A's/Giants Preview
by Grant Brisbee on Jun 17, 2011 11:58 AM PDT
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It really is quite amusing how quickly the Giants' fanbase can revert into cynicism. About eight months ago, Matt Cain shut out the Texas Rangers. He did so because the center field wall at Mays Field is 8' 3-1/4" tall, not 8' 3-1/8" tall. The reason that the Giants were in the World Series is that Juan Uribe hit an opposite-field home run, which is an event that coincides more with geological epochs more than baseball seasons. They were in the NLCS in the first place because a utility infielder on the Braves was caught in a vortex of bad timing and poor luck.
Oversimplification? Yeah. But last year was a charmed year. This season, it's been too easy to grumble about Aaron Rowand and Miguel Tejada forming a 1-2 missed punch at the top of the order. And, hey, there's a reason for the grumbling, the cynicism, and the (occasional) despair. All of our favorite hitters are broken. Well, they were until Pablo came back. It doesn't matter that last year was a charmed year because the guys you wanted to spend 162 days and nights with this year were broken.
But the Giants are still in first. They still have their pitching. The abacus twiddlers on Baseball Prospectus still see the Giants as the favorites, even with Posey out for the year. You might think this is a cursed team -- and you might be right when it's all said and done -- but right now, it's just a first-placeteam that's trying to push past a lot of injuries.
The A's? Oh, that team is ******* cursed.
They had a great plan in the offseason. The pitching was all-world, but the hitting was wretched. And the A's can't really afford to outspend the White Sox for Paul Konerko, or whatever it is that a rich team would do if they had a wretched offense. So they did a fantastic job of acquiring players within their budget.
- David Dejesus was coming off a .318/.384/.443 season for the Royals
- Josh Willingham hit .268/.389/.459 for the Nationals
- Hideki Matsui is old, but he stil hit .274/.361/.459 for the Angels
If those guys kept up that performance, they'd make a pretty sweet middle of the order for just about any team. Instead, those three have combined to reach base once this entire season, and that was on a catcher's interference call. This isn't hyperbole; those three are hitting .000/.001/.000 for the season. It was a good idea getting those guys, but they just passed Ozzie Smith while falling down the Springfield Mystery Spot.
And all of those pitchers are broken. All of them. Well, Gio Gonzalez is healthy. And Trevor Cahill is ostensibly healthy, but he could be broken. Brandon McCarthy was one of the best stories of the young season -- the Ryan Vogelsong of the AL. Broken. Brett Anderson? Broken. Dallas Braden? Broken. Tyson Ross? Broken. Andrew Bailey? Broken.
Brian Fuentes? Oh, he's cool. Don't worry about him.
So don't be ashamed to throw a pity party for yourself about the Giants' injury woes this season. It's been the roughest season I can remember for injuries. But for the love of all that is good, keep it to yourself when you're around an A's fan. They have us beat. If you start complaining, they'll either start crying or draw blood. You don't need that.
Hitter to watch:
Daric Barton has a .264 slugging percentage. That's lower than Miguel Tejada. Lower than Eli Whiteside and Darren Ford. Lower than Jonathan Sanchez and Ryan Vogelsong.
I can't remember what Barton's batting stance looks like, but if I had to guess, I think he holds the bat in one hand and a brightly colored maraca in the other. The maraca is covered in feathers, and he rattles it as the pitcher comes to the plate. Often times, the pitcher is distracted and throws pitches out of the zone. Occasionally, though, the pitcher will throw strikes, which forces Barton to swing with the one hand.
Again, just a guess. But I'll believe it until someone gives me a better explanation.
Pitcher to watch
When the Giants aren't playing at the same time, I usually put on the A's game. They're my AL team and all. And one of my favorite pitchers to watch is Trevor Cahill when he's on. I just love that sinker.
Lately, I haven't enjoyed watching Trevor Cahill. It's been kind of depressing. So while I want the Giants to win against him on Sunday, I'd like it to be a 2-0 A's/Giants special. I'd prefer that he didn't get knocked around for eight earned.
Of course, that would still be totally rad if it happened. Just saying if I could pick, I think baseball is better when Trevor Cahill is right.
Prediction
In the three games, there will be one team that has one of those games where they just can't score! Oh, how frustrating that shall be!
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BEAT A's!
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
BEAT Le A's
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
BEAT EL A's
No, seriously, Fuck the Dodgers.
by Stoney Montana on Jun 17, 2011 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Beat they A'ss.
According to Eric Holder, Giants Baseball is NOT torture. OK, it is, but followed by a big bowl of ice cream.
Tim Lincecum: He's a biracial angel.
Daric Barton has a .264 slugging percentage. That’s lower than Miguel Tejada. Lower than Eli Whiteside and Darren Ford. Lower than Jonathan Sanchez and Ryan Vogelsong.
Yeah but can Tejada, Whiteside, Ford, J. Sanchez, and Voggy do the splits?
Daric Barton and Billy Beane
Daric Barton will always remind me of Billy Beane’s peak with the Internet Baseball Nurdz. Billy’s rep was riding high with Moneyball and he’d pulled off a string of trades where lots of people thought he’d just robbed other teams blind. Then it was Mark Mulder with more than a year of contract left to the St. Louis Cardinals for pitcher Dan Haren, first basemen Daric Barton and pitcher Kiko Calero. Haren worked out great, better than expected, but Barton was this huge catching prospect that was going to make the trade obscene.
"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
I can’t remember what Barton’s batting stance looks like, but if I had to guess, I think he holds the bat in one hand and a brightly colored maraca in the other. The maraca is covered in feathers, and he rattles it as the pitcher comes to the plate. Often times, the pitcher is distracted and throws pitches out of the zone. Occasionally, though, the pitcher will throw strikes, which forces Barton to swing with the one hand.
I love you, Grant.
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
by kdl on Jun 17, 2011 12:03 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
Almost as good as Jeff Sullivan writing about volcanoes!
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Not as hot as Jeff Sullivan. (Argyle!)
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
That is some sweet argyle spreadsheet-clutching action.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
Also, I went to this series last year and it included a game where Matt Cain gave up one UNearned run and LOST. This year, I’m going to the Grizzlies/River Cats series, instead.
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
good idea
I suspect that between TGWTWS and the A’s crapulence that the atmosphere in OAK will not be…. welcoming.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
WILL MARK ELLIS SWITCH UNIFORM WITH BARRY ZITO AFTER THE SERIES?
STAY TUNED A SPECIAL REPORT BY KDL
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Even though they got Hall, I would love for the Giants to get Ellis.
That would guarantee no more Burris.
by Every6thDay on Jun 17, 2011 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
so sad we've come to this
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Yep
"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.
LOL GIANTS!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 12:06 PM PDT reply actions
# of Poseys ruined
0. I’m not crying one tear for them.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:07 PM PDT reply actions
join me
in ignoring the annual Bud Selig Interleague Midseason Exhibition Crapaganza!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m interested in the Twins series because the Giants will be on my TV!
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Hooray for dumb TV arrangements that require dumber scheduling arrangements to let fans see the teams they want to see!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I disagree, but then again I was at this game.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
The A’s also never do well in Oakland. So, I wouldn’t worry that much.
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You forgot to mention all our (justified) whining about Bochy!
And how the A’s terrible manager got himself fired cuz he was so terrible too.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
HAI GAIZ
WHAT’S GOING ON
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Bochy is a witch!
How was practice? Everybody bring their pitchfork and torch?
"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker
Owlcroft’d!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
If I came across as argumentative I apologize. Living in CST coupled with extra failure makes me cranky
Suck it Mat Latos rolls of the tongue so nicely
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Bork Bork Bork Bork Bork. Grumble Bork Grumble Grumble. - Translated Gritty Gamers are Gritty and Gamerly.
by Cant_buy_a_run on Jun 17, 2011 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
by jctGamer on Jun 17, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Reminds me of those ads on KNBR
“When the internet turns on you…”
LOL crappy radio ads.
"Bruce Wayne is the Brian Wilson of Gotham." -DrDC
I totally think 66gigantus heard that ad
and is calling them right now
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
AlexPavlovic Alex Pavlovic
If you’re a masochist, the 1996 NBA Draft is on NBATV and the Warriors are about to pass on Kobe and Steve Nash for Todd Fuller!
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Wow
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Of the guys picked from the Warriors pick at 11 to pick number 24
The Warriors passed on:
Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Peja Stojakovic, Jermaine Oneal, Ilgauskas, and Derek Fisher
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
OMG
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
You want worse?
In 1997, the Warriors drafted Adonyl Foyle at #8
Pick #9?
Tracy McGrady
Damn you posting that tweet JCT!
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
To be fair, Kobe was never going to play for anyone other than the Lakers
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I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh I don't remember it like that (granted I was 11)
I thought it was just Kobe didn’t want to play for Charlotte
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
I don’t remember all the details, because I too was very young, but I remember it being a combination of him having private workouts with the Lakers and them wanting him and him saying he would never ever sign with Charlotte so Charlotte took him in return for compensation in either the form of trades or picks or whatever and then handed him over to the Lakers.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
You're kinda right
Only Calipari still was enthralled. Tellem spun a 180 and now began claiming Bryant wouldn’t show up in Jersey, began saying they’d send the kid to play pro ball in Italy, where he’d spent much of his youth. Everyone now admits it was an idle threat.
"Arn [wanted the Nets to draft him] until he knew he could get him to the Lakers," Calipari said. "Then he was against it. Arn was all over me, and then all of a sudden [I] get the call the day before the draft…"
It’s funny because no one else has to answer for not picking Kobe Bryant in the 1996 lottery – not the Clippers, who took Lorenzen Wright; not the Cavaliers, who took Vitaly Potapenko; not the Grizzlies, who took Shareef Abdur-Rahim; not the Warriors, who took Todd Fuller; not the Mavericks, who took Samaki Walker; and so on and so on.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=dw-wetzel_game_changing_decision_032411
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Well to be fair, Shareef Abdur-Rahim was super awesome.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
The Nets drafted Kerry Kittles
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
he was actually pretty meh
poor rebounder, turned the ball over quite a bit, scoring efficiency was never all that impressive.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
NO HE WENT TO CAL
Also, I was on a flight with him once after he went pro. He was in first class, while his younger brothers were in coach. Good times.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
He just didn’t want to play for Charlotte, and Charlotte claimed they actually agreed to the trade before Kobe was even drafted.
by kingofthacove on Jun 17, 2011 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
But they could have scored
Vlade had they drafted Kobe.
Relief! I Thank you for your Lefferts.
by Cody_ransom on Jun 17, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I was going to throw out this guy...
Then I looked at this and realized, maybe the upside was worth it.
It often seems though, that the warriors get teh third pick in a two man draft or th 5th pick in a 4 man draft.
But then there was 1995. They took Joe Smith over: Garnett, Rasheed Wallace, Stackhouse and Michael Finley.
Relief! I Thank you for your Lefferts.
by Cody_ransom on Jun 17, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
And then Joe Smith went all MINNESOTLOL!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
That's how it happened
Charlotte essentially drafted Vlade Divac. Kobe was going to LA or to college.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
I’m glad they didn’t take Derek Fisher. HIs two years as a Warrior were two years too many.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
he was the Randy Winn of the Montgomery era
I'm feeling...I feel like I want to rage. Right now. - B. Wilson
I grew up with Todd Fuller. I was mean to him and I’ve always felt bad about it. Nice dude.
by shaggingflyballs on Jun 17, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t even watch the current NBA finals.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Me neither.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
Yes, they are.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes, you are.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
What were you sucking on when you called me lame then?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone who watched the current NBA finals was thoroughly entertained. Close games and compelling storylines all the way around.
What if they didn’t particularly care for basketball?
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
i personally feel like
the last two nba finals were catered to the casual fan who may have not particularly cared for basketball
I liked playing it. Not interested in the NBA.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions
meh
fair enough. we can agree on our love for the giants though
yeah it sucks
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I remember having a scrap book in elementary school in Taiwan
and was saving all the newspaper clippings about the NBA. I was so excited about the Miami Heat entering the league and thought Rony Seikaly was awesome.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Yeah, but you like the Celtics. Your opinion is invalid.
"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 wore three caps
your argument is invalid.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
You must get tired...
You know, with all the cap tipping this season.
"Friends, San Franciscans, Countrymen....Humm Baby."
by The Nuschlerian Candidate on Jun 17, 2011 3:19 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
NFL Network will soon be running the old AFL drafts pretty soon.
"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Cloak & dagger!! ZOMG, Namath in a hotel room.
I heard that, back in the day, the Steelers scooped up all of the game film on John Stallworth and held it hostage until after the draft. No Combine so nobody knew much about him.
You realize of course
That Barton is now going to go apeshit in this series.
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 12:12 PM PDT reply actions
Happy Friday, Everyone!
Pablo’s hat doesn’t look big enough for him.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 12:13 PM PDT reply actions
hat
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Eh
I didn’t feel really like typing out ‘batting helmet’ cause I’m going my nails
/girl
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
How does one go one’s nails?
"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’ll understand when you’re older.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Total wow nerd tangent
In our guild back in vanilla wow days we used Hunters to pull. There were a group of 4-5 of us. One day in blackwing lair, it was Celina’s turn to pull. She asked the other hunters to do it instead because “i just had my nails done today don’t want to ruin it by clicking on keyboard so much”
I knew the raid was going to wipe right then and there.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I just read this three times and still have no idea what you’re talking about. Is this a World of Warcraft thing??
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
yes.
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
True story
I didn’t know what World of Warcraft was until I saw the South Park episode, and even then, I just thought they made up the animation for South Park and didn’t know it was actually a real game that real people played until about a month after that.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
the documentary
about jctgamer is very interesting, you should check it out.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was going to link to that youtube world of warcraft freakout video.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Jun 17, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
At least I got chicken!
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
An all time classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I wish I had some Ridill freakouts
All the good ones I know of are screenshot heavy.
Never forget this all time classic
http://www.blogcdn.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/2006/12/sebspeakerwg2.jpg
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
There is more than one mccoven in this guild BBQ picture
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
LOLars
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m impressed that you got all these internet voices together in one place for a picture.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Jun 17, 2011 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah that is the less impressive one (25 man raid days :( )
Here is the 40 man raid days guild BBQ
We had ppl from Minnesota, Calgary, Texas, Oregon, Florida, and Mexico!
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
nice!
I think my guild/coalition’s record is like 50. But the one with 30-odd people where a meth head got punched out was by far the best.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Guy to girl ratio is much better in this one.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
This seems to be a cool guild. Pretty much every guild I was ever in was full of drama and or asshats. (my fault for joining a goon guild to start with)
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Jun 17, 2011 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
The core of the guild were 20 of us that know each other
we all went to Berkeley and were classmates with each other and/or friends. So right there you have strong stability in the leadership ranks, and most of the people are mature, and logic oriented.
Of course, we were all magic players before that so haha.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Also, you want Drama?
Check this out.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/jencheng/lovebunnyclassy.jpg
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Goon guild as in Something Awful’s goons?
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
yep, though I never joined Goon Squad. I really should have just done that from the beginning.
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Jun 17, 2011 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Goon Squad was full of mostly terrible players in the few games I played them in, but they always had massive amounts of people, and were pretty funny.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
i hope he played a paladin
The Elusive Blackadin was my friend’s vanity guild.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
that is a lot of beef right there
all my friends play League of Legends. They are all skinny little shitheads.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Hey This Huntard was #1 DPS on Brutallus
Beating the shadowbolt spambots!
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
NERD BOAST!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Back in Vanilla WoW I was a Mage. Was apart of several server firsts.. from Rag to the Twins to 4 horseman.
Dunno what it was about our hunters but they were a nutty group.. but the good ones were good.
speaking of Wow
is it any good still? I havent played in like 2 years. I heard they made a ton of changes.
I stopped playing during Lich King so I don't know =/
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
same.
nothing in TBC really could compete with 40 man nax.
I thought sunwell was very well designed
It was just hard enough so it is beatable, but not forgiving at all. You know you have to be perfect to beat it, but if you are perfect, you CAN beat it.
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
meh
good content for new characters, endgame’s pretty boring. i dunno, i’ve been playing long enough to lose steam though.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
In some ways it is better than others. In others it is worse. I’ve stopped playing, btw.
Better: levelling is much smoother and easier. All zones are self contained.
Worse: no longer do you get world spanning quests that take real effort.
Better: flying everywhere
Worse: due to the flying you never see people actually running around
Better: content is open to everyone now
Worse: player quality is terrible
and so on
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Jun 17, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
player quality
took a huge nose dive after Vanilla wow or maybe there was just less room to have that AFK druid healer in the smaller raids.
What do the hunters pull? The pizza rolls from the oven?
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Those cheetos don’t get out of the bag and onto your shirt by themselves, you know!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
also
I assume the gamer nerbs know I am goofing on them, as I’ve probably spent more time playing or preparing PnP RPG games than any of you have played WoW.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
During my raiding years, I spent upwards of 40 hours a week working, and 60 hours a week on wow. I don’t know how I stayed married.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Yeah my brother in-law plays wow and is pretty much worthless.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Back when I played MMOs they consumed my life.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
For example
During one summer over a 2-month period I had a certain game open on my computer for a total of 900 hours, some of that time was while I wasn’t at the computer, but for the most part I was. For reference there are about 1400 hours in 2 months. At the time I didn’t understand why my friends all said I had disappeared.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't know how you lived
My gamery was spread over many years of my wasted life. And computer game compulsiveness (Civilization!) was usually in fairly short bursts.
Did Mrs. jct play?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope she did not.
We were saving money at that point. I gave up my season tickets, we were trying to buy a house. I sold her on the concept that : “If this is all I do, it costs 15 dollars a month”.
We bought a condo 2 years later. Somehow I got to keep playing. The most ridiculous thing is I became the guild master of (US top 100, Tichondrius) our raiding guild during TBC. She was pregnant. But she was so understanding that she did everything herself and basically told me “you’ll just piss me off because my hormones are all weird now, so just go play your game.”
I have the best wife ever.
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
yes you do
Madden releases were an annual battle, once upon a time. We’ve been through a lot since, but there was definitely an adjustment period.
Gaming in any form is a really time-consuming hobby, even if the games aren’t those where you need to have your diaper changed frequently.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I like my fifteen-minute bang-wang break in the morning better.
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
A-B-A-B-Start-Left-Right-Down
FINISH HER!!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
BABYLITY!!!!!!!!
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
HOW IS BABBYLITY FORMED?
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
good to know
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
argh
That sounds like the punchline to some neckbeard explaining why he won’t allow girls in his WoW guild; I can’t believe someone actually did that.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
She was hot though
I mean, she was Asian, and Hot for an everyday normal girl. For a gamer? She was OMGWTFBBQ hot.
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
Ooops. Do. I’m doing my nails. It’s hard to type when you’re trying not to mess up the paint job.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Random Fun Fact
Willie Eyre, brother of Scott Eyre, is pitching for the River Cats tonight. Am I the only person who did not know that his name is William Mays Eyre?
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
Me, either. A friend of mine who is a Rangers fan loves him, which is really the only reason I know he exists (I didn’t know Scott had a brother who played baseball). I thought maybe Giants fans would be aware of a baseball player named after Mays whose brother also played for the Giants.
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
Also
Prediction
In the three games, there will be one team that has one of those games where they just can’t score! Oh, how frustrating that shall be!
tehehehe!
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 12:18 PM PDT reply actions
this made me go back and reread the last A's-Giants preview
Some of Grant’s finest work, ever.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
There’s no score here in the … seventh. Or eighth. I, uh, drew a picture of a dinosaur in my scorebook instead of keeping score, and I didn’t even realize it. I … must have lost consciousness for a bit, and that’s the kind of thing, folks, that will make you draw a dinosaur.
Jose Flores: .831 OPS in High-A last year. .529 OPS this year. Ouch.
Co-dad of Ryan Scoma with waelwulf, because we're progressive like that.
by free f.p. #14 on Jun 17, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s an all-timer. So sublime and surreal.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
BEAT THEY A'SS
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
by iammclovin on Jun 17, 2011 12:21 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
if only
the schedule had a z key function.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
especially for the Jonathan Sanchez and Aaron Rowand starts.
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 Jun 17, 2011 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
You forget that Rowand CARRIED the Giants for the month of April.
While starting everyday in place of the injured Torres.
Heh
CARRIED!!!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Carried them to a record of seven games under .500. Wooh!
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
That's like bringing a lollipop to a nuclear test site.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
CARRIED THEM WITH HIS GRITTY GAMERNESS.
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
What did he do in April? You can make arguments without
deliberately misstating my point
Who cares?
“April” was, what, 15 games? He’s sucked for three and a half years now. There’s no good reason to play him over Torres, ever.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Aaron Rowand is generally decent (sometimes even good) in April. It’s those other 5-6 months you gotta worry about.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I did llok it up
But I don’t care about 20 games by any player at any time ever.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
But they're over
And they have no predictive value going forward.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Not my point. The point was using the "Z"
button on all of Rowand’s starts and I pointed out that he had a really good April.
Some here seem to disagree with that.
The point was that we wish we could skip Rowand's starts
Because he’s terrible and he’s not fun to watch. The fact that he was OK in April has nothing to do with that, because he was terrible for two years before that and he’s been terrible since then.
You’re trying to argue that we should be excited to watch Rowand play because he was good for 20 games three months ago. That’s silly.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
No I'm not. I'm saying that to ignore ALL of his
starts is silly.
To ignore all of his starts in favor of 20 of them is sillier.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not ignoring anything - although
you are coming close to making the initial entry on that list.
Oh no! What ever will I do…
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
/runs out of popcorn, drives to movie theater to get more
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
/whispering
There is less expensive popcorn
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
/whispers back
but the movie theater is closer than Luckys
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I believe at the time, Torres was on the DL
Surely, you don’t think he should have started over Rowand in April?
Rowand hit .294 with a .780 OPS during April. That’s HOF for this team.
Then he hit .188/.254/.266 in May.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Your “point,” clearly, is to just to be argumentative. Your argument is that Rowand was great in April. In fact, he was great for FOUR GAMES. The first four games of the season. All of which took place before Torres got hurt. Since those four games, he has been the same unwatchable Aaron Rowand as ever.
lol
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (more often than I blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
I can’t even respond to this.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
this
is the best response, of course.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
It's so awesome that Jonathan Sanchez
and his 9 K9 and his 3-point-something ERA has become the pitching staff whipping boy.
Relief! I Thank you for your Lefferts.
Not by me!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Just use one at a time.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Reposting from the last thread because it's cool
1. Kemp (LAD) 4.4 2. McCutchen (PIT) 3.9 3. Halladay (PHI) 3.7 4. Braun (MIL) 3.6 Hamels (PHI) 3.6 6. Lee (PHI) 3.3 7. Kershaw (LAD) 3.0 Reyes (NYM) 3.0 Votto (CIN) 3.0 10. Vogelsong (SFG) 2.8 Fielder (MIL) 2.8 Kennedy (ARI) 2.8 Sanchez (FLA) 2.8
"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!"
Of course not. Kemp with a 4.4?
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, so did I. But I’m guessing Kemp didn’t.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
RACIST
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
RACERVANT?
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
Kemp has been a beast this 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 Jun 17, 2011 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
wait
He did so because the center field wall at Mays Field is 8’ 3-1/8" tall, not 8’ 3-1/4" tall.
I’m terrible at fractions, but I’m pretty sure this is wrong/
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
I was just about to post this. 1/8 is smaller than 1/4
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
It's Posey time!!
My Adopted Squirrel: Heath Hembree
lulz
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
It's Posey time!!
My Adopted Squirrel: Heath Hembree
I absolutely knew I was going to do that.
by Grant Brisbee on Jun 17, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
IT WAS ON PURPOSE!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL BLOGTROLLING
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
you should’ve played it off like you knew how the extra 1/8" would affect the way the ball would bounce.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
I spent more time than I wanted to admit trying to figure out how his math could be right.
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
Well, possibly
If the wall was a quarter-inch lower, it lands at a different angle and skips over for a home run.
That’s all I got.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Well of course Vogelsong has more slg. That’s why he is paid the big bucks.
by Hyoton on Jun 17, 2011 12:27 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Can we get the good timmy today?
Cuz I really don’t enjoy watching the bad timmy.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Brian Lawrence
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Even if Frank wins the 1-day trial, he will still owe Jamie $100 million dollars. Wow!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 12:29 PM PDT reply actions
Odds of Selig and MLB approving the new Fox contract in the next 4 months?
Between slim and none – and slim just left the state.
"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.
I'm clinging desperately to this hope.
With that much of the Fox deal tied up in settlement money, I’m hoping Bud says “LOLno”
by DodgerFanInPackerLand on Jun 17, 2011 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Why does MLB have to approve a deal that is between a team and its TV affiliates? I mean, I see how it is very applicable in this case, and a good idea, but wouldn’t that infringe on the Dodgers rights to do business with whomever they choose?
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 Jun 17, 2011 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Doesn’t Bud have an “extraordinary powers” clause? As in he can do whatever he needs to do to protect the value of the sport and the individual franchises.
In the end, America will be remembered for three things: the Bill of Rights, jazz, and baseball.
Proud parent of Javier Lopez: southpaw, poltergeist, haunter of dreams.
There’s probably so much legal mumbo jumbo in there that he could get away with anything.
I’m amused it’s gone on this long, to be honest.
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Is this an example of "new math"?
He did so because the center field wall at Mays Field is 8’ 3-1/8" tall, not 8’ 3-1/4" tall
Not to pick nits, but the last time I checked 1/4" is more than 1/8"?
"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.
You mean there are A's fans to speak of?
/justkidding
JT Snow and Robb Nen are my heroes.
But then 2010 happened.
Proof that I read Grant's posts
the center field wall at Mays Field is 8’ 3-1/8" tall, not 8’ 3-1/4" tall
8’ 3-1/4’’ > 8’ 3-1/8"
I think you meant 8’ 3’’ or maybe 8’ 3-1/16’’
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Jun 17, 2011 12:30 PM PDT reply actions
Damnit
Like I said, I read Grant’s posts, not all of you nerbs!
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Jun 17, 2011 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I made that joke about myself already. Shit, now I just proved otherwise.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Jun 17, 2011 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Grant will fix his mistake and make us all look like idiots.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
It's Posey time!!
My Adopted Squirrel: Heath Hembree
I will not refresh either.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
It's Posey time!!
My Adopted Squirrel: Heath Hembree
Printing it out
Posting it around town.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Jun 17, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Well that was an awful trip down Warriors draft memory lane
I just did on Wikipedia for 20 minutes.
Thanks JCT!
LOL Friday work productivity
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
on the plus side
They’ve handled their picks very well lately when they aren’t trading them for Marcus Williams.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
I mean
They picked Curry which was great.
Not a fan of Udoh. Would’ve rather had Greg Monroe.
And even in their ultmate homerun draft. Getting Monta in the 2nd round. They drafted Ike Diogu 9th.
I guess they’ve stopped drafting white centers. That’s a plus
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
One more comment on Ike Diogu
He went #9.
The 10th pick?
Andrew Bynum
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
meh
I don’t love the Udoh pick either and at the time I was campaigning for Monroe but it wasn’t a particularly strong draft class. Udoh looks like he’ll at least stick in the league as a rotational big who plays defense. Biedrins isn’t an awful player, in fact up until last year he was a pretty good player and an average starting center. A league average center at pick number 11 is pretty good.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Basically from 1995 on
The only good 1st round picks were
J-Rich in 2001 & Curry in 2009
Jamison & Biederins were ok picks
The rest have been abject failures.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Pietrus was a good pick for where he was drafted. Randolph was perfectly acceptable for where he was picked. If Udoh turns out ok then 5 of the last 7 and 7 of the last 9 first rounders have been ok. Curry is the only one in that group that could be a home run pick, but I dont think 5 of 7 or 7 of 9 acceptable picks is any worse than the average NBA team.
Thing A
"Correlation between inability to use the reply button and general crappiness of analysis: pretty high." -Sleepy Freud
Yes. he was. that was an awful draft and Warriors pulled something useful out of it.
Relief! I Thank you for your Lefferts.
lunch time!
I’m thinking of going here.
Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention.
Mark DeRosa is more than the sum of his tendons.
Oh, I'm jealous
I’ve heard very good things. Farmer Brown is certainly good.
OT: Yahoo news and the kissing couple
the couple is being besieged by media requests from outlets around the world. All, of course, are interested in knowing the circumstances that found …the couple smooching as cars were burned and windows were smashed around them.
But despite some of our initial assumptions, the kiss seen ‘round the world wasn’t the product of a riot-fueled, uncontrollable passion. Brett Jones instead notes that Thomas was injured and his son was coming to her aid. An alternate angle taken from above shows other bystanders later attempting to help Thomas and Jones.
Combine that different angle with Brett Jones’ story and it certainly dispels the rumors that the couple had intentionally staged the photo.
“They were between the riot police and the rioters, and the riot police were actually charging forward, and Alex got knocked by a [police] shield and fell to the ground,” Brett Jones told CBC News. “[Scott] was comforting her and gave her a kiss to say, ’It’s going to be OK,’ and the photographer just took the shot at that moment.”
Jones’ mother Marie said she immediately knew it was her son in the picture because “he doesn’t have a lot of clothes with him and he always puts on the same thing.”
So where do they go from here? The good news is that Jones escaped the incident unhurt and Thomas only suffered a bruised leg. The bad news is that Jones is scheduled to leave Canada soon and head home for Australia after a trip to California. The Jones family says that Thomas plans to visit California with their son but that the couple’s future after that is uncertain.
So the son and mom were making out?
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If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
That excerpt doesn’t exactly make it clear who’s whom.
"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!"
So, girl gets knocked down by police, everyone scatters. She’s left lying there in the street and can’t get up on her, so a random kid who doesn’t change his clothes often thought instead of helping her up, he’d lean over and kiss her, because she’d find that comforting?
This definitely wasn’t staged. Nope.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Jun 17, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I've seen the picture all of one time, but...
I’m pretty sure their legs were intertwined and the girl had her hand on the back of the boy’s neck and they were in full on make-out mode. This was not just a comforting peck on the cheek.
Final Analysis: I call BULLSHIT!
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by The Nuschlerian Candidate on Jun 17, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Vancouver Riot
Serious article on this stupid event by a sports writer who looks at the big picture: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/17-3
by Comrade Conrad on Jun 17, 2011 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
staged or not, I love the picture. It’ll be famous for a long, long 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 Jun 17, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
My All-Covet team
I missed out on this thread from the other day, so I’ll do it now BECAUSE I CAN.
This is a list of at least one player at every position who, over the past two years, I thought it would be a good idea for the Giants to get, either by trade or FA:
Catcher: Ryan Hanigan
This is a recent one, but of course I want Hanigan. A catcher on a cheap contract whose main skill is walking.
First Base: Lance Berkman
I thought it’d be a great idea to trade for Berkman in 2010, slide him in at 1B, and move Huff to right field. He wasn’t that great in 2010, but he walked and still hit a little.
Second Base: Dan Uggla
I pretty much have always wanted Uggla. I wanted the Giants to trade for him in 09 before they got Freddy. I wanted him before the season in 2010, and move Freddy to some other position. I wanted him at the deadline last year. Something about the regularity with which he socked 30 dingers…
Short Stop: Jose Reyes
This is the most recent covet. Dude is good, and he’s young. He may well be a Giant, if not at the deadline, than in the offseason.
Third Base: Kevin Kouzmanoff
I had to think a while before coming up with a 3B, because we’ve had Panda for the past couple years. But there was a rumor at one point that we were going to trade for Kouz and move Panda to first. I wasn’t opposed to the idea: I thought that anyone who could hit 20+ HR in Petco was worth having. I wuz wrong.
Left Field: Matt Holliday
Before the 2010 season, I thought there was no way in hell that the Giants could win a World Series unless they signed Holliday and traded for Uggla.
Center Field: BJ Upton
Because he’s on the Rays, it seems like Upton is always kinda available, and thus I’ve always kinda wanted him. A good defensive CF with a good batting line for the position and some pop in his bat.
Right Field: Jayson Werth
Oh, Jayson. How I’ve loved you.
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Haha, Jayson Werth has a .766 OPS this year
by kingofthacove on Jun 17, 2011 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
and that is .200 more than Uggla’s .566!
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by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Your covet team wouldn’t beat my covet 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 Jun 17, 2011 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, and
The A’s have scored all their runs this year on RBI groundouts. That’s a fact.
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GO BEARS!
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GO BEARS!!
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
GO BEARS!
The San Francisco Giants are the World Champions.
by The Enchanter on Jun 17, 2011 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Go BEARS! (Read my blog!)
Also: Officially reinstated (as opposed to provisionally!)
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
Congrats!
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by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Wonderful post!
Aside: Does anyone else ever use Josh Willingham and Ty Wiggington to get to Ty Willingham? I did that just a few weeks ago…
yep, all 3 of them I always got confused. For some reason I thought the Rockies had acquired Ryan Zimmerman, not Ty Wiggington last year (they play the same position, too)
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
since tonights game is in the east, why are they starting so late?
by son of ggf on Jun 17, 2011 1:06 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Chart of the day
OPS RBI OPSBI Ross .798 21 .819 Posey .756 21 .777 Burrell .752 17 .769 Torres .748 12 .760 Sanchez .730 24 .754 Schierholtz .712 20 .732 Huff .696 35 .731 Rowand .651 11 .662 Tejada .546 17 .563 Team .670 229 .899
"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 glad that guy invented that stat
Because looking at the OPS list tells me some information, but looking at the OPSBI list puts it in a whole new light.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Jun 17, 2011 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
The Fangraphs "Clutch" Number
1.24 Nate Schierholtz
0.71 Pablo Sandoval
0.57 Aaron Rowand
0.49 Freddy Sanchez
0.39 Miguel Tejada
0.26 Manny Burriss
0.21 Pat Burrell
0.17 Andres Torres
0.12 Brandon Crawford
-0.14 Brandon Belt
-0.17 Mark DeRosa
-0.17 Buster Posey
-0.27 Aubrey Huff
-0.31 Cody Ross
-0.38 Eli Whiteside
-0.49 Mike Fontenot
SF Giants' record in the eleven-year twenty-first century/Pac Bell era: five MVPs, two CYA, one ROY, the two highest single-season OPS of all time (and two of the other top eight), the single-season and all-time HR records, two NL Pennants, and ... one World Championship
LOL GRANT
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Boss's numbers continued to tank last night.
Nice job stealing a run (not reflected here), but sucky job striking with 1st and 3rd no outs against Gas Can Putz. Problem was, our gas can stayed in the game longer than their gas can.
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by Penitentiary Face on Jun 17, 2011 5:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, no, he's not.
There’s this fellow named Sandoval. Ross is indeed, for now, #2, but quite a ways behind Panda (that is 2011 only).
On a career basis, Ross is #7, but we can discard Ford (ridiculously SSS) and Tejada (obviously). Besides Sandoval, it’s Burrell, Posey, and Huff as better bats (I continue to include Posey, but for right now, I guess Ross effectively moves to #4; what impact Belt will have remains to be seen, but we certainly hope he’ll be better than Ross.)
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
That is very certainly so.
He’s more than 5% over his career value right now, which is not huge, but is significant.
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Actually, that's an open point.
In fairness, it is not impossible that Tejada, played with reasonable regularity, might come back to finish something like his 2010 in San Diego, which—with the bat—was not horrid. But I don’t want to give him that much play time, nor, if it van be helped, any; in any event, we could not do so at shortstop, and there is Panda at third.
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of players not on the DL, last night only 1 of the 3 team leaders in OPS started the game.
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Link to fakebaseballreference.com?
Broken
SF Giants' record in the eleven-year twenty-first century/Pac Bell era: five MVPs, two CYA, one ROY, the two highest single-season OPS of all time (and two of the other top eight), the single-season and all-time HR records, two NL Pennants, and ... one World Championship
On closer inspection, these are loafers.
by MySpoonlsTooBig on Jun 17, 2011 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Please to be explaining please
SF Giants' record in the eleven-year twenty-first century/Pac Bell era: five MVPs, two CYA, one ROY, the two highest single-season OPS of all time (and two of the other top eight), the single-season and all-time HR records, two NL Pennants, and ... one World Championship
Well
it apparently used to exist
SF Giants' record in the eleven-year twenty-first century/Pac Bell era: five MVPs, two CYA, one ROY, the two highest single-season OPS of all time (and two of the other top eight), the single-season and all-time HR records, two NL Pennants, and ... one World Championship
I think I'd rather play Daric Barton than Aubrey Huff
But I’m not positive. Let me get back to you.
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Barton: wOBA .276 wRC+ 73 -.4 fWAR
Huff: wOBA .305 wRC+ 88 -.7 fWAR
If Huff wasn’t thrown into the outfield, I think he has better WAR
As bad as Huff has been, I think Barton has been worse
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Jun 17, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a feeling if you mind-wiped everyone on the face of the earth
and placed Barton on some random team like the Twins or Indians or something, no one would want that guy on their team in a million years.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Upon further review
I would rather have Huff this season, but if you were to offer me both of them and their contracts, I’d take Barton.
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LOL this guy.
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I still wonder if that guy had some sort of disability.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Mrs G and I decided he was developmentally disabled*
But that his dad still could have taught him a lesson about not being a douchebag. If you teach pre-schoolers not to grab what ever you want, why not him?
*After hearing the recording of Dirk Nowitsky singin “We are the champions”, I think he is too
The thong is, it happened.
I agree about him still needing to use manners, regardless of disability. My 5 year old Down Syndrome nephew would have known better than to grab that ball and keep it, because my sister makes sure he knows how to treat others.
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Kruk went nuts during the broadcast about this guy.
I thought for a second he might storm down there and administer some “justice”.
That’s the best part of the video.
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I laughed at “GIVE ME THAT BALL!”
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
OT: Advice on Orlando parks
Mrs. G and I will have three days in Orlando and are trying to decide which Disney/Universal parks to visit.
I figure we’ll go to 1 per day, so that’s three parks. Unfortunately, it’ll be Friday/Saturday/Sunday of 4th of July weekend, so humid and crowded. Oh well. We like rides, but also like seeing new things and experiences.
Here are the choices and questions:
Disney Magic Kingdom - This is pretty much just like Disneyland, right? I love DL, but given limited time, should I skip this?
Epcot this sounds really cool and I’m pretty sure it’ll be one of our picks
Animal Kingdom – is this zoo something special? I(I’ve spend a ton of time at SD Zoo and Wild Animal Park, which are great, and don’t want to be disappointed
Disney Hollywood Studios Don’t know much about this…worth a trip?
Disney Water parks There’s water parks closer, was thinking of skipping unless I hear otherwise
Universal Studios Been to the old one in L.A. it pretty much sucked
Universal Islands of Adventure Anyone been to the Harry Potter thingy? Sounds like this is the reason to go if ones does
Thanks for any advice you have!
The thong is, it happened.
The Mt. Everest ride at Animal Kingdom is one of the very best roller coasters I’ve ever been on. Worth it for that. We didn’t really spend much time with the critters.
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Disney Magic Kingdom – I skipped it because It’s almost the same as Disneyland.
Epcot – Awesome. I loved visiting the different “countries of the world”, and I finally got to see what is in the damn Epcot Center.
Animal Kingdom – I never rode the roller coaster, but I loved the safari. It was the only thing though I really liked.
Universal – I skipped it for epcot… and I’m glad.
Harry Potter – Wasn’t made yet, but I’d really like to go! :D
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Safari was pretty cool, seeing lions and things out in the “wilderness” is cooler than seeing them in a cage.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Epcot
is the most boring place ever.
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Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
I'll respectfully disagree.
I thought Epcot was awesome.
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EPCOT is the absolute shit
I went there as a kid and it was one of the greatest days of my life.
DisneyWorld is really, really big, but it’s pretty much Disneyland East and it’s tons of fun if you’re into Disney and stuff.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
If you didn’t like Universal Studios in LA then I’d skip it.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ll go ahead and throw in another vote for Epcot – there’s a lot of cool shit there.
and….plenty of booze. A bar in every “country.”
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by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
YES!
I wanted to eat in every country. :( I just couldn’t do it. Imma have to go back.
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Yeah, Epcot is really cool and really big. I’d recommend two days, one for the countries side and one for the rest. I’d also recommend seeing the fireworks show at the end. It’s really good.
Animal Kingdom is okay. There are a couple of fantastic things there: the safari ride and the roller coaster. But the rest is meh.
I don’t personally care much for Hollywood Studios.
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I haven’t been to Animal Kingdom – but I agree with this, if you can do 2 days in Epcot – it’s worth it.
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by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
OT
Discovery Channel blurb about what goes into making baseballs, just so the Giants can not hit them.
Anagram of "SF Giants World Series Champs" = SHARP, ORGASMIC, ENDLESS SWIFT
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Jun 17, 2011 1:20 PM PDT reply actions
When a softball and baseball love each other very much...
The thong is, it happened.
by Goofus on Jun 17, 2011 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
little rant
Bork is such an idiot. He uses the 7th man in the bullpen in extras when Romo, Lopez, Ramirez are all available (btw, Casilla pitched two times as many innings as Romo in that series), then says “too many guys took 0-fers” when asked about the offense, when he’s the one who put the wrong guys in there?
I’m happy to take 2 of 3, but damn… that could have been a sweep. This team really is winning in spite of him. blah
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the really mystifying thing was leaving Casilla in for a second inning
he gave a solid inning of relief and struck out two guys. why leave him in with a full pen at home?
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Most definitely
Although I am pretty sure a bunch of folks were complaining about the lineup before yesterday’s game started.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I think this is the nicest reply you’ve ever made to a snarky comment.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Perhaps
I think I just don’t have the energy to be mean today.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
It wasn’t judgment either way, I just read that and thought, “Well that was nice”
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
No worries
I didn’t take it as judgement. As I re-read that earlier comment, you are totally right. It doesn’t read like me at all.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
LARS’ SBN ACCOUNT HACKED BY NICE GUYS; FINISH LAST
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm here to help pick up some slack
you slacking slacker in slacks
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by jhiat00 on Jun 17, 2011 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
true
but foresight still has some value. and really, who didn’t see that coming?
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Yough to answer "Who didn't see that coming?"
after the fact.
Go back and check the threads
Plenty of people were bitching about Casilla coming in for one inning. Much less 2.
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Duh. Who wants to be hanged?
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I hadn't heard of this phrase before.
I didn’t know this, but apparently it means “To worry about a small thing when there are larger things to worry about.” I’m not sure how it fits here, because the complaint is that people are complaining about things period, but I learned something today.
Hmm, thanks for imparting the ref onto all of us as well. I had the same initial reaction as Corn. So it’s kinda like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
No, I totally got the ref. I was just being a smartass. And also, people are hanged; clothes are hung.
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by can of corn on Jun 17, 2011 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
And also, people are hanged; clothes are hung.
My mom always used to say this to me when I was little, lol
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Doubtful.
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SHE BANGS, SHE BANGS
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I was in that music video!
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Really?
How did that happen?
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
She banged
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I did not, and would never. He did want to bang my best friend, though.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Knowing what we know now, though...
Did he really?
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by GiantPain on Jun 17, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
IDK, what do we know now? I remember him proposing marriage with a red rose one day in SF.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_martin#Personal_life
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
omg wait no
You mean the William Hung version?!?!?!
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by GiantPain on Jun 17, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
HAHAHA
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
rec'd
I saw this coming as it was happening and it was as amazing as i’d hoped.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
ha
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
My freshman year at Cal was the year of his 15 minutes of fame. He has a huge crush on my best friend and when he shot the music video, I was visiting her in SD for spring break. He asked her to drive up to LA and be in it, and she wanted me to come with. We were on set with all the other girls and then they just asked me if I’d like to be in as well cause they could use some more girls. I said sure and ridiculous amounts of hairspray, makeup, and almost no clothing later, I was in a Will Hung music video.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Cool!
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
We’re gonna need you to identify yourself in the video.
My friends were in the same dorm as him the year before the American Idol thing, if I remember correctly. He did the same thing at some talent show thing they had.
The first six innings are overrated.
I’ll try but you only see my for like a split second. She’s in it way more than I am (like 2-3 seconds).
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-Y_Vb0wsw
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
This thing will get way more hits today than the last 2 years combined
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
Ok, that’s really grainy so it’s hard to tell but I’m it the shot at about 3:23 – my BF is the girl in all black who features throughout the video. I’m on the side of her doing the “she’s bangs” dance he did.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
You're a black guy?
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
>:(
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Evan!
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh shit. I knew this was coming.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
So is PC hat or far right?
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
so PC, you’re the one on the far right on the video?
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
oh my god
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Needs Zito.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
LOL
beat me to it
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I <3 Natto.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
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oh my god
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
This wins the internet
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
ZZZZZ
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
oh god this is out of control
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
Needs moar Denorfia.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I was going to but then I got lazy.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
So, is PC in between the guys or on the other side? Either way…
/straightens tie
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
/sucks in his gut
//combs over bald spot
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
/ sign o the cross
/ grabs dong
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
by satyricrash on Jun 17, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I didn’t realize how well set-up you were for that.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
THAT
is what she said, my dear Professor Roto.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
/picks up only nice shirt, hanging from a chair
//smells it
///decides it’s good enough, and puts it on
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
/gargles whiskey
/cuts self shaving
wait, why are we all going through our morning routines?
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
dammit rotorueter, you just made me smell my shirt.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
/crosses that off of bucket list
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
It’s ok. It smelled fine.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
y'all can BACK THE FIZZUCK OFF
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 was wondering when you'd get here
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Someone tipped him off on twitter
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
/whistles
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
This makes me so freakin’ glad that no one from MCC was at ’90s Night at Chukchansi Park last year cause my brother and I got on the jumbotron doing the Carlton dance.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Before he blew up on AI, Will Hung approached my friend on campus and talked to him about Pokemon. Now he’s probably too good for Pokemon.
Awww..
He’s too good for the jigglypuff.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
Proud Adoptive Parent of one of the best Five Tool Players, The Machine.
Yeah, if you have to say it, you’re not
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Seemed the logical reply - whether it's true
or not, you’ll have at least buy me dinner first.
`
similar yes; deck chairs on the titanic = a small change that does not solve a larger problem
new rope while being hanged = to worry about a small problem while a larger problem is imminent
A variant on the deck chairs might be “The steak is salty on the Titanic”. Or, for a Giants blog at the moment, “Burriss should bat left-handed.”
Now you are just trolling
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
It's true though. The ladies in here argue
if the sun comes up in the East and how Bochy/Sabean could screw that up.
So… you consider women to be inferior and that calling someone a lady is derogatory. Thanks for cleariing that up.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
and a misogynistic one
Sharlon Schoop - honkbalspeler extraordinaire.
Trolls are like cockroach Nazis. Sure, you CAN try to reason with them, but they won't listen, and if you respond to them, they invade your Sudetenland.
Or something.
That metaphor got away from me.
Thank you
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
You really ought to rinse the sand out of your vagina.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I lol’ed.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (more often than I blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
It's no laughing matter.
I have to believe that sand could cause a certain havoc in the female nether regions.
Don’t I know it.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (more often than I blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Look, I’m sure you think that saying something like “everyone does it!” is a good defense to poor behavior, but the funny thing is, it isn’t
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe not, but I’m an awesome dancer.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
You kinda look like you’re swimming
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions
haha, j/k :)
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
HEY I KNOW, LET’S POST A CLIP OF THE MUSIC VIDEO YOU’VE BEEN IN AND SEE WHO’S BETTER
OH, WAIT
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't dance for Sisqo wannabees, sorry
If you only knew which firefighter calendar to look in, you’d find that I did November 2010 quite a solid.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
“She’d Bang” and “Thong Song” are like fraternal twins.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Pffft
Yeah, yeah. Sure. Pics or it didn’t happen.
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
If you find a copy of the Sonoma County volunteer FF calendar, you’ll get your evidence.
Otherwise, I’d rather you believe what you want, because there is no way I’m scanning the pic onto the internet.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Why is that quote attributed to “Inspire Me?” It’s Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. etc, etc.
…I need to go back to school.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Inspire Me was something I just stuck onto the end, like the moral to the story.
I’m impressed you recognized the quote.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Alright.
And, dude, I’m an English major who read Shakespeare for fun in middle school.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I should probably also say that I skipped a year in middle school English.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
When switched from independent study to homeschool, I took a placement test in each subject to see which classes I take. Ended up skipping a grade in both English and Science.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
*When I switched
Not sure what happened to the “I” there.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, for real, DrDC.
I may have just Will Hung myself. lol
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, On the Road is quite popular for hipster teenagers and fake hipsters.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah On the Road is basically required reading for angsty teenagers who think they’re hardened and cynical.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
(this is also known as “all teenagers”)
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I read ‘On the Road’ a long, long time ago, but that quote as always stuck with me. Couldn’t tell ya why.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not angsty!
"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!"
All teenagers say they’re not.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re angry!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Only because of Bruce Bochy!
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I have good reason
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Basically, yes. This is why I read it. And then I realized that I really didn’t like this book or Kerouac’s writing style. The quote was the only part about the book I liked. Give me a Flannery O’Connor short story any day.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Flannery O’Connor is pretty much better than anything.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Yes.
One of her stories was included in the Norton’s Anthology for Intro to Lit and I was disappointed we didn’t get to read it.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I probably can’t keep up with you here, esp an English major who reads Shakespeare for fun. I don’t read much, and when I do, it’s something by Stephen King or Michael Crichton.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
STEPHEN KING ESSENTIALLY STOLE THE IDEA OF 1408 FROM CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN’S THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Strange story, that. I think I liked it, but I’m not sure.
"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!"
Which one?
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
The latter.
"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 loved the writing style and the tone, but the story was so bizarre. I thought I hated it at first, but on the whole, I really enjoyed reading and analyzing it.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
have you read The Town & The City?
I think it’s better than any of Kerouac’s stream of consciousness beat novels.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t mean to sound pretentious here, but I am, so that’s how it comes out.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I have not read it, but I will try to once I get my summer reading done.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I've been reading like mad as I start summer session next week
Recently read:
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
Philip K. Dick, Lies Inc.
Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
Now reading: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I need to finish Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent. And The Bullpen Gospels.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
regarding baseball books
the Bill James New Historical Baseball Abstract is my current (ahem) bathroom reading material. Still on the section on baseball in the 1880s.
Best 1800s baseball nickname: “Death to Flying Things,” for a defensive wiz. I can’t remember his name, though.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I wanted to get that, but I’m too broke.
That is an amazing nickname, though.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I also enjoyed an anecdote about a player who was banned for life for allegedly throwing games. He was suspected of doing so for a long time, to the point where he was reportedly regularly beaten up by his own teammates.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Hey, I live in Sonoma County…
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Go for it. I’m not gonna make it easy for you folks.
Not if I’m gonna have to live with photoshopped Zitos on my head.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Not your head
Just everyone else’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!"
I would ask my friend’s stepdad who works for SRFD if he knew where to get one, but that’s kind of a weird thing to ask.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
hahaha, for sure. “My son’s friend wants a calendar of local firefighters with no shirts on… hmmm….” LOL
The calendars were given out as part of a fundraiser for the local volunteer fire depts in late 2009 (2010 calendars)… I’ll think about scanning the pic. I’m afraid to know what you folks would do with it.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
we'd just put jeff neimanns head on your body.
(no one tell him where we’d put it)
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Your mom's a girl
I handle most of the humor 'round these parts.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
by GiantPain on Jun 17, 2011 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
GiantPain would disagree with this
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
by jctGamer on Jun 17, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
AHAHAHAHAH
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not impressed.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
I laughed
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
/GiantPain gets drunk
//starts drunk posting on MCC
///hilarity ensues
I'm still in the old thread.
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"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m all for this happening again. I enjoyed every second of it. Well, at least until people got offended. Then I just went to bed.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
People only remember the good times.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re a blackout drunk?
I'm still in the old thread.
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"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not sure I've had a drink since that night, now that I think of it.
That was an interesting evening. And only partly because of MCC.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
GiantPain I disagree with this.
Tell 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 Jun 17, 2011 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
AARON ROWAND
I FORGOT THE REST OF THE JOKE
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
And thank you for making my point
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I don’t recall ever arguing about this.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
And you would bitch about the bitching.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah yes
Ignoring the fact that the people, myself included, were right.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Pro Tip
Don’t come in threads looking for confrontation. You are clearly trolling. This will not end well.
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I think
that stopped mattering earlier today, it’s just clearer now.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
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Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I think JCT is right
I’m pretty sure you don’t get what hindsight is 20/20 means
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It is after you have Lasik with Dr. Scott Hyver
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Hmm, are you the annoying girl who was trolling kdl on twitter a couple weeks ago? Because this sounds hella familiar.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
What’s funny about it? That was an actual question.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't follow KD Lang on twitter.
and I don’t type the word “hella”
Well, kdl is not KD Lang and I didn’t ask you if you used that word I used it myself, but why we’re on the subject, you did just type it out.
Also, there’s nothing wrong with using the word “hella” – It’s a common colloquialism
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
well who is kdl then if not KD Lang?
and why do you follow KD Lang on twitter?
This is why people think you’re trolling. She just said she’s not talking about KD Lang.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
MCC member.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
/grabs popcorn
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
bout the same time that other little troll signed up with twitter – hmmmm
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Must be me then. The question really
is “What are you prepared to do about it”
??
Laugh at you?
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t have to do anything. I’m fairly certain you’ll call one too many people on here an asshole or be obnoxious one too many times and get yourself banned. That’s usually what trolls do.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I doubt that - I won't call anyone an asshole
and my obnoxious won’t even move the needle in here.
you are severely underestimating your obnoxious
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Yeah...
Don’t sell yourself short.
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I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
Everybody has that one thing about themselves that they’re completely oblivious to, where they’re so misguided that they basically perceive it as the opposite of how everyone else sees it.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Now I’ll be thinking about what my one thing is all night.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
like, in example, Bork’s love for Bengie.
He didn’t see it like everyone else did.
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
OH
I see what you did there
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I'M FUNNY DAMMIT!
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
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I don't think it means
what you think it means.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Sure it does. It Casilla gets out of the inning and
the Giants win, Bochy (once again) is the master bullpen manager.
That's like saying if bork put in Tejada to pitch
and he got out of the inning, the giants win it was genius.
No, it isn’t. The lineup was shit. It didn’t perform. We complained before the game, it happened exactly as we thought it would. Don’t give me that hindsight was 20/20 bullshit. That’s not how that phrase is supposed to be used.
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Note talking about the lineup - simmer down.
talking SPECIFICALLY about the “Casilla Incident.”
Chill. Using “simmer down” isn’t really meant to be calming. Don’t come here to cause problems.
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.
chill
Says the one dropping profanity in a fan forum.
Are you new here? Because profanity is fucking commonplace.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck.
this isn’t Purple Row or wherever you came from
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't have a fucking clue what Purple Row is
and yet you act like I should?
You’re on the internet. Google it.
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I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
FUCK SHIT BALLS TITS ASS COCK!!
Yeah, this isn’t Purple Row, man. You want rated PG, you should read that blog.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
lol, I hadn’t even made my way down the thread, and ended up with basically the same comment as you. I like how you think, my friend.
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Dropping profanity? Oh for fuck’s sake.
My eyes are rolling.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
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On a dare!
While eating a pear!
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
After balancing on a chair!
And filling an eclair!
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What do you think we are, a bunch of fucking ladies?
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s been pretty terrible so it was lucky he even got out of the 9th. The 10th (with much better hitters coming up )is just asking to lose the game.
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I agree. Seems a really stupid decision
magnified by the fact that it didn’t work out.
So if you agree then what the fuck are you talking about?
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Straight up trolling at this point.
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Yes, this is the one
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I am DFARowand.
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by El Person on Jun 17, 2011 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, this pretty much made me spit out my drink.
Thanks, El Person.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
GiantPain disagrees with this.
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Hindsight is 20/20
But a blind man with a braille stat sheet could tell you that Casilla wasn’t the guy to pitch in that inning.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Who was?
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RamRam, Mota, Romo, Wilson...
All better than Casilla. Especially 2nd inning Casilla.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
..
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The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I was an umpire for a few years
Guess I missed that line in the rulebook.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
It’s not against the rules to bunt every AB as well.
by kingofthacove on Jun 17, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
But if you do that, you lower your chances of winning
If you bring in your best reliever to face your opponent’s best hitters, you raise your chances of winning.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Just letting you know that “it’s not against the rules” is not a very convincing argument.
by kingofthacove on Jun 17, 2011 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Neither is
“You can’t do X” when, in fact, you absolutely can.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
and YET the closer always ends the game
and NEVER comes in in the 7th or 8th to face the more difficult batters.
That's dumb too.
It should be common sense to have your best relievers face their best hitters.
Of course, our best reliever is Romo, so we didn’t even HAVE to use our “closer”.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I agree. But the agents and the players union
want “closers” as a defined roll. They make more money that way.
OK, so you agree that our best reliever should have been in the game to face their best hitter. So you must therefore agree that Casilla shouldn’t have been in the game, unless you’re prepared to argue that Casilla is our best reliever.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I agree that sometimes closers should be
used in the 8th inning.
But never in extra innings, unless your team is leading
Gotcha. It makes no fucking sense at all, but OK, whatever.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
To my way of thinking, the main benefit to having a ‘shutdown closer’ is to neutralize the home field advantage when playing on the road… by having a guy who is basically just not going to be scored on, and saving him for when your team has a lead in the ninth or later, you can sort of take away the home teams ‘last ups’ advantage.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I never said that. Listen, if you're gonna
argue or disagree with me, why not just stick to the things I ACTUALLY say instead of making your own stuff up?
Because very little of what you're saying makes sense.
Why should Wilson not have pitched that inning? Why should Romo not have pitched?
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Wilson through almost 50 pitches
combined the previous two games. I would think that was why. PLUS, they were on the road in a tie game and you don’t see many managers use their closer in that situation..
Does that make sense?
It was Thursday and his splits
are horrible?
What did Wilson do through almost 50 pitches combined the previous two games? I must know.
I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby.
/refills popcorn bucket
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
to be honest, I would have avoided using Wilson at all costs, even if that means Romo closes the game out, due to pitches thrown by Wilson in previous days.
But damn, Romo had only pitched one inning in the series, give him the 10th and 11th to pitch, definetely.
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
In reality, Bochy probably fell back to his L/R closer mindset with Lopez/Romo both needed to close.
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I can only imagine. Goldfarb needs to get crackin’ here, and show Bork just how good Romo is vs LHB.
It’s not right that Romo doesn’t get to face LHB, but Lopez gets to face RHB.
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Really
RamRam and Mota are not better than Casilla. I would say RamRam and Casilla are about equal. Mota is the last man in the bullpen.
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Sergio MF Romo!
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Pitched 2 days in a row already. So did Wilson.
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Romo pitching left handed while on an acid trip is better than Casilla.
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Really?
I know there is a lot of Romo love here but really?
Casilla had a good season last year and was hitting 95 yesterday.
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Romo is one of the best relief pitchers in baseball this year
For reals…
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t disagree but he was going on his third day of work.
Casilla had gotten 3 outs on 11 pitches the night before and had K’d the last two guy he faced in the 9th and got Drew out for the 1st out in the 10th.
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Oh his career
Left handed hitters have put up a .197/.265/.285 against Romo
Right handed hitters have put up a .191/.247/.325
He basically doesn’t have a platoon split. He walks a few more lefties, and righties hit him a bit harder.
But he is very good against both. Better than Casilla.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
If both were rested, yes. Not if Romo was going on his third day of work.
Romo’s best pitch is the slider. That’s probably the first pitch to go when you have a tired arm.
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He threw to one batter one of those days.
One. That’s essentially saying that if a guy warms up for two days, he should be unavailable. That’s crazy.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
No
He warmed up on tuesday and threw 7 pitches
He warmed up on wednesday and threw 13 pitches.
That’s actual workload.
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Casilla had thrown 13(?) pitches THE INNING BEFORE
That is not a lot of pitches for an ML reliever.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Do you have anything that shows Romo is less effective working 3 days in a row?
and somehow able to quantify the difference in performance to the gap between Romo’s effectiveness and Casilla’s?
Because without that, it’s simply your hunch vs others hunch, and the discussion really cannot progress further.
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Sergio Romo
other arguments are invalid.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
True
and I don’t but people here treat it as fact that it was horrible for Bochy to put Casilla out there.
All I said was that it was not unreasonable.
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On his career
Hitters have put up a .213/.259/.315 line against Romo on 0 days of rest.
Not exactly what you asked for, but the best approximation I can find.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
But he is very good against both. Better thanCasillaeveryone.
That’s not too terrible of an exaggeration either I don’t think.
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Avoiding using them for three days in row kind of justifies it, though I still probably would have used Ramirez if they were both unavailable. It’s not really clear what we’re going to get from Casilla this year.
by kingofthacove on Jun 17, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
that's horseshit
Casilla, going into last night’s game had an ERA a tick over 1. He shouldn’t have pitched two innings, sure, but you can’t say Casilla is bad.
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ez does it there pardner - that's not how the over zealous
hyperbole machine works around here. Soon you’ll have 20 different handles calling you a troll and poking at you with pitchforks.
We've gone over this
I believe the resident expert is the Owl man when it comes to Santiago Casilla’s gas caness
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His ERA isn’t indicative.
"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 a way better player than brian wilson because ERA for relievers in 2 months is useful.
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Let me see if I've got this right:
Casilla, going into last night’s game had an ERA a tick over 1.
You are, apparently in all seriousness, seeking to evaluate a reliever on his ERA? Over a fraction of a season?
Here are Casilla’s “Quanity of Pitching” numbers, which are ERA-like numbers (with which actual ERAs will eventually come into close agreement):
2011: 4.27 (actual ERA 1.80) career: 4.36 (actual ERA 4.17)
As you see, he is currently pitching right around his career level, which is not a good one for a reliever on a contending team, and is an awful one for any sort of leverage situation.
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I wouldn’t call that one BB an entire day.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
You might though. He still has to warm up
and that was a HUGE sticking point for both Dusty and Alou – they got their relievers “hot” over and over and over.
Romo faced one batter on Tuesday, and 3 I think on Wed.
He would have been fine for 2 innings, especially when you consider how light his workload has been all year.
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
At least in some quarters . . .
. . . none of this was “hindsight”. It was all real-time (and some of it, sad to say, guessed in advance).
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Out of fear that I would get lump in into troll category
I think that it was not unreasonable to use Casilla. Wilson and Romo had pitched the two previous days and were probably not available. Lopez was probably being saved to to be the closer if the Giants scored. Affeldt had already been used.
That leaves RamRam, Casilla, and Mota. Casilla pitched well in the bottom of the 9th (K’ing the last two people he faced). And as Grant pointed out last night, Upton hit a tough pitch the opposite way.
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You seem unaware of the distinction between ‘I think it was OK to leave Casilla in’ and ‘you whiners should shut the fuck up’.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s a subtle distinction, but it’s there
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean, I disagree with calbearjd all the time, but we interact civilly and I don’t think he’s a troll.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Exactly. My point was that it’s not actually a subtle distinction and only trolls like this guy and the guy Owen and 22giantes try to make it seem like it isn’t.
The reason people with dissenting opinions stick around here is because they voice disdsention without being jerks and typing with a severe superiority complex. Calbearjd, like several others, may not always agree with the majority think, but he’s never a troll.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Not at all
More of a attention-seeking troll complex
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, it’s the kind of attitude where you can tell someone is looking down their nose at everyone else in the room. It’s so …. Kevin Spacey’s Lex Luthor in the terrible Superman reboot.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Some people are still condescending towards him just because they disagree. He does a good job of ignoring it though.
by kingofthacove on Jun 17, 2011 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
The dude prefers cake over pie. What do you expect?
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Hey! Don’t bring the cake v. pie into this…it will get ugly and personal!
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Ugly as cake!
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I’ll back you up on cake > pie.
Though pie is preferable on holidays.
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you in Calbear’s head?
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
The cake committee rests it’s case.
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by ResDog on Jun 17, 2011 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
OBJECTION!
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hahaha
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
NOOOO
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Dang.
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THE PIE EMPIRE BRINGS ONE LARS THE WANDERER TO THE BENCH
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Uh oh. Shit just got real.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Ahem….
RAWR!!!!!! PIE, MOTHERFUCKERS!
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 8 recs
The pie panel rests it’s case.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
PEOPLE OF THE JURY - GREEN THAT TESTIMONY
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FUCK
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I got yer subtle distinction right here!
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
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I like this very much. I hope it gets plenty of mileage.
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IS'S COACHESE AGAINST THE WORLD!!
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by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I missed the first two games...
How many pitches did Romo throw? Because he is definitely who I wanted in there.
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7 and 13.
Casilla had thrown 7 pitches the day before and got 3 outs.
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sorry correction…Casilla threw 11 pitches the night before
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Eh...
I think I still would have rather seen Romo at that point then. And I said that before the home run too. It’s hard to tear apart Casilla for an Upton blast, but putting him in a tie game to begin with was silly. I thought we were lucky to get out of the first inning. The second was playing with fire.
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Why?
Casilla gave up a soft single to the leadoff guy and then settled down to K the last two guys swinging.
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Not following
cuz I was responding to Ceora’s comment that the Giants were lucky to get out of the first inning.
Casilla’s actual performance since coming back has been really good.
Last 6 appearances: 1.42 ERA, 1.105 WHIP
Last 3 appearances: 2.70 ERA, 0.900 WHIP
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4.75 FIP, 4.03 xFIP, 1 K/BB, 0.90 HR/9.
His ERA is nice, so he’s done his job so far. But still not who I want up in a tie game.
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Because it was a tie game and Romo is better than him? Casilla did good work in the 9th, there’s no denying that, but Upton is the DBacks best hitter and it seems relatively inexcusable to not bring in your best reliever in a tie game at that point. Especially when said guy isn’t even your closer.
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Because Romo had worked the two previous days…
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7 and 13 pitches is not a lot. 7 is really not a lot. Not-entirely-fresh Romo is still likely significantly better than Casilla. And I don’t mean that so much as a burn on Casilla but as a plug for Romo.
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Maybe
it’s not a clear cut case.
Romo is very very good but Casilla has not been bad since he’s come back.
Last 6 appearances: .227/.292/.409 (slg skewed by Upton’s homer)
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See above.
The dude is walking around with a 1:1 strikeout/walk ratio. He’s playing with fire.
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He’s actually had a 2:1 K/BB ratio in those 6 IPs
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Yes
but relievers only pitch like 60-70 innings.
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Which is why even their year-to-year stats are volatile and unreliable.
And over the past three seasons, his K/BB ratio is 1.7.
That is bad.
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by GiantPain on Jun 17, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Especially when aa reliever is good
they tend to get used A LOT in one particular year. Exaggerated more by a deep run in the playoffs.
To be fair...
We’re talking about relief pitchers in June. The sample sizes all suck and it’s not ridiculous to say that someone is on a hot streak.
That said, 2:1 is a long, long ways from 33:4.
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also
Romo’s last 5 games (15 batters)
308/.400/.385 against.
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Ouch.
Didn’t realize that. Was he getting hit hard though or BABIP’d? This all makes more sense if Bochy was jumpy because of how he had pitched earlier in AZ.
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Casilla last one batter:
1.000/1.000/4.000
That is cray-z.
by DrDC on Jun 17, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
this is fucking gas
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Romo doesn’t pitch enough, it feels like. And when he does, it’s only for a hitter or two.
Hard to stay sharp when you’re getting shit for work.
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Anything under about 1.9 : 1 . . .
. . . is fire-hazard territory.
That sort of thing is why I call him GasCan: using him, at any time ever, is like playing with matches around an open can of gas. He might not explode this time or that time, but it’s not what safety experts recommend for entertainment.
(Keep in mind that a league-average pitcher is guaranteed, by simple arithmetic, to throw at the very least 50% of his innings with no runs scored, and probably more like 60% or more.)
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Yes
but last year he had a 2.15: 1 ratio with a 3.67 ratio in Sept/Oct of last year
I’m not saying that Casilla is better than Romo overall but he’s not awful. Thus, it was not unreasonable for Bochy to put him in there when Romo had already gone two days.
At some point, you need to say that Casilla is a better pitcher than his career indicates. Just like Vogelsong.
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Last year he was throwing much harder.
"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!"
His average velocity this year is 93.4 according to FanGraphs. It was 96.6 last year and his career average is 94.8. This is all his fastball.
I’m not sure where to find velocity splits for specific months or games, but 93.4 isn’t promising.
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We have never come close to that point.
He had a freak year; men do, sometimes up and sometimes down. It is, as Weng Chiang would put it, “very unwise, very unwise” to draw conclusions from outlier data. As can be seen upthread, he is now again pitching as he has consistently pitched every year of his career except 2010, and that is not well.
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I am against managers doing things that lead the team I like to win baseball games. They should not do things that lead to the losing of baseball games.
They should do those things that make them win baseball games.
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umm..
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OT: I'm familiar with many of these. But not all
http://www.thedailymeal.com/150-best-bars-america
Any of these people think are particularly awesome? Are particularly awful?
Feel some major San Francisco bars are missing but they do have quite a few.
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But they didn’t even pick the best bars in those cities – judging by the list, they picked the trendiest.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
The 5 Point is awesome, Toronado is the shit, Albatross is meh unless you go there for trivia night, although I’m still kinda surprised to see it on the list, particularly as a college bar, cause Berkeley peeps don’t much hang out there. They have Redwood Room on there twice, which is ridiculous. I wouldn’t want to date anyone I met at The Tar Pit. All of their NOLA selections are complete jokes.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I watched one of those recent Cards games at Toronado while I was visiting home
Fucking cool bar. I’m kinda glad I don’t live in SF anymore cause I could develop a serious Expensive-Ass Beer problem there.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Technically the Toronado is a Tavern (i.e. no hard stuff).
Regardless – it’s the hands down best ‘beer bar’ in town.
And Tommy’s is a great tequila bar – the rest of that list leaves me a bit meh.
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and Memphis Minnie’s is close at hand!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t go to any of the NOLA bars on the list, and I went with cool people who live there or lived there for years.
Weird that the Toronado shows up on “Best Craft Beers” but not “Best Belgian Beers.”
Also, Twisted Spoke in Chicago is THIRD BEST WHISKY BAR AT BEST
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
NOLA bars
I haven’t been to NOLA since Cure opened, but I definitely will go next time I’m there. I’ve been to Lafitte’s, which is kind of a divey place on Bourbon St. It is probably one of the better bars in the Quarter but I don’t know if that’s saying much. (I do like Arnaud’s French 75 and the Monteleone). dba is a music venue over on Frenchmen in Faubourg-Marigny, and I would rather strongly recommend that anyone who goes to New Orleans checks it out. Great beer selection, great music. And it’s in just about every episode of Treme.
In general I think Frenchmen Street is probably under-visited by tourists in New Orleans.
I liked the City Beer store a lot. Not really a tavern, but you can drink anything in the store on premises, and they have a few taps.
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City Bar is a nice place, definitely more pricey than the Toronado but it is a great selection. They look to be expanding as well.
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by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I haven't spent a TON of time in Austin...
But checking out the “Rebels” Honky Tonk bar’s website….bikini contests, country DJ, UFC telecasts – none of this is really screaming out “Honky Tonk” to me.
I thought the definition of a Honky Tonk usually included live music – in which case, it has to be the Continental Club.
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by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Continental Club is pretty sweet.
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 17, 2011 2:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I might be a drunk
I’ve been to all of the SF bars on the list. Of those, I would highly recommend Tommy’s, Smuggler’s Cove, and Toronado. The only one I would say most people should avoid is the Redwood Room, although Tonga Room is close to getting the full thumb’s down (great room, terrible drinks).
Outside SF, the best ones I’ve been to are Mayahuel in NYC and Varnish in LA. Varnish is really what I wish Bourbon & Branch and Rickhouse were more like.
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/turns you into a snow globe
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This playlist outta keep you entertained for a while
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While we are learning
here is a song about coniferous trees.
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What is this, I don’t even
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
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Lulz
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is this real?
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This makes me feel bad for the cat. =/
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by Lars The Wanderer on Jun 17, 2011 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I suggest ebaumsworld
but i can’t vouch for it’s SFWness
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LOL
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Okay okay, I really haven’t moved on from mycollegesixth-grade website days
LOLD
Jose Flores: .831 OPS in High-A last year. .529 OPS this year. Ouch.
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The internet was basic HTML format when I was in 6th grade. Also, I had a prodigy account back then
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i seriously had a client at work ask us to forward something to her hotmail address
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oh shit
check out my profile
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On-line systems training is so dumb. Not only are my hospital’s systems not Mac-friendly, but there are approximately 12 hours of this goddamn training. It has been a long fucking day.
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"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm interested to watch some Jemile Weeks this series
He’s the 1 out of 2 pieces of excitement going for the A’s lately. The other is Matsui’s resurgence.
At this point, I'm pretty much done with surprises - Michael Crabtree
Cornbread
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that.
"With a guy like that, you have six beers, pass out, come to the park and hit."
MORE LIKE CORN CAKE.
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oh no you didn't
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Your mom's a girl
i think he just di’id
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I ALWAYS JUST DID!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
The spicy corn cakes with black eyed peas at the Primo Patio are really good.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
This is both correct and astute.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
You know I don’t know what “Primo Patio” is!
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It’s a caribbean BBQ place about two blocks from the park. One of my favorite pre-game stops.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
WHAT PARK? CENTRAL PARK?
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
SOUTH PARK
Seriously though, the jerk chicken sandwich with spicy french fries is my favorite thing to bring into AT&T Park in order to avoid eating from the concession stands.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Fuck the Athletics and their shit licking fans
My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard
by NuschlerFace on Jun 17, 2011 2:22 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I still hate people
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Your mom's a girl
I hate people, but I love gatherings
Isn’t that ironic?
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Gah
Oh…. Clerks!
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
DFA PEOPLE
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
The Giants schedule heading into the All-Star break
Looks quite favorable.
Away – As: 30 – 40, 3 – 7 L10
Home – Indians: 36 – 31, 3 – 7 L10
Home – Twins: 28 – 39, 8 – 2 L10
Away – Cubs: 29 – 40, 6 – 4 L10
Away – Tigers: 38 – 31, 6 – 4 L10
Home – Padres: 30 – 40, 3 – 7 L10
Home – Mets: 34 – 35, 6 – 4 L10
opposing teams combined win percentage: .468
also 13/23 games at Home.
by MySpoonlsTooBig on Jun 17, 2011 2:33 PM PDT reply actions
Tigers are the only good team in there
We should use this time to really rack up a big lead in the division.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
LOL U
thinking the Giants will use time efficiently to build a lead.
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
srsly
0-10 coming up!
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions
the Twins just got Mauer back, too, and they aren’t exactly losing lately.
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 Jun 17, 2011 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Somewhere, Indians fans weep, and Keith Law cackles maniacally.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I really, really want the Indians to be good this year
It’s not happening.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions
It’d be nice if they could take on some money. They have the prospects to make trades.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
But why?
That team is bad, and it isn’t just one or two pieces from being good.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
/shift-A
Hi.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:33 PM PDT reply actions
^up
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
William Hung
"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!"
She Bangs
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Fuck!
Jose Flores: .831 OPS in High-A last year. .529 OPS this year. Ouch.
Co-dad of Ryan Scoma with waelwulf, because we're progressive like that.
by free f.p. #14 on Jun 17, 2011 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Pie.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Cake?
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
some wow nerdfest
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
is that an apple Hi?
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
yeH
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you KD Lang!!!?!?!?!1
Vroom. Walks. Five positions. Justin Christian
I've been fully suckered into the Twitterverse. Oops.
MAYBEEZ?
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
'Sup Crop
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
lol internship
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Seems like a pretty cool internship. Not as cool as the TV production internships at my old station, but still.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m hoping next year I either get an internship with a TV news crew or go back to this. I mean, hanging out in the dugout is pretty fun.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I am jealous.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I only got to hang out in the dugout for the two road games I went with them to. Otherwise, I’m up in the press box. I’m probably gonna have to stay in the dugout for a doubleheader road game at the end of the month, though.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Interning whilst hanging out at the ballyard is OK in my book regardless of the specific location. Unless you have to stand in the rest rooms or something.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, ick, no. That doesn’t sound pleasant.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions
It got too convoluted up there but I do want to share this
If you never played played wow but wants to understand what an exhilarating and intense first kill is like on WoW, fast forward to about the 2 minute mark and finish watching the video.
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
My only experience with WoW was nearly sending my college roommate to gamers anonymous. I think he played for 4 straight days at one time
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Apologies if this has been posted already
Brandon Belt is scheduled to have the hard cast on his left wrist removed Friday and hopes to be back with the Giants within two weeks.
That sounds about right, assuming he doesn’t suffer any setbacks along the way. Belt should start hitting before long and will almost surely go out on a rehab assignment before returning.
-Sfgate
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Actually, he could.
Let’s hope and assume he doesn’t.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
“Now, barring any unforeseen circumstances…”
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I love trolls...
…because they make the McCoven so funny.
Love,
KD Lang
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
by kdl on Jun 17, 2011 2:43 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I suppose that’s your new 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!"
Is your brother jctGamer?
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
haha
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, so your brother is TimLincecum.com
The San Francisco Giants: 2010 World Series Champions
I'M A GIRL
by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
YUM
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
what if Barry Zito randomly checked out this thread?
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
if Barry Zito ever read MCC
I feel sorry for the guy, in a very different manner than when he pitches poorly.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
I bet he’d think it was funny.
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
well let's start with this picture
and you tell me how funny he’d think it was
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Nice half tire.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
If you love something, set it free
If it comes back to you, send it to Fresno.
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
I'm going to the Phillies game tonight
Pineda!
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Jun 17, 2011 2:53 PM PDT reply actions
Intruiging post:
Makes me want to drum up a General Manager WAR graph.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Jun 17, 2011 6:18 PM PDT up reply actions
It would certainly be interesting.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I just felt like posting this because I love it
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 2:54 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
For some reason I’m imagining this as Owlcroft
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
HAHAHAHAHA
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL DODGERS FAN
Why would he need a period, though?
"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 loved this one
especially since my name is edward
Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.
Your mom's a girl
And which music videos have YOU been in?
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I was in a movie called Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Ricky Bell
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Is it Alanis-ironic or real ironic that the A's will be in last place once Moneyball opens?
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Jun 17, 2011 3:00 PM PDT reply actions
I’m pretty sure it will just be hilarious
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Sup.
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.
Sup.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
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Sup.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Sup.
"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!"
Sup.
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Jun 17, 2011 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
NO SUP FOR YOU!
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I’m here to tell you that NOTHING interesting happened up thread.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, except for this.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (more often than I blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
I just Z’d through it and other than the new gif, it seemed mostly incoherent.
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 was your birthday?
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
"Things I never thought I'd see #47783: Schwarzenegger applauding Ryan Rohlinger" -- Your mother, Nov. 3, 2010.
It was nice!
We went up to Sonoma and did some wine tasting. Very relaxing.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
so, random question
I just bought a ticket for the Giants-Phillies game the first day I’m in the Bay Area in August via sfgiants.com.
I would’ve much, much preferred to leave the tickets in will call – so they can’t get lost in the mail, so I won’t lose them, and so I won’t forget them when I fly. However, when I made my purchase, there was no will call option. Either you had to print them out, do a new-fangled mobile phone option which surely wouldn’t work with my shitty old phone, or get them shipped.
Did they just eliminate will call, or is this some weird thing with this game or the system? I’ve always done will call for tickets, and the option’s always been there – but then, I haven’t been to AT&T Park since 2009…
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I had 'em shipped
I’ve been in the habit of saving ticket stubs since like 1987. A computer printout just ain’t the same.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Can’t you just save the link and print out the tickets whenever or wherever you want?
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m pretty sure will call is still there. At least there’s that machine where you can swipe a card and get your tickets from that.
this is a great method – any of the ATMs at the yard will print out your will call ticket with a credit card that has your name on it.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
The will call with people at the window seems to be used for leaving tickets for people
I’ve used it when we’re meeting people at the seats.
The thong is, it happened.
This is going to sound really dickish, but I’ve really enjoyed Giants baseball since Zito has been gone. Even with all the injuries
Classless
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
Vile
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
in other news, has anyone seen these virtual pics
of the proposed new A’s stadium in San Jose? It looks a lot like the coliseum except without the third deck.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/photos/gallery/_/id/6672553/conceptual-plans-proposed-ballpark-san-jose
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
The Coliseum without the third deck was a fun place to catch a game
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
enh.
It was always a pretty mediocre stadium in my opinion.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
As a kid I used to go to A’s games in the summer. I hadn’t been back until a few summers ago. Wow. It used to feel so open and airy. Now? Ugh. It’s like watching a game from inside a giant concrete cubicle.
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
I have very blurry memories as a kid going to see the A’s and White Sox before Mt Davis was built. Much better stadium.
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 Jun 17, 2011 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I was in junior high / early high school, before summer meant working, and for ~$5 our parents could get rid of us for a whole day. BART, bleacher seat, and food.
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
I think
we also remember the environment the Haas family made available for the enjoyment of baseball. As opposed to the Wolff/Fisher/Schott environment, which has all the charm of a junkyard.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions
It must have been pretty okay for my mom to allow a 14 year old to go to a game with other 14 year olds. I don’t think I’d let a kid that age go to the coliseum alone.
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it really was
Their gifts to the Bay Area were many, and a good time at the ballpark (and knowing what went into it) was among them.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
You know if we hurry we could probably still catch the “blue plate special” over at the diner….
McC: Don't get it? Try the McWiki wiki.
someone's saucy when freed of educational obligations!
It’s not a LOLD thing, I also remember the Finley years, and while they were fun it was kinda like watching a ballgame in the middle of a riot.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Thumbs up.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
The foul ground was always a bummer
But a stadium that looked like that with less foul ground would be a great place to watch a game.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
It’s not often one can tag up on a pop foul.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
It looks like somebody sat on it.
For the thirteen time in 3 or one evers, I found myself toothlessly thinking about Manny Ramirez.
Man, it used to look so nice.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
Clayton Tanner, the Flying Squirrel!
Third Street Kings | Nine Shot First
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
This is how I remember it. Also, it had not yet been soiled by the ppost LA Nouveau-Raider fans.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I barely remember that stadium before Mt Davis. Seems like Mt Davis has been there forever.
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
This is how I remember the stadium. I’ve been to Mt Davis to watch the Raiders & it doesnt compute that it’s the same place. My only thought was that it beats a Raider game at the LA Coliseum.
Go Raiders!
/confused Oakland native
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I don't want the A's to leave Oakland
And I think they deserve a new stadium.
But WTF, this isn’t all that nice. There’ve been some great new ballparks built in the last 15-20 years, and this is all they could come up with?
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The proposals I've seen on Jack London square look cool
But they deserve a new stadium somewhere. I hope the league gets on it.
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Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I’d love, love, love it if they got a place in Jack London Square. I’d make a concerted effort to go out there on a regular basis, even if it is AL baseball. The city of Oakland really deserves some help from the league on this one.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d love this too. If they had a new park I would attend more than I do.
But schlepping all the way to San Jose from SF doesn’t really turn my crank. If I could BART from SF to Oakland and see AL baseball in a nice new park – I’d totally do it. At least a few times a season.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess I’m also incredibly biased in that I’m from Oakland so I want to see the city keep it’s team and have a beautiful new ballpark as a source of bragging rights. And putting it in the heart of the city would accomplish a lot of that.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
And putting it in the heart of the city would accomplish a lot of that.
Totally agree. And while San Jose is surrounded by lots of different suburban communities, I’m not sure downtown is really the heart of it. We’ll see….
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
San Jose doesn’t have a heart, is the 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!"
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Crap. Sorry for the no subject line.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
/revs up the “constant creepy email” machine…
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
HA HA
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No heart San Jose? :(
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Bad emissions!
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by Murray, Present on Jun 17, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, this does not look that great. But it’s just a model, so who knows what it would really look like.
And I agree, they should build something in Oakland. That would be grand.
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I’m hoping I don’t like it just because it’s empty, that I really am just a fool for marketing and that if they’d drawn fake people in there too looking happy I’d love it. But I think 1.) it has to be in Oakland and 2.) they could probably do better. Maybe like a giant Coke Bottle or something ….
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Jack London Square would be about ten thousand times better as a location for a ballpark than where they are now.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I think it'd be the best thing ever if the A's put a giant Pepsi bottle in their stadium
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
NO!
Pepsi CAN!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Titled the other direction.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
UPSIDE DOWN!
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
this would be awkward for me
Being a Giants fan who prefers Pepsi to Coke and is from the East Bay. OMG divided loyalties!
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
But Coke from Mexico is better than Pepsi.
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes.
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Third soda, at best.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Oh hey, there you are
I wondered where the guy who preferred Pepsi to Coke was.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I prefer Pepsi to Coke. Unless it’s Mexican Coke. Mexican Coke wins.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
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I’m from the Easy Bay and I prefer Diet Pepsi to Diet Coke and I’m still 100% behind the Giants.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
OMG
East Bay! East Bay!
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I so did not notice that typo until you pointed it out.
I'm still in the old thread.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Neither did I
Someone else would have, though.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
This was my thought as well. No way to undo it, better to point it out before someone else does.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm still in the old thread.
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"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Anytime you go to try a case, PC, the other lawyers will just play this on loop.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
IT'S REALLY NOT
And it started out sooo promising, with you confusing Ricky Martin and Will Hung.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Well come on
Someone posted “SHE BANGS” and you said “I was in the music video”
Find me the person who sees that and thinks “William Hung!”
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
But the context was making fun of Will Hung in the first place. Your reading comp skills are just bad sometimes.
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
/raises hand
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s not even clear at whose expense this running gag is going to be.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh come on, there's no way that I'm the one who lives to regret this particular thread.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
You could be one of several
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
That would require a far more developed sense of propriety than I currently posses, my dear.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
You currently posses?
How many posses do you currently?
"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 funny thing is
I spell checked propriety.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
i'm just hoping we can get Bondslegend to fight Ricky Martin
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I seriously doubt he cares that much
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by Prussian Creole on Jun 17, 2011 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, Ricky probably has other priorities now.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
like finding men?
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
isn't he married?
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 mean, as much as he can be
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, I see what you meant.
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This was covered early. He’s teh gay.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Gay people can get married
I’ve seen it happen!
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
http://www.theonion.com/video/live-senator-addresses-rumors-of-horse-affair,20703/
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
/reacts to that as if it were real
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
my favorite thing about the Onion
is how people sometimes think it’s real. But it’s still the fucking Onion, and it’s boss.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
have you seen
http://literallyunbelievable.org/
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
well duh
I don’t imagine there’s any possible combination of events that could ever make me prefer the A’s to the Giants.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I probably would've stopped being a Giants fan had they moved to St. Petersburg in 1994
But I probably would’ve just lost interest in MLB entirely in that case. Or rooted for some other team I sort-of-like, like the Blue Jays or Expos.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
1993
What if they had moved to Toronto, though?
"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!"
right, brain fart, duh
The potential Toronto move was before my time.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Turning to the Expos would have been similarly fated. I imagine you’d stop following the game at that point.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Woe.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
I live in the East Bay during the school year and I prefer MexiCoke.
I'm still in the old thread.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
FUCK YEAH SHUT UP
I'm still in the old thread.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Same here.
Also, I am biased because I want to be able to just take a shuttle to the BART station and then head down to a game in, like, five minutes.
I'm still in the old thread.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I kinda like the RF wall/warehouse look
by The Franchise on Jun 17, 2011 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m sure it will look better when all the details are filled in. This is the same ballpark plan they’ve had laid out for years now, I believe.
Imagine how the ball will fly on 100 degree summer days….
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
that would suck. then again, I play baseball for fun with friends. If I’m getting paid millions of bucks, 100 degrees or 40 degrees, I’m still going out there.
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 Jun 17, 2011 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Larry Baer's comments on the A's in San Jose
“Once you begin talking about negotiating a dollar figure, the horse is already out of the barn. The South Bay was a core piece of our business model when we bought this team. We based much of our entire business strategy on Santa Clara County being a piece of our territory, and I don’t think it is overstating it to say that allowing another franchise into our territory would set a dangerous precedent and have a traumatic effect on this franchise.
“If we were to go down to 2.5 million [in attendance], we’d be in the [expletive],” Baer said. "This franchise would be completely destabilized. So, for me, the question is this: Is baseball willing to have two teams receiving money from the revenue-sharing pool or one that is so financially healthy that it paid $30 million into it?
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
is this a real quote?
That’s averaging 30,000 per game.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
The whole brick terrace thing in RF looks pretty cool.
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It looks good, but I don’t think it makes sense to cut out the field level seats and replace them with upper deck outfield seats.
by MySpoonlsTooBig on Jun 17, 2011 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it has too much foul territory behind home plate. There’s also a real lack of ambiance, but I’m so spoiled by AT&T
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it has too much foul territory behind home plate.
The shoes are too white as well, but I wouldn’t bet on that changing any time soon either.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The right field wall
is pretty cool though. It almost reminds me of old Tiger stadium the way the seats are directly on top of one another
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
/ Larry Baer sneezes
/ New A’s Stadium crumbles
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Those images were on newballpark.org months ago.
"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!"
Proposed ball park
Did anyone else notice that the bleachers behind LF face CF instead the pitcher’s mound and home plate.
Sit there and you’ll get a stiff neck spending a game looking to your right
The thong is, it happened.
There’s an odd section in the right field corner too
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Jun 17, 2011 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Are those the press boxes?
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder
where the printing press is for them to run off the $500M it will cost them for that.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Fucking shit
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-nbc-olympics-20110608,0,3128567.story
All of us on the West Coast will continue to be ignored until 2020 at least.
"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!"
Dustin Ackley's in the Mariners lineup tonight
Remember when we were trying to spread rumors of his cocaine-fueled drug smuggling terrorism binges so he’d fall to us in the draft? With Sanchez out, man, if only that had worked!
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
But then we wouldn’t have Wheeler, and THEN who would we trade for Francisco Cervelli?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
he's played 3B a few times the last couple of seasons
Could be our best catcher/third baseman since the legendary Edwards Guzman.
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
Wow, I thought I was just getting to see Pineda tonight
I get to see the Kokaine Kid, too? For that is his new nickname. I would also accept “Hey Ackley kid.”
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Jun 17, 2011 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
shift-a
~ * ~ * ~ * * ~
* * * I’m done!!!!!! * ~ * * ~ *
~ * ~ * ~ * * ~
Yippee!!!!!
/quietly sits back down
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So is Miguel Tejada
Congrats
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Congrats!
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Yay! Only, um, I don't know
30 or so years for me, I guess. Happy for you.
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
Well, I’m not exactly retiring, more like deserting a sinking ship.
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Do you get a pension and all of that?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
When I’m old enough I do, assuming there’s still money in Cal-STRS by then… I’ve held this particular job for over 15 years, so leaving is a big, stressful, OMGWTFAID?!?! deal.
But…our department was going to get our 5th new administrator in 7 years. It was time to run away!!!
I’ll find something else, and hopefully something a lot less stressful for next school year.
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Oh. I was mistaken then
But still: Happy for you.
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
WOO HOO!
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
This is a metaphor for the 2011 Giants, I think
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
I promise that my adopted Giant, one Zach Wheeler, will not shoot anybody.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE POOP!!!
Glad to have the World Series win, but still waiting on my Kim Batiste bobblehead. GET OFF YOUR HANDS, GIANTS BRASS!!!!
Adopted Giant: Dave Dravecky, starting pitcher of the greatest regular-season game I've ever attended.
IT'S POOPLE
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Rory McIlroy looks like the kid from Harold and Maude
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.
Tonights #SFGiants lineup: Torres cf, Hall 2b, Sandoval 1b, Huff dh, Ross lf, Schierholtz rf, Tejada 3b, Crawford ss, Stewart c, Lincecum p
"For science. You monster."
2B MUST BAT SECOND
"For science. You monster."
I guess that’s not too bad.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
BUT NO WAY WE ONLY CRITICIZE BOCHY ON THIS BOARD
WITH OUR 20/20 HINDSIGHT
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Sure.
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
at least tejada isn't hitting second
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
WHAT THE F… wait, that actually looks pretty good.
"With a guy like that, you have six beers, pass out, come to the park and hit."
Let’s not get carried away.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Honestly, considering there’s a DH involved, this is probably the best we can hope for.
"With a guy like that, you have six beers, pass out, come to the park and hit."
I’d prefer to see Burrell in there somewhere.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
most def.
With a DH, perfect place to use Pat.
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 Jun 17, 2011 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Your overlooking to much-maligned "Former team revenge theory"
that posits that old, creaky players will discover some fountain o’ youth, even for just one series or even one game, which will propel(lor) them to glory.
Torres cf, Hall 2b, Sandoval 3b, Huff 1b, Burrell dh, Ross lf, Schierholtz rf, Crawford ss, Stewart c, Lincecum p
I could dig that too.
"With a guy like that, you have six beers, pass out, come to the park and hit."
by deuce deuce on Jun 17, 2011 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is pretty much the correct answer.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Move Hall from 2nd to 5th or 6th and bump everybody else up a spot and you’d have my ideal lineup.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
Yeah, but we’re getting into deckchairs territory at that point.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Indeed.
Also, the best #2 hitter in that lot is almost surely Huff. Let’s see, hm.
Torres cf
Huff 1b
Burrell dh
Sandoval 3b
Ross lf
Schierholtz rf,
Hall 2b
Crawford ss
Lincecum p
Stewart c
(Sandoval plays better at #4, for reasons rehearsed by Tom Tango in The Book.)
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
Any reason Lincecum is before Stewart?
It’s not as though he’ll be hitting.
"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!"
Just the microscopic advantage . . .
. . . of optimization as set forth in The Book.
Sidebar: I see that LaRussa seems to have abandoned that tactic. That assures that he either was or is doing it wrong.
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
I wish we’d just put Panda in the two hole rather than a constant rotation of mediocre or worse.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
I wish panda is a 3rd, Huff at 1st, and Burrell is the DH
But I understand Huff needs a day. This is fine.
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I had the same thoughts, but remembered Huff has played every day for a long time now.
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 Jun 17, 2011 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
Huff’s been getting his ass kicked out there.
by Lies and Perfidy on Jun 17, 2011 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I'd play Pat
But he made the right calls with Torres and Hall, so OK.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Wait hold on
FUCKING TEJADA ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME I FORGOT THERE WAS A DH THIS IS HORSESHIT
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
lol
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
HOW THE FUCK DOES A LINEUP WITH A DH STILL HAVE THREE GUYS WHO HIT LIKE PITCHERS
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Your 2011 San Francisco Giants: HOW THE FUCK DOES A LINEUP WITH A DH STILL HAVE THREE GUYS WHO HIT LIKE PITCHERS
it takes a lot of work
to manage this kind of fail.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions
The DH opens up a spot for Tejada!
"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!"
hahaa
it adds so much excitement to the game
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
how do they not do
1B Huff 3B Sandoval OF Ross Torres Schierholtz DH Burrell
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 somewhere, I think Baggs, that Huff is tired. And that unlike Burrell and somebody else, can’t remember who, Huff likes to DH.
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That makes sense.
But it’s sad when your backup at first is a choice between Manny Burriss and Miguel Tejada. Fortunately, Belt should be back in a couple of weeks now.
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WHAT . THE. FUCK.
Miguel is starting so Burrell can sit? In what world is Miguel better than Pat? Pablo should be at 3B, Huff at 1B, Burrell DH. Fucking Bork’d
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I pretty much called this yesterday
"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!"
Foreskin.
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Fortitude
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Fornication
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Fortensky.
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I think I’d rather have Huff at 1st and Panda at 3rd with Burrell as the DH. But this isn’t bad.
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
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by Soulbrother16 on Jun 17, 2011 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
oh hey
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
HA HA HA
I'm still in the old thread.
"IT'S POSEY, YOU IDIOT." - Jon Miller
"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I just hope having Stewart behind the dish helps Timmy out
by fishmicmuffin on Jun 17, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Completly Serious :X
Zito and Casilla for Mauer and Morneau…. Common Sabean you can do this!
We need to clone Buster Posey!
GET OFF YOUR HANDS, SABEZ!!
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.
SWOOP
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
Common!
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Common Sabeans
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
In the real world
Bill Hall will be our only signing…. SABEAN DO SOMETHING
We need to clone Buster Posey!
SERIOUSLY SABEAN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR
WHY HAVEN’T YOU TRADED FOR MORNEAU AND MAUER YET
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.
?
Is this a meme?
Brian Sabean strongly encourages you to disregard the drudgery of your employment responsibilities and join him in the consumption of spirituous libations.
This is commonly accepted.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Dammit. Should’ve gone with ‘COMMON KNOWLEDGE’.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
no worries
it’s a common mistake
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/golf clap
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Let's focus on what's important over the next few days.
If the Giants sweep this series they’ll own the all time regular season advantage over the A’s. TAKE THAT TEAM I’M SUPPOSED TO DISLIKE FOR GEOGRAPHIC REASONS!
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
Nah, TEAM YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO DISLIKE FOR GEOGRPHIC REASONS is the Dodgers. The A’s are just there.
"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!"
Don’t you worry about that. Giants will avoid the sweep
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 Jun 17, 2011 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions
The only thing the dodgers dont have that could make me hate them even more is...
a horrible victory song like the Cubs…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS3llgyGZ68
We need to clone Buster Posey!
@JaymeeSireCSN
Jaymee Sire
Tim Lincecum starting tonight…pregame music in clubhouse: Steve Winwood “The Finer Things” #sfgiants
"For science. You monster."
It just seems so weird . . .
. . . to read “Steve Winwood”. When I was still a DJ, it was always “Stevie Winwood”; it’s like suddenly having to learn to say “Jeffrey Leonard” instead of “Jeff”.
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Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
A's Lineup:
#Athletics vs. #SFGiants: Crisp CF, Penn. SS, Matsui DH, Willingham LF, Jackson 1B, DeJesus RF, Suzuki C, Sizemore 3B, Weeks 2B, Godfrey P
"With a guy like that, you have six beers, pass out, come to the park and hit."
We sure could use Weeks right about now
"For science. You monster."
GOING BACK TO THE A’S COULD BE JUST WHAT ZITO NEEDS!
"With a guy like that, you have six beers, pass out, come to the park and hit."
TWSS
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/ no-hits Giants
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Quoth Grant
Even efore the game, things didn’t look real good for the Oakland A’s. They’d already lost ten straight games, and were so desperate for a starting pitcher that they’d plucked Graham Godfrey from the world-famous Foster Jeeves School of Butlering just to avoid having to forfeit their Friday night contest against the White Sox.
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/6/11/2218471/as-white-sox-score-losing-streak
"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 BARTON!
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
No truth to the rumor
that the Giants have contacted Vancouver for a Zito-Luongo swap. Both could use a change of scenery.
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
Lubrongo
We need to clone Buster Posey!
by naowgo on Jun 17, 2011 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
Rec'd
I'm still in the old thread.
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"Chop. The Chopster. Ms Chopness. La Picadita." - gallo del cielo
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jun 17, 2011 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Luongo is signed until 2022. Zito has an option for 2014. I think I’ll stick with the dude that didn’t give up 8 goals to the Bruins in a single game.
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…and instead stick with the guy who gives up 8 runs to 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 Jun 17, 2011 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d rather have the guy who gives up 8 runs to the Padres for 3 more years at the most than a guy who gives up 8 goals to the Bruins for 11 more years.
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oh, weird. I read that was 2012.
who gives 11 year contracts out? that’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 Jun 17, 2011 5:30 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s the big thing nowadays for NHL teams to give eleventy-one year contracts to big stars as a way of getting around the salary cap. It’s going to result in a lot of tears.
Ilya Kovalchuk signed a 17-year, $102 million deal.
To be fair, Kovalchuk’s deal was voided by the NHL due to cap circumvention. Now he just has a 15 year, $100 million deal.
But yeah, there’s a trend of super long contracts. Zetterberg, Hossa, Ovechkin, Jeff Carter, Luongo, Pronger, Lecavalier, Keith, Nash, Kovalchuk, Mike Richards, and Brian Campbell all have contracts for more than 8 years (well, Pronger’s is 7, but he signed his 7 year deal when he was 35, which is insane). Eight of them are for more than 10 years as well.
I am sooooo glad Doug Wilson doesn’t believe in giving out contracts longer than 4 years.
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Why whatever do you mean?!?!?! Hockey players never get hit, or concussed, or injured or anything.
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how do very long contracts circumvent salary caps? by backloading deals heavily?
Either way, in the end, the team pays the price
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by giant4life83 on Jun 17, 2011 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions
the nhl salary cap takes into account the average yearly salary, not the actual yearly salary, for every player on the roster and not on long-term injured reserve. so a 10 year $100 million contract costs the team $10 million per year, even if the salary for the first 5 years was at $15 and the last 5 years at $5 million per.
signing players to long-term deals that expire when the player is in his 40s allows teams to mitigate the cap hit while the player is active, then, once the player retires, the remaining money is still paid but does not count against the cap as the player is no longer active.
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It’s frontloading, actually. Since the NHL’s cap hit is the average salary of the player’s contract, teams structure the contracts by paying players $10M or so in the first few years, and then slowly decrease the amount until the last few years the player is paid $1M or less.
The idea behind that is the last years drastically bring down the cap hit. And it would be easier to trade a player that’s in the last few years of the deal to small market teams who are struggling to reach the cap floor. The team would only have to pay the player $1M or so, yet they bring up the team’s total cap hit to acceptable levels. It seems weird, but a team like the Florida Panthers – who struggle to get to the floor – love those high cap hit, low salary players.
There’s also the idea that players would retire before the contract expires, which wipes out the cap hit. But that’s against the rules, and was the reason why Kovalchuk’s first contract was cancelled. Pronger’s deal, however, doesn’t fall under this loophole, as he signed it after he was 35, so his cap hit will always count until the end of the contract regardless if he’s still active or not.
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oh, ok. I get it now. Thanks for the long explanation.
I can see why the league would have a problem with this. You’d think they would just ban front or backloaded contracts completely, then. Or at least for deals of 4 years or more.
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 Jun 17, 2011 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions
No problem – I got really into the whole cap part of the NHL, so I’ve put way more time into studying this than is sane.
And I have no idea either. It’s probably because those deals aren’t explicitly against the rules, and because it’s a way for teams to keep young, homegrown players. And because if a player suddenly sucks/is unwanted during the deal, that team is kind of screwed (i.e. Luongo).
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Wait, forgot the worst one – Rick DiPietro. Signed for 15 years, $4.5M per year – until 2021. He has played 39 games total the past three years due to injuries.
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picking nits
well, he did sign nabby for 5 years, and traded for boyle and heatley, who both had 5 years or more left on their contracts when they joined the sharks. i’m also inclined to believe that thornton would be locked up for more than 3 years at a time if he were open to it, not t’other way around, but that’s just me.
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Okay, I concede those points, but I was more commenting on how Wilson generally likes to keep his contracts relatively short – most of the core are signed for either 3 or 4 years.
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Well with that double header coming up they are going to need a 6th starter…so… throw Zito in there see how he does. If he stinks up the joint kick him to the curb!!
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I’d imagine that is what happens, and if he sucks (which I’ll root for) then you put him back on the DL.
Because if he does well, it goes to a 6-man rotation, which takes starts away from deserving pitchers. Zito has had his shot.
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 Jun 17, 2011 5:31 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s still creating lockjaw for every fan who has to watch him pitch.
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 Jun 17, 2011 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions
yippee skippees
from NotBaggs
Brandon Belt had wrist cast removed today, Xray Tues, will throw tonight, start hitting in a week.
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nice!
Adopted Giant: Jacob Dunnington. Will your team regret passing up on my boy 50 times?
M-M-M-M-Mad, Mad to the Bum
by TimLaser and MattyC on Jun 17, 2011 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Brandons!
"Campeones." - Andres Torres
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by Murray, Present on Jun 17, 2011 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m scared to see Lincecum tonight. Hopefully good Timmeh comes back to 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
Just overheard the interview with Bob Nightengale on Razor and Mr. T
Would Bochy really be THAT CRAZY to choose Sergio Romo over Craig Kimbrel in the All Star Game? Bob seems to think so.
when is the new thread?
I thought maybe 1300 comments meant a fight broke out over cake but nowadays it’s just people talkin’.
Pease was never an option.
RESPECT THE POWER OF WILLIAM HUNG!!!!
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
true story: I managed a CD Store in Sunnyvale when that CD came out and we sold out our copies (like 3 or 4) by 11:00 am.
We were shaking our heads as the kids say.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
this was over 7 years ago….but – yeah.
Charlie Hayes ate my homework
by glenallen hill's waterpipe on Jun 17, 2011 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh god he went to UC Berkeley
im really really ashamed to have a degree from there now
We need to clone Buster Posey!
HE NEVER GRADUATED!
The Golden Bear is ever watching
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As per usual.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions
"I'll show you what's turning red!"
/propellers wildly
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
lol azn?
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Just notice the Cubs/Yankees score
See Doug Davis can shut down anyone!
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I should start picking up the one pitcher who I think is gonna get shelled the worst.
Because that’s always the one who throws a CGSO
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 Jun 17, 2011 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Way to go Greg Papa
wear that white and green tie, whore.
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subliminal
liminal, and superliminal.
what’s superliminal?
HEY YOU, JOIN THE ARMY!
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by Giant Voodoo on Jun 17, 2011 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions
/turns away
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
0.o
"Though that reminds me of a quality razor and mr. t story
he said once nellie was freaking out in locker room telling them how badly they sucked in first half. And he was so made he didn’t realize he hadn’t zipped up from his pee and his junk was hanging out." -Tafkasam
by Badly Browned on Jun 17, 2011 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
KILL IT WITH FIRE
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 5:29 PM PDT up reply actions
what the actual fuck, only thing worse are the full blue SF hats
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by Giant Voodoo on Jun 17, 2011 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
why would you hurt the tracks with that filth
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by Giant Voodoo on Jun 17, 2011 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions
haha
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
/links to hot chicks with douchebags website
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 5:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't usually swear
but “fucking hipsters” is the only proper request.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Jun 17, 2011 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
/collects his dog's feces in that shit bag
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by Penitentiary Face on Jun 17, 2011 6:24 PM PDT up reply actions
FENCESITTER!
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Think Stewart catching is coincidence?
or a Timmy request granted
coincidence
or Timmy knows what Timmy wants to throw so the catcher doesn’t matter much
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by Giant Voodoo on Jun 17, 2011 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Lincecum can’t be happy about the passed balls, and he also is not good at holding runners, so a catcher with a better arm is a good idea.
I doubt it’s a coincidence. I seem to remember Bochy saying something about Stewart being better behind the plate; I’m sure Timmy wants someone who can actually catch what he’s putting down.
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If Crawford continues to show his stick can't handle MLB pitching
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/keppije01.shtml
Thoughts?
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Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
I think I’d like to give him a shot at second base though. How clanky is he?
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Aarghh.
How many people saying stuff like that actually experienced the Johnny LeMaster era of Giants basball? It’s not as if the only alternatives are Tejada and Burriss (a thought that, I concede, could evoke blind panic responses).
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by owlcroft on Jun 17, 2011 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
LeMaster wasn’t exactly a defensive wizard though.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 6:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, there's that.
But he was well thought-of at the time.
In any event, been there, done that, don’t want to go there again. Give me Mr. Fontenot, please, maybe even Mr. Hall.
Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe
So
Jon Miller owns TV and radio
Honorary parent of Duane Kuiper, beloved solar powered broadcaster and power hitting coach for the Giants.
Awkward
I’ve been doing a little bit of running lately and had a bit of a problem with chafing, so I bought something to fix that. My roommate just came in my room and was talking to me, and I had to explain to him why I have a big tube of something labeled “BODY GLIDE” on my nightstand.
I don’t know if he believed me.
The first six innings are overrated.
I would have gone the other way with it and said something fairly horrendous to freak out the roommate.
Proud adoptee of Dick Tidrow the mastermind behind Tim Lincecum, Matt Cain, Buster Posey and many more. Also known as "The Reason".
Leave the tube out in the bathroom one Saturday night.
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Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Jun 17, 2011 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah. Leave it next to the TV remote on the couch.
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stewardsfolly Carl Steward
A’s park already decidedly Overstocked with Giants fans.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (more often than I blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Enough of the A's Praise
Grant,
Come on. When the Giants swept the A’s last month your wrap was all about how lucky the Giants were in 1 run games, aka they were lucky to beat the A’s. Now this?
‘They had a great plan in the offseason.’
Well, that’s obviously not true. The A’s haven’t been relevant for awhile. The same day Grant was saying the Giants were lucky to sweep the Giants, the folks at Athletics Nation were blasting the Giants. Athletics Nation was also faint in their praise/support during the Giants run to the World Series Championship.
I love it when the Giants beat the A’s. And I don’t need to offer them any undeserved praise when we do.
by world wide suicide on Jun 17, 2011 7:10 PM PDT reply actions
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