The Demise of a Baseball Blog…….
I showed up at The Splash a few games into the 2007 season. It was the first blog I’d ever visited. I think it took me about 2 posts before Twinfan and I were at each other’s throats, lol. But to me, that’s really when that blog started to take off…..
The Splash was a great place back then but I’m glad they started monitoring it, it was absolutely out of hand. But back in 2007 and 2008 there was a unique community there. I miss that, actually…….
In some ways I feel responsible for the demise of The Splash. Back in the day, we would run off trolls simply with our volume of posts. But after I started this place, THAT PLACE got fractured and splintered. Back then we could get like 300 posts a day from about 7 people…..
I’m sorry The Splash has been overtaken by fools. It’s certainly run by them, too, if banning Twinfan is their idea of thoughtful moderation. For the life of me I can’t understand why there are people out there who’s sole existence is to be disruptive and annoying– “Soph”, “BarryForever”, etc are almost hilarious in their worthlessness. I guess people like that would rather be noticed instead of being ignored, which is probably what happens to them in their daily lives….
This post is simply a tribute to what The Splash used to be…….
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
I was reading the posts here so I went to the splash to see it. No thanks. What up with OSF? He stopped posting with us, and the team is winning and he’s bitching and kvetching about management. Hmmph.
OSF, for some reason, says he can’t find the Flap. He’s either full of shit or he’s got to be doing something screwy. I mean, how hard is it to type oneflapdown77?
Only OSF would be unable to find a website armed with the correct website address. Too funny……
I suppose I could be called Clubber-OSF naive, but a lot of this is a thin line or mysterioso to me. By that I mean: what is a troll? what is an insult? It’s okay to insult each other [within undefined limits] here but not the Splash? who cares? I don’t demonize the Splash or anyone there because it is mostly irrelevant to me. And I like it here because it is a community of smart and smartalecky Jints fans. I guess, I’m wondering out loud about a possible double standard of bloggitude. (Even I can’t explain that.) I guess I’m saying I’m too lazy to find out enough to jump on one bandwagon or another. Last year, on Union Street, in Sf, I bought a tiny gem of a book called The Underachiever’s Manifesto by Ray Bennett, M.D. So, I’m perfectly content to be a Splash or Flap underachiever. Carry on. As you were.
The point is that if you want to insult me, then you better be prepared to receive an insult in return. If you insult but run to Chronicle moderators for protection when you’re looked at funny, then you need to be fucked with. A troll is a person who persists with a false persona and posts pointless shit. It’s not really a big deal until they post 8 times in a row and make it difficult to distinguish the real posts about baseball.
I know it all comes off as petty but a lot of us got started talking about baseball online by following the Splash. It’s really annoying to see it slowly fall under the control of people who are perfectly content with causing the topics to drift to their drama instead of baseball. If you never really did much participating in the Splash or are good at ignoring trolls, I can see where reacting at all would seem to be odd behavior.
There’s a different style of insult on the Splash and the Flap. Sure,there’s jocularity here and sometimes it gets out of hand but no one comes to the Flap with the single intention of being an annoying shithead. Granted, they may end up being an annoying shithead. I can be an annoying shithead. But that wasn’t the intent. On the Splash, it’s an actual motivation. In fact, the insults there don’t even bother me. It’s the attempts to raise people’s blood pressures by either being a redundant, complete jerk, like the two kicked off today and BFE or an intentionally, uninformed, redundant twit like soph. These are personas and agendas. ANd it’s an insult to everyone else who go there.
And in full disclosure, to be honest I’ve had all these folks on “ignore” for months now. But I can tell from the comments of those who aren’t how aggravating it still is over there
That is a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out objection.
Vinny Gambini: Thank you, sir.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Overruled.
hilarious . . . almost as funny as Joe Pesci in Goodfellas: What am I, a fuckin’ mirage? [Blade3 prolly has exact words]
Simple thing is to ignore them. They live for the response. And right now they are probably reading the flap and exulting.
Matt Garza needs 3 more outs for a non-non, as they say in Provence
well, maybe they call a no-hitter l’existentialisme, as they puff on a Gaulloise
congraziones, signor Garza!
Anyone else concerned about this homestand? I remember last month’s nosedive very well.
Yeah just another ho hum no-hitter.This one had an interesting twist for awhile as both Garza and Scherzer both had the no no going threw 5.
I like the Rays as an organization — their players and their manager. They are young and will be good for years. Yeah, I want Crawford too. But despite the selfish reasons (no three-hour time difference and 1,800 miles closer) I’m sure glad the Giants did not move to God’s Waiting Room.
“big” crowd, 17,009, in Tampa(x)
5 no hitters so far. Pitchers could be ahead of the hitters in the HGH department…
Tampa Bay got smart in a hurry. Of course, drafting in the top 3 every year for 11 years will find ya some decent players at some point…..
That hasn’t worked much for the Pirates. Oh wait, they end up trading all their good players.
Jorge cantu rumor running around. Another huge”pass” for me. I wanted him when he was free 3 yrs ago but not now. I’d rather have ishikawa playing, hands down, than cantu. Give up nothing for him…..
Phils complete the sweep behind Blanton. I guess Jim Tracy isn’t that much smarter after all.
I posted about 3 weeks ago that I think Tracy is overrated..
I’ve just about gotten to the point where I am bored by the news of a no hitter….
Any manager who receives praise is by definition overrated.
They had just shown a graphic on Ishikawa with 75 game errorless streak, most in the league for 1B. I presume they’ll change that to an error on him.
that’s a nice job by Zits….
Flip side of all the no no’s is grienke. Al cy young goes 4 tonight give up 8 earned.
I feel better seeing Zito wiggle out of that.
Do they give the official scoring gig to the first guy who shows up with a sharpened No. 2 pencil?
It makes you wonder what the hell they’re watching half the time.
I’d like to see Andres go here…
he went . . .
On second thought. Jesus H. Christ. Wake up people.
Torres hasn’t been running at all for a while. I’ve got no idea why he thought it was time for that to change against a dude like nolasco. It actually almost looked like he was just looking the wrong way for a second
man, Joe Maurer is playing for Pawlie’s Pandas tonight!
I’ll try justin.tv for a while
If I’m sabean I give burrell starts in all these games. If he sucks you think about trading for an of. If not, and he’s hitting, you keep the position guys as is and focus on a stud set up guy. I’m still a dotel fan for the 8th inning….
Cantu is having a down year overall, particularly in run production. He’s only 28 and has established himself somewhat as a slugger. However, his OBP has never been particularly good, showing up outlined in his BB-K ratio. With Ishikawa coming into his own and both Belt and Pitt in the pipeline, i can’t see much sense in adding a first baseman who can also play third. I still prefer an outfielder, preferably Willingham.
Hey Nineteen!
Whew! on Posey’s slide. Though Nolasco eventually got him, i do like the little things that Ishi did in fowling off pitch after pitch. Upped that count.
OSF thinks it’s a perfect game as long as you pitch to only 27 batters. Even if you walk 4 allow 2 hits, your perfect game is intact if you got 6 DPs.
Ishikawa saw about 5 pitches that he would have struck out on last year. His K ratio is well down thuis year, about 1 per 6 PA to 1 per 4 last year.
Yeah Posey got his hit for a 19 game hitting streak,reaches 2B,figured for sure it was time for Bochy to pull em for Whiteside.
Nolasco is a very good pitcher, he’s not gonna give anything away to us tonight…..
Has Sanchez just completely abandoned trying to hit to the left side of the infield? Most of hi hits are to LF but I honestly can’t remember even one of them……
haha, I saw that Loo. *perfect* game…..Hey, maybe OSF just had a really good time watching the game and he called it *perfect*. I can dig that. 🙂
Sheeesh, that last curve by Zito had Bert Blyleven written all over it.
Kuiper says..”You lose credability if you look in your glove” for the ball…priceless
Really liked that yakker Zicasso plonked through Gaby.
No, he actually said he thought it was perfect if the guy “pitched to 27 batters “.
Amy G.
Yum E.
people at AT&T dressed like it’s October in Syracuse; I love that weather. We’re getting a respite; everyone else in the East boiling. (my Gilroy garlic fries were disappointingly soggy)
I love garlic but I’m sorry, the AT&T garlic fries are average, at best. Soggy and shitty. I haven’t ordered them I’m at least 5 yrs…..
Cantu can’t do.
Kuiper’s on a roll tonight.That was priceless.That guy was wondering where the hell did that napkin come from that Kuip tossed.Can’t blame Kuip those garlic fries and a cold one that close to me and i would be doing the same thing.
No runs on Nolasco in three, but 63 pitches. I like the way the Giants have been stretching those ABs ~ not at all like the hacksterism of the early season.
Hanram needs to learn the definition of the word “hustle”….
Fuggla………….
That pitch sure looked Uggla.
Well Kruk…I guess Uggla can make an adjustment.Still like that guy on our team.
that was Uggla-y
This is when Zito has to tighten u[p. This is when he gets cute and tries to hit spots.
Wow, these guys are pretty bad with the leather.
It’s probably because the pitchers are leaving “the defense on the field too long.” Oh, wait, the Marlins have only issued 323 walks.
justin.tv is dishing out 10-minute timeouts
Bobby Valentine the other night noted that there is no adequate definition of what a check swing is
Nolasco’s windup reminds me of Roger “I Love Mike Piazza” Clemens.
God this Comcast video feed SUCKS BALLS TONIGHT!!!!!!
Seal must be thinking of Larsen’s perfect game in the ’56 WS. I believe he gave up 18 hits and got 9 triple plays.
oops
OK. guys. Time to start hitting . . .
Jeeesus. Sanchez is lost up there.
Zito’s crap-ass swings are better than what Freddie is doing.
If his eyes ever magically add 66% more of the field to his vision he might actually start hitting again…..
Doink!!!
Christ, they’ve given the Giants an extra inning.
Franchez reminds me of some ball games we used to have back in the day with The Walter Hays Gang out at Hoover. Didn’t have enough people to play so we’d close out right field (of course, Franchez would probably refuse to play in that game)…..
Since I mentioned it a couple days ago, any more thoughts on Uggla? He can obviously take a ball out of this yard, and at OPS of .830, he is 75 to 100 points higher than any RH not named Posey on current roster.
I heard the Fish are gonna extend him probably…they like him mucho
He seems to hit bombs every time he comes to ATT>
They won’t do it, Franchez is going to get the long, drawn out “Rowand treatment” —might start sitting middle of next year. I wonder when Kruk will be connecting Franchez to RObby Thompson again……
Franchez is having consistently awful, awful ABs. He can’t catch up to FBs, then swinging at breaking shit in the dirt ala Panda. Near an auto out. I smell a trip to the DL with surgical shouilder soreness that’s “been bothering him for a while”. Downs would be OK for a two week stint while Franchez gets right, if that’s possible…
Uribe had to cut that grounder off, bad decision, looked like he decided to let Edgar take it.
Nice nice catch by Torres. Saved a run. No way RoRo gets that…
Franchez is pretty sweet at second, though, as we just saw. And now i know why Torres is so good. He wears the magic number: 56.
“No way RoRo gets that”.. well, yeah. No way abiout 25 CFers get it.
Rowand made a similar catch a day or two ago.
Yeah. But it bounced off his face first
(buh dum dum)
how quick they forget
Aaron is as very good CFer. He may not have gotten to that one but it’s just absurd to even mention it. Torres made a fine catch. Period.