Post-Game Thread: When All is Darkest...

Magic Number 16

It's the logo for my favorite band!

by positiveuphemism on Sep 17, 2011 9:26 PM PDT reply actions

A magic number > # of games remaining is very euphemistic. How appropriate.

by non sequitur on Sep 17, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions

THING

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by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:27 PM PDT reply actions

IN IT

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions

WE'RE IN IT

My adopted son, Brandon Crawford. Dude hits grand slams and plays defense.

by josematan on Sep 17, 2011 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions

lol giants

My adopted son, Brandon Crawford. Dude hits grand slams and plays defense.

by josematan on Sep 17, 2011 9:27 PM PDT reply actions

Hmmm is that gif frozen for everyone?

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:27 PM PDT reply actions

Yes, maam

"It is not enough that we win; all others must lose" -Larry Ellison
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." -Grant

by Mdizzle138 on Sep 17, 2011 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes for me

My adopted son, Brandon Crawford. Dude hits grand slams and plays defense.

by josematan on Sep 17, 2011 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions

It is known.

"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry

by calgiants86 on Sep 17, 2011 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions

frozen for me, yes.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions

si

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by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions

/so want to twss this

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by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions

No

But I’m also on drugs.

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions

good ones?

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

What kind? Where can I get them?

Rally Jerry!
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LIBERAL USE OF CAPS

by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Shit

I meant to reply to Natto.

Rally Jerry!
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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

You were right to consult the Doctor.

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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 18, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions

ok I think I fixed 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.

by jponry on Sep 17, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Now it moves.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions

TWSS

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by groug on Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

still looks stiff to me

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by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions

TWSS

by Ed Jew on Sep 17, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions

I like penis.

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions

Good to know.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Dildara.

by GPRawr on Sep 17, 2011 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions

+109

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions

looks fixed here.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Grant put you in charge and you go fuck it up in one day??!?! The overlord will not be pleased

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions

what is the significance of this at-bat?

Proud adopted parent of the ball dudes, who have grounded into 109 fewer double plays than the Giants.

by DJ Tofu on Sep 17, 2011 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions

look carefully at who’s pitching

and who’s hitting

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 Sep 17, 2011 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions

spoilers

pitching: Cody Ross
hitting: Pedro Feliz

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 Sep 17, 2011 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions

oh… thanks.

Proud adopted parent of the ball dudes, who have grounded into 109 fewer double plays than the Giants.

by DJ Tofu on Sep 17, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

SO THE COUP HAS BEGUN

by busterbarelyevenknowher on Sep 17, 2011 9:28 PM PDT reply actions

very prograntlike, jprony

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by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:28 PM PDT reply actions

There are commas before and after the parenthetical statement

Aren’t you an English teacher?

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:28 PM PDT reply actions

i love commas and parantheticals

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions

wait

should the comma be before or after 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.

by jponry on Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Well it certainly shouldn’t be both.

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by groug on Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

I went with before

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions

I love commas and parenthesis too. It’s my passive-aggressive way of creating run-on sentences.

there shouldn’t be a comma after “of course”, I believe

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions

But you don’t love spelling.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions

nope

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Grammar is like an after thought for english teachers

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

In high school, at least, that was my experience.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions

As for me

I love grammar. I love my grampa, too.

That was one of my favorite bad jokes when I was teaching reading/writing classes.

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

From what I remember

Grades 1-though-6 were about learning to spell. Grades 7 and up were reading stuff and discussing it. I don’t think I had an actual hardcore grammar primer until my freshman year of college.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow. I remember diagramming sentences in 6th grade.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions

I never did it until I learned Latin.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions

We did that in third grade. Maybe fourth.

by wcw on Sep 17, 2011 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions

No it isn’t. And I are one.

He is the world's most annoying rooster.

by gallo del cielo on Sep 17, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Similes are more their style.

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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 18, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions

I made a PGT but yours actually has content.

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 9:29 PM PDT reply actions

Is Natto conceding defeat??

"It is not enough that we win; all others must lose" -Larry Ellison
"I come up with something when I’ve got nothing, and it’s always brilliant. Always. So I reject your logic." -Grant

by Mdizzle138 on Sep 17, 2011 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Alternate title

Fire and Dinosaur Blood

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by groug on Sep 17, 2011 9:30 PM PDT reply actions

We Do Not Hit

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by groug on Sep 17, 2011 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions

shanghaijim did a great thread of ASOIAF mottos Giants-ized in the second GDT

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Well, I can see I’m useless here.

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by groug on Sep 17, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

just like the martells!

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

you can find it here!

http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2011/9/17/2432280/beat-cola-thread-2#77633516

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, I went back and read it

Then I was like “Well, mine won’t be that good.”

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by groug on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

I like the Martells

The Tyrells clearly have the worst words though, right? I mean, it’s not even close.

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by groug on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

I like the Martells too

They’ve just been pretty useless thus far

But yeah, Tyrell words are the worst, not counting some of the random minor houses.

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

lol quentyn

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by groug on Sep 17, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions

lol arianne's queenmaker plot

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 Sep 17, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions

You can do it too. I’m not here.

I rhyme with freak.

by shanghaijim on Sep 17, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Winning pitcher

Waldis Joaquin

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:30 PM PDT reply actions

I like this guy. He looks almost perfect. I can't even see an effin' ERA on ths guy. Where would I go to find one?

"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 Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

An aside

I used to find it amusing when Waldis Joaquin and Justin Miller were up in the pen at the same time because together they made the name of a prominent Western poet of the 19th century.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Good ol’ Waldis Miller…

by boonitez on Sep 18, 2011 1:55 AM PDT up reply actions

I got married in Joaquin Miller park.

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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 18, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions

Whenever I see that I always think “Joaquin Murrieta Park”. Which would also be a cool place to get married.

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions

wow, 9:30?
These early games are killing me.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:30 PM PDT reply actions

The late games kill you, too.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Technically, I guess it’s the cat waking me up at 5am that’s the killer.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions

I say we stick with Jponry writing the PGT until something goes bad

"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 Sep 17, 2011 9:30 PM PDT reply actions

DEAL WITH IT

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT reply actions

seriously, the Dodgers realigned their pitching staff just so we’d see Kershaw? they do that everytime, and only to us- AZ didn’t Kershaw a few times. I’d bean Kemp until the benches are warned for that bullshit.

mlb.com has all their starters as TBD

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:31 PM PDT reply actions

To be fair, they probably did it because they want Kershaw to get the Cy. The Giants have the shittiest offense…. so it makes sense for them to change things up so he can pitch against the Giants.

by fishmicmuffin on Sep 17, 2011 9:33 PM PDT up reply actions

Fuck no

that’s the way it should be. if the forgets were fighting for their playoff lives is want the gmen to realign the rotation so they faced Cain lincecum and bumgarner. it is as it should be. it is known.

Sometimes you just have to look death in the face and say whatever man

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by operation carrot on Sep 17, 2011 9:34 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Fuck no

that’s the way it should be. if the forgets were fighting for their playoff lives is want the gmen to realign the rotation so they faced Cain lincecum and bumgarner. it is as it should be. it is known.

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:34 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

of course we should have to face Kershaw. I’d want them to beat us with their best.

but what pisses me off is that a couple times, they didn’t realign their rotation so AZ would face Kershaw

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions

It’s the only thing that pathetic franchise has to live for, so what else would they do? It makes them look petty, but that’s because they are. I will guarantee everyone here that after this season they take their new Fox money and Colletti uses it to sign Carlos Beltran.

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Sep 18, 2011 5:39 AM PDT up reply actions

It is only right to have to face Kershaw. Holy shit, we played the Tigers and missed Verlander

did we ever face Halladay this season? I know we missed Lee ad Halladay in our 3 game series in Philadelphia. No, we need to nut up as Kruk would say and beat the shit out of Kershaw. After all, one of the wins the Bags had was Ransom taking Kershaw over the wall for a game winner. If we are going to defeat karma, we need to defeat it head on.

"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 Sep 17, 2011 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions

see above. i got no problem with facing Kershaw. it’s just that they didn’t realign it vs the dbags a couple times thats weak.

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Jose Valverde

The dude is 45 for 45 in save attempts with a 2.44 ERA. The Giants managed to score three earned runs off him!

Also, I think the Charlie Manuel ment for Roy Halladay to miss the Giants.

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions

by the way

have you seen Valverdes numbers in non-save situations? he sucks!!

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions

He always seems to be nervous and stressed out when closing games. Don’t they have a top setup man?

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions

To be fair

If the tables were reversed, I would want the Giants to do the same thing. That’s not to say that it isn’t fucking bullshit, of course.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

do you know if Kershaw is actually slated for SF? they have an off-day Monday which is weird, but allows for Kershaw to pitch without being on short rest.

once again though, I just don’t like that they realign Kershaw to face us, but didn’t do that vs AZ a couple times this season

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions

bring him on; we’re due to whip his ass

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by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions

was it just a dream I had, or did we get like 5 runs off him in 4 innings earlier this year with bloops and bleeders?

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Hehe Brett Pill is trending in SF

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:33 PM PDT reply actions

LOL first read it as "Pill is traded"

"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 Sep 17, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

what I think is better than what you think

I also am not a fan of this ego our new leader has grown.

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:33 PM PDT reply actions

do you want to wake the dragon?

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions

ban him, my lady

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions

do it! do it! put me out of my misery!!

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

how much sleep you getting these days?

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

maybe 3 hours a night, if I’m lucky? I’ve been getting more sleep between calls at the dept than I have been at home.

my body is all messed up.

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions

WE'RE MATHEMATICALLY IN THIS THING

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 9:33 PM PDT reply actions

Brett Pill!

Our shortstop dilemma is solved!

…

Because he played second in the minors, you see.

…

Therefore he’ll be our starting shortstop next year.

…

Imagine a first basemen’s bat at shortstop!!!!

…

/clears throat

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:34 PM PDT reply actions

___________________

"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry

by calgiants86 on Sep 17, 2011 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Why is Freddy Sanchez on my computer?

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

At first he saw “Brett Pill”… Then he saw “at shortstop”…

"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry

by calgiants86 on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Oh, there is a computer screen just off the third base line

That makes sense, I guess.

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

I fail to see why this is a bad thing.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

I didn't say it was a bad thing

It was a I didn’t know why thing.

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions

MOLE! I miss you

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions

Casilla

I actually think it is possible the Giants are trying to pad Casilla’s stats. He has “closer stuff”. Maybe they want to get him some saves to put on his resume so they can ship him somewhere. Seems like something that the Baltimore or Seattle would fall for.

I've got 99 problems and the Boch is one

by milesntrane on Sep 17, 2011 9:34 PM PDT via mobile reply actions

Or they actually think he's a really good reliever

Because of the sparkly ERA.

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Baer knows better

Right? Right?

by wcw on Sep 17, 2011 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions

he pitches the ninth inning

he must be the closer!

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 6:45 AM PDT up reply actions

This would be pretty smart

so I don’t think that’s what they’re doing.

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions

seems to be doing the job for the most part

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by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions

but I guess that saves don’t really mean anything

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by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Since they think they’re still alive they wouldn’t be risking games to showcase Casilla. They think he’s the best man for the job, and I’m not sure they’re wrong. Of course Romo is better, but what’s the difference who pitches the eighth and who pitches the ninth? Casilla can just as easily blow the game in the eighth. The only time it matters is if the starter goes eight innings.

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Sep 18, 2011 5:44 AM PDT up reply actions

To what end

The lack of offers Bell received should give you some idea of how relievers are being valued. If there was ever a time when a Proven Closer™ could be traded for a good hitter, it’s in the past.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Capps for Ramos says hello.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

The Giants trading for a prospect with a couple cups’o’coffee under his belt?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions

I was thinking they would take the Twins’ role in that trade.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions

The Giants could have gotten Torrealba for Casilla earlier. I don’t see how it could get much better than that.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Casilla is actually turning into a very valuable reliever, or so it seems.

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Not really. He’s just not giving up runs. He’s still doing everything wrong. Any GM should be able to figure that out, methinks. The time to trade him has passed.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions

I’d have to look at his fangraphs page, which i dont have energy to do now

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions

His xFIP is 3.69 before today.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Doing everything wrong

might be a little too harsh. He walking 4 per nine which sucks. But he is also striking out 8 per nine. That’s pretty good.

The thing that he can’t keep up is the tiny hit rate.

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions

His HR rate is also 1/4 his career rate.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Sure

I’d put that in the hit rate category.

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions

I guess in this case it really doesn’t matter, but that’s a dangerous assumption.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm just saying it's something he can't keep up

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, I know. Just sayin’, but not sayin’.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions

"I don’t see how it could get much better than that."

Shithead could have actually made the deal, that’s how.

Professional baseball analyst since 1980.
Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehn.—Goethe

by owlcroft on Sep 17, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Of course. He’s not going to get a better deal than that, unfortunately. :(

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Seattle is not going to fall for that.

Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.

by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Today is Elvira’s 60th birthday.

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 9:38 PM PDT reply actions

/thought she was already dead

proud son of greatgiantfan; b. Apr 29, 2009, d. Jul 30, 2010.

by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

/thought that Jacqueline Kennedy was still alive

proud son of greatgiantfan; b. Apr 29, 2009, d. Jul 30, 2010.

by son of ggf on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions

Was she ever alive?

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

She looks good for her age

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions

She’s no Susan Sarandon.

I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com

by troymccluresf on Sep 17, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions

like your tagline

Me! I remember the 1st Croix was against the Dodgers and Valenzuela. Tie game in the 10th when they pulled him out (maybe scoreless even). We had to bring back our ticket stubs b/c they ran out. We won the game, I do remember that
Man the team was on a shoestring budget in those days

I sit and await always faithful to the giants

by luved the stick on Sep 17, 2011 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Reply fáil

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Oh, wait, referring to the signature. Never mind.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions

ohhh….signature
me is old

I sit and await always faithful to the giants

by luved the stick on Sep 17, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions

that is surprising.

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions

BOOBS!

Is she speaking before congress? LOL

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions

Looks like a facelift helped

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions

wow

she looks way better than in all that get up that brought her fame.

kinda like how Jennifer Grey ruined her career by getting a nose job that made her more conventionally pretty.

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions

60-year-olds should not look like that.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Fool! She’s a vampire.

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 9:50 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm sure there's been surgical intervention in this case, but I don't know if that's true any more.

As recently as WWII a substantial portion of the population endured extended malnutrition at some point in their life. I wouldn’t be surprised if Baby Boomers, who by and large haven’t had to deal with that, age better.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I saw a 60 minutes episode that said that starving yourself activates the “younth gene”.

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions

When you're old, maybe.

Starving yourself when you’re a child just activates the “life-long compromised immune system” gene.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow

I thought she was a bit older.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions

Somebody call the Oak Ridge Boys!

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions

holy crap, the Petaluma Racetrack* is really loud. We’re 3 miles away, and it sounds like its next door.

*not a real racetrack

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:40 PM PDT reply actions

Petaluma Racetrack sounds like a terrible sexual euphemism

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions

lol

yes. lets make this happen.

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions

So we Petaluma Racetrack’d it last night. Was it good for you?

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions

Petaluma racetracks arent good for anyone involved

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions

yeah

it needs to be real dark and shameful.

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions

We can hear the race track at Cal Expo from here…sometimes. The wind has to be blowing just right. They had a motorcycle something or other there a few years ago. We spent the first day wondering where the hoard of angry buzzing hornets were.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions

anybody else see the Mayweather fight?

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:48 PM PDT reply actions

I was rooting for Mayweather but its kind of a hollow win…just gonna wait on the pacquiao fight

by monsterlxe on Sep 17, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Livin' on prayer

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 Sep 17, 2011 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Sucker punch

by nofreetime on Sep 17, 2011 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions

sucker headbutt(s)

Angel Villalona 1, DR police 0

by the nenth inning on Sep 17, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions

so do you skip surkamp?

and go with cain timmy and vog against az next weekend?

by dnic24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:48 PM PDT reply actions

Well I would, but the better questions is would Bochy?

After all, the man seems to be doing his very best to lose us games based on his lineups

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Seriously. We’ve seen today’s lineup like 7 or 8 times this year. I don’t get why he can’t just sit one person at a time rather than just flat out forfeiting a game.

by boonitez on Sep 18, 2011 2:03 AM PDT up reply actions

and he didn’t even succeed at it.

by Tristram on Sep 18, 2011 7:35 AM PDT up reply actions

It depends on whether they’re IN THIS THING or not.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions

we have an off day on Monday, I believe. So skipping Surkamp would be normal rest for everyone for the AZ series, right?

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Yessireebob

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Cain- Sun
Timmeh- Tues
bum- thurs
vsong- fri
cain- sat
timmeh- sun
surkamp- mon
bum- tues
vsong- wed

/end season

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions

oh wow, I messed that up. skipped Wednesday.

someone else do it. I’m out

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions

wwwwwwwaid a minnnit

you forgot a wednesday…

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Wait, no. I was talking out of my ass. It wouldn’t work.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions

Timmy and Vogey pitch against LA.
Skipping Surkamp puts them on three days’ rest instead of four against Arizona.

My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).

by waelwulf on Sep 17, 2011 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions

it would work out this way

Sun v COL – Cain
Tues v LAD – Timmy
Wed v LAD – Vogey
Thur v LAD – Bum
Fri v ARI – Cain
Sat v ARI – Timmy
Sun v ARI – Vogey
Mon v COL – Bum
Tue v COL – Surkamp
Wed v COL – Cain

Everyone on normal days rest. So yes, we could skip surkamp and have Cain Timmy VOgey for ARIZONA this weeekend

by you'vejustbeenCAINED on Sep 18, 2011 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions

What????

Have you all forgotten??
ZITO’S BACK!!!!!!!!!!

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 7:58 AM PDT up reply actions

Solomon Torres'd

You know that all this winning is just to build up our hopes so our hearts can be crushed at the end, right?

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions

that was a brutal year.
thank god for 2012

I sit and await always faithful to the giants

by luved the stick on Sep 17, 2011 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Video: Prime 9 pennant race finishes

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=19034181

Number 9: 1993 Braves/Giants

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions

S. Torres

dammit, I wish I had the video of the mid season exhibition game between the Giants and the Phoenix Giants when they shipped Torres in for the game and he struck out Thrill, Mitchell and Williams in succession. It was shit like this that suddenly made Torres “off limits” to other teams.

"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 Sep 17, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Portal 1 finally finished downloading after about 4 hours and 20 minutes.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 9:51 PM PDT reply actions

hehehe

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 Sep 17, 2011 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions

I started to play a little and had no clue what the hell I was doing.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions

Really?

It more or less tells you what to do in the beginning.

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions

I got stuck in this room and couldn’t leave. I knew how to move around and pick up objects but not how to get out of that room.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions

I believe they give you some sort of gun to accomplish these tasks… I forget what the gun is called…..

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I’ll try again tomorrow night.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Which room?

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

The first one you reach after you leave the area you start.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Actually, now that I think about it, I just figured it out. I have to put the object they want me to pick up on the platform thingy.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Ahhhh

Yeah.

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions

haha, this is going to be a loooong game for you

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions

//half-hearted chop

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

LOL

by Josh L on Sep 17, 2011 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions

I think I might just be too old.

I should like Portal, but I can’t do it. #LOLOLD

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions

I didn’t like portal 2 gave me motion sickness.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 8:04 AM PDT up reply actions

You might be better at it than you think.

It’s been my experience that players over, say, 25, LOVE these games and devote weeks to trying to figure it out.

Younger kids tend to “like” it, but get frustrated and just google the walkthroughs when they get stuck.

THE FACT THAT IT’S HARD IS WHY IT’S FUN!!!!!

/shakes cane at kids and demands they get off his lawn

Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!

by breadfan7 on Sep 18, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions

enjoy your cake

It's the logo for my favorite band!

by positiveuphemism on Sep 17, 2011 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Tomorrow's a day game after a night game, so I have some hope for the lineup.

I imagine Pill will start because “hot hand,” etc., and Huff will hopefully sit.

Torres
Keppinger
Beltran
Sandoval
Belt
Pill
H Sanchez
Crawford
Cain

Hopefully….

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:53 PM PDT reply actions

Depends on the pitching matchups.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Esmil Rogers is a righty, but it really shouldn’t matter. BORK

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Key word “shouldn’t”.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions

BORK BORK BORK

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbs64GvGgPU

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions

I’d dig that, though Huff has actually been good lately, but there is nowhere else to put Pill. So idk. But vs a RHP, at least no platooney tunes.

and with that, I’m out. Late dinner while we watch a movie. catch ya’ll later. hoping for sleep tonight…

<3 Kanani Madison

by giant4life83 on Sep 17, 2011 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions

I would prefer Huff, too, but it’s Bork. Day game after night game + hot hand = Pill.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions

shit man, you add Posey to that lineup with Huff/Pill platoon and Kepp on the bench when Sanchez returns and I’m starting to get psyched for next season

by bernardking on Sep 18, 2011 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions

i'd almost agree

except pill will bat ahead of Belt. And I could see Whiteside starting cause he usually catches cain. even though sanchez being a switch hitter would adhere to Bochy’s stupid platoon ideas (nothing to do with him actually being a better hitter of course…)

by you'vejustbeenCAINED on Sep 18, 2011 12:20 AM PDT up reply actions

Pittsburgh???!!??

So the D-backs are playing Pittsburgh!! WTF?

by reeky on Sep 17, 2011 9:58 PM PDT reply actions

We can't complain really.

We wouldn’t be in this situation if we hadn’t lost the season series TO THE ASTROS

Those should have been cakewalk wins. We are talking about a 100 loss team kicking our ass.

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Or the Pirates.

by Grant_ME_MERCY on Sep 17, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Pittsburgh was good at the beginning of the season, maybe somebody go change all their calendars to “April”.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions

they were in 1st til june tho

by Mastapeace21 on Sep 17, 2011 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions

AZ just lost a couple games to the Padres...

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 17, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Hey, according to Timothy, pirates are awesome.

by non sequitur on Sep 17, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, I worked with someone who thought that way. Then I pointed out the raping, pillaging, plundering, stealing, burning, and fighting. She took all her pirate crap down and her kids started behaving better.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 8:06 AM PDT up reply actions

Alrighty.. I think I’ll go to bed and reread Band of Misfits.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 17, 2011 10:01 PM PDT reply actions

"and the darkest hour is just before dawn"

… to quote Mama Cass.

"It'll break your heart. It's designed to break your heart."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti

by drdata24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:03 PM PDT via mobile reply actions

have a sandwich

by wcw on Sep 17, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions

She needs a fact checker.

You can see the eastern horizon light up just before dawn. And the darkest time of night is largely dependent on the phase of the moon.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions

They must have a cardboard cutout of Rachel Phelps in the locker room

PROUD FATHER of a baby totally made during the 2010 World Series.

by Bret1110 on Sep 17, 2011 10:04 PM PDT reply actions

The Khaleesi has come into her own

"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter

by Murray, Present on Sep 17, 2011 10:05 PM PDT reply actions

Well, the Giants need to gain 2 games in the 7 non-D’backs games and then sweep Arizona in their yard. No small task.

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:05 PM PDT reply actions

jponry has put up PGTs two days in a row.

I assume this means Bochy will sit her tomorrow.

My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).

by waelwulf on Sep 17, 2011 10:06 PM PDT reply actions 15 recs

Have a rec.

Adopted Giant: Mike Fontenot
He's like Grant, but fun size.

by TGOH on Sep 17, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions

She's scuffling.

My adopted son, Brandon Crawford. Dude hits grand slams and plays defense.

by josematan on Sep 17, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions

outstanding

Proud papa to: Bill Schlough, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, aka the IT guy.

Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 18, 2011 12:24 AM PDT up reply actions

Unless she promises to practice her writing skills in the Dominican Republic this winter.

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Sep 18, 2011 5:51 AM PDT up reply actions 4 recs

touchdown stanford

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 Sep 17, 2011 10:11 PM PDT reply actions

Right after an almost-interception. Luck hasn’t looked that great today.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

i'm only half paying attention

BC lost to Duke 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.

by jponry on Sep 17, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Really?

Duke football sucks.

Still the father of two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions

By the transitive property, BC is worse than Richmond

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions

i believe 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.

by jponry on Sep 17, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Richmond’s coach resigned in August after his second DUI.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions

But wait till hockey season starts!

That seems to be the sport that BC really cares about

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions

lol you

Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.

by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions

At that point he hadn’t!

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 1:02 AM PDT up reply actions

O YE OF LITTLE FAITH

But yeah, the past 3-4 games that I’ve seen, Stanford’s come out really flat in the first half, almost as if they want to give the other team a sporting chance. And then they just decide actually to play in the second half. Like in the Orange Bowl. Or hell, even against Duke.

Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.

by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 8:56 AM PDT up reply actions

Stanford is dodging the real powers of college football

Like that tough Marauding Monks team that Cal just beat.

Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 18, 2011 9:05 AM PDT up reply actions

I’m not really sure what they’re supposed to do. They’ve got to play 9 conference games; they’ve always played Notre Dame and nearly always played San Jose State. That leaves only one vacant slot, which they filled with Duke (dunno when that scheduling decision was made). And yeah, it was Duke, but at least it was at Duke.

Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.

by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 9:10 AM PDT up reply actions

I was jabbing at Cal there, but honestly, I think Stanford may be a bit overrated. They don’t look like the 6th best team in the nation right now.

Also, my understanding is that Cal only lined up that game against the Passing Popes because they were trying to dodge De La Salle!

Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 18, 2011 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions

I don’t disagree with the assessment that Stanford may be a bit overrated. I think it’s hard to get a good objective assessment of Stanford’s talent because everyone’s first (and usually only) reaction is OMG LUCK.

Also: ROAMING RECTORS

Adopted father of Chris Lincecum, without whom (quite literally) Timmy would not exist.

by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions

VAGABOND VICARS

2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 18, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions

Missed the game for a party

but man, that Crawford play was amazing. Please get some bats so we can play him at short.

Just play a Brandon or two, come on!

by Tortured on Sep 17, 2011 10:11 PM PDT reply actions

Shortstop would be a nice place to have one of those bats.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

I think you might have missed my point.

Just play a Brandon or two, come on!

by Tortured on Sep 17, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

I don’t think he has. He’s just ~~pessimistic~~ realistic about Crawford’s ability with a bat.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions

If he could develop a bat on his own, that would be nice.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

That, too.

Just play a Brandon or two, come on!

by Tortured on Sep 17, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions

He’s just way too good defensively. So much wasted talent….

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions

I wouldn’t categorize as such. He can have a career as a backup infielder.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Maybe, but his glove is really too good for him to be John McDonald forever.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions

He can be Ray Oyler instead!

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions

That would be unfortunate.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Then Andres Torres can move to shortstop when the Giants win the World Series.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions

WOW

It looks so unremarkable as “J. Pacheco grounded out to shortstop” on Yahoo. Just saw the clip.

by non sequitur on Sep 17, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Most importantly in my mind: Cabrera doesn't make that play.

Remember that, Bochy, you SOB.

Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!

by breadfan7 on Sep 18, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions

Playoff odds up to 4.4% per coolstandings. They were at 0.7% three days ago.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 10:13 PM PDT reply actions

I bet Baseball Prospectus still has them at 94%.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Brian Wilson for Cy Young!

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by josematan on Sep 17, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions

I have them at 94% - what's the BFD?

I’ll scoot over to make room for you on this wagon.

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by Penitentiary Face on Sep 17, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions

If the DBacks lose 6 more in a row and the Giants win 6 more in a row…FIRST PLACE BABY! (the end of the streak would be Giants-AZ, of course)

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by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Go 3-1 in the next 4 games

and if DBacks go 1-3, it’s down 3 with 3 games head to head.

by ABIJXY on Sep 17, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions

I think best we can hope for is

that the DBacks go 2-2

by nofreetime on Sep 17, 2011 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, well I bet they're becoming as frustrated as we were last month.

Based on who they’re playing, there’s no reason they shouldn’t have this locked up by now. But they don’t.

And we should have a 10 game lead in 1st place. But we don’t. Baseball happens. Let’s go get ’em!!!

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by breadfan7 on Sep 18, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions

Giants clinched an above .500 record with the win today.

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by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:17 PM PDT reply actions

And made sure the Rockies clinched a below .500 season

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions

@garbanzo24 Surkamp is not close to Pomeranz.

Keith Law iz mean.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:18 PM PDT reply actions

What’s Pomeranz’s projection? No. 1/2 starter? Is he going to be the Rockies’ ace in a post-Ubaldo world?

by non sequitur on Sep 17, 2011 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions

I’d say #2-3.

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by EricW on Sep 18, 2011 12:32 AM PDT up reply actions

yup

Might end up a valid replacement for Ubaldo someday. He might need a year though.

by boonitez on Sep 18, 2011 2:18 AM PDT up reply actions

I watched him in college a lot. He was dominant in the hard hitting SEC.

by Countificus on Sep 18, 2011 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions

He looked pretty good.

But then he WAS pitching against the Giants

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Not only was it against the Giants, but it was against the worst possible lineup they could put out there. Kids that throw low nineties don’t really impress me, although I’ll give you he’s better than Surkamp. However I didn’t see anything the last two nights that didn’t make me ecstatic that we won’t be seeing Ubaldo Jiminez anymore when we play the Rockies.

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Sep 18, 2011 5:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Hey Keith

he was close today taking the RBI linedrive back up the middle. Surkamp says “suck that Keith Law”

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by Penitentiary Face on Sep 17, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions

This Keith Law guy...

is sort of a prick

by bernardking on Sep 18, 2011 8:38 AM PDT up reply actions

Meh. I like the guy, even if he can be a little bit of an ass sometimes.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 18, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions

Fuck it; I like it because he’s a bit of an ass sometimes.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions

While you may be right, basing it off that observation seems pretty odd.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions

i’m drunk.

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by ramin on Sep 17, 2011 10:30 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

I'm sober

by wcw on Sep 17, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I'M HIGH ON LIFE

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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions

I saw you, though, today, walk by with hippie Johnny.

by wcw on Sep 17, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions

thats a G I R L F R E INDDDD

that’s a girllllfriend

by mooksman on Sep 17, 2011 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions

also

someone tell me why Oklahoma St. and Tulsa started their game 15 minutes ago.

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by ramin on Sep 17, 2011 10:30 PM PDT reply actions

Weather delay.

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by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions

What happened?

Also, I find it ironic that it was I who informed you of the Giants rain delay, and now you are doing the same.

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by ramin on Sep 17, 2011 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Lightning

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by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions

holy crap I'm famous

by fwoty oz on Sep 17, 2011 10:35 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs

we've come full circle

this was after the 14 inning game in Colorado )that never happened)

by fwoty oz on Sep 17, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions

ITS A DUMPSTER

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by ramin on Sep 17, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions

Is that Justin Miller?

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 17, 2011 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions

August 24th, 2009

by fwoty oz on Sep 18, 2011 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions

sucky birthday

It's the logo for my favorite band!

by positiveuphemism on Sep 18, 2011 12:06 AM PDT up reply actions

This late run is going to make me so much more bitter when we are eliminated

//clings to scant hope

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 10:42 PM PDT reply actions

Same here

All of these wins are giving me hope but I’m trying to remind myself that they will most likely not make the playoffs.

Rally Jerry!
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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions

When we are many games out

You can’t point to a single moment and say “this cost us the playoffs.” When we are so close every error (::cough:: Cabrera ::cough::) seems so much greater.

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah

BTW I still don’t know why Cabrera is here (and still playing). I guess no one knows.

Rally Jerry!
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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Bork bork bork experience bork bork bork playoffs every year bork bork bork

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by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Probably has something to do with Crawford being awful and not deserving of a major league roster spot (not saying Cabrera is).

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Pssst

Mike Fontenot

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by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions

That guy with a worse batting average than Cabrera? You’re asking too much.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Mike Fontenot is the best SS option the Giants have.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Hey cool we haven’t had this debate here before

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions

But he’s injury-prone.

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by waelwulf on Sep 17, 2011 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions

/jar jar picture

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions

WELL HE STARTED IT

/points and pouts

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m not arguing with you. I’m just saying that Cabrera’s got a higher batting average and he’s probably better defender (certainly on reputation). 90% of managers would go with Cabrera in this situation.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Dude, batting average...

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by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 17, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions

If you're going to critique Bochy, at least compare him to his peers.

And his peers still give entirely too much of a crap about batting average, and, based on the Gold Glove results (which are decided by managers and coaches), have a skewed opinion of defense.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions

We don’t have to think like that, though.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions

Depends on what your point is.

If your point is only that we should play Fontenot, no.

If your point is that we need a new manager because our won’t play Fontenot, well, then yes you do.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Well Bochy SHOULD play Fontenot, and he’s also a terrible manager.

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 17, 2011 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions

Managing is not graded on a curve.

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by owlcroft on Sep 18, 2011 4:06 AM PDT up reply actions 4 recs

Sure they are. In real life managers are graded on team record, which is on meaningful in comparison to the other 29 teams.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 18, 2011 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions

"In real life":

In whose real life? What, “Hey, my manager is 3% less imbecilic than yours”? Anyone who grades a manager on what his team did can be guaranteed to rank starting pitchers by wins. That includes far too many so-called “baseball writers”.

As I find myself continually remarking, Sparky Anderson said it well when he once remarked to several of us reporters “It’s amazing how smart a manager gets when he has a good team.”

By people who can read without moving their lips, managers are graded by what they do (or don’t do) to what modern baseball knowledge dictates that they would best do (or not do).

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by owlcroft on Sep 18, 2011 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Fontenot: .221 / .301 / .357
Cabrera: .224 / .244 / .250

Maybe Cabrera of 5 years ago is a better defender at SS than Fontenot, but at this point Fontenot is clearly the better defender. He know’s how to catch the ball for one.

Too bad Fontenot is busy saving Middle-Earth, maybe Bochy would remember he exists or something.

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by Badly Browned on Sep 17, 2011 11:12 PM PDT up reply actions

He know’s how to catch the ball for one.

What does that even mean? The closest I can think of is fielding percentage, which is 1) bunk, and 2) show no significant difference between Fontenot and Cabrera as shortstops this season (and favors Cabrera historically).

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions

I think he/she was referring to the dropped pop-up.

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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 11:22 PM PDT up reply actions

which one?

Or are you confusing the clanked grounders? There are many to choose from.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 6:49 AM PDT up reply actions

The eye test shows pretty clearly that Cabrera is done as a major-league shortstop.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 12:00 AM PDT up reply actions

The "eyeball test" tells me pretty clearly that Fontenot is not now and never was one.

Defensively speaking.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 18, 2011 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions

He’s competent, which is more than can be said for Cabrera.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions

Then get your eyes re-checked.

He isn’t Gold Glove material, but he makes the routine plays, which generally suffices. And to judge his bat by this year alone is as foolish as, well, as it sounds.

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by owlcroft on Sep 18, 2011 4:07 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

I was being facisious.

The “eyeball test” of random fans is an obvious bullshit maneuver.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 18, 2011 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions

Yes and yes.

Conclusion: Crawford.

by Tristram on Sep 18, 2011 7:39 AM PDT up reply actions

At least Craw has above average defense

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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions

The last thing the Giants can afford to do is entertain the notation that crawford is an option as anything but a minor leaguer next season.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm not saying Crawford is very good

Just better than Cabrera. Also, Fontenot is better than both of them.

Rally Jerry!
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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions

I can’t wait until we can all back and see what future superstar we could have drafted in 2012 if we’d just picked a few slots higher.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions

This late run is found money

It’s fun watching good baseball for the first time in a month, and I’ve already come to terms with them not making the postseason. If they can get within 3-4 games of the dbacks before the series with them starts I’ll rethink their chances and maight get a little concerned when things go badly.

Also, can we just skip August next year? Seriously, fuck August.

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 17, 2011 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions

I keep forgetting that August sucks

every year it sneaks up on me

by WhatsAMataHari on Sep 17, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions

August sucks

Lesser Caesar, easily.

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by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions

eh

If they can make a story out of it, cool. If not, well we got pretty close considering the injuries and idiocy holding us back. I’d much rather see us go out with a bang than see us go down hacking and flailing like a AA lineup.

by boonitez on Sep 18, 2011 2:30 AM PDT up reply actions

UNPACK!!

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by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 17, 2011 10:43 PM PDT reply actions

First of all, it’s “Kashmiri”, and I think you’re being very insensitive.

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by waelwulf on Sep 17, 2011 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions

ICWUDT

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions

Wet Blanket

if the dbacks go 5-5, the giants need to go 10-0 (making a 17 game win streak, BTW) to tie.

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by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 10:47 PM PDT reply actions

Any team can streak or stumble in a ten game stretch.
Including the Dbacks.
Including the Giants.

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by waelwulf on Sep 17, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Maye, but we’re fast reaching the point where “win out” is the only realistic chance.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions

we hit that point a while back. and since then, amazingly, they’ve been winning.

I’d love to see it. It would be neat to follow the giants in the playoffs from europe.

oh, and if the giants were to go 10-0, that would be 3 against the dbacks. dbacks could go 5-2 in their other games and the giants would tie.

so, it is pretty easy. they just need to win. :)

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by DrStankus on Sep 17, 2011 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Realistically

I think the Giants can lose just one more game this season (and it cannot be against the DBacks).

by nofreetime on Sep 18, 2011 12:24 AM PDT up reply actions

Seems doable

Rally Jerry!
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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Not the right way to think of this

Giants need to sweep Arizona no matter what. beyond that, they only need to go 5-2 (vs. 3-4 for Arizona)

by ABIJXY on Sep 17, 2011 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions

Giants baseball

It’s almost too easy.

Belted!

by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 18, 2011 1:08 AM PDT up reply actions

I love kmvr

Rally Jerry!
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by greekfro on Sep 17, 2011 10:56 PM PDT reply actions

I can't believe they changed Obi-Wan's krayt dragon scream!

http://youtu.be/zRSozjb_nIs

by Natto on Sep 17, 2011 11:02 PM PDT reply actions

Holy shit

yes, the Bags can stumble. Let’s keep in mind the Bags haven’t played a .500+ team in about a month – and no, I don’t consider the August Giants a .500+ team – they were flat out awful getting lucky to have beaten the Astros a few times. The Bags have had some good years out of Upton and Montero, but would you want to hinge your playoff hopes with Goldschmidt as your #5? Chris Young as your #6? Saunders as your #3 starter? Collmenter as your #4? Just saying, nobody should be anointing the Bags NL West champs just yet. I live in Phoenix and in the D’Backs’ broadcasts the last few games they have shown the standings for playoff home field advantage between Arizona and Milwaukee as if they have already clinched the Division. Be fun to make them have to grind out some more victories.

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by Penitentiary Face on Sep 17, 2011 11:11 PM PDT reply actions

But at the same time...

Let’s not get overconfident ourselves! Even if the D-Backs havent played a 500 team in over a month, they obviously would have had to beat the +500 teams in order to get into this position in the first place. You cannot say the D-backs have gotten lucky all year.. they are a tight-knit group with some good pieces and some not-so- good pieces, along with a brilliant coaching staff.

As far as them talking about Home Field Advantage in the playoffs… let them. We shouldn’t be overly concerned with how the D-backs are doing right now. We should just win out on all of our games and let everything else fall into place. The Giants are riding a seven game winning streak right now… lets just keep winning like this. Let’s play our best baseball right now, and see where we are when we go to Arizona for the weekend series. We can still do this… but lets stay focused and not get too excited here…

by GPRawr on Sep 17, 2011 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Any team that comes from behind like they have is dependent on luck insofar as they need the team(s) ahead of them to collapse.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 17, 2011 11:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Fuck this shit. I’ve been down this road before.

My mind ain't nuthin' but a total blank, I think I'll just stay here and draaank - Merle Haggard

by NuschlerFace on Sep 17, 2011 11:14 PM PDT reply actions

in 2010?

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 Sep 18, 2011 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions

From Baggs:

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/extrabaggs/2011/09/17/postgame-notes-giants-hit-easy-street-3000-is-the-magic-number-for-brett-pill-a-rare-play-for-carlos-beltran-etc/

It’s in the notebook and I tweeted it earlier, but in case you missed the news, Brian Wilson will be activated prior to Sunday’s game. Bruce Bochy delivered that bit of info after Saturday’s game.

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by SFGuy on Sep 17, 2011 11:59 PM PDT reply actions

They must really believe they are in this thing, otherwise they’d have Weez taking it waaaaay s l o w .

"...more often than not, it’s factually based."

by KrazyKrabMeat on Sep 18, 2011 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions

Remember what happened the last time they speeded Wilson back from the DL.

We won’t be in it much longer. Wilson’s too tough for his own (and the team’s) good.

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by Bhaakon on Sep 18, 2011 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions

I think Wilson was actually activated last night. He looked different, but that was sure him on the mound in the ninth.

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Sep 18, 2011 6:01 AM PDT up reply actions

yeah

one rusty game is going to be enough to end this.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 6:51 AM PDT up reply actions

I just realized something

To this point the Vogs story has been the best story of the year. They could actually surpass it in the next 11 days.

It's the logo for my favorite band!

by positiveuphemism on Sep 18, 2011 12:07 AM PDT reply actions

you be jinxin' bro

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 Sep 18, 2011 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions

you be jinxin' bro

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 Sep 18, 2011 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions

you be jinxin' bro

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 12:15 AM PDT up reply actions

you be jinxin' bro

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 12:39 AM PDT up reply actions

you be jinxin' bro

It's the logo for my favorite band!

by positiveuphemism on Sep 18, 2011 1:31 AM PDT up reply actions

you be jinxin' bro

My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal

by garbanzo24 on Sep 18, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions

bro, you be jinxin'

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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 18, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions

brojinx

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions

Shift-A: I refuse to believe in the Giants until after the Dback series

Refuse!

Also…who is a racist around here…I demand a committee hearing on this matter!

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by CalBear949 on Sep 18, 2011 12:10 AM PDT reply actions

That’s a fair assessment because until that series is over there is no way to know if they are still in this.

It's the logo for my favorite band!

by positiveuphemism on Sep 18, 2011 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions

i'm not against asians

but people who eat rice and have black hair skeeze me out

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Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 18, 2011 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions

dammit

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 12:15 AM PDT up reply actions

i'm racist against Cain and Lincecum

Natto is racist against Ralph Barbieri

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by jponry on Sep 18, 2011 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions

Natto’s isn’t completely irrational, stipulating that that is a real racial classification

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Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 18, 2011 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions

Caincecist

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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 18, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions

I wouldn't say that I hate distance runners, but I wouldn't mind concentrating them in one place and stopping food shipments.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 18, 2011 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions

ireland?

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Your mom's a girl

by DrStankus on Sep 18, 2011 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions

I like Jameson.

How about Iceland.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 18, 2011 12:22 AM PDT up reply actions

their cuisine looks pretty vile. candied reindeer nose and fermented fish and stuff.

they have vodka and aquavit I think. those are good.

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by DrStankus on Sep 18, 2011 12:24 AM PDT up reply actions

I would prefer not to be confined to one place without food.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 12:25 AM PDT up reply actions

Well then you can just run to another place without food, joggy.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 18, 2011 2:01 AM PDT up reply actions

Unfortunately, most things I would like to eat can run faster than I or are bigger than I am.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 8:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Just curious: Is it hard having to justify yourself constantly by announcing your academic credentials? Like, you had a screen name that was calbearjd beforehand, if I’m not mistaken. Do you walk around with your JD around your neck and flash it at people like bling?

by Tim Lincecum on Sep 18, 2011 1:31 AM PDT up reply actions

Either you’ve been lurking here before, or you should probably be resting up for Tuesday.
Then again, maybe both. Tell me everything.
EVERYTHING.

My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).

by waelwulf on Sep 18, 2011 1:34 AM PDT up reply actions

Shh. Don’t tell anyone I posted on here!

by Tim Lincecum on Sep 18, 2011 1:36 AM PDT up reply actions

I don’t have that kind of self-control.

My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).

by waelwulf on Sep 18, 2011 1:39 AM PDT up reply actions

How badly do you want the winning streak to continue?

by Tim Lincecum on Sep 18, 2011 1:41 AM PDT up reply actions

:)

by Tim Lincecum on Sep 18, 2011 1:42 AM PDT up reply actions

I think he changed it because he didn’t like giving off that impression.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 1:47 AM PDT up reply actions

Seriously.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions

I am glad that no one has called me a racist nor called me out for flaunting my DJ credentials.

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by DJ Tofu on Sep 18, 2011 1:54 AM PDT up reply actions

This is amusing me

I certainly wear my JD around my neck and flash it at people.

Inside Joke! JD is my husband! That’s so funskjksdjksjjsds I am going back to bed now.

Still backing Notgardo, wheresoever he may wander. (Don't forget to wriiiite!)

by tk on Sep 18, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions

I find his neck to be quite comfortable.

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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 18, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions

I think the failure against the Astros will sting the most in the offseason…
that and not DFA’ing Rowand and Tejada soon enough…
Sabean makes that move two weeks earlier and we might be in a different spot right now

by bernardking on Sep 18, 2011 12:20 AM PDT reply actions

So, uhh....

5 back with 3 left against the team ahead of us. Huh. How about that. My hope is on life support but not yet dead.

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by bondslegend on Sep 18, 2011 1:32 AM PDT reply actions

I’m avoiding hope still because the dbacks essentially clenching the division by beating the giants would be quite a kick in the nuts.

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 18, 2011 1:43 AM PDT up reply actions

lol clenching.

The first six innings are overrated.

by apistat on Sep 18, 2011 1:55 AM PDT up reply actions

All this winning

Has in fact made that a very likely scenario. I had been assuming they’d easily clinch before that series.

by taliesin on Sep 18, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions

DRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNK

old very dear* friend from highschool and her boyfriend are passed out on my floor, ths isnt’ awkward at ALL.

GIANTS FUCK YEAH

Have you seen my son's velocity?

Pithy.

by Lies and Perfidy on Sep 18, 2011 2:36 AM PDT reply actions

It feels like there ought to be a footnote there, since you provided an asterisk.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 2:38 AM PDT up reply actions

*I can see her boobs

Sundrendy!

by Deleuzian on Sep 18, 2011 2:42 AM PDT up reply actions

There it is!

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions

*

Adopted Giant: Jacob Dunnington. Will your team regret passing up on my boy 50 times?

by TimLaser and MattyC on Sep 18, 2011 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions

Fuck Bruce Bochy

Baggs:

Bochy also made a special mention that Pill played winter ball. Whenever Bochy praises the 27-year-old from Cal State Fullerton, it’s not too hard to add an unspoken postscript. Something to the effect of, "This is what he’s doing right, and this is what Belt has not done right."

I don’t even need to say it.

"Forget it, Jake. It's academic."

by El Person on Sep 18, 2011 2:39 AM PDT reply actions

Winter ball is what made Pill replacement level!

Sundrendy!

by Deleuzian on Sep 18, 2011 2:42 AM PDT reply actions

MEXICAN BALL!

by GPRawr on Sep 18, 2011 2:50 AM PDT up reply actions

Can someone remind that idiot Bochy that Belt played in the Arizona Fall League last year after the season? Doesn’t that count? Do young players have to play 365 days a year to make him happy? If Belt suffers a serious injury this winter, I’m headed to Bochy’s house with a lynch mob. Who’s in?

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Sep 18, 2011 6:06 AM PDT up reply actions

I'm in this minute, whether Belt gets injured or not.

Giants baseball: So hollow, so empty.

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by Sabean's_Folly on Sep 18, 2011 7:33 AM PDT up reply actions

+1

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 8:59 AM PDT up reply actions

they do realize that like

Pill’s played in six games

two 0-4s in a row will drop him down to .250

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by jponry on Sep 18, 2011 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions

LOL PILL HATER

pill haters gotta hate.

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions

I tried arguing with them on Bagg's blog. I don't know why I thought that was a good idea.

All I get is something like… “it doesn’t matter what he’s done in the minors because he’s hitting now!”.

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by TGOH on Sep 18, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions

Carlos Beltran must think we’re in this thing, because I’ve noticed he’s stopped jogging around right field.

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Sep 18, 2011 6:08 AM PDT reply actions

so

Matier & Ross have a different take on the Neukom ouster. Spoiler alert: it’s about money.

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 7:09 AM PDT reply actions

I like any reason that doesn’t say that they thought that team payroll had become too high. That one scares me. If they want to take Neukom’s ten million and spend it on the team, I have no problem with them firing him.

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Sep 18, 2011 7:34 AM PDT up reply actions

yeah right

like executive compensation saved is always re-invested in the company.

I imagine this explains some of the “communications issues” too; if they hadn’t settled on a compensation structure for him, you can bet they hadn’t talked through what the scope of his authority was either.

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 7:39 AM PDT up reply actions

Maybe the board meetings

Are just everyone sitting there staring at eachother

Sundrendy!

by Deleuzian on Sep 18, 2011 8:03 AM PDT up reply actions

Still seems like one big huge High School spat with Neukom being the successful geek who started to overshadow all the cool kids and the cool kids decided to take him down.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions

This. ^^

Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster

by SituationalLefty on Sep 18, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions

Could it be that Surkamp’s arm is tired?

Just speculating as to why he’s been walking people of late…

by bernardking on Sep 18, 2011 8:41 AM PDT reply actions

I have the same feeling.

Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.

by Giant among Angels on Sep 18, 2011 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions

He did set a career high in IP in Richmond this year

Add on the 20+ innings he’s pitched up here, and there’s a definite possibility of fatigue.

by jhawx on Sep 18, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions

Ah, but . . .

. . . Bochy has said emphatically that the team is going to put a lot less load on the starters’ arms the rest of the season. And Bochy is an honorable man, who always keeps his word. Right?

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by owlcroft on Sep 18, 2011 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions

What a goal by Nani…… Also Bochy hates Belt…

"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry

by calgiants86 on Sep 18, 2011 8:42 AM PDT reply actions

Was watching Jon’s tv-side call of Pill’s 1st triple last night.

…“it’s off the top of the wall!” sounded eerily similar to his 2000 call of Jeff Kent’s double at pacbell…“it’s off the top of the car!”

Damn, the Giants scored 925 runs that year…holy fuck…

by bernardking on Sep 18, 2011 9:13 AM PDT reply actions

wtaf? ummm hello… weather??? It’s mid-september… why’s it gotta be 100˚ outside still?

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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 9:13 AM PDT reply actions

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions

Not bad at all

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Today’s #SFGiants lineup: Torres cf, Fontenot 2b, Beltran rf, Sandoval 3b, Huff 1b, Belt lf, Crawford ss, Whiteside c, Cain p

Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience

by Lars The Wanderer on Sep 18, 2011 9:25 AM PDT reply actions

10:1 this lineup gets shut out. Because we like it and because Cain is pitching.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Torres better start hitting or else the hole he’s been digging himself is only going to get bigger

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions

when was he digging

In his last start on September 5? Or his last start before that on August 31?

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions

those rare times when he is playing (he’s also been subbed in a lot) there’s been a lot of strikes out as well as a lot of not hitting. I wish Torres played more because it’s been hard to know whether he was a flash in the pan or his head hasn’t been quite right (not helped at all with stupidly having to platoon with Rowand) but I just wish he started playing like he did last year so Bochy can give him more playing time and the rest of us can take a sigh of relief knowing he’s as good as we hope he is.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions

I should also add that I’m rooting for him and want him to play so I want him to do well. Unfortunately, I’m not sure Bochy has that same view

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions

so to sum up

he has been stupidly utilized, and yet should go 5 for 5 when he starts twice per month.

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions

Hit for the cycle or your ass gets benched!

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 Sep 18, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions

so to sum up

he’s being stupidly utilized for whatever reason and hasn’t played well when he is playing (this goes back to the summer) and I want him to play well in those games that he is playing so he won’t be stupidly utilized as much as he is. I’m worried that when he doesn’t perform, he gets buried deeper in the bench.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions

Exactly.

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by owlcroft on Sep 18, 2011 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions

That "flash" . . .

.. . lasted at least 1-1/3 seasons, starting with when he returned to the majors in 2009.

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by owlcroft on Sep 18, 2011 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions

yay!

surprised not to see Pill though

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by jponry on Sep 18, 2011 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions

So Pill hits two clutch triples.... and gets benched...?!

At least Cabrera isn’t playing…

"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry

by calgiants86 on Sep 18, 2011 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions

at least no cabrera is a big f-yeah, fist-bump, high-five, double high-five, chest-bump, moonwalk

by bernardking on Sep 18, 2011 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions

I see

Last night was the throwaway day game-night game lineup.

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 Sep 18, 2011 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions

Or I should say

night game-day game

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 Sep 18, 2011 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions

R U Serious?
Cuz that can’t be right.

Alright…. which one of you is hiding Bighead in your basement?

and I agree… this lineup gets no-hit.

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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions

I’ve got the head, but it’s on a pike for safekeeping.

Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster

by SituationalLefty on Sep 18, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions

it's nice

except for the bottom 33% of the lineup being giveaway outs.

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions

Vogelsong can't pitch every day.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions

that's about as good as it gets 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.

by jponry on Sep 18, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions

Pill’s line: .333/.333/.857. Hooray unsustainable!

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions

wouldn't have minded

him in at 1B over Huff, but it’s actually a little encouraging that Bochy seems to be platooning 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.

by jponry on Sep 18, 2011 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions

not that I condone platoon suggestions

but isn’t Huffy the one with the reverse split?

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions

it's a platoon split out of line with his career #s

i’d still expect him to hit better vs RHP going forward

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 Sep 18, 2011 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions

but Cain can hit dingerz

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 Sep 18, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions

4 of them!

"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry

by calgiants86 on Sep 18, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions

In one at bat!

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions

Left Handed!

Giant Dirtbags: :(
Jeremy Affeldt is terrible.

by Giant among Angels on Sep 18, 2011 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions

Blindfolded!

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions

Who is this Fontenot?

I don’t remember him at all

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions

You need to go back and watch Lord of the Rings again.

"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry

by calgiants86 on Sep 18, 2011 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions

Little guy? Hung out with Frodo but didn’t get to go to Mordor because the Gandalf’s younger, much dumber brother thought he wasn’t gritty enough to go?

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions

Do you know Mike Fontenot?
Long time passing…

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions

This should play over a series of slow-motion, soft focus shots of Fonty smiling wistfully.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Where have all the Hobbits gone
Long time ago
Where have the good shortstops gone
Gone to bench meat everyone…

When will he ever learn?
When will Bighead ever learn…?

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

heh.

by non sequitur on Sep 18, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions

Well done!

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions

SWEEEEET

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 18, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions

Man, the presence of Buster Posey would instantly make that lineup look pretty damn legit.

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by Johnny Disaster on Sep 18, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions

Official

SFGiants San Francisco Giants
#SFGiants have reinstated Brian Wilson from disabled list and have activated him prior to today’s game.

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 Sep 18, 2011 9:52 AM PDT reply actions

Hooray more of last night...

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by calgiants86 on Sep 18, 2011 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Technology...bah...

I had to check the instruction manual on how to use my am/fm transistor radio. Kripes.

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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:06 AM PDT reply actions

I make fun of my grandparents for not knowing how to use a computer, but I’m already way behind the curve on technology such as smartphones. I’m going to be at their level of doddering incompetence with basic technology before I’m 30.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, it’s depressing to have that feeling. I just want a phone that can make phone calls and maybe send text messages!

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions

I live in this village.
When I’m working I can’t have a cell phone on, can’t use it at the gym, won’t use it in the car…and well by then….I’m home and can use the computer!

I pay like $15 a month for my cell phone and it just makes phone calls, it’ll do text messages but I’ve never bothered to figure out how.

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TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions

That’s my phone. That’s all it does, and all I want it to do. My boyfriend mocks it as “the grandpa phone.”

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions

The Mr. has an iphone, I can usually figure it out.

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions

I have a mixed record on smartphone usage (when I borrow someone else’s). Sometimes I can get it, and sometimes I accidentally send their entire contact list 37 identical e-mails about humorously misspelled signs.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions

LOL

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 18, 2011 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions

"accidentally"

We know what you’re really up to!

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions

NON-PROFIT MEDIA COUP

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions

REPORTING FROM SEATTLE

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions

AS FAR AS YOU KNOW

(totally laying on the bedroom floor)

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions

"...Reporting live from Seattle, TheLetter2, KBIU"

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Then my “Rocky Top” ringtone starts blaring in the background, blowing my cover.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions

TN has 8 official state songs? Man, they should just make it an official state album.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions

Also, I prefer Little Round Top.

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions

I’m partial to the Tennessee Waltz.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions

I liked how Pill didn’t overswing on that 2nd triple last night.
I like that Crawford is in the lineup today…
I like that Belt is in the lineup today
I’m guardedly optimistic that Huff builds on his three-hit game from Friday

Predictions:
Torres bangs out three hits and wins the game for us today
Whiteside attempts a straight-steal of home plate and doesn’t quite make it
Fontenot plays barefoot

by bernardking on Sep 18, 2011 10:09 AM PDT reply actions

Ratto is a moron....

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1 hour ago

Chelsea was playing Manchester United…

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by calgiants86 on Sep 18, 2011 10:16 AM PDT reply actions

Ok, so I’m looking at the list of champions in the EPL since its inception (INCEPTION) in 1992. There are 20 clubs in the league but only four different teams have won its 18 championships — and if you throw out the one-time Blackburn Rovers, it’s really three teams who win every year: Manchester United (11), Arsenal (3), and Chelsea (3).

I’m curious: how does this disparity play out in public discourse over there in England? What’s it like to be fans of the other 17 clubs? I’ve actually got a student this semester who’s a fan of Wolverhampton.

by non sequitur on Sep 18, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions

i feel like if you're not a fan of one of the big three (+ maybe Liverpool)

winning the EPL isn’t really the focus/end goal? IDK.

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by jponry on Sep 18, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions

Right, +Liverpool. And only the top four place in the Champions League, so the punishment for not finishing high is even worse. Nick Hornby’s team is Arsenal; would have been more interesting if it was Newcastle United or Manchester City!

by non sequitur on Sep 18, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions

Man City’s now closing in on the bigger teams because they’re owned by some rich oil guy from Bahrain or something and he’s throwing money around left and right. When Hornby wrote “Fever Pitch” (great book) Arsenal wasn’t what they are now (excepting this season) and were more of a Red Sox type team— always good but never good enough. Like the Red Sox, Arsenal doesn’t have that kind of romance anymore.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions

When Hornby wrote "Fever Pitch" (great book) Arsenal wasn’t what they are now (excepting this season) and were more of a Red Sox type team— always good but never good enough.

Ah. Didn’t realize this.

by non sequitur on Sep 18, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions

Man City sort of destabilized the EPL

Before, it was a Big 4 of Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Liverpool, but now it has become more of a Big 6 of those four teams, City, and Tottenham. So short term at least, the money injection has actually made the EPL more competitive.

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by Murray, Present on Sep 18, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah but there’s the league and then there’s the FA Cup.
FA Cup is where it’s at…
from the Wiki:

The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. [snip] Entry is open to all teams who compete in the Premier League, the Football League and in steps one to five of the FA National League System, as well as selected teams in step 6. This means that clubs of all standards compete, from the largest clubs in England and Wales down to amateur village teams.

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions

Which is kinda the equivalent of your local Class C baseball team being able to compete against the Giants in a tournament.

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions

ah-ha! and:

… the FA Cup has a long tradition of lower-ranked teams becoming “giant-killers” by defeating opponents from a higher division.16 While it is common for this to happen (one statistical analysis based on four years of results showed that the probability of at least one team beating one from a higher division in a given year was 99.85%, dropping to 48.8% for a two-division gap and 39.28% for a three-division gap17), it is considered particularly newsworthy when the “victim” is one of the top Premier League teams, or where the giant-killer is from outside the League divisions. …

So the Big Four are operating in at least three independently organized competitions per year? The EPL, Champions League, and the FA Cup? How confusing. The American sports monopoly leagues are much more straightforward.

by non sequitur on Sep 18, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions

Yep, but it’s a huge deal when you’re Barcelona and win all three. Man U’s done it once too (maybe Arsenal once) and it was a huge deal as it’s not something that’s easy to do.

I’ve heard the FA Cup is one of the best tournaments in sports because some third-level team could get lucky and beat one of the big guys. Picture the NCAA Tourney except throw in every one.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions

aside from history

I really think that model would make a lot more sense than what they do in MLB now.

The Rivercats would have played themselves into first division a long time ago, and the A’s would have drifted down to the Far West League, battling the Humboldt Crabs and Redding Colt .45s.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions

YOU’VE BEEN RELEGATED!!!!!

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions

Seriously, the Astros, Cubs, Marlins, and Padres would be getting ready for their postseason run! And the games would actually be competitive, including the regular season games they play to try to stay out of the Survivor Tournament. The Rockies would be fighting to stay out of it right now too.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions

I’ve heard that you have two teams you root for, your neighborhood team and one of the Big 3 (or four now). I even said that here and was told if you were a Fullham fan you were on for life because it’s your side of the town and it’s like in baseball where your great-great-grandparents rooted for them so you do too. Which makes sense in a way and I’m trying to like Fullham because Clint Dempsey is a stud there but I can’t see the idea in rooting for a team that will never win.

There are different sorts of tourneys in Europe, though, so even if you don’t make the Champions League, you can do a bunch other tourneys so you can kind of have the same experience, just not on the big stage.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions

meh. the nba is pretty similar something like 7 teams in the last 30 years or something

lakers, celtics, spurs, detroit, and the bulls basically
the rockets won two
then the heat and mavs each won one

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions

nba

How does the NBA’s revenue sharing model compare to the NFL and MLB? This follows the discussion that emerged out of my fanpost a week ago. If I wanted to make a purely economic argument, I could tie NFL parity to its egalitarian revenue sharing model, in which even the Carolinas and Green Bays get the same TV money as the Cowboys and Patriots (I read somewhere that TV $$$ accounts for 2/3 of the NFL’s revenue!). So while some teams are indeed richer than others, basically everyone in the NFL is at least “rich”, and can compete on the free agency market.

Whereas in MLB, revenues are tied to local media markets to a much greater degree and you have rich teams and poor teams, and the rich teams have an unfair advantage. The Moneyball argument enters here to complicate the picture but let’s put that aside for the moment. Where does the NBA fall on this continuum?

by non sequitur on Sep 18, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions

answering my own question

Hey, someone named Andrew Feinstein tries to make this argument on our own SBN. NBA owners share national and international television and licensing revenue but not local revenue. In particular, while the NFL splits ticket sales 60/40 between home/visitors, in the NBA the home team keeps everything. So successful teams draw crowds, $$$, and win, while the other 23 teams find it hard to break out of their loserdom.

There aren’t more detailed revenue breakdowns in this piece (maybe Feinstein just doesn’t have access to them). If TV revenue alone were 2/3 of what the NBA makes like it is in the NFL, then how much different could not splitting ticket sales really make.

by non sequitur on Sep 18, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions

I hope

you’ll keep making fanposts once in a while about this stuff, I find the various issues pretty interesting and as the CBA talks in baseball move along your curiosity might be pretty timely.

I don’t know if you’ve discovered biz of baseball, but they try to keep on top of this type of news, and apparently they have sites for the other sports to so you might find them useful.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions

Thanks for the biz of baseball tip — I have come across it in my e-travels.

Sports and business is pretty interesting, isn’t it. The thing that interests me especially — and I’m hardly the first to observe this — is the cross-Atlantic comparison. We think of the U.S. as the free market society and Europe as a bunch of socialists, but this gets turned around when it comes to sports. Football clubs over there have to compete not only against other clubs but other leagues, and it’s a free market — there are financial winners and losers.

Over here, meanwhile, sports are a weird hybrid of money-making machine and quasi-socialist experiment. I don’t know whether Pete Rozelle’s radical revenue-sharing plan for the NFL was driven as much by a concern for competitive equality as it was by fiscal/economic concern for league health. But either way, it makes the question about how you make sports “fair” fascinating. (To me.)

by non sequitur on Sep 18, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions

I think

w/r/t the NFL, the idea that the league is only as strong as its weakest link stems from the AFL and Lamar Hunt (and all the like-minded guys like Al Davis and Bob Howsam and so on), and that they were the first to pool TV revenues. And it’s their competitive league that revitalized and transformed the NFL when they came along.

And I agree the irony is delicious- US sports teams owners decry socialism and welfare, except to the extent it leads to free or greatly-discounted facilities or “luxury tax” payments from the Yankees.

I find it much, much weirder that over 100 universities have become sports entertainment operations complete with TV networks.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions

If the Giants were an EPL team, we’d be Tottenham- visions of cracking the Big Four, a team comprised of enough players to almost make it, but stuck with an unwilling ownership group that would spend the money to get the players to break through.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions

He only knows Arsenal and Chelsea because they're alphabetically at the top on FIFA

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by Murray, Present on Sep 18, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions

Poor ManU – always down the list.

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by SituationalLefty on Sep 18, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions

You have to scroll all the way down to M! Too much exercise for Ratto.

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by Murray, Present on Sep 18, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

It’s ok we are always on top of the table.

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by calgiants86 on Sep 18, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions

ot handegg news

cam newton looks like he is for real
he is torching the champs right now
carolina might be happy luck didnt come out

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 10:46 AM PDT reply actions

we’re watching the Rrrrrrrrrrrrrraiders….

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions

im too close to chico for anything but aaron rodgers and co to be on the tv here

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions

I don’t even think anyone who isn’t a passionate fan of the Rai-duhs or anyone in Buffalo would want to watch this game and if they do, it’s not fair to the rest of us who could care less about either team but are stuck having to watch it.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions

God I hate NFL TV rules. All these great games are on and I’m stuck with Raiders/Bills and only Raiders/Bills. Instead of showing football on FOX, they’re slurping Eric Cantor instead.

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions

I’m gonna have a problem when the Niner game starts. GO GIANTS!

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Is Tebow still thick? That’s all I care about. I haven’t been keeping up.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions

He’s their 3rd string QB right now. Jesus must have forgotten about him

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Tebow still sucks

And yet his jersey is one of the best selling lol

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by Badly Browned on Sep 18, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions

At least he’s got the Jockey thing to fall back on.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions

Touchdown Rrrrrrrrrrrrraiders!!!!

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:53 AM PDT reply actions

oooh interception..

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions

raiders are looking good

i have hope for them in the division with the chiefs season falling apart (Jamaal charles leg injury) and the chargers being the chargers

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Touchdown….Rrrrrrrrrrrraiders…..

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions

hugh jackson

american hero

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions

LOL Tom Cable

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions

wait, what happened to Charles? Is my Pokemonz Egghand League team doomed once again to an injury to a first round draft pick?

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions

didnt see it

but i heard it was a serious leg injury

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions

my house smells like chili this morning

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 10:53 AM PDT reply actions

Geez, I wish, it’s too freaking hot here still for chili. As soon as it gets cooler there’ll be a fight over the crock pot: real chili or that other crap….

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions

real chili? do you mean chili con carne from a can/

also crock pots are literally the best thing ever

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions

real chili is meat and beans and spicy spices… the other stuff is that glorified spaghetti sauce from Cincinnati

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions

yeah, I inherited a crock pot. This was my first plate appearance. a carne-less concoction. i speak fluent spanish.

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Aaron Sorkin’s “The Crock Pots and These Women.”

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions

LOL SACTO

too soon?

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions

this is only a good thing if you are/recently have been cooking chili

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions

coffee, newspaper, football

it’s a sunday tradition that even the raiders can’t break

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:02 AM PDT reply actions

I like to buy my Sunday paper before CBS Sunday Morning comes on at nine. I woke up too late to do that this morning. But I made French toast and enjoyed the homespun charm of Charles Osgood nonetheless. I’m just now reading the paper.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions

mmm, french toast sounds good

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions

How's your Sunday paper there?

I don’t know if you dared the Chronicle while you were here, but it’s a Thursday-sized paper, printed on Saturday, bound with 5 pounds of advertisements.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions

You could read THE EXAMINER. Uh, if you can find one.

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by tk on Sep 18, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions

no offense tk

I’d prefer not finding one in my driveway every Sunday.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions

better then the chico er

which sometimes only has 12 pages plus 100 pages of ads
btw the 12 pages wasnt a joke

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions

The Sunday News Sentinel is pretty solid. I’m still getting used to it after a quarter-century of the Birmingham News, but I like it. The crossword puzzles are good, and I like their long-form feature reporting. Today, for instance, is a mutli-page reports on the 50th anniversary of the Civic Coliseum downtown. Very interesting.

I do buy the Chronicle, and did so every day I was in town last month. I like their Sunday edition, especially the weather page.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions

you mean

you buy the Chronicle in TN? That’s pretty impressive, it’s sadly difficult to find dailys from other cities any more. Not impossible, but seems like the old newsstands with collections of other cities’ papers are gone and not coming back.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

/Sighs.

Is the horoscope still on page 16 of the Pink Section?

/Has been living too far away for too long.

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by SituationalLefty on Sep 18, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions

No, I meant when I’m in the Bay Area. But I have ordered back issues in print, and I read the electronic version online. I’d love to take out a subscription to various newspapers around the country. If I could ever work out the logistics, I’d get the Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and New York Times.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Seattle Times? I find it to be largely void of relevance

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions

Gotta stay abreast of stuff going on in his locale

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by speckops on Sep 18, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions

Of course!

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Ah, but I don’t know that yet. I have to read it and find out.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Back in the day… when Tower Books existed … you could go there and get Sunday papers from all the major markets.

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by Merope on Sep 18, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions

I remember seeing similar displays in bookstores when I was young, but I haven’t seen anything quite like that in a long time.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions

you're still young!

There are a few places with small remnants of those racks, but a lot of times there are but a few (NYT, LAT) sad reminders of what used to be.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions

indeed

I haven’t checked in a while but these mail subscriptions were pretty lacking, either nonexistent or really pricey. I like the NYT a lot but it’s pretty voluminous for a daily read IMO (perfect for train commuters in the Tri-State area) and the Sunday paper just makes me feel guilty.

I would love to have a mail subscription to the Village Voice, if I could go back in time and keep them from getting bought out by the Weekly.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions

The price, as well as the time delay in having it mailed to me, prevents me from just jumping in and subscribing. The Sunday Chronicle would arrive five days later, and be of use only to read the features and any interesting items that caught me eye. The newsy news would be long gone.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions

that's a real drawback

my parents subscribed to a few OR local papers when they were planning to move up there, and at one point were told that the newspapers were the last thing sorted, being 4th class or 12th class mail or whatever they are. Proved useful for their purposes.

Actually I think some of the local rags are still affordable in mail subscriptions, but so many of them (at least in CA) have been bought by out-of-town operations, those aren’t worth it either. I used to take my hometown paper while living in NY, but as its ownership got farther and farther out of town via mergers there was no longer any point.

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by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions

sunday morning is the best

i remember a few years ago they did like a 15 minutes segment about the wild donkey of arizona
i was memorized

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions

memorized by whom?

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions

if i try to remember

i end up clucking like a chicken

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions

I enjoyed this morning’s interview with Hugh Laurie, about his new blues album.

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions

He’s an amazingly talented guy and not as full of himself as, by all rights, he’s entitled to be.

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by SituationalLefty on Sep 18, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

One funny moment came when the reporter, Martha Teichner, was walking with Laurie through Amoeba Records in Hollywood. I looked up and said, “I was just there!” Same section and everything. I was searching for a particular Dave Brubeck album, and then I saw the same aisle on Sunday Morning. Isn’t that crazy?

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by TheLetter2 on Sep 18, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions

stupid seahawks

theyre going to end up with luck

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 11:08 AM PDT reply actions

that would be a burn in so many ways

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by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions

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by troymccluresf on Sep 18, 2011 11:09 AM PDT reply actions

and brett pill is the back up fist basemen so he needs all the playing time he can get

Belt? he’s fresno’s first basemen. I dont even know what he is doing here.

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by operation carrot on Sep 18, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions

As long as it’s at Pill’s expense and not Belt’s….

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by garbanzo24 on Sep 18, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions

If that’s the case, he’s gonna have to put on that thong.

AND KEEP IT ON.

Still backing Notgardo, wheresoever he may wander. (Don't forget to wriiiite!)

by tk on Sep 18, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions

that’s ridiculous

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions

So I finished ASOS last night

"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter

by Murray, Present on Sep 18, 2011 11:14 AM PDT reply actions

I bet you did

12 hour marathon cant-put-it-down session?

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions

The end of the book is one, big, long “OMG!” followed by another “OMG!”

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions

the last sansa chapter omg

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 Sep 18, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

I know!

And then the epilogue.

"Campeones." - Andres Torres
Please follow my Twitter

by Murray, Present on Sep 18, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions

LEAVE SANSA ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Dingoes Ate My Baby on Sep 18, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions

no lie

sansa is my favorite character

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 Sep 18, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Really?

"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry

by calgiants86 on Sep 18, 2011 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions

yes

best character arc, imo, and I think she’s going to really kick ass in the last two books.

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 Sep 18, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions

top 5

sansa
jaime
arya
jon
davos

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 Sep 18, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions

Ugh. She will have to.

2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller

by Johnny Disaster on Sep 19, 2011 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions

/doesn’t know my ASOS from a hole in the wall

proud son of greatgiantfan; b. Apr 29, 2009, d. Jul 30, 2010.

by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

Er...may i ask a question?

Why isn’t the line-up like this: O_O

CF Torres
2B Fontenot
RF Beltran
3B Sandoval
LF Belt
1B Pill
SS Crawford
C Sanchez
Pitcher (Cain)

Go Sharks!

by Dmitriy on Sep 18, 2011 11:16 AM PDT reply actions

Check out that tweet from Henry Schulman above

Belted!

by AndYourBirdCanSing on Sep 18, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions

Oh...gotcha

Hope Huff and Whiteside do somewhat decently then >_>

Go Sharks!

by Dmitriy on Sep 18, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions

German pancakes this morning

Yum

Never mind, baseball gods. I don't love you any more. You've gone back to hating the Giants

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! ...ormaybe a game or two.

by thehavenot on Sep 18, 2011 11:17 AM PDT reply actions

pfankuchen!

Where have you gone, Steven Revetria? A bandwagon turns its lonely eyes to you.

"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased

"That one's on me."- Madison Bumgarner

by natteringnabob on Sep 18, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions

Conclusion: The Buffalo Bills Are Not Good

proud son of greatgiantfan; b. Apr 29, 2009, d. Jul 30, 2010.

by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:18 AM PDT reply actions

Western NY’s version of Torture 3.0

Torres IS the magic bean. - Johnny Disaster

by SituationalLefty on Sep 18, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions

don't get cropped

OGT

proud son of greatgiantfan; b. Apr 29, 2009, d. Jul 30, 2010.

by son of ggf on Sep 18, 2011 11:21 AM PDT reply actions

Re-sign Voltron. Dude can hit.

Seems like a bad idea to use non-obvious nicknames in a new post.

"Your curses do not compare to those of Houston fans or Detroit fans, and especially not to those of fans from the northside of Chicago. You are not Hamlet. You are Valerie Bertinelli. Your victim act is schlocky, and totally unconvincing. You fancy yourself tormented. You are merely insecure."
-- Scott Burton to Red Sox fans, 6/12/02
http://espn.go.com/magazine/burton_20020612.html

by achiappanza on Sep 19, 2011 7:39 AM PDT reply actions