Voting on the Posts of the Day, Round 2
If you look to the right you’ll see a widget that says “This Week’s Posts of the Day”– review the entries carefully, there are six to choose from.
#1 is from Loo, one of the favorites to win the Safeway Card.
#2 is from Macdog, my main man on the scene in Philly
#3 is from Zumie–normally one of our most level headed bloggers, showing up here with a bit of an edge
#4 is a tandem post from Denny and Ted
#5 Ted strengthened his shot at winning this week with yet another entry
#6 is from Ferrethead. This one was actually from our Fantasy Baseball Message Board but the venomous potty mouth usually unseen from such a lady was impossible for me to ignore, so I posted it here.
So there ya go, 6 entries this week. I’ll probably close the voting tomorrow am. Blogger with the most total POT-week’s at the end of the season wins the coveted Safeway Card……
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Being a history buff, I have to give 3 a slight edge over Ferrethead’s ‘loving’ retort.
Do you have an aversion to posts about baseball?
Me? Eh, it’s a slow Spring. Wanna talk about Belt for the thousandth time? You guys hardly need my main thread to get the ball rolling on a topic, throw one out there, it will certainly be run into the ground by the end of the day….
Loo’s last non-post got ZERO votes, and you throw out the sequel? Get a room..
the sequel was gold, I don’t think you got how funny that was
Sabes continues to talk up Belt’s chances to stick, start and bat 7th in the LU, doing well vs. front line pitchers. “With each day that he holds his own or excels, it turns your head.”
Henry says little or no interest in other teams for Rowand or Travis….
What do you think? Belt in or out?
Flav, west coast holding its own so far, only loser being Utah St, with 4 Ws from WCC, MWest and Pac10. See how UW and Zona hold up to scrutiny. Hampton Pirates out of the MEAC (same conference that gave Niners John Taylor and Dwaine Board) have won before as 15 seed, but probably too much to hope for as 16. Man that would be cool tho! duck fuke!
No surprise there’s little interest in Rohand. Even if the Gyros take back 80% of his contract, he still sucks if he’s on your squad. Any GM can pay the league minimum to a career AAAAer and get similar production. As for Ishi, to me he has more value. He should be gone before the summer’s done, maybe at the end of ST, depends on Belt’s whereabouts. As the year plods along and teams get OF injuries, there may be more interest in the Gamer, at a hugely discounted rate, of course…
How about this rotation? Not much has been said about Sanchez and Bumgarner.
Sure looks like they are physically and mentally ready to take it up another notch. And Lincecum has come into camp stronger and seemingly determined to avoid any falloff from the postseason.
Gammons wrote a good piece the other day at MLB and threw out some incredible numbers. Throw out Lincecum’s August and add his postseason numbers and he was something like 20-6 with a 2.?? ERA.
Meanwhile, Philly now has Utley’s knee pain to worry about.
For me the Giants are doing very well, so what is there to complain or talk about, even over on The Bleacher Report, most are very positive about the Giants. for me it has been a Boring ST. other than Cain’s elbow which IMO was a non issue, there does not seem to be much negative reporting. Oh I don’t count the negativity over on the Splash as good reporting.
A source close to the team confirmed today that Charlie Sheen offered to sing the National Anthem at AT&T Park April 30, while Sheen is in San Francisco on his “Torpedo of Truth!” tour. The Giants explained to Sheen that the team will be on the east coast that weekend. Nonetheless, Sheen says that he intends to press the team for an agreement. “No defeat!” he tweeted.
Funny
Plenty to chew on from Schulman.
Flavoro is edgy about his Belt call. There’s plenty of baseball to discuss, as always. The last two posts from Willie and Trade beat any of the POTW nominees.
Throw out Liincecum’s August? He hasn’t. He learned more that month than he ever imagined possible. The guy will never quit. On the other hand, throw out Zito and you have the best RLRL 4 in baseball. Rowand, Ishi and Nate don’t bother me. The fact that they pose any issue at all is a great sign. No Whitey is annoying, but not a problem. So that brings us to Zito. wtf do you do with fucking Zito?
Give him a shiny object and leave him in the dugout
“so what is there to complain or talk about…”
Is that what one looks for first? Is that the real attraction here? Was it more interesting and fun in the days when they struggled to go 72-90?
Bochy will do what he’s been doing: (1) have a lightning quick hook before the roof caves in, and (2) even if he’s doing fairly well, get the Pen oiled up and ready for when he’s at about 75-80 pitches…
The Splash was fun 4 years ago . . .
Gold, Chuckerino, pure gold…
Loo’s timing is impeccable. You can’t teach it to those who don’t have it.
I just think it is really easy to bask in the glow, and forget how hard it was for SF to get there. It was a tremendous 6 month struggle to the last day to get in. How much energy was spent here bemoaning lack of OBP, RISP hitting, abscence of speed, all the GIDPs and how much torture to score runs the regular season brought? Not to mention daily drama of Wilson? Can torres stay healthy and get on base? Continued quality ABs from Huff and Burrell?
I am hardly sold on tejada or f sanchez. Ross had a very mediocre regular season for the second year in a row. Lince was hardly the only guy who struggled in august…if it can happen to as good a staff as SF has, it could happen again, esp w/Zito going every week.
I’m not down on this team at all, but I don’t think it is right to go all in on two weeks of great baseball and ignore of 6 months that went before it, and to know that everyone is gunning for SF this year and would like nothing better than to take down World series champs. Any projections on how many runs SF needs to score to pick up how many wins this season? How many is it going to take to win division over rox?
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The Rockies are not the main competition, the Dodgers are.
“Ross had a very mediocre regular season for the second year in a row” Really? In 2009 he was .270 24 HR 90 RBI. That’s the kind of mediocre they’ve wanted in RF for years…
The Giants are clearly the best team in the division. Tbe LU as configured now is a 100 win team.
I feel 100 wins is a horse with legs, I have to check to see if my heart is reaching
The joke with the suggestion of having a sarcasm font…someone really needs to come up with one!!!
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As in this place is fun and exciting
unequivocally…best…bb…ever
Wonderful timing ted
POTW is on the Splash right now.
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Juan_More_Time
9:24 AM on March 18, 2011
Uh, where’s the link to retrosheet?
The retrosheet was fun and exciting 3-4 years ago.
The letter, Ted.
Oh….never mind
When the hell is our fantasy baseball draft?
If you say it happened 3-4 years ago and it was fun and exciting I’ll sock ya one.
Sock away!!
Willied, the team was MUCH different from the start of the season to the end. Even with the run-scoring struggles down the stretch, they played a hell of a lot better overall in September than they did in April.
The mid-season acquisitions, the exit of Bowker and Rowand from the starting lineup, the emergence of Torres and Posey, the pen additions, on and on. All through the lineup, the team is a lot better than they were a year ago.
Therefore, it would make sense to think that they keep it going. Is it a guarantee? No. But what is?
There’s always taxes . . .
Dear Martin,
Regarding my first major league game, it was during july or august in the year of 1927. One of the local summer schools (probably P.S. 182) offered to take anyone 12 years old or older to Yankee Stadium. We had to show a note of permission from our parent and have fifteen cents with us. Ten cents for subway fare and a nickle for a bag of peanuts (to be purchased outside of the stadium as it would cost a dime in the stadium). We met at the Van Sicklyn Ave. station of the I.R.T. at mid morning of the day of the game. Games at that time started at 2 PM. We arrived at noon that day and were admitted to the right field bleacher seats. These were benches but to us it was 7th heaven as down on the field was our (MY) hero, Babe Ruth.
The Yankees were playing Boston, at that time they were the weakest team in the league. I recall that Ruth was in right, Earl Combs in center, Bob Musel in left, Lou Gerhig at first, Tony Lazzeri at 2nd, Marc Koenig at Short Joe Dugan at 3rd and pitching may have been Pipgras or Pennock. Catcher I can’t recall, but may have been Benny Bengough. Manager was Miller Huggins. Ruth hit a home run, Lazzeri hit two, Gerhig hit one or two and I thing Earl Combs hit one. The Yankees won by the score of 11 or 14 to two.
I went again the following year (1928) and again in 1930. I think it was late in August or early in September and the Yankees were a half game behind the Cleveland Indians. T hey were playing a doubleheader that day and Bobby Feller was to pitch for the Indians in one of the games. Attendance was announced as 72,000. The gates were shut by 12:30. The aisles were supposed to be cleared butit was impossible to move. Buying a hot dog was a miracle and going to the mens room was impossible. I left after the lst inning of the second game so i could get to the station(IRT) and relieve myself. The yankees won both games and were never headed that season. After that I teamed up with my friend Sonny Warshaw, whose uncle was the leading sportswriter for The World Telegram)Dan Daniels) He gave Sonny a season pass to Ebbets Field every year and when Sonny went to summer camp each July & August He was have me act as his agent to sell the pass for 25 cents weekday dames and 35 cents on weekends. If not sold, I could use it free of charge. Then i had to talk my mother out of a quarter and i saw many many games with the ROBINS, as they were called then. They became Dodgers when the manager (Robinson) retired. They had many many trolley lines converging near Ebets Field, and you had to dodge the many trolleys to get to the entrance.
Dad
BTW, Mets just released Luis Castillo, thereby eating $6.25 million for this last year of his deal. The Dbacks ate $22 million when they canned Russ Ortiz. Rohand is at least as bad a value as these dudes. If Sabes can find somebody to take him and only pay $20million for the favor, he should pull the trigger yesterday. The money is already gone and accounted for, and with a WS win in the bank, just move on…
Unless Ford Forces the deal, and heads north with the team, Rowand is here.
For little while.
Shit, Belt, Not Ford . . .
Dirrty struck out 5 last night in six frames. More importantly, walked only one. Sure, he was facing the Angels’ B team, but you can be wild against anybody. Maybe he’s finally getting his S together. If he can curb the walks even 25% or so this year, with his stuff and hits against metrics, he can go deeper into games and could be a 15 win pitcher. And, it would help save the Pen for the Zito games…
I don’t know the answer to this, and can’t find it. Maybe somebody here knows. If the Giants bit the huge bullet and just released the Gamer, would that accelerate payment on his contract — would it ALL be due and payable upon release? Forget whether he might be picked up by somebody else, that’s chicken feed on the pro rated minimum. My thinking is they would just pay him on a regular contract schedule over the next two years, as if he were still on the roster. To me it would be insane for an acceleration provision to apply, but with baseball contracts and the MLBPA at work, I wouldn’t be shocked. Anybody?…
no clue. I also wonder about the pay schedule for all professional athletes. Do they just get paid during the time they work or is it an every 2 wee or monthly thing throughout the year?
During the 162 game season, not the whole year. That’s some BIGass Zito checks…
Based on his $18.5M salary cued up for this year, every two weeks during the April-September regular season, the Giants will cut a check to Zito for $711,500 (pre tax). My Excel program started smoking, so I quit any further drill down…
Don’t forget the per diem for road games . . .
haha, that is fucking AWESOMELY sickening! thanks!
I thought they got paid weekly. I know the NFL guys do.
I have seen anecdotally in multiple blogs that MLB players typically get paid every two weeks. And it is definitely only during the reg season. Bonuses based on seasonal milestones obviously get paid after the season is done. Could an individual MLB player(s) get paid weekly, like in the NFL? I suppose so, but the NFL thing works well because there are only 16 games in a season. I haven’t seen anything about whether there is a common MLB player payment method set in stone for all contracts under the baseball CBA, so there probably is none. Whenever I Google practical info like this in sports, particularly MLB, just for shits and giggles, there is often a lack of any good, consistent info out there on it. That’s why I wondered about the acceleration of Rohand’s contract if he got DFA’d. If the answer was yes, acceleration, then there’s no way in hell he gets cut. This kinda stuff is where Schulman and Baggarly need to step up, just like the perennial “options” questions. I’ll ask Baggs in his blog, maybe he would respond…
The only reason I said weekly is when these guys weren’t making the coin they are now, they’d NEED the money weekly. Everyone got paid on Friday.
Of course, there’s always the other way of looking at Zito’s salary- $500,000 per start.
And, of course, the kicker is- you’re feeling truly really fortunate if you get SEVEN innings out of him in a game.
$100,000 per shitty inning?
Why that’s almost Charlie Sheen money!!!
WINNING!!!
Figure 20 pitches an inning, and that’s $5,000.00 per pitch.
Ah, there’s always Zito and Rowand to complain about. They’re our “go to” guys when it’s quiet around here.
The Braves looked really good yesterday. They’re definitely for real, but we all knew that anyway. Their big question is everyone else’s big question- avoiding big injuries. Chipper’s always a concern these days, given his age; but they were really bit with the injury bug last season with a lot of players. The Phillies should be a little nervous about that Braves team.
Unless things change in the next two weeks, I’m going to pick the Braves to take the East. Utley’s out, he could be down for quite a whiile, and Howard’s not getting any better. Heyward should be better, and the Braves have a dang good Pen. I’m not convinced the Philly offense is very good, and the rotation of the century hype is just that…
Uribe, .222 for the Dodgers so far, no HRs. It could get really ugly for him in L.A. this season.
At least he’ll have company
Actually, Uribe down to .214 now, with two strike outs today.
I notice the Dodgers have him batting 6th today. They’re realizing that’s about as high as you want to go with him in the lineup. At the beginning of ST they were batting him in the two-hole. No way that was going to work. I don’t know what they were thinking.
neck and neck on POTW!
It’s kind of funny how when the Giants are playing the Dodgers in ST, the Dodgers get to face Suppan, Vogelsong, Runzler….the Dodgers get no free looks at the real starting pitchers. Good strategy.
I don’t think Suppan and Vogelsong are thrilling the Giants’ brass today.
If people are going to be nominating stuff from other blogs, this one from the Splash today is pretty funny:
“When you look up terrible in the dictionary you’ll see a picture of Jamarcus Russell—if you look closely you can see he’s holding the team photo of the 2011 Dodgers.”
If people are going to be nominating stuff from other blogs, this one from Percy Dovetonsils’s Geranium World is pretty enlightening:
“A late-May planting will be more satisfactory as the plants will establish better. Plant geraniums where they will receive sunlight for best flower production. Geraniums will grow in partial shade, but flowering is reduced even though foliage is produced.”
Percy Dovetonsils’s Geranium World was much more fun 3-4 years ago . . .
…and exciting
Ernie Kovacs riffs! Can the Nairobi Trio be far behind (not a reference to BB)?
Substituting a healthy DeRosa for one year as the uber-utility guy instead of Uribe with a 3 year deal is looking good so far…
Will Belt break camp with the club, Is Rowand a constipated waste of a roster spot, is Zito getting enough time with his pink pillows?
Whatever. Outside of SS I’ve really only got one concern. How many games will Senjor Miller be calling this year.
Maybe. Yes. No. Barring vocal cord injury, all of them…
This just in.
KNBR has reportedly hired Byrnes to do the 7-10 Sportsphone gig and the Giants post-game. No big surprise. He’s sure to continue the pea-brained, adolescent level of dialogue and unabashed suckage of Giants management lovingly carried on by his pseudo frat buddy FP Santangeroid …
I’m a sucker for this stuff: Giants’ website has a pleasing (baskingly pleasing) 3 min 21 sec video of the WS trophy in NYC with Willie. I love how Say Hey, going blind, tells Harold Reynolds to give the kid who did not get a ball a C note, even though it is “inappropriate.”
I’m a Mays fan, for sure. But, Willie’s been known over the years for being more than a bit prickly when the cameras stop rolling, sometimes when they’re still on. The times Willie told a kid or adult to get lost would probably extend the video a coupla hours…
Who gives a shit, Willie Mays can act however he wants to act (legally). And where’s your proof that he’s prickly, I’ve never heard that. Of course, I don’t follow him much other than to say, “Oh, there’s Willie Mays”. I started a new thread to still keep the blog baseball related……..
You’ve never heard that Wille is prickly? And that’s a mild description. I’m not going to scrounge the Google for it. You can. That’s been out there for dogs years…
Snarkk,
Takes one to know one. Yes, people have been “prickly” in this space, including you. Has Mays been starchy or stand-offish or defensive to the public? I guess so. I have a small sample of personal experience: I met him twice, once when he was grand marshal of a parade, another time at a book signing. In both cases, he was propped up as a prop and I felt sad for him. He was “born to play ball,” to use a title of one of his early biographies — not be a spokesman or an advocate or a leader of a cause. And last year’s very readable biography by James S. Hirsch explores some of this. I recommend it. Me, I’ll give him a pass. I don’t really know the man and prefer to see him for what he is and for what he was: elan. Pure joy of baseball. And the bit about him playing stickball with kids in Harlem is all real, well before the Media Age. And he lived close enough to walk to work. Name five athletes around the planet who’d do that today, prickly or not. And Clemente was known as prickly too. Don’t get me started on that….
Pawlie, I live in the real world, like you and everybody else. I’ve been a Giant fan and followed them since the 60s. Willie has had stories circulating out there on his personality over the years that could characterize him as not especially friendly on occasion, including to kids. So, he’s not the world’s best human, neither am I. I’m just pointing out that for the nice gesture you reported, there are other incidents that put him in a different light. He is a fairly complex personality, maybe because he was never really accepted by SF fans as their guy, since he was from NY. I didn’t know, but it does not surprise me that you report Clemente may have been similar in some ways….
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yeah, I;m weird 🙂