Moments In Time
I’ve said this several times, I couldn’t be having more fun with all of this. I love what this has done to my community—everyone has come together in their own unique way but for a common reason. I never lived in a small town but it’s felt like a small town the last few weeks…….
But believe me, I get it, there is a huge difference between me and 98% of the rest of these *giants fans*. I’m not hating on them or anything, it’s just a fact. There is the *band wagon jumper* who comprises about 75% of this current fan base. Then there’s a group of 23% who make up the real Giant fan base. Then there’s 2% of me. And all of you people……
I haven’t allowed myself to think about the outcome of this World Series for even one second. And it’s got nothing to do with fearing a loss. I’m a Giants fan, I can do torturous losing with the best of them. Bring it on, 24/7. I can tolerate losing while standing on my head. While eating a sandolicious sando from The Cheese House. It doesn’t phase me in the slightest….
What I fear is winning this thing. I simply have no idea how I’m going to react or what I’ll do when the final out is secured. So I don’t think about what might happen. I think about the moment I’m in right now and the moment that’s coming right after it. And so on and so on….
All I know for certain is that I will stop to appreciate the moments I have today. They’ll be with me forever. I’ve been very good in my life at stopping time to appreciate something that is happening……. right……….then.
I remember with great detail all of my greatest moments of being a Giants fan. I remember the first game my dad took me to, the Ed Haliki no hitter, not really understanding what all the fuss was about when the crowd went crazy after the final out…..I remember the white specks of paint on Mr Lovell’s radio that broadcasted the giants games while we played a million hours of ping pong through most of the ’80’s in the Lovell’s backyard…..I remember the tie-dye tank top I wore to the Dave Dravecky comeback game…..I remember falling to the ground so hard when Scotty Garrelts came within one out of a no hitter, that my knees were bruised for weeks…..I remember that sign they had out in right field at Candlestick that would count down the days till Pac Bell Park opened and being so bummed one day when it said “937”. “Why couldn’t that sign say *37*,” I thought to myself…..I remember heading through a tunnel so clean you could eat off it, up a stairwell and into the brilliant sunlight of Pac Bell Park, stopping at the top and saying out loud to no one in particular “No fucking way!”–the older, female usher leaned close to me and said “I feel the same way, now let me show you to your seats.”….I remember every single rush of adrenaline that Barry Bonds *gifted* me each time he would send one of his lasers down the right field line into the water…… I remember every word of the 5 minute conversation I had with my friend Chris last week as he proudly told me “The Cody Ross Story”…….And I will never forget my daughter’s giggle as she helped me dye this absurd beard last night…..
I woke up this morning to the blue light of my alarm clock that indicated 2:33am. Never was able to go back to sleep after that so it’s going to be a long day. But one thing is for certain. I will stop and appreciate ever moment of this day: The stains on my train seat. The first words Pawlie says to me when I meet him for the first time later this afternoon. The color of the finger nails of the woman selling me my hot dog. The roar from the crowd after Timmy throws his first strike. Everything.
Appreciating the moments that will stay with you forever. THAT is what life is all about, my friends. I’m 10 years old right now…..
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Guererro in Right all right. All Right!
Our guys (seemingly) all contributing in a rout like this is good going forward insofar as “loosening” them up for the remaining WS games. Especially the bench players like Ishi . . . Any butterflies they might have had, are gone.
Tsk, tsk tsk Vlad . . . Xoot, yer right – must be the ball dude in disguise.
Someone said a few days ago G’s were due for a 10 spot. I never thought I would see it tonight.
I thought Vlad would at least hold his own. Glad to be proven wrong.
Clown in Right!!
Have a night Dr. Fruckenturd. I think Vlad is opening up at the Punch Line after the game.
Him playing RF is funnier than shit.
Murdoch: Keep playing up the Rangers
FOX Kissasses: But Boss, the Giants are pretty much………..
Murdoch: I DON’T GIVE A FUCK IF THE GHOST OF WILLIE MAYS….
Fox Kissasses: But Boss, he’s not dead
Murdoch: I DON’T CARE IF HE’S ALIVE OR DEAD!! TEXAS!! TEXAS!! A-ROD!! NO, STRIKE THAT!! GEORGE W. BUSH!!! FUCK THESE FRISCO FAGGOTS!! FUCH THESE FRISCO FAGGOTS!!
FOX Kissasses: Uh, boss. Statiscally, Texas has more homosexuals per….
Murdoch: I DON’T CARE!! I DON ‘T CARE!! MOMMY!! MOMMY!! I DON’T WANT TO GO BACK IN THERE!!!!
Double your pleasure. Double your fun. Sonova, Sonuva, Sonavagun.
Ted: Something tells me you don’t like Faux Noose ~ or faux sports, for that matter. Murdoch masks may be kinda popular around the Castro come Halloween.
Not sure. It’s been cancelled the last few years for as far as I know
SANCEZ!!!!!!
I just hope they don’t shoot all their “bullets” in this one game.
🙂
Hooray for Shitholtz! Everyone is coming to this party.
That was me Max. And I’m digging it…..
Gee, gonna give us some props, McFuckwad?
No, sorry, it was just not a “night” for the Texas pitchers.
That fucking dicklicker wouldn’t give the Giants props until they tied him up and put a ball in his mouth.
Which is what he’s waiting/hoping for
Which ain’t gonna happen
I hate FOX
TV sound off. Just watching.
Hate the FOX
Wonder how far Franchez is from the single-game W.S. record for doubles. You know, despite his injury problem hanging over into the early part of the season i still think Freddy was not a bad investment on Sabean’s part.
Nope. He doesn’t say anything . . .
Too funny.
Really sweet when the struggling duo of Ishi and Nate come through.Giants clicking on on cylinders!
4 doubles has to be some kind of record…
Home town scorer gave him the last one.
I think they changed the last one to a single and an E.
7 run lead. Throw strikes goddammit!
Dare I say Bochy let’s NO Whitey catch the 9th? Why not, it can’t fucking hurt.
Franchez keeps ripping the ball, he’s fucking God.
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When the Rangers lose tomorrow to Matt Cain, ticket demand will drop faster than Nolan Ryan’s frown. Longtime Giants fan looking for a single seat for either Sat or Sunday’s game
Too fucking funny
GIANTS!!!!!
BestSeasonEver . . . Read the article Snarkk cited earlier this evening, i.e., Jason Stark essentially said what you just implied (paraphrasing here), “Texans don’t care about baseball. They only care about football.”
Conversely, Giants fans live and die with their team. Stark also points out that the East coast doesn’t give us credit/acknowledge that we are just as rabid in our fan support as any New Yorker or Bostonian. That’s a fact.
Regardless, fuck them all (including these two dufus’s announcing the game).
Ishikawa made a case for starting him in Tx with Huff as the DH, didn’t he? D has been important tonight. Uribe and Renteria, in particular, tonight, but it could be anywhere next game.
Vlad the imploder. He’s a helluva hitter, however. He’ll be swinging for the fence in Tx, to make up for his humiliation. Reminds me. Didn’t Benji come in with guns blazing? Well, good on him. (Especially if he continues to be on the losing end of the equation.)
What has happened to Ramirez lately?
Just things evening out. He’s not that good.
Young looks sad.
Rangers look sad.
Shit, if I was Rags I would be in his face, “Dude you have a 7 run lead throw strikes”!!!!!!!!!
Franchez with 4 doppels. The guy is on it. Even Ishi gettin in on the party, nice. Nice look at Joe in the stands. Quick, get him a ticket to London….
The Pen, Lincecum, must’ve forgotten how to pitch with such a lead. It’s been quite a while
Fukin A. The lead is so big, I haven’t brought out the Glenmorangie yet. I feared there was a downside to big leads…
I dunno, Boch. BW in with a 7 run lead? Maybe that’s a little overkill right now? I think I’d wait till you down to a 5 run lead, at least. Save some arm for tomorrow?…
Not even a save situation and the Pen can’t get it done so Bochy has to bring in Wilson!! in the immortal words of Howard Cossell, What a pathetic performance!!
Single malt aside, I’m trying remember how to feel with this big lead
This fuckhead on FOX just said, for Affeldt, with 2 on and 1 out, it;s a chaotic…repeat CHAOTIC situation.
The Giants are winning 11-4!?!!
CHAOTIC????!!!
When was the first time this asshole got laid? Age 53? In Nevada?
I’m turning the sound down again.
And shall repeat same for the rest of the fucking series
He was taalking about the NLCS
Don’t slow yer rant though
11-4 lead and we have to burn Wilson. Only the Giants could make it happen.
I’m sick and motherfucking tired of this torture bullshit. End this godforsaken mockery of a game.
Yeah, sort of ambivalent about the Rangers seeing what BWheezy has.
Of course they got a run. Who give s a fuck?
Game over
Dennis….book it
Dennis, breathe in a bag.
Runs don’t matter.
Wins do
See what the fuck happens when you bring in your closer in a non-save situation.
NEVER-EVER bring in your closer in a non-save situation. End the fucking shit Wilson.
Goddamn you, end this shit.
FIRST THING HE SAID THAT WAS ACCURATE . . . “JUST PROVES THAT WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.”
Game, Set, Match 🙂
well
Whew. I can’t handle this shit.
WE WIN ! ! !
Dangerous they remain. Wilson MUST have drama.
Anybody who threw or called a breaking ball that inning should be shot at dawn…
Woo-Hoo!!! Once again our guys beat the other teams’ unbeatable ace! I have to agree with Duane, tension in an 11-7 game?!?! Baby, that’s Giant’s Baseball! I wouldn’t have it any other way!!!
Congrats boys! Or, as the inimitable Ferret says, “WOO HOO!”
Tony Bennett, 15 time Grammy winner . . . hope my kids will be able to toast the San Francisco Giants, 15 time World Series winners. Ok, I admit I’m getting just a little ahead of things here . . . .
Freddy ‘motormouth’ Sanchez summing up the game on Fox.
Books must have made a bundle on the under.
wow. but i think that sets up better for the giants than the rangers. once again, we’ve proven that we can beat your best pitcher. now, you might think that you can beat our bullpen but, as i will submit that your starting pitcher will be better next time, so it’s a good thing we got him today, our bullpen will be better. in which case, you screwed. because we got the win. you won’t when our bullpen shows it’s teeth.
so there.
3 MORE!!!!!!
When is our intrepid roving reporter, Flavor, going to give us a live report from the Phone Park????
Same question for Pawlie, interviewing fans outside the stadium by the peeky boo hole. HAHAHA.
Dennis!!! I know this was killing you!!!
Now!! Can you breathe in a paper bag?
I’m gonna talk you down from this
First, do you have any Grateful Dead albums???
Yeah Ted, you should blow him . . . Uhh, I mean give him CPR.
First off blade, it was recently reported that those of us who have no training should skip that procedure as it doesn’t really help and second off…
eeww
Ted – you are killing me today!
Who luv’s ya ferret???!!
I’m sooooooooooooooo……….
stoked!!!!
(had to to it zum)
Thorazine?
Some battle of the Aces, huh? Timmy seems to lose it with a huge lead. Wilson gets all giddy without drama. But i’ll bet those Pundits, Prognosticators and Poobahs are all dining on Corvine chops tonight, maybe with a side of Razzberry and a hint of Rhubarb.
Giants got deep in the heart of Texas tonight without even having to leave China Basin. This team has kinduva Sneaky Pete offense and gwaad only knows when its gonna show up and who will become the designated victim. Tonight Cliff Lee gets his for dissing the SF batters and then slighting his own manager. Maybe it will be his ticket to pitching for the Evil Empire as his current stock in Texas probably rivals some sucked-dry oil-well up around Burke-Barnett.
Signs point towards Grand Tetons getting his ring from the Giants. Texas takes a try at bronco busting tomorrow night. They may not get a gentle ride. Maybe get bucked off into a bed of Chollo Cactus.
Gentlemen, the fourth one is going to stay oop. I personally am going to enjoy the shit out of this.
down 2-0, i scoffed. if we don’t win tonight, we’ll get them tomorrow.
tied 2-2, this is pretty much over, because now, it’s a street fight. and we win these (credit to this line seems to be blurred, some bochy, some sabean, tidrow being the constant. memory not so good dick or bad reporting?).
and I believe.
One Hundred in the bag as of tonight. That’s not counting Spring Training games, where, in case your memory glands are sagging, the Gigantes also did quite well. Three more to go and this one’s in the History Books somewhere close to The Little Engine That Could.
Only this one’s called the HALLOWEEN MACHINE. Colors are Orange and Black. Preferred month to let it all hang out: October.
The City’s gonna rock tonight.
Ya know, I really was kinda hoping Bochy woulda put NO Whitey in the 9th to catch. I’m sure it woulda made Vern and Vera real proud. Deep down I really do have an affinity for the poor lug. Would it of killed ’em to let NO Whitey get his name in the World Series score book? Maybe if we get a 10 run lead Bochy will feel comfortable enough to let NO Whitey play.
1 down, 3 more to go. This is all really something. That’s all I can think of, it’s just something else.
None of these Fox talking head mutherfuckers knows what to make of SF. Tony Bennett, Carlos Santana and Green Day are all likely to show up to regale the enthusiastic crowds — because they’re neighbors and Giants fans. Hell, Tom Waits may be there, next. The team, likewise, is unusual — not a collection of hired guns, but a bunch of talent merging into something a whole lot more foreceful than the stats would suggest.
I don’t watch Fox News. Ever. The fact that I have to watch Fox Sports to see the Giants pisses me off. But a big Giants victory always mollifies me, just fine.
Take two, at home, and go nail em in Tx.
Xoot, I feel the same way . . . Pisses me off no end that I am indirectly supporting their neo-conservative channel they disguise as a “news” channel (yeah, right).
However, the Giants trump any discomfort I have in that regard. Let’s take two tomorrow!
I didn’t like it, then I loved it, then I didn’t like it again… not the food, the fucking game… felt like shit today, as well. Maybe the anticipation, the meds, all that. Anyway: I’m going to get a nice rub in a bit and off to bed. Tears on my Cainer, Cain in my heart…
The roll continues……I seriously have to stop myself every now and then and fully comprehend that we’re in the World Fucking Series. Now we knocked out Cliff Lee and are up 1-0. Totally amazing.
Flav’s thread damn near brought tears to my eyes.
Enjoy the ride Flappers!
Uribe just missed about 5 home runs in one AB against Lee, I knew he was going to get one against somebody. That and Vlad’s ninth inning reduced the scare factor big time. My God, boys: 7 run lead, throw fast balls.
Got to love Bochy. When asked if he was worried about using the pen tonight. He it was good they got out there. They needed the work.
Fucking Aurilia is whining about the Giants using Wilson in a non-save situation.
What a pussy. Fuck you, idiot. Oooh. Is Wilson going to be worried if they bring him in tomorrow? Right. Did you WATCH the team this season, Richie-boy? What a fucking git. That’s up there with your commment about you mentoring the younger players last year to perform in this postseason.
I though Fuck Piss was bad. Richie should be thrown into McCovey Cove.
You guys should be on Comcast now . . .
Just ignore Richie . . .
It doesn’t help that Mark ibanez looks like an extra from GUYS AND DOLLS.
Nice suit, asshole
Good night all.
And a good night it is. Wasn’t an easy one, but the stars are shining brightly. One of my favorite constellations has always been Orion. I say we take out his belt and whip up on the Rangers again tomorrow night.
As I have a collection of about…9,000 movies. I’m gonna watch a Bowery Boys movie. But I have to be very selective. Must choose a movie what has a Slip, a Sach, a Gabe, a Butch, a Chuck, a Danny, a Louie…but…
NO Whitey!!!
All we gotta do is win 3 more from these guys.
ESPN baseball analysts are condescending fucks . . . If we win the WS, it will only be sweeter because of the “Doubting Thomas” analysts. Good night all . . .
good night tf.
i’m sure i should head there as well but I can feel it. it’s building gentlemen. it’s what all of us who were paying attention predicted. you have solid pitching. if you can scrape up enough runs you can be dangerous. and if you can be dangerous, you can win the whole fucking thing.
we didn’t say they would. we didn’t say look at us. but we all knew, we don’t need the 40/105 guy. we need 6 or 7 20-25/70-80 guys. because now who do you pitch to? josh hamilton, ryan howard, chase utley, you just pitch around them. bring in speciality guys. but the giants. you gonna bring in speciality guys to get ross? burrell? (who, btw, looks awful). posey?
it’s just not happening. they leave whoever, out there and there’s freddie, there’s edgar. there’s aubrey and panda and posey and even aaron rowand for god’s sake. christ, bring in whitey !!! (who had a big hit against SD early)
This team is a classic example of the sum being better than the parts. Credit to Brian. they better win it this year though because there is no promise of “next year” with this group. and brian should be very careful about who he signs to a long contract based on this year.
that being said, they do this, they pull this out of the fucking “magic” hat, and they drink for free in this town. for EVER!
Giants Forever!
Hee hee haa haa.
For just about the 1st time in the entire playoffs, I heard someone, Cliff Lee of all people, complement the Giants on their hitting.
He actually said, “You have to give them credit. They found holes and then started squaring up.”
Cainer, locked and loaded. . .
No time to start counting chickens. But i like the way the nest is getting feathered and all the eggs in it. Spose Texas is getting spooked yet? Getting awful close to Halloween and that rhymes with machine and its colors are orange and black, but now its time to hit the sack where i plan to dream about a big Horse bucking off some impudent dude wearing sixguns and a badge with a totally deRanged look about him.
Mike. Feel better. Hang in there
Ted, I think you’re right. Mark Ibanez looks straight out of a Damon Runyon production. I think Harry the Horse wore that same suit in “Guys and Dolls” How bout that voice on the late-great Sheldon Leonard. That was one in a million. Nicely-Nicely indeed.
Sleep well, Mike. Big day tomorrow. Broke out the Jameson’s for a post game dram . . .
All is good . . .
Watching that play again where Renteria went deep behind the second base bag, snagged, spun and speared Kinsler at first with plenty to spare. Looked pretty for an “old guy.”
And then there was Ishi and Shitholtz. Combined 2 for 2 with 2 RBI and a run scored. It can’t be said enough of how this really is a complete squad of 25 guys coming to the yard each and every night and pinching in somehow. A little here and a little there. Sprinkle in some genuine fun and enthusiasm and it spells W-I-N-N-E-R.
We all know how the Flappers feel about FP, but he just got off a really good one. He was talking about how nobody is showing the Giants any respect: “If I was a Giants player, I’d order my WS ring for my middle finger, and just flip everybody off with it!”
I wonder what Cliff Lee’s PS ERA is right now.
What an asshole
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!!!
Somebody wake up Flav. He’s late for work . . .
BF, sleeping off the party he had last night leave the guy alone. I hardly slept a wink!!