Post-game thread: Giants hit into 624 double plays, strand 134 runners, still win
by Grant Brisbee on Apr 16, 2011 8:17 PM PDT
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I'm not sure if that would have been the most frustrating loss of the season -- they've played a couple series against the Dodgers and Padres, after all -- but it would have been close.
The rallying cry of the baseball nerd of the '90s and '00s: get on base! It's the on-base percentage, stupid.
After a game like tonight's: just swing for the fences every time up; don't work a walk because you'll just be wiped out on a double play.
Seriously, just hack. Try to send it into the upper deck because the next guy up has a hankerin' for rolling it over to the second baseman.
With all of that -- five! double plays -- the Giants were still able to win. A two-strike, two-out homer from Buster Posey, and a two-out, two-run seeing-eye single from Freddy Sanchez are the kinds of hits that a team gets when they're going well. Remember the feeling you'd have when Bengie Molina, Aaron Rowand, and Jose Castillo would be coming up, representing the heart of the order? That's how Diamondbacks feel when a guy with both a first and last name comes in from their bullpen. Those guys just kill Arizona.
And it's starting to seem like we're taking the "league-average Zito" for granted, just as it was easy to take the "somewhat-better-than-league-average Zito" for granted enough to pay him $126M. That guy turned into league-average Zito pretty quickly, and the league-average Zito can turn into just-plain-yuck Zito just as quickly. Maybe we're watching that decline, injury or no.
Still, good win. They all are.
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good team is good
what the hell. These are games GOOD teams win
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seriously. Even last year I didn’t feel like the Giants were “good” until the end. This year they are legitimately good. been a long time since we’ve had a good team in the bay
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No greater truty.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
*truth
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I disagree. I think teams have good records because they win these games, not that good teams win these games.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
THIS THIS A THOUSAND TIMES THIS
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Kroon isn't a starter though
So are you suggesting Runzler become the spot starter?
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd be cool with that
I want kroooooooooon!
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Same. I had to fast forward through him getting sent down. I just can’t watch it :(
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I was so bummed for him
but good for him for sticking with it. He’s easily one of my favorite players after seeing that. Just seems like a super cool dude.
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Watching him with his kid (and the matching sunglasses) was awesome.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
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His kid looks so much like him. But oh, god, the stuff with his dad. So sad!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:26 PM PDT up reply actions
All the more credit to Kroon for not letting it define him.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
And for being such a good father himself
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
he talked about it very matter-of-fact. It was kind of jarring to see someone who didn’t let it affect them that much
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Yeah, really made me hate Mota. And then Mota did this tonight. So I’m conflicted. Dammit, Mota, LET ME HATE YOU
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I KNOW RIGHT!
I seriously want to hate the guy. I can’t stand him, but all he’s done is be a pretty valuable part of the team for 2 years
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Done.
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by Smoke on the Water on Apr 16, 2011 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
He basically solidified that they’re not getting rid of him this season, no matter what he does from here out because of the way he stepped up today. Poor Marc Kroon :(
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I still hold out hope
something could easily happen to get kroon up here
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hmm interesting
that would be cool
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We're talking about pitchers
someone is going to get hurt. I’m not wishing for it to happen, but it’s gonna happen. It would be a miracle to go the whole season and not need to call up a reliever from Triple A.
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by Smoke on the Water on Apr 16, 2011 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, I need to learn to read comments lower down before posting what I think right when I think it.
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by Smoke on the Water on Apr 16, 2011 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s weird that the OF has taken the brunt of this so far.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
If the Giants make it through the season without a single bullpen injury that would be a gigantic shock.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
I don’t think he’s guaranteed himself a spot for the rest of the season, I mean, he’s certainly doing everything the Giants are asking of him and doing it extremely well, but he could also just fall apart for a couple of months and the Giants usually aren’t shy about taking relievers out back and shooting them, particularly when they suspect they have better options.
If we were in June, I’d agree with you, but the first month of the season doesn’t really guarantee most players anything.
I haven’t had much faith in Mota since he showed up here, but if he can actually throw 3-4 innings when needed that’s a whole different kettle of fish. Tonight proves the importance of, or rather the happy circumstance of, a reliable mop-up guy that can come in and hold the score for a few innings until the team can put up some runs.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
His career stats . . .
. . . are those of a somewhat to fairly better-than-average reliever. I have never figured out the lack of love for him in these parts. His 2010 was not his best, but not bad, and he now looks more like his usual self.
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He’s still last guy on the bench, but if he can be the mop up reliably that would make him more useful than as the 5th RHP on the list. Yes I know you think someone else is worse.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
That was my first thought. He’s gotta work hard to overcome the dodger taint.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:28 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't like diminishing velocity on top of poor peripherals
His 2008-11 xFIP is 4.5, good for 125th out of 155 MLB relievers who qualify.
And then the velo…
Santiago Casilla, whom owlcroft hates so much, is 86th in that ranking with a 4.2.
Brian Wilson’s is 3.2, good for 14th.
I can't see these.
But I get the impression others can. Is it a Chrome issue?
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Chrome is failing me as well.
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Yeah I can't see it either
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hm; those used to work
Mota’s down from 95.3 in 2007 to 92.7 this year.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
IDK what this chrome thing it is all you talk about, but I’m on Safari on a mac (go ahead, mock me if you must) but all I see is a blue box with a ? in it
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Given how cautious they’re being with Bumgarner, I doubt they’ll skip Zito’s start if they can help it.
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Et tu, Ribe?
Giants should consider
bringing up another reliever and just DL Zito. Zito isn’t exactly good right now anyway and Mota won’t be able to pitch for about 2 days I’m guessing.
I'm guessing they will
but still, who would start for him?
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so they wouldn't be able to call up a reliever unless they sent someone else down..
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nah
probably belt :/
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If they can’t make room for Vogelsong on the 40-man, as pointed out below, Runzler to rotation and Kroon to ’pen is most likely.
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Et tu, Ribe?
yayayayayayay
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wouldn’t they still have to make space on the 40 then?
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I really can’t understand why Hinshaw is on the 40 man roster still…
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Is that anything like "Hello, sailor"?
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As I said at the end of the GDT, I think their best move is to move Barry to the 15-day, recall Vogelsong (I don’t know how stretched out Runzler is), and give Zito some time to figure out where he stands. 82-84 just doesn’t cut it, and is a dramatic drop even for someone without much of a fastball to begin with. I have to wonder if he’s playing through lingering problems from the car accident.
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Et tu, Ribe?
Shouldn’t Adrianza be on the DL?
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Et tu, Ribe?
I don’t recall offhand what Adrianza’s injury is.
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Et tu, Ribe?
Peguero
The guy with the longest injury rehab seems to be Francisco Peguero. He has a knee problem that is supposed to keep him out until at least June.
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Pretty much like Lilly’s last start.
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this is where other teams start to get nervous about the Giants. They come at you from everywhere, and that pitching. oh shit.
and if you knock out that pitching
some 45 year old middle reliever will come in and throw 4 innings and shut you down anyways.
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Mota was so awesome tonight that I want to have his baby.
Okay, maybe not that, but he was still awesome.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Apr 16, 2011 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
ewww
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by giantsfansince1981 on Apr 16, 2011 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Buster: "I can't even look at you right now."
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by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 12:49 AM PDT up reply actions
lol background noise
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NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR FANTASY TEAM RATTLESNAKE SEX NBC SITCOMS
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It really, really was
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Best TV wedding ever?
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by giantsfansince1981 on Apr 16, 2011 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
That one was pretty good, but it still felt a little forced – like the buildup was so big, you knew they had to make it big. This one was just out of the blue and was so much more charming for that reason.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I love the office
And I loved that episode… but on the whole, April and Andy’s wedding was cooler. Although Jim and Pam win for the final montage scene that gave me chills.
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It was amazing how I started out the episode (like Leslie) convinced that it was a bad idea and that by the end, I bought into it completely.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I also loved that her parents were just happy about it, like everyone else. It just made it that much sweeter!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Andy's Grandma!!
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"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!"
There’s a picture in the wedding album on April & Andy’s website of Chris, Ron and Tom and Chris is crying (of course) but so is Ron. I was like :DDD
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I forgot the part that made me almost lose it last night: when she went up to Leslie at the end and hugged her and told her she was awesome. April hates everything and everyone but somehow that wasn’t out of character because deep down you know she loves Leslie. Because you can’t not love Leslie!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions
OMG yes.
I feel like most shows would have manufactured drama about “OMG you wanted to stop my wedding!” but April gets that it’s just because Leslie cares about her.
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Unless you’re Joan Calamezzo.
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TURD CRAPLEY
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Ben does what Mark did, but so much better.
"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!"
Honestly, I feel bad for the guy who played Mark, but what a pointless character. At least Ben has a back story and is someone to root for. Mark was always just there.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Apparently there are people who miss Mark
I’m like, “What is there to miss?”
He was okay but he was so boring.
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Exactly. He never really had enough of a story on his own – they tried to make him a ladies man but that was never really believable – so they just used him as a device for drama and conflict for the other characters except that didn’t work because he’s SO BORING
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Replacing him with Chris and Ben made the show perfect imo.
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Yep. Two new interesting characters for the price of meh.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Or the library, AMIRITE?!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Honestly, I love that they made the library their archnemis/the forces of all evil. I worked in a library in both high school and college – we were completely subversive and bitchy
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I love when they bring in the other departments
Like the animal control guys this week.
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ZOMG, releasing the dead doves!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, really, they were pigeons
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Community sucks now.
Discuss.
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I'm going to watch the new one in little bit
I am going to watch 30 Rock first though
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This season has been awesome
I think they should end it after Baldwin leaves though
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aww shit
he’s leaving?!
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I think he said he's leaving after 2012
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f********k
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11/1/10
Yeah, after next season.
Seems like he’s found his character and will never play anyone but Jack Donaghy, though.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
everything I’ve seen him do is in that character.
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I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
Exhibit A:
That New Era ad with Jack from 30 Rock talking to Jim from The Office.
Essentially.
11 01 10
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
????
that sounds interesting
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11/1/10
11 01 10
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
that’s pretty funny
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11/1/10
It wouldn’t make sense without him, given that Pete isn’t important anymore.
"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 know that I wouldn’t watch it without him. The Liz and Jack friendship is 95% of why I watch.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
It’s a funny show, but the rest of the characters are pretty flat.
"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 most of them all right, but I don’t love them really. Except DotCom and Grizz, they rule.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
"How appropriate, because this week, we're studying fascism."
/fist bump
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
that show makes no sense without jack
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I think they can get him back for another season.
Problem is, 30 Rock has never been a big ratings hit. It’s a prestige show for the network. It will eventually get to a point where it will be more expensive than it’s worth, and re-signing Baldwin might be catalyst for its end.
my problem with 30 Rock
I love half the characters, and just don’t care about the other half. If it doesn’t involve Liz, Jack, Tracy, or the ever-smiling page, I just don’t care.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Apr 16, 2011 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
They did a lot better job of handling the others (Frank, Lutz, etc) earlier on. It’s kind of disappointing how they’re barely even there anymore. Even Jenna and Pete seem to be falling off.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
It’s not that great.
"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!"
From what I've heard, I don't think I'll like it much.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
She’s why I watch every week.
Her facial expressions made me laugh more than anything else in the last episode.
"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!"
Boobs also, of course.
"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 still don’t see the attraction. Not that cute
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Her face is meh to me.
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
This is where I am. She’s not bad looking at all, but people freak out about her and I JUST DON’T GET IT. She’s so forgettable looking to me. Every time someone says something about her I have to GIS her just to make sure I’m giving her a fair shot. She looks like every other pleasant brunette out there to me, but people flip.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions
But you are wrong about all off-topic things, so that makes sense.
"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!"
Lots of cheesecake shots on GIS. Are you sure this isn’t just like the Gold Gloves, which often reward hitting?
This simile kind of lost me.
"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!"
Untrue, you’re the wrong one. Except when it comes to Parks and Recs, obviously.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions
For almost ten minutes I’ve tried to come up with a retort to this and failed. I guess you win this round.
"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!"
LOL
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to throw my lot in with this.
She does nothing for me.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
I used to think you were cool.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Wow
Right back at you
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
If I understood why everyone thought buttons were cute
I would assert that she’s cute as a button.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Buttons > Zippers > Snaps.
Only a person with a certain aesthetic sense could see the “cuteness” of a button, and that person is probably not you, GP. But you can certainly imagine that a small thing with its minute utility and likely coloration and various configuration is precious or cute. Gallo himself is not easily influenced by cuteness, but even he can see that a button, with all its wee attractions, is “cute” beyond our ability to measure such a thing.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Or . . .
. . . one could ask Mr. Nicholas Losseff.
(My gotcha obscure reference of the day.)
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Invented the zipper.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Introducing Mr. Loseff:
“I know more about buttons than any man in the world. I get them from everywhere. I have the finest and most comprehensive collection in existence. Also I sell them. I have sold a thousand dozen buttons in one lot for forty cents a dozen, and I have sold four buttons for six thousand dollars. I have sold buttons to the Duchess of Windsor, to Queen Elizabeth, and to Miss Bette Davis. I have given buttons to nine different museums in five countries. I know absolutely that no man could show me a button that I couldn’t place, but you have done so. Where did you get them?”
“All right,” I said, “I listened now it’s your turn. I know less about buttons than any man in the world. . . .”
—The Mother Hunt, Rex Stout
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Proud . . .
too proud.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Collectors get like that.
It’s a strange mania.
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I take it back
I never actually thought you were cool
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd consider apologizing
but I’m too distracted by the D’AWWWWWWWW SNUGGLY PUPPY!!!!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Alison Brie has that effect on the rest of us.
"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!"
No she doesn’t
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 17, 2011 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
Well done
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:24 AM PDT up reply actions
ouch, harsh! lulz
DUCKS are cuter, even though the picture is trapped on my phone
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there are no DUCKS here now
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 17, 2011 12:30 AM PDT up reply actions
yes there are, also, forgot to add:
ha ha, your friend, the A’s fan! =P
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
It was late. Silly duck got lost.
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 17, 2011 12:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I told you, the weather here is messing with everything!
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
Good point. Fortunately, that isn’t happening here.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Just to understand, you want to give Allison Brie a big hug, pet her head, and then take her outside to make sure she doesn’t tinkle on the carpet? You’re a strange kid.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Awesome,PC
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 17, 2011 12:28 AM PDT up reply actions
All I’m seeing right now is “Blah, blah, blah ZOMG ADORABLE PUPPY!!!”
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't want to fight anymore
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
ZOMG
I’m dying!!!! This is your secret plot to try to win fights with me, isn’t it? Make me die from overload of adorable puppy pics.
I WANT A PUPPY
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I'll consider it
If you go down thread and explain to me what the hell a tERA is supposed to tell me vs. an ERA+
Because what the fuck
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Adorable puppy subthreads
need more Cavachons.
i.e., the breed that puts every other breeds’ “sad puppy eyes” to shame.
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
You misspelled “English Bulldog puppies”
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I really don't like those little bedroom slipper looking dogs as much
And I’m pretty sure my neighbor owns one of those and she barks at me EVERY FUCKING DAY. She literally can’t remember any of the people who live around her so she’s always yapping at everyone.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:38 AM PDT up reply actions
There's a great deal to be said . . .
. . . for the standard poodle. All that’s needful is to keep from docking their tails (sheer barbarity for any dog) and getting them clipped in that stupendously silly little-old-lady style, like animated mutton chops.
They are very bright, very good-tempered, and good-looking (and hypo-allergenic for people with the dog-hair issue). No one ever takes our lass for a poodle: she just looks like a sort of generic “dog” dog. And did I say very bright and very sweet-tempered? In case not, they’re very bright and very sweet-tempered.
Perhaps surprisingly, German Shepards are also very bright and good-tempered dogs, and despite their size adapt well to confined spaces (read “apartment”). But they shed a lot, and are genetically prone to two diseases: hip dysplasia and pannus. The hip issue can be avoided by care in the breeding lines—good kennels will supply a certificate. But the pannus, an eye condition, is not so easily detected till it’s too late. But they’re wonderful companions.
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I don't mind poodles.
I mind people who treat a poodle’s coat like it’s some kind of topiary.
German shepherds are nice, too. There’s a person about six blocks away from us who had, like, five German shepherds that we saw all the time in their backyards as we went to church.
I’m more partial to Corgis (the Pembroke ones, though the Cardigans aren’t that shabby), but really, a Cavachon’s eyes will typically make anyone bawwwwww.
Official adoptive parent of... well, no one. Too much paperwork, I guess.
An unoriginal observation: looks aren't everything.
Quite some years back, when we got to choose a dog (as opposed to getting one sort of Hobson’s choice), we spent a good time with some books by experts on the characteristics of the various breeds. Regrettably, too many of them were bred into existence for reasons not well connected with the modern person’s desire for a friendly, healthy companion.
We started sorting out, culling breeds that were not so bright, or not so good-tempered, or not so easy to train, or prone to diseases, and so on for quite a litany. The Shepard and the poodle seemed to come out on top, and we have had first the one and now the other, and have been well pleased.
We have also had a Sheltie—Shetland Sheepdog—which was, as is usually the case, too high-strung, and a cockapoo, which, just as word had it, combined the worst, the brains of the poodle and the wilfulness of the cocker; both still nice animals—all dogs not abused are—but not so easy to live with as the Shepard and the poodle.
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Look at those lil eyebrows!!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Accept that you’re wrong.
"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’m not. It’s you who is the wrong one.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions
If even GiantPain agrees, I’m clearly right.
"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!"
LOL U!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:15 AM PDT up reply actions
To be honest, without the aid of the picture directly below this I wouldn’t even know what we’re talking about.
"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!"
That’s because you just like to take the opposing side of any opinion I express on these boards. It’s practically compulsion at this point.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s true most of the time, but this is something I feel strongly about.
"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’m distressed about this whole right/wrong thing here you (not I) have set up here as the pattern of discussion, if that is its name.
Gallo has decided to go completely Tao. I doubt you will follow in great number, but that doesn’t matter. The Way is for the few. Deviance becomes cooperation. They becomes we. Orange becomes blue.
No, wait. That can’t happen.
Never mind.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I was wondering where you were going with this . . .
and then I just LOL’d
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Silly Mets.
"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!"
My point exactly.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Indeed the Wise Man’s office
Is to work by being still;
He teaches not by speech
But by accomplishment;
He does for everything,
Neglecting none;
Their life he gives to all,
Possessing none;
And what he brings to pass
depends on no one else.
As he succeeds,
He takes no credit
And just because he does not take it,
Credit never leaves him.
(Trans. R. B. Blakney)
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I’d have guessed Kipling.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Mandatory old joke insertion:
“Do you like Kipling?”
“I don’t know, I’ve never Kippled.”
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Victorian sexural implications intended.
/.>
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Did Picasso design that emoticon?
I’m trying to figure out what facial expression that should be
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Hahahaha
This is the first time in the history of ever that I have been on the receiving end of an appeal to authority.
Which is, of course, a logical fallacy.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Why do you hate everything?
"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!"
You’re thinking of Xanthan. Xanthan hates everything. GiantPain just hates us.
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Computers don't have emotions.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
oh dear
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
Oh god, not another one
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
This, specifically, made me LOL
“Don’t preach to me about romance, Annie. I had a three-way in a hot air balloon.”
"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!"
nice chairs
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
On Modern Marvels: Paint. It’s always good.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
The word you actually want is . . .
. . . “dugs”.
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she's a
Smalllllll Wonder…..
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by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
League average Zito threw 85-87. Below-average Zito throws 82-84.
Adopted Father of Marc Kroon. He better make the roster.
good god
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11/1/10
topped out at 84 tonight
18 FBs tonight, average speed 82.8 mph
any news on Gary Brown
Why’d he get pulled in SJ tonight?
Not for arguing
He threw his bat down right next to the plate after the ump rang him up on a questionable 3-2 pitch.
I think that he was still hot under the collar for being called out at 2nd on a steal attempt in the 1st inning. Joe Ritzo said it was a blown call, and Brown came up off the base and gave a “safe” sign right in front of the 2nd base ump. Skeels ran out and argued the call for a couple minutes – I think mainly to take the heat off of Brown.
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Keep an eye on my son, Jake "The Jacksonville Rifle" Dunning. From SS to the mound - exclusively toeing the rubber since March 2010.
How did Brown reach base?
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Apr 16, 2011 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Line single to RF.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Keep an eye on my son, Jake "The Jacksonville Rifle" Dunning. From SS to the mound - exclusively toeing the rubber since March 2010.
Nice. Part of me would rather see a walk, but hard to argue with a solid single.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Apr 16, 2011 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions
He did draw a walk in his 2nd AB, after the count was 2-2, but the ump rung him up on a ball that should have been ball 4.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Keep an eye on my son, Jake "The Jacksonville Rifle" Dunning. From SS to the mound - exclusively toeing the rubber since March 2010.
That’s okay with me – I’m really encouraged by his willingness to draw some walks.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Apr 16, 2011 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
thrown out for arguing strike 3
he was also called out stealing 2nd base in the 1st inning. according to ritzo, he was safe.
Jacob Dunnington: 5 IP, 1 H, 4 BB, 5 K, 1-0, 0.00 ERA
M-M-M-M-Mad
Mad to the Bum
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SWEET CHILD O MIIIIIIINE
Carter Jurica!
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Apr 16, 2011 8:22 PM PDT reply actions
STOP IT
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I think he’s just-plain-yuck Zito right now.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
yeah :(
he’s got a very 07/08 vibe
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11/1/10
I'm sure you all covered this in the game thread
but that sprained foot was the Player of the Game.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
jon sounds smashed
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He sounded pretty drunk last night, now that I’m thinking about it. Course if I were in AZ, I’d be drinking too
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
All the continuing remarks . . .
. . . about how “smashed” Kuip or Jon or anyone sounds are getting cumulatively annoying. For a play-by-play guy who takes his job seriously—unlike not a few we could all name—it is a very, very grueling, demanding thing to do for three hours or so on end (even the breaks aren’t wholly “breaks”), and of course there’s going to be a huge letdown after. Almost anyone will sound punch-drunk in such circumstances, because it’s just draining work.
It was—maybe—funny for a while, but it’s being repeated so often that I suspect some are coming to think of it as true. Cut them some slack.
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I'm pretty sure the rep goes to Kruk and Kruk alone.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I dunno, they clearly do drink in the booth at times. We’ve seen Kuip with a big old Guinness during the Post Game before.
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I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
What? I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it, but K&K, at least, seem to drink in the booth.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Enough to get lit?
I have my doubts, shall we say.
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I see their (seeming) tipsiness during the Wrap
as being similar to us blowing up the last GDT with gifs after a win.
11 01 10
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Reasonable view.
It’s just what happens when you can finally put aside a great strain. You don’t usually whoop an’ holler, you just slump down and mumble.
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I dunno. I mean, we say “LOL DRUNK” but they clearly aren’t drunk to the point of their job being impaired, more tipsy, I guess.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Exactly
They’re amazing broadcasters. Most of the “LOL DRUNK” is in levity (does anyone really think I hate Arizona that much) but whether or not they choose to drink at times, I know 1) they know the limit as far as professionalism and 2) they’re probably not drinking as often as we like to pretend they are.
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MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions
great
you have your doubts and others have theirs. Thank you. Moving on.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
That's "moving right along".
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Cop on the street nods and points > .
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t have any problem with it, either. It’s not problematic; maybe if they start miscalling plays or getting names wrong, calling attention to it would be contentious.
I’m a little perplexed by the repeated mentions, but only because it strikes me as something that’s beyond the point where it’s worth pointing out.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
maybe if they start miscalling plays or getting names wrong
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Scully is old and senile.
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Which, for clarity . . .
. . . are distinct conditions.
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Every time Kuip and Kruk and Jon get funny there’s some dude asserting they are drinking. I have come to the assumption that those who assert this are able to only think of wit and humor in the context of alcohol.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Double bingo.
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I LOL'd
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions
*sniff sniff*
Is that judgement I smell?
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
wow you're so much better than everyone else, obviously
adam carolla has a good rant for people like you. If you don’t drink that’s fine, but don’t look down your nose at those who do as if they are in some way inferior. Ugh.
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You don’t drink? And you call yourself a McCoven.
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I’m a type 2 diabetic and am undergoing chemo for Hepatitis “C” —do you think I’m dumb enough to drink? I gave up drinking years ago any way. Once you’ve seen one drunk you’ve seen them all.
I hadn’t realized drinking was a requirement around here.
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It’s really not, I apologize if anyone’s made it sound like it’s a requirement.
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I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Oh, good. I was thinking I might have to quit this 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!"
I don’t play video games, nor do I play fantasy baseball, nor do I eat lunch.
OK, I eat lunch and like to talk about lunch, but I don’t feel excluded when t’others discuss the first two matters. I just scroll through. That’s what you should do when we adults who choose to drink choose to talk about it.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Chasm
I don’t really care about the drinking talk, except when it leads to a more interesting discussion, in which case I appreciate it.
I also play neither video games nor fantasy baseball.
"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 play video games but not fantasy baseball.
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I play neither fantasy not video, but I’ll
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
drink. Sorry, that wasn’t intentional, nor was it caused by drink.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
/squints
I’m gonna need to see some ID, bud.
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Et tu, Ribe?
I ain’t your bud, bud.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
This Bud’s for you.
/peer pressure
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
No problem. I’ve never thought of you as one of those who jump to stereotypical labels.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
What I said is 99% chasm anyway.
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And here I thought you had unilaterally imposed a minimum drink requirement for reading and posting on this site. I’m sure you even had a good plan for monitoring and enforcing, but now we’ll never know.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I think only a couple times I noticed someone drunk here and both times were by pika.
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Thanks for not noticing.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, SFGuy, how dare you not know that about him?
LOL conflating “people who drink” with “drunks.”
Solid logic, that.
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Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve never let my life interfere with my drinking.
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Is this like the drinking team having a rugby problem?
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
I think this is universally true.
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A small drinking village with a fishing problem.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
Wow. Drinking isn’t a requirement around here but keeping in mind that most comments are made with a relatively large level of snark might help. And yeah, “people who drink” is not the same thing as “drunks”.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions
anyone who drinks = a drunk?
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I don’t either. There were alcoholics on both sides of the family, and I know there can be a genetic predisposition towards it so I’m fine in not partaking. Well that, and when I do drink it either puts me to sleep or gives me the butt pee… so I just don’t see the “fun” in it.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions
That seems like a pretty big leap to me!
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I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
It has to me too, unfortunately it seems to be repeatedly the case. See above.
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Good point about K and K and J judgments. I haven’t thought so from the beginning. They speak and think well at all times. Yes, Kuip has had a beer in hand on the wrap. He has always been cogent.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
you know when I think they're drunk?
when they sound totally drunk. And are joking about being drunk. Not when they’re being funny.
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I watch/listen a lot, bl, and I’ve simply never heard that.
Not just “sound totally drunk,” but even sound fairly drunk. And I hear plenty of drunk people.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Eh.
Seen one, seen ’em all.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Uh, ok
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Because I'm drunk I skipped the subthread above
But I felt it was important to say that no one here talks of Kuip and Kruk’s drinking as if it’s a bad thing.
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:09 AM PDT up reply actions
That guy gave me the impression he thinks all drinking is a bad thing and so discussions of any of the broadcasters drinking is somehow us looking down on them/calling them unprofessional/etc.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:14 AM PDT up reply actions
If . . .
. . . “that guy” is me, I certainly do not think all drinking is a bad thing—pause while he sips his Kahlua—nor do I think discussions of the broadcasters drinking is per se a “bad thing”. What I found, and find, unpleasant is the statement, made so often in (presumed) jest that it starts to be taken as fact, that the announcers are inebriated to the point of (at least) mild disfunctionality when doing the post-game shows.
They are just drained after a long period of sustained major mental exertion.
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unless I'm mistaken
‘that guy’ was rolfyboy.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Yep. LOL, I know who you are owlcroft. I’m less familiar with Rolfy. The only other time I remember seeing him is when he got into a fight with BL about Amy G. the other day.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:31 AM PDT up reply actions
WAIT
someone got in a fight with me? I find this hard to believe
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I think the thing is, I’m never really serious when I say it (which honestly is almost never) or laugh at it (which is more often than saying it) and we have seen them consuming alcohol so you can’t say for certain that they are never drunk or at least tipsy.
I understand if you feel like we’re impeaching their professionalism, but really it’s all in jest (at least for the majority of us). We love our broadcasters and think they do an amazing job and probably most of us know that they aren’t actually drunk and/or drinking most of the time.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:35 AM PDT up reply actions
They aren’t.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:39 AM PDT up reply actions
If you ever listened to Harry Caray, he was drunk. He was said the Cubs lost when it was the end of the 8th inning.
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If . . .
. . . he was said, he was drunk indeed.
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Well,
it’s not like they yell racial slurs or backsass anyone or destroy the press box when drinking.
I’m not saying that there have been commentators who have done that before, but still.
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Gallo del Cielo intends to backsass all of you simply because it is a lusty, playful verb with plenty of s’s and a’s.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s exactly like sassing someone, which is of course, always entertaining.
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:24 AM PDT up reply actions
/gallo backsasses benjie in lower cases . . .
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Both Kruk and Kuip openly drink, and talk about drinking, on air. It’s not some sort of mystery.
I doubt Jon does. Waaaay too sharp.
"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 to think
that when he did SNB with Morgan/whoever else, he’d take a shot/swig whenever Morgan said something stupid/baseless.
Which is pretty much what every at-home commentator does when they watch baseball on Fox.
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How can you say something like this? Why won’t you think of the children? You deserve a stern backassing.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 7:08 AM PDT up reply actions
he’d take a shot/swig whenever Morgan said something stupid/baseless.
No way. He’d have been dead of alcohol poisoning by the bottom of the first.
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Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 7:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Governor Posey
is so dreamy
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it’s ok to admit you have a crush on him, everyone else does ;)
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I enjoy women, but he is very easy on the eyes.
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haven’t you ever heard of a “man-crush”? it’s ok, nothing to be ashamed of, you’re in a safe place ;)
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Shush you!
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you can’t make me! /runs away
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/Runs faster!
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/walks away from computer to make dinner
lol
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What did you make?!
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meh, too hot here to cook food, so I just made a lame salad and buttered some sourdough :(
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Better than what I had! Also, duck!
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what did you have? never mind the fact that you probably ate dinner at the appropriate “dinner” time rather than what I’m doing
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No I ate like an hour ago or so. I had spam and fried rice with some broccoli
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oooo! that sounds yummers! my grandma used to make spam sometimes when we stayed over at their house when my folks would go out of town.
I seem to be having some trouble with my account, seems there are no boomerangs in stock…I may have to reboot
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I’ll try throwing it over again
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Also spam and rice is one of my favorite things ever. Along with Mint Chocolate chip ice cream. But, not together lol
/Thanks grandma
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I turn my nose up at a lot of things, but god damn do I love some Spam musubi.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
So amazing, right?
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I still need to try this, sounds amazing
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Oh it is. Like heaven in your mouth
/Preemptive TWSS
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IRL I totally lol’d
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I want some MCC ice cream now
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
lolwut? McC ice cream? Did Grant buy out the It’s-It factory now that he no longer works for the llamas????
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MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP, silly goose. But LOL that story.
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
mmmmm, mint chocolate chip It’s-It
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jcb rages. No It’s-It in Tallahassee.
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that’s heartbreaking! we should ship a box out to Tallahassee, no one should be without It’s-Its=Food of the Gods
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That is possible.
http://www.itsiticecream.com/order/ They ship anywhere
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Pricey, though.
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I don’t care. They are worth the up charge
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
You ma’am just read my mind
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
you shoulda seen my happy-dance-of-joy when I saw Von’s started carrying them! It was mock-worthy! ;)
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You did a dance in Von’s? How many “what the hell” looks did you accumulate?
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
dunno, wasn’t paying attention to whether or not anyone else was around….just heard angels singing and chubby cherubs opening the freezer door as a heavenly light fell down upon the case lulz
also, I called my sister as soon as I got home, sorta to rub it in as she was living in Seattle at the time
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This is the most odd description I have ever read for finding food.
But lol your sister
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, ok
my sister didn’t last too much longer after that, she’s in Pacific Grove now :)
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Oh, I have no idea where that is…
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Monterey Bay area…17 mile drive…anything?
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Ohhhhhh gotcha. I know now :)
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
that area’s also nice, not DL, but nice ;)
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lol DL! :)
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, they have lots of DUCKS right NOW
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There is a pond outside of my apartment complex and it has a lot of DUCKS in it all the time.
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, but do you have adorable baby DUCKS in your pond (now remembers I forgot to include said pic of cute baby ducks)
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Those baby DUCKS are really pretty. I want to keep one as a pet.
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by LincecumFTK on Apr 17, 2011 12:15 AM PDT up reply actions
zomg! last week when a momma duck was taking her 6 babies across the little ponds in front of Adventure & Frontierlands, they got a little separated and I watched some idiot PICK ONE UP and put it back over the little fence! You’re not supposed to do that, right?!?!
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
I had to read this like 5 times to comprehend it
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 17, 2011 12:35 AM PDT up reply actions
More ducks! Man, they are EVERYWHERE
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 17, 2011 12:59 AM PDT up reply actions
but not together….. THIS made me laugh :D
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
El Person eats dinner at 3 AM, I think.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
yeah, but is that his time our “our” time? lol
also, howdy!
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
The latest I've eaten dinner is 2 AM
My mom wants me to eat dinner right now. I am not hungry in the slightest. We’ll see how this turns out.
"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!"
Surely that's not dinner but supper?
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
In Indian English there is no such thing.
"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!"
Jest or truth?
Genuinely curious.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I have never heard an Indian refer to supper. Dinner is a meal eaten rather later than it generally is here; it is rarely eaten before 9:00 and dinner parties often do not start until after 10:30. This is true for North Indians and South Indians alike.
Indian English is a strange and fascinating dialect. It is conventional for children to refer to adults to whom they are not related as “anti” and “angkal”, derived from the English “aunt” and “uncle”. Male cousins are called “cousin brothers”, and female cousins “cousin sisters”.
"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!"
that was a lovely insight, thank you for sharing :) :) :)
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
Actually,
I’ve never been quite sure where the line between “dinner” and “supper” comes in conventional, LeftPondial English. My family always used to refer to the evening meal as “supper”, but as I grew up I came to realize that that was not considered correct; but I recall in one of the Nero Wolfe novels Archie semi-sarcastically referring to Inspector Cramer’s having “what he calls his supper”, so it wasn’t just us.
The AHD4 says of supper: 1. a light evening meal when dinner is taken at mid-day; 2. a light meal eaten before going to bed. I remember in one of the Sherlock Holmes stories (“The Blue Carbuncle”, I think) Holmes remarking to Watson as they depart their dining table to follow a clue, “We shall turn the dinner into a supper.”
Beyond that, deponent saith not.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
My understanding is that dinner is the main meal of the day, and supper refers to a meal that comes after 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!"
Yeah. Dinner used to happen a lot earlier, though. As it became normalized later in the day, supper sort of stopped being a thing.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Often,
the social class that regularly attends the opera and the theater used to go (and may still go) afterwards either to a restaurant or (usually by prearrangement) to someone’s home for a post-performance “supper”, typically something light like an omelette with champagne. This was usually somewhere from 10 pm to one am.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Brian Wilson's ERA
Back in single digits!
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
progress!
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
The last two nights have felt like how one might script perfect Giants' wins...
warts and all.
Obviously, first inning runs are like a calming cocktail, but the Giants are beating a team they should beat and doing it in a way that doesn’t seem like they’re waiting for someone to make a mistake. The things they did well last year they’re carrying over to this year, plus the team is taking waaay more pitches at the plate and, hey, Guillermo Mota is making us all eat our hats!
this
especially the taking pitches bit. All our regulars know to at least take a few pitches now (besides Tehaha). Even Pablo is laying off the really bad ones
doing it in a way that doesn’t seem like they’re waiting for someone to make a mistake
very well put
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
I wouldn’t mind a perfect game in which the Giants hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs to start the game.
If not that, then yeah, this works too.
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Watching STL-LA via the Cardinals feed
Just found out Kershaw is a Christian. Did some work for poor people in Africa.
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 also does missionary work.
by Every6thDay on Apr 16, 2011 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions 12 recs
I heard that he’s more of a cowgirl in his off-time.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
…
…
…
rec
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and the complete lack of defense.
If there's a better comment in the history of MCC
I’d love to see it
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 games in June 1995).
NEVER FORGET
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:12 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s a really nice story.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate the Dodgers
But Kershaw is my prized Pokemon and I lurve him
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Barry Zito and the Thousand-Yard Stare
My heart goes out to him, but… I mean, damn, Barry.
(Yes, I just posted this in the last thread. Just click the SL.)
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:27 PM PDT reply actions
thanks for the SL
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I’m always careful about that.
Now I’m a mortal lock to forget on the next one, of course.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
You do know that you can resize your pictures, right?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I can never remember how, and I figure people will either SL it or scroll down.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Add “height=###” after the second quotation mark but before the /> part
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Merci.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Legolas with a mustache.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
/Frodonot brings him some lembas bread
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
IT’S LEMBAS DAMN IT
"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 waiting for this.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
You were waiting for lembas bread? Did yours mysteriously disappear after you started travelling with a misshapen humanoid that talks about his precioussss constantly?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
You didn’t have to admit it. It stood on its own.
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:33 PM PDT up reply actions
lolololol kuip
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
Oh God
CB Bucknor is the home plate ump tomorrow
God Damnit Sharks.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
How drunk is Kuip right now?
"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's inspiring me
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
maybe jon more
buster posey is my pick because… i like him,… i just like him
by posey yaknowsy on Apr 16, 2011 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
how dare you
how dare you
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Nobody is drubk ever
You take that back!
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 games in June 1995).
NEVER FORGET
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Do your fingers have a cold or did you just slur your typing because of the alcohol consumptions
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:16 AM PDT up reply actions
It was an unintentional typo
that became intentional as soon as I decided it might be funny
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 games in June 1995).
NEVER FORGET
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:22 AM PDT up reply actions
I enjoyed it
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:24 AM PDT up reply actions
That makes one of us
(seriously, it’s really hard to type right now)
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 games in June 1995).
NEVER FORGET
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:26 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Trust you fingers, Mike.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:43 AM PDT up reply actions
your . . . see what I mean?
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Never
There’s only one part of me that I trust unconditionally…
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 games in June 1995).
NEVER FORGET
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:45 AM PDT up reply actions
LOLORADO
Suck it, Rockies. No humidor comebacks for you.
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit!
-Doc Brown, Zito fan
by jordanovich on Apr 16, 2011 8:34 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 3 recs
…Why did Tulowitzki leave the game?
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
I dunno, missed that, I only caught the end
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit!
-Doc Brown, Zito fan
by jordanovich on Apr 16, 2011 8:37 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Whoa? He left the game?
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
beat writer says it might be to avoid a day off tomorrow.
Adopted Father of Marc Kroon. He better make the roster.
Cool – I don’t really want him to be injured. Not sure it’s avoidable with Tulowitzki though.
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
twitter says he's fine
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
HA HA! I’m way to happy about this…
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
At least you’re happy now!
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
also, because of COLs loss, there is a potentially jinxable thing that I could be typing about here, but I will refrain to keep from being Jinxy McJinxerton…but it’s pretty awesome!
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
I think I know what you’re suggesting, but I’ll keep quiet for now…
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, was totally about to type it and then realized it’s probably a jinxable offense so I thought best not to :)
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
Best to play it safe. :)
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
is Jinky McJinxerton a reliever for the Padres?
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
they got him for a couple of Hairstons
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
/Hissssssssssssssssssssssssss Hairstons
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
but they’re “gracing” two other teams this year, right, so no longer a concern for the Giants?
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
I can still irrationally hate all of them if I want!
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
(Mile) HIII-IIGH HOPES
We’ve got
(Mile) HIII-IIGH HOPES
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Exactly what I was thinking
TheBillWalton The Bill Walton Trip
Jason Kidd epitomizes a depraved spectral bat of the Peruvian coast, a vicious hunter that attacks prey with a deceptively long wingspan.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Was Mychael Urban just whispering “I hate Mat Latos”?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I never thought I’d say this, but I miss Mychael Urban.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I wasn’t a fan of his show, but it certainly sounded good tonight. Maybe fond memories of last season.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Kershaw 95 pitches, other guy 40 something pitches
Bonehead play by notorious barroom fighter J. Laird, Ethier scores 2-1 Cards
John Laird?
I volunteered for his State Senate campaign!
"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 was a weird play. Why would he move up the third base line?
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim joke has not yet ceased to amuse me.
"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 joke is that?
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
The Los Angeles Angels
means
The The Angels Angels
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
WORLD CHAMPIONS
by Tim LinCyYoung on Apr 16, 2011 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Odd, but not that funny.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
oh yeah
duh. Wow, I’m not sure how I never caught that
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
many native Spanish speakers think it's obvious
and quite ridiculous
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
BL: not a native Spanish speaker
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
obviously not
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
urban
when reading the scores announces them as “the Angels of Anaheim, in Orange County, near the John Wayne Airport, and also by Disneyland, but nowhere near Los Angeles”, and then there’s a sound drop of Kuip calling the stadium (or some other place, I forget) “a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge toilet bowl”.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
thats pretty funy
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
also funNy
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
AngelA Stadium (of Anaheim)!
Ha HA!
God, between the 2002 WS and the current Kings thing, I really don’t think Anaheim needs a third strike with me.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:43 PM PDT up reply actions
a huge toilet bowl
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
At one time the resemblance was profound. It has been re-modeled enough so that it no longer is accurate. But it is where it is, and it is what it is.
Further profundities will have to wait.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
They have 3 with me
The dallas maverick esque choke job the sharks pulled against the ducks 2 years ago was all I needed for that.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Top of the 5th
Kershaw has thrown over 100 pitches.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I’m watching this game. Seems to me like he’s getting squeezed a bit by the ump.
by non sequitur on Apr 16, 2011 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Joe West is the home plate ump
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Too distracted by poor sales of his CD, maybe.
by non sequitur on Apr 16, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Looks like it
Good :)
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Gwynn Jr. and Darren Ford in the baseball hat one-size-too-large-club
Will we see most young players with that look
flat brims are more aerodynamic
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
So where’d be a good place to go play in the snow tomorrow? That’s not ridiculously far away.
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
Can’t you go up toward Arnold or however far up it is on Hwy 88?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Donner Lake. The Donner Inn in Truckee has great ribs.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Obligatory
4/6 L
4/7 L
4/8 L
4/9 W!
4/10 L
4/11 L
4/12 PPD
4/13 L
4/14 L, L
4/15 PPD
4/16 L, L
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:48 PM PDT reply actions
Wow – I didn’t realize it was that bad. They should just trade everyone and start over in 3-5 years.
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions
good freaking god
seems like they were contenders not THAT long ago
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
More than a half-season of healthy Reyes would be even better.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
/dreams
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Well, only if he doesn't cost much
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
This is the Mets we’re talking about.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
“Look, Schierholtz, Tejada, and Rowand is a good package – that’s three major leaguers for just our one! But we’re looking to shore up that rotation, so we just can’t make this deal without throwing Zito in too.”
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
“Well, OK, but take this Jason Bay along too, we’ll pay the salary to be helpful”
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
On Amazin’ Avenue they were talking about Belt+Wheeler+Neal.
"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!"
For a half of a season?
LOLOLOLOLLLLLLLL
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Too rich for my blood. I’d package Wheeler maybe.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I think that would be an overpay for a half-season rental of a Type B who won’t bring two comp picks.
Yeah, anything that costs Belt is an obvious no. Wheeler is also a no. Maybe Neal, but I wouldn’t be into it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Whoa.
For half a season or so? You’d give up a probable decent everyday player maybe a year away?
Thanks, but no thanks.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Well, we don't know for sure yet . . .
. . . but he looks like a non-star but decent everyday guy—maybe a Cody Ross level bat. Certainly not worth a half-season rental on a dubious-health player.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I should have mentioned health with defense, yes. But Ross’s bat seems a non-everyday 4th OF without Ross’s glove, and I hadn’t read that Neal’s was as good. Here’s hoping you’re right — the Giants could stand another inexpensive, everyday player.
I fail to understand this claim that Cody is a more valuable defender than he is a hitter. He doesn’t OBP well, but he’s a 20+ HR kind of guy, which is about 20 more than you can expect from Nate.
If things go well, we’ll get ‘08/’09 Cody when he gets back, and we will part amicably after this year with Neal being a passable defender and 7-place hitter to play RF next season.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
You are the only one making that claim. What I said was that Ross’s bat seems a non-everyday 4th OF without Ross’s glove. Which is true. From 2008-2010 Ross’s bat in RF was 22nd out of 27 qualifiers. His WAR including defense, however, was 15th.
It depends on expectations.
Corner men are expected to have strong batting credentials on the ground that up-the-middle men are the ones for whom defense is important. Ross does not have traditional RF offense, no doubt there. His value is as a man who can play all three positions well with an offense that is at least decent, even if not titanic.
What one chooses to make of modern stats that purport to translate defense into terms commensurable with offense is a personal decision. (As is, I suppose, well enough known, I much distrust them.)
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
15th sounds about right to me. Cody is obviously not a world-shaker or anything with his power, but I’ve been getting the sense that people forget that Cody is, in fact, capable of hitting. He is not Jayson Werth, but he is adequate for his position.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Reyes can absolutely still play D.
He is excellent.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, he's been hurt for much of the past three years.
I hate to drop the strawhatz argument, but I watch him every day, and dude’s pretty redic.
11 01 10
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions
It's always a possibility. But that's true of anyone.
All the talk in the Mets’ camp this year is that he’s finally over all those nagging problems, and his play so far seems to bear that out.
11 01 10
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I coulda sworn I just saw him on a Mess injury report last night.
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I don’t think so. They put poor Chris Young on the DL, but Reyes is fine. This is from Friday’s NY Daily News.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:51 AM PDT up reply actions
I would too. If the Giants are going to deal for Reyes, they have to give up something. I doubt Neal gets it done, but I’d definitely be okay with that. I’m not confident enough in Neal, and I am confident that shortstop is a weakness for the Giants.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s a Type B? I had been assuming Type A. My bad.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s a fair bet given his injuries.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait
Why wouldn’t Reyes be a type A?
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I'd be surprised if he wasn't.
But he has been injured a lot.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
what other contender would need a SS? Brewers?
Adopted Father of Marc Kroon. He better make the roster.
They're playing without one right now
lolololol Yuniesky Betancourt
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Your 2014 SS on a 1 year/$7M contract!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Let’s just take him for the name. The drunk people would have a challenge.
Drunk people are drunk >""".
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I stand corrected
"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!"
Actually, to be fair, I’m not sure he was suggesting that they should ask for all 3. Sounds like he just named 3 players they might be willing to trade that the Mets would also be interested in.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
He clearly wants all three in the other link.
"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!"
From that same comment:
I don’t know If I’d even like doing that. (with Harvey and Mejia coming do we really need those two likely #3 pitchers? With Ike do we really want Belt?
And two comments later:
It wasn’t meant to be taken as a realistic proposal (I don’t think SF would deal Belt or that Cinn would move Chapman).
It was just to show that even if we get the best semi-realistic 3 player package from teams that are in need of a Jose Reyes, it might not be that attractive a deal (meaning that wthe players involved might not match up with our needs that well).
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
"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!"
Wow, I'd do that in a heartbeat.
Can we throw in Timmy, Cain, and Buster, too?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Then they will have to throw in Ron Darling and Sid Fernandez
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Jon, Kruk, Kuip and Dave plus Gary, Keith and Ron (and Kevin!)
would be a seriously formidable broadcast team.
Overkill, even. Those latter four guys make watching a LOLMess game a pleasure.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
What about Howie Rose?
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Y'know
I’ve never listened to a single game on the radio out here.
LOLack of car.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
no, that’s unfair…
we should just give them the whole team
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Castillo+Thole for Lincecum+Posey has been mentioned, albeit as a ridiculous idea that would never happen.
"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!"
jesus christ
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
To be fair, no one actually suggested this. That link is from the beginning of the offseason, where they’re asking for people’s ideas. One of the ground rules they set is
7. Feasibility of plan execution is important. Don’t propose a trade of Luis Castillo and Josh Thole for Tim Lincecum and Buster Posey. It’s not going to happen.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:27 AM PDT up reply actions
oh
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
Now Oliver Perez and Josh Thole, that’d be an even trade. SP+C for SP+C.
GIT R DUN GINATZ BRASZ!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:30 AM PDT up reply actions
HAHAHAHA. yeah, right. And I want a Pujols for free
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah, well, that’s a nice thought for them.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
LOLOLOLOL!
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
My Adopted Giant: Heath Hembree
I don't get it
He never actually got to the punchline. But there’s no way that person can be serious, right? RIGHT?
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:24 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t visit Amazin Ave. enough to know the various personalities. Here I know the trolls when I sees them.
Hope the brass band in your skull is playing less loudly these days, btw.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 7:11 AM PDT up reply actions
It is! Just a mild headache this morning and really nothing yesterday. They told me there could be some residual headaches so I’m fine with that. It’s just so nice to not be high on pain meds.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
somebody there mentioned Bumgarner, Wheeler, and Belt… and then kinda decided it wasn’t a desirable package.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
oh, nevermind
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Bumgarner and Wheeler are both third starters at best and they already have Ike Davis.
"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!"
That’s what makes it a great idea, it’s like a total surprise!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I think Bumgarner has more potential than just third starter. He could be a third starter right now.
Carter Jurica!
"The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." - Gaylord Perry
by GrahamCrakalaka on Apr 17, 2011 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions
LOLWHAT
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
Dear Chris Haft,
I think the Giants should trade for Jose Reyes. Do you think the Mets would trade him for Guillermo Mota and Aaron Rowand? We can throw in Eugenio Velez if need be.
Terry from San Francisco
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 Apr 16, 2011 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder what a half season rental of him would cost us
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
We really need him to start complaining and demanding trades so the Mets are forced to deal from a position of weakness.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
good point. i’ll take care of the kidnapping so we can tape a forced trade-me tirade
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m trying to come up with something to say about this, but I’m mostly just laughing.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
Oh, here it is
THAT’S WHAT THEY GET FOR SIGNING A HAIRSTON
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
When do the Giants get in on the fun?
"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!"
when they win their only 3 straight of the year
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Alan Craig 3 run homer
Cards lead 5-1.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Allen craig
Pretty cool dude
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
LOLDGERS
Kershawshank Redemption
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit!
-Doc Brown, Zito fan
by jordanovich on Apr 16, 2011 8:51 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Darren Ford 1st big league at bat
Out on three pitches. Welcome Darren.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Vin says the game has been "broken open" by the homer by that nondescript Cardinal of 111 pitch Kershaw
Geez, it’s the top of the fifth
Vin has been with the Dodgers for 150 years
He should know
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
4 runs to the Dodgers is 10 runs to anyone else, therefore, from their perspective he is right.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
What's on my TV? 49er season preview?
FEH. I’m gonna go watch Parks and Recs some more.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:53 PM PDT reply actions
Any reason you always call it Parks and Recs instead of Parks and Rec?
"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!"
Because it’s Parks and Recreations
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
because it deserves to be rec'd
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I'll take it
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
It’s Pat Burrell. Damn right you’ll take it.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
suck it, batting average whores
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, WORLD CHAMPION SAN FRANCISCO GIANT
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
OT
This is such a sad story :(
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6372364
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."
Oh god, how horrible
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 16, 2011 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow – that’s awful.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Bacterial meningitis is a serious diagnosis. If someone has a fever and severe head or neck pain, do not take two aspirin and sleep it off.
Definitely.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Isn't a major warning sign the inability to touch chin to chest?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
my cousin had meningitis when she was a kid
luckily she survived
Adoptive father of 18th round draft pick and future ace, BRANDON ALLEN
by Nnamdi Asomugha on Apr 16, 2011 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Senior year of high school, four kids contracted this and died more or less over night. We were an unlucky year for a number of reasons….
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
.
That is so unfortunate.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
My Adopted Giant: Heath Hembree
The Cardinals must have the whitest lineup in baseball.
What a bunch of gritty gamers!
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
At least they have a few Japanese guys and Coco. The Cardinals just have Pujols.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
Coco is my new favorite non-Giant.
"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've always kinda liked him too
not entirely sure why, other than the name, of course
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Apr 16, 2011 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
And Yadier.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoohoo
SJGiants San Jose Giants
Heath Hembree works 1-2-3 ninth inning for his first save of the year…Giants win 5-2 and take two of three from the Rawhide!
Also, Wheeler pitched well. All is well in Giants land tonight
Adopted Father of Marc Kroon. He better make the roster.
Don’t hold your breath – odds are really stacked against him.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Keep an eye on my son, Jake "The Jacksonville Rifle" Dunning. From SS to the mound - exclusively toeing the rubber since March 2010.
To where?
The Giants only use the DH about 8 times a year – so that does Conor no good.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Keep an eye on my son, Jake "The Jacksonville Rifle" Dunning. From SS to the mound - exclusively toeing the rubber since March 2010.
also, i thought he would hit more. what’s up with that?
Adopted Father of Marc Kroon. He better make the roster.
Rawhide is such a stupid name.
"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!"
It is the name of a gay bar in NYC
I always thought it was an amazing gay bar name, though.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Apr 16, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Contractions are omitted.
Rawhide’s calculating, his true love will be waiting, be waiting at the end of his ride.
Head them out, head them in, head them out, head them in . . . . RAWHIDE!!!!!
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
considering
they used to be the Oaks, which was a fantastic name, for 20 or so years on and off.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Modesto Nuts is another stupid name. The team in Modesto should always be the A’s.
"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 now it's on
Modesto was all sorts of things over the years, and they have two fantastic mascots now that must provide horrible scares to every drunk or stoner that ever goes to one of their games.
Also, it seems to be a really well-run franchise and is a fun visit. So LAY OFF AL AND WALLY OR I WONT GIVE YOU ANY LEMBAS BREAD
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
LEMBAS BREAD
"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!"
Are you suggesting Sean Astin was drunk? How dare you.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Jeez.
Lambast bread is more like it.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
that's not vegan
Cate Blanchett would never have stooped to that.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Not Lamb-Ass, you fool!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re not very punny tonight at all.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
But… I… lambast, you see, and lembas… so…
:-(
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
:}>
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
WOO MY SON!
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
My Adopted Giant: Heath Hembree
lol dodgers throwing at the cardinals
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
This
I enjoyed when timmy threw a 96 mph fastball at kemp kemp for the first pitch of his first at bat on Tuesday though :D.
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Well I missed the first 7 innings.
Is Zito seriously injured?
Adoptive father of 18th round draft pick and future ace, BRANDON ALLEN
by Nnamdi Asomugha on Apr 16, 2011 9:04 PM PDT reply actions
LOLDODGERS
throwing at batters down 5-1. “well, we’re gonna lose so let’s just throw at them.”
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
I saw that as well
LULZ sending a message that we won’t take that scoring on us lightly!
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Especially in the only other 3 games they’ll play this season against each other!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not sure MacDougal has enough control to not hit pitchers (witness his pickoff throw into CF).
It must be a little scary batting against this guy.
by non sequitur on Apr 16, 2011 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
The Cardinals broadcasters were getting on Joe West for warning both teams because of this.
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 thats the new Dodger strategy when losing. Throw at players, so BOTH teams get warned, and the inside corner is taken away from the opposing team’s pitcher, and they can cheat looking outside to try and get back in the game.
Plausible for a Dodger? absolutely.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Was it on purpose? I didn’t think it was at first glance. McDougal (or whatever his name is) has been kind of wild.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
eh, well he hit him on the back. seems like something you’d have to aim to do
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
and theres been some pitch-buzzing already
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I haven’t been paying that much attention. From players other than McDougal?
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, apparently. at least that is Scullys story
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions
So it’s probably wrong then.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
possibly
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Cards broadcasters say he’s wild and it didn’t appear he hit him on purpose.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
wonder why they issued warnings then? usually umps dont do that unless it is absolutely necessary
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably to preempt retaliation.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
you’d think they might have thought of that in a Giants/Dodgers series after Lilly hits Posey- the first time.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m still in the preliminary stages of research, but I’m working on the assumption that the ump was stupid and the universe wants me to hate the Dodgers.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
I’d say, as a test subject, your research is lookin’ good
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Both seem like reasonable and logical conclusions.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
All Scully said was that one Dodger got hit by a pitch earlier, not that the Cardinals were throwing at the Dodgers with intent. It may even have been the uniform brush on Barajas that even Barajas didn’t realize.
by non sequitur on Apr 16, 2011 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL DODGERS
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LOLDODGERS
"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."
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
dodgers trivia question
Pujols is 1 of 5 NL players to win 3 or more MVPs. Who are the other 4?
bonds
"Can Manchester United score? They always score... Peter Schmeichel is forward... Beckham, in towards Schmeichel- it's come for Dwight Yorke. Cleared... Giggs with a shot- SHERINGHAM!"
by Useful_Idiot on Apr 16, 2011 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
mays won 2
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
That’s pretty surprising
"Can Manchester United score? They always score... Peter Schmeichel is forward... Beckham, in towards Schmeichel- it's come for Dwight Yorke. Cleared... Giggs with a shot- SHERINGHAM!"
by Useful_Idiot on Apr 16, 2011 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions
if by surprising you mean ridiculously stupid then yes
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
yep
"Can Manchester United score? They always score... Peter Schmeichel is forward... Beckham, in towards Schmeichel- it's come for Dwight Yorke. Cleared... Giggs with a shot- SHERINGHAM!"
by Useful_Idiot on Apr 16, 2011 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
yea, just looked it up. Thats weird/stupid that Campanella won more MVPs than Mays.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Won in 51, 53 and 55 (55 was questionable).
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Bonds Musial Schmidt… and some Dodger?
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
it has to be a Dodger to be their question but I have no idea who…. Snider? That would be weird if he won more than Mays
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Think ex-catcher
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Campanella? wasnt Piazza
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Yeah. It was Campanella.
Proud father of Mark Gardner(29 years my senior): mastermind of our airtight relief corps, local boy, and owner of an unofficial no-no against the Dodgers.
Probably wouldn’t be Snider, since for years he would have been blocked by Mays. Robinson? I’m pretty sure Piazza never won 3. (Or even 1?)
by non sequitur on Apr 16, 2011 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
TERRY PENDLETON!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Buster only gets hits when he has two strikes. That’s the only time. Must frustrate the hell out of opposing pitchers.
"Can Manchester United score? They always score... Peter Schmeichel is forward... Beckham, in towards Schmeichel- it's come for Dwight Yorke. Cleared... Giggs with a shot- SHERINGHAM!"
Some takeaways.
First, and foremost—and again—these Giants can score runs. This is not the team for which a 4-run game was a triumph: these guys are shooting for a 5 R/G average. I suspect they’ll end up around 4.8, but that’s still awfully good.
Second, about GIDPs: coming into this game, despite the common feeling of “here we go again”, the Giants were nearly average at GIDP/G (11 total, where league-average would be 10). So if we just write today off as one of those freaky things that happen, we can stay sane.
Third: even Barry Zito’s best friends have got to be getting worried. The “safe” 5 IP/90 pitches may not hold up this year. (Though had he made it through 5 with no further damage, it wouldn’t have a bad outing at all.) The Giants put themselves in a bad place as far as handling any problem with any starter. Runzler (whom they now claim they never meant to convert, just to stretch to long) is very obviously not ready, and might never be. If Vogelsong isn’t Todd Wellemeyer in a mask, he’s his cousin. Other possibilities have roster issues associated with them. Bad planning. (Wow, what a shock.)
Unrelated sidebar: Don Mattingly is apparently trying to win the Stereotyped Unthinking Classical Manager Award for 2011; in my opinion, he’s got a lock on it.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
If Pablo reverts to his ’09 self (or somewhere close to it), that would be a massive boost to this offense.
What did Mattingly do now?
"Can Manchester United score? They always score... Peter Schmeichel is forward... Beckham, in towards Schmeichel- it's come for Dwight Yorke. Cleared... Giggs with a shot- SHERINGHAM!"
by Useful_Idiot on Apr 16, 2011 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
It's mostly his pitcher use, or abuse.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Learned from the best/worst
Joe Torre! Somewhere Scott Proctor’s arm is plotting his revenge.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Vogelsong strikes me as a good half-run better than Wellemeyer. Maybe a full run, depending on how bad you think Wellemeyer’s true talent was.
He also can’t be any worse to watch.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Hm.
Per BaseballReference.com, career opposing batters OPS against:
Wellemeyer = .792
Vogelsong = .810
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
He learned from the master, Torre!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Even Urban sounded concerned
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I'll say it. I'm glad Uribe is gone
Dude was, outside some big late-inning HRs, a black hole in the lineup as far as keeping the line moving and getting on base consistently.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
not to mention the horrible hacking, swinging as hard as possible every time. shit is annoying. Tejada is a much better, more complete hitter, albeit still a bit of a hacker.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I’m not sure I’d say Tejada is a better hitter. Miggy has wOBAs of .313/.344/.306 the last three years. Uribe has .296/.351/.322.
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 Apr 16, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, thats weird
the numbers may be close, but from watching the two I can say I’d rather have Tejada bat than Uribe, any day.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:24 PM PDT up reply actions
The reasonable expectation for Tejada should be a higher average, lower SLG hitter than Uribe, and a lesser defender. A slight downgrade overall in terms of value, but the correct move for te Giants overall given what it would have costed to keep Juan.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
I’d rather have a higher average than slugging on this team- there’s enough power to go around as it is… that is, if Aubrey actually starts hitting for power.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I think it’s okay to think that Juan is at the point where he wouldn’t be as good anymore, but he was very valuable from 09-10 as a Giant.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I think it’s fair to say that we got great value from Uribe in the two years that he was a Giant, but he may well have been playing over his head at times and is probably very close to the precipice, such that giving him a 3-year, $24 million deal was probably not worth it.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Yeah I’m not trying to drag on Uribe at all. He was a Good Giant. I’m just very happy that going forward, we didn’t sign him for 3 years.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree, just not too the point where it denigrates what he did for the Giants. He also took some cut-rate contracts here, and is a cousin(?) of Jose Uribe, another beloved Giant. So, it doesn’t feel good how he left, still, there are many good memories that he’s left us with.
of course. a World Series win, that we don’t get without him. Though on the cut-rate contracts, he couldn’t find a home anywhere else, is why he kept coming back. Giants are the only ones who offered, from my understanding.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions
i’m saying through his eyes, maybe he was expecting to be compensated after the fact; rewarded, I suppose.
You get paid extra for winning the series; he had the option of signing with the Giants, and we offered him close to $20 million if I remember right. It’s not like Renteria where we showed him a “lack of respect.”
He chose to go to Los Angeles; if he can’t have a reasonable perspective on the situation, that’s not going to make me feel bad for him. The Giants offered him what they could, and possibly than they should have.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
This.
Then- despite the pregame frolics- he got all butthurt by the two obviously unintentional Timmy drillings, and either demanded or at least failed to discourage, the retaliations against Posey.
WTF, Uribe? Chill. Jeez.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I got nothin' but love for up-through-the-parade Uribe.
But can’t I bag on him for his childishness this year? He’s a Dodger, for heaven’s parts southward’s sake!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Willie be right, thinks gallo.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Uribe playing over his head
Yes, and for me, I like the chances of a resurgent year from a guy who had a clearly better career overall. Tejada’s career averages kill Uribe’s. Yes, I know not so much in recent history, but still.
Loved that DP tonight.
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
by achiappanza on Apr 16, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Definitely. I would not have wanted to pay Uribe for three years.
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 Apr 16, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
…is outhitting Aubrey Huff, our #3 hitter.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Tejada is doing ok.
Huff is doing downright terrible.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I believe Tejada is doing about what we thought he’d do, while Huff is so far under projections it’s crazy.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
wasnt Huff struggling around this time last year?
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
April 17, 2010. Hitting .282. OPS .853
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
well, nevermind then
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
he seems like he’s hitting .200 right now, with 3 XBH on the season, and a 2% walk rate.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
he's been pretty terrible
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
But every time i bench him on my fantasy team he decides to get a couple RBIs. ::sigh::
by WhatsAMataHari on Apr 16, 2011 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
i hope we didn’t get that every-other-year version of Huff in 2011
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
::facepalm::
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Huff didn’t hit his first outside-the-park home run until April 27th last year. Just to put things into perspective a little bit.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
All I remember was by the ASB Huff had top notch stats.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
by giant4life83 on Apr 16, 2011 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Clearly you didn't read Grant's post-game
The ability to get on base isn’t actually useful in this lineup
/6-4-3’d
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
MCC: Serious thought provoking questions don’t come flying out of our sarcastic brains quite as quickly as flippant answers
by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Game Summary
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
WORLD CHAMPIONS
by Tim LinCyYoung on Apr 16, 2011 9:19 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
ISWYDT
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions
My A's fan of a best friend
is trying to explain to me how much better they are than the Giants.
I can’t stop laughing.
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
Show that person your WS collection.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
/talks about ancient history
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
that’s the 49ers fans’ job
Jacob Dunnington: 5 IP, 1 H, 4 BB, 5 K, 1-0, 0.00 ERA
M-M-M-M-Mad
Mad to the Bum
by TimLaser and MattyC on Apr 16, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes,yes, by all means, let’s talk RRRRRRRRAIDERS recent history! Let’s see… in my lifetime, we’ve got the Tuck Rule Game, the Why-Should-We-Change-Our-Playbook-Against-The-Coach-Who-Wrote-It Super Bowl, some shit while in exile in LA, and… um… Mount Davis.
Meanwhile, in that same span, the 49ers only have five titles.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I read that as “five titties”. That would be kind of weird.
"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’m having a “Mallrats” flashback.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Hey, Gold Rush!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:35 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL GEREN
/removes balfour before the 9th so fuentes can face miguel Cabrera to lead off the 9th
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
Billy should take over again.
He’s been letting his managers think for themselves. Big mistake.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I… kind of want to hear more.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
In this line
Do elaborate.
"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!"
Probably some moronic argument along the lines of “DA A’Z STARTERS ARE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THEIR POTENTIAL WHERE AS THE GIANTS HAVE ALREADY PEAKED LOLOL!”
"The criticism was so brutal that Sabean was forced to declare, at a press conference, "I am not an idiot." Thus, the pattern of Sabean's relationship to his critics was established."
“Records lie”.. To which I said “Didn’t the A’s almost get swept by Seattle?”
“Suzuki is better than Posey”
“The Giants play in the weakest division in baseball”
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
1) Sure, whatever. Whose point is he trying to make?
2) lawl
3) Ladies and Gentlemen, your Seattle Mariners!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
The weakest division in baseball:
The _L Central. (Fill in the blanks!)
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
by Solidarity on Apr 16, 2011 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
So not so much explaining as just making gratuitous assertions.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
The NL West is either the second-best or the third-best division in baseball, and it is certainly the most interesting.
"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!"
Best pitching division in baseball, hands down.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
COUNT TEH PERFECT GAMEZ!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Ironic mustache.
My hipster analogy yet lives.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Ironic mustache
made permanent tattoo.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
But their fans can explain the Infield Fly Rule!!!!!!
Proud father of Mark Gardner(29 years my senior): mastermind of our airtight relief corps, local boy, and owner of an unofficial no-no against the Dodgers.
I was at an A’s game many years ago where a fan thought the appeal play was to see if the ball was in the strike zone.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Lol wat
Proud father of Mark Gardner(29 years my senior): mastermind of our airtight relief corps, local boy, and owner of an unofficial no-no against the Dodgers.
The guy screamed out “Ask the 1st base umpire if that was a strike!” I did see other A’s fans do the facepalm.
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 wish I had that kind of self-certainty.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
what's the deal with "good" christian?
I mean, everytime I hear that, I think “Tom DeLay.” Doesn’t Christian infer good already? Can’t someone just be good [El] person? What about good jew, good muslim, good hindu, good atheist, etc?
Presumably the distinction is . . .
. . . as between people who really are whatevers, and people who merely claim to be (and perhaps go through the mechanical superficials of being).
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Has to do with whether they are the annoying “rolex” christian with no actual good works who are trying constantly to convert others and generally blowing their own horn. Good Christians are those who live their religion without being boors and who do good works. Jeremy Affeldt is the type who does good works.
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Goodness doesn’t submit to any “ism.” But don’t ask me what the Platonic Good is, for I’ll decline to tell you my definition
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Does it come with a proof number on the label?
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I like the idea of a proof number for goodness, which would not relate to an “ism,” just as the proof for spirits doesn’t care if the vegetation was grape or barley or potato or huffberry.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Well said.
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Another name for a saskatoon.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
It’s a tall, droll, galoot from Texas. When distilled, it becomes a decent but not audacious quaff.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions
almost as much as a henway
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Doesn’t Christian infer good already?
It should, but we give each other a little more credit than to rely on that assumption.
Can’t someone just be good [El] person?
People can and are, but when you’re talking about a “good [x]”, you’re not just talking about “goodness”, but “good according to the criteria of [x]”.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
I’d like to think I might be considered a good Muslim.
"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!"
Same here, even though I’m an Anglican.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
She’s doing okay, I guess. Thanks for asking.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
No, we went generic a while ago. “Good” is distinctive among the isms, between the isms, and inside the isms.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
trivia answer
You got them all: Campanella, Schmidt, Musial, Bonds.
I think only three. The question was which four players besides Pujols won at least three NL MVPs.
by non sequitur on Apr 16, 2011 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions
3
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
ahh. still impressive, esp at a time when it was widely thought that a catcher couldn’t be black. Shit, how long did it take for the NFL to have a black qb?
There’s a fun series of articles on Pro-Football-Reference about 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!"
Ugh
Spent 4 hours in the ER today because I had an allergic reaction to an insect bite, don’t know what kind of insect but feeling really crappy the whole time I was in the ER. Tetnus shot actually made me feel a little better. But I caught the last 3 innings and when I was going back to keep score, I did not expect there to be so many double plays, even for the Giants.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
t's Posey time!!
My Adopted Giant: Heath Hembree
That sucks – hope you’re feeling better.
I feel prickishly demanding!
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by giantsfansince1981 on Apr 16, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
sorry sfk
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Matt Holiday
About three years away from being an AL DH
LOL
Boo-ribe trying to hit a 5 run homer.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
My dad said something about there not being tailgating allowed at AT&T Park … I’ve never been, nor am I actually tailgating when I go on the 22nd (will be in the press box) but he wanted me to find out.
And then God created Saturn ... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
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http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/ballpark/information/index.jsp?content=AZguide#tailgate
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
There are always people out with bar-b-ques and whatnot, mostly whatnot.
FtF: Welcome to Opposite Season!
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
go ahead, say it
Wine and cheese! Wine and cheese! You admit it!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions
the shame that comes with wine and cheese abuse . . .
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
So...the Verlander pick-off throw to...home plate?
Wha…?
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=13867701
"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."
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
It looked like he stepped off of the rubber and then threw it anyways. Probably should have told his brain to hold the ball better.
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought maybe this was just a really elaborate gif. it seems so odd that he would do that, did he think it was actually a game of dodgeball?
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probably did
it was an awesome movie that much like the last 2 games, involved beating snakes.
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
so I’m not wrong?
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
Your also, not right
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve got your also right here.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I would say
you are very not far off of not being not wrong.
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
double negatives FTW!
also, ICWYDT FTK……
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
lol
high five! I’m seriously high on jet lag right now everything is hilarious
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
High litotes on high!!
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
jet lag you say? mmm-hmmm… j/k
where’d you just get back from/go to?
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
DC
after China it um, rough
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 17, 2011 3:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Wow.
I think DeJesus should get first base on general principles, whether or not the ball actually hit him.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I was under the impression that he didn’t get first because it wasn’t a pitch.
"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!"
Rule 8.01(e) Comment: The pitcher, while off the rubber, may throw to any base. If he makes a wild throw, such throw is the throw of an infielder and what follows is governed by the rules covering a ball thrown by a fielder.
Oh, my suggestion isn't within the rules or anything.
Just a catch-all Stupidity Penalty.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Yikes. Only thing I can think of is he instinctively threw the ball somewhere because he was afraid of (for whatever reason) being called for a balk. But it turned out even worse.
by non sequitur on Apr 16, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
WHEN A VERLANDER ATTACKS
doan worry, poplo loe he team, he wan get berry good for body to play the beisbol
WORLD CHAMPIONS
by Tim LinCyYoung on Apr 17, 2011 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Oof.
Hugs.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
That's rough
My condolences.
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
My condolences :(
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
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Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Apr 16, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Coincidentally my friend posted this today
by Natto on Apr 16, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
That sucks. Sorry to hear that.
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 Apr 16, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Condolences
Bad day for McCoven pets, I guess. =/
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Apr 16, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
:c
.
Dad of Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Apr 16, 2011 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
:(
I’m so sorry, my condolences. That’s never easy. 17 is a good, long life!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Thanks guys
I had her since I was 9. Now I’m 26.
by BrianIsAwesome on Apr 16, 2011 10:12 PM PDT reply actions
sorry for your loss.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Kuo went on the DL and he was called up from Triple-A.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Thanks, maybe it was Belisario who was in rehab last year
Or maybe it was Troncoso actually
Shift
what did I miss other than Mota being clutch
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Buster Bomb
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Gerald!
Zito looks terrible, then gets hurt.
Saunders gives up 800 hits, but gets the Giants to hit into 800 double plays.
Freddy gets a big hit.
Bullpen retires the last 16 or so Snake hitters.
by non sequitur on Apr 16, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
So
what you are saying is..
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I miss the days of UPN showing an hour of classic Simpsons every weekday.
Those were simpler times.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
you mean
in ~2000?
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Into the middle of the decade, yeah.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
You really just wanted a chance to post that picture, didn't you?
I’m on to you.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I am evil Homer!
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Pedro Feliz is evil Homer?
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Totally.
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
This is still my favorite Simpsons moment ever
No particular reason why, I just can’t help but giggle when I think about it or “You don’t make friends with sal-ad!”
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions
This the episode Barry White was on?
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
I really want to say yes, i think it is.
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Sweet sweet love.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions
CARDS WIN, 9-2
LA has now lost 5 in a row.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
and we have 4 in a row
God is back to paying attention
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Love that God!!
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Eduardo Sanchez
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
He’s thrown 3 IP and struck out 8.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Outfield
i say when Torres comes back Rowand moves to right , huff moves to left and burell moves to the bench.
I think, given a fully healthy outfield
Huff – Torres – Ross (Burrell, Rowand)
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
or....
rowand – torres -ross with huff at 1B and belt on bench
by brandonbelt on Apr 16, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
You must be one of them self-hatin’ Brandon Belts.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
nice username
Plenty of games, plenty of guys, plenty of ABs, place Torres in CF and move everyone else around RF and LF from time to time.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Rowand is a PLATOON PLAYER ONLY
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
It is not a coincedence that when he faces a righty
He goes 0-5 with 3Ks, and when he faces a lefty, he explodes.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Oh and
I came super close to spelling coincidence correctly.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
slider in the dirt
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 12:38 AM PDT up reply actions
The Orioles have lost six games in a row without anyone noticing. I was expecting them to come back to earth, but not quite like this.
"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 Verducci article proclaiming them legit is hilarious.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Link please
"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!"
Apologies. It was Heyman.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
If we win games, then games will be won by us!
“They’re not a flash in the pan,‘’ Orioles president Andy MacPhail said by phone in answer to a question about whether Baltimore can contend with all its inexperienced pitchers. "If our starting pitchers pitch the way they did the last two months and the first four games, of course we’ll be a contender.’’
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Actively or passively.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Most things Verducci proclaims are similarly unfounded.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
OK, Ladies & Gents:
Early as it is, the annual Understatement of the Year Contest is now officially closed; we have a winner.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Move along everyone. Nothing more to see here.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
On the other hand, Cleveland is 10-4 and has won 8 out of their last 10.
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"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Crown them now.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
THE INDIANS AREN'T WHO WE THOUGHT THE WERE!
YOU WANT TO CROWN THEIR ASSES? THEN CROWN ’EM!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Let’s sit back and assess the situation.
/lights pipe and assumes casual posture / / : ]
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:54 PM PDT up reply actions
With Grady Sizemore about to come back!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
They ran into the buzz saw that is the Cleveland Indians.
Happy backwards day, everybody!
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
That rotation has some potential to be good down the line, but...
The Yankees, Sawx, and Jays lineups are gonna murder them this year.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
6 losses?
what are they? the Red Sox?
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved solar powered broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Craig Ferguson gives us what we have all wanted
http://www.flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/info-rotationsf2010.html
"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!"
LOL Craig Ferguson.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I noticed this before I posted, but I decided it was funnier this way.
"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!"
Indeed it is.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
HEY!
He’s a proud American, thank you very much!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah Joey had a start?
I don’t remember this at all.
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
neither does Joey
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by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
oh, HEY! >_<
poor lil Joey, what ever happened to him?
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
He is on Cleveland’s AAA team now
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
now I really feel bad for him :(
but he’s fairly young still, he might make it back to the “big show” again, maybe?
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
Yeah more than likely. He is decent enough
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Joey, we hardly knew yee.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
What an appropriately sickly shade of green for LOLemeyer
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
When you say his name
another person is given the freedom of walking.
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved solar powered broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
by Giant Voodoo on Apr 16, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
He's like the Johnny Appleseed of bases-on-balls
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I love that website
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Sometimes I think that Lightnin’ Strikes by Lou Christie might be the best song ever
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdj9NRzqC4
"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 am not being ironic!!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
That second exclamation mark really emphasizes your point.
"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!"
Alternately
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MItfcpImpz4
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
gibson
I find Kirk Gibson’s postgame press interviews fascinating (tonight’s). First, he speaks in a low monotone that’s not quite a mumble. Even more than that, he doesn’t move his body at all. His eyes move back and forth, but the rest of his body remains … perfectly … still. There’s something strangely captivating about the effect.
inquiring minds want to know
We were watching the game at Connecticut Yankee and for some reason they had the sound off. The “ask kruk and kuip” question was “who takes longest to do their hair in the locker room”. Well?
The camera showed Flannery, but I imagine that may not have been a serious answer of this vital query.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:51 PM PDT reply actions
Baggs
Zito was on crutches and his right foot looked rather plump and swollen after he sprained his arch area in the second inning tonight. He’ll have an MRI exam tomorrow.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 16, 2011 10:54 PM PDT reply actions
doesn't sound good
Runzler or Vogelsong?
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Apr 16, 2011 11:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I can’t tell if you’re saying the injury report doesn’t sound good, or the two options you mention don’t sound good. In any case I concur. Sucky choices are sucky.
Runzler’s name is always thrown into these discussions but I haven’t seen any attempt to launch Operation Runzlerstretch, pretty much since it was mentioned in the offseason.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 7:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Prediction for tomorrow. Going out on a limb here.
Huff gets his first homer of the year.
Hella.
by Snack on Apr 16, 2011 10:55 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
if he doesn't get one by the end of the road trip (AZ & COL)
I’ll be concerned
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
ok, now you’re just getting greedy! =P
but dang it if I don’t secretly hope you have “the gift”
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I think it was Snack who picked Rowand to get his first walk a day early. So I guess we should book his first homer on Monday.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
She’s a witch!!
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Into the pond, then!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 7:14 AM PDT up reply actions
OT
CNNSI.com put a bunch of “rare Pete Rose photos” in a slideshow. I liked this one for some reason: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1009/pete.rose.rare.photos/content.23.html
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 spent all day reading The Road.
Now I’m depressed.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Life is not like that, at least not around here.
Oh, all right, it is. But nothing can be gained by thinking it.
Literature inspires.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Did you make your son read that?
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Got it for myself, actually.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Like the post time, rooster?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
It’s his favorite time, is it not?
"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!"
Proud Gallo is so proud.
KVMR played an outstanding live version of the song today. Joe Ely.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
The Great Age of Ones!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 16, 2011 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Emmm . . .
I think not always. I think what literature does is augment us. It allows us to think thoughts and feel emotions normally debarred by the constraints of our local reality. It allows us to be different people, see different worlds, live different lives. It gives us access to viewpoints normally alien to us. None of that necessarily inspires, though.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
You are correct that the result can’t always be called “inspiration” in the strict sense. “Augment” is a better word, but I would argue that expansion is the same as inspiration, even if the result is damnable.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I checked and by gum you are right.
The AHD4 says of inspiration:
1. Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity.
Now what I have always considered to be “inspiration” is only sense 4 to them:
4. The quality of inspiring or exalting.
I suppose The Road would assuredly accomplish #1, but whether it would “exalt” anyone is, I think, rather dubious, and that was my point.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
That is . . .
. . . rather like eating five-alarm chili and complaining of indigestion.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I knew what I was getting into. There are worse ways to spend a day. Smoked a fine cigar over the last fifty or so pages, poured myself a drink, and then took the dog for a walk. The morning shall find me sufficiently augmented.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The Sharks could learn a thing or two
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Oh, my dear jct . . .
no one ever learns anything. That’s modernism. Still, here you are. That’s post-modernism. Yet, you must develop a system of moral behavior that accommodates the Times. That’s neo-modernism. Even so, the Times overwhelm you. That’s now.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL This is great
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I see your two dog vids and raise you a honey badger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
Honey Badgers are awesome
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Honey badger don’t care. He smacks the shit outta it.
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoa, watch out says that bird! thanks for the treat, stupid!
these are my favorite though, the only cat I’ll ever love ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XID_W4neJo
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
My cat tries to do this with every box she finds!
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
by LincecumFTK on Apr 16, 2011 11:43 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s what I call a “good” dog.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
In truth,
there are no bad dogs, just occasional bad owners.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Sore spot for Gallo!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
/weeps ’ ’ ’ ;
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Schulman's drunk again
hankschulman Henry Schulman
Guy walks by me in Scottsdale and says into his phone, “I’m professing my love to you and you’re hanging up?” I’m with her. He’s douchy.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
He really ought to lock himself out from Twitter after 10 p.m.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
In a word. Yes.
hankschulman Henry Schulman
BTW, I don’t have my skank-o-meter handy, but right now I’d guess it’s shot past “red alert” tonight.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Yeah, Twitter . . .
is a whole new track of embarrassment possible for the drinking class. That’s not why I don’t Twit, but it’s a good reason. Not. Oh dear. Painted myself into a corner of a sentence.
He is the world's most annoying rooster.
by gallo del cielo on Apr 16, 2011 11:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I am watching this video and listening to the D-Backs announcers calling the double plays, and all I can think of is…
And I don’t feel bad about either video, because we won both games. Suck it, Arizona.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
But seriously, they’re awful broadcasters. They must not be drinking enough.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Yes, milk and grape juice for everybody!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 7:17 AM PDT up reply actions
This made me smile
So many good headlines….I think this is my favorite:
Dodgers’ Kershaw can’t stop the bleeding
Monday Monkey lives for the weekend, sir.
What the....
Ya see something new every day.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
The “Stay fair!” ruins the call.
"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!"
Not the one I wanted.
hold on.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Here we go.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
to be fair, that was like forty posts ago.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
/sobs
/rereads The Road
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
there, there, it will be ok :)
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
For the moment, at least, I have my good looks to fall back on. It’s gonna be rough once I’m old and ugly.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
That is not an equation:
old ≠ ugly
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Well, yeah, that’s what the ‘and’ is for. I expect I’ll enter a rugged phase.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I just love how DeJesus clearly has no idea that it was coming. Great wtf moment.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
That is one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. I love the baserunner’s reaction too.
This is where my signature goes.
I think Verlander was quoted as saying after the game that when you get into a situation like that you fall back on your instincts… and his instinct was to throw home.
It’s like his brain got the signals crossed.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Are the first 10 seconds of that in real time, not slow motion?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I noticed that too.
Strange.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions
This page has become a puppy orgy, so I’m going to go to sleep.
"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 also.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 12:49 AM PDT up reply actions
GiantPain
tERA and ERA+. Go.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 12:34 AM PDT reply actions
AFAIK tERA is somewhere between FIP and xFIP.
"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!"
Not quite
More accurately, it’s somewhere between FIP and ERA.
In that it uses more than just Strikeouts/Walks/Homeruns, like FIP does. But it uses less than ERA, because it only measures batted ball types rather than the results thereof.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
So
In order to understand tERA, you have to understand the concept of linear weights. Essentially, the idea is this: everything that a batter does at the plate is “worth” some fraction of a run – if you run the numbers over the course of baseball history, you find that a walk is worth .33 runs, a single is worth .474, a double is worth more than that, etc, etc. Here’s a chart if you want exact detail, but the general principle is more important.
Now, linear weights are a much better way of measuring offense than other measures because they assign precise values that other stats don’t. For example, in OBP, a home run is just as good as a single – obviously not true. And SLG doesn’t even use walks, a flaw on its own. Plus, SLG has a double worth twice as much as a single, and a home run worth twice as much as a double – which the math doesn’t add up.
Now, if this sounds familiar, it’s because linear weights are used in two major offensive statistics – wOBA, which attempts to record all those results and then put them in an understandable scale, and wRC+, which is just a park-adjusted wOBA.
So linear weights are used in offensive stats. Why, then, are we talking about them now?
Because tRA is basically the pitching version of wOBA. It measures all the things that happen against a pitcher in terms of how many runs we would expect those actions to generate.
But – and HERE’S the biggest difference between the offensive and pitching value of weights – tRA attempts to control for defense. And do to that, instead of assigning a value to say, singles or doubles, it assigns a value to TYPE of batted ball. That is – a line drive is worth X amount of runs, a fly ball is worth Y, and a ground ball is worth Z amount of runs.
So to calculate tRA, you take how many runs we would expect to give up, based on the number of strikeouts/walks/line drive/fly balls/ etc that he gives up, divided by the amount of batters he faced.
And to get from tRA to tERA, all you do is divide it by .92 – it’s just to help with scale, there’s no difference in how it’s calculated.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Ok, so I think I understand the concept, generally, but what does that mean in terms of a pitcher like Matt Cain, who sorta gets screwed on FIP and xFIP ratings because he induces more flyballs? Does it do a better job of accounting for a pitcher like that? Can any stat account for something like that?
I guess I’m understanding how it’s calculated, and what it’s trying to accomplish (a better statistic for predicting a pitcher’s value/usefulness/talent) but not necessarily what it might mean when applied to individual players. What kind of pitchers does tERA like? What kinds doesn’t it like? No stat is really “perfect” or “flawless” so when I’m looking at a tERA, what are the things I should be keeping in mind?
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:00 AM PDT up reply actions
tRA is basically trying to fill in the gap between FIP and ERA
Because FIP ignores all balls in play by using only walks/strikeouts/home runs, whereas tRA attempts to assign a value to giving up a fly ball, ground ball, line drive.
There isn’t really a particular type of pitcher that tRA likes, although it is fairer to Matt Cain than, say, xFIP is. But it’s probably similarly fair as regular FIP is (regular FIP actually sees Cain as a very good pitcher).
The important thing to remember about tRA is that it doesn’t make distinctions between how hard a ball is hit. A soft line drive and a hard line drive are treated the same. Therefore, if some sort of pitcher exists who has a talent for getting soft contact, tRA would tend to underestimate his skill. But outside of Matt Cain, there aren’t a ton of pitchers who have ever exhibited that skill.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Hmmm, ok, I still think I want to read a little more about it, but at least now I can read about it without wanting to cry because I don’t understand what the fuck they’re talking about
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m pretty sure that was my round about way of saying thank you. Thank you!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Catechism tomorrow at 11.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh god, no, I’m Catholic. No more of that, please.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Too late, I realize
That Beyond the Boxscore basically explained it as well or better than I could:
http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/11/9/657217/tra-explained-sans-numbers
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Hmm, I’ll read this tomorrow. I’m gonna go to bed soon, but thankfully you explained it to me tonight. I didn’t want to go another restless night worrying about what tRA was!
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:25 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought you did an excellent job.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 7:57 AM PDT up reply actions
This might be unneccesarily convoluted
Cliff notes version:
Over time, we have found that everything a pitcher does on the mound (ignoring his defense), is worth some fraction of a run.
Striking someone out is worth some fraction of a run (a negative fraction, because you got an out).
Walking someone is worth some fraction of a run (a positive fraction, because you put a man on base)
Giving up a fly ball is worth some fraction. So is giving up a line drive. So is giving up a ground ball.
Giving up a home run is worth more than one run on the aggregate.
So basically, to calculate tRA, you just add up all those expected fractions of runs and then divide it by how many batters he faced.
Then, to calculate tERA, you just multiply the tRA by .92 (you multiply, not divide, I made an error in the above post).
This is because roughly 92% of runs are earned, as opposed to unearned. So if you want to be able to look at tRA in the same scale as ERA, you want to multiply by .92.
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Linear Weights . . .
. . . rely on the assumption that the things they are working with have, in fact, linear relations: that two times as much of this always produces two times as much of that, and 4,726 as much of this always produces 4,726 times as much of that. It is rather like our casual assumption that, in practical terms, the world is flat: till you have to go round a good part of it, it can be treated as flat with no significant error. By and large, it is a reasonable assumption in the world of baeball, where teams do not bat .023 or .786 over a season.
But saying that “linear weights are a much better way of measuring offense than other measures because they assign precise values that other stats don’t” is seriously misleading. The alternatives to linear-weight systems are many, but all come down to the idea of a multiplicative relation between the chances of getting on base and the chances of being driven in. That in itself is scarcely insightful: we have known for centuries that the probability of two independent events both occurring is the product of ther individual probabilities. (If the chance of a head is 50%, then the chances of two heads in a row is .5 times .5, or .25)
Obviously, the chances of getting on base are well expressed by the OBP—and no, it doesn’t matter whether one gets on by a HBP or by a HR. Once on, the chances of being driven in are something that is less obvious, and the differences between various run-production formulae lies chiefly or wholly in what they assign as that factor. In it, hits are obviously the heaviest weight, though even there the relative weight of, say, a single vs. a double is up for discusion. But the best of the probabilistic methods is every bit as good as the best of the linear-weights methods at producing real-world results, and has the bonus of corresponding to some process in the real world with which we can identify.
(Sidebar: the home run is, in effect, treated as a man who has knocked in himself. The best way to conceptualize is to recall the old saying about home-run hitters: “When he comes up, there’s always a runner in scoring position,” meaning the man himself. It helps if we think of the man at the plate as two persons: a runner at “zeroth base”, just like a runner at first or second or third, and a batter; the batter does what he does and then evaporates, while the phantom runner then either remains standing there or takes off down the base path. Interestingly, the Rules of baseball refer to batters as “the batter-runner”.)
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Apologies for oversimplification
I only meant to extoll the virtue of linear weights in relation to stats like OBP and SLG.
I’m not terribly familiar with probablistic models, but I’ll take your word that they’re every bit as effective as linear weights.
But a linear weight-based statistic, like wOBA, will be more effective measuring offensive value than, say, OBP or SLG or OPS.
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True, because . . .
. . . those are not very good measure of anything. Sure, they’re better than, say, BA or SA or RBI, but that’s a rather left-handed compliment.
This article from The Baseball Analysts might be of interest to those who want a look under the hood.
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I think they are fine tools for measuring how often someone gets on base and hits for power.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Or, to be even more reductionist, how often some GOT on base and HIT for power.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Yes, but . . .
. . . the discussion was not focussed on components of performance, but on gauges of net overall performance value.
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So say they are not a good predictor of anything. It’s a pretty simple distinction to make, and I am wary of how much painting in broad strokes goes on when talking about player evaluation and that the tools that we use for them.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Hah.
I highlighted a passage to quote back to you, but it took me only a couple minutes to realize that, well, I’d be quoting it back to the author.
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My question about probablistic models would be
Is there a good way to ascribe that value to an individual player?
Because that’s what makes linear weights so tremendously useful.
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Yes, certainly.
We just apply the same equations to that individual’s stats as to a team’s. The result we get is what a team of nine exact clones of that batter would score over a full season, which makes it a very convenient stat, because to anyone doing baseball evaluation, annual team runs scored is an immediately familiar and meaningful number.
The criticism has been offered that that method tends to overstate good batters and understate poor ones, because when Albert Pujols gets on base, he doesn’t have eight more Alberts behind him trying to drive him in. There is certainly a grain of truth in that: a good player is less valuable to a poor team than to a good team, and a poor player hurts a good team less than a poor one. But the alternative, not difficult to achieve, is to calculate the runs scored by a team of eight exact clones of the average ball player plus the man of interest—except where do you bat him? His worth varies depending on his line-up slot, because he gerts more or fewer plate appearances. Putting Pujols in leadoff would produce a higher number than batting him #3 or #4, but is unrealistic. Yet there is no graven tablet to say in what spot or spots a given man must bat. The differences are small—but then again, so are the differences between a nine-clones number vs. an eight-average-plus-the-man number. I perfer to leave the original number alone rather than produce some monkeyed-up interpretation that isn’t very different anyway.
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Interesting.
It’d be fun to see this idea given a bit more weight, and maybe someone could develop an all-encompassing stat to compete with wOBA or wRC+.
Until that happens though, I don’t think it would be too controversial to say that linear weights provide the most accurate mass-available measures of offensive value, would it?
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I think it would.
As I said, there are not a few others for which you have to delve down several decimal places over huge databases (half a century or more) to detect the “differences”.
If you want to see these measures of offense on a daily-updated basis, I just happen to know a place where they’re available. Along with a lot of related stuff.
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You should try to get fangraphs to carry TOP
Quite interesting.
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Nah.
I’m not up for even trying. It’s up on the web, and has been for a good many years now, for those with an interest. At least one GM, and maybe more, has been known to look at it with some regularity. (After all, it has the superb virtue of being free.)
I’m at the stage of my life when I’m satisfied with who I’ve been and what I’ve done, and don’t feel any deep need to try to augment any of it. Whether anyone else finds the who and what satisfactory is not material to me. I enjoy (usually) the cut and thrust of discussion, but in the same sense as one enjoys discussion around a tavern table. I have a modest name in four separate arenas, and feel a very lucky man.
Above all, I have a wonderful lady, my health, and a nice home. Ça suffit.
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Mais la gloire est éphémère, mais l’obscurité est éternelle.
Still, admirable.
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Just so.
Why worry about the brevity of existence? We have billions and billions more years in which to experience non-existence. From what I recall of the first 13.8 billion or so, it wasn’t too bad.
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"differences lie"
Me speaka da Englis good.
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Yeah, I got lost trying to read this, but I don’t think it was really meant for me anyway
My basic understanding is that GiantPain dumbed down linear weights to try to explain something to me and now you two are going to have a grown up discussion. Carry on.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:21 AM PDT up reply actions
No no
I dumbed down linear weights, and he’s saying linear weights are dumb =P
Basically, owlcroft’s pointing out something which is quite obvious: that linear weights work on the aggregate, but baseball isn’t played that way. I can tell you that a home run is worth 1.409 runs on the aggregate, but good luck finding that on the scoreboard. If I understand him correctly, he’s pointing out that you actually want to look at the relationship between players getting on base and then subsequently getting driven in.
owlcroft is just inspiring us to think a little differently, as he so often does, and to such great effect.
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Thank you.
Actually, the probabilistic methods well pre-date linear weights. The first one to become popular was Bill James’s “Runs Created”, which had its flaws but was really pretty good, especially for a nice, simple thing.
The takeaway point is that most of this is experts quibbling with experts over ego points (trust me on this), because almost all the reasonably popular ways of figuring these things come up with numbers quite close enough for folk music or government work.
There are two broad classes of people interested in these ideas: those for whom the knowledge is of interest, and those to whom the knowledge is a working tool. The latter aren’t much concerned with subtleties of underlying theory, they just want a useful tool, a tape measure or carpenter’s level of baseball skills. For them, just about any of these methods will do.
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And ERA+
Is just like OPS+
All you do is take their ERA, adjust it for park and league, and then display it in relation to league average, with each point above or below 100 being a percentage above or below average.
That is, if a pitcher has an ERA+ of 100, his ERA was league average. If a pitcher has an ERA+ of 110, his ERA was 10% better than league average. If a pitcher has an ERA+ of 80, it was 20% below league average.
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Pedro Martinez’ ERA+ in 2000 was 291 (using baseball reference). So his ERA was 191% better than the league average?
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
Yessir
League average ERA in the 2000 American league was 4.92, and Pedro did that in a fairly extreme hitters park.
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Ok, this makes a lot more sense. I can pretty quickly see where this stat is useful (and preferred over ERA) and could quickly look at any individual player’s ERA+ now and see where they fall within the league in terms of earned runs
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
It wasn’t quite as demanding as it might first appear. We had a discussion about it upthread but it’s lost somewhere.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:22 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
I just realized that you, like some others, might be operating under the misapprehension that I think GiantPain is like me “Stats Boy” or something, who explains stats to me upon my order. In actuality, I know he only has to do it if he feels like it.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, shush
Now go set my alarm for me. It’s on the other side of the room and I don’t want to get up.
NOW.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:42 AM PDT up reply actions
1. no you don’t
2. no you don’t
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I feel like I'm just numbers to you
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Well that's silly
You’re not just numbers; you’re just explanations
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Quit staring at my explanations.
My eyes are up here.
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This entire conversation was highly entertaining
and, much to my surprise, actually (though just barely) within my ability to follow it.
Congratulations all around.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I was checking out some stats
And I found that the Giants have been striking out a LOT so far this year. They have like 5 guys on pace for over 100 ks.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Apr 17, 2011 1:10 AM PDT reply actions
Who are the guys?
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Belt, Panda, Posey, Burrell and.. um..
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Apr 17, 2011 1:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Huff…and Mole is close…he’d be in the 90s at this pace
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Apr 17, 2011 1:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh..and Rowand and Torres are on pace, as well.Lot of Ks
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Apr 17, 2011 1:27 AM PDT up reply actions
As long as they're getting on base and hitting
I’m not particularly chuffed how they’re making their outs.
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I agree. I just found it odd how much they have been striking out.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Apr 17, 2011 1:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Some of those are going to come down, though. We’re like 2 1/2 weeks in.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:29 AM PDT up reply actions
If there are two people who are really “at-risk,” I would consider them to be Torres and Burrell. That said, I think by season’s end Burrell not have enough PAs to qualify, and the rest is partially noise as a product of facing some very good pitchers so far. For every Saunders we’ve faced, we’ve had to flail at two Kershaws it feels like.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
But remember always the bottom line:
Scoring runs. You don’t win ball games with good chemistry, or a balanced attack, or by anything but this: score more runs before the end of the game than you let the other team score. Never lose sight of that comically obvious point.
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I meant to add an post-script to the above point, pointing out the relative insignificance of strikeouts versus other kinds of outs as so many on this board will be so quick to point out, but… I didn’t. And it was quickly pointed out.
So lol me.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
shift A
I think there has to be at least a teeny tiny bit of thought given to just letting Mota make Zito’s start.
don’t care if he only goes 5 innings, that’s all we really need.
Unless of course Zito needs to go on the DL then it makes sense to call up Vogelsong or Mathis or whoever.
Where is Joe Martinez when you need him? Oh that’s right, Cleveland?
Proud adopted parent of Miguel Tejada. No rings, but dude won the AL MVP once.
Number of times Mota has pitched more than 3 innings in a game in his career:
1.
He is not the starter you’re looking for.
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It just is something that should be in the back of the heads of Bochy/Sabean/etc..
Not saying he is the pick if Zito misses a start.
Proud adopted parent of Miguel Tejada. No rings, but dude won the AL MVP once.
If he is rested enough to throw three innings next week, who cares who “makes the start”? If Z only misses one start, throw Mota and Runzler out there and hope for the best over 6 innings. Maybe they get lucky and win a 9-8 ballgame.
I’d really prefer to think that someone with an office at 24 Willie Mays Plaza considered this possibility months ago and decided that Vogelsong would be the first choice as an injury replacement. It’s not like this is some kind of unprecedented/unforeseeable situation.
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by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 7:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Is there any reason to think Vogelsong could be better than Zito?
I’m this with sincerity.
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:33 AM PDT up reply actions
asking*
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 games in June 1995).
NEVER FORGET
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Can he throw harder than 84? Than he’s got a fighting chance.
However, we don’t have another starter on the 40-man at the moment, so the Giants will have to make a move of some sort in order to remedy that, I suspect.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Well
There’s no real statistical reason to believe it, insofar as Zito has been much better than Vogelsong for many years.
But if there’s something wrong with Zito, if his velocity is down 2-3 MPH… maybe?
Don’t get it twisted in your head, though – Vogelsong is not good. He might be less bad.
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Apropos of nothing
My discussion with my AL fan friend tonight:
Me: Zito is terrible, we took him out after 1 2/3 tonight, we’re fucked.
Him: You’re already fucked, you’re paying him $18mil per year.
Me: Yeah, but we won the World Series so I don’t care how much we’re paying him.
Him: Yeah, you’re fucked then.
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Apropos of nothing?!
It’s apropos of this:
Which is certainly not nothing!
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I love that picture!
Huff can rag on Posey all he wants but we all know how much he loves him/appreciates him.
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 1:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Sweet.
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:48 AM PDT up reply actions
We don’t know what Zito is like as a pitcher with an 82-84 MPH fastball. It’s a big enough difference that it could significantly impact his performance; below a certain threshold, it’s difficult to be effective.
I would say we should look at other pitchers with similar velocity to give ourselves an idea of what can be reasonably expected, but… well, there’s a reason almost nobody in the major leagues throws 82-84.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
No.
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How can you say that?
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by gallo del cielo on Apr 17, 2011 1:49 AM PDT up reply actions
It ain't so hard
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=vogels001rya
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/points everyone to his above post
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
/Looks for one year
/Finds two! — 2009 and 2010: more strikeouts than IP.
Ryan Vogelson is better than Matt Cain!
/Lone Star Ball’d
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by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 1:54 AM PDT up reply actions
LSB is... wow. They are not wrong to self-apply the title of The Angrydome.
They’re touchier than a cat with a skin condition. Remember how we did the pre-series exchange with Talking Chop and The Good Phight? LSB basically told us to go fuck ourselves, and that was when they assumed they’d win in five.
I check in on them from time to time when the Rangers are making (bad) news. It’s like a car wreck.
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Pucker up my lips and blow?
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I'll say it here because I don't want to post it there
Please do NOT feed the troll.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
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This one?
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:47 AM PDT up reply actions
To be fair, I’d be really fucking grouchy if I had to give up beer for life.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
you must be an alcoholic
you shameful human being. Figures.
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Grant posted a great article for SB Nation about how annoying the Marlins are.
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/4/15/2111891/the-florida-marlins-almost-new-york-yankees
Go read, laugh at the Padres, and then laugh at the Marlins fans unaccustomed to Grant’s tone. Really, it’s good stuff.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Grant pulled seminal studies out of his butt?
/Beavis laugh
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by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I love that Grant isn't changing his style, even when writing with a larger scope
amazing. also:
As a Rockies fan,
I’ve always viewed the Marlins as our expansion "rivals" So, I’m always looking for reasons to lure others to the haters bandwagon. This is great ammo for me, Grant. Thanks!
LOL
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by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
hahaa
Padres Excitement! Points: 0
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by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL PADRES
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
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M-M-M-M-Mad
Mad to the Bum
by TimLaser and MattyC on Apr 17, 2011 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Buncha early quitters.
If there’s no further action in another few minutes, I’m off to greener pastures, or maybe even bed.
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I really must conquer this insomnia
After all, it’s 5:30 AM here.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
It;s only 4:30 here
Suck it.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 games in June 1995).
NEVER FORGET
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 2:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Both of you suck it
It’s only 2:35 AM here.
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 feel like living in a different time zone
means that I need to suck anything
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 games in June 1995).
NEVER FORGET
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Apr 17, 2011 2:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Flip-flopper.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
The entire world . . .
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I was kind of hoping to see Runzler to the rotation and Kroon up, but I guess this has been the team’s plan A the whole time.
Currently stifling the bacon, the world.
by howtheyscored on Apr 17, 2011 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Is there a link yet? I don’t see anything.
Currently stifling the bacon, the world.
by howtheyscored on Apr 17, 2011 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Ah. That’s what I get for not following his tweeter.
Currently stifling the bacon, the world.
by howtheyscored on Apr 17, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
The Giants sent out a tweet.
SFGiants San Francisco Giants
#SFGiants place LHP Barry Zito on 15-day DL with right mid-foot sprain; purchase contract of RHP Ryan Vogelsong from triple-A Fresno
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."
What happened to the 40-man roster?
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."
Maybe they haven’t announced it yet.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Has Alex Hinshaw's time finally come?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
HINSHAWPALOOZA!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Baggs
OK, I can’t count. Giants roster was at 39 so no corresponding move to create space for Vogelsong. Forgot Ishikawa got DFA’d.
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."
Doesn’t there have to be a 40 man roster move?
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Is this Zito's first DL stint ever or just his first with the Giants?
Or is it not his first anything?
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
first DL stint
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
after 12 years
That’s really remarkable.
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."
Give Zito credit for going full measure in hideofying his contract. Sure, he has been one of the healthiest pitchers in baseball history….
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Damn
It’d have been kinda nice to see him go his whole career without hitting the DL. Also, whoever that idiot at ESPN is who said the Giants rotation is bound for injury is now patting himself on the back.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Man.
So weird to see that guy again.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Just think: For some, it’s the first time.
Currently stifling the bacon, the world.
by howtheyscored on Apr 17, 2011 10:32 AM PDT 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
Oh noes, his streak is broke
What use is he now???
Dad of Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Apr 17, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
MAI POKEMONZ!!!!
I play in a league that counts HR allowed.
DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE, EDINSON VOLQUEZ!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:19 AM PDT reply actions
After 1 IP
HRA: 2 (thisclose to 3, which would’ve been a grand slam)
WHIP: 6.00
ERA: 36.00
Four straight starts with runs allowed in the first inning. I would beat the tar out of him in the clubhouse if I’m his teammates. GROW THE FUCK UP AND FIGURE IT OUT.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
His 2011 splits are ridiculous.
Pitch OPS
1-15 2.021
16-30 .888
31-45 .227(!)
46-60 .641
And that’s BEFORE he gave up 2 HR in his first four pitches today.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Belt still at 1B
Rowand CF
Sanchez 2B
Huff RF
Posey C
Sandoval 3B
Burrell LF
Belt 1B
Tejada SS
Bumgarner P
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 love when the Giants play the DBacks.
Free wins. They’re like the Astros, but more prolific!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Aaaaaand
now we’re fucked.
No whammies!
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
DAMMIT
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I like this lineup (besides Rowand in leadoff)
So obviously we’re going to lose today
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Hard to complain about Rowand at the moment.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Enright is a righty
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
LOL
Rowand AB AVG OPS K
vs Left: 15 .533 1.296 2
vs Right: 24 .250 .708 6
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Double play mania!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Apr 17, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Tire out the infielders! They can’t stand up to the constant pressure of throwing all the way around the horn!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Looking at the bright side
So now we have a rotation that’s 100% drafted by the Giants. And it’s R-L-R-L-R.
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."
Interesting!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
R-L-R-L-Vogelsong
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I read that as
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, wow. I almost don’t want to say LOL Dodgers here. This is just pathetic.
Frank McCourt will gladly pay you on Tuesday for a a Los Angeles Dodgers payroll payment today.
Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times reports that the unpopular Dodgers owner recently took a $30 million loan from Fox to cover the costs associated with fielding a major league baseball team.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:41 AM PDT reply actions
Yup, saw that.
I am curious about how this whole thing will resolve. Government bailout (no politics!)?
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Colletti trades Kemp and Ethier to the Giants to save money on their contracts
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
They can keep Ethier.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
LOL
It’s funny how much you don’t like the guy.
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 want Kemp
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Really?
Because you’ve already built up too much dislike? Because of the doggin’ it last year? Because you don’t think he’d be an improvement?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes
Yes, yes, not sure but don’t wanna find out
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by Prussian Creole on Apr 17, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Kemp and Kershaw.
for Rowand and Zito.
Straight-up exchange of CFs and SPs.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s fair.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I don't like Ethier either (oh look, anagram)
but Kershaw gets paid pennies, so Agent Ned won’t be able to justify it as a cost-saving move
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL applying logic.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
gotta draw the line somewhere
otherwise it just devolves into I WANT PUJOLS FOR FREE
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
But I do.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Little late to make that stand.
Also, what Alex_Lewis said.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Kemp doesn’t play the game the right way, and that Kershaw kid, I tell ya, he’s an injury waiting to happen. Not reliable. Sure, Zito is hurt now, but use some logic already. Deal done.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I try.
I don’t want want to fleece them while they’re down, after all.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
easy
run lewwolffdodgersbuy.exe.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I saw that. Stunning how the owners and Selig didn’t vet him at all before accepting him into their club.
Dad of Ryan Rohlinger: world champion.
by shanghaijim on Apr 17, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
WiLOLpons
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I wonder if there’s a chance Vogelsong will start the series in Denver. He was scheduled to start for Fresno today.
He’ll probably just be in the ’pen, right?
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."
from Baggs:
Perhaps most telling: Vogelsong is not listed among the relievers.
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That could just be an oversight, but if the Giants really want to make sure everyone gets their rest, then…
Vogelsong vs. Rogers
Lincecum vs. Ubaldo
Sanchez vs. De La Rosa
…works for me.
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."
Ubaldo’s first start after being dl’d for awhile.
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9 double plays
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought they’d said that the plan for Colorado was Lincecum, Sanchez and Cain going.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Oh, they actually said something about it. That would be a good clue.
Currently stifling the bacon, the world.
by howtheyscored on Apr 17, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't like the idea of throwing Vogelsong into Coors
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Whoa.
Sanchez vs. De La Rosa
Get ready for 54 Ks and 54 BB. Can Gio Gonzalez get in on that action?
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
The Giants haven’t made a habit of using off-days to skip starters. My guess is he’s in the rotation.
Currently stifling the bacon, the world.
by howtheyscored on Apr 17, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
“Welcome back to the bigs! Go get those red-hot Rockies at Coors.”
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."
Vogelsong proceeds to throw perfect game
“Okay boss, when’s my next start?”
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Fresno today
Today’s Lineup: Burriss SS, Bond 2B, Ross RF, Gillaspie DH, Pill 1B, Rohlinger 3B, Ishikawa LF, Graham CF, Williams C.
World Champions in da house
Fortune favors the lucky.
by BusterHomerun on Apr 17, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Grady Sizemore with the homerun!
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Yay!
I’m glad he’s back.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
How fucking weird would it be if the Indians contended this year?
They’d need some kind of pitching miracle, but the offense is there and Choo hasn’t even heated up yet.
by Lies and Perfidy on Apr 17, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Not that weird.
The AL Central is pretty much an under-achieving MASH ward. Nothing would surprise me.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
Winning!
Major League 4: Back to the AL Central
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Nice.
"That’s the sort of pitch that Lincecum throws several times a game — the sort of pitch that made Satchel Paige say: 'I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t been seen by this generation.' Lincecum threw 10 or 15 generation pitches on Thursday." -Joe Posnanski
Et tu, Ribe?
MLB Help...
Is there a daily MLB highlight show anywhere that actually shows MLB highlights? Most of the stuff we’ve seen this season is a buncha blowhards pontificating from inside a studio somewhere with very little actual game footage. MLB tonight is horrendous. We’re going to try recording “Quickpitch” any other suggestions?
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Go to video highlights on the MLB website under ‘Video’. There’s a category for Game Recaps where there are videos recapping each game for about 2-3 minutes.
by Rook Takes Pawn on Apr 17, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Quickpitch is great.
Very condensed, almost all highlights.
That’s the thing; MLB Tonight is a, what, SIX-hour show? It goes from first pitch on the East Coast to nearly the last pitch out West. Of course there’s studio talk time. I happen to like that stuff, and find the analysis and personality leagues better than ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, but whateva.
QP is what you’re looking for; it’s a 30-minute race through every game, usually narrated by (essentially) a sideline reporter.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Though I find this odd, considering how much time MLB Tonight spends doing live look-ins.
with very little actual game footage. MLB tonight is horrendous.
11 01 10
Veni Vidi Vixi
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Apr 17, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Maybe it was just the program that we just fast forwarded through. Seemed like the majority of it was blergh…
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Yeah, don’t give up so soon. The analysts can get annoying but the coverage is usually pretty good.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
"I stick to my strengths as opposed to going after everyone’s weaknesses. If you can hit it, come hit it."- Tim Lincecum
by natteringnabob on Apr 17, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
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