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What a tone we set in San Diego last night. We didn’t just eek out a victory, we dominated them, burying the memories of their 8-0 start against us to start out the year. With their fans absent and our fans filling their seats, there’s no way the Padres can maintain their confidence……
Another chance tonight for Dirrrrty to back up his hubris against SD. Do you sit Buster? I know Bochy wants to give him a blow but I don’t think this series is the time to do it. And as bad as he looked on Wed in AZ he sure looked spry last night. He’s going to get a blow Monday and then Bochy could give him another one against the checked-out Dodgers or even Milwaukee. San Diego will be losing plenty of games next week when they head off to their 10 game roadie on Monday. Posey should sit then, not now…….
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YES!!!!!!
Hooray for our team!
Excellent
Fuck, yeah, first place!
All Hail The Victory Thong!!!
Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah!!!
They are still in second, guys.
HELL YES!!!!! 1ST PLACE TIE…Tomorrow 1st Place and never looking back!!!!!!!
My giants back in first place.
great way to start the day
Giants all the way baby!!!!!
They are NOT in first place.
congrats…great to beat them at their own game..
Oh my goodness. They won without Posey in the lineup.
Gosh oh motherfucking golly.
Do you stupid motherfuckers wanna eat yer words? Or are ya just gonna say “We coulda won 2-o with Posey”
FUCK YAH!!!
Hate to tell you, but they’re not exactly in 1st place….
I believe the standings go on w-l not percentage
No, they DO go on percentage officially. But I can’t remember when it has ever mattered at the end of the season.
The Pads still have two games in hand.
Either way, great start to this series!!! Bum on the hill tomorrow!
Nice win.
Goodnight, gentlemen (question mark)
They go on percentage. They are in second.
Wow . . . . . Quite the game.
Bummie tomorrow, then Timmy. I like our chances.
Outstanding. Tortuous, glorious win. They’ve split already, anything else is gravy….
Fuck that Snarkk. They liose 2 in a row, it’s not good.
WRONG!!!!
Bochy managed his ass off. Maybe, just maybe, this guy can get us in and past the playoffs. Fuck the line-up and Timmy’s hair, I’ve gotta feeling this guy makes it work.
We’re 0 games back. Happy?
Fuck percentages.The Pads won’t feel like there leading after tonight.And they won’t be after tomorrow.
WHEWWWWW! Payback time for all those games the Pads stole earlier in the season. Had the feeling that even with the baserunners in the 8th and 9th it would come to 1-0. Bit of a Sarah Bernhardt drama presentation on Matt Stairs walk, but Wilson was so pissed at that DP in his 0-9 plate experience that he was gassed and then some. And we are NOT talking Gascan Benitez. We are talking some determined heat.
Good thing BW closed it. If Pads tied or got 2 to win, Bonehead had lots of ‘splainin to do for that top o’ the 9th full o’ fukups. Among other things, BW should NEVER, NEVER have taken the bat off his shoulders….
its who loses least wins…they’re 1 behind in that department
Again, the Giants are 0 games behind the madres . . .
Fuck percentages.
the sfgs have 2 games in hand and percentages say sd loses one of those.
yee haw
The Padres have the two games in hand. They’ve played two fewer.
Oracle, the Doomer…
You’re the doomer, dude. They win the game and you’re talking about what might have happened if they lost. Sheesh.
Right, Snarkk. I’m sure Bochy told BW to swing at everything.
Wilson did that on his own.
Bullshit…
Bumgarner against Stauffer. Not a bad matchup as it is Stauffer’s first start of the season. His longest stint was something like four innings. Hope Buster is up to it tomorrow. That LU looked a bit hollow tonight without him~ not as hollow as that of the Dagos, though. I’d say their chances of taking at least one of the next two are better than 50-50. Pads have to be pretty bummed at being beat at their own game. Also, the Gigantes de San Francisco have clipped Latos once already this season.
Beat the Padres at their own dinkin’ stinkin’ game. Second place never felt so good.
Shit! Don’t be a bunch of fucking doomers. Enjoy the W.
Last nite we schooled them in big ball, tonight we schooled them in small ball.
Stauffer should be vulnerable by the 4th inning.
I didnt see the replay on the Pads’ attempted steal in the 8th. Was the call correct? Padre announcers insulted the umpire on the air.
He was out by 3′
Agree, we can’t fucking settle for a split now.
And worry about 1st place on Oct 3.
.564 to .563 those are the percentages, MLB.com
I am the realist, Snarkklefuck. And I’m not the one bitching after an exciting win. Your Bochy bashing is idiotic.
I’m over the moon with the win. You’re the one splitting stat hairs. And, they won in spite of a clusterfuckly managed 9th inning….
0 games back. THAT’S what’s important . . .
Thank you Mike!! Its a win, lets enjoy it, quit nitpicking
It’s to the Giants advantage that they have 2 more games to play than the G;s do
It was a great win. But screaming “first place” is fucking stupid…
The only way they leave SD in first is to sweep..
woo-hoo…what a nail biter! And to think idiots on the Splash last year wanted to banish BWilson…morons through and through!
Well we did exactly what we needed to do in the first two games…pressure is off, just split these last two and get on home!!!
Facing Latos with 3 in the pocket is the only way to go, I’d say.
Shut the fuck up, Chuckles. They are in second place.
Channelling snarkk, Mike?
0 games back, baby!!!!!
Wilson has a brilliant combination of guts and good sense. Definitely walk Stairs before you give in. If Maxs’ boy can beat him, tip the cap. But no way you give Stairs a pitch he can “leave Earth” with..
Boy, that is absolutely right. I love the confidence to put on the winning run, because it insults the next hitter, which is totally appropriate. Padre payroll has them putting up a .220 hitter with 12 HRs as a last gasp. And if Giants fans stopped going to their games, who knows what they would have.
It’s best not to think of the Giants as tied for first. They’re one back in the loss column. Things are going great and heading in the right direction, though.
Blow it out yer wrinkled ass, Mike.
Great win. Tough game. Dig it.
You can whine about percentages. They are virtually tied.
0 games back, skippy.
I’m digging the game, I ALWAYS enjoy the baseball more than you fucks. They’re just not in first, fact.
Clearly they’re not. I don’t know why people are making an issue out of it. One out in the loss column is not tied for firstplace in my opinion.
The good news is that we’re heading generally upward and they’re heading generally downward.
…they’re also 1-game UP in the win column.
Uribe had the d goin tonight..and the hustle despite the hammy to beat out the dp and get the rbi…
“It’s to the Giants advantage that they have 2 more games to play than the G;s do”
See the thing is, Unca, I don’t think I can agree with that. I don’t know the odds and probability of it, but I think I’d give the edge to the Padres on that at the moment.
It’s academic, but the Padres are not likely to have that many positive match ups going down the stretch, so playing extra games now, as opposed to when they were rolling, seems to be to the Giants’ advantage. They’re ahead because they needed fewer games to get to the same number over .500, and now have more games to go farther over .500. If the Pads go 14-8, the Giants have to go 13-7. Not quite the same, although of course you have to look at the opposition.
The Giants have 5 more vs. SD. Winning 4 should leave them worrying about Colorado.
What’s with the “whine” bullshit, Chucklefuck”? I’m not unhappy. You’re the dumb cocksucker with the party hat, the streamers, the parade… for second place, asshole.
Imagine this: Your starter walks seven in 5. Closer walks one in the bottom of the ninth. You win 1-0. It happened tonight. Incredible morale booster winning under those circumstances, even though Sanchez and five relievers gave up only 3 hits. And it was really nice to see the L. painted on Clayton Richard. Yahoo posts this picture of him with this really toothy grin. Almost worse than a smirk.
Dagos will be pressing tomorrow. Time for MadBum to madden them with some unhittable stuff. Attention of the baseball world will be tightly focussed Sunday on a classic matchup of the new badboy on the block Mat Latos vs the revivified Tim Lincecum. The 1-0 game was tonight. Will there be a repeat?
With tonight’s victory, the Giants record against Divisional opponents is now a dead even .500 after a deep, dark case of subterranean bluuz. It could not have come at a better time and against a more deserving opponent.
I remember Tim saying, I guess it was in July, maybe a little earlier, that he was on the “pitch to contact” bandwagon, which could have been his problem… if the last 2 starts are an indication, he’s abandoned that and gone back to being a strikeout pitcher.
chuck…mike doesn’t get excited and rightly so,until we’re ahead in the loss column…in theory, if they both won out from here, the pads would win…
The Giants play the Pads 5 more times, WSW. Your bullshit theory is flawed.
These goobers doom it with every loss, heads are to roll when they don’t hit, Botchy bashing, LU bashing,. and then party like Room B Splashmorons 20 games early. Get these next two and they go home in first.
Anyway, as discussed on September 1-the goats and heroes can come from unlikely guys. No way to know who it will be, and no credit or demerits for the past. Nate is all T and A, Whitefuck makes a key throw… Huff makes stoopid and it pays off…
The Padres’ two “games in hand” are at Colorado on Monday and home vs. Cubs Sept. 27, so there’s a good chance they get a split.
The reason why we’re not technically in first place is simple:
Alex Smith has had too many different offensive coordinators.
…so true.
You’re not a better Giants fan than any of us. Bullfuckinshit to that….
Everyone here is a “better” fan than you are, Snarkklefuck. You are a disgrace.
I’m enjoying this win, and you’re quoting percentages as if nobody else knows how to divide. Piss off, Doomer….
Casilla may catch a starter or two in wins
After this series, the Pads embark on a 10-game roadtrip. Colorado- 3, St. Louis- 4, L.A.- 3. A decently tough roadtrip, with hopefully L.A. giving them better games at Dodger Stadium.
I think I’ll watch this one again and catch the Padre announcers.
Let me know if you can do that …. the Padres are NEVER on the Extra Inning package, for whatever reason. I caught them on the radio a bit.
Dick Enberg is one of their TV broadcasters. It’s a little disconcerting at first.
Do you really want to put yourself through that?
But can someone please tell me why the fuck BW was swinging the bat in the T9?
Two things either happened. 1. Bochy gave him the red light (proper move) and Brain ignored it and went hacking. 2. Bochy didn’t give him the red light and he swung away.
Either scenario, someone needs to have their child slapped.
I’d have to go back and look at those last two innings, but when Wilson was batting I was thinking that Bochy screwed up a double-switch opportunity at some point. Maybe bring in Ishi when he brought in Wilson, move Huff to the outfield for somebody, something like that.
Nah, he would have had to take out Ross or Huff … and then you’re getting close to the possibility of having Wilson up in an even worse situation.
I’m not a great fan of FP, but he just did a great job of spelling out how that wasn’t possible…mostly because BW came in in the 8th, and first the way the batters were lining up, you would have had to take out Rent, Uribe, or Whiteside – not a lot of good options, there.
Wow. I got up to pee.
Thought…heck let’s see what the fucks’ are saying on the Flap
You guys would have never passed 8th grade math.
Let’s make this simple:
See how many games the Giants have played
Now, see how many games the Padres have played
See the *little* difference?
That’s where the 1st place 2nd place thing comes on.
Michael/twin was right about that.
But he was wrong about one thing.
He states he ALWAYS *enjoys* baseball more than us fucks.
I take umbrage.
I enjoy baseball as much if not more than you, twin.
Probably even more as I don’t *know* it as well as you
I love you man, but…nope. I enjoy it as much if not more than you. I just haven’t made it a life science. I don’t have to.
That’s what I can count on you for
(insert gay smiley face)
Let’s not forget that Uribe fucked up. Wilson had the throw beat without any “help”. Torres should have had his shot.
Thoughts on whether a double-switch should have happened earlier?
Wilson should have NEVER swung the bat. Who’s fault was it?
The fucks referred to know who they are-the doomers and bashers and cynics. I’m not going to list them unless you insist. They klnow who they are.
A win is a win is a win. I love it.
Odd stats on tomorrow Patsies starter: lefties hitting .190. Call it a small sample size.
who cares about whether we are percentage points in second..we are fucking winning this division. We may split these last two in San Diego, but this team has a mindset that they are going to win this division and not look back and I believe…
San Diego will be toast in Colorado…
All the cliches apply- grind it one game at a time. They found a way to make it happen tonight. How about that run? That was the ultimate grinder.
Meant to say we are going to fucking win this division..nothing else matters as Hetfield would say…
And it was in response to Chucklefuck’s remark that I was “whining” about percentages. I wasn’t whining about shit. They are not in first fucking place. Period. You know how many times I’ve told these nellies to settle down, everything’s cool? Maybe, oh: a fucking THOUSAND times. Now after all the “it’s over”, ” HEADS MUST ROLL”.. the dumbfucks are celebrating second place… they’ll be in first, boys, I’ve told you that. Let’s celebrate when they get there, OK?
0 games behind, baby!
Yeah, it doesn’t sound as good, but it’s sure nice to get there.
Perhaps it’s meant to be when Huff makes what could very well have been the bonehead move of the year and it turns to gold..
The Giants caught some breaks tonight. They couldn’t seem to catch any breaks against the Pads earlier this year.
That’s the Power of the Thong….
I’ll say that espn standings have the % chance of making the PS, and the Giants are 59.6 and the pads are 52.7