90 Wins and Counting
Well, last night they won their 90th, my total number from Opening Day. Hopefully I will not be nailing it cold this year (as I did last year 🙂 ). I usually don’t read any other blog besides this one and Baggs’ but I have been poking around other sites lately and it blows my mind how negative Giants fans are to this team. There are “fire sabean” guys all over the place. The freaking team has the 2nd most wins in the National league and there are still haters out there. Unbelievable.
Baseball is a game that is linked to failure. The best hitters in the game fail around 70% of the time. It’s EASY to find a player to complain about or a manager to second guess. But now? Why now? I don’t have the slightest problem in the world admitting when I am wrong. I’ve posted several mea culpa’s here this year (Torres, Bochy to name two) and I did it early on I didn’t stubbornly hold on to an opinion that was incorrect. I guess that’s why the negativity about the team is still out there– people that want to just inanely hold on to their original perspective despite damning evidence to the contrary….
Having said all that, I am dead set against the pitching change that now has the rotation going Cain-Zito-Sanchez. If Bum takes care of business tonight we only need to win one vs the Padres but if Cain doesn’t do it do we really want to put it in Zito’s hands on Saturday? And then face a do or die must win Sun? Unappealing scenario…..
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I just saw your Email . Sorry, you are both out. Duplicate entries are not permitted.
Twin, I just never saw it. If it was during the day, I have just been back on forth while in the office and not keeping up with the blog…my bad certainly.
I am still sitting on my 92 wins from day one. Hope I am shy
I’m going to ask Flavor to privately inform me if there were other attempts to enter under two different user names. That’s really bullshit, Peter. Especially since you already won once.
not sure how many more hitters i give him.
I hope you’re having a nice laugh, Giant Head. I’m sick about it..
???? Twin, as usual I have no idea what you are talkign about. Please explain. I have one entry under Giant Head…what are you accusing me of?
I’d guess that’s it for MadBum today. Gutty job.
Twin, I have always sent my entries in as Giant Head, not my first name….I think you need to offer an apology accusing me of cheating is way fucking below the belt. Why would I try and cheat with a bunch of friends on a blog?
Nice job getting out of the inning. PH for Bum in the bottom half? I think so.
Plus, I have not won anything…who are you thinking is the other entry?
You just sent me your picks with the same Email as SanDog-Peter Krug. Please don’t deny it or I’ll post the whole EMail.
Andres!
Yungo….Maddy can win…
how those stitches feel now!
Does anyone know what the temperature is at the park?
Looks warm there.
Torrrid Torres. Sure glad he’s back in action. Had a feeling. Sure nuff. What a sparkplug!
What the fuck are you tlaking about Twin? I said in the email the tie break numbers…here is the email:
“I have been real sick for the last few weeks and not been reading the Blogs in the evening, I missed most of the last two games going to sleep much earlier then normal.
Home Runs if you want to use it, I will go 161 or if you use ERA, I will go 1.40…”
So what the FUCK are you talking about?
Damn it’s nice having our MVP back.
Bumgarner WHIP at AT&T sucks, but like the way he hung tough today.
Yungo! If we don’t homer, we don’t score. Jon Miller was saying that 63 or 64% of our Sept. runs have come via the HR. Ridiculous. Homering more, but scoring less (3.7) according to Miller. I believe him.
At least the kid has a chance at a W. Pitched his best when he needed it most today. Stressful day.
Twin, are you fucking delusional to accuse me of cheating??
Where is your fucking apology???
San Dog I believe lives in San Diego and he has posted plenty…
san dog’s real name is Peter?
wow
he seems like a stronger name: say George or Jimmey
OK, now you are taking ahsot at me:) I was never a fan of the name either…
shot that is…
Wait. I sincerely apologize. Obviously I’m the one who’s fucked up. SanDog is a different Peter K. Weird but totally my fault. Since SanDog did win before, I’ll allow a late pick-but it’s ERA for the season, you are still tied withn the HR picks. Email me that. Obviously your 1.40 won’t win.
I am still waiting on an apology…now you have questioned my honor…
wait a minute, wait a minute. wtf’s my program. Giant Head went to school in Lexington and works for the dark side in DC; San Dog lives in SD and took BF to a game earlier this year.
Xoot has it right thankfully…UK to be exact so as not to confuuse with Washington and Lee in Lexington VA…
Twin, if you still need a tie-break if we have the same era. Choosing who hits the game-winning hit during the division clinching game tomorow may also be an interesting and hard to replicate choice.
Now i am going home Twin, I will try and read the blog when I get there if you direct any messages my way. So I may have to get back to you later tonight.
OK, ignore that lost post…I did not relaize he was Pete as well…
I did apologize. Both of you Peter Heads need to Email me the team ERA for the year. Hint: it will be THREE something..
Couldn’t all of that have been done via private Email?
If the fuckwad checked his Email more than one a month, yeah.
And since this a very cool computer system at stake, I’ll handle it as I please. Butt out.
A 1-2-3 inning. How bout that.
I have nothing against the name Peter. My apologies to all.
Oh, yeah, Peter is my boss at work.
Great guy, shitty manager.
But I digress.
slag off you d backs
Time to knock carrot head out of the game.
Posey Power!
how bout that…roy
Didn’t look too tired right there.
OOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Hit and Run, THAT
Holy Shit that was pure lovely
huff steals, Posey deals
Live by the bomb. Win by the bomb . . .
Feel like Slim Pickens . . .
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee Hawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or, how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb . . .
was just thinking that buster could use a homer for the roy race. then i looked at his stats and in the last ten games, if you throw out the one where he homered to beat chicago, he has like 2 hits. then i look at the gamecast, oh, he homered.
Good thing Gibson let Enright hit in the top of the inning.
Hey! LaRoche:
Wanna play n SF?
fuck you
I second that ed
Are we playing the Diamondbacks or the Pirates? All their pitchers have red beards.
[insert gay-ass “ARRRGHH!” smiley face here]
How sweet is the line:
AZ: 1 run on 7 hits
SF: 4 runs on 5 hits
SWEEEEET!!!!!!!
What IS this with all the homers? Did the HGH shipment come in early this month? First half of the year, they couldn’t buy a friggin homer. Whatever iis causing it, gimme some more. I smell a lower magic number…
your smeller is right on.
Sandog, now I need your team ERA pick. I have FatHead’s.
thanks to Fox Sports.
pushing the game ahead means I get Sat n Sun in the evening. friday stilllooks like an early am watch for me, but watch I must.
go Giants!
didn’t realize some didn’t know…you can watch here…
justin.tv/kostaz01
Shit. .. ba luck there. Panda’s coming around. Good to see that . . .
would be nice to keep wilson out today. casilla two strong innings. seems like with romo, affeldt, runzler etc. we should be able to get six outs.
At this very moment we lead in HRs(36) for the month, yet are still only 12th in runs(97).
Baseball’s just a bunch of silly numbers anyways.
Holy shit!! I’m gone for a little while at a meeting and look what I missed!
3 bombs by “That scar must be awful tender…” Torres, “Whatever happened to…” Sandoval and “He sure looks tired…” Posey. If Gomez gets an AB, watch out!!
And I got to catch up on the hilarity of this thread as well.
heh heh. heh heh. Michael said Peter Heads
Believe it or not, we score MORE when we homer LESS.
Don’t hit any more goddamn home runs!
Wasn’t Peter Heads one of the Monkees?
Peter North is probably a Giants fan. This new, long ball offense is very explosive…
Well, Peter “tORK” *was* one of the Monkees and their full length movie (written by Jack Nicholson, BTW) *was* called HEAD. So…
Yeah, it all made sense somewhere in my head . . .
Completely weird movie, BTW.
It certainly didn’t fit in with their prefab 4 image . . .
Not lately Dennis.
Chuck, we’re scoring less this month (3.7) than our yearly avg. of 4.3 runs/gm. with all these homers.
New battle cry: Stop hitting homers!
Yeah. I need those 714 runs!!
Real fine thinking, Dennis. How are they scoing without the HRs?
That’s it, they’re not. 64% of our runs this month have come via the HR. Too much all-or-nothing.
Stop hitting homers? Dennis, you’re nearing the edge now. They’re hitting homers and are something like 17-8 this month. Hit more…
Ballgame!
Magic Number: 3
Dennis, go watch Dr. Straneglove (or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb).
“You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”
Romo flashes 94?
He must be pumped . . .
“Mine Fuehrer!! I can VALK!!”
Oh Shiot,. That ain;t Romo.
No wonder . . .
Huge puckering just began inside Petco….
Ballgame!
2
Congrats…Matt wins it for us tomorrow..
Sweep!
SD hasn’t started yet, and they get to see this . . .
Ahhh, the Sweet Smell of Success. Congrats to MadBum!
It’s Magic Number 2 Inside!
Nice Tony Curtis reference
The Great Race is nearing the end.
The Defiant Ones sweep the D-Backs
“May the Schwartz be with you.”
Yonda is the playoffs of my fawduh
Ballgame!
Magic Number: 2
If the Pads lose, it’s 1 of 4 for the West.
It’ll be over tomorrow.
2bagger. LQTM
Good job 2bagger
By reuest of Bozo.
So, you’re going to just end up bagger
I look forward to the day of just bagger.
I hope my contest number of 92 is wrong unless the Padres lose today. I’d rather lose a computer and gain the playoffs.
Amen
Nearly perfect scenario played out today. Bum pretty good, but Pen got some work, got it done. 3 dingers. Torres looks to have it going at the plate. Wilson gets a blow. All sets up nice for the Pads. Congrats to the squad and Bonehead. Well done….
Posey did not look comfortable doing that interview with Amy G
Amy’s questions are way longer than the answers. Must have gone to the Barbieri school of sports journalism…
Get the game tomorrow and bring on Atlanta!