Stick a fork in them……
The Dodgers are done, man. Their collapse really is astounding when you consider the talent they had on that team to start the year. But Kemp got Hollywood-on-the-brain and decided it was more fun to date Rihanna than it was to work on his game. The broken thump slowed down Ethier. And as I said a few weeks ago when I watched him warm up, Broxton is hurt (though they say he’s fine–curious when he’s lost 5 mph off his fastball)……Either way, watching them go down with Torre fanatically pulling strings that are attached to nothing is funny as hell…….
Big series begins for us today–they’re all big from here on out. For some reason I feel like we are going to hit just fine in Philly. If our pitching holds up we could easily win 2 and maybe all 3. Still, I’m taking the over in all three of these games no matter what the number……
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Well, it’s *only* 7 1/2 tonight, Flav. That’s screaming for an OVER. Damn, it’s like they’re begging ya to take it. They want ya, they need ya, they implore you to take it. The hook is baited, the line is cast and 7′ Fenwick fiberglass pole awaits to be smoked. Shit, I wouldn’t touch that with a 10′ deep sea, heavy action Shimano special. Fish on! 🙂
I have no idea what that post means, dennis, but I’ll fight to the death your right to post it!
Not to worry, Ted. Neither did I. “Hey chief! Best drop another chum marker.”
Dennis we are not playing the Marlins! LOL
Yo Flav, I’ll be at tonight’s game, perhaps the one tomorrow. Weather is sticky hot today. I’ll try and get some pix.
Interesting prediction there. Need I remind you that last year’s games in Philly were 0-1, 4-0 and 1-2. Sometimes CBB isn’t quite the bandbox everyone makes it out to be, although with Burrell, Huff, Posey and Guillen, I expect better than 5 runs this time around.
It looks like Utley will be back tonight, but Howard, who is eligible to come off the DL, still isn’t ready. The Phils held up remarkably well in their absence. That’s really no surprise given how tough this is team is, never more evident than in that incredible comeback vs. the Bums last week.
Good read from Baggs on the Huffster and how Burrell helped defined who he is today. But, damn, pat needs to hide his “bat,” especially in the presence of the Huffster’s mother.
http://tinyurl.com/2c4bpem
Yeah, that put a smile on my face first thing this morning.
Huff’s mother didn’t seem to mind!
I was watching baseball tonight while the Dodgers were falling apart in the ninth. They’re so done…well done. I was actually pulling for them to hold off the Braves though, because they have zero chance of climbing in the standings and I still think if it comes to a wildcard race, the Giants will be battling Atlanta and Cinci, as the Phills and Cards will win their divisions.
From an Amy G. tweet (shaddup): Guillen has switched his #1 jersey with 3rd base coach Tim Flannery. Guillen will now be wearing jersey #6.
That ought to make him run a whole helluva lot faster now.
Renminds me of The Prisoner, Dennis.
“I am am number 6. Who is number 1?”
And was the big ball chasing them around, orange???
Now would be good time for a nice little win streak. Might be tough going east but hey, gotta win games sometime right?
I like the way we match up against Philly and the Cards. At least a split on this trip.
Sure, give #6 to anybody. Screw Robby & JT….
Nice call re Robby.
JT … most over-hyped Giant ever. Robby was an All Star twice, Silver Slugger in ’93, drafted and home grown, never whined about PT or status. JT took Robby’s number and had 3 or 4 productive years. If SF allows Eli Whiteside to wear Jack Clark’s No. 22, then JT can just bite his lip and keep collecting those face-time checks from Larry.
And who let Pablo take Russ Ortiz’ no. 48?
I am back to civilization, have not touched my fantasy team in nearly two weeks and now I am back in second:).
That should be a message not to mess with it. Those were tough games to listen to with those fuck head Padres but what a treat to listen to that Burrell grand slam on Thursday.
I have a bad feeling about this road trip. 2-4 has an ugly ring to it. I say start Guillen everyday and if he flunks…sayanora!
Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
“Ohhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm”
I have been overly positive for the last month…Ohmmmmmmm!
Settle down everyone. All the Giants have to do is win every series here on out and they’ll be World Champs.
I’m thinking about getting some tee shirts made that read “Every 56 years, like Clockwork”.
I know it’s a cliche but really just take it one game at a time. Worrying about the bigger picture stuff is just going to cause more negative thinking, worrying, and angst about a journey you cannot control. They have a shot and that’s much better than a lot of seasons.
I never liked guys who wear number 1. c
chabge
Sad news. Bobby Thomson passed away
Bobby Thomson has passed away.RIP
He’ll forever be remembered for “The Shot Heard Round The World”.
Thanks for providing us with the Greatest moment in our Franchise History!
tempus fugit
*GOD* there are some real fucking assholes over on the Splash
Amazing, isn’t it? What drives a person to spend time posting negative shit when a person dies?
There hasn’t been anything negative written about Bobby Thompson on the Splash…
RIP Bobby… you’ll never be forgotten!
Really? Someone wrote “Who?” A couple people said he cheated. Others said the shot heard around the world was meaningless because the Giants lost the WS.
Yeah, those are real heartfelt thoughts
There was nothing negative written about Thompson.
As for the “Who?”, I’m sure there are many here and on the Splash who don’t know anything about the Giants prior to their relocating to SF. Just rechecked the posts, and don’t recall anyone saying Thompson was a cheat, only that cheating was prevalent at that time… kinda like it is now, right?
There’s a lot of comments. You missed them. They specifically cited he was given the pitch that was coming. And if you red the intro to the post, you wouldn’t ask “Who?’ That’s just being an asshole. I’ll agree the majority wrote ncie things. But that doesn’t take away from my original statetment
Maybe you should post on the Splash, and give “those people” a piece of your mind…
didnt we win the ’54 series?
with Thompson right?
That was a great article on Huff and Burrell!
Loved the last quote by Burrell: “Yeah that pretty much how it happened,he said”I was looking for the shampoo,there wasn’t any in the shower”.Obviously I didn’t know his mom was in the room”
Long Pause
“I don’t know how the six pack got in my hands.” LMFAO
I just read that too and agree. I would like to see both of them back (if the $ is reasonable).
How many of you found a beer or a six pack and didn’t know how you got it, especially when you were college age??
How many of you showered with it?
Uh…that would be me.
Golden showers indeed . . .
Any opinions as to what one say the 5 most famous Home Runs of All Time?
1) Thomson
2)Mazeroski
3)Carter
4)Aaron
5) Fisk?Gibson,Ruth
Definitely one of the most famous, but not only because of the actual hit and the Giants circumstances in the penant race, but because the audio was ever caught in the first place. The video footage does not have audio. What we all see, or hear, in that highlight is a recording that was made by accident when some random fan was recording the radio broadcast. If it wasn’t for the call, it’s not nearly as famous.
Maris?
The story “giving the pitch” to Bobby Thomson from the scoreboard…Even IF it’s true, you still have to hit out. Guys don’t even in HR Derby when they know WHERE it’s gonna be….Give credit to the guy who hit the most famous HR in Giants history, and perhaps MLB itself.
This sad event is a timely reminder for the import placed on this weekend’s series. NYGs were 13.5 back on Aug. 11, 1951 …
MLB did not outlaw the alleged sign-stealing – if it mattered – until the 1960s, so Splashers are about as dialed in as birthers chasing Obama’s past. Ken Burns’ documentary, Baseball, had one of the better segments on Thomson, the ’51 race, and the three-game playoff.
“Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the inexpressibly fantastic, can ever be plausible again.”
Sorry – Red Smith, New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 1951.
and if the Bastardos thought they were stealing signs (which I am sure they were doing as well from Ebbets Field) then they would have been ready for it and mixed up their signals…
Kuiper?
Brian Johnson?
Tomi Oh,the mother of baseball legend Sadaharu Oh has died of pneumonia at the age of 108!!
Staggering to think this woman was alive during the “Battle of Tsushima”
Line up:
Torres CF
Posey C
Huff IB
Burrell LF
Sandoval 3B
Guillen RF
Uribe SS
Fontenot 2B
Zito P
Guarantee Branca will attend the funeral. He was and is all class.
Back in 2001, there were numerous commemorative events planned for the 50th anniversary of the homerun. They were all canceled due to 9/11.
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Hal Smith’s homer in ’60 was bigger than Mazeroski’s.
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Ask any Yankee or Bosox fan over 40: Bucky Fuckin’ Dent
Branca was just on Mad Dog’s show on XM and he still claims Thomson stole the sign…seems like a cheap thing to do on the day the guy dies…
No twinner 2 days in a row– hope he’s ok. Love that line up
Yeah, that is kinda weird. Wonder what’s up?
How far down the list does one have to go to reach #756? It’s either sad or pathetic or both, I can’t decide.
The Giants should immediately retire Bobby Thomson’s #23 uniform. Like Ron Wotus really had a career.
Much like A Rod’s very muted 600th . . .
Jose fucking Oquendo, for that matter, DJ.
I HATE that little motherfucker . . .
Twin takes vacations? Two days without calling someone a “dickwad” How can he do it? He must be sick.
So nice seeing a lineup with some pop in it.
has anyone followed the waiver wire? did the Giants ever put Franchez on it?
I see that the Rangers rookie second basemen make two huge mistakes last night filling in for Kinsler. They would not need Franchez for any offense and he obviously plays plus defense…could be one way to get out of the $6 mill for next year. Kelly Johnson will be available…
so much for my english while on vacation…I saw him blow two plays last night…
Not to lineup bitch and hope they come out like gang-busters tonight, but since Huff has been scuffling of late, would it not make more sense to have Posey hit there instead?
1) Torres
2) Fontenot
3) Posey
4) Burrell
5) Huff
6) Guillen
7) Panda
8) Uribe
They can then go R-L-R with Burrell-Huff-Guillen and then Panda-Uribe against righties….
The kicker— after Thomson’s homerun wins the pennant in ’51, the Giants have to start the World Series THE NEXT DAY against a well-rested Yankee team. Talk about unfair. (Same thing happened in ’62.)
Alley, I would consider the Gibson homerun the most famous of all time. I’ve seen more replays of that homerun than any other. Hank Aaron’s 715th probably the second most famous, with the two goofballs running onto the field. And another that gets replayed a lot is Reggie Jackson hitting his third homerun in that World Series game, off a hapless Charlie Hough.
Wellemeyer gone!!!!!!!! Kinda feels about as good as when Eddie D told Marc Trestman “Your Gone.”
SF Giants RT@ Ken Rosenthal: Sf Giants have asked unconditional release waviers on Wellemeyer.He’d been designated for assignment.
Yes!!! Fantastic news “Please go suck somewhere else”.
That’s what my previous manager requested of me
Someone mentioned the low scoring games last year in Philly. We were at the first game and it was unseasonably cold last year enough to wear a sweatshirt. Laast year was the coolest summer I have been on the east coast.
It is sweltering today on the seaboard. Take the over Flav big. Don’t see a low score with Zito and the heat.
This series is huge for Guillen. We will find out whether he’s going to be productive, or if he’s going to be Garko II.
Well, at least Guillen didn’t cost as much . . .
Ryan Garko…Is he eligible for a Milk Carton yet?
For those of you into Football, ESPN is reporting that Farve is flying to Minn
They made it “breaking news,” showed his plane landing and him driving off in a black SUV with a police escort..
Two words: Fuck Favre!
Freakin’ hilarious. What a circus.
He has won 1 super bowl!!
“Brett Favre takes a shit! Flim a t 11:00!!!!!”
Living in Colorado in the mid 80s was much the same, on a smaller scale, with Elway.
Enough to make me want to puke my guts out. Thank GOD there was a Niner fan that ran a bar in town . . .
They should’ve had Al Cowlings drive him.
Uribe’s been steady enough, but where did the power go? Only 3 HRS since late June. Time to heat up.
Guillen gets more than 3 fucking games to prove himself. Don’t forget, he hit the hardest ball of any giant (except posey) on sun. Dude can mash, he’s the least of our worries
Yes, he gets more than 3 games … but he hasn’t mashed in quite a while.
P.S. The Sarge needs to tighten up his dentures. Sounds like they’re rattling around in there
I agree Flav. Besides, who’s the alternative?
Yungo another 2b hit…good start
How do you do.
that had to feel real good for Burrell…
Pat the bat homer
Guillen fucking mashed a ball on Sunday. And we have no one on the bench who can do that with any consistency. I’ve decided I like a bench with Nate and ishi on it— great late inning defense and they are figuring out the ph thing
That’s the kind of Welcome Home At Bat i like Way to go Pat!!
If u reference the future potg prediction box you’ll see that’s one down, 6 to go
I can’t believe these Philly mopes … “That’s a good way to answer the top of the first.”
Huh? An error?
Come on Panda,Shit that was a can of corn.
Pete Hamill famously said that when Sinatra died the 20th century ended. Well, when Bobby Thomson died, baseball’s 20th century came to an end. I could watch that clip a hundred times; probably have watched it a hundred times. I almost had tears seeing it on ABC News tonight. Yes, I put it as the most famous homer of all time. (My friend Dan Valenti, in his book Clout, leads off with it after a poetic essay. Bill Mazeroski’s HR in 1960 comes next.) Bobby Thomson, forever thanks.
Beautiful Pawlie
If Panda loses 30 LBs, he doesn’t make that error at third. The dude has to drop at least 30 in the offseason…
Regarding Chuck’s earlier comment on Farve . . . fuck him and the horse (that looks like Elway) he rode in on. You may now return to your regular broadcast.
Yeah, my baseball life was pretty much born and weaned around that call from Russ Hodges . . .
From the net . . .
This famous moment in sports broadcasting was nearly lost. This was in an era before all game broadcasts were recorded. However, in his autobiography, Hodges related how a Brooklyn fan, excited over what appeared to be a certain Dodger victory, hooked up his home tape recorder to his radio. The fan wanted to capture Hodges “crying.” Instead, he recorded history; the next day, he called Hodges and said, “You have to have this tape.”
“ Bobby Thomson… up there swingin’… He’s had two out of three, a single and a double, and Billy Cox is playing him right on the third-base line… One out, last of the ninth… Branca pitches… Bobby Thomson takes a strike called on the inside corner… Bobby hitting at .292… He’s had a single and a double and he drove in the Giants’ first run with a long fly to center… Brooklyn leads it 4-2…Hartung down the line at third not taking any chances… Lockman with not too big of a lead at second, but he’ll be runnin’ like the wind if Thomson hits one… Branca throws… [audible sound of bat meeting ball]
There’s a long drive… it’s gonna be, I believe…THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands! The Giants win the pennant and they’re goin’ crazy, they’re goin’ crazy! HEEEY-OH!!!” [ten-second pause for crowd noise]
I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! I do not believe it! Bobby Thomson… hit a line drive… into the lower deck… of the left-field stands… and this blame place is goin’ crazy! The Giants! Horace Stoneham has got a winner! The Giants won it… by a score of 5 to 4… and they’re pickin’ Bobby Thomson up… and carryin’ him off the field!
awesome, literally
(Twin, weren’t you at the Mazeroski HR game?)
Notice that one of, if not THE most famous calls in sports history is in active voice. Much as I like Miller, he and other announcers rely far too much on passive voice to make their key calls. It makes the call much less emphatic and dulls the moment. What if Hodges said “The Giants Have Won the Pennant, the Giants Have Won the Pennant….”? Miller essentially said that in passive voice in 2002 vs. the Cards as David Bell slid past home, and nobody much remembers that call…
Snarkk: Grammar lesson. Both of your examples are active voice. If you say, “The pennant was won by the Giants”! Or: “The pennant has been won by the Giants!” or “The pennant is now being won by the Giants!” you have passive voice. Your issue is tense. Your Miller example is a form of past tense. Russ Hodges exclaimed in the present tense. Persnickety me.
Twin was at the called homerun shot by Ruth.
This is the first time I have seen Guillen swing. Looks like he has a lot of umph still in that swing!
Looks like he is in great shape as well.
Why worry about Panda’s weight? He is going to end up at first more than likely. I say he backs up Posey as well next year to keep another bat like Burrell on the roster.
Uribe can play third. We just need a legit young SS with range. I don’t think Crawford will be ready and not sure Burriss is a the answer at short.
We just need Panda regaining his swing next year and not fucking with his head and guilt trips on his weight.
I could care less about what panda weighs– I’m not fuckin him so why should I care? He mashed last year at what is probably 10 lbs more than what he’s at right now. Being fat isn’t what’s fueling this near-season-long slump..
If you don’t care about Panda’s overweight and hitting, whatever. It doesn’t help his fielding, range and footwork, that is for damn sure, and doesn’t do his knees any good, either. There’s no guilt trip involved. He’s a damn big leaguer, so he should handle the minor point of getting his ass in shape to improve his game and prolong his career…
Hallelujah Flav!
…I’m not fucking him…classic
But Snarkk, what if that weight level is who he is??
We know that young hitters struggle their second full year. He now needs to adjust to the league. What are his prep sessions like? Is he digesting film on pitchers. Actually Bonds could be a big help to Panda in the off-season learning about being a professional hitter.
We also know that he had woman and eye issues his year that has taken his head out of the game. Seems like he has been swinging better of late…
His knees? He’s fuckjng 23 or whatever, he’s not gonna be a fat guy with knee problems for 10-20 yrs. And he moves just fine, he’s a fat guy who can run- watch him motor after a foul pop sometime. I can buy the argument that he’d be slightly quicker reacting to a line shot down 3rd if he drops 30 lbs but I don’t think his body size has anything to do with his hitting slump this year….