two creationisticky stories in Genesis. And I think there are also inconsistencies amongst the nativity stories. Like I said, completely off the top of my head I’m in the middle of burning dinner.
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There plenty of contradictions between the bible and real life. Surely I don’t have to start listing them.
There are also contradictions between the bible and itself – many stories are toled twice, with major differences (the creation of Adam and Eve being the first).
There will definite be contradictions between the Bible and life. Bible is supposed to be “perfect” while real life is not
I’m not sure if we should continue about the contradictions within the Bible here. But we’ll agree to disagree.
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we are
Howie wasn’t saying, ‘okay, given revelations A and B on faith, X and Y are nonetheless kinda weird because P and Q.’ I wouldn’t have said a word. No, the phrasing was,
if you accept that all those things you said there are also not weird.Fundamentally (CWIDT?), Howie declares the revelation that defines this anonymous religion ‘weird’. Which is nice work if you can get it, but is roughly on par with his asking why characters in Glee suddenly started singing.
I don’t.
In both cases, that’s the point.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 7:18 PM PST up reply actions
I wasn’t exactly making an attempt to blow anybody’s mind here.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 7:45 PM PST up reply actions
Marriage as a permission to have sex is an extremely old concept that has been a part of every single religion in history, as far as I know. Male homosexual sex being a sin is a part of all Abraham religions, and is a major part of the Christian dogma.
That doesn’t mean either of those make sense, or aren’t weird, or justified. But it’s just that they’re part of something much bigger than just same-sex marriages.
Also female homosexual sex, and bestiality, and masturbation, and any sex that is not between a man and wife that is not open to the possibility of intercourse, with the exception of the married but naturally barren.
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I don’t think there is any mention of female homosexual sex in the bible. I’m pretty sure the bible doesn’t even recognize anything that doesn’t involve a penis as sex.
I’ve come to believe that the concept of monogamy and cheating within a marriage was a concept perpetuated by the ruling class a means of control.
Typical straight male who is not yet a member of a ruling class.
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Please continue?
(I just read the Wife of Bath’s Prologue so this topic interests me)
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In a lot of cultures, marriage was a business arrangement, etc. and the ruling class really could just do whatever it wanted. It just occurs to me that there was likely some design behind that. Since the rulers could basically reduce the population of available women, the men were forced to assign greater value to the few women who remained.
I don’t have this all thought out, but there’s just something weird about the cultural construct of marriage. Not the notion of two human beings bonding for the rest of their lives. That’s actually beautiful. It’s all the pomp, circumstance, customs, rules, etc. that surrounds the union that I call into question (because, why not? Humans are weird).
the notion of two human beings bonding for the rest of their lives. That’s actually beautiful.
This, is all marriage is supposed to be. All that other stuff is extraneous.
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that extraneous stuff is what's interesting
in terms of how we fuck that up (as a culture). And that’s what I like to challenge.
This might interest you: in the Catholic Church, marriage is the only sacrament not administered by a priest. It is administered by the two spouses to be, to each other.
What the priest is there for, I forget. I think it’s as a witness or if they also want to have a Mass with the wedding.
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I thought Anointing of the Sick could be done by a eucharist
minister, which isn’t exactly a priest. That doesn’t qualify?
Baptism can be done by a lay person in an emergency.
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:52 PM PST up reply actions
I think
but forget that the no-mass wedding is a Vatican II thing but I recall it being a “recent” innovation (by which I mean something that happened in the last 1000 years).
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by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 4:52 PM PST up reply actions
right
I can’t remember if it was changed before that.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
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The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
Is Vatican II the one where the Pope grows up and falls in love with Queen Amadala?
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by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
Vatican II: This Time It’s Parsonal.
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by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, but they’re two different sacraments, Eucharist and Holy Matrimony, they’re just usually concelebrated because really if you need to get married in the church that fast and that secretly something’s got to be fishy.
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The priest is the officiant – the one who oversees the ritual and serves as an official witness – while the couple bestow the actual sacrament upon each other if I remember correctly.
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
To: Cookyman, that is my recollection as well. [No mention of lesbian type sex in the bible] Again, off the top of my head… one of the passages runs something to the effect of “Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman.” Which really could be open to some interpretation.
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but thou shalt not lie!
/mind blown
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by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
Cooky! What does it say in the original Hebrew???
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That is one part of fundamentalism I do not get.
So if we accept that God wrote the Bible. Done.
What language? And how many translations are we to get to the 21st century American English?
How many books that were left out of the bible did God write?
What about the English King who decided which books belong and do not belong in the bible?
Even if you wanted to believe that every word of the Bible is from God’s lips to our ears… Which Bible??
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This is what I’m saying and this is why I continue to insist fundamentalist Christians are in error. The Christian Bible was compiled amidst much furor in the 4th Century AD. What were we doing before then, being Neoplatonists? It is inspired and inspirational, a document of how it seems God has interacted with a particular people in a particular way. Ultimately the Christian Bible is meant to introduce a person to a main character, Jesus, who is the proper focus and fulcrum of a Christian.
But heck if they want to say that the King James Version is so utterly inspired that it is the Word of God (and not Jesus) well then I’ll just put on my red hat and red robes and in my best Tim Curry-as-Richelieu impression jump around three times shouting “ANATHEMA! ANATHEMA! ANATHEMA!”
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The translations were surprisingly poor. For almost 2,000 years the people of Europe thought Moses had horns just because the original Latin translator confused “karnoo” (radiated) with “karno” (his horn).
No to mention that there are plenty of words that had two or three meanings in Hebrew, and the translators had to pretty much arbitrarily decide which meaning to keep.
For example, the Hebrew word for “rib” also means “side”. It makes much more sense that Eve was created from Adam’s side (that is, god basically split him into two), rather than from his rib.
WAIT, MOSES DOESN’T HAVE HORNS!!??!!
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How does he let people know to get out of the way?
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by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
Just the one.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:29 PM PST up reply actions
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it didn’t work :C
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Polygamy, as well.
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Not in the bible. King Solomon had 1,000 wifes.
The ban on polygamy came very late in Judaism (late middle ages, I think), and doesn’t exist in Islam and in some forms of Christianity.
I was under the impression that the comment wasn’t specifically pertaining to the Bible.
Perhaps I was mistaken.
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See? At this point in the thread who knows who’s replying to who anymore?
PIE.
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BLESSED ARE THE PIE MAKERS!
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by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:40 PM PST up reply actions
I think there needs to be a distinction between what people in the Bible did and what God is against.
The fact that King Solomon had 1,000 wives does not mean God was okay with polygamy.
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That was supposedly why his kingdom broke up.
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He obviously didn’t marry enough of them.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
God did say kings shouldn’t have many wifes, so that was a bad example. But the fact that he said that proves he was OK with it general.
Also, the fact he said nothing against polygamy in his 12,000,000,000 word rant seems to indicate he had no problem with it.
Is this the Mishna now or the Kabbalah?
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Don’t tell me you believe the Bible is written by God. It’s inspired literature. Maybe traditionally Moses wrote the Pentateuch as dictated by God, but that’s just the first five books.
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Actually God specifically said that it’s one man and one wife very early on.
The Bible is filled with people who did things that God was against
David committed murder
Noah committed incest
Solomon committed polygamy
Ruth was a prostitute
The point is that God used very imperfect people
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Actually God specifically said that it’s one man and one wife very early on.
Show me the quote. I just showed one that indicated he was fine with polygamy, as long as the first wife isn’t neglected.
Genesis 2:24
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
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Exodus 21:10
If he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
God had nothing against Polygamy according to the bible. The ban on it is a late addition.
God also allowed the Israelites to offer up sacrifices to rectify their sins but that doesn’t mean that God was okay with sin.
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I don’t understand this argument. The fact that rectifying was needed is in itself proof that God wasn’t OK with sin.
God laid down the rules very early on.
People who followed God mostly did not follow those rules.
Sometimes, that resulted in immediate retribution (flood, Lot’s wife) and sometime it took longer (destruction of Israel).
God knew that people could not follow His laws.
Jesus explains in Matthews 18
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"
4 "Haven’t you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
7 "Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?"
8 Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."
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every single religion in history
Yeah… I don’t think so.
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
Hey now!
as far as I know
It was a qualified comment.
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You know what religion I was reading up about lately? Shinto.
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Interesting.
And here I am, having not even read my own Bible.
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I was obviously raised Catholic but never went to Catholic school (who needed to? it’s the Philippines, Saturday variety shows have crucifixes) but was always into “comparative religion” as a child. In the other thread wcw said he was just not into any supernatural stuff; I’m the opposite in that I love all supernatural stuff, myths, legends, fairy tales, etc. My brand of orthodox Catholicism was forged in college at the feet of Chesterton.
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Mmm
I was also raised Catholic, but even with one Filipino parent, it’s a very different experience relative to religion growing up across the ocean in the U.S (public schools the whole way).
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Dude
I was in Montessori through high school. We apparently had religious visionaries in our building. Visions of the 13 apostles in the ash clouds above Mt. Pinatubo. When I went to Europe for summer camp I was shocked to discover the existence of atheists.
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Crazy...
Well, I have to go off to campus.
Nice internet talking with you!
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YR
how you can concentrate on courses at five in the afternoon is beyond me.
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I once thought taking only a class at 6PM would be highly effiicent, and instead I skipped it about half the time.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:10 PM PST up reply actions
same same. and this was the remedial psychology class to fill the psych component. we ended up going OT and our professor (a psychologist) just observed us and took notes.
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It was for viola
I made the 4-6 class mistake last semester
won’t do so again.
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Actually
My Caucasian dad is more religious than my mom in some ways.
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I’m leaving now because I really want to get involved and darn it, I know I shouldn’t.
Besides, I want to get home.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
Two words
Mike Matheny
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There’s magic inside that box.
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
I think we’re on the same page. I’m obviously not being as exacting as you, but that’s usually the case.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 4:46 PM PST up reply actions
It’s not a religious issue for me. Marriage is a state/secular function.
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And a secular marriage should also include male/male and female/female marriages.
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If two consenting people wish to fuck up their lives via marriage
Then they should be allowed no matter what type of junk they have.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
State and secular are synonymous for many, but not for all Americans, and certainly not for all people in general.
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Then they should learn some history.
BTW: The founding fathers were not Christans, their were humanists.
That’s why the Declaration of Indep. talks about creator.
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Honey an elected congresswoman just recently stated on national television that the Founding Fathers ended slavery.
We’ve past the point of basic civics.
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but they did!
With the holy formula 3 /5.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
Consult the Onion!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/future-us-history-students-its-pretty-embarrassing,19099/
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What country is this?
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See, this is why I can understand English irreligion. I mean the Reformation in England was just messed up, and what came before that wasn’t peachy either. The whole Stephen/Matilda thing, which I didn’t even know about until Cadfael.
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Also we hate Jesus.
Something like 10% of people go to a place of worship once a week, compared to (IIRC) 40% of Americans, frankly I have trouble believing it’s that many.
Why you guys continue to pay for a bunch of inbreeders to live in luxury is a mystery to me
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by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:01 PM PST up reply actions
Tell me about it.
The worst thing is, everything’s gone ZOMG ROYAL WEDDING since we’re allegedly having one this year.
Bleuch.
Yeah. And what’s with the whole ‘not having a constitution’ thing?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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I like it when the guy knocks on the door and it’s slammed in his face.
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I like when they call each other "right honorable gentleman"
Right before insulting each other.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:35 PM PST up reply actions
and the
stand-up sit-down thing for question time.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:36 PM PST up reply actions
Ya gotta admit, Question Time in Parliament is hella more fun than C-Span.
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No doubt about it.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
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Yeah, it’s so cheating when some guy or gal in the US Congress gives this big speech and it turns out there’s nobody in the chamber.
random barracking.
Oh my.
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We have a fairly narrow set of insults that can be used
But I like….“living proof that a pig’s bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to Parliament”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4511352.stm
Hahaha!
I remember seeing a documentary on that as well.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:33 PM PST up reply actions
Writing a constituion
Generally requires some sort of revolution or rebellion. That’s how you unite the people. Britain’s stability kind of worked against it in this case. Last chance to write one was probably 1689 – it’s been too quiet since.
The French, on the other hand, overthrow their leader every 50 years, so they get to write plenty of constitutions.
We were getting pretty bad in the late 1820s/30s, but then we decided to abolish Rotten Boroughs and actually give a few more people the vote and things quietened down.
Kate Middleton is pretty hot though
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and people complained of Graham and i with our convos, UNBELIEVABLE
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11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
HEY TAKE YOUR CONVO SOMEWHERE ELSE
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by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 6:24 PM PST up reply actions
?
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:34 PM PST up reply actions
trying to give me nightmares?
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11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Yeah. Didn’t have time or energy for resizing. Plus the half off the page thing is extra creepy.
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:38 PM PST up reply actions
YEA!!! WHAT NOW GUYZ!?!?!?!?
WHY CANT YOU TAKE THIS TO FACEBOOK!?!?!? OR SOMEWHERE ELSE!?!??!
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11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
The monarchy is just one of many terrible things about the place!
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Oh come now. A Potemkin Monarchy is good for tourism.
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:51 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, but nobody should ever visit England, so…
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Your conflicted relationship with England is painful to behold.
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:55 PM PST up reply actions
It’s greatly exaggerated for comedic effect, of course. I wouldn’t be mentioning it so much if England hadn’t been brought up so much lately.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I was going along with the conceit….
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 7:06 PM PST up reply actions
Ah.
Well, for the record, I do not spend all my time hating England.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
What percentage of your time would you estimate you spend hating England?
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 11:04 PM PST up reply actions
I read that as “A Pokemon Monarchy”
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
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It’s going to be awkward when Burrell shows up and invokes his primae noctis rights
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by calbearjd on Feb 9, 2011 1:00 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
LOL liveblogging the wedding
and no, I will not liveblog my kid being born in the fall.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
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She's pushing... and
OH GOD! OH GOD, WEHY!
And then, after the baby cries, cue the string of dancing gifs.
Do. not. look. over. the. curtain.
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Had to watch a video of a childbirth in class in middle school
I do not plan to do that again, ever.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Me Neither.
Middle school sucked.
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High school is like a thousand times better, which doesn’t make any sense since the people here are the same people I went to middle school with.
Whatever.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I have two nephews in middle school, and they are making a second generation of my family that learned utterly nothing.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 7:00 PM PST up reply actions
And college is even better….and grad school is the bestest!
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Grad school for me will prolly happen after i get a few years
under the belt… High School>>>>>Middle School, however our high school definitely had groups that thought they were wayyyyy too cool for school
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Yeah I waited awhile. The best thing about grad school was no breadth requirements. No classes in crap you really don’t care about. Going to school during a huge budget crisis, when they tried to get your whole department to accept a “golden handshake” was kinda nice too. “We’ve got to get this last batch of students through the program!!! There will be nobody here to teach them next year!”
We had classes with like 6 people in them, which necessitated fiddoodling with the attendance numbers.
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That’s gonna be big, going to classes that will actually interest me, nothing forced.
Plus the fact there aren’t too many people in the class will be nice, like i enjoyed the fact i only had about 15 or so people max in my classes at school when i got to 300 level courses, it was awesome, really connected with others in the class and the professor
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11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Middle school is easily the worst idea of the industrial age.
Let’s take a bunch of awkward kids who don’t know what their place is in this crazy world and rather then empower them by gradually giving them responsibilities, we’ll instead SEGREGATE THOSE LITTLE FUCKERS. Then they can be looked down upon by the high schoolers they’re about to join and can be considered weird or outcast by K-6th graders (or K-5 in some cases). And to sweeten the deal, let middle school after school programs and extracurricular activities be the FIRST thing that gets cut from school budgets so district superintendents can pay for their office refurbishments.
I went to K-8, and there was a program where the 7th and 8th graders were essentially mentors to either K & 1st graders or 1st & 2nd graders (can’t quite remember). That was the coolest thing. The older kids new they had someone looking up to them and being in awe, and the younger kids had something to look forward to.
Fuck middle schools. And I didn’t even go to one.
Congrats
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Congrats!
I was a groomsman in a wedding last weekend. I love weddings.
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Also, this is an opportunity to take a stand. You need a wedding pie!
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Not if he wants to have a good wedding
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by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 1:04 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, when you look back at your wedding you want to think of dozens of people coming up & asking you “Where the fuck is the cake?” Go back to Canada, ya commie.
/cake committee
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We had this ENORMOUS coconut cake. WIth the tiers and everything. And this really rich chocolate sauce on the side. It’s important that it be on the side. Yes, because if you put it on the cake then the cake gets very soggy. So you have to keep it on the side.
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Yes, when you look back at your wedding you want to think of dozens of people coming up & asking you "Where the fuck is the cake?" Go back to Canada, ya commie.
/cake commie
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You have cake at a wedding & you have cake at a kids birthday party. It’s as American as apple…. oh shut up.
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cake at weddings.
pie at holidays
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We had key lime pie as our wedding ‘cake’. Well, actually we had Champagne, since our official marriage was an elopement, so very few people were there and we made very few preparations. But it was absolutely the best key lime pie you have ever had, and among the best affordable Champagne.
Our second time around, we had the wedding outdoors and the reception in our living room, and spent our entire budget on the dinner, booze and pie.
That was a goooooood party.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 3:57 PM PST up reply actions
Cake is Randy Winn
Pie is John Kruk
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Wedding cake is Neifi Perez showing off his arm and throwing a ball into the stands.
Wedding pie is a knuckleballer throwing a shutout.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 4:02 PM PST up reply actions
I have absolutely no idea what that means
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Wedding cake is showy, but awful.
Wedding pie is leaves you wanting more and wondering what just happened.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 4:11 PM PST up reply actions
But that is in fact incorrect.
Wedding Cakes are only bad if you get a bad bakery.
Wedding Pie is liking serving Miller High-Life as a replacement for wine.
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Do you ever tire of the wrongness?
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
Do you ever tire of being wrong in the pie and cake debate?
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
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I’ll let you know.
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:52 PM PST up reply actions
I have never tasted a wedding cake at any price point by any bakery in Minneapolis or the Bay Area for which I would pay money as a dessert, food or snack.
I have seen many that are absolutely gorgeous decoration.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 4:21 PM PST up reply actions
CAKE IS HOT!
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
So is the sun, but I’m not serving it by the slice after a wedding.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 7:35 PM PST up reply actions
My new favorite affordable “Champagne.”
Two magnums of the 2005 just arrived today.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
This was Billiot, which back in the day was a $30 bottle.
For $50, there are a lot of perfectly drinkable Champagnes even now.
My favorite truly affordable sparkling wine is CSM’s Blancs de Noirs, $8 at TF’s.
I challenge you to find something as good for $8 or less.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 4:15 PM PST up reply actions
Congrats!
and condolences.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
really?
that’s awesome, congrats. Good luck
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Congrats
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Yay! Congratulations!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 2:49 PM PST up reply actions
Man, I’ve been living in choppedville for hours.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I was in there for about an hour.
“Is there a new story? No, someone would have said something. They would have told me.”
No. No they would not have.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
I’m not paying my membership fee until I get a guaranteed tweet with each new front page post.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I'm a pessimist
So I think that Pat will produce JUST enough that Bochy won’t want to replace him with some young guy, but he’ll produce less than we’ll want.
AB: 450
AVG: .240
OBP: .335
SLG: .445
HR: 15
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I do have to call Grant out
in that he forgot to mention Burrell’s walk against Cliff Lee in game 1 to keep the rally going. I believe the walk came on a full count.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
BURRELL? he's playing for free(1,000,000 dollars, the giants wipe their booties with this)
he’s our backup outfielder with a little pop, veteran leadership, and an ability to stay and keep others loose
either way, 1,000,000 is basically volunteering to play for the Gigantes anything we get will be awesome….
he already delivered, WORLD CHAMPS
Trade Sabean/jk...Overthrow the Ydorks...
What time is it? IT'S SHOWTIME BABY!!!1
that one run in the WS = PRICELESS
Trade Sabean/jk...Overthrow the Ydorks...
What time is it? IT'S SHOWTIME BABY!!!1
hehe Mechian.
This team is a tease. 2010 Giants baseball playing Just the Tip with the best of them.
For the record...
when ya’ll were talking shit about me loving my Bud Light, remember that Pat the Bat chooses this beverage as well.
Ha.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I like the Giants for a lot of things, but beer selection is not one of them.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lamp-post - for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang
by Ott on Feb 9, 2011 2:39 PM PST up reply actions
wasn't Budweiser sponsoring baseball?
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
this is an image I could get used to
Trade Sabean/jk...Overthrow the Ydorks...
What time is it? IT'S SHOWTIME BABY!!!1
I like how terezowens.com just puts his name on a photo he probably has zero rights to.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 9, 2011 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
So annoying. It’s either a Getty or AP picture.
by Grant Brisbee on Feb 9, 2011 1:20 PM PST up reply actions
He is the turd in the championship punchbowl.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
that trophy has flown better than 99% of us and that is sad
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved solar powered broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
Agreed
the trophy should fly better than 100% of us.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Nice! haha
also, what is up with aer’s hand? I see a master of puppets thing going on
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved solar powered broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
Trophy requests seat change to Matt Cain’s row.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
/Airline loses his luggage.
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
I'm on the Twitters
2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
I wonder if this meme stretches to his personal life as well.
CHELSEA: Who wants ice cream?
MATT AND HARTLEY: I do!
CHELSEA: Well, there’s enough for only one. Sorry, honey.
MATT: Shucks.
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Cainer? Hartley new her!
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
by jhiat00 on Feb 9, 2011 1:30 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Gorgeous
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved solar powered broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Feb 11, 2011 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
MILE HIGH CLUB!
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
I was flying to Wisconsin to see relatives with my gf in high school, and we were going in Dec 2001, and bought the tickets in July, and planned to be 17-yr old Mile High Members (LOL), then 9/11 happened, and we never had a chance on our flight a few months later :(
The plane was under heavy guard
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
What? Respect for Matt Cain?
Matt Cain— Pianowski SP rank 16, Yahoo! composite rank 21
I love Matt Cain, mostly because the Regression Police hate him. He’s beaten his xFIP-suggested ERA for his entire career because he’s posted a sterling HR/FB rate every season. And it’s fun to watch the Internet try to explain it.
Does Cain have a skill that we can’t put our finger on? Is pitching coach Dave Righetti part of the answer? Has Cain just been the bastion of luck for five years running? (While you were reading this paragraph, “unlucky” Aaron Harang(notes) just allowed another 473-foot homer. Don’t worry, Dave Bush(notes) is coming in to relieve him).
I don’t need to definitively understand the Cain trend; I’m happy to keep following it until the durable righty does me wrong. And even if some of the Cain pixie dust wears off, working in San Francisco (and in the NL West) will cover for a lot of his mistakes. When we add up all the numbers and prices, he’s a No. 2 fantasy arm at a No. 3 cost. -SP
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I'm mocking speckops, but only out of twisted love:
This self-righteous meme among Giants fans really needs to die. It’s getting to the point where Cain, for so long underrated by the national media, is starting to trend towards overrated among Giants fans.
Two things:
1) He’s a really good pitcher, but probably not great.
2) Regression. Regression. Regression. Always regress towards the mean. Yes, after 1000+ IP his HR/FB is almost certainly in part skill. But that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s all skill.
I have 1 number for those idiots
0.000000000000000000
actually, that’s not really even a number. dumbasses
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Every starting pitcher who's ever gone an entire season
Has at least 21 innings in which he didn’t give up a run.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
unless he was really, really bad.
besides, I’m talking consecutive innings.
but ICWUDT
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
OT:
Why did i just see Steve Perry in all White Sox gear when they won the World Series?
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Because he was riding the White Sox bandwagon back in 2005
During the 2005 baseball season, the Chicago White Sox adopted Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” as their unofficial team anthem. As a result, Perry (an avid San Francisco Giants fan) was asked to attend the World Series and even traveled with the team to Houston where Perry joined the players on the field and in the locker room as they celebrated their championship.
Wiki
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
SO THATS
why my friends who are White Sox fans say they claimed that song first
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
The Dodgers also hijacked the song but Perry was not involved
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
OT: Worker's comp
I just took a heck of a fall on the parking lot outside the office. Does anyone know if I can file worker’s comp if the accident was caused by my own stupidity?
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Wow, are you really that hurt?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Oh, no. Just a little scuffed up. But I need to bilk the system somehow.
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You are who the Tea Party is warning us about!
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Constantly falling down on our heterosexual American parking lots!
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lol
That too, I guess.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Yes. Drain that cash cow that is NPR.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
You’re right. Bilking non-profit organizations is pretty much a losing idea right out of the gate.
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bilking anyone for anything is a losing idea right out of the gate. but on the bright side, you’ll make world’s dumbest criminals for trying to hit a non-profit for a ton of cash
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Pretty sure it’s the state that pays, or the insurance company, and I’m pretty sure he’s kidding.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
involves a dirty wifebeater and a trucker cap
MY FAULT
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Brrr…did it just get cold in here? Sorry if I offended.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
No, not at all! Sorry if I gave that impression. I just meant, well, I saw it.
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I’ve actually never really imagined how any of you look in real life. Never crossed my mind.
Now you’ve got me thinking.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Except howie, of course.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I imagine Howie as one fucked up kid. The erection talk pushed it over the edge :)
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I was kind of a messed up teen.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 3:24 PM PST up reply actions
We used to have picture threads once in a while, so a lot of the veterans know how the other veterans look.
Of course, some here have actually meat one another. Crazy.
Meat one another? I don’t know what kind of gatherings you are going to!!! … and I’m not sure I want to.
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
It’s wild at the Publick House. Be glad McCovey’s is a lot more buttoned-down.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
We should do that again
I want to see your best failbeards.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
yea... posted my pic here a few times
of my beard, trying to say how it was better than howies
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Sad Pika?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 7:07 PM PST up reply actions
CORRECT
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
/sad_Pika_with_Beer.jpg
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 11:05 PM PST up reply actions
MEDICAL UPDATE
I just rolled up my sleeve and discovered blood.
I am suing the hell out of anything that moves.
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You have what medical science calls “a digger.”
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
My elbow will heal. But this shirt I love will not. That’s what pisses me off.
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If you were on the clock you have a case.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
is Johnny Disaster a workers comp lawyer?
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I spent seven years as the job steward at a UPS facility.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 2:48 PM PST up reply actions
CRAZY POSTAL WORKER!
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
So let me ge this straight:
You fell. Hard. Possibly hurt yourself to the point where you would need workers comp. Then your first course of action was to hop on a blog instead of go directly to the hospital? Just curious :)
I took a heavy 2nd degree burn on my hand at a fire a few days ago (glove got knocked off and I leaned into a burning wall for support with my bare hand), and won’t be working this week, and workers comp is paying for my lost time at work. This is my first severe-ish burn, and workers comp takes care of it all so long as you were not blatantly disregarding protocal.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Not quite. I fell off a loading dock and scratched up my right elbow (who knew sweaters could inflict such damage?) and right knee. The worker’s comp thing was facetious.
But hey, among this, a tense press conference I covered today and an impending date tonight, this is the most interesing Wednesday I’ve had in a while.
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Good man.
I also have a date tonight. And tomorrow! I’m awesome!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Heh. Successfully went on a date with that girl, roughly a week later. Yes, watching the State of the Union was the better of my options.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’m trying not to get my hopes up. But after wandering through a desert, any oasis looks pretty damn good.
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Yeah. And then comes the annilingus.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Desperation sex is such a bad idea. Not that you’re going to have desperation sex. Just saying. Although it must be said fat wrinkly old men with pookah-shell necklaces find desperation sex quite profitable.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I will not sit idly by and let you slander desperation sex.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I will not sit idly by
/starts bouncing instead
Slightly seriouser, you’re straight yeah? Are you into anal? Even if you are, desperation sex for a gay bottom is fucking humiliating and disgusting.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I shall happily concede the point.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Weird, that’s what the gay bottom said just before having desperation sex.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
I know you speak from vicarious experience.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Howie has hugged many people.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I think Travis from Corbin Fisher did that the last time.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Oh man. Now I'm all confused... AND
I just spent the last couple of minutes looking all this stuff up on the internet. I am going to go to the bathroom now.
A character, no less.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
He hangs out with Cho Chang.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
Well, I’m going to assume that you made the connection because of Sirius Black, so character makes the most sense to me.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:43 PM PST up reply actions
That's part of it
But mainly just that it’s a tong-twisting alliteration. Like Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, Quirinus Quirrell, Salazar Slytherin, and many more.
But it also sounds like a spell that makes you slightly seriouser
Fake Latin
Soberus minima!
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Desperation sex for a straight bottom is an empowering experience.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 2:50 PM PST up reply actions
That’s what Guy Ritchie said!
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I choose this random point
to observe that I hope Mr. Baggarly is learning a lot today. This really is an epic wandering thread for the ages.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 4:09 PM PST up reply actions
If you’re going to introduce that word to a family weblog, would you have the good sense to spell it right?
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 3:59 PM PST up reply actions
YOU THINK THIS IS A FUCKING FAMILY BLOG?!?! THE FUCK WE’RE NOT!!
FUCK!!
hahaahaha, j/k. but seriously
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
It’s not spelled annilingus?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I think that’s when you spend a year licking something.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:24 PM PST up reply actions
… ah. But cunnilingus is oral vaginal contact, right?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I understand this to be the case.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:26 PM PST up reply actions
Huh! It is just one “n”!
Well that explains what I’ve been doing wrong.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I see you worked this out already.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 4:51 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe this means next time I won’t be turned off by the smell of hole.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Courtney Love is pretty smelly
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
Damn it. I Z’d away accidentally and by the time I found this comment again you made the joke I wanted to.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
It is. It’s also spelled analingus, fwiw.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 4:50 PM PST up reply actions
Oh wait. The double N is wrong. Just one of them.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 4:50 PM PST up reply actions
What song did you sing?
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
No songs. Just failure.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Rush and pie at a wedding reception
Both fails.
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 serious.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Letter might have chasmed me there, dammit.
But I appreicate everyone saying they hope I FEEL BETTER. My hand is all bandaged up.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
i hope u feel better giantsfansince1981.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
WHY I..ao;in;aigm;alm aiheouy8rta;lmalsnboasigh
I’ll get fed dinner by hand tonight, if I so desire, so take that!!
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Thanks, Jim!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 3:29 PM PST up reply actions
You’d have to deal with personal injury lawyers. The possible reward just isn’t worth it.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
AB: 372
HR: 15
AVG: .262
OBP: .369
SLG: .503
i did not just copy and paste grant’s projection and changed some numbers around.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
OT: Dude should be on the niners, UNREAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0WMd0Y6hIw&feature=related
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I think you’d be surprised how insanely easy it is to throw a football with pinpoint accuracy, most third string D1 qbs can knock over a soda can from 20 yards away like 90% of the time in a non game situation.
This isn’t a third string qb, but it goes to show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVoqA-LKGb4
I have seen the future of rock n' roll, and its name is Buster Posey.
"Practice is a crutch for the talentless."
LOL Roethlisberger overthrowing wide open Wallace
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
A couple of months ago I saw an ESPN special where they had Andrew Luck and a few other first strong D1 guys on doing a drill where they have to hit their rival’s helmet from, like, 15 yards away. Luck was the only one who hit it.
I think you’re overestimating the skill of nearly every college quarterback in the nation.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
there were different things that this dude did, like throw a football through a basketball hoop from like, the second deck….
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I wasn’t responding to your comment. The video was impressive. The idea that throwing a football with pinpoint accuracy is insanely easy is what I was contending.
To the point, even in the video atxgiantsfan linked to above, they “prove” that it’s hard to be accurate by showing Luke McCown hit less than 50% of their targets. Total pinpoint there.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:15 PM PST up reply actions
oh i know u werent responding to my comment
ha, i’ve been here long enough to realize that. And i agree, there’s no way it’s THAT easy have pinpoint accuracy like this guy did, or Luck
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I would have to see this to believe it. I could hit that more than 90% of the time.
I have seen the future of rock n' roll, and its name is Buster Posey.
"Practice is a crutch for the talentless."
TWSS?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Yeah, that kicker is boss.
Who knows how many takes it was, though?
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:11 PM PST up reply actions
good question, i got no idea
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
So the drug they are testing is the worst thing in the whole wide world
You know it is bad when the Dr. looks at you right before the injection and says, “This is going to be unpleasant.”
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 1:51 PM PST reply actions
Why are you being a guinea pig? Just in the name of science?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I think they asked because I am relatively young compared to their other subjects
And yeah, I agreed because I thought it would be the right thing to do.
(and they are paying me)
And as soon as the plunger went down, I had a metallic taste in my mouth, my face flushed really bad and I had pain in my chest, neck and left arm. It was like having a heart attack all over again. It sucked.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 2:07 PM PST up reply actions
Oh man.... sorry Lars!
that does sound pretty awful :(
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
HOW MUCH MONEY WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE THEM STOP THIS?
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Gosh, that sounds awful.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
WHAAAAAT?!
If this were a comic book, you’d develop special powers.
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by Murray, Present on Feb 9, 2011 3:58 PM PST up reply actions
OT if you’re willing to eat a crustacean there’s no logical reason you shouldn’t want to eat an insect, is there?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Correct
Sea bugs
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 2:08 PM PST up reply actions
My logical reason: yuck
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Feb 9, 2011 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
There is a meat to shell ratio to consider.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
Pat Burrell may have uttered this
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 2:21 PM PST up reply actions
So, just grubs for you?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 2:53 PM PST up reply actions
subcomment
What about arachnids? Spiders and scorpions?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I love a nice Jerusalem cricket with fava beans and a dry chianti wine.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 2:53 PM PST up reply actions
?
I used to dig them up in my backyard. The only time I’ve listened to Vampire Weekend is when I had to for some crappy event they did at Wal-Mart.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 3:00 PM PST up reply actions
OT: For anybody that cares about Michigan football...
There goes Tate Forcier to the Miami Hurricane… Can’t say i’m surprised to see him leave Michigan, this program is just so messed up right now, and finally did the right thing in firing DICK rod
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
If I was a D1 coach, I would've been in contact with Forcier's dad
About halfway through last season.
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
I hate playing Baseball Mogul 2010 these days...
Even when I trade away Bengie and add PTB and Cody, the “misfits” rarely finish higher than 4th… They need to update their simulation algorithms!
"Whoever said WAR is HELL must have been talking about Aaron Rowand" - McCoven faithful
You can always do that yourself. Sometimes, for fun, I’ll edit the Giants players predicted stats to be their real stats for the past year. You get some awesome (if unrealistic) results that way.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lamp-post - for support rather than illumination. - Andrew Lang
by Ott on Feb 9, 2011 2:46 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, if I edit Bumgarner’s stats to be what they really are, he turns out to be the best pitcher to ever play the game. Also Wilson and Romo are godly…
"Whoever said WAR is HELL must have been talking about Aaron Rowand" - McCoven faithful
My projection?
hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband because Pat is nailin’ errybody out here.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
by ch3zyp00fs on Feb 9, 2011 2:48 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
you have more choices than you think
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
It's 7 AM in Manila
And my dad will now be having his polypectomy. BrB.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
/crosses fingers and hopes for the best
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 3:02 PM PST up reply actions
Good luck to him.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 4:08 PM PST up reply actions
Godspeed, kababayan.
All the best.
"Reynolds struck out as many times as I did in high school, and I’m not talking about baseball." - Duane Kuiper.
Nate woulda had that.
by MonochromeGarden on Feb 9, 2011 4:13 PM PST up reply actions
Does Elmer Dessens not get a full write up?
He was pretty good last year…
"Whoever said WAR is HELL must have been talking about Aaron Rowand" - McCoven faithful
I think it Dessens on how busy Grant is.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 3:11 PM PST up reply actions
We’ve all be Dessensitized to these puns at this point.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
we already did
It went something like this:
bm1: ‘click click.. periperals.. mutter.. 2010.. aaaaaaaaaaaah! my eyes! aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!’
bm2: but look that ERA
bm3: shiny
bm1: what about my eyes?
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 4:05 PM PST up reply actions
WABBIT SEASON!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
Nerd OT: This thread has been entirely too on-topic
The reportedly in-production iPad 2 will indeed add “at least one” camera for video chat, the anonymously sourced Journal story claims—raising the possibility that it won’t get a rear-facing camera for recording HD video, like on such Android-powered competitors as the Dell Streak 7, the Motorola Xoom, and the LG G-Slate.
The new iPad will also be “thinner and lighter,” but the display may “disappoint customers” hoping for a “significant improvement” in resolution, the Journal reports.
While the current iPad’s display resolution of 1024 by 768 is nothing to sneeze at, earlier rumors had it that the new iPad might get an ultra-dense, double-resolution screen, similar to the “retina” display on the iPhone 4.
And while the iPad 2 will be available through both AT&T and Verizon, it won’t be offered by Sprint or T-Mobile—and don’t count on 4G data support either, the Journal adds.
On the other hand, the LG G-Slate will work on T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ network, with later versions of the Motorola Xoom slated to support 4G LTE data on Verizon. (Initial Xoom tablets will also get 4G access via an update, Motorola promises.)
The Journal story also notes a few other rumored (and oft-repeated) details about the iPad 2, including word that it’ll boast more memory for better overall performance and improved multitasking, plus a souped-up graphics processor for games and video.
So, what gives? GigaOm has an interesting perspective, noting that the Journal piece “feels like an intentional leak” on Apple’s part, intended not only to “bolster interest” in the next-generation iPad but also to deflate “some of the loftier expectations floating around,” such as word that the iPad 2 might arrive with an eye-popping, 2,048-by-1,536 pixel display.
Word had already been circulating that a “retina” display for the next iPad might not materialize, although there’s still plenty of chatter that the iPad 2 will boast a pair of cameras—one in front, another in back—and perhaps a longed-for SD memory card slot. (The Journal didn’t address the SD slot rumors, by the way.)
Apple had seriously be wary about losing their tech edge. I am not buying an ipad without a SD Memory slot.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
OT: 3G vs 4G (iPhones)
I’m finally getting a web-enabled phone. I was thinking of a closeout iPhone for $50.00. Is the extra G a big deal? What does the 4G iPhone (hardware) go for?
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
The iPhone 4 isn't 4G
AT&T won’t roll out a 4G network for a couple of months, and it’s unclear if the next iPhone will even utilize that particular network.
I have a 3GS, so I can’t speak for the 4. They’re almost totally different phones. the 4 has a better battery, the screen is amazing, etc.
Android, however, has some 4G phones with comparable hardware on better networks.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Not sure. I have yet to come across a smartphone that has decent battery life.
Most phones you can swap out the battery so having an extra battery is an option.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Ah, yes. This will forever be the Android's advantage over the iPhone.
No swappable battery.
I think the 4G and Flash functions do impact battery life.
They're thinkin bout it for the iphone 5
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I know this will prove how little I follow this, but I’ve been happy with AT&T (they just waived $300.00 worth of overages today), and I know they work at both of my properties.
I’m not sure what would happen if I switched providers and the signal sucked at one or the other (or both).
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
Plus
the 4G network that currently exists does not even cover the nation. For any carrier. AT&T’s will most likely be the same where it only covers major metropolitan areas first.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
This.
Can I make calls and surf the web. Preferably while I am on boring calls.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I'll agree.. to me, i couldn't care less about 3 G 4 G...
Just care about having a smartphone that can call people too
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Is that something that only AT&T can do (at least that’s what their ads say) Can you call and surf the web on Verizon?
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
As of now that is still just AT&T
And for the life of me I have no idea why the others do not.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I think the Verizon issue is just one of the differences between CDMA and GSM. I don’t know if T-Mobile allows voice and data simultaneous.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
GSM sim cards us one big thing about AT&T that people don’t bring up.
My wife lost her phone a few weeks ago. Instead of needing to activate a new phone, I gave her my phone and she just got a replacement sim card. I just got a cheap phone off of Ebay and plugged it in.
Also, you can take your phone overseas and replace the sim card with a pre-paid card.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
It was always important to me
Because I moved from the Philippines and through most of the 2000s was going back and forth between here and there. Only a GSM phone could do that. I’d just pop in a different SIM if the phone was unlocked. Of course, the iPhone is a bit trickier, but it does still work.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Spoken like a guy without a 4g phone
I have the Samsung Epic 4g on Sprint, and the load speeds in 4g zones are incredible. McC comment threads that can take 10 seconds to load on a computer in 5 on my phone.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Sure, but I use wi-fi most of the time so for me, it's not *as* important
as battery life.
It is cool to look at GDT on my phone, but I only do it on special occasions.
It’s not cool.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
I once commented “I’m poopin” while I was in the john at the ballpark.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Most of my comments are done whilst poopin’.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:16 PM PST up reply actions
That's fair.
If you’re mostly a wifi guy anyway, doesn’t matter.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I use an actual compuer to try and tackle MCC.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
computer too.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Well… i’m trying to decide between the HTC Thunderbolt and the Iphone 4
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
hence... HTC>Iphone
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Well… i’m looking for Verizon phones… something better than a droid… What else is there from HTC other than the Thunderbolt… the Aria? i do know that the Thunderbolt is on the 4G
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Plus the Thunderbolt comes out next week i believe...
Wasn’t sold on the iphone 4 yet for verizon, and wanted to see what the android system could do to combat Iphone, and from the looks of it, many feel that the THunderbolt could be better than the Iphone
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Good luck.
They’re all starting to look the same and have the same features (smartphones). I don’t really advocate one over the other. One good reason to avoid the iPhone 4 on Verizon is the likelihood that the iPhone 5 will be released in four months for both networks.
Yep! Totally agree on that, hence why i haven’t made a move yet on anything, and i am due for an upgrade, so i wont make a movie on anything until i hear about some of the specs on the iphone 5
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I’m not a really technical person when it comes to phones, but I do like my Aria a lot.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 7:55 PM PST up reply actions
I was thinking of a closeout iPhone for $50.00
The iPhone for AT&T is only $50 right now? Mine is starting to break from daily use (and being dropped a few times), so I wanted to get another without paying $100s of dollars.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
If you’re worrying about an SD slot, you’re not the iPad market.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I’m not worried about it, I just think it’s a very important feature not to have (as is Flash-support)
I want to get one for my daughter to watch videos and play games but don’t want to cough up the $30 monthly fee to AT&T. With a memory card, I can swap out videos (like a tape) and not have rely on the 16/32 gb hard drive.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
… wouldn’t you just do that when you connect it to iTunes?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
But I can’t store the videos on the HD. 16 GB is maybe 5-7 movies.
I can also use wi-fi when necessary but in the car, strictly HD or 3G
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
You need more than 5 movies on your tablet? Wow. I mean, I only have something like ten movies, although a lot of 1-hour TV shows, and I just swap one in or out on the iPad depending on whether or not I’m tired of it.
I guess it’s different if you’re programming for a kid.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I just like the flexibility. You never know what movie or TV show the kid want to watch. I want to be able to keep a number of videos on hand.
A good alternative would be a port for external HDs but ipad doesn’t have that either.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
hehe
Purple Row saw the “rivalry” article too.
http://www.purplerow.com/2011/2/9/1983702/wednesday-rockpile-is-the-young-trade-dead-i-hope-so
random PR poster:
I expect to win around 90-92 games that is not a stretch…it is basically close to what we would of won last year minus the last 2 weeks collapse and that was a down year for most of the season
So by that logic, the Giants would have won 100 games last season if not for the 2 week stretch in June when we lost like 11 of 14? Quite a stretch of logic, there. You don’t say “we would have won if not for ____ weeks of losing”. LOL Stupid Rockies Fans.
And he expects to win 10 more games than they did last year with exactly the same team?
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
You forgot Lopez
He will have a .920 OPS….because…..well, because they want him to.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 3:15 PM PST up reply actions
The Rangers would have won the World Series
If not for that one week stretch when they lost 4 out of 5 games.
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Feb 9, 2011 3:17 PM PST up reply actions 18 recs
YES
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
BOOM!!!!!!!!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Goes the Dynamite?
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
HA
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 7:54 PM PST up reply actions
Underestimate the Rockies at your own peril
I’d be willing to bet that the Giants aren’t.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I don't think I've seen anyone type: LOL ROCKIES SUCK
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 3:23 PM PST up reply actions
it's LOL Rockies FANS.
and another little goldmine from PR:
and most likely not 1 but 2 of their pitchers will be on the DL together at the same time then what will they do?
So we have to assume 2 of our SP will be on the DL? why should we do that? they have an amazing sense of entitlement for a team that’s never won a division and got swept in their only WS. Yes, the Rockies scare me AT COORS. Otherwise, not so much.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
It will only take one injury to their rotation to really hobble the Rockies,
and if it’s Ubaldo, that’d be even worse.
Yeah, there’s a weird sort of… grandeur hanging over that place.
It’s a little sticky.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
also this
Yeah… the Giants have to be one of the ugliest teams in MLB.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
And Belt hasn't even been called up yet!
Just kidding, love ya, Brandon!
THE THING IS, IT HAPPENED - 11/1/10
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Feb 10, 2011 12:38 PM PST up reply actions
I’ll underestimate the shit out of them. It won’t make a difference. Plus fuck them they have purple jerseys and wear vests on a baseball field.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
by jhiat00 on Feb 9, 2011 3:23 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The Rockies are a 90-win team every year now, it seems.
And even if they’re a 90-loss team at some point, they’ll still be able to get broken bat hits for triples and have Ryan Spillborghs destroy the Giants’ soul.
Nah
Fuck ’em.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
LIVE DANGEROUSLY! LOL ROCKIES!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 3:32 PM PST up reply actions
Ceiling CarGo is watching you underestimate
by Every6thDay on Feb 9, 2011 3:33 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
You've made me nervous.
I’m imagining a crucial Giants loss, and Wilson stalking through the crowd, saying, “And who here doubted me? Who didn’t think I could do it?” like Dustin Hoffman in Hook.
Please, sir. Not the Boo Box.
Look out. I'm having a thought.
Haha
I am not, of course, asserting that Giants fans doubting the Rockies will have any effect on the team winning or losing.
It’ll just make you look silly when they turn out to be the very good team they are.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Let’s also remember that the year end collapse pretty much brought them back to average after Tulo spent about a whole month rapin’ errrbody.
LOL RAPE
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:25 PM PST up reply actions
Orange golf clubs FTW
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
More golf...
I knew Cain was in the shootout thing yesterday. Just found out he’s in the actual pro-am starting tomorrow. He’s in a group with Romo (the hand-egger), so hopefully he gets some TV time.
Maybe we can have a round-day thread.
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
I think Cain is paired with Bettencourt (NOT Yuni or the Rockie reliever) and Romo is with John Daly, so I think he’ll get some camera time.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
Krruk on winning the WS
"It’s better than I ever thought it would be. And believe me, I mean, I’ve been 38 years in this game before I got a chance to take a parade ride. And I always envisioned what it would feel like, to be part of an organization that won a world championship. And it is so far better than I ever imagined it being, because what it means to the people. That’s the thing that takes you to another level. And that is something that I will take with me to my grave."
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
Should I take time out of every day to thank Jeff Sullivan
for that NLCS Game 4 writeup, which I think about almost as soon as I’m done recalling Edgar Renteria’s home run (and Flemming’s call)?
OT: Quote from my nutrition class this afternoon:
“My zucchini is huge!”
- instructor describing her garden’s yield
/coughs discretely
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Never. Always go to their place.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Sig for sale:
Ask Every6thDay’s nutrition instructor about Alex_Lewis’ zucchini!
Playoff baseball is fun. We should do this more often.
Coughing discretely is better than coughing continuously.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
Especially when people are trying to hear the Dvorak symphony they paid good money to hear, thank you.
LIVE EST
Tape-delayed for the West Coast
THATS EIGHT BALLS!!!!!
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
I'm just going to leave this here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41480994/ns/us_news-weird_news/
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
TWS
Oh never mind.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
FOX sez
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
OT: Chris O'Leary looks at jeter's swing
(stop me if it was already posted)
I’ll just go ahead and prematurely stop you before you talk anymore about Jeter
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
LITERALLY
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
premature Jeterculation
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Feb 9, 2011 4:04 PM PST up reply actions
OT:
Did the Cavs win last night? http://t.co/mpdak9W
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
DID THE CAVS WIN TONIGHT!?!?!??!
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
/click link
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Did they win tonight?
25 straight must be worse than finding out your gf is pregnant with your kid.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
OT: Finally!!!
I finally put the Christmas tree away!!!! Yipppppeeeeee!!!! Oh it’s been undecorated and taken apart for over a month now, but the box it gets stored in is kept under the bed, well technically under the book case headboard of the bed. Nothing like trying to maneuver a king sized bed around on carpeted floors.
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
congrats
Better haul out the Easter decorations!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 4:12 PM PST up reply actions
I have a few Valentiney things up and once those come down St Patrick day stuff. Easter is really late in April this year.
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
I only decorate for Christmastime. Everything else can suck my Thonet.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
pretty much this.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Well if you want to consider changing the kitchen towels and potholders and hanging up an appropriately themed sun catcher dealie in the kitchen window “decorating” ….
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
… you change kitchen towels?
/wonders if he should after a year
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
…ummm yeah…
You do WASH them though right?
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
… uh, sure. Yes. Absolutely.
/throws them out
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I mean potholders can go much longer between washings. I usually just wash those at the end of the month and pack them up with the decorations. From Sept – April there’s a nice stretch of different potholders/kitchen towels every month. May, June, and August are kinda boring.
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
I think my potholder washes about once a week. His hair’s pretty greasy.
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Those are all summer months
/buys merope a set of 2010 WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS kitchen towels
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
never gonna get changed
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Ever…. you know the pitching rotation and the tv schedule for the WS are still up on our white board in the hallway.
First we were going to erase it at Christmas, then New Years, now Pitchers and Catchers day…. then Opening Day….
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
I'm just looking forward to wearing my #5 jersey every five days or so...
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
After seeing the 924th history channel show about the freemasons
I want them all to chop each other up for taco meat and eat themselves.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:31 PM PST reply actions
but only 88% of them
the rest needs to be seasonings.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I like tacos and burritos.
My adopted son: Jose Casilla.
Man of the Crazy Sink. And owner of a 103 ZiPS ERA+ in 2011.
Is it really too much to ask for a show the Saturn V?
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:32 PM PST up reply actions
That probably should be on the Discovery Channel. Not that they’ll show it these days either.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I checked On Demand and there was nothing
And what little there was on Apollo I’ve seen 700 times before. I know what Aldrin thinks about his Apollo experience. But there is nothing from Armstrong’s perspective; and nothing on the Saturn V.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
All originally informational cable channels now show some variation of reality TV.
Frankly I’d prefer the Freemasons to more “manly antiquing”.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
AND I DO NOT CARE HOW PING PONG BALLS ARE MADE!!
FUCK!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:43 PM PST up reply actions
PING PONG BALLS? I THOUGHT YOU SAID KING KONG'S BALLS!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
NOR DO I CARE FOR YETI, BIGFOOT OR ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 4:45 PM PST up reply actions
How about Yeti themed albums?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 4:51 PM PST up reply actions
CAN I TELL YOU ABOUT MY COLON?
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Tell me about the history of colons.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:32 PM PST up reply actions
Also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1bHBthJN9w
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Why are you even watching the History Channel?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I like history?
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:10 PM PST up reply actions
My question stands.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
If you have an alternative channel for me to get history
I wish you would share.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:16 PM PST up reply actions
There are three PBS affiliates here; I’m willing to bet they all carry more history-related programming every day than the History Channel.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
On my PBS channel they are showing Nightly Business Report.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:20 PM PST up reply actions
More history in that than on the History Channel.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I doubt this is true.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:22 PM PST up reply actions
Well, fuck the History Channel.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Maybe if I had a few drinks in me
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
Lars, El is 16. He doesn’t care about history.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LIES
Seriously, though, I hate the History Channel because I appreciate history.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
by El Person on Feb 9, 2011 7:30 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
That may not be true
There are some young folks who post here that can speak intelligently on many topics including history.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:30 PM PST up reply actions
hell, im 22, and i couldnt care less about history
nobody cares
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
History is presented as a burden to people, like castor oil. It ought to be our instinct to think historically.
by non sequitur on Feb 9, 2011 7:32 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Think historically
Act presently
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
history will repeat itslef
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
That typo probably will as well.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:35 PM PST up reply actions
OK, Grammar popo
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Are you calling him a grammar clown?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 11:11 PM PST up reply actions
DAMN STRAIGHT
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
גם זה יעבור
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
the google it ratio on MCC has to off the charts.
I always see things on here that cause me to spend the next hour looking stuff up.
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
Arabic writing on the Internet is always too small to read.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Now it gets cut off. I fear it’s a no-win situation.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I think that might be the Persian, anyway. I am illiterate only in Roman-scripted Indo-European languages.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 8:39 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, it looks like one of the letters is gaf (although it’s not entirely clear), which is a Persian invention.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
yeah, Persian
Let’s try a bunch of linebreaks.
این نیز بگذرد
Voila un bonbon!
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 8:42 PM PST up reply actions
It says “in tiz bgzrd”. I have no idea what the remaining vowels might be. Care to enlighten?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
"in niz bogzarad"
Now I’m embarrassed.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Hey, at least you know Persian. That’s super cool.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 8:53 PM PST up reply actions
Not really
Everyone in my particular social group can read Arabic script, but without knowing the associated language it’s not nearly as interesting as it sounds.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Now of course I am 3 links deep into eternal return.
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
I read that as ‘eternal rectum’.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 10, 2011 8:43 AM PST up reply actions
Now we know where your head is.
wait…
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
I have been known to occasionally suffer from a case of cranial-rectal inversion….
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 10, 2011 11:24 AM PST up reply actions
OT: Dad's procedure went OK
And he’s in recovery. Thanks for the kind thoughts and stuff.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Excellent news!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
It’s been a challenging few days. I hope everyone forgives my short temper.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
lulz what's the difference?
Good for your pop. I know how miserable it is to worry about this stuff from afar.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:07 PM PST up reply actions
Usually I don’t engage in narrow far-right threads. (pun alert)
It’s just, he’s old and I haven’t achieved anything in my life, and it’s not like he’s ever going to get a grandchild that carries his name … I feel very inadequate, especially when they all insist it doesn’t matter to them.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
You would not want to adopt or anything?
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
No one in their right mind should let me adopt a child.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Have I got great news for you:
AMERICA
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
No, you don’t understand. It’s not that I’m gay and It’s not that I don’t want to. I’m not going to be a good parent.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I wouldn't be a good parent either
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
Would you ever want to adopt though?
I mean, there are some pretty terrible parents out there.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
this
Especially if you adopt an older kid in a foster placement.
/has not adopted anyone
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:30 PM PST up reply actions
I suppose...
I dunno. Let’s focus on being able to support myself first.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
there is that
I hate to think of sending a kid to Balboa or Everett or one of the other dandy schools we’d have to choose from.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:34 PM PST up reply actions
how about foster?
It can be done if you want, and I am thinking here of that “these boys are much too much” commercial with the dad and the little girl cheering.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:21 PM PST up reply actions
I'm not sure if Scout6 wants to adopt
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Ha.
You and your silly memory.
Did I throw up at that party?
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Luckily you didn't
You represented the Fosters well
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Good.
/knocks back a Guinness, knocks up a woman.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
guilt sucks
LOL CATHOLICS! (like me)
My dad is ill, and my wife survived an illness but ended up unable to bear a child, so believe me I feel you.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:13 PM PST up reply actions
You know, I never related guilt to Catholicism. No one ever made me feel guilty about anything. I just do when I think I don’t give back in equal amounts to what I take.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
sorry
no offense meant for sure. I think of that feeling as guilt, but maybe it’s Mediterranean guilt at being unable to carry on the family name etc.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:19 PM PST up reply actions
Don’t you have like a 8,000,000 page novel sitting in front of you? That’s a hell of an achievement, if you ask me.
My novel is currently 3,716 words long. Now that’s pathetic.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:16 PM PST up reply actions
It’s only that long because it’s in 12-point Courier, doublespaced. Hey, a website told me that was what manuscript format was.
But I’ve worked on it for about eight months over the last three years and who knows if it’s publishable?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
That is the correct format.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
How many words?
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:20 PM PST up reply actions
Hovering around 90,000 depending on what I add and what I take away.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
Awesome.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:31 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, it’s a good size. (waits for it)
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I’m up to 3,900. I’ve been writing since 9:00 this morning.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:42 PM PST up reply actions
I should admit that I’m re-writing an exceptionally shitty 6,500 word draft of the first chapter that I produced two or three years ago. So I’m not quite starting from scratch.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:43 PM PST up reply actions
Most of the last 3 years between my first draft and my current draft was spent rewriting the first chapter. It’s both very important and dangerously obsessive.
But I’m not spinning my book out of whole cloth — it’s based-on-history stuff — so I do have a general checklist of events I need to cover and a sort of plot develops from that.
John Irving once said he just creates very detailed characters and them have them interact, and that’s his plot. I think he’s joshing himself and/or writing sex scenes.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I've been writing a spec pilot for a few weeks now
That I’ve actually been working on for about two years and then I get a copy of my old writing teacher’s pilot that just got picked up and the premise is almost exactly the same as mine.
I see this as an opportunity to get staffed on his show. I’m opting to think this way rather than give up on the script because THE GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES.
On the other hand
I would kill a puppy just for the hell of it, so that might no be the best example.
I would never injure an animal, unless PETA was protesting.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
PETA is so fucked.
Their message is basically “show animals some dignity” — which makes total sense — but everything they do is without dignity. Fucking pathetic.
I'm a vegetarian and I have to agree with that.
by mrs. owlcroft on Feb 9, 2011 10:55 PM PST up reply actions
I wrote a 100,000 word novel once! It’s utter shit!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
And still, oddly enough, a fantastic achievement.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:20 PM PST up reply actions
Ya learn a lot
I have no idea how that ‘Everything is Illuminated’ guy did it.
One of the most valuable lessons I took away from the experience is that classical story structure exists for a reason.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’ve thought about trying it, but other than being incapable of developing a plot the thought of trying to keep character and plot details consistent across 300 pages is pretty daunting to me.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:24 PM PST up reply actions
It’s hard. Even in a short story, you get to a point on page 11 where you realize that something on page 3 had to happen two years earlier. So you change it on page 3, scan the document, change it on pages 7 and 9, and then miss the reference to it on page 5. Meanwhile, nobody knows why Jim, who exists for the first 6 pages, and Rocko, who exists for the last 14, appear to be the same character.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:33 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve been reading a manuscript for my sister in law and have been utterly amazed at how that stuff comes along, and hers is a teen dystopia-type novel. A mystery? Tom Clancy? Forget it.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:35 PM PST up reply actions
Tom Clancy was my favorite reading material during my early teens, so whenever I think of a book, it’s always vast with lots of technical details and lots of subplots.
His stuff after Sum of All Fears kind of sucks though.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I never really got into him at all
but I’ve seen enough to know what a nightmare of details that would be to keep together.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 6:17 PM PST up reply actions
This is why you should plow through the story telling
And let your editor work that stuff out.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:37 PM PST up reply actions
Dan Brown'd
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:38 PM PST up reply actions
Note to self: Get editor.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
No worries, J
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:07 PM PST up reply actions
No worries. I’ve been there. Some ineffective attendants in an airport felt my wrath.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
One of those days when you walk around just hoping someone crosses you, just so you can yell at them.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Hooray!
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Good to hear!
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Excellent!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 5:22 PM PST up reply actions
This is good.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
GREAT TO HEAR!
sorry i have no idea what procedure it was, but regardless, that’s great news that it went OK
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Yay!
Still, my best thoughts go out to your family.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 7:53 PM PST up reply actions
Wow. An hour and half to z my way through that.
Finally a signature worth having:
Fan of the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
You should just shift-A if you want to talk baseball.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
We’ve already touch two untouchable topics in this thread…what other rules can we violate?
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
WINZ and RBIs
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:10 PM PST up reply actions
I am pretty surprised the religion debate has been allowed to go on this long.
So here is some politics!
GOP Rep. Christopher Lee of New York resigned his House seat. The move followed reports that the married lawmaker was trying to meet women on Craigslist.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
But really, what else is Craigslist for.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I sold a bbq for $40 once. So, that was pretty cool.
Boo
by LosGigantesTodoElTiempo on Feb 10, 2011 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
And good lord the pic from his Craigslist is CLASSIC
Perfect internet pose
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/09/ny-rep-chris-lee-resigns/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
lol
/flex
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:15 PM PST up reply actions
Seriously
the bicep flex makes it all worth it.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Wow. Just wow.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I am not even looking at it anymore
but it still makes me laugh just thinking about it.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
The religion off topic stayed pretty civil though.
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imagine if the Giants hadnt won the WS
there would be blood….
Big Ups to Matt Downs
"He told me he was gonna do it"- Andres Torres
I think civility is the key. it’s just that it’s hard for many to stay civil regarding certain discussions.
It’s why I think we need to ban any further discussions as to pie v. cake.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
well yea,
cake is obviously better.
Big Ups to Matt Downs
"He told me he was gonna do it"- Andres Torres
I hate you!
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 5:33 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve learned so much from discussions here, it’s really amazing. And on a pretty wide variety of topics, too.
GROUP HUG!
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Geez we're soft
now that the Giants won a World Series.
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Honestly, my first question when a co-worker brought this up was, “Well, is he at least attractive? I would hate to see him post an unattractive photo.”
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
Love is required whenever he’s hired
It comes just before the kill
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Please nobody understand this reference
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
But slide whistle!
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
D’oh. See, this is what freaking happens when you come to the party late and there’s 1500 comments and you’re just trying to catch up. I didn’t even realize the original comment was about Christopher Lee the U.S. Rep. I just saw this comment and thought, “Hey, James Bond pop culture trivia!”
I was referring to that film’s ruining one of the better stunts I’ve ever seen.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
The Bond stunt that sticks most in my mind is the submarine car.
I wanted one of those.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:31 PM PST up reply actions
I saw it in a movie theatre.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:39 PM PST up reply actions
er,
the best Moore Bonds the best of the Moore Bonds
Octopussy is a seriously underrated movie. My favorite is A View To A Kill, but I won’t pretend that that’s based on its merit as a film. For Your Eyes Only bored me to death.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
A-Gone wishes he could be as cool as Buster
Gonzalez wore a red Red Sox T-shirt on Wednesday. When the games begin, he will wear No. 28. Mike Cameron offered him No. 23, the number Gonzalez wore in San Diego, but Gonzalez declined, saying the number had no significance for him — it was just the number the Padres had assigned him.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Ha
No watch for Mike Cameron
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I like that he isn't superstitious of the numbers
It’ll be cool to be able to watch A-Gon succeed not at the Giants expense. He’s been underrated in his time with the Padres, playing with a team no one pays attention to.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
He hasn’t been underrated by me.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:22 PM PST up reply actions
I mean
There’s been more ink spilled describing Eckstein’s scrappiness than Gonzalez’s really-goodness.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Well, I think a lot of that has to do with dog bites man vs. man bites dog. Also, languishing in San Diego. I do see your point though.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:25 PM PST up reply actions
ARTWORK MADE FROM A MUMMIFIED HAND is on right now
I am going to jam a yeti in the ass of the person who is in charge of programming the Science Channel
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:19 PM PST reply actions
Hitler! Ghosts! oOOOooooOOOOOOhhh
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
HITLER'S ALIEN MUMMIES
no joke.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
I am going to jam a yeti in the ass
Strawberry?
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
This reminds me of something Mom would say.
Only replace “yeti” with “squirrel”.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I like your Mom.
I feel prickishly demanding!
I couldn't be prouder of my recent adoptee - Tim Lincecum's dealer. He provides the secret fuel behind both Cy Youngs. Also, he taught Timmy the change-up.
by giantsfansince1981 on Feb 9, 2011 5:33 PM PST up reply actions
So did Pat Burrell
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 5:38 PM PST up reply actions
LOL Cooking Channel
Emeril is buttering his ramekins.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
I didn’t know Emeril still had a show.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
It seems to be new
featured him trolling around Manhattan buying fancy vegetables and then cooking with some tramp from a reality show. PASS
Fortunately Jamie Oliver’s on now.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:31 PM PST up reply actions
Like how Mario Batali tooled around Spain with Gwyneth Paltrow? Except, not as chic?
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
ew
now a commercial for a cooking show with Debi Mazar? I think the Cooking Channel is descending to the depths of the Food Network.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 5:37 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, there’s a difference? I thought those were 2 names for the same thing. Silly me.
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there was for a while
It was mostly actual cooking shows, but now it seems to be veering dangerously toward the same reality junk on the Food Network.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 6:18 PM PST up reply actions
They split off the cooking channel specifically to carry the more instructional type of programing.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 6:22 PM PST up reply actions
Expansion dilutes the talent pool.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 5:39 PM PST up reply actions
So
What did people think of Hereafter? I enjoyed it, even though it had nothing to say about anything.
The Atom Egoyan movie? Didn’t see it.
someone with more free time than sense.
Itaque, in anno MMX Gigantes San Francisconis Seriem Mundi vicerunt.
Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
With Matt Damon right
Thought it was good, though the ending a little anticlimactic.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
LIKE LIFE
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 10, 2011 7:02 AM PST up reply actions
Holy crap, I hit a lot of Zs.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
Then you should be well rested.
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All but my left ring finger.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
TWSS
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
The Canadian Dollar is now worth more than the US Dollar
LOL USA
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 6:01 PM PST reply actions
that's loony!
Must be all those cross-border pharm purchases.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 6:19 PM PST up reply actions
what about the TOONEY
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
MLB Network's Wackiest Mishaps - #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ94rkwdTvQ
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
At one point
Wasn’t that guy the #2 prospect in baseball rated by BA?
Urf.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Linked to from that page: the wild infield fly play against the Expos from ’03, I think it was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbuv96a26qU&feature=related
You can’t tell for sure from the video but I recall that Frank Robinson came out of the dugout not to argue with the ump but to yell at his own players.
THERE ARE NO LEADERSHIP STATISTICS
DOES NOT COMPUTE
I'm still waiting for John Johnstone to come off the DL.
z
Just holding down Z until it stops is kind of fun
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
I dunno, reading too many of them may give you dessenstary.
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It will be fine so long as he dessen’t bake cake.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 7:47 PM PST up reply actions
I hope this doesn’t lead to dessension in the ranks, that would be bad!
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How many puns do we have to make before we dessengnate a stopping point?
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
I just Shift+A'd
What a thread.
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Feb 9, 2011 10:24 PM PST up reply actions
I tend to always Z past any conversation that goes all the way to the right
I just hate reading in that tiny column.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
yeah I Z past a lot of Rush Limbaugh too
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
SIRM
Russell Martin has lost 15 pounds via MMA training
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
He is in the best shape for sucking it in his life.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:21 PM PST up reply actions
For you wrestling fans...
DX has two words for Russell Martin.
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 he understood when they told him to learn to hit during the offseason.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Thank goodness the MLB Network is showing a special on the Yankees
I mean, FINALLY! Someone is talking about that team.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:24 PM PST reply actions
It’s been long enough. No one ever talks about them.
by WasabiTorture on Feb 9, 2011 7:27 PM PST up reply actions
It's not about covering the Yankees.
MLB Network is doing 30 recaps in 30 days (so they cover ALL 30 teams). Last Friday was the Reds, Monday was the Rays, yesterday was the Braves. Tomorrow will be the Phillies. Friday the Rangers and next Monday ends the recaps with the Giants.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Pat Burrell
If the Giants were to start him the whole season:
AB: 456
HR: 23
AVG: .265
OBP: .352
SLG: .473
What I think he’ll most likely get, assuming Belt takes over his spot in the lineup in May/June:
AB: 290
HR: 15
AVG: .273
OBP: .362
SLG: .473
I hope the Giants continue to find him playing time. Man, wouldn’t it be great if Belt turned out to play a gold glove SS as well as 1B?
I think the lines for the batters boxes should be painted on the field
No leadoff hitters erasing them in their first at-bat.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:36 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I think umpires who get two safe/out or fair/foul calls wrong in a single year should be fired.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:38 PM PST up reply actions
Relegated to AAA. By which I mean they have to drive a tow truck for 6 months.
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AAA would be fine
They could work their way back up after a certain number of seasons.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:41 PM PST up reply actions
I think baseball should get rid of interleague play and the unbalanced schedule.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:40 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I think baseball should get rid of Tommy Lasorda
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 think baseball should get rid of Dinger.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Any mascot that deliberately tries to distract players on the field should cost their team wins.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:44 PM PST up reply actions
Dinger does cost them
they’re called Karma Wins, and he drains the fund with his stupid antics
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
And they don’t even believe in dinosaurs there!
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
That makes it sound like he’s kind of friendly. With his family.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 11:16 PM PST up reply actions
I agree
I think only teams that finish in the bottom half should be eligible to receive free agent compensation. If you finish in the top half and someone signs your FA? Too bad.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 9, 2011 7:43 PM PST up reply actions
ooooooo I like this idea. That keeps top tier teams from getting high compensatory picks before teams that finished far worse than them.
The Yankees could win 120 games, then lose 2 real good players, and get to pick higher than a team that lost 85 games? something is broken there
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
There are protected picks. But this idea is better.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 8:52 PM PST up reply actions
I like the jib of your cut
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 9, 2011 7:44 PM PST up reply actions
I kind of like interleague play, but, fuck, do I really have to watch the Padres that much? Really?
by Grant Brisbee on Feb 9, 2011 10:07 PM PST up reply actions
/shift-A
My brain is asleep and this is the only projection for Burrell I can come up with:
Aubrey Huff.
Home Runs and Western Suns has ruined my brain.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 8:00 PM PST reply actions
Is there a collective work anywhere? I read the first couple but I’m sure there are more than that.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Yeah. I finished it in early January. You can read the whole thing here.
LIVE EST
Tape-delayed for the West Coast
Thanks. Last I heard Aaron Rowand looked to be a monkey wrench in the machine that is their love. We’ll see what happens.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Just finished s1 of Breaking Bad
pretty awesome.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Need to start that.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
This
Your 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Feb 9, 2011 10:25 PM PST up reply actions
Shift-A Wow that's a lot of comments. Also, LOL ROCKIES
AB: 300
HR: 19
BA: .250
OBP: .355
SLG: .459
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
you have absolutely no idea with the # of comments
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I z’ed through about half of the rockies ranting and then gave up
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
hence what i do everytime during a PGT
i just give up and say, SHIFT A what the fuck is going on you ass holes
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Haft's latest
Bandwagon lulz
Inbox: Is 100 wins a reasonable goal?
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
It is if the Giants win their first game. On pace for 162 wins!
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 8:33 PM PST up reply actions
And the Dodgers will be on pace for an 0-162 season.
They might be Giants...but they are definitely WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.
"And what was once torture for an entire city became a magical ride into an Orange October."
I don’t care how many laws of probability we have to break to make that happen. Let’s do it.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
GOd
I hated that DeRosa in LF question.
Pat Burrell had a 121 wRC+ last year. The last time DeRosa hit that mark was 2008. Burrell is better.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Oh god the movie about Justin Bieber is sitting at 82% fresh on rottentomatoes right now.
Only 11 reviews so far, but too many of them are already glowingly, glowingly positive. I refuse to accept this.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
What did Armond White think?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
He hasn’t chimed in yet. But three out of the four “top critics” who have rate it fresh.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
WHY DOES A BIEBER MOVIE EXIST
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 8:44 PM PST up reply actions
it is an elaborate sting operation for pedophiles
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
So every showing is like an episode of To Catch a Predator.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 9:10 PM PST up reply actions
I saw an episode of that once. The dude they snagged looked like a totally normal guy… I wonder how many offenders live in my area
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
All of them, I’d wager.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
Looks like there’s only 3 on my side of town, and not many in Monterey (where Britney and I plan to move in a few months if my transfer goes through)
Pedophiles don’t deserve 2nd chances, b/c their 1st chances were so horribly fucked-up
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
WalrusMan?
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 9:18 PM PST up reply actions
He’s cut his hair since then, it appears. Oh god did you put a nasty thought in my head- Ratto as a pedophile. Gross
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
….OH DEAR LORD WHY
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 9:25 PM PST up reply actions
I’m sending you a bill for my new psychiatrist.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I have to say, this is a fuckin’ frightening image.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 10:20 PM PST up reply actions
who is Justin Bieber
I mean, he’s a signer, but some American Idol dude?
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Canada's secret weapon
to destroy America from within
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I thought the Canadians just sat around worthlessly. Maybe that was their plan all along.
Good thing I will never hear Bieber sing, ever. Because I know to avoid him now.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING CLUE
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 8:54 PM PST up reply actions
That's cool... still probably wont see it
Surprised that it has such a positive review
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I had to watch the trailer at work today. It is hilarious.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 11:18 PM PST up reply actions
You know
if they took out the rape scene, Showgirls would be a perfect movie
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
I don’t remember the rape scene.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
the singer guy raped the friend
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
ohhhh…… that’s right. The hotness of the strip club scene and pool scene kinda erased that from my mind
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
the way she thrashes around is so comical. It’s like dolphin sex or something.
Just like the Care Bears
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
More like the Garbage Pail Kids movie if you ask me.
by wcw on Feb 9, 2011 9:47 PM PST up reply actions
Man, the Care Bear parallels are uncanny.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 8:58 PM PST up reply actions
I said the same thing about Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 8:55 PM PST up reply actions
OT:Tire Kicking sighting!
The Philadelphia Phillies recently contacted the Texas Rangers to express an interest in infielder Michael Young, three Major League Baseball sources confirmed to ESPN.com. But the trade talks failed to yield much common ground, and discussions between the clubs are no longer active.
One source said the discussions were "brief’’ and amounted essentially to "tire kicking’’ on the part of the Phillies.
While Philly is not one of the 8 teams Young had previously ok’d, wouldn’t this be good for the Phils? He would not replace Werth’s production, but he would be a start, and in their kiddie park his power numbers would probably climb.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Where would he play?
Polanco’s a better defender. Watching the WS DVDs, that guy’s a statue even at third. Would he be some sort of odd insurance should Rollins take another injury siesta or leave via trade/FA?
I’d like him for the Giants, if we need Freddy backup or SS backup or 3B backup or…
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
He’d be a very expensive backup.
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I just looked it up, his deal is for 3 more years, so nevermind. Thought it was only another 1-2 years. We don’t need to pay $48MM for the 34-37 years of that dude.
But maybe Rowand for Young and $15MM would be a deal? That leaves a $8-9MM difference for a player much, much more valuable to us than Rowand. If we can’t use Rowand, might as well eat another bad contract for someone we can use
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Without double-checking contract numbers, I’m still not sure I would do it. Or at least, I would hesitate.
Young if more valuable, definitely, but at least Rowand’s contract is over sooner. Specifically, soon enough to roll the money towards Matt.
"Today, it's as if McCovey's line drive finally went through. And the earthquake didn't happen. And Spiezio struck out. And Snow was safe."
Rowand to the Phillies, Blanton to the Rangers, Young to the Giants
Make it happen, Sabes.
by BusterHomerun on Feb 9, 2011 11:28 PM PST up reply actions
Polanco is a better defender
But Young is a much better hitter. I think they could use Polanco as their super utility scrub for if Utley or Rollins goes down.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Agreed.
The numbers are not as close as I thought when I made my comment. Young’s a year younger and, like you said, would be helped by being in the NL/CBP.
Still, $6 million for a super utility guy is a lot.
Well
They could also go a Blanton and Polanco for Young trade. Solve that problem at the outset.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I doubt they'd trade Polanco. Amaro's obviously high on him.
They’re probably try to offer Ibanez with Blanton. I don’t think Texas would take that deal. Then again, Ibanez might make a serviceable DH… for Bumgarner to K mercilessly.
What do you think they’re gonna do with Blanton? Moving him would devastate their 5th starter slot
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
The offense they have
they don’t need to worry about the 5th starter the way we do.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I don’t think their offense is such hot shit. They’re ALL past their primes, and the only young one, Dominic Brown hasn’t shown he is competent.
Utley, Howard, Rollins, etc, always injured. They’re not THAT great
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Sorry
Utley and Howard are that great when healthy. Moreso Utley, but still.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yes, they are.
And their park gives them an advantage and might possibly prolong their peak performance(s).
Echoing the others
There offense should be really good. For the next 1-2 years. After that, they may have some problems.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
ugh
THERE OFFENSE, THERE CASTLE.
Their offense of course.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
WHERE WOLF?
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 9:36 PM PST up reply actions
maybe it’s just that I’ve seen firsthand what great pitching can do to a good offense, so I’m a little biased as a Giants fan.
Now, if I’m a Pirates fan, their offense looks even better because they beat down on us. But as a Giants fan, I know our pitching can shut them down, so they don’t look so hot.
Damn my head is foggy from those painkillers. Hope that made sense
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Yup.
The Phillies averaged 3.33 runs per game against the Giants just in that series. I don’t see how that’s being “shut down”.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Their seasonal average was probably near 5.5 runs/gm. Maybe I’m right, maybe I’m wrong, but it sure didn’t feel like they were able to break loose on us like they were “supposed to”
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Of course
They scored more frequently during the regular season, despite some of the players being out for long stretches with injuries.
But you said we shut them down. We didn’t.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yep, and they had all their players healthy in the NLCS, so we probably lopped their run total in half.
Besides, I didn’t mean shut down literally. More like ‘they didn’t blow us up’. You truly are a giant pain ;)
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
60 runs in a 7-game series? That would be a total mismatch. There was no way that was going to happen.
I don’t follow what ur sayin
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Sorry, 40 runs.
I think most prognosticators figured the NLCS would be a lower-scoring series, that the Phillies wouldn’t thump the Giants into submission. The thought was that with Halladay, they’d only need 1 or 2 runs in those games anyway.
Simply put: People predicted the Phillies would defeat the Giants not just because their offense was better, but because their pitching could match the Giants’ pitching, negating any perceived advantage the Giants might have had.
But we were still able to for the most part neutralize their offense, which is very potent to any other NL team but us.
When great pitching goes up against great pitching, because only a few runs will win any given game, the team with the better offense doesn’t have as great an edge as most would think. Great pitching beats great hitting, so it’s anyones game.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Makes sense
but remember, it’s what your 4 great pitchers can do. No one uses the 5th starter in the playoffs. The Giants won the world series in a season where Todd Wellemeyer was a part time starter.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
yep, what 4 great pitchers can do :) we got a great squad in SF
The Giants won the world series in a season where Todd Wellemeyer was a part time starter.
yeah, I didn’t see that coming. You always hope, but with Todd around, you don’t think it’s doable.
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
My hand fucking hurts
took a heavy 2nd degree burn over the weekend in a fire and these painkillers aren’t doing shit. Typing with 1 hand is slow
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Typing with 1 hand is slow
I am pretty sure most of the men here will back you up on this.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
I’ve long since mastered the art of typing with no hands.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 9:07 PM PST up reply actions
nose typing? or another member?
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I’ll never tell.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
Ancient Howie Secret.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
Writes a note
Never touch howie’s computer keyboard.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
that’s not all of him I’d never consider touching.
/rimshot
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I’m not comfortable with your use of that action tag here.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 9:37 PM PST up reply actions
He has two members? Gross.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
yeah, he’s missing a nut. or so I hear
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, JAKE BARNES ACTUALLY HAS BOTH OF HIS TESTICLES IN HEALTHY, FUNCTIONING ORDER.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 9:38 PM PST up reply actions
your names not Howie?
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
I go by many names.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 10:09 PM PST up reply actions
So divine
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 9, 2011 11:20 PM PST up reply actions
human horn
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Dragon, naturally speaking!
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
I wish I would stop cheating. fuck. this is jctgamer's fault -- jponry
Everyone except you, right?
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Hell no
I have mastered typing with one hand.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
what if you want to move the mouse to find a hotter scene?
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Voice recognition software.
Waiting for the next adoption draft...my son was killed in a horrible FA transaction.
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."
use a lot of drugs
when you wake up, you’ll feel better.
75 most memorable plays of the decade (2000-2009)
For some reason, a Travis Ishikawa catch into a camera well was #69. (Note: #2 was Bond breaking the home run record)
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
The Jeter play is only #23
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
The funny thing is,
Pokey Reese made THE SAME EXACT PLAY the inning before, but since Pokey Reese was actually a plus defender, he didn’t misjudge the ball and stayed out of the stands.
That Brock Bond clip is incredible.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 9:07 PM PST up reply actions
And then throwing it in the air, picking up the single season walks record, flinging it into the first one at what can only be described as a mystifying speed, shattering both… just nuts.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 9:13 PM PST up reply actions
How the hell is the s missing from Bonds?
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Brock Bond says “what about me?”
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Talking shit about my son?
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
WHAT’S IT TO YOU?!?
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
MEET ME OUTSIDE THE BIKE RACKS AT ATT JERK, I'LL TEACH U A LESSON
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
PSSSSSH. PLEASE. ACT YOUR AGE, SON
meet me on my mommys front lawn
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
#5 and #11
Two plays Giants fans won’t like. 5 is the final play of the 2003 NLDS and 11 is Steve Finley’s grand slam homer to clinch the division title for the Evils.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Just saw the Brian Wilson commercial for MLB 2K11
Weird
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Roy Halladay’s on MLB 2K11.
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Likely capitalizing on the Champs. Also 2K Sports is based in the Bay Area, so Wilson would be easier to get a hold of.
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Cuz... umm.... Wilson is FUCKING AWESOME?
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
SHUT YOUR MOUTH PIKA
"I only have one flash of greatness a day, and I already used it at 12:30am- Me"
I'M OFFICIALLY GOING TO BE A FATHER ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
HAHA, AWESOME
BrianWilson38 Brian Wilson
Did I just bid on the Hoverboard from “Back to the Future II” at an auction? No, but I punched an “Angry Bird” through my Ipad for taunting
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
WTF? Sharks are in first place and are 9-0-1 in their last ten game?
When the heck did this happen? I have pay attention again and watch them lose in the second round of the playofs?
Matt Cain: 38th Best Starter at Best
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
HOLY SHIT I FOUND THE END OF THE THREAD
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 10:39 PM PST reply actions
This isn’t even close to the biggest threads ever.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
fine... maybe i'll make it the biggest thread ever
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
It is recently.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 10:44 PM PST up reply actions
Graham, any NEW music sounding pretty good to you?
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Well if by new you mean recently released than I have no idea. I’m listening to Pandora right now though because I’m trying to find some new stuff. My friend asked me tonight for suggestions but I didn’t have much for her.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 10:45 PM PST up reply actions
Pandora update pretty often? Because i definitely used Pandora a ton while doing a paper or somethin… Couldn’t do a paper or study at all if it wasn’t for Pandora.
It’s funny when i come onto MCC and talk about music, and i bring up rap or hip hop, i’m one of VERY few that really am a fan of it
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Yeah I don’t know. They don’t have a lot of stuff, unfortunately. Here’s one band that I would suggest that isn’t on Pandora or I-Tunes. The Coconut Brigade. They are really small time. Heres their best song, in my opinion.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 10:49 PM PST up reply actions
Mr. Summertime is also a good song.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 10:50 PM PST up reply actions
actually... I got time is just a real chill song
not bad at all, lovin the Sax
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
These guys look younger than me dude
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Yeah I think they are still in college. I only know of them because my friend’s sister’s friend knows them personally or something. I don’t know.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 11:00 PM PST up reply actions
Regardless, i still like the Sax, pretty unique
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Yeah, it definitely is.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 11:02 PM PST up reply actions
sax?
holy shit, it’s the 80’s again
"Quiet you, I'm starting a meme." - Me
"Ask Viliphied About My Penis" - Alex Lewis
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
WHO CAN IT BEEEEEEE NOW?!?
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 10, 2011 7:47 AM PST up reply actions
CRAZY LITTLE MOMMA COME A KNOCKIN', KNOCKIN' AT MY FRONT DO-OR
I think it’s the ’50s.
that's like me when drunk
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Yeah the music video is weird. Its a good song though. I can suggest plenty of sings to you, not so many artists though. By the way, Zion and the Grouch are coming to SF in March
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 10:52 PM PST up reply actions
Zion and the Grouch? haha, dude, u know pretty much every underground band out there and are inspiring me right now with your knowledge… Gonna have to listen to some of these bands…
one thing my friends are really trying to get me into is dubstep, and i cant say i’m a huge fan of it… went to go see Pretty Lights a few months ago which was pretty sweet tho
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Eh Dubstep is alright in certain situations. But I thought you knew Zion? The song Coastin? If not definitely check him out.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 10:57 PM PST up reply actions
ZION I?
oh yea, i know him, he’s got some damn good tracks. Listen to that on my workout.
I just dont understand dubstep… it’s only enjoyable while fucked up on some drug or something… like that Kid Cudi concert i went to at school… only enjoyed when on some drug
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Yeah I guess. I’m looking up hella remixes right now. Two good ones I have found: Video Tapez – Amp Live (Radio Head), and I Wanna Know Now – Xaphoon Jones. The last one mixes Bob Marley with MGMT and is one of my favorite songs at the moment. It’s awesome.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 11:01 PM PST up reply actions
Wow, that sounds pretty awesome, i’ll have to check that out definitely, i can’t imagine MGMT and Bob Marley being mixed up
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
The guy that mixes it, Xaphoon Jones, is from Chiddy Bang. I don’t know if you know them.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 11:09 PM PST up reply actions
Holy shit, really?
that sounds sweet! aight, definitely checkin it out then… Chiddy Bang? yea, i’ve definitely heard of em, because half my friends are from Cleveland, so they play Chiddy Bang… Plus their remix of “Fuck You” was pretty sweet
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Also
Heres a kickass Pursuit of Happiness Remix. Its good party music or to bump in a car.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens!
Better than you! Mejor que tú! Beter dan jij! 良い場合も! Mehor than abo!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Feb 9, 2011 11:12 PM PST up reply actions
Quite a few songs have better remix's than the actual song
like “Dynamite”? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQS27ne-hmo
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Come to think of it
i have definitely heard this at the bar or club
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
I downloaded B.o.B's album the other day
I’m a bit late to the game, but it’s not bad. Some clunkers though.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yea... not too bad actually
he’s got some good flo on his tracks, like “The Kids” is a good song, although he sampled it from Vampire Weekend.
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
LOL U
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 10:48 PM PST up reply actions
Heard that's a good university
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
ICWUDT
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 10:57 PM PST up reply actions
That’s just an old-fashioned myth. Everybody knows that the thread is a sphere.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 9, 2011 10:52 PM PST up reply actions
it's just all dark matter
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Regardless, I got left behind in the old thread.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." - Grant
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings
by walkoff baltimore chop on Feb 9, 2011 10:58 PM PST up reply actions
Iced Americano and Trance music
Might be too much rocket fuel for writing.
My heart is racing, like what happens to people who witness Pat Burrell removing his clothes. I project that he will send at least one of these people to the hospital from VAPORS.
Iced Americano and Trance music? how the hell do those two mix?
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
My favorite time of the year in Washington
CPAC tomorrow and all weekend. What what.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL U BE TALKIN BOUT YO
Whatever happened to Brock Bond, with his .311 BA? Oh well, sigh, always goin to be my adoptive son!
11/1/2010 if you dont know what occurred on that date, we got issues.
Google!
The Conservative Political Action Conference. Biggest gathering of my people in one place.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
They want less than the status quo, and forcefully so.
CPAC’s a lotta fun though. There are always a ton of booths with interesting characters and organizations, and people selling oldschool political memorabilia (I have an AuH20 bumper sticker circa 1964 I bought a couple years back)
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yeah, I was just thinking...
like the Reagan era was just a starting point… CPAC seemingly wants to repeal the last 50 years of American civic progress.
As Sideshow Bob said during his ultimately ill-fated time as Mayor of Springfield,
Your guilty conscience may move you to vote Democratic, but deep down you long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king.
then
why post about it in the first place?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 10, 2011 5:45 AM PST up reply actions
Teabirthers!
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Feb 10, 2011 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
Also, not to contradict your excellent caption Grant
But I feel like that’s exactly the sorta thing that Jeff Kent woulda done.
My Adopted Giant
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I don't know.
For everything that is Jeff Kent, he was always dead serious about his baseball. I wouldn’t be surprised if he saw the World Series Parade as another opportunity to treat his job like a job. The Bud Light definitely wouldn’t have come out until 1:00.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 10, 2011 7:09 AM PST up reply actions
But how else will I filter out movies if they don't have at least an R rating?
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
it's easy
Boobs= R
Violence= PG-13
Repeat as necessary.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 10, 2011 7:38 AM PST up reply actions
“Cartoon”-PG
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Feb 10, 2011 7:44 AM PST up reply actions
Profamity will make it R too, right?
Aaron King, please pitch better.
McC Wiki - for all you newcomers out there.
OH, THE PROFAMITY!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 10, 2011 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
They sent a cease and desist letter to Google.
It looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green.
by howtheyscored on Feb 10, 2011 5:14 PM PST up reply actions
WEATHER ALERT
It might rain next week! Will this terrible winter weather never cease?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
I need it to rain so I can hopefully take down the scaffolding that is encrusting the side of my house.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Feb 10, 2011 8:50 AM PST up reply actions
What is rain? Is that when shiny drops fall from the sky onto our heads?
"I don't know how the six-pack got in my hands." -P.T.F. Bat
Today might be an interesting day
Two updates that moved the within the last hour:
WASHINGTON (AP) – CIA chief: ‘Strong likelihood’ that Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will step down Thursday.
CAIRO (AP) – President Hosni Mubarak will meet the demands of protesters, military and ruling party officials said Thursday in the strongest indication yet that Egypt’s longtime president may be about to give up power.
LIVE EST
Tape-delayed for the West Coast
What’s going on there is truly inspirational. Hope it works out for them.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
sooo....
Anderson Cooper moves on to Yemen?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 10, 2011 8:13 AM PST up reply actions
I thought he was busy interviewing Gaga now.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
Wow, somebody is gaga to talk about Gaga!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
The Yankees do not want Aaron Rowand or Barry Zito.
by natteringnabob on Feb 10, 2011 8:35 AM PST up reply actions
Wow, didn't realize that it had gotten so huge
(intentional twss)
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2011/2/10/1986245/is-this-an-interesting-article
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
"Out, out, Fred Lewis!" - JCTillam Gamerspeare
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