Renteria—- I’m over it.
Maybe it was a day to think about it or maybe it was reading the STUPID shit posted at The Splash and listening to Idiot Tolbert on KNBR, but I’m totally over Renteria being “disrespected” or whatever that was. The guy can play/say/do whatever and wherever he wants to next year. He won us a World Series. Pay him 20 million to sit at home with his kids in 2011. What do I care? It’s not my money and I’m still B-A-S-K-I-N-G.
Speaking of basking….
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/17/SP1E1GSDAA.DTL
I still live in the town I grew up in. Not sure if that makes this more or less special. But….Congratulations to the STATE CHAMPIONS: Paly High.
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Congrats, Paly High. Congrats, Magnus. Congrats, Renteria. Congrats, Giants. I’m in a congrats mood on my birthday. Got cool WS sweatshirt that lists the six WS years. Basking swag. Congrats.
Happy Birthday, Pawlie. And congrats on winning Twin’s computer. I think you won. Or is Flav still protesting the Rowand cutoff date? The only cutoff Rowand needs is reached by taking the San Diego Freeway followed by the Ventura Freeway till you get to the Slauson Cutoff. Art Fern will instruct you next.
Twin said it best after Rent’s HR: $18 million, 56 years. In the end, he was worth every dollar.
It’s too bad these things have to end sourly, if that’s how it turns out. But such silliness shall pass. There isn’t anything that can take away from Rent’s enormous contribution to our beloved Giants winning the World Series.
Happy B-Day, Pawlie! I might have to add that sweatshirt to the X-mas swag list.
The coments on the Splash are the worst ever-a total disgrace.
Happy B’day Pawlie, Rent isn’t the first player to feel disrespect from a team he helped get to the World Series, Super Bowl, whatever. What guys like him don’t want to admit is that they are on the down side of their carreer and they aren’t worth what they want. There egos won’t let them admit it. If he was really all that valuable a team would be offering him something more. Joe Montana didn’t want to admit his time was done, he went to KC, yes I know he took them to the playoffs, but no SB there. and God I hate saying this, but Jerry Rice went to the Raiders. Saying that tastes like vinegar!! Jerry just couldn’t give up Football. So Renteria just needs to suck it up and accept what is offered or move on.
That’s the thing- fans want the athletes’ careers to end gracefully, but they rarely do. There’s usually some bad feelings that fade away in time. Ronnie Lott does commentary on KNBR. His love of the 49ers shines on through. When he was forced to leave the Niners as a player, his feelings at the time were much different.
How ’bout these 2 conflicting storys on Rents situation….
From Haft…http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101217&content_id=16341098&vkey=news_sf&c_id=sf
From Duc on Yahoo….http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Edgar-Renteria-doesn-t-get-out-of-bed-for-a-mill?urn=mlb-297301
Happy Birthday basking Pawlie
Congrats Flav on the HS state Champs
As a rule, Yahoo is not much better than tabloid journalism. Who the hell is “duk” anyway?
Bon Anee, Pawlie. Keep on basking till the robins return,.
Great day for a birthday, Pawlie.
I still say that if any of you (who work) were looking at an 89% paycut in 2011 you would be underwhelmed with the prospect of working……
Not if I should be retired…
Urban’s whole manufactured thing about Renteria’s “price to stay with his family,” was one of the stupider straw-man arguments I’ve ever read. ANY person who is thinking of possibly retiring has to make those kinds of decisions. Heck, any person thinking of taking a second job, or working lots of overtime has to make those decisions. Baseball players make HUGE money, but it does have to be said there is a big chunk of the year when they are away from their families. They’re not there when their own kids are playing little league.
Btw- how often do you ever see ‘they’re, there, and their in the same sentence? That was something, eh?
First, Rent is a Post Season stud. And, I’m not just talking about the Giants. That alone is worth a million bucks, just to be available for the play offs. Second, he’s worth a couple extra million just to watch Cody the Clown’s batting stance. You all remember the OTHER MVP changed his stance (foot I think) after Rent said something about it. So to me he’s worth 3 mil for those two things alone.
Offer 3 mil and a coaching job after (IMO, the dude should be offered a job for life), fuck the splash, get er done.
If they sign Rent for a year, he’s going to end up coaching anyway, but during the season while he’s on the DL…
Flav, most here didn’t make 18 mill over two years, If he has invested wisely over his baseball carreer an 89% cut should not be a problem.
Can we just declare “Rent-bashing” the most tired topic in the history Giants sports blogs?
I seemed to have left out an “of” in there somewhere.
I think Zito Rowand still have a big edge there. Maybe Bonds and Steroids is still king.
Rent got the added “lazy” rep which was/is a totaly ethic thing-hell, even on the series winner, his demeanor was “BFD”…
As they say in sports….act as though you’ve done it before!
san diego got the ss from tampa. will be interesting to see how that plays out over the course of the year. we’ll get a real good look at whether we should have or shouldn’t have.
that month after the new year and before p’s and c’s report is going to suck.
Thanks for all the birthday good wishes.
Savoring.
And basking.
And savouring.
Last night, saw “The Tourist.” I’d like to savor and bask with Angelina. Just once.
Happy Birthday me mate, many more.
Oh, and I’m sticking with my long time fav Michelle Pfeiffer: no tattoos 🙂
this David E. Kelley guy must be real smart to pick a dame like her.
Peace and best wishes for this next year to you.
Renteria? Not my money. Can’t get all wound up. I have not seen this mentioned, but my negotiating stance would be to give him some more money, yes, sure, but to say, “Look, you’re a hero in this town, people love you. Capitalize on that. Endorsements. What not. They love you here. Go out on a high note.”
The new contest:
Antec 1200 Gaming Case
Antec 850 Watt Power Suppy
AMD Phenom II X6 Six-Core Processor 1055T (2.8GHz) AM3
8 GB DDR3 Memory
Asus AM3 Motherboard
1 Terabyte SATA II 7200 RPM Hard Drive
DVD/RW
BluRay Drive
Dual EVGA 1GB GTS 450 Graphics Cards
USB Keyboard/Mouse
External Card Reader
Windows 7 Ultimate
This contest will end when pitchers and catchers report. Or rather: when Pablo reports. What will he weigh? Since we don’t know who will report his weight, I will select the first credible one( Shea, Henry, Baggs, like that)
You have until 1/1 6 P.M. to make your guess. BTW, this is a flat fucking monster system…
that is almost part for part the machine I am looking to build myself!! Guess it can weight ’till I win; or should I build now and have Twins?
monster indeed: Antec, ASUS, BluRay, GTS, Ultimate, wow!
come on ,Shirley the SAS Raid drives can’t be too far away.
*grins* I think I would pay you just to let me build and test that one!
For awhile I built gamers with 15,000 RPM SCSI drives- killer but only for the SERIOUS. SSDs are hot now but they add a pretty penny to a system. If I used them with this puppy, I’d do two 80 GB in a RAID 0-adding $360.00 to the cost.
When he did play, Edgar’s production was almost identical to Jeter’s:
BA/OBP/Slugging/OPS
Edgar:.276 .332 .374 .707
Jeter: .270 .340 .370 .710
and Jeter is fucking totally done, as I have said many times……
It couldn’t hurt to give Baggs a heads up on this. If it was posed in a legitimate way I can’t imagine he’d have a problem finding it out and disclosing it. Baggs isn’t real good at responding to emails, though. Honestly, Ostler is the best/ BUt whatever, it’s a great contest idea.
way to go paly! musta been a great game to watch, MegaFlav.
257. book it dennis.
Is that pounds, kilos or metric tons?
Ok ,the alarm on my phone just went off which means it has been a good 24 hours since I’ve ripped Renteria, so I better get to it.
Seriously, I don’t care that the guy feels disrespected and is running his mouth a bit. I just feel like the Giants would be better off with Burriss being the utility guy. On top of my other criticisms of Rent, he doesn’t exactly strike me as a classic utility infielder. Has he ever played so much as a half of an inning at any other position for the Giants? That tells me he either can’t play second or third very well or he feels it’s beneath him to play anywhere but short.
Neither scenario bodes well for what the Giants need on their roster.
REVRIT!!!!!
Consarnit
(ptuiii)
It’s raining cats and dogs! I stepped in a poodle!
The weather is crazy today. I’m not popping a new thread up today so if you guys have anything to say, say it here…….
The Rams go ahead 3-0.
Oh our 5-9 Niners may not make the playoffs after all.
I was all-in on this lame playoff thing just because, well, there’s nothing else to do. But after watching Singletary AGAIN get out coached and out played in SD I think it’s best to just put us all out of our misery with this fantasy…..
Kevin Lynch had a pretty gloomy 49er blog post over at SFGate. He believes the “playoff chances” thing is actually an extra burden on the Niners. Usually a 5-9 team is ready to pack up the trucks and get out of Dodge. The Niners want to get ready to end their miserable season, but they still have reporters sticking microphones in their faces, asking about the Niners “playoff chances.”
None of them want to talk to reporters. They’re all imitating Singletary now.
KC just went ahead. What the hell. Pretty amazing- could have playoffs AT HOME… with Alex. Delicious.
Gutsy performance from Cassell.
No pun intended.
Delicious? Shit, Hannibal Lecter couldn’t even find that game to be palatable.
Something fishy about the Splash. (as usual.)
So…..there are about 900 posts bashing Renteria on the latest topic, but NONE from Soph. Yet, there’s a new person posting multiple posts, being real positive about the Giants. If it’s the same person, that’s yet more weirdness from that person. No telling how many different “log-ins” he has going on over there.
Maybe Soph decided to finally retire his tired act and come back as someone else. He could be trying out a bunch of screen names to see which one will be the most annoying–that’ll be the one he finally settles on…….
If he’s ChannelClemente, it could be an attempt to go positive, and be liked. I think Soph originally wanted to be liked, but got angry when everyone blasted the fake female college student act out of the water. He decided to take on TF and prove TF wrong about baseball, but Soph hilariously picked the season the GIANTS WON THE WORLD SERIES to do it. That’s quite funny, actually. It only made Soph more angry and surly and sullen and desperate. He may be tired of being that persona.
Sobbo claims to be en route to SF.
She’s coming home for the big pizza party. Somehow someway, I’m getting stuck to flip the bill.
So it’s one slice only for you moochers. And NO extra toppings. And per the usual at my establishment;
NO Shoes
NO Shirt
NO Service
No Whitey
Clemente has been posting for awhile, and good posts, IMO .
De La Salle smoked Servite of Anaheim last night in the big school state HS football championship down in LA. 48-8. Utter demolition of the supposed 4th best HS team in the nation. Ladouceur walks the walk. Sing talks the talk…
I just read Swickman’s comment posted in Shea’s article yesterday. Making the Chronicle, we done my man. Try not to big-time us on your way to the top 🙂
I had a comment posted in an article? Didn’t see it. Which one?
Nevermind, I found it. Thanks for pointing it out, Flav!
Man what a total COLLAPSE by the Ny Giants.Blowing a 31-10 lead.How the hell does that Idiot Punter kick any ball near DeSean Jackson with time left on the clock?
Could only shake my head as I drove past the Colosseum on my way back from the airport this morning and saw thousands of Raider fans huddled in the pouring rain, liquoring up for the big game with the 3-10 Broncos.
For my birthday I got the set of world Series DVDs, which includes games 4 and 6 of the NLCS. So, while writing Christmas cards, I watched game 6 of the NLCS, the game I mostly missed because I was watching my daughter in the ballet, in Philly. Pretty darned good thing to do on a December afternoon. What a game. It looked as if we might get blasted away in the first inning. And what a job by Affeldt! And Werth just missed a three-run HR and made a sensational catch. I think the tension in real time must’ve been excruciating. I just marvel all the more we did it. It is truly amazing. Back to the game. 5th inning.
Jon Miller’s call on Uribe’s homer in that game 6 was a classic (full of rising hope and, ultimately, triumph). So was Joe Buck’s (full of disbelief and, ultimately, disappointment). The Phily announcers were pretty respectful. (All three versions were available on mlb almost immediately after the game.) Hope you got the Miller version!
it’s the Fox version, but I think there’s a setting somewhere for the radio audio
Well then, you’ll be able to enjoy the comparison. Doesn’t make the homer any more beautiful, but it does connect you up to Giants fans everywhere who were hanging on Miller’s every word. Adios pelota!
I just re-watched game 5 of the WS and that Posey kid is gonna be a good player. Timmey throws one in the dirt to Vlad (who swings) and buster catches that bouncer in the centre of his mitt. He then comes out of the crouch so fast he can tag the batter before he leaves home plate.
Nice.
Meanwhile Renteria just stands at short watching. 🙂
Maybe I just don’t visit enough blogs or talk to enough people but I can’t remember one time where anyone accused Renteria of being lazy. He was hurt. All his teammates love him. Lazy? Where did that come from?
Many on the Spash did, I was referring to that. Now he’s a maggot who should be deported..
You do that a lot Craig. Suggesting I made it up. Don’t.
Ferchrissake, that’s one of the nicer things posted about him…
No, I simply said that I haven’t seen that. I go to the splash about once a month. I’ve never seen anyone here suggest or use the word “lazy” to describe renteria
The Niners bandwagon gets to wobble on! Here’s Singletary’s chance to seize the moment.
I don’t get the hub-bub about “we’re still in it”, like — if enough other teams keep losing to other teams, we’ll play the Super Bowl? The ‘Niners going beyond 16 games this year is not really “making the playoffs”. It means by circumstance, they got a 17th game tacked onto their regular season; the opportunity to go 5-12, instead of 5-11.
It’s great to see Joe Montana still playing in the NFL. He changed his name to Tom Brady.
God bless Tom Brady . . . However, I was so, so, so happy that the Patriots came up short on their record breaking consecutive win streak. I am forever grateful to the NY Giants for putting a “plug” in all those football anal(ysts) mouths regarding their falacious attempts at crowning Brady’s ass numero uno QB of all time. Only thing worse is the Denver media living in the past and doing the same with Elway.
No one that has come around yet (maybe in the future) compares with Montana and what he accomplished while with the Niners and Chiefs. That’s my opinion and I’m stickin’ to it 🙂
I recall some nasty posts about Renteria’s lack of playing time, loss of range, etc., that surely asserted he wasn’t working hard. His injuries (and his efforts to play through them, when he could) didn’t exist to such posters.
Bochy’s decision to put Uribe and Renteria on the left side of the IF for the playoffs still impresses me. I remember thinking, christ, which one will break down first? And then I watched with ever increasing respect and delight as they made play after play after play. Not to mention the key hits, of course. 😉
loss of range? Shit, that happens to every single defensive player– it’s happened to Renteria, that’s not accusing him of being lazy that’s just fucking time ticking forward. Look, I’m not saying there aren’t idiots out there who are calling the guy lazy, I just haven’t heard/read it where they actually used the word l-a-z-y
Here’s what’s strange: it was reported that Renteria’s biceps totally tore through [close to the exact phrase] before or during the NLDS, in addition to another injury he was said to have (shoulder?). It was even oddly reported that the injury aggravation somehow made him have less pain, and he played better. What I don’t understand is, why no update on this? Will there be surgery? It magically got better? I make or infer no accusations in asking this. I just want to know.
make that bicep, singular — and I imagine it was his left arm; you would think it had to be, or else how could he throw?
I believe it’s his throwing arm.
Well, a quick google search confrims your educated guess. Looks like it was the left arm.
Pawlie, when I fell off a mountain in Canada last year and had rotator cuff and bicep rupture surgery, the surgeons only did the bicep because they were already doing open surgery on my shoulder, i.e., many surgeons view it as cosmetic surgery. The bicep muscle is for show and little else. Elway won two Super Bowls AFTER it was torn and yes, his arm felt beltter after the bicep long tendon dis-attached itself from the shoulder.
Anybody else get annoyed by Chris Collinsworth’s constant use of both names of the players. It’s always Donald Driver, instead of just Driver, etc.
The thing about Renteria’s arm muscle was only reported by Fox, during the playoffs. Nobody else reported that. That’s kind of weird.
As best I remember.
Giants: Lineup shakeup for Game 3
Susan Slusser, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
“… though Renteria is also injured, with a left biceps muscle that has torn completely through. Strangely, Renteria said, the injury has felt much better since the muscle tore all the way on a swing during Game 2 of the Division Series; it bothered him more when it was merely a strain.
“It feels good,” he said. “No pain right now.”
Asked about the possibility of starting today against Philadelphia’s Cole Hamels, Renteria said, “I’m ready, I’m ready. I have to show I can still play.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/18/SP801FUARE.DTL
Susan Slusser from the Chron reported it on Oct 19
So how serious is Renteria’s injury? And is it not a legit factor in any negotiation over contracts?
I heard many KNBR references to Rent’s bicep. And I agree, weird that it hasn’t even been brought up. Was it just tendinitis or was it a partial tear?
I don’t mind CC using full names. I absolutely mind broadcasters saying “football” all the time.
BTW, if I was worried about a player recovering from a physical problem in time to play in 2011 that’s the reason I offer him the straight million. Although it’s a trip that Rent doesn’t address this ever he just wants to talk about disrespect……
They can’t be too concerned- with health issues for Sanchez, DeRosa, Pablo’s conditionng, Rent could still be the everyday SS.
They’re not deep enough or set enough in the infield to be low balling people..
Zumie—I love your takes on announcers. I like Collinsworth, but I hadn’t picked up on the full name habit—-good call.
I can’t remember anyone specifically calling Rent lazy. At the same time, I also can’t remember anyone ever noting how hard the guy plays.
Why are you questioning this? Now you’ve seen a few. I’m not going to spend an hour getting a hundred more. I’m benchmarking the graphics on the gamer.
“Edgar Renteria. I can’t believe this guy hits a home run in the World Series! Where is the justice in that? He was so fat (still is), lazy (ask anybody) and disinterested with the Tigers. My then 6 year old called him “the fat guy”..
” I won’t root for Renteria because he is a bad, lazy player who won’t lay out for balls and messes up routine plays”
“Edgar”the lazy” Renteria is a bust and can’t field his position. This guy would be playing in Japan where he would still be a mediocre player”
Does Renteria need surgery? Or doesn’t he?
REVRIT!!!