Game 1 Goes to the Good Guys
I still don’t have the hate for the Dodgers burning deep within me the way it did in the 70’s and 80’s– but last night was sweet. Casey Blake looks like a tired, old woman at the plate. Who doesn’t *love* that?
Bumgarner looks like he’s 28 years old on the mound…..
And thank God for Buster Posey. If he doesn’t muscle that single into center field who knows how long the team would have been second guessing themselves……
Just a huge win all the way around, especially on the heels of the Sunday game blown by that idiot Cuzzi. What the hell was up with his comments *explaining* his call? “Blanco made a decent attempt to put the tag on him…that’s why I called him out.” Whhhhhaaaatttttt the HELLLLLLLLL is this dumbass talking about?
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That was a nerve wracking ending….I drifted off to sleep as they took the Bum out of the game after giving up just one run. I stirred back awake to see Pablo put the tag on the third out and then started to focus again back at the top of the inning and all of a sudden the Dodgers have an extra run on the board. I was not sure if I had slept through an entire inning or what…what bullshit for two games in a row.
I had that sick feeling in my stomach that we were going to blow the game again, but what perserverence from Affeldt first and then Wilson has to just fuck with us to get the job done. But Blake is one big pussy hitter! HATE THE BLAKE!
“What the hell was up with his comments *explaining* his call? ”Blanco made a decent attempt to put the tag on him…that’s why I called him out.” Whhhhhaaaatttttt the HELLLLLLLLL is this dumbass talking about?”
Get in your “Wayback machine” when Paulie explained what transpired after the ump blew the call on Armando Antonio Galarraga. The “Lesson” was that a proper apology must be unequivocal and without excuse, i.e., “I WAS WRONG.” This is a lesson that all of us are taught when we are children . . . but some people forget or ignore.
Total bullshit. The guy should be suspended just for saying that.
I went to bed with the G’s up 5-2 with two outs in the eighth. I’m glad I missed BW’s Don Stanhouse impression again. 😀
Good win boys! You know it’s good when it pisses off the local Dodger fans. Let’s get ’em again tonight!
Cuzzie also said that he made a decent attempt to wipe his ass that morning, but was going to check his ass wipe after getting a bite to eat.
2 hits, one BB and three K’s. Now THAT’S a one inning line! 😀
Yeah, we’re used to B-Weezy, but Affeldt’s scoreless 8th was a good sign . . .
Who’s this Oprah-loving Sandy Koufax?
Fuck that troll bitch (Sandy Koufax). I hate it when trolls show on this site. Go pound your pud on the LA Times with all the other Bum stiffs, bitch.
Chuck, he is Sanfrandodgerfan from the SF Gate Splash . . . Overall, a good guy for a Dodger fan (most of the time . . . grin).
Posey seems to be a quick learner as far as PS goes. Pitch sequences with wilson were great, even not giving in to Ethier when he fell behind. Blake, DeWitt and Anderson ABs were classic.
Plus he helped calm down Mota and get Kemp out on weak GB after they talked things over. If he and Affeldt can build on what happened last night it would be a godsend.
Anyone who starts off a post with, “I love Casey Blake….” should know what to expect is coming, kind of like when Frank Robinson used to lean his elbow in over the plate against Bob Gibson. That’s how Frank hit, and how Gibson pitched (to take away the outside part of the plate where he wanted to work by coming hard in). Baseball is different today, for better or worse…if Blake homers he can celebrate, if not STFU.
Well said, willied.
I don’t get the issue with Wilson’s understated gesture at the end of the game. Many others are far more animated. It’s no different than someone pointing to the sky after a hit or crossing the plate. Comparing Wilson to someone like TO is bloody ridiculous.
Sandy Koufax, aka sanfrandodgerfa, really was one of the better Dodger fans to post on the Splash, but he never missed a chance to rip the Giants when things weren’t going well. So I have no sympathy for him or other Dodger fans when the Giants have a good game. So Wilson has a little routine after a save? BFD. Like Max said, comparing him to Terrell Owens is a joke. Unlike TO, BW is a good teammate, and when he fucks up, he says he fucked up.
am I missing something? Are we deleting posts that I missed from sfdodgerfan?
Just a few posts from the previous thread. He was busting out Wilson.
Posey continues to amaze. His grasp of the game, poise, handling of the pitcher’s. Impressed with his cool when things were getting tense out there. It’s just f- mind blowing how good he’s going to be. How long has he been catching, 3 yrs? And already among the best in the game.
I checked out yesterday afternoon and missed that they brought Velez up, which was what I was jioking would happen yesterday, Did we stop Dennis from getting a Bastardo hat?
I was spared the humility. The cavalry (Velez) showed up just in the nick of time. Never woulda thunk that “Gino” would be my savior.
Glad to see you were SAVED!
GH, he is Sandy Koufax on the Flap.
ahhh, is he banned? I have never seen his post here…
I was just watching the highlights of last night’s game, and it didn’t look like Madison was throwing especially hard, but his fastball has some nasty movement on it, almost like a cutter. I like his smooth, easy motion. I’m guessing a lot of hitters have trouble picking up the ball coming out of his hand.
I only mention all this because I’ve hardly seen him pitch at all. He looks good.
GH, look at the previous thread.
Jbat, He does throw a cutter.
Thanks Max. It looks like a good one too, with nasty late movement.
I don’t give a fuck who he is (Sandy Koufax)…he was ripping on Twin yesterday, when Twin asked the fucker to lay off. Life’s too short to deal with fucking trolls on this site. Let them go stroke themselves with all their gay-assed Bum fans on the LA Times. Sorry…I have no patience or compassion for trolls, especially Dodger trolls.
Anyway, great game last night. Good to see the Heart Attack Kid get it done. And also a great outing by Affeldt.
And good to see Nate “flex that power.” (That one deserves a gay-assed smiley face.) 😉
C’mon, Chi, tell what you really think! 😀
You want me to spell it out a bit more clearly, JBat? 😉
I read a couple of the posts last night about Wilson and his routine after a win. IMO he should not do the “Routine” unless he has a 1, 2, 3 inning. especially if he walks batters. If he gives up a hit I don’t mind the routine but not walks! No routine if he walds batters.
oops, cut the tip of my finger not hitting the right keys or proof reading!! If he walks batters
so if a hitter swings and misses at 2, then hits one out…he shouldn’t celebrate either huh…
I would rather have the batter hit one out than have Wilson walk in a run.
Great choice for POTG. It could’ve easily been Affeldt, who got maybe the biggest hold so far this season, or even Wilson for gutting it out for a 4th straight day. But after the bases-loaded fiasco in the 2nd, that hit by Posey was MASSIVE. Interesting stat that Scully brought up during that AB: Posey already has two double-digit hitting streaks, the current one at 13 games. And right on cue, he gets the single. Just amazing.
Hey, a save is a save, especially against LA. He can celebrate all he wants, imo, as long as he keeps nailing them down. He just blew Casey Fake down last night.
Ethier was the dangerous guy there, so I was not too worried that he did not give in…the 0-2 pitch to Furcal? was the one that hurt…
Chi, you need to be posting during the heat of the battle.
Disagree Irishman. He does it after a win, period. Facing a tough adversary with their fans screaming..he deserved to run a fucking victory lap. 🙂
Hey, would love to. Believe me, I have thoughts to share during the game.
My computer has been on the fritz. I have been hoping like hell to win one of Twin’s creations…may have to break-down and buy one!
Furcal is leading the N.L. in batting. If that doesn’t deserve a first-pitch plunking from Timmy, nothing does.
Fuck Furcal!
Drill his sorry ass! Or, at a minimum…a little chin music (ala Bob Gibson) to let him know who owns the plate.
Fuck the Dodgers!
Aside from the dickcheese on his chin, Bum showed a lot last night. Humiliated Ethier.
Just as I was training at bars and getting my nest ready for football, these sneaky young little bastards start messing with my doomer balance and sucking me in with hope. Dirty trick.
Ahhh. That’s who Sandy is. She doesn’t like BW’s celebration? Wahh!!!
Might as well blame Otis Taylor of the 1969 KC Chiefs for inventing the spike . . .
OK, I know it wasn’t him, but it was somebody on the Chiefs, I think.
Correction: humiliated Ethier *and* Loney.
BF, Stop being a pussy,There should always be nothing but hate and disrespect for the Dodgers.Fuck the idea that you only have some hate for them in the 70’s and 80’s.This is a POS organazation that deserves all the shit it gets for decades.
FUCK THE DODGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May the DODGERS REST IN PISS AS I WIPE MY ASS WITH THEIR JERSEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alleykat is the man! I loathe the Bastardos…one of my former colleagues sent me this soppy-ass Dodger blog story yesterday about how he becamse a Bastardo faa because his grandma loved the Dodgers because Jackie Robinson yadda-yadda-yadda…FUCK THE DODGERS! FUCK THOSE STUPID GAY-ASS BLUE COLORS! FUCK TOMMY LASORDA and most of all FUCK VIN SCULLY!
I had to suffer through that boob’s game-calling last night…put him out to pasture for God’s sake! The man does not shut-up!
As much as I hate Lasorda for being a Bum and wearing the hated Dodger blue…I do LMFAO non-stop when I watch some of the video clips of the guy.
And I used to love it when the Giants played at the Stick, and Lasorda would make his stroll to the visiting dugout…all the while blowing kisses to the crowd. Yeah, he was a Bum, but those were fun days, and fond memories (especially when we stuck it up the asses of the hated Bums)!
My hate for the Dodgers will never fade. If someone were to ask me why I hate the Dodgers so much, I would have to answer with “how much time do you have.” I could go on, and on, and on…
Fuck the Dodgers!
Orange and Black FOREVER!!
Flav’s npt being a pussy. It’s just he switched to decaf
Lol!
Homer Jones is most often credited as the one who invented the spike.
Regarding Vin Scully…have any of you heard Miller do his Scully impersonation…in JAPANESE? Too fucking funny. The article in today’s Chron on Miller (was in the Sunday printed Chron) talks of him doing a profanity-laced Scully that is supposed to be funny as hell. What I would give to hear Jon do that one!
Here’s Jon impersonating Vin both in English and Japanese. Sorry, no profanity.
http://tinyurl.com/2dpnsup
From a Facebook post: Vin scully said this tonight- “ishikawa’s great grandfather married a mail order wife…”. I swear to god!
Can anyone confirm or deny this comment (or the valiidty)?
It could be true if they were both Japanese. It was very common for Japanese bachelors, especially those who lived alone in Hawaii or somewhere else, to order what was known as “picture brides” from Japan’s mainland. But as for the validity of Scully’s claim, I have no idea. It’s all he are….good scull
Yeah, I know about the mailorder bride phenomenon, but the fact that Scully would know this about Ishi and then have the nerve to talk about it on the air seems a little weird.
I remember hearing something about his parents, so did some research. From a page on Travis, it says (in regards to his great-grandparents: “Ishikawa is half Japanese on his father’s side. His great-grandparents came over from Japan to work on the railroads and settled in Chicago.”
http://tinyurl.com/26cvbwk
I suppose his great-grandfather could still have married a mail order bride…even tho both are from Japan.
Thanks for the link Dennis. Never heard that.
Yes, thanks for the link Dennis. I heard that live the day he was doing that broadcast. I still would love to hear the profanity-laced version. Has to be hilarious.
Chi, I saw him do the impression on Roy Firestone’s show once (whatever happened to that guy?) and it was hilarious. He nails Scully big time.
I used to love me some Mazda Sports Look with Roy Firestone.
Chuck—I think Elmo Wright is the name you were looking for. One of my earliest sports memories was watching that classic Chiefs-Dolphins game in the early 70’s when Ed Podolak went off. They lost, but I became a Chiefs fan then and there and still have a soft spot for them.
Yeah, Dog. I was a total dyed-in-the-wool niner fan even back then, but, as an aspiring WR I loved watching Otis Taylor back in the day with the Chiefs. Paul Warfield, both Gene Washingtons, Lance Alworth, even Freddie B from the hated Raiders . . . But Otis Taylor was man back then. My favorite non-Niner . . .
And, yes, I still hate the Dodgers. Guys like Casey Blake make it easy to build up a frothing venom-spewing hatred for them.
I’ll be there tonight watching LinCY again…last time I went, he won 9-0. Encore!
It’s Loney bobblehead nite. Like to see him wear the golden sombrero..
Enjoy, WSW. So is a Dodger Dog really all that? (I’ve never been to Chavez Latrine.)
“alleykat said, on July 20, 2010 at 9:34 am
BF, Stop being a pussy”
Look, hate’s not something you can fake. I just don’t HATE them. Maybe fantasy baseball has dulled me a bit, I’ve had some Dodgers on my teams over the years– got Loney on two of them this year (though in The Flap Fantasy league we made a rule that you couldn’t have any Dodgers on your team).
I don’t like them a lot, howsabout that?
I liked Posey during Nate’s post game interview.He was in the frame of the camera a bunch and,at one point,looked right into it.He was like “Hey i’m the star and don’t you fools forget it.”
HAHA. I noticed that too. Nate was a pretty bad interview. He acted as if he had never even heard of Miller. You know, Nate the dude that was honored on the field the other night for HOF. What a douche.
I don’t care if Ishi’s great great grandpa was the head tuna wrangler at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market. He’s been going good, so he needs to make some friggin contact when he’s up with the bags loaded last night. And Panda made no mistake tagging the runner coming to third. The guy was 10′ away from him and rolling towards third, a tag was perfectly acceptable. Panda was aware of the out-before-score situation because as soon as he tagged the runner he looked home. A throw to first is the regular way, but not without risk. The ump blew it by a yard, not Panda…
but if Pablo had thrown to 1B, he had kemp out by 5 yards…
When I was younger, I “hated” the Dodgers. And those guys were worth some baseball hate — Maury Wills, fuckin Drysdale, Cey, Russell, Lopes, and especially, especially Garvey. I hated ’em because they were so damn good, and beat the Giants like a drum for the better part of two decades. Alston and Tommy were the personification of evil in blue. But, I had to give ’em some secret respect, too, because they were damn good. They didn’t win pennants and WS by luck. I’m older than BF, I’ve mellowed maybe more than he has on this rivalry. It’s still good, but I can’t get too lathered up in the extreme about mercenaries like Furcal and Manny and Padilla that have multiple teams in their backgrounds. The only way they’re real Dodgers is the logo on their paychecks. It’s just how baseball is these days…
The Dodger Blue is all about everything Dodgers. Sure, guys like Casey Blake make it easy to hate on ’em, but anyone wearing that laundry gets my ire…that’s just the way I roll. Screw the Bums. Go Giants!
Fuckin’ A, Chi. That’s how I’ll always roll.
I don’t care if Ishi’s great great grandpa was the head tuna wrangler at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market
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Accdording to Scully, he *was* that as well
Yeah, the Dodgers suck, and they’ve got more Pennants and WS titles than SF since coming west, but I’m even more pissed at LA for taking all our water…
Buster 14:21
Then Posey stretched out his hand over the sea
and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind
all night and made the sea dry land,and the waters were divided
Get out your swimsuits, Dodgers!
BOB, the Book of Buster. May there be a new entry worth recording every day…
And Buster did say unto the Ump
Pray, thee, there is no way the ball klanked off me
To the fans
Verily, it was off his leg, his gams
No doubt
And so the Ump did think and replied
Make it so, young sir
He’s out…
Amen.
I might be on the flap’s younger side, but my hatred for the Dodgers runs deep. I’ve been brought up as a Giants fan and Dodger hater since birth. As I grew older and began to form my own informed opinions, I learned to hate just about everything coming out of LA. (Funny how I love San Diego though.) Right now, all my 18 month old can say is “Dadda, Mamma” and “ball” (probably because he’s been to 47 games already). I’m currently teaching him “Beat LA!” My older son is 14 and already wanting a car for his 16th. He really wants a used Subaru WRX. The traditional Subaru racing color is royal blue and there are therefore many more of this color in circulation. I don’t care if it costs me more, or if he ends up with a different car altogether, but he will never have an automobile that makes me thing of the bums…NEVER. I haven’t been around long enough to really remember the era before free agency, but I do remember seeing a t-shirt when I was about 6 that read “Duck the Fodgers!” Words I live it to this day.
Way to raise those kids right, 3bag. 47 games in 18 months…impressive. Keep up the good work.
Both my kids got raised as Giant fans and enjoyed many trips to the yard. My son still likes to go to games, but he isn’t really hard core. He’s more interested in taking in the sites (ladies), and having a few barley pops (both are all good…but this is his predominant focus when at the game).
My daughter on the other hand is hard-core…into the game, following trends, stats, etc. and always takes her mitt with her to the games). Like her papa, she too bleeds Orange and Black.
And that’s not to mention the dozen or so A’s games we’ve been to (unfortunately, Mom’s an A’s fan). Lucky for me that my father has Giants season tickets, but goes to less than half the games. He gives me his seats and I almost always bring the baby. It was no surprise that his first word was ball. Now whenever he sees a hit (at the game or on TV) he starts yelling, “Ball, Ball, Ball!” I do love that kid.
Hey, this is the kind of shit that happens (shows up on your team blog) when you have Jesus on your team.
Madison garnered the Bums
And humbled them righteously
While Buster blasted their hopes
And it was good.
Kind of a sad thought….,But Madison Bumgarner now has more career wins against the Bums then Matt Cain.
Speaking of organizations to dislike, the Yanks supposedly revered their PA announcer since dirt, the voice of God, Bob Sheppard. But, none of the players, current or past, went to his funeral last Thursday. Now, that’s class… http://tinyurl.com/2ft3dnt
I agree it’s not quite the same today as when players like Garvey et al played for 10+ yrs, but damn, it’s still Dodger-Giant and if they are both contending, there is a different level of intensity to the games.
Rivalries exist in all sports and make for some special games. Cal -Stanford is still the game their fans want to win the most, even though the faces change every yr.
Good point Max. From all that I’ve read and seen on historic baseball tv shows, free agency has definitely changed things. But with the unbalanced schedule, divisional rivalries see eachother so much more each year than they used too. That has to help keep up the intensity. I mean, guys like Brian Wilson can deny it all they want, but you know he got some extra pleasure out of King Blake last night. I was almost hoping for a walk when I saw Blake in the on deck circle. I wanted Weezy to take him down.
That was supposed to read “K”ing Blake. He’s no fucking king.
We talked about that last week, Snarkkles.
Ishikawa is 8 for 22 with SIXTEEN RBI with RISP. Yes, he had a bad AB last night, but selecting that AB after a win in which Ishikawa was on base three times is just absurd. He’s been better than even “Jesus” with RISP.
I agree. He looked a little anxious when he came up with the bases loaded…tried to do too much. It was good to see him settle down after that.
I hated those Garvey, Cey, Lopes fuckface Dog-ear teams more than any sports franchise ever. And for many of the reasons snarkk listed; they were good, but they were also smug and self-righteous and as a Giants fan it was oh so easy to hate their guts. The Giants losing to them all the time only made it that much worse.
I differ from some here in that I still have no problem hating any iteration of the Los Angeles Dodgers. I will hate them until I’m buried, and beyond if there is an afterlife. My wife (a lifelong and die-hard Dodgers fan) refuses to take me to any more games at Chavez Latrine because I always, invariably, have a bit of a blow-up. I really put myself in the doghouse a couple of times. 😀 😀
So, Go Giants! Whip the Dodgers!
Your wife’s a Dodger fan??? How do you do it man? Even though my wife roots for the A’s, I tell her all the time that I have no problem with it. We met after a Giants game and she wowwed me with her baseball knowledge, but I also tell her all the time that if she was a Dodger fan there would not have been a first date. She laughs and tells me I’m kidding and I assure her that I’m not.
Ishi’s been workin it, yes. So his expectation level is up in my book. Like I said before, he’s getting more PT and deservedly so, but there may be a showcase factor involved, too. I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets traded in a Sabes package for who knows what in the next 10 days…
Ishi was on base three times and scored twice last night. Does Bochy keep him in the lineup vs the lefty? I’m already getting pissed so that should tell you my answer.
DMD, it’ll be a surprise if Ishi is in vs. Kershaw. I’d bet more likely our friendly ground out artist and gamer Rohand makes an appearance in the starting LU…
J, that remindes me of the game I went to vs Atl early this season.
There was a guy sitting about 20 seats away wearing a Dodger hat, who was literally screaming with every pitch how great Derek Lowe was, and how he was going to shut down the Giants, and how the Dodgers were the best. People around him were giving him shit, and by the end of the 2nd, the guy sitting right in front of him turned around, grabbed his shirt and told him to knock it the fuck off. He duck-walked him out of the seats and down the tunnel, never to be seen again.
The Giants fan that took him out came back around the bottom of the 5th. No idea what the outcome was, but he got a nice hand when he came back . . .
Man, I was just getting used to these lineups without Bengie or Rowand . . .
One more time, skip?
The patch LA on the Dodgers sleeves means LOSERS ANONYMOUS.Enough said!
Nearly 5 more hours until gametime. I’m not sure I can wait that long.
Bengie traded. Immediately the squad blossoms with SP, scoring, and winning 11 of 16 total post-Bengie, with 10Ws of last 12. Coincidence? Dump Rohand, and the sky’s the limit…
I don’t like the Dodgers because they are from LA and LA is a fucking cesspool.
I think Dickie said it best about the Giants keeping Bengie in the line up too long:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sports/Dickey-Posey-proves-he-belonged-all-along-98800714.html
If he plays Rowand, the OF will be Pat, Row, Torres. The Bat owns Kershaw in limited action (3 for 5 w/ 2 2B 1 HR 5 RBI) so he HAS to play tonight. We’re better off with the “Water Buffalo” OF and Ishi and 1B. Shit, he can bat 8th tonight.
Don’t know. Might see Huff at first tonite, with Pat and Rowand in left and center.
Bengie and Rohand are like intestinal blockages. One has been removed, so things immediately started working better, with still some occasional cramping and nagging bloat. Get rid of the other, things will run smooth and regular for the rest of the season…
Posey’s prowess at the plate has been amazing but I have been most impressed with his handling of the pitching staff. He has a great feel for the ebb and flow of an AB. Lincecum and Cain have gotten back to using the curve and Zito seems to trust him. He and Bumgarner have a great rapport. Now Sanchez needs to get on board.
Posey’s plate work and the pitching results so far with him confirm that Bengie’s rapport with the staff and pitch calling prowess was way overblown and overrated by the Giants PR, to rationalize Posey not coming up in ST. Most pitchers don’t want to change catchers they’re used to, that’s not news. Posey is ahead of Bengie in all physical respects of catching and hitting, and by the end of the season, he will have a fully adequate knowledge of the league’s hitters and tendencies that he can use and build on next season. The only thing now that Bengie bests Posey at is kvetching…
All this talk of Posey learning how to catch these guys, building comraderie, blah blah blah, it’s the PITCHERS who pitch what they want. Just because Buster holds down 1 finger doesn’t mean Tim has to throw the fastball. He can shake him off. Sure, it’s nice if these guys mesh and all that, but to think the catcher is solely in charge of the pitches isn’t right. All the preseason talk was just that. Sabean hedged his bet with Buster by signing Bengie. And it was compounded by not being able to wait until the arb date had passed. This ain’t a knock on Buster. Far from it. He;s a smart, baseball-savvy kid. It means the FO was scared to start the season with Buster behind the plate. The fact that, barely a month into his season, he’s batting 4th and kicking major ass just lends creedence to the fact that he would have been ready from the get-go. .
The shame is it may have cost Jesus the ROY.
Anyhow, story time is over. Beat the fucking dogs . . .
De ja fucking vu Snarkk . . .