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Ah, the sun is setting. Pretty. Or is rising? It makes no nevermind. On to Sun Valley. Last night’s game sucked and it’s now becoming clear that our pitching needs to step up. As an average-at-best hitting team, we can’t be forced to duck into a 4-0/3-1 hole all the time…….
This has nothing to do with baseball but if you want to see a hilarious video of a guy on mushrooms check this out…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI&feature=youtube_gdata
have a good one……
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
I already had steak tonite, thanx, Pawlie.
In my “man cave” too (without cavewoman, although that is about to change) . . . Still watching 1280 x 1024 pixels imitating baseball players slowly make catches and round the bases via ESPN Gamecast (yawn . . . not the same as being there . . . or that old technology called television).
Pawlie,maybe not too surprising if Bengie is the catcher.
Wow . . . Kat, check this out – Clippard’s line was 0.1 innings, 1 SO, 108.00 ERA, and 12.00 WHIP.
I did a quick check of our Flap Fantasy League and Clippard belongs to Chi (Yikes . . . that’s going to hurt him in the standings tomorrow).
The Oriole guy has a no hitter going after 6.
Kat, Treanor (or should that be May-Treanor?) is Texas’ catcher tonite.
wouldn’t that be hilarious if the O’s guy gets a no-no? try that, World D Cup, for excitement!
well, heck, keep Cliff Lee in; get your money’s worth (Phils trading him not looking so bad now, tho’ I thought it was horrid after Lee’s memorable dominance of the Skanks in the WS)
hey, what’s the latest on two fronts: Mark DeRosa and my boy Eugenio?
No hitter is gone in Texas.
Walter Cronkite takes off his glasses, wipes his eyes. Looks at the clock.
“At 9:05 in Dallas….the no-hitter is gone….it’s gone….”
And no, I have no idea how close Arlington is to Dallas.
LU bashing is a dangerous game. Vrrrbrrr or whatever he calls himself, picked on:
Rowand in the 1
Posey in the 3 or 4 and
Uribe in the game at all… that’s the line up bashing hat trick, folks…
I came to regard Walter Cronkite as a latter-day pompous dick, esp. for his opposition to Cape Wind because it’d interfere with his feckin yachting.
PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPo-ho-ho-ho-ho-oooooooooooooooooseey! That ball had ROY stitched into its cowhide!
Finally!
You can’t take a homer away from Jesus. I’m pretty sure that’s the 11th Commandment.
DDcup, was the alleged HR reviewed on replay?
Elias Sports Bureau, or anyone else can chime in [ding!], but when’s the last time an SF hitter had a week like the [nonghost] Buster?
Yes it was, Pawlie. There’s a little railing that extends over their fence in right-center. A Giants fan leaned over the railing part, but not over the fence. Looked good from here. Umps just wanted to make sure.
The homer was reviewed by the umps. It was a close decision. The replay showed they could have probably gone either way with the call. The fan reached just above the fence.
Yessssssss! A winning road trip!
Wow, got here just in time to see the Posey HR.
The less I watch, the better they do . . .
The problem with that, is I missed all the losses before this . . .
It’s been some half season. This year’s team is both more torturous and more fun than last year’s team. If I were indecorous, I could make declarations of that nature regarding my experiences marching upon the marital terrain. (Some day I’m going to write a book titled with a term the Vatican employed to describe marriage duties: Conjugal Chores. Beautiful. Just effing beautiful, as Dirty Ernie would say.)
Cubs win! Cubs Win! Cubs win!
Buster Posey has the best opposite field swing for a right handed hitter that I’ve seen since Mike Piazza.Even better Posey doesn’t have a noodle arm,or elks head for a mitt and terrible moustache.Every thing is looking up right now.
and he’s probably not gay and trying to hide it.
Rockies win again. What are they now, 1 game out of first?
Huh. SD is fading, but Colo is on fire. With the lost weekend in Colo behind them, these guys need to start passing folks . . .
Getting the series tomorrow would be most excellent. So would the 7-4 rodie after the horrific start.
Good news? The break is coming up just in time for the pitchers to get rested up.
Got to do a better job playing in the division . . . Even more horrific.
In the “shit and giggles” sports category, Jose Canseco lost a fight to a 60 year old.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/Canseco-loses-fight-against-60-year-old?urn=mma,255107
Chuckles, 75 games left and they’re 3 out of the playoffs. They’re in fine shape. Unless the starting pitching woes are more than a hiccup, the Giants are the team to beat. If they *are* more than a hiccup, you can just join the Clubber, the season is OVER…
I borrowed the photo for Room B, Blade. Hilarious.
I like it Twin . . . I actually watched the entire fight (Yahoo had video of the 4 rounds). Agree that Canseco’s latest career choices are embarrasing . . .
congrats on the cb win…
heard an interesting thing..this season, for the first time in history, there have been 3 different teams trailing by at least 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning, that have rallied to win those games…Phi, Atl, Colo….2 times, the comeback victorys happened against the Reds, both those games Mike Leake started…
See if i get this. Team starts out the season with the Rotation as the strong suit. Defense questionable. Some moderate to fair hitters and one Kung Fu Panda. Hardly any power. Relief corps was sposta be pretty decent but then stunk it up a bunch second month into the season.
Then there was today’s game against the Nats, Drrrty was the stinker but not bad at the stick. Uribe returns to the LU after the hiatus with the dinger on his finger and strokes some RBIs. Then this kid from Georgia, kinduva late callup, goes all Superman on the Nats, throwing out runners, stroking a single through the hole and then capping the game with his 7th on the season. Don’t you know this kinda complicates things for the ROY award. First up on that one was that flashy kid who sparked the Braves to who would of thunk it . Then we get the Nats bringing up this youngster who is now the single major longterm threat to Timmy’s K factory. Now we’re looking at this Buster dude who might could have been a major factor in the MVP contest, had it been decided he was ready for The Show from the get-go.
Relief corps returns to strong-suit status. Another demonstration today. IronHead Joe struggles, but perseveres. Casilla smooths things out. He is SO close to being an old-fashioned rally-quenching fireman. Three innings of Ray, Romo and Affeldt and the Nats go off quietly into the night. Quite nice. Ray’s current 0.00 ERA is one of those evanescent things of beauty which will pass from the scene all too soon~ a mayfly in July. But gang, has that guy settled the Pen. Stability in the pen. Consider the consequence of that holding for most of the next 75 games. A reliable BP relaxes the rotation and it gives the hitters something to work for and most probably achieve. That factor is the primary reason why the Dagos have held first place in the division this long.
Exciting year in baseball. The kidz are alright. Forgot to mention that Carolina guy who hasn’t quite reached drinking age yet. All of a sudden there’s some role-reversal developing in the rotation with this guy racking up the innings in a hurry. Yeah, tomorrow’s contest features one-time Giant dilemma Livan Hernandez facing that Karolina Kid ~ sorta like the Ghost of Giants past crossing windups with the mound half of the Giants future.
San Francisco has anything but a one-dimensional team right now. We saw one of those in Milwaukee. Washington is developing dimensionally. Giants are there.