Breaking this Series Down Old Skool Without Numbers
I’m sorry but that was just too many days without baseball. And there’s not much we can debate or analyze since that’s all been done ad nauseam. But from a completely general, no numbers analyzed perspective, this is how I see these two teams matching up.
Starting pitching: This area starts and ends with the Giants. We have the best starting 4 in baseball…..Edge: Giants
Relief pitching: again, the edge goes to us. Atlanta had a significantly better BP than the Phillies. Edge: Giants
Closer: Wilson > Lidge. Lidge had a good season but he’s not the dominant guy he was in 2008 and he’s only pitched once in the last 2 weeks. He can turn bad quicker than one of Huff’s game worn thongs….. Edge: Giants
Experience: Obvious Edge: Phillies
Hitting: the fact is, our offense is a million miles away from the “De Rosa/Rowand/Bowker” opener. Top to bottom our guys can hit a bomb or a critical hit at any given point in the game. And our hitters get better when we go to their park, there’s get arguably worse when they come to ours. Edge: Even
team speed: big edge to the Phillies (108 sb’s > 55 sb’s). I’m counting on Posey showing off that cannon early in the series to gun down some base runners and hopefully make them think twice about running wild on us…..Edge: Phillies
defense: I haven’t watched enough Phillies games this year to have a feel of how their team defense is but we are near the top of the NL in fewest team errors with 73. The Phillies are behind us with 83. Edge: Giants
So there ya go. I don’t think you could argue too much of what I’ve posted above. Then how is it that the Phillies are considered such huge favorites by the National media? Answer: Ignorance and hubris. Guys like Keith Law and his band of cronies, who write stuff just to get noticed, were wrong about this team all year. They were wrong about them last year. WE are the experts of this team, not them. And this doesn’t have anything to do with being a blind fan, I pretty much nailed my win predictions in 2007 and 2008 when they sucked.
I don’t have a prediction on this series. It could go either way. A clutch hit here. A huge mistake there. But my friends, what I do know is that *glory and destiny* are but 8 wins away…….
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Might be all Tim needs…..wonder who was last guy to blast 2 off Doc in one game?
Refuse to listen to dynamic doofuses….Horace Silver on the laptop, Donald Byrd on trumpet. We stay ahead, he stays on.
I don’t care if he could double for the Travelocity Gnome – right now, I’d totally do Cody Ross!!!
Great call on the gnome.
If Cody Ross had a vagina I might have sex with him….
Picky, picky…
Yeah payback! bout fucking time…Tim hasn’t gotten that pitch all night.
Top of the 6th – I think it’s too early to pull Burrell…
Or, maybe not…
Eat Shit Hallagay!!! Buster and Pat smoking shots and Uribe now too!
BULLETIN: The lights at the stadium just said something like LIFE LIFE WITH FLAVOR. Oh yeah. all w/ two outs and two strikes. The announcers sound so crestfallen.
FH, normallly I would agree with you, but I don’t know if Pat scores on that one, even with throw off line by Vic.
right..they all hot and bothered over that one pitch..puhleez…talk to Lincy….
Great move by Bochy to pinch run Shitholtz for Burrell. No way Pat scores from second on that hit. Skipper said just the opposite earlier this week about letting Pat play longer, but he senses the moment at hand. That fourth run was HUGE.
Way to go skipper.
Yeah, sure is now. Fucking bandbox.
Giants up 4-1…AS Buck says, Mc Crapper goes and says Go Figure.What a total ASS!!!! There winning because their the better team! Taking the crowd out it Priceless!
the phillie crowd is so much more tolerable when they’re LOSING!!
Grab some pine, meat!
FUCK!
Sorry, I’m a little excitable tonight…
Cocksucker. WTF with a 2-2 FB? Change that fucker to death. I hate this torture.
Why the fuck would you have Bumgarner throwing right now? If Timmy’s got a blister, he’s definitely not going to be pitching in game 4…I do not get this at all!!!
Bochy’s all-in for this win tonight. He’ll worry about game 4 later.
i think he’s just getting some work in on the side.
Tim’s got a bat in his hands…..in or out?
Ferret…Agree with you totally. No need to have Bumgarner up.No need to throw him in a game like this with the arms we have in the pen.
I’m hoping you’re right, ewisco. Zuma – sorry, I think that would be completely stupid. You don’t manage like it’s the 7th game of the WS in the first game of the NLCS….
Gotta send Torres!!!! Need that insurance run chance.
Bochy said Bum could work an inning and would still start Game 4. Nothing to worry about.
WTF didn’t Torres try to take second? I thought he should have tested Ibanez on the hit anyway.
He needs to cut things loose.
how am I gonna take this tension? does Viagra help or hurt?
texting my buddy [Mets fan; Mets fans do not like Phillies]; I think we should go tomorrow; take our chances; Macdog, you representin’?
Tough call,coming up next inning.Tim’s at 113 pitches but looked great that inning.Utley and Howard coming up.Boch will probably go to Lopez,unless we add some runs here.
damn it. Lopez.
Tough call, but this is what Lopez does best. Go get ’em LOOGY.
Goddamn if this isn’t exciting. Not to mention excruciating. LOOGY worked his magic–again.
He comes the beard for a four-outer. Fear the beard!
Fantastic job by LOOGY Lopez.I just spit out a Loogy like Dicaprio in Titanic after he K’d Howard.
Wow. The one out guy gets two of em….bet we see that match up again.
hang on, boys and girls and ferrets
Yes!!
Love to see that one again too. J Roll, that ain’t Broxton, bro.
An insurance run would be groovy.
Time to put Lidge on the Ledge!
Jesus H. Christ was that a pathetic AB. He is lost.
c’mon ya little runt, pick him up.
How many fucking guys have we left on third w/ less than 2-outs in the postseason?
Situational hitting has been the shits. Fuck it. All we need is 3 outs from B-Wheezy.
Let’s go Wheezy! Damn, this is exciting.
Shit AB by Torres who is licking balls during the playoffs
Goddammit Torres! Can’t fucking Bochy ever try a squeeze!!!!
I think you’re good for one more walk Ledge!
Torres struggling is an issue Bochy’s going to have to look seriously at. They’re doing well in spite of Torres these days.
Well Flappers and Flapperettes….Guess we always new it would come down to TORTURE.Why would they feel they would want a 2 run lead?
A Rowand start in center is not totally out of the friggin’ question.
Dammit It clipped that little Prick.Nothing comes easy with this team!
96 that motherfucker. One more to go.
Whoo-Freakin’-Hoo!!! Whew!
Ballgame!
Phear the Beard!
Right in his fucking kitchen, and in Philly’s face. The Kid outduels Doc, and the pen holds em off. One down!
WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Hell YEAH!!!!!! I’M FUCKING PUMPED FOR A SWEEP IN PHILLY NOW!!!!! FUCK ALL THE EAST COAST BIAS WRITERS AND SPORTS EXPERTS!!!!! GIANTS BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so happy for the Giants tonight, but especially for Tim. He out-dueled Halladay on the national stage.
woo-hooo-freakin-hooooo from all Giants’ east coast fans! yes we almighty can!
Even winning two CYs, I’m sure Tim was still not all that well-known to the nation at large. He’s a star tonight.
And Ross, of course, rose up to be a Leonard ’87 tonight.
Game Two would be fucking gravy! Let’s hope Oswalt is pressing too hard!
Baseball doesn’t get any better than this one. But my God, they had to throw 6 strikes to get 3 called… (both teams).
Yeah, that non-call 3rd to Burrell was huge. Halladay had ’em, but Cousins missed it. But ya know, Pat still had to hit the ball afterwards….and he did!
What can I say? This was fuckin HUUUUUUGGGGGGE. One run games? We fuckin OWN one run games. Here’s a Timmeh and Cody Ross combined middle finger to the East Coast!……
Kruk & Kuip are giving a great description of how all the Philly fans look dazed and confused. We lost?
You’re goddamn right you lost. Man, all kinds of POTG potentials, but I’ll go a little outside the box and give a “Lon Simmons pick” to our LOOGY, Lopez. That was huge getting those 2 outs in the 8th and keeping them down. Javier made fast work of Utley and Howard, and set it up for Wilson to torture us once again. It’s torture, but it’s a win. It’s a win baby and that’s all that matters.
WE WIN ! !
and Nate’s run was big too
imagine, just imagine, if any one of these were hitting consistently in key situations [RISP]: Posey, Uribe, Huff, Torres
add hypercaffeinated Fruckie to that list
I’m not going to talk about FOX bias, or not replaying much.
I’m not going to talk about a fucked game called by the ump.
I’m not going to talk about how happy I was watching Phillie fans eating towels like scrapple.
Nope I’m going to talk about the number seven.
Three more from these guys and four from those AL guys.
As us Flappers/Flapperettes go Whooo Hooo and hallelujah to our Giants, remember this – It’s time to get DIRTY.
I’m happy for my pal, Bozo. His rodeo clown to be favorite player Cody Ross continues to barrel up big time.
Go clowns!
Gotta love the clown.
Oh yeah FUCK Bozo.
Very strange, none of my friends who are Phillie fans are returning my emails…
Nate’s pinch run and Uribe finally gettign a hit was just monumental…
We will score 4 off Oswalt tomorrow and Sanchez will not give up 3. Javy Lopez cannot be touched by Utley and Howard and how long will the Phillies keep Jimmy Rollins batting 6th?
Timmy was not even on his A game tonight and threw really one bad pitch with that challenge fastball to Werth, everything else was played damn near perfectly by this team. Torres needs to get a bunt down in the first tomorrow just to get things going or Fontenot may get some swings at leadoff..
I actually live in Philly (most of the year), and I’m watching these idiots on the local sports shows in absolute shock. Good shit Cody. Way to shut up these arrogant phucks. I’ve had enough of the fans, but we can’t underestimate tomorrow’s game. The stadium and the team is going to come out angry and rockin’ — but what a chance for Sanchez to demoralize this city! Let’s do it Dirrrty, couldn’t think of a better guy to do it now — and I never thought I would think that 2 months ago.
Totally unrelated- but can anyone make any sense of the “Parker, I’ll race you home” commercial? My wife and I have been puzzling over that commercial, because they run it so much. The commercial literally makes no sense.
The kids challenge Parker to race home, Parker takes a short cut to where his mom is waiting for him, with the back hatch open. He jumps in the car, and his mom drives off with him. What?
I’ve seen it Zum, but know clue here.
no not know. Fuck it, I’m a clown, go Cody.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who’s can’t figure out that ad.
And Mitch Williams predicted Phillies would win in 5..what a fucking putz!
Torres is giving us nothing at leadoff. He is totally out to lunch at the plate. Radio said he and Franchez are something like a combined 4 for 38 in the playoffs. If either one could get some hits, it would be a huge boost. Torres has to make contact, he isn’t even getting the bat on the damn ball…
He gets nothing but breaking balls now. He has to prove he can hit the junk in the strikezone, and lay off the junk outside of the strikezone.
5 for 42 to be exact. .119 w/ 12 Ks. But ya know what, we won, and I’m not gonna bitch and moan after a win.
Gay auto commercials..message to the car advertisers, stick with the retro 80s tunes…I love the new Bud commercial with one of my favorite bands, Los Campesinos…
I don’t often just sit down and watch the game without posting here or at the Splash. I enjoyed it, it was a great game, none better all year.
I didn’t want to leave my spot (except to go out and smoke).
I was really surprised they stuck with Panda on the bench…I figured they give him one start in Philly. Can they sit Fontenot? Or stick him at second or short and hit second????
PsOTG:
1. Cody
2. Timmeh (wins with his “B” stuff, and Werth’s jack was an EZ out at ATT)
3. Uribe (game winnah)
4. Lopez and Wilson
5. Gomez…
All those are great snarkk. but Cody and Loogy are my main guys tonight.
agreed Twin..magnificent. I have been doing the same to not jinx the team.
National sports pundits, prognosticators and poohbahs are dining finely on Corvus Brachyrynchos tonight after the shocker in Philly, where their team in red got put to bed by the longhaired freak; a loogie with a nasty, slippery sidearm slant and a big dude whose deep-dyed beard sure doesn’t match his medium-brown topknot.
If everybody’s favorite, Doc Halladay, was planning on a Holiday with another no-no, celebrations got rudely interrupted in the third as Cody Ross skyed one into the bandbox night. Then lightning struck in the same place on the same pitch two innings later as the accidental Giant sandwiched the Ruiz reply, causing rapid sagulation in the white towels of the home-fans out to see their reigning heroes squash the Western Division upstarts, lacking even a recognizable superstar on the field.
But it was not the bombs which won the game. With a couple outs Buster, Pat the Bat and the Juan and only Juan on the entire team put on a bit of an exhibition on how to harass Halladay. Normally a swing from the heals hacker, Uribe contributed the ultimate winning hit with a smooth, measured stroke down the middle. That was one professional at-bat.
Watched the game on Fox at a friend’s house. He’s no fan of the game, but put up with me and a pastime he was never introduced to at the proper age. Fox coverage was slanted heavily towards the Phillies and was shitty game coverage to boot. There was not so much as a pitch-count either mentioned or graphiced. Little wonder that network and its game-callers were a bit shocked at having to eat crow.
Halloween Machine needs only seven more wins for the Orange and Black October.