Promises are meant to be kept…..
As we discussed last night, if Atlanta loses today we are in and there will be no 1-game playoff to decide the NL West winner/WC winner–today would be that game. But I don’t think Atlanta is going to lose with Hudson pitching and Charlie Dumbass resting all his players and pitchers. I think Hamels is slated to go 2 innings today.
So, back to our game today…..And who better to have going than the guy who guaranteed it all way back when. Dirrrrty Sanchez. Back in August he guaranteed a sweep of the Padres and a division crown. That prediction didn’t work out then but he’s in a position to make good on the long term prediction of the division title if he can shut the Pads down (and we scratch out a few runs for him). If you think about it, this is the perfect way to end the season—a victory in the final game of the season that locks up the division pitched by the guy who guaranteed all of this for us 6 weeks ago…….
So make it so, young Dirrrrty. Do whatever it takes to fulfill your promise to us. I have an unwavering belief in your foresight and your intuition. But, just in case, I hope to God you’ve flown your dad in for this game…….
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I seem to recall him also saying something about taking first and never looking back. Well they can complete that today. Flav I agree, Daddy Dirty should be sitting right by the dugout.
Nice to see SF make some inroads vs. Pads pen, esp. Bell, whom they had on the ropes yesterday.
Sanchez has been pretty tough on Pads all year, and it is supposed to be a foggy day in SF temp low 60s. 4.3 runs ought to do it.
Latos quote in SF chron deriding Giants for acquiring likes of Burrell, Guillen, Ross, Fontenot and relievers “….We’ve been the same team all year” is complete BS. I guess Tejada and Ludwick hitting around AGon hasn’t meant anything to their puff ball offense. Great day to shove that BS back in his face.
I hate the thought of backing in to the WC. Frankly, I want to see Atl win, forcing the G’s to take care of business, even if it means going back to SD. Then, I’ll be pulling hard for the Braves to win the WC.
Willied, good point. Their late inning relief should be gassed. I believe Adams has been used 5 straight days, Bell and Grego 4. Latos has only been lasting 4-5 lately. Get to him and party on.
Not bad, ewisco. You been reading Cormac McCarthy?
no, bernard cromwell.
I’ll be getting updates on the radio. coaching a double header today.
Go Giants!
Given that my math is kinda spotty, I would like to just see the Giants pummel SD today and get the win early.
I’m with bozo! the tension and stress not to say my nerves have been killing me!!! score big early and blow latos out and watch dirty be filthy!!!
Today’s lineup is a goddamn joke. Torres leading off? Willie Mac Award don’t mean shit for today. Fruckie? Sucks. Huff still batting 3rd? Stoopid. Buster clean up? Give Whitey a chance. Burrell in LF again? We’d be better off with Fred Lew out there. Juan-Gone batting 6th? We should have 86’d him last year. Cody hitting 7th? He should be starting for the Padres today. We didn’t want his sorry ass to begin with, you take’em. My bestest friend Orson Welles batting 8th? I’m not even going to dignify him being in the lineup with a fat joke. I have respect for the large portioned.
Bochy waited all the way to game #162 to assemble the WORST possible crew imaginable.
Fire his stoopid ass! We have NO, NADA, NONE, ZERO chance to win today with this shit. This crap is so bad I’m surprised Alex Smith’s name is not in the lineup. This shit is utterly hopeless. This lineup has “see ya Monday in San Diego” written all over it. Why bother, let’s just hop on the plane now and get a head start. This shit sucks Donkey Kong!
See ya guys later for the game after the 49ers make it four straight. Fire Singletary!
Now that I think about it, Singletary could have made a better lineup than Bochy.
What happened Dennis? You come on like a Crabby guy! Soph is heartbroken you come on the Flapper. Please mellow out.
Very good mister LU bash.
From Baggs: “Buster Posey must’ve been the most frustrated guy in the ballpark. I can’t imagine what it was like to be back there in such an important game, calling pitches for a guy who seemed so afraid of contact.”
Once again I try to find someplace, anyplace, to dump Zito. The Yankees version of Zito is Burnett who has another $49.5 million guaranteed on his deal. Zito has another $ 64.5 million to go. Maybe something can be worked out. Maybe take Swisher ($9 million) with him as Yanks are likely to go after Werth and/or Crawford…
Obviously, the most important game in 7 years. A historical game in SF history, which ever way it goes. Baseball doesn’t get much better than this. Unless, the Gyros win it…
Soriano has $ 72 million remaining. Zito with Derosa or Rowand would be in the contractual ballpark…
Any GM who took on Zito would be immediately committed.
I agree Max. Just hoping some team wants to dump a bad contarct as badly as we do. Highly unlikely…
CF Torres
2B F. Sanchez
1B Huff
C Posey
LF Burrell
SS Uribe
RF Guillen
3B Sandoval
P J. Sanchez
This lineup sucks. Why the hell is Bochy playing Guillen over Ross?
Sabean would have to show me that he’s traded bad contracts in the past. He hadn’t right? Zito is ours for the duration guys, deal with it
Reiterating the point i made yesterday: Solid six by Sanchez and the Giants are the likely winners. Primaries in the Giants BP are well rested and eager to prove their mettle. On the other side Latos has been dragging lately; Adams and Gregerson are worn down and Bell had just enough in him to rack up brain dead Guillen into that DP yesterday. Of course it’s on the Giants hitters as well to get to Latos early and keep up the pressure. No more torture! Let’s pile on the runs.
Great opening drive for the Niners..88 YDs
If Bochy has any say, Zits is gone. He’s actually worth a few million now, they could work something out if they eat about half.
I agree, Zito is only a disaster relative to his contract and the rest of the staff. I’ll bravely note that Zito was actually kinda unlucky yesterday. Torrealba and Hairston approached their ABs strategically and were not going to swing at anything but fastballs down the middle of the plate.
Niner’s should wear ‘pink shoes every sunday.
Wow, hope you’re watching the Niners.
I have total faith in Dirty- always have. He’ll get it done
Funny-first play of the ” Mike Johnson Era”- Gore up the middle for no gain. Maybe a nod to Jimmy 😉 After that, mixed it up well.
SF has the two worst contracts in both baseball and football; Zito and Nate Clements.
Our lineup sucks! WTF is Guillen playing?
October 3rd has always been a good regular season day for the Giants. Not so in postseason:
10/03/51: Won pennant
10/03/62: Won pennant
10/03/82: Bounced LA
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10/03/71: Lost playoff game
10/03/97: Lost playoff game
10/03/02: Lost playoff game
10/03/03: Lost playoff game
Biggest winner of all-time on 10/3?
No question, Orenthal James Simpson in 1995.
49ers are making some big plays today.
Pretty disappointed to see guillen in there. Dude is just bad vibes all the way around. He won 1 gm for us, that’s it. And what’s up with baggs taking shots at him jn literally every single blog post? He’s asking to get his ass kicked
I was at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival yesterday. Great day at the festival, though the weather was coolish all day. If the MC could have announced a Giants win, tens of thousands would have erupted in a massive cheer.
49er WRs are actually getting open for a change. Great job by MJ and the entire offense (Alex included) thus far. Playing inspired ball. Need to keep the intensity for the full 60.
Our lineup still sucks. Bochy is a goddamn boob for starting Guillen.
Philly 2-0
Manuel sticking with the regs.
I don’t know how the Giants game will turn out today, but clearly all the momentum is in the Padres favor.
And I disagree with TF- Tejada bunting those two runners over in the first inning was just a dagger into the Giants and Zito. It was Black’s statement- “you guys can’t hit our pitching this weekend.” The Giants seem somewhat intimidated by Padre pitching. Well, for good reason, maybe, because of how good the Padre staff has been this season, overall.
But, as a lot of you have pointed out, that bullpen has gotten really stretched this week. Could be a real factor today.
Well, you’re wrong.Instead of Tejada and Gonzales hitting, they got 2 walks. Score couda/shoulda been 5 or 6 zip.
A case can be made it wasn’t the best move, but I do think Black was playing a head game on the Giants. He believes he can intimidate the Giants by getting a run early. The Giants just need to go out and put a crooked number up early, and RELAX and play ball.
As soon as I praise Alex, he “reverts to form.”
Our lineup stinks on ice.
ewisco,
Grudgingly, I have to take off, and surrender, albeit temporarily, the Baseball Blogger’s Effete Epistolary Crown also at times worn by Stixwix, Snarkk, Alleykat, and DJLoo, for your Elizabethan, Jamesian, faux-Biblical hymn of Padresian Armageddon. Wear the crown proudly, it being an ephemeral joy. Salud! (Loo, good stats!) (Speaking of historic October baseball, I heard some goons — announcer/commentator/kids — on a national radio show connect Bobby Thomson’s homer to a feckin Dodgers’ victory. Goons! Then they proceeded to give playoff scenarios, and my 13-year-old daughter, on the way to church with me, said, “Turn them off, even I knew they were wrong on The Shot Heard ‘Round the World and they’ll be wrong on this.” They were. I did.)
That one was dumb, Alex..2 zip Philly and scrub reliever Oswalt in.
Heyward saying don’t count him out of ROY yet.
I turned on the Niner game just in time to see the pick. I turned it back off and returned to game day to follow PHI/ATL.
haiku voodoo:
orange sea rippling
golden October Sunday
Giants’ chimes clanging
leaves fall and turn brown
new smells permeate throughout
lineup stinks on ice
Danys Baez, really?
Denorfia CF Eckstein 2B Tejada SS Gonzalez 1B Ludwick RF Torrealba C S. Hairston LF Headley 3B Latos RHP
Now that’s a lineup.
Atl 11 hits
Philly 1 hit
Fuck Them.
I’d rather have Atlanta here anyway. Dirty does it today. Pads go home. Perfect.
From Henry: 6 clubhouse TVs focused on Braves-Phils. Ross, DeRosa, Panda, Velez watching intently. Lincecum, Mota, Wilson playing dominoes.
Where’s the love for the Niners?
Hey the Phillies just brought in the bat-boy to pitch. Next inning, one of the hot dog vendors gets to pitch.
The 100th episode of American Dad? Really? Firefly gets 14 episodes, and American Dad gets 100+ episodes. That’s just not right.
Wow…really puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?
Braves winning puts the pressure on sd…it’s good for the Giants
That’s a bullshit grounding-Gore was close enough.
Clements is a fucking idiot for not putting that ball away.
Clements is a goddamn fucking idiot
Niners football: torture
Okay, is it just me that is feeling almost sick from nerves? This just means WAY too much for me. Maybe I should turn off the radio & go outside…
I hope the way this niner gm is unfolding isn’t a sign of what’s going to happen at AT&T today. Maybe the bay area is just cursed
They lose this they might as well blow it up. Veteran DB totally brain farts with the game won. Disgusting.
Fucking unbelievable.
Danny Noonan!
As bad as the White Shoes and Haynes games?
horrendous
This season was over when they lost to Seattle. How many fucking times did I say that was a MUST WIN.
Game over. Season over. Alex Smith over. Mike Singletary over.
I swear to Christ the Giants better not lose today or I’ll go fucking ballistic.
OUR LINEUP SUCKS!
Fucking total collapse.Yeah you can blame Clements,but Smith taking the STUPID intentional grounding,Cost them a chance for 3 and the outright win.
Sing won’t be fired but it was HIS defense that lost this.
It should have been challenged, Gore was close enough. And defense gave up TWO game winng drives at the end.
Why can’t you say Alex Smith just sucks? Is it really too hard for those words to come out of your mouth?
And trying a 50+ yard FG would have been a mistake anyway. They had Atlanta pinned inside the ten twice and gave up two drives.It’s on Sing and Manusky and Clements…
Now this bullshit call. Awful
Sanchez is throwing everything right down the middle…
Except that one.
Billy Wagner doing his best 49er impersonation. CHOKE!
Piece of cake. (grin)
My gut needed that.
Phils cut it to 8-7. Gotta give Cholly credit for leaving in the starters.
Score first and score often goddammit!
Our lineup sucks and fire Mike Singletary!
I like the look on Dirrrrty’s face.
The cop in LF should overule….
wow how do you miss that call
Are you fucking kidding me? This is fucking gonna get ugly. I want heads to roll.
fucking blind morons
Why is the dumb motherfucker wearing shades?
Blue owes us at least 90 ft. at some point.
I want a goddamn makeup call at some point. I’m about to lose it here.
Fruckie! Cocksucker hits into a DP.
No steal attempt, or hit and run. Nothing.
What did he think the white shit was-snow in October?
I bet it was the shades. It was overcast at the time.
Everett and Cuzzi may live in infamy.
The umps never cease to amaze. A major league ump can’t see the ball hit the line and kick up chalk.
The same fucker who gave Stauffer all of those pitches off the plate.
And Bochy the thumb.
C’mon Phillies…
Piece of cake catch.
Now they won’t give us the courtesy of an appeal to first? I can see where this shit is headed.
Really is unfuckingbelievable how the belt high strike is not called.
Game should be played under protest (that would have been a run). I can’t wait for an organization to pull their team off the field and say fuck you, we are not playing our nine against your thirteen.
Hey, Bozo. Latos has a shutout going. I know it’s early, but he has a shutout going.
Can ya believe Mat Latos has a shutout going?
Actually Den, Blue has a shutout going, Double (maybe triple) by Torres, no double play, run scores on Huff’s double.
Fuck Everitt and his lover Latos.
Breathe, people.
Zum that was not only a bullshit call, that was an arrogant you shouldn’t have questioned me yesterday call. Fuck that cheatin’ bastard.
The Giants have to let it go and play the game.
Bozo, my breathe reference was to getting out of the top of the 2nd, with the drama of the two baserunners.
With ya Zum. Sorry I’m still steaming over the call.