The Torture Keeps on Coming and A Word About the Blog
That was a crazy-ass 9th inning, wasn’t it? It felt like the 7th game of the World Series seeing Dirrrrty warm up and eventually enter the game as a reliever. He didn’t seem to comfortable with the role. Then “All Arms and Elbows” (Ray) comes in and as soon as I can say “WTF is going on” he gets out of it and saves the game. Nice.
This season has been great as far as renewing my dislike for the Dodgers. It’s been a while since I felt this way. It’s almost approach “hate” again. I don’t think it’s because both teams are finally competitive again (though that helps). It’s their players. Ethier, Kemp and Loney just walk around looking like they truly think they’re better than everyone else—Garvey and Cey used to do that, too. And I don’t know what it is about Casey Blake– it’s not the *Wilson thing*, I actually thought that was marginally humorous. Maybe it’s his name and his beard. It’s definitely the way he looks, though. There’s always Padilla and his greased out look to laugh at. Anyway, hate for this team has made a comeback within me. Feels good, actually…..
To the blog: I’ve been burnt out on the blog as I think you can tell from yesterday’s post. I tried to give it away but my *guy* couldn’t take it on at this point in his life. And I couldn’t bring myself to disband it at this point or just let it go like a rudderless ghost ship (which is what some friends of mine told me to do with it)…..
So here’s the deal. I started the blog as a sort of *anything goes* thing. That mentality has run it’s course. I’ve let lots of, as CALSTIM calls them, “bitch fights” go on longer than I should have. Ironically, those don’t bother me. It’s the cascade of emails I get complaining about them that has worn on me……
So, starting today (well, maybe not today since I’ll be at the game) I’m cracking down on the bitch fights. If they go back and forth for more than 4 or 5 exchanges I’m sending all involved parties, regardless of who started it or the level of intensity, to one of the *penalty boxes* that you see to the right of the page. I’l make it clear in the thread when someone (or multiple posters) are being sent there. You participation in this is non-negotiable. You HAVE to remain on the sidelines for as long as the box says you are to stay there. If you get sent there and don’t respect the call by me, your referee, you are immediately banned from the site. There’s obviously going to be a level of subjectivity here that will bug some people. For instance, which box will you go to? Probably the 30 min box for the first one but depending on the level of intensity it could be the 1 day box. Second infraction will definitely be the 1 day box. I’ll take into consideration your attempts to bail on the bitch fights, should you attempt to bail on them. There will also be a hierarchy involved (for instance, if someone brand new shows up and start in on a blog vet I’m not going to give the new guy any rope, he’ll be outta here). But the flip side to that is I am no longer going to tolerate the vets attacking a new blogger just because they are new or spend half a thread accusing someone of being someone else– that could also earn you some time in the box. And regardless of who starts the “bitch fight”, because think about it, with all the history in the archives you could point to any random post in the past of where it ultimately *started*, I’m just going to send both bloggers to do time. End of story, moving on……
I’m also going to start deleting a lot more stuff in hopes of decreasing the possibility of a *bitch fight* breaking out…..
I want to give EDddakkkeeerrr (sorry, I can never remember how to spell his handle) the credit for this idea. While it’s more work for me, something I wanted to avoid, it’s also something that I find intriguing and anything I can do to kick-start my interest in managing this place I’m going to do….
To summarize: Lots more is going to get deleted and you’re taking a time out when I give you one. I don’t mind it if you guys bark at each other– just keep it somewhat civil and if you can’t do that end it in a few exchanges. I won’t have you do *time* if you can abide by those two simple rules. And here’s another option that my 7 year old daughter has recently learned: ignore people that are teasing you……
I know this might feel a little “child like” but these new rules are non-negotiable. These changes have nothing to do with you, they are all for *me*. This is what I’m doing to renew my interest in managing this zoo. You don’t like it you are certainly free to go somewhere else, I will salute your exit…….
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
It’s Peggy Lee Time (PLT). “Fever.” Pennant Fever. And I got it bad. First time 15 games over .500 since 2000, if I heard correctly.
think thats most wins in 1 month since then…
Mota most impressive! great comeback win.Nothing sweeter then hearing the Dodgers squeal like a pig.Sooooooowwwwwwweeeeeee! Eat pig shit Dodgers!!!!!
Tremendous! And a big thanx to WSW and Pawlie for the justin.tv link. I tuned in “justin” time for Burrell’s big bomb!
Dawg, in the last inning or so it started reverting every now and then to Euro soccer or something. I was yelling at my lapdancer. I mean laptop.
What are they paying Pat? About 300K? Earned it with that swing.
Lets go Fish!!!!
Let[insert apostrophe]s go [insert vocative comma] Fish!!!! [don’t you just hate pedantic assholes?] Did you get flickers of futbol too?
With Correia pitching for the Pads, I like the Marlins chances.
He did, Mike. Plus, Huff is the best bargain in MLB.
Huh. I LOVE LUCY’s on
Imagine the payroll if each win cost $300k…. We were surrounded by dodger fools today who had nothing more than dumb chants that got sqashed in seconds. I’ll give then credit, they all have the jerseys. After you peel that back though, they got nothin’
That comes off kinda gross
“After you peel that back though, they got nothin’.” Thanks, Magnus, for an all-purpose and perfectly interchangeable review of Limbaugh-Beck-Hannity and Sophists for Adam Smith, Inc. Couldn’t resist. Cue up the bitch fight.
How ’bout them Giants?!!
I was resigned to a loss and sweating out a win tomorrow. Another reason not to leave/turn off a game early. When I was younger I knew that. As the years passed and the Giants went into limbo I have forgotten that. Not that I would have turned off a 1-0 game, but I was mentally tossing in the towel. To paraphrase the Bible, “Me of little faith.”
Sweet to see Pat the Bat stick it up their ass! Nice for the Devil Rays to pick up the tab, as well.
Maybe the most satisfying thing about it all is that with that swing Pat fucked my least favorite Dodgers, Blake (no hero today) and Broxton (fuck him very much)!
Yay!!! Duck the Fodgers!!!!!
Another biblical comment, “My cup runnith over!” Devil Rays and yankees on DirectV. Their package is the nuts!
According to gameday…Burrell hit Broxtons fastest pitch of the AB…96mph
Wow, what a game! Year
two thousand numbers again.
And, Dodgers get fucked.
Apparently Wilson wanted to pitch today (duh), but Bochy wanted to give it another day. Bochy thinks he’ll be OK for tomorrow. Who needs ’em? We have a new 5-out closer in Mota. 😉
Miller said on radio Broxton not the same…Kruk said LA people talking about him being over worked, in August. Miller seemed surprised about kuo short outing…LA in disarray, even with the new guys. He who laughs last…
From Baggs: Javier Lopez will be here tomorrow and ready to pitch. Ramon Ramirez not till Tuesday. So Giants don’t have to subtract someone till then.
I don’t care. I still want Bautista to be shown the next door before he can inflict any more damage.
Agree totally Willied….To me Broxton hasn’t been the same overpowering pitcher after he went to St Louis after the ASG and blew a save and threw over 40 pitches in a loss.He hasn’t been right since.Which is fine by me.Kuo has much better stuff then Broxton right now.The Bums blew it by pulling him today.Again though fine by me.
Maybe even go back to Broxton’s epic collapse vs. the Yanks. I think that was late June.
Broxton threw a good fastball and Burrell hit it out. It’s a curious habit here-denigrating the opposing pitcher as a way of denigrating a Giant accomplishement. It was a good pitch, boys, The Bat was better, tip your cap.
With that said, the genius Torre did have too quick a hook with Kuo. As I’ve pointed out for a couple years, when he’s healthy Kuo has always been their toughest reliever, better than FatBoy.
Giants are trade deadline losers according to Passan:
This is a Giants team with the sort of starting pitching depth that begged for a deal. Whether it was Jose Bautista or Corey Hart or any other big bat, the Giants needed to wave goodbye to Jonathan Sanchez. The emergence of Madison Bumgarner has allowed them to make such a trade, and yet here the Giants are, in the same place they’ve been the last few years: lots of pitching, not enough hitting and the weight of their world resting on Tim Lincecum and his diminished velocity, plus Matt Cain. Another missed opportunity for GM Brian Sabean.
Sounds like Soph wrote it.
geezus, DJL, give it a week. The Giants may blast past SD on Tuesday and never look back. LA and SD made their moves becz the Giants are such a threat, as they were before adding arms to the BP. (Also, both Bumgarner and Sanchez are likely to fade a bit in Sept. Better keep both, get to PS and let the idiotic slo-mo schedules, with all those unnecessary days off, assist.)
Or Wednesday.
Welcome back to the sewer, Xoot.
I kept hearing how cool it is here.
And Loo approves of Soph’s “analysis”. That’s no attack, he said so on the Splash. Anyway, Passan is an idiot. That’s OK with the new guidelines, right? Writers, players, GMs, can be called fucking retards? Far more interesting than what the Giants did or didn’t do is all the action from the Dodgers when it is already too late for them. Really terrible decision from Coletti to buy. They made a bunch of deals that only give them a 50-50 choice to outlast the Rockies for 3rd place.
Trading away JSanchez did NOT mean just relying on Bumgarner, who already is slated for reduced innings. It also meant relying on Wellemeyer. For two months of Bautista or Guillen or Dunn ( .190+ at ATT). No way unless a longterm deal was already worked out.
totally concur, Twin…listening in the car to ESPN, they made me puke w/ their facile conclusions — about all the great moves — all w/ a big Yankee bias. Shite. Where’s Berkman even gonna play? And they can have Kerry Wood. What I’m saying is that all these “great” moves may suck.
Mike, I’ve had Kuo on my “watch list” for FB league . . . As you indicated, he is lights out when he pitches. If Broxton weren’t there, he would be the closer easily.
You guys are right. Torre should’ve stuck with the zipperhead.
Definitely a bummer that the new rules prevent a proper response.
Couldn’t agree more.
Broxton had nothing in the bullpen. Watching him warm up compared to Kuo was no comparison. And he was 92-94 on all the pitches we saw. I didn’t catch the mph on the bomb for obvious reasons but this is a guy who is normally 97-99. He was tugging at his arm in the bullpen after every pitch and never once popped the catcher’s glove the way Kuo did…..
How’d that new kid they have Flav look? He throws real hard. Glad they didn’t go to him.
Kuo very rarely goes 2 days in a row…with Torre managing that tells you something. He has to get babied…
Interesting, 15 games over, with virtually all 25 contributing, and this guy wants a SS…Next guy wants another OF, This guy would trade a SP for a rental…Relax. Enjoy the season. 2010 Giants WTFN
Pads get their 1st hit and its a HR from S. Hairston… 3/1 Fish top 7
No bat added, another lost opportunity. Pasan is right.
The Giants have put themselves in a position to win, this year, and they do the ‘Giants Way’ and stand pat. Premium to pay? You do it this year, especially after 6 years of no baseball in October. Keep drinking the koolaid all you Pollyannas.
“Koolaid, being a brand name, requires an initial capital letter.” I was gonna sign it “Sincerely, Jim Jones” but thought better of it.
WSWIN– I don’t know about “babying” him, Kuo goes more than 1 inning all the time. It’ll be interesting to see how the DOdgers play this. I think Broxton is hurt or at least hurting. Dotel is definitely an 8th inning guy at this point in his career. I think Kuo is their best closer right now. But Torre will probably send him in in the 7th or 8th depending on match ups……
douchebag post, PG. They filled a need, their only main need, and you’re crying. Stupid.
the team that fucked up today is The Rays. They have ample talent to trade, they could have had Dunn and put him at DH, and yet they do nothing but add Qualls. You don’t win shit in the AL East acting like a pussy……
I agree that Qualls may be a crummy pickup (maybe not; we’ll see), but I disagree about the Rays needing to do more. They are good. Adding may be subtraction in their case. Hemingway: Do not mistake movement for action. I did not put quote marks because I can’t verify it via Ralph Keyes.
Don’t fuck with me on the rules of this, even in a joking manner. Read the rules, learn them, and fucking abide by them. Or, as I said, get the fuck out……
Who’s joking? Would you let me call another poster “douche bag”?
Michael, seriously, can you read? Do I have to cut and paste the rules here? They are big as fucking life in today’s post. If you still don’t understand them I will re-write them in a post down here but I can’t believe that you don’t get it…..
He called the post a douche bag post, not the poster. But where the fuck are the rules codified? I sure don’t want to alienate anybody.
Kuo is very very good, but he’s blown his arm out multi times…He goes more than 1 inning sometimes, but extremely rare 2 days in a row.
Michael could be right, don’t be surprised to see Brandon Belt for sure help in September, and probably sooner. Not so sure any of the “hitters” mentioned in trade would be better than him…Shitholtz would have been gone if DeJesus didn’t break his thumb. That would have been fine.
I HAVE abided by them. I will not be singled out, however. You would NEVER allow me to say “douche bag post”.
I’m cracking down on the bitch fights. If they go back and forth for more than 4 or 5 exchanges I’m sending all involved parties, regardless of who started it or the level of intensity, to one of the *penalty boxes* (excerpt from today’s post #1)
If you get sent there and don’t respect the call by me, your referee, you are immediately banned from the site. (excerpt from today’s post #2)
Or if calling another post “douche bag” and “stupid” is OK, I’m fine with that.
I’ll take into consideration your attempts to bail on the bitch fights (excerpt from today’s post #3)
There will also be a hierarchy involved (excerpt from today’s post #4)
And regardless of who starts the “bitch fight”…………I’m just going to send both bloggers to do time (excerpt from today’s post #5)
Well, I’m done with this one. Great post, PickledGringo.
I don’t mind it if you guys bark at each other– just keep it somewhat civil and if you can’t do that end it in a few exchanges. I won’t have you do *time* if you can abide by those two simple rules. And here’s another option that my 7 year old daughter has recently learned: ignore people that are teasing you……(excerpt from today’s post #6)
Those are the high points. Alright, I’m out for the night…..
Rules are posted, Xoot. Look under the pages section of the blog to the top right……
ok. thanks.
So will Cain get hs first win against the bums on Sunday Night Baseball tomorrow? I think so. He’s up to it. Kershaw’s good, too, of course. But this Giants team is roaring. Pablo may or may not step up and supercharge the drive, but even without his best they’re damned good. SD’s having trouble with the Fishheads tonight and they can’t be pleased to meet the same suckers tomorrow. Then they have to some to SF. Next three games at China Basin will be key. This statement of the obvious is brought to you by Wells Fargo, whose second tier seats are down there in the RF corner, near the KKs wall.
Just got back from a day out with the wife. Great win! That’s something the Dodgers usually do to the Giants. Right back at ya, fuckers!
As a cunning linguist (well, that’s not entirely honest: I did study linguistics because New York State used to require it of English teachers; doubt it is still mandated), I must report on “douchebag” and the even less formal “douche.” Not long ago, it was taboo, impolitic, naughty, forbidden, tasteless, vulgar. Now, as reported in The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/business/media/14vulgar.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=douchebag&st=cse
it’s even on TV, despite its hearers and speakers not even knowing what it is literally. (As if we wanna know.)
And this cunning linguist won’t touch the glancing, squinting semi-scatological reference hidden in the term “penalty box.” I’ll leave that to Drs. Jung and Freud.
I just want to keep all smuttiness in the library here, in my big leather chair, with my smoking jacket and glass of claret. Ooops. No claret. A spot of black tea, please. No sugar. Cream. Carry on.
And the Friars lost! Game-and-a-half back! The NL West is there for the taking. I see the G’s also made a trade, but I don’t know much about Lopez. Kinda bummed Bowker is gone, but he just didn’t produce when he had the chance. I wish him well in his career. He’s a good guy.
fishheads are fucking up
I get deleted for “great posts”?
jbat, I’m just following on mlb gameday, and that site says SD is still alive, bottom of the 9th.
Michael: I don’t want any sarcastic bullshit from you. Everyone else has accepted the rules and seems to understand them. Please abide by them without back handed comments…….
I have not violated ONE rule. If sarcasm is not allowed, that’s just absurd.
It’s over. Padres lose.
and Michael– you yourself said you weren’t going to refer to anyone directly or by name anymore. And you come in tonight with that bullshit sarcastic post pointedly directed at PG? Leave him alone, I said the same thing to him about you earlier today (at your request I might add)……..
I said great post, PG. You say “douchebag post” and *I* violated a fucking rule? This is hypocritical, if you really just want me out, say it. But changing rules and banning sarcasm, man, lame..
and tomorrow fish throw Johnson…Has Cain beaten the dodgers yet? Big time to do it.
“Michael said, on July 31, 2010 at 11:40 am (Edit)
Well, whatever. You’ll never see me in your “penalty box” because I never start these “bitch fights”. If your rule keeps the usual suspects from starting them, there won’t be problems. I’m not naming names and I will no longer address posters by name so anyone coming after me WILL go to the box. Right? Good..”
that’s what you said. So if that’s what you said, then do what you say you’re gonna do. I immediately deleted PG’s response to you earlier, from my fucking train seat, because I was honoring your request…
So that’s why I deleted your sarcastic comment about him……
Now, I am truly late and OUT. Good night…….
Padres losing games at home, getting the comeuppance we got from the Miami Merlins. Water seeks its own level. All things balance out. Man, I want Uggla just so he does not kill *us,* which is what Charlie Manuel said of Oswalt. BTW, my brother hopes to see Ozzie Guillen in the hotel lobby in Detroit next week, hoping for some juicy quotes. I’m out. Late here.
I love you,Twin.
For real.
DJLoo
Fine. “Douchebag post” is OK, “great post” isn’t. I’m totally down with it.
It’s good to see the Fish take to the Pads. I hear it from Mets and Phils fans a lot, and it’s so true: The Marlins are an incredible pain in the ass. BF mentioned earlier this week what a schizo team they are. World-beaters one day, crap the next — or as we saw Wednesday, sometimes both in the same game. Giants did well to take the season series 5-2 from that team.
“I love you,Twin.
For real.
DJLoo”
That is certainly sarcastic and should be taken down, Loo.
And not like a homo.
Off to Saratoga tomorrow.
Best to all.
Good night
So today brought us a LOOGY (Lopez); ROOGY (Ramirez) and DOOGY (Denny On his way Out Guy).
I can live with that.
Well, you will have a lot of company, I’m sure.
In re-reading Craig’s list of issues about the blog, there are a lot of simple things that could easily be handled to free up his time and keep the integrity of this blog. Simple tasks include sourcing “POTG” pics, writing a column, or moderating for a day.
I stepped up to volunteer as “Moderator Day” once per two week period. Also, “Column Write” once per month. If a few in the core group stepped up for a simple task just once a month, like so … it would save him a lot of time and help keep the integrity of the blog.
Not that my volunteer may be accepted, but really it’s just blogs like this take a shitload more time than many people realize. There are a few … maybe 4-5 core folks who could just help a bit once a month, or once in two weeks, to facilitate a good quality blog and alleviate a bit of BFlavor’s everyday headaches. I mean, since we’re all here everyday anyway. Donate an hour per week — you’re spending it here anyway.