The Future Is Now. Or Maybe Not. No, Probably Not.
Enough of the obsequiousness. Enough of fellow Flappers saying, “Great thread! Good topic!” This lazily constructed bit of verbal fabric (i.e., “loose thread”) will put a leaden-thump of an end to that, for one day.
Girls, today we will prognosticate the results of this weekend’s series with the Dodgers. (If it is a four-game series, better yet a demonstration of my morning haziness.) You will notice in the following that I haven’t even bothered to name the Dodgers’ winning or losing pitchers or HR hitters. Can’t be bothered.
FRIDAY:
SF 5 LA 3
WP: Cain Save: Casilla HRs: Schierholtz, Belt
SATURDAY:
LA 7 SF 3
LP: Zito HRs: None.
SUNDAY:
SF 4 LA 2
WP: Vogelsong Save: Affeldt HRs: Melky
Have at it.
Kent, Haller?
I had Butler. Reggie Smith? Orel?
Kent sounds right though.
edd, when you said that the queen and 007 jumped into the stadium, i laughed my ass off, thinking you pulled it out of your imagination. alas, you were merely documenting the actuality.
Yeah, we’ve been flipping over there once in a while. It’s a very cool production. Great job on the event. I liked the whole steampunk industrial era stuff that was going on. It was big-time theater.
Fuuuuuuck. He had his eyes closed.
When exactly did the opening ceremonies turn into the first 15 minutes of a Bond movie?
Dial a shot for DJ…
Dial a shot? Now you’re talking clown, Unca.
The hope is that a player hits the same with RISP as he does in “regular” ABs, anything more is gravy.. Pagan isn’t counted on anymore than anyone else in that regard. And hitting w/RISP is not a figure that is dependant on batting order postion, except maybe the 8.
color me naive, but i’m thinking that the guys in the middle need to hit with risp. one of the points for setting the lineup is that you figure the guys at the top will get on and the guys in the middle will drive them in. so you hope that the guys in the middle will hit better with risp than anyone else. otherwise, you replace them.
As I said- the hope is that a guy hits his regular average with RISP. So obviously the better hitters should also hit better w/RISP- and at .256, Pagan’s actually IS one of the better ones. But it does not matter where one hits in the order as far as hitting their average w/RISP- for example, Theriot is hitting .191 w/RISP= he should be hitting .282, the same as his regular average. What the middle of the order hitters are expected to do more than the others- is drive in MORE runs with their chances.Pagan doesn’t have the extra base power one likes in the MOR.
From Baggs: “Charlie Culberson was pulled from tonight’s game in Fresno. Looks like Giants will be announcing a deal tonight.”
FLASH Scutaro for Culberson.
Ha, just beat me to it.
from Troy Renck tweet, Rox writer
No surprise we’re down 2-1 (notice, I didn’t use the word *deserve*.). We’ve had this sinkerballin’ fuck on the ropes all night and haven’t closed the deal on shit.
Agreed. God damn it, this guy is nothing and he’s toying with our guys.
Angry clowns are not a pretty sight.
nor are happy clowns
Ever see the movie “The Devil’s Rejects?” That’s the angriest clown I’ve ever seen in my life. I wouldn’t dare tell him to go fuck off.
At least I won’t have to put up with Burriss and his goddamn bunting any longer…
Fucker’s tjhrown like 80 pitches and left 7 on base.
My limited knowledge of Marco Scutaro: great name, great defensive play in Game 162 last year, seemed to run not quite fast enough on a key play in the same game. Don’t look over your shoulder; run like f*ck, Marco, and just watch Flannery.
I saw him play some games in Single A. It seems like a zillion years ago now.
This game is starting to piss me off, and I’m tired.
Fuck this.
Double fuck. Fucking Fifre started this shit.
That’s Fife, funny as it seems….
twinfan said, on July 27, 2012 at 8:37 pm
The hope is that a player hits the same with RISP as he does in “regular” ABs, anything more is gravy.. Pagan isn’t counted on anymore than anyone else in that regard. And hitting w/RISP is not a figure that is dependant on batting order postion, except maybe the 8.
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Exactamundo. If you’re a good hitter, you have a good RISP because you fell in a position to have a RISP. Same as a “clutch hitter”. No such thing. You can hit or you can’t hit.
Period. Number of saves as well. You have a lot of saves when you’re in a save position. No more, no less
i hear what you’re saying. not sure i’m buying. pagan in the early part of the season had the softest, meaning not hitting with risp, hitting streak i’ve seen. reminded me of al oliver, owwwh, .300, but not so much when there are ducks on the pond.
not sure where you’re your going with saves. there is a difference between people who can pitch at the end of the game and those who don’t. i compare it to relays. the guy at the end is your best guy, the guy who can bring it home, make up a gap, whatever. the pressure is intense. not many people, good people, can handle that. a save is not a save.
Al Oiver hit .309 w/RISP, .303 in regular ABs.
as a giant?
Career. But that’s the point when it’s said that it evens out- Nate was killer last year, at least the first half. Career he’s .272 RISP, ,270 regular. Like almost everybody- it evens out in the long run.
You mofos are arguing just to argue. A guy can hit .375 for a year. But if that .375 didn’t include RISP, that RISP can be .204 and that ain’t his fault. That;s the guys hitting in front of him. RISP depends on the guys in front of you. You can either hit or you can’t hit.
And saves. If you have 78 save positions and you lead the league in saves with 47, you still blew 31 chances.
Why do I have to explain this shit to youse?
I’m not arguing, Ted. I’m trying to explain RISP. And sorry, but now you are wrong. RISP is an AVERAGE. If a hits .200 with RISP, it’s totally his doing. To round it off- 100 guys were in RISP when he batted- but he only got 20 hits. He is not penalized if no one is in scoring position ahead of him.
Yeah, you’re right. I just get annoyed with people that blame ballplayers for having bad RISP when they don’t understand the circumstances that apply to RISP.
I know it was only 2 five second clips, but Scully looks like he’s doing his HW. He had his glasses on, a pen in his hand, he was shuffling papers and kept looking to the left over and over again. He’s still bringin’ it. Either that, or he doesn’t know what the hell is happening or what he’s doing, it looked like that too.
what a marvelous day for all concerned.
Scutaro’s a baller, I like this pick up. He’s not going to do anything besides his job and stay out of the way of fucking shit up. His stats were a little high playing in Boston and, hey, probably in Col too. But he’s still stealing bags and hitting. He’s not done. The same could NOT be said about last year’s deadline acquisition (Cabrera). And I still can’t remember which one it was……..
Do you remember Scutaro’s walk-off grand slam in Oakland a few years ago off Mariano?
absolutely. (I think it was with 2 outs, 2 strikes.He’s worse than Freddy at his best in SF and basically *Theriot with more power right now.” I’ll take that as some depth. Now we need a first baseman……
Just looked it up. It was actually a 2 out 3 run job not a GS. (4-15-07). I didn’t realize that he was still a regular.
A decent pick-up for nothing I guess…
Exactly: nothing. I remember the dumbfounded looks on everyone after he took down Mo. Felt like a grand slam.
very pissed off we didn’t hit this guy, he was *had-able*……
Time to beat the Choad . . .
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………………………………..
Fuck this. I gotta watch the O;ympics?
I know things aren’t going well Chuck, but let’s not get crazy.
Nice tits, nice catch….it’s like a variety show.
Ted, you lose your mind tonight? Yoiur 9:26 post is backward pretzel logic. If someone blew 31 saves, they wouldn’t be a closer.
If someone is hitting .204 with RISP, then, when guys are on base, he’s not getting hits. It has nothing to do with the other guys. He may not get getting that many opportunities, but then they are there, he’s failing.
Truth be told? Yes chuck. I think I’ve lost my mind tonight.
Belasario looks like a bloated version of Julian Tavarez…..
Fuggly AB for Posey there . . .
Beltman!
Excellent. Now THAT is a hit that matters…….
Book it: Pawlie sleeps – Giants rally
I’d make this POTD if I didn’t think it would cause him to tear up a little bit while sipping his morning green tea. I’ve got no idea what PK drinks in the morning but I just assumed writers drink green tea instead of coffee.
Maybe I’m just used to it. Most of the writers I know are from Marin.
Too fucking funny.
POTD. And we LUV pawlie
aNGEL BABY!
I still think Belt’s moving his hands too much as he starts to address the ball. *Jazz hands in reverse*. But that’s a post for another time……
you should have watched his front foot. he must have moved it 3 or 4 times.
Redemption Song!!!
I’m a big fan of the wRC+ stat but that stat doesn’t mean shit. It’s just an indicator of something better (or worse) that *might* happen in the future. It helps you make fantasy baseball decisions.
That broken bat line drive hit was worth a million wRC+ units…..
test
pass!
Funny, Flav. Nah it’s just I lost my login for being a Stable Boy.
I’ll figure it out. I better before Wednesday.
“watching” the rest on radio. ‘night lads.
Yeah, that was an interesting slo-mo of Belt hitting. Seemed like a lot of “extra” movement going on.
His hands always look like that. I noticed it a while back after I watched an Ike Davis at bat–Belt does the same thing……
Casilla’s not wasting shit. That;s way too much zone on those last 3.
Now, MISS the zone
OK, enough missing…………
I miss Angela Mao Ying movies
Are those like Yoko Ono albums?
Kinda. Only…not
This is a test
That was…..big time!
Schwing
End this bitch . . .
I’m back in, baby YEAH!!!
On the other hand…I have to watch a Nate AB
There is no greater truth in baseball than Nate gets worse the more he plays.
Sort of a reverse Zen thingie
The time zone thing is a trip. People on the East Coast can watch live major league baseball at 1:20 AM right now.
Like that Tubes album. The completion backwards principle.
It’s still happy our in Hawaii
Edd may catch the end of this . . .
Fuck. Bad call. Home run.
Uhm…oops
Fuck.
But we traded for Scutaro.
They better knock that fucker down tomorrow…
What the hell was Hanley exactly doing? Making like he was using binoculars or something?
That was a new one.
Oooookay. So. 2 outta 3?
Nah, HanRam won’t make any difference…
on his fifth time through the LU, in an at bat he shouldn’t even have had, he finally got a hit, hitting a spinning, floating hanger—then he acted like a jackass.
You know guys like that? I do, and they aren’t winners.
Hanley’s a 2nd rate pussy. His idea of winning a game (before it’s won) is to trot around the bases with some pussy gesture and smiling like a fucking circus clown for 10 minutes afterwards? He’s 1-5 tonight. He can keep celebrating his few success this year with gestures and whores (later) but he better stop acting like a low class out-of-towner if he wants to ever be a part of a pennant race.
You’re not in Miami anymore, you fuck………
As crude as that was…poetry my friend. Pure poetry
He did exactly what they got him for. You can carp on how he looks doing it, but the HR counts just the same…
anyone could have hit that shitty pitch. Baseball is about producing over a long period of time. I’m betting that he drops back into his usual, casual under-producing shit spot in the tank. I don’t give a shit about a lucky swing on a shitty pitch. He was 0-4 before that gift.
The whole stupid doggies team have been acting smug and arrogant all night. I actually hate them so much more than I did three hours ago.
Nothing like warm Melk
I hate Hanley Ramirez. Hate. That home plate ump fucked us over the whole game.
See Flav’s 10:32 above. Poetry
And he just called two outside corners strikes
Fuckhead.
Here is where not DLing Panda and being short a body really hurts. With Burriss on the bench. Yikes…
Well…fuck.
Anyways
Typical Giant/Dodger tilt. As expected, Gyros got handcuffed by an unknown, then rallied against the pen. But, Romo got screwed by the ump, and that left the door open. We desperately need another power bat, and that ain’t Scutaro. Night gents…
Yeah, snarkk, Romo got screwed all right. Night, sir.
I miss Sandoval
I’m ok with this. We lost because we couldn’t finish off a shitty pitcher and then the umpire fucked us to give Hanley a free swing at a hanging spinner…..Hanley’s gonna eat that shit-eating grin. You hit .200 tonight you fuck and you respond with gestures and a 10 minute shit-eating grin? Can you imagine Buster Posey doing that? And he might turn out to prove me wrong about him, but his last few years he’s been nothing but a loser. LOSER. His team has lost, he’s been *the leader* and he’s failed expectations. That’s a loser.
Shit eating grin = payback later…….
Flav, once in a while, as crass as it seems. you gotta give yourself POTD. Cuz this was one of them.
Excellent
thanks, but I’ve already exacta’d the POTD and it’s the first time I’ve ever given it to myself. Probably no room for the trifecta. But my point has been made so…,moving on.
what the hell, go big or go home. That’s a saying that pussy Hanley might want to learn. WTF kind of a name is that anyway?
hahahhaha Too fuckin funny. Just checked for the fuck of it.
Excellent
Whence one loses to a fucketh opponent…one fucketh thus oppenent anon.
In other words…Giants….2 outta 3
L.A.
Fucketh themeth
(I guess Greeks *do*lispth)
Goodnight lads
Ted’s right, BF…Your 10:32 was even better than your 10:34. Put ‘em both up there. The first POTD coupled entry dead heat.
done. And why are you still awake? lol. I’m hitting the sack, leaving early tomorrow.
We were tied, took Nate out, and lost. Any questions?
Flavor- I do not know how to find your email. Mine is fortyninerberger@yahoo.com. If you email me your cell # I will see you on Saturday. If not, fuck you! Especially since I am smoking a picnic roast.
Send the spam!
the trifecta of POTDs I saw the goggles thing, what a *.
wRC+ is not just a predictive tool- it is ( as Craig correctly noted when a poster used the “Runs Created” stat to show Belt’s productivity) an imroved version of “runs created”, and is park and league adjusted.It is a real time stat. Quite simply, it is an all encompassing measure of a player’s offensive contribution. The higher the number the better.