Kuip’s Forecast…
As I do every morning, I was listening to KNBR on the way into work the other day. Murph and Idiot were talking to Kuip (I swear to God I don’t know how Kruk and Kuip make it through an interview with those 2) and they were reeling off all of Lowe’s numbers against the Giants, in September, at ATT etc….Anyway, Kuip ends the discussion by saying “and you know how you deal with all of that? You beat ’em 1-0.” That cue’d the requisite guffaw from the 2 stooges and verbal backslaps ensued all the way around. But he nailed it, didn’t he? Not too much to say about last night. Timmy was…. no words, you guys all saw it…..
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for all the nerves we went through during the day yesterday…the three martinis and couple bourbons and ginger before the game calmed me down (thanks Bozo), what a magnificent performance. Nuff said!
GH – bourbon and ginger is a favorite summer drink for me. Last night I switched from beers to Meyers and OJ. It was as close as I could get to a black and orange drink. A tasty beverage I might add.
And to report in..I was just 1-2 with the Giants not covering yesterday, but I will take a Giants win any day over the betting win.
I am shocked the Twins have folded at home in both games..pathetic…
and of course, take the Giants and Phillies today…4-2 record in the playoffs…
WOW!!!
Does anyone else feel like Brenly was a little anti-Giants last night?
What about the Marlins, they folded two at home also!!
I bet when the Braves hitters saw Tim put on his jacket in the bottom of the 8th they thought oh good a different pitcher for the 9th. You could probably hear them groan when he trotted out to the mound in the 9th!!
There was a dead silence in the stadium when everyone watched to see who would emerge to the mound. When Lince walked out he received a standing ovation.
425 comments last night, nice!! BF can you see how many hits your site gets vs how many actually post?? just wondering.
Other than McCann, Braves had nothing last night. Listening to Kruk on the way home from work he said no wind last night in the park= good night for balls to carry. It’s supposed to warm up a bit today (sun’s already out south bay as I type this) see how this plays out.
Hey Loo, NYC was fun last week, despite the rain Monday and Thurs. Hit the turista spots, such as a drink at The View and Times SQ, dinner at Carnegie Deli, and next night at Carmine’s (all paid for by vendors)…ferry to the statue and Ellis Isle, subway to WTC. How do people stand subway heat in summer? How do people work there? Amazingly enough, 20 minutes back to Jersey City from the hotspots at night, but an hour to get there 5:30 ish. Trip to see all the street corner stands open so late to catch Theatre biz.
A grand total of 33 swings through for Timmy last night. Simply fantastic.
It’s a little ironic that the last strike (looking) to Lee was right down Van Ness Ave.
I’m still in awe.
I am with Dennis on that juan, brilliant pitching game, so much character from the freak, how can that not inspire the entire team? I hope cal ripkin wasn’t too bored with our ace. He argued during the ESPN pre-game that fans want to see hitting.
Game started after 2am so not conducive to beer and bbq, but I had no trouble staying awake and clapping loudly at the proper moments. And that crowd – got to be some of the bestest in BB.
Did anyone notice the fan in the stands with the GOMEZ shirt on?
I know it was Ted, or one of you!!
Ed, I missed the GOMEZ shirt. Never underestimate the power of the Flap.
Wasn’t me edd but I wish it was.
TIMMY GOMEZ!!
A magnificent postseason debut as Giants eke out the High vs. Lowe duel. For 3+ years we’ve been dying to see how The Freak would handle the playoffs, and we sure found out last night, as did the Braves. That was just as impressive as Halladay since Timmy didn’t have the benefit of a 4-run cushion, although the Reds lineup is probably a bit more formidable than Atlanta’s. Damn good game from Lowe, too, and lucky to get that one run, but we’ll take it.
The sun’s upon a playoff day (to paraphrase Townes VZ).
If Cain steps up tonight as we all know he can, the Braves won’t be the only team in mlb with the icy currents running down their spines.
What fun it is to be a Giants fan this year. Anything’s possible.
We’re still buzzing here at work over last night’s game! My favorite moment was somewhere around the middle to late innings when Timmy threw a 3-2 pitch to Lee that bounced about 25 feet in front of home plate. Lee still swung at it for strike three. Clearly, the Braves hitters were a little impatient but the movement on TL’s pitches made them look foolish swinging at junk. It was just a masterful performance.
10 more wins to go. Both Posey and Lincecum were composed like this was any old regular season game. I loved it.
I was amused by the “Posey’s better” chant at first. But there’s no knocking Heyward’s season and there’s no way that Posey appreciated it. Upon further review, I felt like it was lacking in class. However, if I were four beers in at the game, I can’t say I wouldn’t have participated…
The Freak is the toast of the baseball commentariat today. Tim Brown of Yahoo has a long feature on the pitch which turned Timmy’s season around, a new grip on his slider, which comes outta the glove, elbows, hair and hand the same way as a fastball and which has transformed his stuff from wicked to downright devastating. Chances are those two doubles were results of swing and hope.
The Lincecum-Posey combination is fixing to be one of the best battery pairings in baseball history. Both those guys are still well on the sunny side of thirty. Toss in Cain, Sanchez and Wilson and the Giants have the foundation for dominance for years to come. Add Torres and the possibility of Pablo rediscovering his inner bamboo shoots to transmogrify into the Panda once again and essentially a quarter of the team could represent a solid core for a decade of dominance. One more ingredient would be Brandon Belt, a five-tool athlete who tore up the minors this year. Belt’s speed, power and pitch selectivity and San Francisco could become an indomitable institution.
Right before our eyes this team has become something special. Add a slick-fielding, speedy shortstop for next season and the torture aspect may become little more than a hallowed memory.
It’s an Orange and Black October. Go Halloween Machine!
I have been having the same thoughts, stix. I have tried to avoid thinking past 2010, but it’s tough not to. Looking at the Giants’ FA list, all of the worthwhile FAs could be easily retained. I can’t help but think they’re poised for long-term dominance of the NL West.
Yeah BF those morning shows are silly. Anything for ratings. The hosts are very chatty like schoolgirls passing along gossip. What a way to make a living.
“could represent a solid core for a decade of dominance.”
Stix, exactly what was going through my mind as I watched Lincecum and Posey last night. Add Bumgarner of course and the Front Office has set the table for a nice run here.
Max: Oops. How did i overlook Bumgarner? Yeah! This has become known as the Year of the Pitcher. May signal a more longterm trend in the game. The Giants are riding the cutting edge of that wave.
Well, no one will accuse Bobby of being a slave to the numbers. 3 for 10, 4 for 10, or 1 for 5 ( numbers against Lowe) “Whatever”…
Irish: Shaman is mocking Soph. He’s a Giants’ fan, too.
Kevin, as pollyistic as shaman is on the splash, he’s uber-doomer on the 49ers insider.
Jeckyll/Hyde, and all that. . . .
That’s because he’s a goddamn Raider fan. A person can’t mix and match Oakland and SF.
That shit just ain’t right.
He does a better Soph than the original poseur, however.
Well yeah, he’s not dissing the Giants you’re right. He’s dissing soph’s type of doomer. Whatever that type’s called that zumie was talking about.
Perhaps but it has gotten a bit redundant, predictable. Ergo…dull
True, but Kevin seemed to think he was dissing the Giants. Just setting the record straight, Ted.
Uhm..my post above should be down here.
Kevin– we’re averaging about 1800 hits a day– obviously, there are some repeat visitors who hit the blog multiple times a day. My hits are not ever recorded. Our ‘highest hit’ day was Aug 13th (the Dirrrty guarantee game) where we got something close to 4000. Next highest was the final regular season game of the year. Last night was 2800something…..
In case you didn;t see this on the splash, and interesting article on Pat Burrell and the Padres . . .
http://tinyurl.com/2dzeywy
Man was I right, our goddamn lineup stinks on ice.
“we’re averaging about 1800 hits a day”
Shit, I don’t think our lineup gets 18 hits in batting practice.
“Man was I right, our goddamn lineup stinks on ice.”
It was the best lineup on the field last night.
True. Come on, with maybe the exception (one intentional called by Cox) of 4 walks, Lowe’s pictching was good enough to have won a lot of games as well.
Apparently the Atlanta fan designated to bash their lineup didn’t try hard enough. I got us one run with all my bitching and moaning, I’ll see if I can get us a few more for tonight. But it’s gonna be tough, Bochy doesn’t give me too much to work with. Bless his heart.
“the High vs. Lowe duel”
Alright….pretty clever.
I forget, or, to put it more accurately, I’ve never noticed. Is there a NLDS MVP or does that start with the NLCS?
A while back, I put Shaman on ignore at the Splash, because the Soph impersonation was starting to annoy me as much as Soph.
And regarding Soph- for all his trolling, isn’t it weird how he disappears completely when the Giants are winning a game? It’s like he literally can’t stomach any happiness from Giants fans at all. Even Fishie, Barry, and P-Cat and other trolls can pop in when the Giants are ahead in a game, but Soph never does. Weird.
Your right Zum. How could The Soph miss our first playoff game? It’s kind of like Rooster’s 5 month dinner date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomez_%28band%29
Olly Peacock on drums? Now that’s a name. According to the link their first album was Bring It On. So is the new rally cry Bring it on Gomez?
Olly fucking Peacock, NOW that’s a Gomez.
Last night’s game was one for the ages. I would like to ask the Gmen for 3 runs tonite, though. Two shutouts in a row may be a bit too much to ask of the staff…
Fear the Beard. But, Go with Gomez….
I know he is a giants fan, its just that it could be hours since Soph’s last post and he is still going on and on about Teddy bears and huggs, hell dude let it go!1
Well, I’d just say that there enough trolls and doomers to go after. Jesus, did you catch TabbyCat’s act? Hug that fuckwad with a pitbull jaw.
Yeah, P-Cat almost made me laugh with his over-the-top Debbie Downer act. If he can’t enjoy last night’s game, you wonder why he even bothers with the sport. It brings him no happiness apparently.
Back to Cox: he was right about those numbers against Lowe. One of the reporters called him on walking Panda. The guy said Ross was 3 for 10, Bobby said weell, Panda was 4 for 10. Reporter corrected him “1 for 5”. Bobby looked embarrassed, said he thought it was 4 for 10 and dropped it.So Cox looks like a bumbling old fool…
Bobby was right. Panda was 4 for 10..
That was a pretty funny comment from Cox, about why he didn’t come out and protest the call. He said- “You can’t see anything from the dugout.” Like all other managers, he just watches his players’ reactions, and none of his players reacted to the call. I think he earned a lot of respect from a lot of folks for his graciousness about it after the game. Although, I do think when another close call goes against the Braves in this series, he’s going to come out really fired up, in order to make up for not coming out last night.
Cox is still with it, no question. The dude has been a top manager for a quarter century, for good reason. He knows what he’s doing. The Panda walk was a faux pas, but he had a somewhat reasonable explanation for doing it. It’s not like he’s out in the ozone. If the 3rd baseman piks the Ross grounder, like he should have, the intentional walk is a non-issue, and who knows, maybe the game outcome is different…
I was a doomer at one point in time. In 06, 07, 08 I was a big time doomer, Sabean was an idiot, Alou and Bochy were imbeciles, You call that a lineup. All that changed in 09, when the season started, I thought this team can go places. Now look where we are!!
I was also over on the Bleacher Report where the guy who wrote the article was complaining about not getting that insurance run!! Are there any fans that know how hard it is to get into the post season and how hard it is to get to the next series much less the WS?
I am beginning to think this is the only place that roots for the Giants and loves it when they win!!
BF, that is great, so 2800 hits, 425 comments, so 2375 hits were no comments, cool!!
Today’s Flap arithmetic lesson has been sponsored to you by: Kevin.
But can he do his gazintas?
Hey, I resemble that comment!!
I fully subscribe to the idea of lengthening the division playoffs to 7 games. 5 games is just too short. It disrepects the marathon win that the two teams just accomplished in a long season. Look at both ALDS. Unless there is a minor miracle, the Twins and Rays are going down. With 7 games, being down 0-2 would be tough to rebound from, but would not be a practical death sentence. If just frosts me that after scratching and clawing to win a division or WC after 162 games, basically after just 2 more, where you happened to screw up or got jobbed in one of the two by an umpire, you’re done…
what is this ‘splash’ you speak of?
a homer into McCovey’s Cove?
a place where everything is groovy?
and this one man: barry forever, loving the results?
or is this place like me? boring and idiotic?
go cainer, horse it up dude, power on garth
You’re neither. It’s, at times, both. It’s the Giants blog on SFGate, the San Francisco Chronicle’s website. There’s a handful of good people there but they’re often barraged by…how do I put this delicately?…assholes
Same LU as last night according to Henry.
Here’s an interesting and probably meaningless stat from last night’s game. After Infante’s leadoff double, he had no more hits. But he’s the only Atlanta batter who Lincecum did *not* strike out
Say what you will about Soph, but I think whoever’s behind it deserves a lot of credit in many ways…
If by that you mean this soph causes the exact type of reactions this soph is *trying* to extrapolate, you’re right. For the most part it’s working. That’s why I don’t understand why if this soph pisses people off so much they just don’t put this soph on “ignore”. They have that option. By not doing so, this soph is outsmarting all those who continue to argue or mock this soph.
Wow, just saw the check swing that they called a ball.
Unreal. Along with that strike called a ball in the Minn game (and the Posey play), what a load of lousy calls.
Maddon and Gardenhire had every right to get tossed.
Get ready for replay next postseason.
David Wells is going off about the umping. Pretty funny . . .
I scan the blog at work but try not to post.
but a quick, go Giants!
I gave up on that a couple years ago, Ewisco.
Down time? Hey! A post or 5!!
Huh. After no hits or runs in 27 batters, Cincy gets a home run with the 1st guy . . .
A NY talk show host said today that there is no way the Giants would not pitch Tim on 3 days rest if they were facing elimination. He’s probably right.
Phillies yarkking it up on defense . . .
2-0 Cincy . ..
Go Dusty!
Soph prays that the Giant hitters are not in a “deep plump”.
There is no finer comedy writer on the planet.
Panda has been in deep plump all year…
Chase Utley decided to play a little bocce ball today in Philly. Two errors in the second inning. Madden and Mariucci hold a nice tournament every year in Livermore, Utley should give it a whirl.
Has our crappy lineup been announced yet by our wonderful manager, Bruce Bochy?
Over on the Splash, a guy named “muzak” came up with an ingenious idea for people who can’t stand the TBS broadcasters. If you have a DVR you can pause it for a few seconds till it syncs up with the audio from wherever you’re getting it, and you can listen to K & K…
How is it possible that this Dick Stockton wanker still sticks around for a network gig? He is beyond horrible. And Joe Buck is absolute donkey dong. What would it take to get Miller to do the Fox TV of the WS? Buck must have compromising photos or tapes of the Fox brass…
I don’t have a dvr so it’s not too big a deal to me, but how does delaying the video help? My hd video is already 20 seconds delayed now. For example, I would hear the guys on the radio shouting “and now somebody has wrapped the red thong around Chipper’s face” and the video of the fight wouldn’t show up until 20 seconds later.
Stockton is a hoot, pay attention and you may notice that the complete sentence is an alien concept for Dick. I knew him a bit, he was a tyro at CBS when my Dad was the top guy. Stockton was (is?) the Red Sox play by play guy for years. He’s who you usually hear on the Fisk HR call..
Same Giants LU Same order
Torres CF
Sanchez 2B
Huff 1B
Posey C
Burrell LF
Uribe SS
Sandoval 3B
Ross RF
Cain P
Same result?
same old same old
Same more Pain…Coming from Cain!!!!
Whoever is calling the Reds game makes me long for the days of Gary Park.
These guys stumble over each others names.
Phillips and Rolen can join Utley at the bocce ball tourney. Christmas come early in Philly today.
I can hear ’em booing Santa Claus from here.
What was wrong with Gary Park? His best work came during a loooong Giants rain delay.
“And now, back to more Love American Style.”
Was Gary Park the one withe the unearthly tan?
The one who made George Hamilton look like Edgar Winter?
Loved that sign in the stands last night pretty clever:
“The Land of the Freak and Not the Home of the Braves”.
The wheels are falling off for Cincy . . .
I loved the chant when Heyward was up:
“Posey’s better! Posey’s better!”
Bingo, Ted. The John Boehner of his day . . .
Just get the game over before 6:37
Didn’t really feel like re-investing last nights windfall (under bet) on tonight’s game. I made a couple fun bets- player to hit first hr: burrell 15-1. (last night I also nailed “no hr hit” at 2.5-1. I also bet varying amounts on how many the giants will win by exactly tonight: 2-6 runs. No clue what happens tonight but I’m Rolling with the IPA’s (ballast point to be specific) and can’t wait for some orange Friday action
Reading your betting posts is, to me, like reading twin’s computer posts.
Just a big HUH?
Wouldn’t you love to be sitting near that whistling ashole?
I’d have punched his lights out by now . . .
Giants roll tonight. They get to Hanson early and often. Cain cruises to a 6-2 victory.
Giants aren’t wearing orange tonight . . .
That whistling cocksucker is annoying the shit out of me 3,000 miles away. . .
The gun says 87 MPH. The clown annnouncer says 90 . . .
Duh….
How do you not strangle the fuck?????
With the Heidi rule and all, what do they do if this games goes over another 40 minutes? Split screen?
No orange jerseys? Buzkill. Chuck we have pretty bad numbers vs hanson, this one is no gimmie. Cincy, watching it all just slip away….
Oh the Bad News Bears Reds just butchered their ballgame.Hilarious bad Defense.
Looks like another ballgame with the deciding run (Phi) coming on a blown call … they just keep mounting.
Dusty’s postseason blues continue.
I’m pretty sure they’d delay our gm for up to an hour– fun for the kids in atl, at least it’s fri night
Lost in the lights during the PS always recalls Candy Madonado, I guess, but still I was able to pay attention to Chapman’s response. Didn’t he look like a guy wondering if the wrong team had won the auction for him?
MALdonado. Sorry Candido.
Are you serious? I don’t think there’s any fuckin’ way they delay the game. Maybe it starts on another one of their stations, like TNT?