Post-game thread: Keppinger's bat is unstoppable.
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 27, 2011 9:34 PM PDT
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PrintHey, I feel completely comfortable with this game plan. Have a rookie pitcher allow all sorts of runners without allowing more than a run. Get Mark DeRosa up there in extras, have him loop a single, have him take off for second, and then get a two-strike single to win the game. That's the blueprint. There are probably special drills the can run and everything to practice that. It's all 2-1 victories behind DeRosa's speed from here on out, fellas.
Well, that, and Keppinger's bat is unstoppable.
Pitchers' win/loss records are pretty useless for evaluating pitchers. But they can give you a half-decent idea about the pitcher in the context of their team. Brett Myers and J.A. Happ were a combined 7-27 this season coming into this series. That doesn't necessarily mean they've been terrible ... but, yeah, it gives you a decent idea. If two pitchers are a combined 7-27 without being terrible, well, that most mean that the rest of the team is absolutely miserable whenever they pitch.
Thirteen innings vs. Happ and Myers. Two earned runs. Yay.
But you know what's worse than looking absolutely feckless against the worst pitching staff in baseball? Looking absolutely feckless and losing. If the Giants would have lost the last two games, moving five games out of first, I think it would have been completely appropriate to get some canned food, head for the bomb shelter, and not come out until we see Buster Posey's shadow. As is, welp, at least they didn't lose. Hyuk hyuk. Wasn't pretty. But a lot of the games earlier this season weren't pretty. We've just forgotten what those wins were like after the misery of August.
Post-game quote from Bochy: "We're better than this." Couldn't agree more. Just, uh, wish they'd start showing it a lot more. Still holding the faith. Still swearing a lot during the games. It's a fine line.
Don't know if this is going to get me shunned in the greater internet Giants nerd community, but Surkamp is basically Zito with the promise of better control. It's not a perfect comp -- the curves break on different planes, and Surkamp does have a couple of extra feet on his fastball -- but it's close enough. While it sounds like damning with faint praise, it's not. A Zito with command is a good thing. Surkamp was wild tonight, but that was probably nerves. If he can paint corners, he'll be a good pitcher. Not Zito in his Cy Young season -- still don't know how that happened -- but like Zito in those halves where we thought he'd found whatever it was he'd lost.
Of course, the control has to be there for Surkamp. His walk rates in the minors have been good, but not elite. Here's hoping he takes his command to the next level. I think that next level is 4-2, and there are hella warp zones in there that can take him to All-Star Games and everything.
I remember my first reaction when I heard that Marvin Benard was getting a plaque on the Giants Walk of Fame: laughter, shock, and laughter. Then I settled down, and reevaluated my reaction, which I then changed to shock, laughter, and laughter. After careful consideration, I settled on laughter, laughter, shock, and uncomfortable laughter. I also allowed for the fact that the Giants might have given him the plague, and that there was a typo somewhere, but that just would have made me feel bad.
Then I saw the interview with Benard during the game. He was so, so Pac Bell. He was the hot-button on talk radio. He was the player you'd hate to boo, but when he'd break in then out then in then out before a ball sailed over his head in center, you felt like you had a duty to boo. It wasn't personal; it was like attending a city-council meeting. You just had to make your opinion count.
But he was also pretty good, too, considering. Better living through chemistry and all that, but he had a four-year run of being perfectly cromulent. Heck, he'd hit cleanup for this team. Not if the young Bernard were magically transported to the 2011 team -- I'm talking if the dude were on the team right now, as-is. And he's totally a brick in my Giants-fan foundation. When I was moving from fan to rabid nerd, Benard was a huge part of the team. I love the guy in my own way, and watching him tonight brought back a flood of memories. Of course he gets a plaque. He's Marvin Benard. And he brings good luck to the Giants.
Also, when Jason Schmidt bought a churro tonight, he did it with Frank McCourt's money. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Right back in our coffers, sucker.
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A win is a win
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 9:37 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Game Summary: New and Old
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
by Solidarity on Aug 27, 2011 9:37 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
Did DeRosa tag third?
I wasn’t in the game thread and don’t want to wade though it, but it looked like he might have missed it.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
CSN looked at it again, and said he did.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
The first time I saw it I thought he might have missed it, but on the replay I think he hit the corner like you’re taught to.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
I saw it like this too
Both times.
"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
Despite the best efforts of Bochy, the Giants win.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
after tonight
Mark DeRosa for manager. Seriously. Or maybe Roberto Kelly.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Or you. Or me.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Really?
As I see it, Bochy had a pretty nice night. All his pitching moves worked. Then he double switched taking out Huff and putting DeRosa ninth. That worked. Then he called for a hit and run (or perhaps DeRosa ran on his own – i’m not sure) and his getting to second was crucial.
So I’m curious as to why the comment. Certainly not the move to lift Pablo versus the lefty. He can’t hit right handed and it was a key situation.
+1, Thank you.
God all this Bochy-bashing. Wonder what would’ve happened if we lost the game. O wait, that was every single game before the Don Mattingly game…
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
LOL!
no.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
No
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
This is true!
Orlando Cabrera is better than almost everyone on Earth at playing baseball!
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
by groug on Aug 27, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is true. Unfortunately, he is worse than most of his teammates.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
by speckops on Aug 27, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Orlando Cabrera is a good baseball player
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Aug 28, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
This was the best lineup he's rolled out in a long time
He was good in this game, except when he took Pablo out. Even if he had to bat lefty he’s a better option than Cabrera.
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
Seriously, they had better do an ad with Kepp’s game-winning hit and our awesome slogan.
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.
Together, we're occasionally lucky!
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Fontenot? Is that you?
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Opinion
I don’t think it’s bad that there are not so great players like LeMaster and Benard on the Wall of Fame. They were both Giants for a long time and they’re both Giants that people remember and they’re a part of SF Giants history. It’s good to remember them as much as the stars. I like that the Wall of Fame isn’t just the Hall of Famers.
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.
by jponry on Aug 27, 2011 9:39 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, the Hall of Famers have their numbers put up above the left-field foul pole. It’s better that way.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
It allows room for the "shoulda" been electeds...
Will Clark, and to a lesser extent (and for very different reasons) Dave Dravecky come to mind. There are many others.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Who's on the wall
They have their bars set, and Benard and Schmidt both clear them.
What I forget is who the guys are who also clear them and don’t have plaques. Besides Bonds.
"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
It's the Wall of FAME NOT wall of VERY GOOD!!
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
11/1/10
by bondslegend on Aug 27, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I want to see Guy Sularz up there!
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
puts up wall of merit
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Sularz was awesome!
My Wall of Fame would have included Jimmy Rosario, Rich Murray, Gary Alexander and maybe Dirty Al Gallagher.
"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 Aug 27, 2011 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Heck, he’d hit cleanup for this team.
He’d have to wrastle title of extra-inning cleanup hitter from Cabrera. Thanks Bork, for giving other teams a perfect way of getting Pablo out of the game.
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
Yeah, I couldn't be here for the GDT,
but I imagine I was matching profanity post for post on my own.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Right - cause those teams don't know he can't swing rh right now.
Did you SEE the two times Bochy let him stay in against a lefty and hit lefty? Pablo had no chance.
Hopefully this doesn’t last the reat of the season. But right now – there is no wy you can let him hit versus a lefty in a key situation late in the game.
Even if he has no chance (which I'm not sure I agree with)
I’d rather he stay in the game when it is likely to go extra innings.
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
Especially considering there’s only one lefty in the Astros’ pen.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 8:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Beautiful, Grant, just beautiful
Also, when Jason Schmidt bought a churro tonight, he did it with Frank McCourt’s money.
That is cray-z.
by DrDC on Aug 27, 2011 9:40 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
I lol’d at this too. Awesome.
"What happens in the broadcast booth stays in the broadcast booth." Randy Hahn
"Pity is the drug of quitters" Drew Remenda
by hautecouture on Aug 27, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Building his churros empire on other people's money. Schmidt is a fantastic businessman.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
There’s always money in the churro stand.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
no doubt
that guy from the SJ Giants games must be loaded. He moves a LOT of churros at weekend games.
And yes I know to what you refer.
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 Aug 28, 2011 8:19 AM PDT up reply actions
DeRosa brings 1.000 batting average and VROOOOOM
McCC explodes.
As a reminder, there were some playoff wins that one could argue aren’t the most bragworthy (I’m looking at and thanking you, Brooks Conrad.) But an ugly win, whether it’s the benefit of 3 errors, a walkoff HBP, or any other brand of nonsense, is still a win.
We seem to mind less in April than August, but so be it.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
well, i think the trouble is
when was the last time the Giants even had a bragworthy win?
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.
Nov. 1, 2010
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I think there was that one game where we hammered the Mets
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Cain in Atlanta? The bullpen made it close, but it was a good win.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
yeah probably that one
though the fact that it ended up as a 2 run game tempers it a little imo
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.
Won't matter if we get enough of them.
But that doesn’t dismiss your point.
I, for one, am glad that DeRosa, the worst-hitting Giant in history, got a hit. I was pissed to see him at the plate in the first place, but hey, good for him, and great for us. It was a legit single, and timely at that.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
Yeah, I guess my point is – yes, every team gets non-bragworthy wins. But right now, it feels like the Giants can only win games like this one.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
It's the pain of a VERY long season.
On paper we looked like strong contenders in this division in March. By today we’re just trying to survive on so many levels.
If we were to somehow limp our way through the playoffs and repeat the WS championship, it would be the strangest blend of hilarious joy, shame, and sheer amazement that so many teams WEREN’T able to stop us.
But by Nov. 10 or so I wouldn’t mind so much.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
This
we can be angry and argue the decision but be happy when the results when positive, I’m glad that he contributed to a win
I'm on the twitters @FFFFFFFFreak55
About a month ago
When Timmy crushed the Phillies for the series win. It has really gone downhill since that win.
by Gitaroo_Dude on Aug 27, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember K&K said after that series "The Giants haven't lost a series in two months!"
or something like that. Feels like we haven’t won one since.
Hubris is our fatal flaw
by WhatsAMataHari on Aug 27, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I rather think hitting is our fatal flaw
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
Well, yes
that too.
But for a while we were hitting just enough. Now we aren’t hitting at all
by WhatsAMataHari on Aug 27, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
The collapse still boggles my mind and bugs me
We were coming off huge series wins over the Brewers + Philly on the road (still the only team iirc to have won series against either team since the ASG), were 17 games over .500 and had a comfortable division lead, were looking like a young NL powerhouse, and had one of the best records in the league.
Really, really had to be an epic collapse to fall this far.
by Gitaroo_Dude on Aug 27, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
fun fun fun fun
http://www.baseball-reference.com/games/standings.cgi?date=2011-07-28
Arizona’s actually had a negative run differential in that time.
"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!"
Beltran!
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Injuries.
They have been beat to hell. Sooner or later it catches up with you. Couple that with the lack of performance from guys that were counted on and the only thing that is surprising is that they lasted as long as they did.
More than that, the Giants were doing it in an unsustainable way. It’s really not sustainable to win 70+% of the one-run games that you play.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
YOU DONT GET TO QUOTE ME SON
wait did i say that?
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
No, no, no. Remeber, this team thrives on one run games, and they are accustomed to them and prefer them to winning by 4 runs.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I really do not understand why so many folks here – mods included – can’t seem to internalize this. I guess it’s easier to blame it on Bochy.
by shaggingflyballs on Aug 28, 2011 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions
for the swarm!
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 Aug 28, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
Huh? I’ve said a number of times that the fact that the Giants are still in it despite all the injuries is pretty remarkable. That doesn’t absolve Bochy from what I perceive to be poor decision making with the pieces he does have left to him.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
How did you know I was talking about you, then?
by shaggingflyballs on Aug 28, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
I really do not understand why so many folks here – mods included
Goofus is a staunch Bochy defender. Natto and howtheyscored haven’t been as involved in the discussion about Bochy’s decision making in this thread. I wonder how I could have possibly thought you were talking about me.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
You could have just gone with, “well, I’m the only one that bashes Bochy over and over and over”, too. The judges would have accepted that answer.
by shaggingflyballs on Aug 28, 2011 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Haha, wow. Okay.
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 don’t think I’ve “bashed Bochy” once in this whole thread, but sure.
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.
MANAGER MANGLER
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 Aug 28, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Blame it on the Boch. Blame it on the stars. Whatever you do, don’t blame it on the injuries. Blame it on the Boch, yeah. Yeah. You can blame it on the Boch. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t, can’t stand the Boch.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
Blame it on the coach,
Dummy moron Boch
Blame it on the hurt
Posey writhing in the dirt
Blame it on the a a a a alcohol
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
That one was my first instinct, actually. It’s always good for a Hennessey reference, too.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
I was thinking about this. It wasn’t exactly a gradual slide it was like all of a sudden the wheels came off, the doors fell off, and the radio got stuck on KOIT
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions
SergioRomo54 Sergio Romo
@ESurkamp did awesome in his debut! Congrats bro! @SFGiants team win! What an atmosphere at the ballpark! Glad to be back! #winning
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
in the postgame interview
Surkamp said that Romo gave him a little pep talk after the first inning… “you put up your first 0 in the major leagues, you belong here, go get em” etc."
Sorry if this is BREAKING, I can’t tell how much of the postgame those of you in Real America get 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 Aug 27, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Thought I'd relax after this tense game, so I'm watching Full Metal Jacket
How have I never seen this before?
10 minutes in, and it’s amazing.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
You've never seen FMJ before?
Heresy!
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Aug 27, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
are u serious dude
great great great movie
by DudeDontTazeMe on Aug 27, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Somebody needs to do a Giants/bat riff on the gun prayer.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
gun?
this is my weapon, this is my gun (/grabs crotch), this is for fighting, this is for fun.
Thing A
Flies spread disease! Keep yours closed!
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Get this platoon on the move!
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Aw that dog just ain’t gonna hunt!
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
[ooc] Never! I always give a fella a reacharound. Even if he doesn’t expect one. or want one.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 28, 2011 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ve never seen FMJ or Dr. Strangelove. Have seen A Clockwork Orange and 2001, though.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, now you know what to do with the rest of your night
You have to watch at least Dr. Strangelove!
by WhatsAMataHari on Aug 27, 2011 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, one of many movies that I “ought” to have seen but haven’t.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Spinal Tap. Definitely.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
It goes to 11
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
continuing with just S films
Schindler’s List (that’s right, never seen it)
Saturday Night Fever (importance to pop culture)
Seventh Seal (or anything else by Bergman)
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I have never once said to myself “Man, I really wish I’d seen Saturday Night Fever”
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
I saw Grease once. That’s basically the same thing, right?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
NS is right
SNF really did change pop culture in a more blatant way than any other movie I can remember. ’70s soul looked like it might have peaked with Earth, Wind and Fire and the Commodores, and then this movie and the Bee Gees just blew it all up. And out came the ridiculous clothes for everybody.
I guess the thing is, you don’t really know all that from watching the movie. It’d be like when I watched “Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song,” which didn’t seem remarkable until my prof explained the context.
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
by achiappanza on Aug 28, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
basically
The child today loved the way I prounced ‘greasy’.
Greasy is the word!
So I hear, I never made it all the way through either.
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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 Aug 27, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Better
because there is less 70s involved
by WhatsAMataHari on Aug 27, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, I was restricting myself to S films.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Have you seen a little movie called Star Wars?
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
checking out IMDB Top 250
Ok, the highest ranked “S” film I haven’t seen is Sunset Boulevard, which I actually do want to see.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
250!
I was thinking maybe 10 or 20!
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Fight Club was a lot higher than I would have expected.
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
Eh, the IMDB Top 250 has its definite aesthetic slants. It’s just immediately accessible; that’s why I referred to it.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I kind of think you should follow your own interests organically when it comes to things like that, unless you want to get very curriculum-like about it.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah well it’s not like I’m genuinely distressed not to have seen these films. Film criticism is not my field but I have some intellectual interest in it — I actually like reading films reviews more than viewing the films themselves. But not seeing certain films makes me feel out of the loop, intellectually.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
The Battle of Algiers
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
wow
good answer.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
One of the finest films I've ever seen. Exceptional in every way.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Sweet Smell of Success = One of the greatest movies ever made. Of the three you mention… this one stands head and shoulders above them both. Tap and Strangelove are both great… but man. This is light years beyond both of them. Acting, writing, directing, music, cinematography… This has got it all.
Criterion just released a Bluray of Sweet Smell… So awesome! Proof that Tony Curtis could actually act, and that Burt Lancaster had more on-screen charisma then five normal actors… The slimey and the scary… Tony and Burt!
(now back to your regularly scheduled bitch-fest about the Giants Offense)
by jeremy.lassen on Aug 27, 2011 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I love that film
You should not discount the other two, but man, that one is good. When I was in my first year at Cal a friend of the suite’s brought the VHS, but we all fell asleep. Except I woke up and put it in. I watched it twice in the middle of the night. It is a fucking amazing film.
But so are the other ones.
No disrespect intended to the other two… Both were great. But yeah. SWEET SMELL will grab you by the balls.
The First time I watched Sweet Smell, I was so blown away that I watched it straight through again, at the next screening. (It was a 35 mm print at the Film Noir Festival in SF a few years back!)
Eddie Muller, curator of the SF Noir film Festival is always going to be a hero of mine, because I fancied myself a film buff, but had never heard of SWEET SMELL until then. He showed me that Even a bitter Jaded film guy like myself can be caught by surprise.
by jeremy.lassen on Aug 27, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
but Clifford Odets
Good one, but not that obscure.
As I indicated… It was an eye-opener in many ways. Not the least of which was because it showed me I had huge blind spots in my knowledge of Film history. I am a MUCH better film snob then I was 10 years ago. LOL
by jeremy.lassen on Aug 27, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve never seen this, but will. And Tony Curtis is indeed excellent.
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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 Aug 27, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
you must
it is, indeed, so good it hurts
by wcw on Aug 27, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
wow
Martin Milner? Trippy. And Lancaster as the heavy, I always think of him in the stripy pants he wore in the Crimson Pirate.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Or the swimsuit in The Swimmer.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks for the tip. I'm going to order it from Amazon tonight.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Star Wars
Robin Hood (Flynn version)
Duck Soup
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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 Aug 27, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I was a huge Star Wars fan as a kid
but it hasn’t aged well and when I watched the 20 year roll-out of the re-mastered edition, I realized that it wasn’t a very good film.
I’ve discovered that reading Wookieepedia is more fun for me than watching the movies.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Expanded Universe FTW
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
ew
I like my Luke Skywalker not married and Solo children not emo siths, thank you very nice.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to assume that you also consider the SW universe just eps 4-6 then, since 1-3 were not even entertaining, whereas many of the EU books are.
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The Ep. 1-3 films had their usable tidbits, and are nice too look at. There are reams and reams and shelves and shelves of EU books, and those that I’ve read are not very good with about 6 or 7 exceptions. Zahn’s trilogy, the “Tales from Jabba’s Palace/Bounty Hunters”, the old Han Solo and Lando books, and then it tails off mighty quickly.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Eps 1-3 had about 20 minutes of eye candy and nothing else. The boredom/reward ratio was far too skewed for me. And I guess I got hooked on the Zahn trilogy as a 12 year-old, and that just biased me to like every book in the EU that I could get my hands on.
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I’m glad you could enjoy them, for me it was really, really diminishing returns. The last few I read I found on Church St., someone must have tried to sell them at Aardvark and gotten shut down.
Some dreck about a medical team, one of the Rogue Squadron things, and a not-horrible one about a Jedi exploration of Wild Space and an encounter with Thrawn. I won’t pay for any more.
I think you’re selling the eye candy in the prequels pretty short though. It’s good for background stuff for SWRPG games, and I don’t hate every scrap of the plots. Just most.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, but not even reading any of the expanded universe works. I’m not a Star Wars fan in that I know everything about them or watched them religiously; but the other day, I was looking up something, and ended up on Wookieepedia, and soon got lost for about half an hour just reading various things.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
It is highly addictive. And good grief, how much they’ve cranked out over the years.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
And it's nice to know that George Lucas
isn’t the only one who can turn out crappy stories in the SW universe. Good grief, some of the stories are baaaaaaaaaaaad.
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I really gave up. The Zahn trilogy was pretty good, and the early stuff (the Han Solo stories and the goofball Lando stories) were pretty good. Truce at Bakura? The 80 billion Rogue Squadron books? All the zillions of Jacen/Jaina (I hate the EU names) books? Crrrrrrrap.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
The one I'm thinking of in particular
The one where the Emperor’s comes back as a clone
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"the one"?
I think he’s come back and back and back. I thought the first round of that was in the “Dark Empire” comics.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh
Well, it was one of those, then. The one where Luke decides to become his apprentice.
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yeah
that’s Dark Empire.
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, he’s a real malfeasor. Jedi Academy FTL, I don’t think I finished those books.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I did.
I didn’t even like them, but I finished the shit out of those fuckers.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
MUST…FINISH….LEVEL….
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I mean all the fucking padawans alone
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
And backstories for like every ensign on Vader’s Star Destroyer.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
exactly. Good grief.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
my $0.02
I don’t see why anyone under the age of 25 or so should be impressed by Star Wars. It was a tremendous and much-copied piece of innovative cinema that has since been thoroughly adopted and made routine. Not just the special effects but the marriage of science fiction and adventure/western genres. Us relative oldies will tsk tsk at anyone unimpressed by Star Wars but that’s another dynamic altogether.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I think Raiders of the Lost Ark
holds up a lot better than Star Wars and I say this as someone who was in my youth when they originally hit the big screen.
I should see Raiders again, it’s been awhile.
My favorite is Last Crusade.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree. Pretty much all 6 star wars films are pretty dumb and are, in large part, vehicles to sell kids toys.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
That was another Lucas innovation, no? Retain the rights to the franchise and merchandise rather than sell them to a studio in exchange for financing.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
oh man
This reminds me of this article on Entertainment Weekly’s website about how Star Trek was considering an openly GLBT main cast member if they ever got another show on air. There were all these homophobic comments about how that isn’t fit for children’s TV. Someone said “Star Trek was never marketed towards children” and got the reply “Then how come they sell all those toy lightsabers???”
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I only watched the first episode or two of the last series, the one with Dr. Sam Beckett, but I thought they decided that one of the regular cast was gay after the fact. I don’t know if they did it well or not.
There was a terrible episode of TNG that tried to make a comment on homosexuality in an extremely oblique and tortured way. “The Outcast”, I think it was.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Was that the one where Riker had a thing for a “non-gendered” (but clearly female) alien or something?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, that was it. With Melinda Culea from The A-team.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Whatever happened to those guys on the Enterprise in TNG wearing skirts from time to time?
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by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Somewhere along the line, pretty early
Someone figured it out that Roddenberry had lost it and limited his control.
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Thank goodness for that.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve been watching TNG on Netflix, and as late as season 6 they’re still using them. They’re the dress uniforms for Starfleet so you only see them on special occasions. Worf and Riker had a conversation about how they’re basically dresses but it’s protocol so /shrug.
Nate Schierholtz wasn't born, he was built.
No, not the dress uniforms (lol dress) … in the first season some male crewmen were wearing the one-piece day uniform. I think.
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by shanghaijim on Aug 28, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t quite remember this – may have to netflix the early episode. It does sound familiarish.
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Roddenberry originally wanted a couch on the bridge
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Really? Huh. Enterprise pissed me off. Kept adding “new” villains that were never referenced in the earlier “later” series.
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by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
wow @ this whole thread
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 far back up
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by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
star wars hate
prequels are unmitigated shit but the original trilogy is still great
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Yeah
Not one, but two people talking about how the original movies aren’t good. That’s something else.
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at least not "hate" on my part
Like I said, I have extremely fond memories of the original trilogy from my childhood.
There was a lot of originality and innovation in the films, but unfortunately the acting and the plot really don’t hold up over time as something that should go on a best movie list other than someone being nostalgic.
I also agree that some young kid today seeing the movies for the first time would be impressed.
your opinion
they hold up just fine for me
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
And if the Corvette and Star Destroyer blasting across the screen didn’t change movies forever, I don’t know what did.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
hahaha
That poster was up in the Glen Park BART for about 18 months after that movie closed.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
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by natteringnabob on Aug 27, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
what was that movie, anyway? I saw one scene and couldn’t understand.
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by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't know. Figured maybe they thought the idea
of having Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu in an action flick could never go wrong.
this
weren’t they assassin cyborgs or something?
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by natteringnabob on Aug 27, 2011 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought one was a traitor and the other was … oh I don’t know.
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by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions
And the great thing about this kind of film: it doesn’t matter.
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by natteringnabob on Aug 27, 2011 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, but it did, which is how I knew it wasn’t working.
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by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
The Asteroids movie is going to be more true to the source material.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s actually the game based on the movie. So it’s a game based on a movie based on a game, like Street Fighter the Movie the Game.
How does Street Fighter the game compare to Street Fighter the Game The Game The Movie? I’d think you’d get something like what happens when you translate English to Chinese back to English in Google Translator.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
yah I was wondering why they didn't come up with a more original movie poster
because it looked just like this game. But now I now.
I think so
the one by the Randall St. MUNI stop?
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by natteringnabob on Aug 27, 2011 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes. I went to school there when I lived in SF.
I used to collect bullet casings every morning on the way to school.
Not so much now, methinks.
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by natteringnabob on Aug 27, 2011 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s a Spanish immersion school or something like that. I’ve only been there once or twice. Weird campus setup.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions
The special effects definitely changed films forever
and I think should be rightly acknowledged for their innovations in the history of film.
True
and I may be jaded. I had such very fond memories of the films from my childhood that when I re-watched them many years later I was very disappointed.
I’m actually glad to hear that they hold up for people seeing them for the first time more recently.
I don’t remember ever really liking them!
I don’t know why. Haven’t seen them in a while.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
oops
“I also agree that some young kid today seeing the movies for the first time would NOT be impressed.”
yeah, "hate" is a little bit misleading
I think there are two ways a film can be “important”. First, a film can have good direction and acting. In this sense, I think Empire still holds up as a good film. Second, a film can do things that had never been done before, at least not that anyone noticed. If they’re successful, they create new genres and these innovations become so diffuse that subsequent filmmakers adopt them not because these techniques are seen as brilliant but because they’re seen as the way things are done.
I personally don’t think that Star Wars is all that much in the first department — direction and acting. But what I mean by the not-being-impressed with it is about the second point.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Nerdification
you mean “A New Hope” ?
lololol sigh
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Technically, it was just Star Wars when it was released.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you sure? It was advertised as SW, but the scrolling words said Star Wars, Episode 4 (WTF) a new hope.
This is totally stupid and I apologize for even mentioning. I guess I haven’t nerded out enough today.
In other news, The Castro is having a Cary Grant tribute. If you have never seen Bringing Up Baby, go see it. It will be the best comedy you have seen in theaters this year, if not ever.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
North by Northwest is the only Cary Grant film I’ve seen. Which reminds me: Hitchcock! Another slew of films I’ve never seen. I’ve seen NbyNW, Vertigo, and Rear Window. But not Notorious, The Birds, Dial M for Murder, or anything else.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Notorious is my favorite Hitchcock film
So tense. And of course Ingrid Bergman is absolutely ravishing.
The scroll words definitely had it. I’m talking about all the advertising, I guess, though I tend to take that as the official title. Even the covers of the original VHSs lacked the subtitle.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, wow. Shows how much I know.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh shit, I finally saw Bringing Up Baby, and I absolutely lost it laughing at the scene in the creek. Hepburn’s delivery, I don’t know, it just had me gasping for laughter.
Also had that great “I’ve gone gay!” ad-lib from Grant.
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by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s amazing how an 80 year old film is still incredibly funny. The humor is timeless. I saw it once, in a film class, with a bunch of JC students and the theatre was dying.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey! Let’s paste in some CGI robots and dinosaurs and stuff! It will be much improved then! And a badly-animated scene with Jabba and his goons!
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Additional music video scene!
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
man
I had to buy like 3 RotJ disks before I ended up with one with the original cut, without the crappy revised music and that bullshit paste job sticking Anakin in the final scene.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
those were the noxious ones, they totally changed the music in Jabba’s throne room and got rid of Sy Snootles and some of the other band members, And they X’d out the old Anakin you see when the helmet comes off and glued Sir Smarmalot in his place. Boo.
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I’m not calling it that. I don’t care if it was the headline of the original crawl.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions
thread has l33t DPS
more dots
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Agreed.
It’s like expecting someone who enjoys current rock or pop music to appreciate the innovation of the Beatles.
They were a great band that have been copied and incorporated in countless ways, but it’s much more difficult to appreciate that if you weren’t around listening to the options that were available before they hit it big.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
I doubt you've missed much, and you've saved countless hours.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Sgt. Hartman should manage the Giants
Anagram of "SF Giants World Series Champs" = SHARP, ORGASMIC, ENDLESS SWIFT
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 27, 2011 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
HOW TALL ARE YOU KID!?
"Why is no one hugging me right now?!"
-Sergio Romo
by DoubleDeuce22 on Aug 27, 2011 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I DIDN’T KNOW THEY STACKED SHIT THAT HIGH!
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ah, yes
Lee Ermey ftw!
Watch close in the last reel, it gets a little chaotic.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder if you will like the 2nd and 3rd parts. It really is like 3 separate films.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m to the part where Gomer Pyle is freaking me the hell out. So there’s that.
I feel like I should be live-blogging it, a la Howie.
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Gomer Pyle
aka Vincent D’Onofrio from Law and Order: Criminal Intent
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by Stuttering John Tamargo on Aug 27, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t see it at first. But by his last scene, yeah – I could totally see it.
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Welp…soon you can find out what you can get for 5 dollars. Then I tend to stop watching.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup, found out.
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoa - Jayne just showed up.
/firefly reference
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw that movie…I liked it when that dude died. That’s all I remember.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I think of it as two movies
A really good movie about basic training, and a mediocre Vietnam war movie.
FIFY
Thought I’d relax after this tense game, so I’mwatching Full Metal Jacketsticking my head in a meat grinder
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Full Metal Jacket: Done
Wow. That was pretty great.
And pretty disturbing in parts.
And pretty great.
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Bochy "sigh"
I finally liked his lineup tonight, but then he ruins it with awful game decisions. Rowand pinch hitting to lead off an inning? Can’t hit and never walks, so why? Then the ultimate stupid decision, Cabrera for Panda. Even if Panda can’t hit righty, send him up there lefty, it’s still better than Cabrera. And if that wasn’t stupid enough, why does he go out to argue about the pitching coach going to the mound? What did he hope to accomplish? He has the stupid matchup he wanted, so why go out there and mess with it?
Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.
Not to pick on just you
But this whole all this talk about Panda and Beltran just hitting lefty vs. LHPs as though it’s easy is getting ridiculous. When you’ve always been a switch hitter, looking at a lefty from the right side of the plate is totally different.
The thong is, it happened.
Is anyone saying it’s easy?
I just think it’s a better option than Cabrera.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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by jponry on Aug 27, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It’s one of those things that’s like asking starting pitchers to pitch every day, only two innings each. There’s no physical reason they couldn’t do it and it might even make sense. But to suggest that a manager erred in not considering it in the middle of a game I think is a little facile.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
or Rownads
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
in any case
I think DeRosa there would have been better than Cabrera too. MDR has looked ok with the bat since coming off the DL
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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Urgh, the difference between Cabrera and an unhealthy MDR seems miniscule.
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
MDR .630 OPS since coming off the DL
Cabrera .551 OPS since joining the Giants
:P
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
But your defense is going to be worse if you go back out there with MDR at 3rd
and the bench is too short to burn through two guys there
The thong is, it happened.
DeRosa’s seemed fine defensively at third this year. Small sample, but still.
And remember, Fontenot isn’t too spectacular there himself.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
I've watched him and thought his range was shot
…and thought that’s why we’re only seeing him at 1B now
The thong is, it happened.
Based on what?
Might this not be a case where the team actually has more info on the subject then the rest of us? Bochy may have blind spots, but do people honestly think he’s looking for excuses to sit Panda?
If someone steps up and says they’ve attended every batting practice since Panda got hurt and has seen him mash LHP while batting LH, I’ll take it more seriously. Until then, I’m going to believe Bam Bam, Bochy and Panda himself have been giving it a huge look see and have come away with the opinion it’s not a good option based on more info.
The thong is, it happened.
to quote groug
I think LH Panda vs lefty + LH Panda vs righties for the rest of the game is a far better choice than Cabrera vs everyone for the rest of the game.
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.
Gotta go for the win at home
runners in scoring position weren’t growing on trees in this game
The thong is, it happened.
brb going to attend every batting practice.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
To the time machine!
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I will gather all possible information before concocting wild conspiracy theories in the future!
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Might this not be a case where the team actually has more info on the subject then the rest of us?
Inconceivable.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Let us turn to Book of Rowand, Chapter 19, Verse 6…
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Even if Pablo sucks hitting lefty on lefty
well, he can’t suck worse than Cabrera.
And now Cabrera is going to hit every single time Pablo should have been up in the future.
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He could absolutely be worse
His career OPS vs. RHP is .780 as a LHH and that’s what he’s used to. That turning him around won’t significantly affect his production seems silly.
The thong is, it happened.
I don't really care about OPS in that situation
I care about batting average. I care about the chances he gets a hit.
If he walks, it would have been better to leave Panda in there. If he makes an out, it would have been better to leave Panda in there.
I think the quoted BA was .260 vs lefties. That nearly a 3-1 chance he makes an out. And now he’s in there against every other hitter. IMO, the risk/reward wasn’t good enough.
We also don’t really have much to go on with regard to how well Pablo would have done. We have two at bats and common sense. It seems likely that Pablo would have done poorly. But, well, I just don’t have a very high opinion of Orlando Cabrera as he is currently doing.
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We also don’t really have much to go on with regard to how well Pablo would have done. We have two at bats and common sense.
My point above was we don’t have much to go on, but the team has a lot more info. BP, cage work, discussions with Pablo, etc.
But, well, I just don’t have a very high opinion of Orlando Cabrera as he is currently doing.
I’m not a big Cabrera fan either. I’m just objecting to people assuming they have any idea whatsoever about Pablo’s ability to hit LHP right now.
The thong is, it happened.
Well, I don't have much of an idea
But I do know that I’d much rather have Sandoval playing over Cabrera in extra innings.
Let’s say Panda is a 100/100/100 hitter vs. lefties right now. Is that extra 15% chance of Orlando Cabrera getting a hit worth not having Sandoval in the game?
I think the answer is an easy no.
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It absoltely would be worth it!
Think your scenario through. If Pablo is a .100/.100/.100 hitter right now vs. LHP, it’s like send a really shitty hitting pitcher up there. Given that was the highest leverage situation in the game, wouldn’t you pinch hit for the pitcher?
The thong is, it happened.
wasnt there a game earlier this week where bochy left a pitcher in for a relatively high leverage AB to keep him in the game for another inning?
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.
no
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
that's right, bases empty for that
wait, i remember, wasn’t it timmy batting with runners on so he could pitch the 8th?
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 27, 2011 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
here
I guess i was thinking of this game
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL201108160.shtml
not as high leverage as I thought though
maybe this wasn’t it
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
that must be what i was thinking of
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 was unhappy with the decision personally
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.
especially since he ended up throwing like 130 pitches
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 NOOOOOOOOOO!
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Last time he threw that many, he had a 6.67 ERA over his next five starts.
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.
Heh. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Eh.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I know it from a West Wing episode. I forget what it means, but I think one of us just got served. Something along the lines of a causation/correlation fallacy.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
You really think that him throwing 130 pitches was responsible for the 6.67 ERA over his next five starts? I don’t want him throwing 130 pitches either, but to attribute his poor run of starts after that to the 130 pitch outing is exactly the sort of thing that is lampooned here.
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ooooh shit
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn’t say it’s the sole reason, but I don’t think it’s ridiculous to think it might have contributed to it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
of course it contributed. but so did that time he stubbed his toe.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I apologize for preferring to keep guys like Lincecum and Cain below 120 pitches, especially when they came up to bat with 2 on and 2 out in a 1 run game.
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 actually liked that move. they had the lead, the bullpen was shot, timmy was dealing. :)
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions
The fact that the bullpen was shot such that Santiago Casilla was the choice for closer would seem to indicate to me that you ought to try to score some more runs.
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.
with any other pitcher i’d agree. but timmy!
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 28, 2011 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions
He had some high stress innings earlier and had 5 walks (admittedly, part of that was on the umpire). I just don’t like it and I’m sick of watching the Giants sabotage the few opportunities they do get to score runs.
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.
There’s definitely a large element of self-fulfilling prophecy to it all. Put in the guys with good gloves and no-bats, because we’re not scoring runs and we have to hold the opponent to 0 runs! Gee, why aren’t we scoring runs? PH Rowand! Why do our pinch-hitters not drive in runs?!
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
2 runners on and 2 outs is an opportunity?
with this team you need a guy about 3 inches from the plate after the ball was hit over the centerfield fence to have a good opportunity.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 28, 2011 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, i don’t disagree. It was somewhat of a toss-up, but I was leaning towards pulling him. But your 130 pitch attribution just seemed odd, given that I feel that you’re one of the people who usually calls out such unfounded assertions.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I apologize, next time I will make sure to say “Please note that I don’t think this is the entire reason that Tim struggled, but it is a concern of mine” and qualify my whole statement.
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.
Didn’t mean to get on your case about this.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I’m sorry, I probably shouldn’t have gotten so annoyed, you are right.
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.
No worries.
I feel like we should break out into some musical song now.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
THERE'S A GRIEF THAT CAN'T BE SPOKEN
THERE’S A PAIN GOES ON AND ON
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.
EMPTY CHAIRS AT EMPTY TABLES
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
better yet, give a pitch by pitch breakdown, with footnotes sourcing your information.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 28, 2011 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
it's more funny
when you call it Bear Patrol
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.
15%
That’s less than two more times out of ten that Cabrera succeeds over Sandoval.
And that’s a generous estimate, I think.
I would not pinch hit for the pitcher if he turned into Pablo Sandoval later in the game.
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Well, you also have nine more turns before you get back to Sandoval's spot in the order
That’s probably two full innings, during which the game could have easily been lost before he ever gets up again. You lose the game in the 10th, there’s not much comfort knowing you had Pablo coming up in the 11th…and who knows, he might have had to face another LHP.
The thong is, it happened.
Totally agree Goofus. Lexluth7 said the same thing and totally changed my initial opinion of the decision.
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it's not the lefty on lefty stuff
I get that it’s difficult for anyone, let alone a guy that has been a switch hitter.
That said, if you leave Panda in the game and just tell him to leave the bat on his shoulder, you still have him available for extra innings.
Again, you play for the hit, not for the extra innings. You play to win, not to prolong the game.
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yeah, well
if you’re playing for the hit, Orlando isn’t the guy to send up there.
But in fairness, nobody else on the bench is either.
Always go for the win at home
Especially when you’ve only had a couple guys make it to scoring position the whole game
The thong is, it happened.
You've repeated this a few times
But it’s wrong. You have it backwards. You play for the tie at home, and play for the win on the road.
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Actually ...
Cabrera hits lefties decently. He is also hitting .280 with two out and RISP. I know I know not predictive etc. But let me put it this way – who else at that point?
DeRosa? Whiteside? Tejada?
Cabrera was the best option. THAT is the part that is hard to take.
If you know that batting average with RISP isn’t predictive, why are you even mentioning it?
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That is the million dollar question.
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Pickin’ cherries.
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
calbearjd does it too. It’s a lawyer thing.
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Hey now!
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by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s a male lawyer thing?
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It’s a male thing!
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
understood that it is totally different
are you saying with the matchup of the Astros lefty reliever that Cabrera had a better chance of getting a hit than Pablo? If so, not sure I agree. Either option for the Giants wasn’t good, but would have gone with Panda in that case in particular the chance of the game going into extras without one of my big bats.
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by Penitentiary Face on Aug 27, 2011 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Response
1. Rowand has been their best pinch hitter this year. Pathetic as that is. Plus – what the heck are his options? It’s not like he has Manny Mota on the bench. They all stink.
2. Lifting Panda was obvious and correct. Panda lefty is not better than Cabrera. Not even close. He’s hit lefty versus lefty twice. And it wasn’t pretty. Cabrera is hitting .260 versus lefties. Not great but not terrible either. Plus the guy on the mound is a loogy. So the move made complete sense.
3. I suspect he did that to screw with the guys head.
Now lets look at some game decisions you ignored:
1. Every pitching move he made worked. All made sense. He pulled Surkamp at the right time and he pulled Casilla at the right time.
2. The DeRosa for Huff double switch.
3. The DeRosa hit and run – although that might have been a straight steal.
I really can’t see that being a straight steal though.
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In interviews after the game
DeRosa gave the impresssion it was a straight steal.
haha no way that was a straight steal
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by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
He said Roberto Kelly told him to go because the pitcher was slow to the plate.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
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by natteringnabob on Aug 27, 2011 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
To mess with the opposition
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by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
???
It was a steal whether or not you want to admit it.
You are right he did.
Although I thought the same thing as Unitard.
Derosa said Roberto Kelly told him the pitcher had a slow delivery, so he went for the steal
The jump Derosa got was awfully big for a hit and run
The thong is, it happened.
Kuip in the postgame lamented
that it was a steal and that he was wrong. It seemed the broadcast crew thought it was a straight steal after hearing DeRosa. They also commented that he never looked back like you would on a hit and run.
I’m just gonna go ahead and say you can’t remove your best defender and best hitter, even if it is to gain a remote chance that a very poor hitter will get a 2 out single that would score a very slow runner at 2B.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
and
one of those tablets Moses had, something something commandment lefty righty matchup something.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
apparently he can't swing right handed
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Because Cabrera is more gritty, and Bochy figured (as best as he can) that Cabrera was a better option.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
No because Pablo can't hit lefty versus lefty.
And there is no reason to think he should. Cabrera is at .260. Pablo had no chance. Cabrera had some chance. It was the right move.
You are really zealous about Bochy-defending
Are you really going to reply to every single comment about this?
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
Why wouldn't he?
You guys just say the same thing over and over about Bochy, even after you’ve been told that Pablo couldn’t swing vs. lefty. What if he tried to and hurt himself?
by shaggingflyballs on Aug 28, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Couldn’t swing right handed. I think most are assuming he would have batted lefty v. lefty for that one PA.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Don't slow me down with facts!
There is a lot of mean-spirited assuming going on here, and anytime someone tries to defend bochy the responses are very close to personal attacks. Not cool man, that’s all I’m saying.
by shaggingflyballs on Aug 28, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
BECAUSE YOU ARE A DOODYHEAD
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Bochy cannot resist the siren song of gritty veteran gaminess
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Not sure if anyone has already mentioned this, but this is only the 2nd time
the G’s have won two in a row this month.
Hey mymclife: why aren’t you partying on the Row?
by schmohog on Aug 27, 2011 9:46 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Haha. I’m not there right now and haven’t been out there in a while, so I’m out of the loop. Are you a sorority gal?
by schmohog on Aug 27, 2011 9:55 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Haha, nope. I hate wearing dresses too much to be a sorority girl. But I live on 27th, so I can hear everything that’s going on.
Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
Way to not be Greek! I was living on Magnolia last year with a bunch of film school nerds. Outrageous fun. Well, get out there and make a Chano’s run for me!
by schmohog on Aug 27, 2011 10:13 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I admit, I’ve never gone to Chano’s. No point in going when you’re not drunk.
Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
no partying on the row this week. Tis Rush.
just got back from chanos actually.
is it me or do fries taste better at drunk o clock?
@Logan Couture: Heard Charlie Sheen had an interview I missed tonight, damn! He might be the only person in the world thats #winning more than us right now.
by Brittjames11 on Aug 28, 2011 3:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Fly by Night away from there!
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, there were definitely parties last night
Sammy (Sigma Alpha Mu) had a pretty good one going, and I saw several on the Row as I was walking back to my apartment (couldn’t go because I was taking care of drunk friends who were about to make very, very bad decisions).
Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
if
no sorority accepts you in a hockey sweater, they can GTFO.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I didn’t rush freshman or sophomore year, and you can’t pledge as an upperclassman, so even if I did want to join one this year I couldn’t.
Ahh, USC greek life.
Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
USC Greek Life: I swear it’s not roofied!
by schmohog on Aug 27, 2011 10:29 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
USC?
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
University of Southern California, in case you were confused as to which one.
Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
Yep. thank you. But then I thought you were in San Jose, so I was thinking, Santa Clara? Does Santa Cruz have a private university? I was all baffled.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
ohhh
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha I have a lot of friends in Kappa Sig and a lot of them were just really proud of that guy. That stuff doesn’t bother me, it’s the other crap that comes with fraternities…HAVE A GREAT NIGHT!
by schmohog on Aug 27, 2011 10:43 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I love major league debuts, especially when they’re successful.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Yup.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
Berkman?
So Berkman cleared waivers… he is exactly the kind of over the hill fatty that will cost a Runzler type and draw the ire of the fiscally nerdy- including myself… but he is third in the league in OPS and a little bit better than Huff.
Thoughts?
In this post-2010 reality, I occupy a resurrection body.
he cleared waivers??
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 can't believe it
He’s only making $8 mil this year and he leads the league in OPS+
No team claimed that??
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
what the shit
yeah he would cost more then runzler though
but holy shit with berkman on this team………
i cant finish that thought, im too busy orgasming
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Aug 27, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I googled it, and it appears to be true.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
here
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/08/players-who-cleared-waivers.html
In this post-2010 reality, I occupy a resurrection body.
BUT WHAT IS BERKMAN'S GRIT FACTOR
I'm on the twitters @FFFFFFFFreak55
WTF
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Wow… I sort of want him. Maybe it’s this offense.
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh wait, he cleared waivers? SIGN HIM NAO
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
he hates the gays fog
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.
by jponry on Aug 27, 2011 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I lol’d.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
he can always walk as a FA and go back to wherever he wants
In this post-2010 reality, I occupy a resurrection body.
I am an admitted Romosexual
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
They can lure him using the Magic…….Inside.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
OPS rules.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
He said he wanted to re-sign with the Cardinals. I don’t know if that matters or not.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d trade for him, love the month of awesome offense, then the 2 comp picks that he gets when he leaves to re-sign with STL I’d use to replace the players we lost to get him in the first place.
STL needs relievers under team control, and we’ve got plenty.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
New term: Surkamp'd
A young pitcher getting screwed like a love hole by Aubrey Huff.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 9:50 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
LOL Stewart saying that DeRosa used his “blazing speed” to steal second. Cute.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
funny
he looked surprisingly good running, I think he’s in better shape (well, except for that wrist made of corn flakes) than last year.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah, go back and look at the replay. He caught the inside of the bag as he went past. I think in realtime they cut to him running after he’d touched the bag.
When I first saw the shot live
it looked like he missed third base by a lot, but then they showed the replay and he clearly got the corner of the bag.
I think the live shot gave an illusion.
I haven’t seen any replay that has a clear shot, but it sure didn’t look like he got 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 Aug 27, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Would anyone be so kind as to describe the “Gamer babes from Half-Moon Bay” meme? Thanks.
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
Krukow called two female fans on the road that once. Since then, he has called every single female fan in the stands that.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
And it was old the second time, and older each subsequent time.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I am so over it.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Origin stories are so lame.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, I need to see that.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I enjoyed it quite a bit
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
Better than status-quo-changing crossovers every six months.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Lol niners
The 49ers managed six first downs, including just three through the air. The 49ers had the same number of first downs passing as sacks allowed, and there were also numerous quarterback pressures that resulted in incomplete passes, along with one of the interceptions. The Texans, meanwhile, rolled up 28 first downs.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
You guys, it’s, uh, possible that the Niners might not be so good this year.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
They also played predominantly with their second team against Houston’s first team. So, hey, that’s what happens.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Their first team was also terrible against Houston’s first team.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
Also what happens.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope they are really really really not good. Like not gooder than anyone else in the league.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Luck!
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
no luck this year. in fact as little luck this year as possible. save up for next year.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
And Drew?
@Logan Couture: Heard Charlie Sheen had an interview I missed tonight, damn! He might be the only person in the world thats #winning more than us right now.
by Brittjames11 on Aug 28, 2011 3:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought they solved the sack problem… but guys were getting beat one on one. It was ugly.
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Still, probably, maybe better than the rest of the divsion
Sans St. Louis. And the Rams are going to get rolled by their early schedule. I like the Niners to win the division with a 6-10 record.
by Gitaroo_Dude on Aug 27, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
not that I care about handegg
but didn’t Harbaugh say he was playing the skycaps and baristas more in this game to “see what they can do”? Handegg preseason is weird that way.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Preseason means nothing
Or have you forgotten they were undefeated in preseason last year. I think the Niners will be failry bad. But not based on the preseason. Harbaugh is going unbelievably vanilla right now.
I find it humorous that the team owners are always indignant that fans don’t want to buy tickets for preseason games. More than half of the game is played by guys who won’t be on the team, ever! It’s not like watching spring training games where you’ll see next year’s rookies or guys that will go to AAA and come up in case of injury.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
True, the minor league system makes MLB’s preseason much different than that of the NFL. Also, Spring Training tickets are much cheaper than regular season tickets, whereas NFL preseason tickets are expensive to watch the starters play for about a quarter.
I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby.
they are probably going to spend 2011 seeing what they have, and 2012 drafting Luck
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
meh, got chopped watching Doctor Who
I’m bummed it was only 54 minutes! I want my 6 more minutes! D:
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
i finally just got to watch it as well
no spoilers for people who havnt seen it but that episode prolly could have been spaced over two episodes
Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man
Proud parent of Jeff Keppinger's better half
by operation carrot on Aug 27, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
The episode was fine overall, but man they don’t help the drama when they pile everything in there like that.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Who, Eva Braun or Wallis Simpson?
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Col. Klink’s secretary, Helga!
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
He was stuck in the closet for the entire war.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I know on 1st run new episodes of Being Human the episode was 1 hr 15 mins, but when they re-ran it, it was whittled a bit to fit the hour format….I wish they would do this for Doctor Who also.
I’m also really enjoying these “Best of” thingys with the “celebrity Whovians”! :)
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
I think they really, really just like that whip-fast pace. Which is fine, but not something I’m sure works in such a high-continuity episode.
I’m not sure they needed to introduce the whole “justice department” thing. Without it, they could have spent way more time on important stuff. And the Mels thing was just sloppy.
But it wasn’t a bad episode. It was just a bit messy.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah, having now watched a whole marathon and a half (plus these “Best of” things) I’m now FULL of questions I am concerned won’t be answered by the end of this series! It’s like a really good book you can’t put down at the next chapter, I want to know what happens next but darn them for making me wait! And so few episodes! grrrr! I have a love/hate relationship with my BBC shows, I love how well they’re done (compared to typical US fare) but hate all that quality content is only a few episodes each series :(
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
Just watched it.
Moffat’s Who has a lot of super-fast paced episodes where there’s something thrown at you every minute or so and this was one of them. It makes the pace really fast and fun but hard to absorb and there’ll be the possibility of a great character bit that gets quickly tossed aside for another plot twist and before you could absorb it, there’s another one. And Hitler was probably the least important thing about it.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 1:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Didn't have the benefit of my HDTV tonight. Did Derosa ever touch 3rd?
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Aug 27, 2011 10:03 PM PDT reply actions
Seems like it.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
At first glance I thought he missed, on replay I thought it was close.
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Aug 27, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
no
This all supposes that DeRosa was on base during a real game. Highly implausible.
In this post-2010 reality, I occupy a resurrection body.
by MrUnderhill on Aug 27, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
An ugly walk-off might be the slumpbuster this team has needed
I figured the 8-1 rout of the D-Backs would be it, but it got worse after that. This was a vintage Giants victory so maybe that’ll recapture their mojo.
Just because
That’s gotta mean something, right?
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
This is the worst Giants offense in 109 years, so there’s that.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
by El Person on Aug 27, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
And it feels like that's how many runs the Giants have scored this year.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
that many?
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
by bondslegend on Aug 27, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
There should be a movie about the significance of the number 109
…starring Jim Carrey
Rally Jerry!
Greekfro (insert unnecessary scribbles)
"Stupid dog, you make me look bad!" -Eustace Bagg
with supporting actress Emma Stone
@Logan Couture: Heard Charlie Sheen had an interview I missed tonight, damn! He might be the only person in the world thats #winning more than us right now.
by Brittjames11 on Aug 28, 2011 3:39 AM PDT up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR1_epbmI2g
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Giants Baseball: Together We’re Anachronistic
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Thought of the night: Game of inches
I’m really fascinated by the fact that Fontenot’s ball was just inches foul, but Keppinger’s hit was just inches over a 5’5" guy’s glove.
Bonus thought: Renteria was basically useless for two seasons until the post-season, where he provided unlikely magic and made everyone forget what a disaster the contract was. Maybe, just maybe there’s a little late-contract magic in Derosa.
The thong is, it happened.
I hope so. Needs a hokysmokesbbq.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I like the way you think. My mind doesn't operate on such a positive plane.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Everything is amplified when you have the worst offense in the majors.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, while Renteria was meh in 2010, hitting .276/.332/.374 with meh defense, at least we knew he was healthy. I’m not entirely sure DeRosa is 100% yet. Also, old.
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
He’s going to need to hit some fly balls for me to believe he’s not broken, but I won’t criticize him tonight. He sure ran a lot better than I ever thought he could.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Renteria was healthy? Didn’t he play the end of the season (and post-season) with a torn biceps tendon?
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
But then it didn’t hurt anymore and therefore he was healthy!
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
Right, because it finally tore completely. If that isn't 100% I don't know what is.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
hahaha
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes he did.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Funny, I thought he recovered from that by the end of September.
/optimism for DeRosa increases a few notches
Don't think he can cut it in the bigs? Brock Bond will be the bigger man and walk walk walk away.
Holy crap
That .700 OPS would be awesome this year
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I think a .700 OPS guy who was only able to play for half a season is pretty much useless
The thong is, it happened.
Damn you Vikings
Why must you lose?!
Rally Jerry!
Greekfro (insert unnecessary scribbles)
"Stupid dog, you make me look bad!" -Eustace Bagg
I really want some BBQ chickenwings right now. Fuck.
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
Are you under 20?
Should be fine if so. It’s not midnight yet.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m 22.
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
eehhhhhh …
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Why do you ask? Are you questioning an older body’s ability to digest such foods at this time of night?
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
Yes, but now I wonder if that isn’t the problem you’re having.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
What do you think the problem is?
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
I thought you were worried that it was too late to have hot greasy food. Now it occurs to me maybe you were jonesing for food that isn’t readily available.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh no. If I want, I shall receive.
Brb.
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
I say wing up you 22 year old wing desiring mo fo. Tomorrow’s Sunday. What do you have to lose?
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
The lining of his large intestine.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Is the consternation that you can’t find any?
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
When I was 22, I’d be at the bar for another three hours then getting a couple carne asada quesadillas at El Gruellense about 1:30AM.
"Man, you just can't beat a good bowl of gumbo." ~ William Nuschler Clark
el grullense <3
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 hear that.
We have Taco’s La Bamba here in Sonoma
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
Keppinger's bat
may or may not still be alive.
We won’t know until we open the box.
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
it's unstoppable
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.
Beltran's high-five with DeRosa at homeplate looked kinda insincere though
Probably bummed he wasn’t the center of attention.
by Gitaroo_Dude on Aug 27, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, we definitely know that Pat’s bat is alive
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Did any one notice how kind of Douchy Beltran looked during that walk off celebration.
Kind of like “Move you idiots, Keppinger hit your fist with mine. I’m headed to the showers. Turn off that Fucking Pitbull CD!!!”
how dare he not celebrate in the way I have decided is the right way!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
He was the first to greet DeRosa at the plate and he was pumped. He gave him a very hard high five. I didn’t see what you are talking about.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
He looked stoked to me
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
#selfishbeltran
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Aug 27, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
He was trying to figure out how to charge each guy for a fistbump.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
he wants a watch for it
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
He seemed kind of awkward about it, but not douchy.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
He seems like the kind of person who is very deliberate and careful. He might have been concerned about his hand. Those walk off celebrations can be wild and physical. Players have been known to get hurt.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I was getting worried about Keppinger! But, then I just laughed and laughed at Javy Lopez diving under the pile.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
That was definately the highlight for me.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Beltran's high-five with DeRosa at homeplate looked kinda insincere though
Probably bummed he wasn’t the center of attention.
by Gitaroo_Dude on Aug 27, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Are you serious?
You guys are reading into Beltran’s emotions way too fucking much. He’s been on a contending team for the first time in a long, long time. He’s a veteran player who has seen everything there is to see in this game.
Why is everyone complaining about a couple of deadpan looks? For all we know he could be giving out mad props in the locker room and joking around with everyone.
It’s a fucking fist bump, who gives a crap. The team won, Beltran had an RBI. He wants nothing more than to win a World Series, and his performance on the field is the only thing that should reflect our view of him, not a couple of frames of no smiles.
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
It's not just you,
but anyone who was getting emo about beltran not being “SUPER STOKED AND PSYCHED UP ABOUT A WALKOFF WIN OMG YAY HOORAY LETS GO GIANTS!”
"Alone we are weak, together we are VOGELSTRONG"
Representing the World Champion SF Giants in SoCal since 2009.
Pretty much the only Persian in California obsessed with baseball...
One can hope.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL!!!!!WTH!?!?
There's a First for Everything:
Edgar Renteria, The First World Series MVP in Giants History.
#selfishbeltran
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I can’t blame the guy for wanting to turn off the Pitbull CD.
You keep calling in Affeldt. I don't think that means what you think it means.
by Solidarity on Aug 27, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Pumped
Remember when Barry would go nuts over a big win. 1997? 2002? Good times.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:35 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL It's DeRosa
Caption should read: “Bitch! Get outta my face!”
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
He looks so selfish there.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
this poor Beltran guy is taking a beating, it seems.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Is Pablo damaged?
Does this mean Tejada is going to start everytime a right hander is on the mound?
I wonder if Bochy will just use that as an excuse to play Tejada. It’s hard to believe he would do that with the Giants needing every win they can get. Though, Rowand did pinch hit tonight.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:14 PM PDT reply actions
Pablo cannot hit right-handed
right now so yes he is “damaged”. Pablo looked pretty awful trying to face lefty pitching as a left handed batter the other game and admitted later he didn’t feel very comfortable and had never done professionally before.
No
But he’ll make something up to tell the media.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
So he's "making up" Pablo's shoulder
I guess I don’t catch your drift.
Pablo tweeted yesterday that he was fine when Bochy benched in favor of Tejada against a righty. I believe Bochy is looking for any reason to justify playing Tejada. I believe he feels that Tejada is solid at third and thats where he would want him to play. I don’t think Bochy wants to sit Pablo if he has a choice but Pablo probably isn’t in good shape from the right side. I against Tejada playing at all, then with Pablo sitting against righties.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
The last sentence I ment I’m completely against Tejada playing. I don’t know the real deal with Pablo.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Pablo is hurt.
There is no way Bochy would sit him if he could swing it right handed. He’s his best bat.
Why would Bochy want (or need) to find a reason to “justify” playing Tejada? He’s hardly played him at all the last couple weeks and I don’t see him playing Tejada much from here on out.
Tejada just rejoined the team from the DL. He was pretty much an eveyday player before getting hurt. He is a proud veteran who signed with the Giants with the idea that he would play everyday. That was the whole point of Baggs’ last blog post. Bochy needs to keep his veterans happy, and that means playing time.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
This is the whole point of the Bochy dislike. He'll play a craptastic veteran to keep them happy at the expense of the team's success.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Didn’t Pablo tweet yesterday that he wasn’t hurt yesterday and wasn’t sure why he was benched?
That is cray-z.
Yes
Then Bochy contradicted him. In his pregame press Q&A, he was asked what quad of Pablo’s was hurt and he said “I don’t know and don’t care.” LOL Bullshit.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Bochy is completely full of shit, and is a dolt.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
You pass stage one of the official mod application process.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
SO BAD HE CAN TASTE IT
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Who says that Panda is completely honest either?
He wants to play, he’s shown that he’ll play through an injury already.
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Aug 28, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Weird
I was under the impression he was still a viable prospect.
Hank Schulman just said the scouting report on Tanner wasn’t that much different from Surkamp. I think he’s wrong.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Yeah
Well, whatever the “scouting report” may be, the statistics tell a completely different story.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 27, 2011 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I think Schulman just doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I agree with your thought.
I still like Hank, too, journalistic inaccuracies aside. He seems like a good dude.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 27, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh. I followed him for a while and stopped because I found myself disliking him as a person.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I know him to say hi to when I run into him at the park. He’s an okay dude. He, like many on twitter, seems to spend too much time responding to “haterz,” which I find irritating and feed-clogging.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Oh. So he’s a lot like me.
No wonder I hate him.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Hahaha
One other factoid: He asked me to dinner one time. I declined.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
You should have gone and talked about how great WAR is the whole time.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
War..what is it good for?
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
Where’s my time machine?
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I'm using it to watch ex post facto batting practice!
I’ll be back 5 minutes ago.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s stuck in the time lock.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
tsk, tsk…shoulda used the TARDIS ;D
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
No, that’s what I’m talking about. The Doctor’s TARDIS is not stuck in the time lock. All the other TARDISes, except for those which are wrecked, or those which the Silence are attempting to build, are stuck in the time lock. Therefore, kdl’s TARDIS is stuck in the time lock. Or it’s wrecked. Probably not on Home, though, because then kdl would be dead. And she’s obviously not. Or she’s a member of the Silence. That would be bad.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
the Silence are my nightmares come to life (on tv, but still)
actually, there really isn’t a Who “monster” that doesn’t keep me up nights for the first couple days
well, not the CGI ones, cuz those are too silly
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
D’awwww.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I want a knit one.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Such as:
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
D’awww.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
ok, Adipose get a pass for being cute, but they weren’t really monsters, just babies born in a kinda unflattering, ok, deadly, way.
Weeping Angels-holy cow! Gangers-eek! I prefer to be terrified by monsters who are “fleshed out” if you’ll pardon the pun D:
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
Oops, not like me!
I never ask people to dinner. Who wants to share dinner??? Honestly. It’s like sharing a house.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Hank’s a cool dude. I always say what’s up to him at the yard and we share our insights with one another.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe I just like him because he has retweeted me a couple of times. :)
Nah, it’s more than that. To each their own.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 27, 2011 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh.
Bizarre. Would have preferred a DFA to Blowand, but I am not especially torn up. Interesting to see who will pick him up.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 27, 2011 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I went to high school with him :(
"I don’t know, just chuck it as hard as you can".-Buster Posey, on how to gun down stolen base attempts
Attn: People who know how to use Opera
It bugs me that in Baseball-Reference, a player’s league is listed as MLB when he changes leagues in midseason, which makes the league tab wider than it should be otherwise (all leagues have two-letter abbreviations, unlike MLB). When I change the HTML to make it read ML instead of MLB, it is aesthetically pleasing. Is there any way to make Opera automatically change the code every time it loads the page?
Apologies if none of that made any sense.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
CSS?
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Forgive me for being late to the punch, but I just saw on Yahoo that Romo was sent to the minors for rehab. Has the org announced where he’s going yet?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:31 PM PDT reply actions
Last I heard, he is going to be activated tomorrow. He played a game in AZ earlier this week.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
this
Has the hivemind figured out who’s going where to make room for him and Torres?
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I think the conventional wisdom is Edlefsen & Runzler for Romo & Torres. Makes sense, as they both have options left.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
That makes sense.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Not really
Two pitchers for a position player and a pitcher. Doesn’t that leave them short a pitcher?
Remember they DL’d Nate for Surkamp today.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Right, so you can look at it as Nate for Torres, Runzler for Surkamp and Romo for Edlefsen. Works out perfectly.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
And they really just need to be short a pitcher for a couple days until rosters expand.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
by can of corn on Aug 27, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought the same thing but
they were down a position player as Nate went on the DL for Surkamp.
I think he just tweeted that he's back in SF
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
and talking
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I just checked and saw he was in the AZL. I got excited for a minute thinking he could have been back in SJ.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:35 PM PDT up reply actions
They’re on the road until Sept. 2, anyway. :(
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Big time frowny face. I won’t get to see another game in SJ before I leave.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to miss the last regular season home stand, but I’ve got playoff tickets!
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Btw, when do you leave? You must be so excited!
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I am excite
I leave Sep 2 at 615 am! I hope all this hurricane nonsense lets up so I can fly without problems. I fly into Philly and change planes before heading down to the DR.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
YAY!! So exciting
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.
Whoo hoo!
So amazing!
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I haven’t started packing and I still need to buy hella sunscreen and bug spray! Getting ready to go has been such a nightmare and it’s almost here and omg.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I bet — it’s probably hard to get too excited when you are doing all the bazillions of errands and stuff to get ready to go. But, I can’t believe it’s less than a week away!
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I’ve been reading stuff in Spanish, like those free newspapers at the bus stop and this weird comic book from Chile called Condorito. It’s about a really perverted and crass Condor who punks people. I think. The cover has him walking under a ladder staring at a girl’s panties while saying “who says walking under a ladder is bad luck!”
I’m still slow on the uptake and a little nervous about communicating once I’m in the DR. I hope I’ll be okay.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006. Bringing you all your California League and New York-Penn League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
OMG that comic!
I’m sure it will take you awhile to get acclimated to the language, but being immersed and forced to speak it will help. I randomly spent a couple of hours talking with Ivan Ochoa a couple of weeks ago, and he was telling hilarious stories about trying to learn English when he first came here. You will now have a good idea how those guys feel!
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
We found the comic in a box of really old stuff. I have no idea where it came from or why we had it. It’s so off the wall and random.
I can read and write a lot faster than I can speak, and I can’t process spoken Spanish quickly yet. My teachers have told me that the spoken/listening part is the last part most students grasp.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
That makes sense, especially because native speakers will, of course, speak pretty quickly. Trying to take it all in will be tough. But, I’m sure people will be helpful, and will appreciate your attempts.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
FWIW, the missus and I were almost totally helpless in Chile. What a crazy accent, and so much weird vocabulary. They could always understand us but it would take two or three repeats to get them.
So I don’t know if that comes across in your pervert comic.
Hopefully you’ll have a TV and access thereto, watching the news and such is good practice. Even telenovelas, really, and I assume those are as big in the DR as elsewhere.
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes, tons of telenovelas there. Plus they have ESPN Deportes. I’ve found that listening to and reading stuff about baseball is easier because it’s vocab I already know or can figure out. All the contacts for my research know Spanish isn’t my first language so I hope they will be understanding when I can’t always get it perfect.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I have a friend who speaks decent Spanish, but it’s hard to know the baseball vocab when she wants to talk to the Spanish-speaking players. So, ESPN Deportes should come in handy.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I want to do other non-learning fun stuff. Learning salsa dancing is at the top of my list. There’s a jazz festival in the northern part of the country in November that I’d love to attend. I really got into salsa, merengue, reggateon, etc. this past year and I’m really excited to have that stuff around 24/7. I’m sure doing the music and dance thing will help me learn the language too.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
And I also think because the comic is in South American dialect it was hard for me to grasp. I do well with Mexican and Caribbean Spanish.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m telling you dude, Chile is tough. Argentinos were really easy to understand, in comparison.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't cry for me
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow!
Adventure! Excitement! Baseball!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Playoffs are so awesome. I went to every game last year and it was a whirlwind of excitement. Justin Fitzgerald pitched his nuts off and the hitting was clutch. I talked to Adrianza and Peguero a few times during the Nuts series too. Great stuff.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
I went to one game last year, and it was amazing. Rally towels, clappers, great crowd! I’ve got tickets for 4 games, though it’s possible that not all of them won’t happen (or even up to 3 of them if they don’t win the first series — I’m only going to one game of the first series).
If they win the whole thing, I’ll be there. I know people who were there in 2009 for it, and it was epic.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
My only regret is that they won on the road in Rancho last year. If they could have done it at home that would have been so incredible.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I know, I remember listening to it on the radio, and being bummed not to see it. Joe Ritzo tweeted yesterday that the Rancho clubhouse looks a lot cleaner than when they saw it last September. ;-)
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I was in the car on my way home and I had my wife keep me posted on the game on my
sportacular app. She said, " Keppinger walked, Beltran infield single . 2 outs." So I was like
“PANDA TIME!” Then the app had a long delay, so I thought something happened like pablo hit the first pitch and scored the runners. Instead she says " O.Cabrera now batting." I thought she was joking!!!!!
Also, SBN really needs to make it so that you can cut and paste links that will open in other tabs/windows. So lame that that very common bit of coding isn’t’ on such a major site. :(
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Right click. Open in new tab. Not hard.
More comfortable with chicken
by billywitchdoctor.com on Aug 28, 2011 6:57 AM PDT up reply actions
hahahahaha
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Wuzzthis? Did he do something recently to merit additional mockery? I want to know!
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Lets hope for Andres 2010
Bochy already said he’s starting tomorrow. Ross is obviously going to sit. So you now have Torres, Belt and Beltran against rightins with Ross taking over for Torres (I would think) versus lefties.
I’m not sure Andres will lead off though.
well, why lead off Torres when you have Cabrera?
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.
Cabrera wont play versus lefties
I think Bochy is going with a platoon. And I know he’d like Andres to lead off but I think he’s concerned at this point about putting too much pressure on him.
you mean versus righties?
i am glad he’s finally going with a platoon though.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Yeah I misspoke
I do mean versus righties. I am guessing on the platoon. But Fontenot has been getting the starts vs righties lately. And doing ok.
Cabrera should never lead off. But he will, because Bochy likes veterans
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
God
Cody is in the deepest darkest hole at the plate. Rownads is never the option. Torres needs to save the day.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Cody is as lost as I've seen a hitter in a long time.
Hope he snaps out of it.
That's how he wandered onto the set of the Majestic BP jersey commercial featuring the Texas Rangers
More lost than Nads?
Oh. god.
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
by Badly Browned on Aug 28, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Hard to put that on Andres.
I thnk part of his problem has been he’s putting too much pressure on himself.
Agree
Surkamp is basically Zito with the promise of better control
I’ve thought this for a while. I still like him. He’s got the big curve and a better changeup. He’s not a weird ass yogi head case either.
I partially agree
Surkamp was 88-90 most of the game. Zito hasn’t hit that in years. You can win with 88-90, good command and good offspeed stuff.
/runs into cafe in cutoff sweats with rolled-up mat to get some organic spicy chai
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Brown is going nuts
Any chance he gets brought up 9-1?
no
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.
gotta keep him down for the postseason!
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I suspect that is the case.
Question: Do you have to be on the 40 man to get a sept call up???
I believe so.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Yes.
Adopted Giant: Mike Fontenot
He's like Grant, but fun size.
Yup
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Marty also said the Giants had already given up on Belt.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think so but...
AmyGGiants Amy Gutierrez
Good possibility he’s a 9/1 callup. RT @SwaggMaster_16 @AmyGGiants Do you think Gary Brown will get called up this year? #
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
LOL insider AmyG
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope. He’s not even in AAA
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
If he keeps this up we will see him next year. They will give him a look in ST. If he impresses he will stay as long as they don’t see something that he obviously needs to work on. They may check his grammar for dangling prepositions. You never know.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s very hot right now, but overall, he isn’t amazing for a single A player.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Well I'll take just very good.
cause what we have now ain’t. I’m wondering if he’ll get a shot in 2112. Doubt it as A to majors is tough. I suspect he begins in Richmond. Hopefully if he gets off quick there, they begin thinking about a progression so that if we have another problem in Center next year he can be up by mid June or so.
But my guess is we won’t see him until ’13
I could see him as a Sept callup in 2012. It’ll be interesting to see what they do with him after ST next year. They could possibly put him in AAA, and skip AA. There’s been a lot of discussion of this in the Minor Lines posts lately.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Sabean tried to trade for Michael Bourn, who would have been under control for next season. I think a midseason call up similar to Posey, Bumgarner, etc.. will happen because the Giants will have the need.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Kevin Goldstein has him as his 1a CF prospect
That’s pretty danged good.
"But at this time of year, two plus two doesn't always add up to eight. Sometimes, it equals four." - Geoff Baker, Mariners beat writer.
The thing about Brown is as hot as he is, I'm almost 100% sure his bat isn't ML ready.
Dude’s never played above A Ball, and I’m pretty sure a jump like that is almost unprecedented. He’d only be useful for speed and defense off the bench, and they have Ford for that.
Adopted Giant: Mike Fontenot
He's like Grant, but fun size.
Brown was a college hitter. That’s a bit different than a HS player in A ball. Brown could probably handle AAA right now. He might not thrive, but he probably wouldn’t drown, either. Ford has never hit like Brown is at any level.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I know
But heck – look what the “ML ready” bats are doing.
Bocock!
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Damn you got me!!
VEry good. Course he did hit about .050 with about 40 K’s in 50 AB’s!!!
so, assuming Torres is activated tomorrow, is this is the end of Belt starting? I can’t imagine Bork benches Huff or Ross in favor of the rook who K’d 3 times tonight.
I won’t mention that Sunday is HR day for Belt.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
I think he’ll keep starting and Ross will platoon with Torres.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
What would be interesiting to see is if Nate were healthy
would Bochy sit Huff. Not sure we will know.
I just hope Ross finds one of those crazy hot streaks, and the minors rejuvenate Andres, pushing Huff “I can’t hit or field” out of the picture.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
that guy has really cratered this season.
his BA is down under .230 I think. or real close to that.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
IDK, Bochy seems to be warming up to Belt. And it seems like he has realized that Ross and Huff are pretty damn bad.
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 27, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
You aren't thinking clearly
Belt goes back to Fresno, obviously
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
DFA’d
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
:(
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 Aug 27, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
The fans havent started booing him like Huff, right? He doesn’t deserve that. I heard them chanting his name in his last AB. No one is going to want to sign him this offseason. He is not going to be happy on the bench. NOT GOOD.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I couldn't boo Huff either
Hehas been awful. But I’ll always like him. 2010.
I'm in this line.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 11:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I could never boo Ross, not after that NLCS performance.
but there’s something about Huff blocking Belt all year that’s really irked me. it’s not rational, I know.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Rowand gets booed
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Rowand deserves them, though. he never did anything in the first place. I thought this was about booing 2010 season heroes.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Yah I was agreeing
The only player I’ve heard fans boo is Rowand.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Zito’s been booed, I believe.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh ya forgot about him
But the boos I heard for Rowand on Tuesday were Benitez level bad
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
“Hate is just disappointed love!”
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
He really had some good ones in that last episode
and the montage of Zito clips at the end was priceless.
If Belt started against a lefty
I’m actually pretty confident that Belt keeps playing.
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
not so much
bochy definetely feels huff and ross are more worthy of PT than Belt(no idea why)
Huff is getting on my last nerve
is there any minor leaguer, besides peguero, who could come in and play OF(put belt at first base), or 1B. I know torres is gonna be activated, but
a)he definetely isnt the answer
b)ross needs to sit too so another OF spot just opened up
Activating Brown would be a terrible idea
But the idea is still delicious even if he’d whiff worse than Huff
Never seen him.
But A to majors is basically impossible.
Lincecum basically did it. He went A > AAA (6 starts?) > MLB. He was ready out of college, though. The minors stuff was more because they had to at least evaluate him a little bit.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Brown isn’t Lincecum
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.
If anyone cuts off Timmy’s hand, I’ll be pissed.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
i think the MLB equivalent would be a crippling injury to his right arm, and then he learns to be a soft-tossing lefty who wins with guile and breaking balls
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 27, 2011 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
who’s the MLB equivalent of ser ilyn payne?
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.
hmmm
right hand to one of the most powerful men in the realm, punished and broken by a higher authority, lives for nothing but killing…
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 27, 2011 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, I am racking (wracking?) my brains.
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.
seriously
i was looking at Jeff Sullivan’s closer face article for ideas, but I don’t think Payne’s a closer. Some team’s LOOGY or something.
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 27, 2011 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
actually, i feel almost like Payne should be a hitter
since Tim will have to practice getting him out
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.
Someone really good but maybe not great?
Teixeira?
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
It’s practice at getting people out, so you should look for hitters.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
LOGAN MORRISON omg
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
this is perfect
Jack McKeon, the mad manager, will remove LoMo’s tongue
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 believe both are acceptable spellings.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Although now I can’t find why I thought that.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, well “nerve-racking” and “nerve-wracking” are both acceptable (racking is preferred). So that must be why.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions
racking! Like the rack!
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn’t put it past him.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m trying to figure out who he’d practice with every day to get better with his left hand.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
This baseball thing is pretty cool
great minds.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
But A to majors is basically impossible.
I was responding to that.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
And Jr. Griffey went HS > mlb, didn’t he? Same w/ Arod?
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Lots and lots of makeup
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
No.
And it ain’t gonna happen anyway. Of all the players they have, Huff is the one guy who IF he could turn it around would make the biggest difference. I think the chance of that happening are slim and none and Slim just left town. But I do understand why they keep running him out there. With Belt in left, it is no longer an issue. Cause they don’t have anyone else to put there anyway.
If he still isn’t hitting when Nate comes back, then we shall see if Bochy sits him.
huff has gotten enough chances
ive really given up hope he’s gonna “get hot and turn it around”
Huff has already turned it around.
"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 defensive liabilities have probably accounted for more runs scored by the opposition than he’s created over the last week.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions
twice!
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.
off topic: saint gregory of nyssa has the greatest mural of all time
I cannot believe I did not know this about our own neighborhood.
Grunewald’s altar is still the single best piece of church artwork ever, though
Is that lies and perfidy playing the accordion?
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
nah my musical aptitude is restricted to drumming & a couple bars of Wish You Were Here on guitar
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 27, 2011 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
WE’RE TWO LOST SOULS LIVING IN A FISHBOWL
YEAR AFTER YEAR
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
You go to New Taste Market yesterday?
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Aug 28, 2011 8:36 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm a lazy ass
But, our of curiosity. Is there a way to find out (easily) what the teams W/L is when each player starts? Mainly I am curious about the W/L for each starting SS. I have a suspicion that the best one is for Crawford starts.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:02 PM PDT reply actions
I think that would be a very difficult number to quantify
An even worse barometer than W/L for a pitcher. The closest statistic is WAR.
not really. you just look up the starters for each game and count the W/L.
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I still think he's effectively describing WAR
I realize you could count the stat but to quantify it as relevant would be nearly impossible. By the WAR numbers you get…
Cabrera: -0.1
Crawford: -0.2
Mike Fontenot: 0.3
I did a quick count. Looks like the team is 23-17 in crawfords starts.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
and 40-35 for tehaha
i prefer crawford
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Note
Tejada had the benefit of not being around during most of the suck that is August AND having both Posey and Sanchez.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Which is probably why using this +/- metric is useless. Too many other confounding circumstances.
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yeah they are 42-43 in Panda starts
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions
26-15 in Fontenot starts
Only guy I’ve found 10 games over .500
So Fontenot should be starting. Oh wait, we knew that.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Go to Baseball-Reference
The 2011 game logs for each player have team W-L in games played and in starts.
"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!"
how do you do this?
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Team Record in Appearances: 29-21 / in Starts: 23-18
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Oh I see. I was looking in the stats. So I was off by 1. Not bad for counting on my fingers. ;)
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
On the other end...
I think the Astros are consoling themselves by saying Keppenger is a good player who does this sort of thing all the time.
complete side note
it was extremely obnoxious when Ross walked to the outfield without his glove or hat after striking out, it’s like you do that regularly stop acting as if you should have gotten a hit
Huh?
I don’t get you on that one. Players do that all the time. Teammate brings the hat and glove out.
yeah i dont know how to correctly articulate it
but for some reason it just really pissed me off
alright well my headache has gotten really bad and now I’ve got a nice little cough to go with it, so I’m gonna try and catch up on some sleep.
night folks.
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. ~Inspire Me
I thought that looked familiar:
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
bahahahaha
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Went to the last two games
In someways, tonight was very depressing. It was cool to see Surkamp make his debut, but Bochy actually put together probably the best lineup possible out of the healthy players we have right now against an Astros pitcher who I will generously call mediocre, and it took us extra innings to score a second run. That makes me sad.
When Derosa was coming up to bat I leaned over to my wife and said I didn’t understand why Bochy bothered to double switch, having Derosa bat really isn’t any different than having a pitcher bat. Oh how I love to be wrong.
Also, don’t know how noticeable it was on TV, but after Surkamp’s 2nd pitch that flew to the backstop, the crowd gave a very encouraging clap and cheer that made me quite proud to be a fan of this team.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 27, 2011 11:20 PM PDT reply actions
This is why I wouldn’t pay to see a game right now and would think twice about taking a free ticket. It seems like a very frustrating experience live. I can barely pay attention to a full game.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions
i know I was also at the game
it was awesome how we were all nice and supportive whereas if he was in New York people would have been booing
yet the game was excruciating
2 hits through the 7th…smh
I can never, never remember what smh stands for. And then I look it up and I remember why.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Sydney Morning Herald?
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Hang on. I forgot again.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Also, don’t know how noticeable it was on TV, but after Surkamp’s 2nd pitch that flew to the backstop, the crowd gave a very encouraging clap and cheer that made me quite proud to be a fan of this team.
It was audible on the radio, and Jon explicitly pointed it out.
by non sequitur on Aug 27, 2011 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Yah Kuip pointed it out too
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
totally
I was proud of everyone there for doing that. Smart crowd is smart.
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 Aug 27, 2011 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL Speak for yourself
Pablo loves it. Nate’s nickname for him is Hungry Hippo, BTW.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe he did, I dont know. I was joking. Sorry for not making that clearer.
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s going to be in the Spaceballs sequel.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I wish they’d edited the caption for continuity.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Ribs are an undeniable and complex element of Vick’s story, both because of his style as well as the rarity of beef QBs in the NFL.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, that made me realize how the captioner used “as well as” in that sentence. Geez.
Just say “and”.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
“black QBs in the NFL” was a typo. They meant to put BBQs in the NFL.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 28, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
MEATIST
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions
It's a simple question. A baby could answer it.
If you were a hot dog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?
I know I would.
by Royce Clayton as Miguel Tejada on Aug 28, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
I’d smother myself in brown mustard and relish. I’d be so delicious.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Fuck that. Siracha. Dirty Frank's FTW.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I might eat my buns.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Troy: Candy corn looks like tiny traffic cones.
Abed: Yeah, it sure does.
Troy: At like a candy traffic school. Like, a little gingerbread man at the wheel, and he’s drunk.
Abed: Look out.
Troy: We driving, but you keep wanting to eat yourself.
Abed: All day.
Troy: That’s one of my biggest fears.
Abed: What is?
Troy: If I ever, like, woke up as a donut…
Abed: You would eat yourself.
Troy: I wouldn’t even question it.
Abed: Mmm. That’d be tasty.
Troy: It’s cool to know other people think about this stuff too.
"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!"
Would I be a Hebrew National hot dog? ’Cause then it would be a tough call
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Has anyone played that new Deus Ex game? Thinking about picking that up .
I wasn’t Thrilled to death about the new Madden so I’m not in a rush to get that.
I haven’t played it, but my friend was talking about it yesterday. He really liked it.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I never have time to play any games, but I still buy them as if I did. Kind of like at least I'll have them if I ever get around to it.
I still have Vanquish and La Noir unopened still in a target bag when bought it.
Nope. But Portal 2 is outstanding and awesome and I talk about it a lot.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn I have that too unopened!!!! I remember how great I felt when I beat the first one on Orange Box.
I was emotionally attached to that game that I burned the “Still Alive” song on a CD and bumped it in my car.
You haven’t played it? If you loved the first, and you loved the ending sequence, you are going to love the new one and want to make babies with it. It takes the original an expands upon it in pretty much every direction.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
See ya in 10 hours
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Lineup tomorrow against the righty Norris:
CF – Andres
2B – Kepp
RF- Beltran
3B – Pablo
1B – Huff
LF – Belt
SS – Fonte
C – Stewart
P – Cain
or
CF – Andres
SS – Fonte
RF – Beltran
3B – Pablo
LF – Belt
2B – Kepp
1B – Huff
C – Stewart
P – Cain
"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 Aug 27, 2011 11:41 PM PDT reply actions
Got tickets to go see the Giants at petco again. I went to the Timmy and Cain game and luckily
missed out on the Zito start. If the pitching rotation stayed the same as right now I think i would get to see Vogey, Bum and Surkamp.
i don't think it will stay the same
i’d be shocked if they didn’t skip surkamp’s next start (or whoever it would be in the 5spot) on the off day so they can start the arizona series with cain, timmy, vogey
by you'vejustbeenCAINED on Aug 27, 2011 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Point taken.
I just hope I get to see either Bum or Vogey. Wouldn’t mind seeing Timmy again. I loved seeing the Padres fans I sat next to go “Shit there’s Lincecum, He’s bad ass.” when Timmy was walking the yard with Rags.
LOL Ratto(aka The Big Troll): Keep Surkamp away from other starters
http://www.csnbayarea.com/pages/print_landing?blockID=555466&feedID=2796&
“The key to Surkamp’s further development, though, lies not in the marketing department prodding Kuiper into a quasi-impromptu zoological reference ("He looks like a Senegalese vampire bat out there") and then spinning it into one-size-fits-all hats, but in keeping him away from the other starters when they gather for their secret meetings.
You know, the ones where they mutter to each other about how none of them have seen a three-run lead since Easter."
by Grant_ME_MERCY on Aug 27, 2011 11:48 PM PDT reply actions
shut up Ratto
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.
by jponry on Aug 27, 2011 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I concur
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
rec'd x 109
This is the same schtick Dumbon Bruce did the other day.
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:30 AM PDT up reply actions
I lost all respect for Ratto when he said he doesn’t like sports. Then fucking quit and let someone with passion and drive replace you.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
He actually said that?
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 27, 2011 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
yes. something along the lines of “i haven’t enjoyed/been excited by anything in sports since some stupid college whatever game many years ago.”
essentially he said he was a columnist who wrote about sports, but not that he liked what he was watching at all.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I shouild start a blog about quilting. I could get tips from Ratto on how to write about something I don't like or understand.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 12:00 AM PDT up reply actions
hahaha
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:30 AM PDT up reply actions
soapbox
That’s a really shitty thing for him to say. I always said that if I stopped enjoying writing and observing baseball, I’d want someone to shoot me dead on the spot. Those of us who are lucky to do what we do are blessed and we should value that gift every day.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I really don't like Ray Ratto
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
Nor do I.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Nor does Ray.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
When you define yourself with Cosby sweaters, you’ve given up on more than your job.
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Ray Ratto's mom doesn't like Ray Ratto
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 28, 2011 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
What about Ray Ratto's kids?
And yes. He does have children.
Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden
/grabs crotch
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
gee
that surprises me not an iota.
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:30 AM PDT up reply actions
sure that wasn't Radnich?
sounds like Radnich
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.
Radnich really is only interested in fame, not sports.
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.
Radnich is an insufferable hack.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 12:06 AM PDT up reply actions
no, radnich said something like, i’m hip cuz i listen to r&b and schtick schtick schtick, i have a toddler even though i’m 60 years old.
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by positiveuphemism on Aug 27, 2011 11:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Man, Ratto’s writing is annoying. Even in small bursts.
“I’M SAYING THINGS!”
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 27, 2011 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Ratto is basically Joe Blanton from the Lookout Landing NLCS Game 4 recap. SNORK RARR SNERK.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Man, that thing gets referenced just about every day on here, doesn’t it?
It’s so great.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I just said RIBBLE RABBLE RAWR to my lady friend and she thought it was hilarious. I don’t have the heart to tell her I stole it.
SULLIVAAANNNNNN!
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 28, 2011 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I know. There’s something grating about it unrelated to its content.
A lot of sports columnists have that effect on me. Except, say, Posnanski.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 27, 2011 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
/Bruce Jenkins and John Shea peek over a potted plant nearby.
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:32 AM PDT up reply actions
And with Surkamp’s performance, even though he doesn’t obviously qualify, he would be tied for 246th.
Obviously doesn’t qualify, not doesn’t obviously qualify. If it is your fucking job to fucking write things the least you could fucking do is write them fucking correctly, you fucking walrus.
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 27, 2011 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes.
When professional writers write as if English were a second language to them, it makes me wonder where their editor is, and then it makes me fear for our nation. How difficult can it be to write correctly?
Also, I admire how you got FIVE fuckings in there. Nice!
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions
as an aspiring writer
that shit angers me. if you’re lucky enough to be able to write for a living, GET IT RIGHT!
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 27, 2011 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions
GRAAA
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"It's a blog" is the refuge of illiterate hack writers who should be working at Marshalls.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Apologies to Marshall's employees.
I meant to say Ross.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
My go-to reply is “I’m drunk. I’m a writer.”
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I parse with the best of them.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions
While drunk I can add parsley when cooking.
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions
But it's true!!!
He DOESN’T obviously qualify.
:p
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
Ratto's problem
Kruk and Kuip are legitimately enjoying themselves when they do and say wacky things. Ray Ratto must contrive his humor because he obviously is not enjoying himself. He’s jealous.
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
A two run lead would be an embarrassment of riches.
Seems like 1-0 pops up pretty often, if they get a lead at all. Which is well under any reasonable expectation of what any pitcher will allow. Secret meetings, my ass. The pitchers should be allowed to carry protest signs around, during the game.
Shift A
Saw the game late. Yay for the kid. It burns my cookies that his “earned” run was because Huff can’t throw to 2nd. Gah! Huff makes me swear more than anyone else on this team and that’s saying a lot!
Yay for DeRosa, too.
Get well soon, most of the Giants roster!
Did you know that it is NINETY FEET from first base to second base? That's a LONG way to throw!
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 27, 2011 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Would you guys please call off your mole already? FML
Worse yet, and can it get any more around here, why would the team’s general manager even hint at the possibility that Ethier might be faking an injury? “What am I supposed to be concerned about?” General Manager Ned Colletti says. “That he has those numbers [since the All-Star break], that he’s hurt or contends he’s hurt?”
Contends he’s hurt? Ouch. Obviously, the Dodgers don’t believe him. A week ago he had to have an ingrown nail removed from his big toe, which is on the same leg as his sore knee. He was a mess. His sore knee does not allow him to land on his right foot properly, thereby taking away his ability to swing with authority. He’s had needles inserted into his knee to add fluid, and he’s had his ankle taped in an effort to keep his foot from rolling away from his knee pain.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers-20110828,0,3942284.column
So the Dodger GM, in public interviews over the past two seasons, has implied that Matt Kemp was dogging it because of his new contract, hinted that a number of nameless veterans on the DL were faking it, and now he implies that Ethier’s bad knee, scheduled for surgery in the off-season, is all in his head. Might as well go all in and say that Kershaw is a pussy and a prima donna.
by The Dude Abides on Aug 27, 2011 11:56 PM PDT reply actions
when he makes fun of Kershaw’s beard,
that’s the signal to Sabean that the fix is on.
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.
/old timer baseball music
/John Sayles makes cameo
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 28, 2011 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Kershaw’s motion looks weird to me. He looks like a very athletic right-handed pitcher trying to fake like he throws left. Eh, we’ll take him anyway. /signals to Ned
by non sequitur on Aug 28, 2011 12:03 AM PDT up reply actions
This
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions
DODGER FAN SPOTTED!!!!
It's the logo for my favorite band!
by positiveuphemism on Aug 28, 2011 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions
The fix was on
when Schmidt’s MRI came back with a torn rotator cuff, so Ned talked to the newly-hired Conte, and Conte told him that Schmidt could pitch through it. So Ned offered 3 yrs/$47m, and Schmidt accepted. Every time I see Sabean on TV, I want to punch him in the nose for foisting Ned upon us.
by The Dude Abides on Aug 28, 2011 12:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Thank you for giving me reason to want to hug Sabean every time I see him on TV.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 8:48 AM PDT up reply actions
alright, well, this has been fun, I'm off to watch the new Doctor Who episode (again)!
have a good one! :)
AT&T Park, Home of the WS Champion SF Giants, and Disneyland-so much MAGIC inside!
G'night
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions
This 24 hour hangover needs to go away
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Impressive. What caused that?
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
Going out Thursday night
Day drinking yesterday then going out last night as well.
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Yeah, it’s the hangover’s fault.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions
clearly
Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.
"You don't go out with the pressure that you've gotta be perfect. It's more, 'I know I'm capable of throwing a shutout, so I should probably strive for that every time I go out. And if I don't, then I bite myself in the ass, not everybody else.' "--Tim Lincecum discussing how he deals with the shitty Giants offense.
by Sabean's_Folly on Aug 28, 2011 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Signing off guys/gals!
I’m gonna go mess around with Garage band before I call it a night. I was able to hook up my rock band drum kit the mac instead of using the keyboard for the percussion.
goin to the next couple of games
SO GLAD WE WON THIS FUCKING GAME TONIGHT!
proud son of greatgiantfan; b. Apr 29, 2009, d. Jul 30, 2010.
This is kind of cool
Norris, who grew up in the Bay Area, will make his first Major League start in San Francisco against the Giants in Sunday’s series finale. Norris has never faced the Giants in his two years in the Majors.
“I’m excited to play against my childhood team, which should be interesting,” he said. “But like any other day, I’m going to go out there and do my job and go pitch.”
Norris remembers going to games back when the Giants played at Candlestick Park. Norris has been doing his hometown of Greenbrae, Calif., proud this season in an otherwise rough one for the Astros.
unlike the previous three Astros starters
Norris is actually pretty good.
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.
So
Bay Area ties, then?
I LOVE YOU BASEBALL GODS!!!!!
Welcome to my new adopted Giant, Carlos Beltran. Well, actually, you're more like a foreign exchange student staying at my house for the summer. Regardless, win us a world series!
Die.
More comfortable with chicken
by billywitchdoctor.com on Aug 28, 2011 8:04 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s not bad. High winds, trees are taking it. Bloomberg wisely shut down most of the city of NY, and since it’s Sunday, there’s not a lot of work traffic.
Exactly four or five years ago, this day, was Katrina. Now THAT is something to think about.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Aug 28, 2011 6:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Ain’t it funny. . .how time slips away.
Hope you’re far enough inland that you’re just getting winds and rain, TL2.
Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster
by SituationalLefty on Aug 28, 2011 7:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, this was nice news to see this morning.
Now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win this!
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I'm watching Bull Durham
Somehow, I have never seen this movie before. How is this possible? I’m about 15 minutes in, and it’s already the best thing ever.
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
It’s great. Some folks think it’s too lovey-dovey/about relationships with not enough baseball, but I disagree. And I think it beats the pants off of the mystical hoohah movie (Field of Dreams).
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
It’s because of you and your Annie Savoy reference that I’m watching it! :)
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I hope you know that I meant for that reference to be a flattering one. I was worried you might have taken it the wrong way.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Bull Durham is a great movie just for this:
“Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Most men like that speech if they’ve heard it.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 28, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I live in Durham
And I still have never seen it. The Bulls have a new stadium now, but they usually play one game a year in the old stadium that is featured in the movie.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m hoping for a Governor’s Cup rematch this year with the Bulls!
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
We have Matt Moore now. Look out. He is going Lincecum on the minor leagues.
I saw Joe Bateman at the park on Friday night. You remember him?
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 9:24 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s good stuff.
Apparently, they’re making a movie about the Fresno Grizzlies, or at least about a broadcaster for them. They’ve been filming there, and Billy Crystal — who is the lead in the movie — was there last night.
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
really?
I assume it’s fictional. Doug Greenwald is not the first person I’d pick for film treatment.
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 Aug 28, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes
Yes, the name of the announcer character is Artie something. Here’s the pic the Grizzlies twitter account posted of Crystal in the Grizz jersey.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
this is awesome
I hope it doesn’t suck. Nothing on his IMDB page or wiki.
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 Aug 28, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Isn’t there some website that talks about upcoming movie releases? Then again maybe this is some fringe indy type movie that wouldn’t be covered there.
maybe...
http://www.movieinsider.com/movies/-/2012/ ?
Damn lots of remakes. Does anybody have an original idea anymore?
Happy birthday to me.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
hahaha
I do not think it means what you think it means. Also, Salma Hayek for a voice part? That’s quite a waste.
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 Aug 28, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Here is a link to a local news report about it (video) that explains the plot, Fresno’s role, etc. At the time of the report, they would only say that it was a “Hollywood A-Lister” staring in the moving. But, then Crystal confirmed it via tweet.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
wow- thanks
What’s the last movie set in Fresno?
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 Aug 28, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions
No clue. The last funny central valley setting I remember was Monsters v. Aliens — part of it was set in Modesto.
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
American Graffiti too; I bet the Monsters thing was a reference to 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 Aug 28, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s one of my favorite movies of all time.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Zito v. Surkamp
Well, depends on which Zito you’re talking about. Back when he was good, like early Oakland days, Zito struck out 20 percent of the batters he faced. That’s good. With the Giants, the strikeouts went down while the walks (which were never great) went up. At AA this year Surkamp struck out almost 30 percent of the batters he faced. That is very good, though bound to drop in big leagues. He’ll likely never be the Zito of old, but there is reasonable hope that he will be significantly better than the Zito of now.
Hurrican update
Lost power about 15 minutes after I logged off MCC, went to sleep, regained power about 30 minutes after I woke up.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
God wants you here with us.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
O hai there GiantPain
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
The people I know in the Outer Banks never even lost power.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 9:09 AM PDT up reply actions
i have family there. they still dont have power and they had bad flooding-buxton
by boyessprings on Aug 28, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I have family there too. Mostly in Manteo, also some in Kill Devil Hills. I have been texting the people in Manteo, they never lost power but they are close to the sound and had some issues with flooding on the backside of the storm.
Buxton probably caught the worst this storm had to offer.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
OH THE HUMANITY
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 Aug 28, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Also.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
by GiantPain on Aug 28, 2011 9:02 AM PDT reply actions 13 recs
meanwhile Mota chucks a ball 20 feet off the plate and Aaron Rowand swings at it from the dugout
Pitching and defense wins championships, but oh those dingerz....
and somebody gets injured on the play
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
nice
except for the part where I had to think about that song.
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.
Remember Ben Copeland? He has been toiling in Double-A Akron all year, and has just been called up to Triple-A again.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Yeah. Our first pick from the famous Michael Tucker draft of 2005.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Who did we sign such that we forfeited our first round pick? /is too lazy to google
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
See Sgt. Dingleberry’s reply.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Was he really drafted that long ago? It doesn’t feel like that long ago. God dammit, aging.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
2004 IIRC.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
2005! My bad.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Good for him.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
this Cubs series is scaring me to death
don’t want to overlook todays game but the cubs have a pretty decent offense. At least we don’t have to face Dempster tho…
Pitching and defense wins championships, but oh those dingerz....
Eh
We were in a similar spot last year and took care of business.
I share your sentiment on Dempster, though. He has always seemed to mow us down. Except for this magical game.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Almost as amazing as Juan Uribe’s 2 HR’s in the second inning is Jose Guillen’s 2 HBP’s in that same inning.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Did the double trip to the mound thing get sorted out yesterday?
was the Astros coach just trolling Bochy?
Pitching and defense wins championships, but oh those dingerz....
I'd bet they played the game under protest
But they won, so it doesn’t matter.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
I don’t get what Bochy would have wanted to get out of that. He pinch hit Cabrera to face a lefty. Did he want the Astros to replace him with a righty!?
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.
If I had to guess
Bochy thought that the game was going to go int o extras, and wanted to force the astros to burn one of their better relievers.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
That would work.
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.
OT: Trader Joe's
We’re off to TJ’s in a few to get the week’s shopping done. Anybody find anything new and exciting lately that we should be on the lookout for?
I don’t know about new, but I got sourdough English muffins, red velvet cupcakes, and popcorn with olive oil and sea salt the last time I was there. Yummy.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
The olive oil popcorn is really freaking good.
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OMG so good.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Shift-A
How did Huff’s throw result in a stolen base? Unearned run all the way.
Today’s moves? I’m sure these and other mysteries are debated and perhaps solved upthread, but in case they aren’t…
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
I think you can’t assume an out on a play like that, even if the throw had been clean.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Yeah, I know, but if the runner’s stealing and the catcher makes that throw it’s an E(li) 2 (given the distance, it’s in right field).
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
No, the catcher would only get an E if it went into CF and allowed the runner to advance
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
That’s was what my ill-stated point about “given the distance” was getting at: if the catcher’s throw is as far off line as Huff’s ~80-footer, it lands in right-center.
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
Also I'm going to guess
Edlefsen and Runzler go down
Torres and Romo come back
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I really hope Torres plays well enough to keep his spot
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
me too
and hopefully the standard is not 3 for 4 with 5 doubles and 6 SB.
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 Aug 28, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I mean, I'd play Torres every day no matter what
But he needs to play well enough for Bochy to do that.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
/in this line
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
If the team ever wants to rediscover it’s giddy-up and make a serious run, Torres is one of those players who has to lead the way. In some ways, he’s more important to making that run than Huff, Pat, or Nate
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn’t play him if he’s not one of the three best outfielders.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m not sure about that, especially when Nate and Burrell are healthy.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
They’re not!
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by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, my statement implies that I wouldn’t play him if there were three better options available, not necessarily that there are at this moment (though I think Ross and Torres are pretty much a wash). I certainly wouldn’t play him “no matter what.”
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Neither Nate nor Burrell are better options than Torres in center field.
Torres is the Giants best center fielder. He should play no matter what.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Nate has out-OPS’d Torres by .100 points this year. I think that outweighs the hit in defense that playing Beltran or Nate in CF over Torres would have. Similar to the Fontenot and Cabrera situation.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Don't just look at this year.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Both of them are pretty unique cases. It’s hard to get a grasp of how good or bad each of them are based on their past production.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
it seems questionable that Burrell will be healthy enough to start regularly again this year
When Nate gets back, it would be great to see
Schierholtz Torres Beltran
with Belt at first
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Yeah, but Huff isn’t benched, I’d rather see Nate play than Torres.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
he might be in a few days!!
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.
Huff might be benched? I’ve never heard anyone in the organization mention that as a possibility.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I am ever hopeful!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Well, regardless, my argument is that I think I’d rather have Nate play than Torres. Benching Huff would obviously make things easier.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think Belt – Nate – Beltran is an OF configuration that Bochy would go with though
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 don’t know what Bochy would do, but I don’t think doing that would be a bad idea.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
benching Huff at this point probably makes sense, especially when Nate comes back, but I think everyone’s pretty much decided that this team’s going to sink or swim on the good ship Aubrey Huff
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
And also
Neither of them play center field!
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
well
that’s just because they never have for the Giants. I’m sure they’d be great. Especially if either of them were activated and/or didn’t have foot problems.
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 Aug 28, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
/has doubts
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
oh come now
other than the running, and the catching, and the throwing? Oh, and the inactive status.
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 Aug 28, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
For anyone who hasn’t yet I strongly recommend the SB Nation app. Runs smoothy and easy to use. Thanks SB nation, now MCC never leaves my pocket!!
Get well Buster Posey
lol
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I’m still confused about how the app is powered by Gillette Odor Shield. Is Gillette Odor Shield a viable power source?
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by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
EWWWWW.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
8/28/11 #sfgiants lineup: Torres CF Keppinger 2B Beltran RF Sandoval 3B Belt LF Huff 1B Cabrera SS Whiteside C Cain SP
That’s what I was expecting, actually.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I can live with this.
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.
Though I’d prefer Fontenot vs RHP
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.
Having watched Eli cost Matt a game against the Phillies with a passed ball, I’m not thrilled he’s out there but I guess night game/day game thing rule takes effect even though I’m pretty sure Posey never was held do that rule that much
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I am very happy Bochy stuck with Belt after he was completely overmatched yesterday
"I give up that lead-off double, well, who cares? I'm about to get nasty." - Brian Wilson
by GrooveGiant on Aug 28, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Looked like Nate a bit, what with the swinging over those back foot breaking balls.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
AmyGGiants Amy Gutierrez
8/28/11 #sfgiants lineup: Torres CF Keppinger 2B Beltran RF Sandoval 3B Belt LF Huff 1B Cabrera SS Whiteside C Cain SP
extrabaggs
"Just your typical Giants scoring rally: A faceburger on the basepaths, two errors from the second baseman and a bases-loaded balk."
Why is cabrera
I'm on the twitters @FFFFFFFFreak55
This is the first time Bochy made the order the right way.
by Sabean_Is_Iago on Aug 28, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I realize it’s a day game after a night game, but I think if I were a Giants’ pitcher I would be bothered by Bochy continuing to play Eli Whiteside when I’m pitching. Everyone just runs wild on him. When Posey returns next year, I think Stewart should be the backup.
Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.
neither Stewart nor Whiteside should play every single day
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.
"neither Stewart nor Whiteside should play every single day"
yeah, but I’m not talking about a major league team, I’m talking about the Giants.
Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.
this
Stewie should be back in Fresno in case of injury, and Whitey should be back in Alabama or wherever coaching.
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 Aug 28, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Stewie vs. Eli is the Crawford vs Tejada debate. One’s a solid defensive player with crappy hitting numbers and the other is a defensive liability with slightly less crappy hitting numbers. Considering the pitchers have to deal with all the crap they have to deal with— mainly having to win every game with shutouts— throwing in the defensive liability makes less sense.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope they get a better backup. Posey might need extra days off next year, and I’d rather not have two pitchers batting when he doesn’t play.
That is cray-z.
by DrDC on Aug 28, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd times a billion
/wishes you were around last offseason when I sang the same song
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 Aug 28, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh Jesus
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Not official but indications are Eric Surkamp has been optioned.
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Unsurprising.
I was a little surprised that people thought that they would send down two relievers and only bring back one. What would we do without Runzler?!
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But, they haven’t been using Runzler as a reliever, right?
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
On this current call up?
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
that just means they’re skipping the fifth starter. I read there’s ten days before he’s needed again.
Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.
This wouldn't have surprised me two days ago
But wasn’t it just yesterday that Bochy said Surkamp would probably make several starts?
I think the idea is that as a starter, he’s just going to sit on the bench until his next start anyway. Since his next start is in September, they’ll have room to put him back on it again. So really it doesn’t affect him at all except having to sit in San Jose’s dugout for a bit.
Nate Schierholtz wasn't born, he was built.
extrabaggs Not official but indications are Eric Surkamp has been optioned.
probably because they don’t need a 5th starter for like a week and a half.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
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I thought that options were year-to-year, and that players can be yo-yoed as much as possible.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Yeah, but calling him up this year uses one of them. I don’t think it matters because he’ll probably be a full-time major leaguer some time next season.
by kingofthacove on Aug 28, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Si.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 28, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
that's not how it works
calling him up at all this year started one of his option years
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 okay
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
The option would only be used if he was optioned back to AA/AAA. If he stayed with the team through September the option would not have been used.
I’m honestly not super concerned about using one of his options this year. If he can’t stick in the majors by the time he’s 27, he’s probably not going to amount to much.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Wait, I thought it didn’t matter if he was optioned this year or not.
I feel really stupid right now. Oh well.
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
It does, but it really doesn’t. By the time his option years run out there should be no reason he keeps getting optioned unless he’s not very good.
That is cray-z.
I get that part, but I feel like people are saying two things: 1) he has 3 option years, and they already started burning one of them when they called him up so optioning him now doesn’t affect that; and 2) they are burning an “option” by sending him down today, which wouldn’t happen if they let him stay through the end of the season. I’m not trying to argue; just trying to understand.
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
This should clear it up
Once a player has been placed on a team’s 40-man roster, a team has 3 options on that player.
A player is considered to have used one of those three options when he spends at least 20 days in the minors in any of those 3 seasons.
That is cray-z.
So if they call him back up on 9/1, it’s a free pass and no option will have been used?
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Hm, I'm not sure actually
It doesn’t specify anywhere if the 20 days in the minors only factors in after being placed on the 40, or if it’s in the season which they’re placed on the 40.
That is cray-z.
In any case, I think complaining about burning an option year is when, like, a team calls up a prospect at 21 for a few days to hold a place and then sends him down. Then the player has to be ready in like 3 years.
Calling up a 24 year old to make a start, sending him down and then calling him back up doesn’t qualify as burning an option year, imo.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I’m sorry. I guess I misunderstood; it seemed like you were saying that you thought an option would get burned, but it didn’t matter because he should be ready in 3 years, anyway. I understand now that’s not what you meant.
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I think I’m still wrong about this, lol. I have to go into work, anyway.
Go Giants!
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Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I find it kind of weird that people are always confused about this. What causes the misconception?
"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!"
Pokemonz
In my NL-only league, I am involved in a tight one with the playoffs on the line. I need Bud Norris to not dominate today…..are the chances of that less than 0?
I was just reading the sports section of the Knoxville News Sentinel and realized the Smokies’ final home game is Tuesday night. What happened to summer?
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I know
My summer “break” was 3+ months long. What happened?
It’s okay, I enjoy fall as well.
That is cray-z.
I love fall, but there’s something unsettling about how quickly it’s racing toward us.
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I love Christmas! Of course, all my family is 2500 miles away and I don’t travel to see them, so that makes it easier.
by shaggingflyballs on Aug 28, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Both require out-of-state travel for me. But I think I prefer Thanksgiving better.
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I love both.
My wife is an incredible cook and we have a good crew of ~8 people here in SF that we always do Thanksgiving with. My dad was always a huge pain in the ass at Christmas time when I was growing up but despite that I still have great memories of it. And I like decorating the house!
by shaggingflyballs on Aug 28, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
That light at the end of the tunnel? That’s fall, and it’s racing down the tracks in your direction.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
IT'S THE C TRAIN!
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
Aubrey Huff: "Let's Get Weird"
by slackersphere17 on Aug 28, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Is Goofus around?
Goofus, were you walking by Sax at like 3:20 yesterday with your wife? I could have sworn I saw you.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 28, 2011 11:02 AM PDT reply actions
These "Cain" and "Able" headlines are stupid. They should stop.
I hate how these headline writers keep making the same stupid puns. And now they aren’t even trying anymore.
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
They should at least use different Biblical allusions
Mesoc and Shadrach?
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by Murray, Present on Aug 28, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Stupid puns!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
I DONT GET IT
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I never knew why they didn’t use “Texas Cainsaw massacre” when Cain dominated the Rangers in the World Series
If you're watching a blowout, you can pass the time by counting the double teapots.
Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 28, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Too soon!
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by Murray, Present on Aug 28, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Tangenital OT: this is a link to a high point in hurricane based journalism (NSFW, and don’t click through if seeing dangly bits will traumatize you)
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Can the Giants catch the Diamondbacks?
Yes, they Cain!
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Aye
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 28, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Cain he do it?
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 28, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
ugh
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Zito threw a ‘pen today. He’s upbeat. Said there’s still some swelling in his ankle but it’s improving.
I'm on the twitters @FFFFFFFFreak55
The only reason he was any good for the A’s was because of their large swaths of foul ground
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Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 28, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Nah, his curveball used to be better. Plus, their offense was good in those days, allowing him to collect WINZ.
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by Murray, Present on Aug 28, 2011 12:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Barrry, don’t push it, man. Take it easy. When you open your egg and avocado joint, you will be spending a lot of time on your feet.
Let the ankle heal completely.
Think of the eggs and the avocados.
by Sgt. Dingleberry on Aug 28, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
but how was his focus? Is he focusing on pitching really well these days or is he dreaming of being a chef when throwing the ball?
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
no
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Giants optioned Surkamp and Runzler.
47 seconds ago
I'm on the twitters @FFFFFFFFreak55
oops meant to say runzler sent down
brain lock SL fail
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SurKKKKKKKKKamp
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Sirkamp will start again on Sept. 6. Romo and Torres activated.
1 minute ago
I'm on the twitters @FFFFFFFFreak55
ROMO
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Samurai Champloo > Macross
by doubleteapot on Aug 28, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Ser Kamp of Richmondale!
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.
psssst
don’t go to the wedding, Ser! No matter whose it happens to be!
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 Aug 28, 2011 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
:(
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Bochy can’t be certain Jonathan Sanchez will pitch again this season. Ankle isn’t making progress. …
extrabaggs Andrew Baggarly
Bochy: “The way it’s going, it’s going to be a race between he and Buster.”
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Bochy: "The way it’s going, it’s going to be a race between he and Buster."
Terrible word choice.
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THESE PERSONAL ATTACKS ON BOCHY MUST STOP
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 Aug 28, 2011 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Shouldn’t it be “Buster and him”?
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by Murray, Present on Aug 28, 2011 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ll be an optimist. This makes me think that Buster is a possibility.
"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 can PH or DH in the playoffs.
/sob
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 28, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Sad for Sanchez
But, I would rather have Surkamp pitching at this point, so that’s good.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
I think Baggs should help Bochy out with the grammar there. What’s the journalistic etiquette on that? Would it be an ethical breach to fix someone’s grammatical mistakes when quoting them?
Sir Kamp to Class A+
AmyGGiants Amy Gutierrez
#sfgiants announce Surkamp will head to SJ Class A, Runzler to AAA Fresno
1 minute ago
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LOL Theon
I think if Theon had lived in our world, he would’ve worked out his issues through standup comedy. He’d be a Marc Maron angry man type.
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by Murray, Present on Aug 28, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s hard to stand out as a true creep in those books, but Theon manages quite nicely.
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 Aug 28, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh, after ADWD, I think he’s been surpassed.
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.
Petty greed and hubris are always going to shine. It almotht made me root for Vargo Hoat’th Brave Companionth!
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 Aug 28, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
His storyline had me more upset than any other storyline I’ve read so far and I’ve been pretty emotionally caught up with the daughters stories
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I think what really rings out about Theon is that he’s such a banal villain. He’s not a monster like GREGOR! or the Bastard of Bolton, and he’s not a Tywin- or Littlefinger-style master manipulator. He’s just a dickhead frat boy who makes bad choices. We all know a Theon, and that’s why he’s so easy to despise.
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 28, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t dickhead fratboys usually smother themselves in Axe? Theon could use a splash of that.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
I’m sure it was his go-to fragrance. /stuffbroslike
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Pretty much. He went bad without any forethought or plan- he was basically just a punk-ass. And he was on his way to do good things when his dad brought out his inner punk. L’il Finger does deserve special mention for his backstaby-ness in the first book, though.
by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Aug 28, 2011 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
He had serious daddy issues that were compounded after Ned died and he went back and saw Balon again (and basically got told he was a worthless POS, not to mention getting humiliated by Asha). Then, he makes those misguided attempts to impress his dad, even though his dad is never going to be impressed by him, and then gets in way over his head with Ramsay.
I think he’s redeemable though. The end of Asha’s last chapter in ADWD almost made me cry :’(
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.
Theon is the character that I've come to most identify with.
At least thanks to ADwD. Best thing in that book.
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 28, 2011 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Jon’s chapter with Slynt is easily the best part for me.
Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.
getting closer!
I just roared through Storm of Swords today, now onto Feast For Crows.
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 Aug 28, 2011 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions
d'awwwwwwwwwwww
I’m imagining Victarion being really, really confused by this.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
LOL victarion
They taught me that in the Boy Scouts.
by shanghaijim on Aug 28, 2011 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s so hilariously dumb.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I WILL SAIL ACROSS THIS OCEAN
Dude it’s not a real ocean, you’re dumb.
I WILL BREAK YOUR ENTIRE FACE AND THEN SAIL ACROSS THIS OCEAN
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 28, 2011 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions
is there a game thread that I missed?
Proud adopted parent of the ball dudes, who have grounded into 109 fewer double plays than the Giants.
hmm, it’s scheduled for 12:17 but hasn’t gone up 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.
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2011/8/28/2389829/open-gamethread-8-28
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
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