Anyone think this is ending in 4 games?
Torture doesn’t end before it’s time, right? Ending this in four games would be….well, I’m not going to say anything about it being easy, that got me in trouble last time. It would be an “ironic surprise”. How about that? I’ve got no idea what happens tonight. The smart money would say the Braves are emotionally crippled after last night’s game and to bet the Giants hard on the win. But the smart money doesn’t know torture the way we know torture…. Anyway, it looks like a low scoring game so I took the over (7) cause the under looked too, well, *easy*.
I left the last thread up instead of deleting a bunch of posts but please don’t bring that onto this thread……..
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Bring in Romo!
Ankiel takes a two-strike pitch that’s one inch off the plate.
Was that a Tums Bochy just popped in his mouth?
It may have been a quaalude.
Why is he taking so long out of the stretch????
wouldn’t want it any other way
I would.
uno mas por favor.
Huge checkswing K!!!!!!!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Fuck yeah!
Holy Cheezus!!!! TORTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RAPTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COXSUCKER!
Yes, I think it can be very easily done!!!!! YEAH BABY!!!
NLCS-bound!
Final 4!!! Congrats Flappers!!!
Doing it the hard way. Well done. Enjoy retirement cox
Nothing like having wilson make it interesting or Torturous whichever you prefer
Great cross-stretch job there by Ishi on the throw by Uribe. That wasn’t that easy.
Hell Yeah Giants Move ON!!!! Bring on the Phils.Lincecum and Halladay doesn’t get any better then that!!!!!
Wow. Could it be any other way? Nice job staying on the bag, BTW…
and more guts than stuff tonight for Willie.
touche
congrats… can breathe now.
Congrats, Giants! Congrats, Flappers!
Cody Ross was very respectful and congratulatory towards the Braves, and in particular, Bobby Cox.
Nice going there, Cody. You did the organization proud.
Proved me wrong. Didn’t think they could win 2 in Atl. Outstanding!
What a win!! NLCS Bound!!
Cody Ross has to be having the time of his life right now. Listening to him talk about “our pitching”, and swelling with pride— I can dig that. You catch up quick on this team when u play with these guys….
And nice work by the Giants too console Brooks Conrad before the game..ie Burrell,of course he was probably telling him that all the Giants wanted to vote you an extra playoff share.
Kevin: delighted to report that you won. It will go out Wednesday. I need an address
twinfan1@hotmail.com
How sweet it is….I had a faint calm all game. Just was confident we would pull this off. Bring on the God Damned Phillies…..
And thank God for Travis Ishikawa…
I guessed Giants win in 4 with homers…I was just counting homers for both teams!
Ishkawa’s catch to end the game can’t be ignored: great catch, that couldve easily been an error
And smooth as silk. Nice play.
My brothers and sisters, as Leonard Cohen sang, and as the prophets of old proclaimed, and as we hereby testify:
“HALLELUJAH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
5 homers that is…
Okay, they don’t have an MVP in this round – but if they did, who would get your vote?
Getting Travis in there was huge…we survived a night when Wilson did not have his stuff…Team of Destiny!
probably Cody
Sarah Bernhardt’s torture chamber with those two walks and then his Sherman’s march through Georgia. No drama like Wilson’s. Wonder what they will do with all those foam tommyhawks now. At least Cox goes out in style, done in by the best pitching staff in baseball and a little picker-upper labeled CODE-E.
Good team effort vs a tough and unyielding foe. Bumgarner was a match for Lowedown. Casilla was nails. Lopez loogied his man…and all so typical of this team, they scored just barely enough runs to win.
So who’s afraid of the Beast from the East? Nastiest fans in baseball. The rooters in the city of Brotherly Love make even those moaning, chopping Georgians seem almost civilized. Won’t faze Buster a bit. After facing the best that Atlanta could offer in terms of mound magic, the Halladay, Oswalt, Hamels matchup vs Timmy, Drrrty and The Horse doesn’t look too daunting. It will be a matter of remaining patient at the plate and working those counts, because beyond their setup man and closer that team does not have a BP anywhere near as tough as those of the Padres and Braves.
Preseason punditry discounted San Francisco, some even picking us to finish fourth. Many a doomer on the Splash had little but bad words to say about this team. But while hard-hitting teams like the Twins and Reds went down hard and fast, San Francisco’s Halloween Machine has rode four aces and an indomitable bullpen into the National League Championship Series.
Man and don’t it feel GOOD.
well said, and yes it do
First NLCS game isn’t till Saturday. Let’s talk rosters….NO Whitey.
Unbelievable that the first game isn’t until Saturday. That’s kind of a joke.
I came back from Philly today. The Inquirer smugly talked of the Phils probably salivating at the chance to take on either the Braves or the Giants. Well, we’re drooling.
I hope the Phils get caught up their own hype, and they get to thinking all they’ve got to do his throw their gloves out on the field and they win.
Thanks Mike, just sent the address to you. Go Giants, this is doable
I’ve always felt the role-model of this Giants team is the ’88 Dodgers. No one thought the ’88 Dodgers would do what they did.
Got it, I’ll send the tracking # when it goes out, you’ll have it for the NLCS. It’s complete except for monitor, speakers. Do you need a wireless adapter?
Well the next series is not going to be any easier than this one. In fact be prepared to sit on the edge of chair/couch/recliner cause you are not going to get to just sit back and relax!!
Hey, Kev, congrats on winning your new computer from Twin. Any chance you could donate it to the Niners. Those dumb yahoos don’t even know what “yahoo” is. No wonder we’re 0-5.
Congrats, Kevin. And yes, by now we all have come a fully firm understanding that Giants Baseball = TORTURE. Philly is all smug and cocky, strutting around like so many buff orpington roosters ontoppa their dungheap city. Hope they stay that way too ~ at least till they face the Freak.
I like their city OK; it’s rough and tumble; very tough accent. The blue-collar locals really do mumble and sound like Stallone. Yo, Halladay. Yo, Halladay. Here’s your no-hitter right heah.
Is wedging Sanchez in between Tim & Matt completely out of the question?
Dirty vs. Phils this year: 13 IP 5 H 7 BB 13 K 2-0 1.38 ERA
Endorsing it?
Kevin, congrats. Enjoy! Beat me by 1 run 🙂
Thanks everyone. Yeah, Dennis speaking of Torture, we niners fans are being tortured big time!!
This Team, ahh yes this team. Time for this team to beat Philly’s ass. Spank it like the red headed stepchild they are.
The magic win number is eight Flapperville folk.
GO GIANTS
Yikes – I almost forgot:
Woo-Hoo!!!!!!!!!!
over on KNBR, Just heard it is Jon Millers Birthday today, what a present!!
Just flew in from Poland last night (boy are my arms tired!), missed most of this. Caught tonight’s game, damned proud! (now trying to explain to PL GF about baseball… heh)
Giant Strides have been made this season. It’s all good. It’s all good.
Real nice gesture by the Giants honoring Bobby Cox after the game.Class act that didn’t go unnoticed by Cox either.Love him or hate him is career was remarkable.14 Straight Division titles,can anyone really fathom how hard that is to accomplish?Enjoy your retirement Bobby.You and Earl Weaver were two of the best IMHO.
Nevertheless, with only 1 WS title to show for Maddox-Glavine-Smoltz, he’s something of a failure in many people’s eyes. That 14 straight might’ve been scissored in the strike year. They were 6 back at the time.
Just some bad rolls of the dice. What’s the special managerial skill required to win a WS? It doesn’t exist.
Strategical maneuverings are completely overrated-they all have the same book. Just keeping the entire team playing for you from Game 1 through the end of the season is what seperates the best from the others. As Lowe said of Cox-he always has their backs. The same can be said of Bochy.
That breaker to Infante in the 9th was the pitch of the game, maybe the season.
So many HUGE pitches throughout the series. I think back to the 3rd inning,with 2 on, no outs. Bum is one cool redneck.
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi
Everyone plays, and everyone contributes. Except for NO Whitey.
Vern and Vera just purchased tickets to Pittsburgh
Me happy
Me want celebrate
Boy, take Cheetah
Go
Hide in tree house
Jane
We make love
Jungle style
Well, Ted, I had no idea! Oh, wait – that say “Jane”…
Hmm. Jane woman. Boy?…boy.
Cheetah? Ape. Me king of.
Maybe Cheetah’s…
No.
That just gross
Hello, Gomez. I’m here to sign the legal papers that you had mentioned earlier.
I believe you know my attorney…
En El Cias!!!
Esquire
Is (are?) the Phillies a..how do I put this…We call them the Oakalnd A’s but it’s actually the “Athletics”.
So..is “Phillies” short for something?
I mean…besides a chance in hell?
(rimshot)
I just can’t tell you how proud I am to have added “Gomez” and “Fruckie” to the Flap urban dictionary. With dunderhead, Polly, Doomer,Room B, and fuckwad already blog mainstays, I’m deeply humbled to take my place alongside the greats in “Attack Dog Bloggery”. Thank you all, without you fucking idiots this would not have been possible…
( from my planned acceptance speech at the Assault Talkers Of America convention later this month)
you had my vote at hello…!
Yes, yes thank you Michael. Beautiful job! Come on, let’s hear it people!!! COME ON!!!
(applause..applause..applause)
Our next award goes to the biggest fucking idiot west of the Mississippi who’s posted on the Flap. Of course, we tried this same award on the Spalsh but there was a 12 way tie and when we tried for a tiebreacker…well let’s just say it wasn’t pretty.
And now…for the award…for the biggest fucking idiot…in 2010…for the oneflapdown77.com blog…the award goes to…………..
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The G’s will beat the phillies because…
While they split six games — each taking two out of three at home — the Giants batted .290 against the Phillies and outhomered them, 8-3, over the six games.
Furthermore, the Giants’ oft-dismissed offense fared much better against the Philadelphia Threedom than the Phillies’ heralded lineup did against the Giants’ trio. In four starts against San Francisco, H20 went 1-2 with a 6.12 ERA, allowing 32 hits over 25 innings with 27 strikeouts. But the Giants’ trio was much more effective against the Phillies’ vaunted offense, going 2-1 with a 1.96 ERA over four starts, allowing only 15 hits over 27 1/3 innings while striking out 28.
The Phils never look that comfortable playing at AT&T. If the Giants can find a way to win one of the games at Philly, especially one of the first two, they can put a lot of pressure on the Phils, who may get caught looking past the Giants to the World Series. IF the Giants’ bats can wake up out of their funk, all the better is the Giants’ chances.
The MLB network did a lot of coverage of the Giants after the game. They really gave the Giants their due tonight. It was cool to see.
Thanks for the stats wsw. Of course…post season…meaningless.
But the numbers were very entertaining
as Yogi said…50% of this game is 90% mental..
Absolutely,wsw. Love ya man!
Goodnight gentlemen (question mark)
Giants led the NL in road home runs. As I posted before-that could be the most significant change of all. They can now slug with the big boys like Philly in their own parks..
Froze the frame on Bochy popping a pill in the dugout when Wilson was in. It was defintely a 2 MG Lorazepam, a strong dosage, enough to induce a (false) sense of well being for up to 12 hours…
They can definitely hang with the Phillies in the power numbers.Do you all realize that the Giants only hit 4 fewer HR’s then the the Phils this year? Think about that for a second and realize where the Giants play half their games and where the Phils play half their games.I’m still amazed….
Congratulations Giants and Giant Fans.
wadda series.
Congrats to Kevin and
Especially Big Kudos to Big Flavor for his blog and Twinfan for his “Attack Dog Bloggery”.
I just did a reverse blogboy: instead of not seeing the game and then reading the blog I watched the game and now reading the blog brought the game back inning by inning in my mind’s eye. Great series!