Getting in the Right Frame of Mind….
UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOWZAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
WE ARE THE CHAMPS OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!
YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSSS
))))))) TREMENDOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE DID IT ! ! !
I feel…peaceful
San Francisco
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG IAM COMPLETELY NUMB THIS TEAM IS UNBELIEVLABLE 56 YEARS OF TORTURE IS OVER.GOD I LOVE THIS TEAM!!!! And All of the FLAP NATION!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t believe we’re the World Champs having to trot out shitty lineup after shitty lineup each and every day.
And oh yeah, we did it with NO Whitey. I love this team. I love all you guys and gals.
I’m so happy for everybody.And I’m so happy for our beloved “Blockhead.”
Plain and simple; Bochy is the goddamn man.
I can die happy now. There are NO WORDS…
I’m tearing with pride like a father looking at his kids…
I’ll write about this more tomorrow, I’m sure. For now, I’m just so happy for these guys, everyone of them. We’re going to sit down to the cassoulet now, then to the bar “en parade”… my Clover is on ice… I just kissed Lisa and Zeke and Bea… Bea didfn’t like being third…
VICTORY!!!!!!!
Woo-Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG!!! We did it!!
Just downed my last Old Milwaukee and it was nice and cold! Damn World Champs! Kinda nice! Gotta get one of those Tee shirts!
What a team!!!!!!!!!!
Unreal. So happy, but don’t know how to act!!!
Thank you, Giants!
Thank you, Flappers!
Thank you, Flav!!!
So happy…..
Yes, warrior heroes in the annals of history, as Twin rightly said it. I am numb and speechless. As I said in the new thread — lovely video by Magnus — our hearts can never feel that same hunger again. Ever. Our hearts are wild with joy, and some of that wild joy will always reside within if we choose to tap it. I mean that. And thanks again, Craig, for this cathedral.
I feel vindicated, relieved, validated, whole, serene, humbled, moved, grateful. I used to think it would have to be a letdown after all these years (I’m 62 on December 18). It’s not.
I am honored to be the first (or the last) to Comment on this immortal video: a humane and warm tribute to our beloved and immortal heroes, true warriors; and to the long and sweet-tortured — and now redeemed — fierce loyalty of Black and Orange Nation. Our hearts are now bursting with wild joy — and our hearts will never again be quite empty (or hungry) quite the way they were. Ever. Again.
No coincidence that the birth of the Flap leads immediately to a World Championship!
Where were you 10 years ago Flav? Well done and I am really speechless…Go Giants!
Some golf tomorrow, some boozing and cigars heading to a wipeout on election day, life does not get any sweeter in a 48 hour period!
We’re all winners tonight.
What a season. The San Francisco Giants are World Series Champions. I am so happy.
Flav, thanks to you, and thanks to one and all here on the Flap for making this season one for the books. I’m numb, I’m completely numb at the moment. I don’t think it’s sunk in yet. Bruce Bochy just told Jaymee Sire he feels numb as well. I know how ya feel skip. I know how ya feel.
Thanks skipper, and thanks thanks to you all. I just heard Flem’s call of Rent’s HR.
He had a Peter Brady voice change moment when he said it’s “gaaaaawnnnn.” You guys gotta check it out. It’s a winner. Goddamn. We won. We really, really, won. Let’s start the parade!
Thank you too, Craig. It’s been over an hour and I’m still shaking with joy, speechless and ecstatic all at the same time. I may not sleep tonight and don’t really care. Congratulations to every one of the great Giants fans here. What a special team. Long-suffering no more: World Series champions!
sweet dreams…is this for real? is it?
I echo every word Te said.
Just watched your video. I started laughing and laughing at the pure joy of it all. Thanks for letting us all get together..
The Flap made it all the sweeter for this SoCal Giants fan..
i’m just now starting to come down. the boys and i went busting out onto the street and just howled.
bless the flappers (and the splashers).
the giants are the world series champions.
i burst into tears when i first said that (surprised the boys! heck, it surprised the shit out of me).
San Francisco Giants. World Series Champions. I’ve been waiting to say that for over 45 years. It looks and sounds even better than I ever imagined. I called my best friend since we were in second grade. Giants fans together. He saw my number on his phone. He picked up the receiver and greeted: “Fucking Giants – World Series Champpppppppsss!” Priceless…
I can’t even begin to know how the players must feel–I know I am emotionally and physically exhausted.
Since I can’t verbalize it to them, I will say it here before my friends in Giants-dom: Dad, Grandpa, they won! They won!
The World Champion San Francisco Giants.
I’m still trying to absorb that. That’s going to take some time to sink in.
Woke up this morning on the North East coast of North Carolina and the SF Giants were still the World Champions. Went back and watched the highlights and started tearing up all over again.
Thank you Flav, thank you Flappers and most of all, thank you the 2010 World Champion San Francisco GIANTS.
Like I’m sure many of you did, I had to check the interwebs again when I woke up this morning to make sure this wasn’t some cruel, sick joke. It’s not! The San Francisco Giants are World Series Champions! Getting teary eyed again just typing this.
These men will be heroes in SF for as long as they live- and beyond…
Nice, Flav, nice.
Oh…
best…child-bearing…bb…ever
Is that yellow thing across her hips part of the bikini, or is she measuring something?…
Damn Flav . . . You just reminded me that no one can ever take away the “basking” feeling I had after our Giants won the World Series. How sweet it is being World Series Champions 🙂
Gettin all goose bumpy again. Or maybe that’s just cuz I’m cold. Shall we do it again?
On the Fangraphs site they did an analysis of all teams, and I read through the NL west ones. The comments after were so much more interesting, esp ObsessCompulse who shredded. One of the comments came from a guy who said he wasn’t an SF fan, but after all the abuse the org has gotten, when the team defied everyone’s predictions last season and their fans could tell everyone else to stick it, it was pretty cool. My sentiments exactly, to all those Boston/NY/Philly front runners who are still convinced their teams are better.
Sf will always have this and fans can enjoy being the defending World series champs til someone takes it away.
Fangraphs focuses on Huff and while I agree that he won’t repeat his 2010, he shouldn’t have to. Others are here to pick him up, this will be a better offensive team than last year.
Need this, after the late-spring-training tailspin that must be corrected. Pronto prego tout de suite ensemble mach snell.
It’s been an enjoyable off-season ride being the champions. And now it’ll be really cool being the defending champions all throughout the season. Love seeing all those Giants fans in visiting ballparks. And dare I say it- we’re hearing more and more broadcasters refer to “Giants nation.”
It’ll mean big crowds wherever the Giants play. Every team will be promoting their series against the Giants big-time.
I’m going to be in LA for the second game, and later in the summer already have tix for a game at Wrigley. Not *quite* up there with the WS win is the very nice feeling that going into this season we can be confident that this team is set to go to the playoffs. I want something like the Montana/Young Niners again.
Dennis: Sometimes when you wish for something, you get more than you asked for. I know you’ve tried to switch this losing shit around, but did you just possibly forget to shut off a small tap, or maybe omit a backup system? Cause Madison’s Meltdown yesterday was hardly a trickle ~ more like a deluge, a veritable Fukujima on the mound.
Bumgarner did remark after the game that his pitches were starting to go flat on him after the first three innings, particularly. I’ll tag that on the desert air. Sometimes it does funny things to a guy’s movement. Let’s hope that’s the case. After his W.S. performance and with those lugubrious looks, he earned him the title of THE UNDERTAKER. We could be looking at a little spell of sophomore jinx, but this kid is waaay too cool, calm and collected for something like that to drag on a bunch.
So if MB doesn’t get it all back together toute de suite, maybe the rotation will need some vintage offerings from Zito. Watch for Timmy to start getting it back together this afternoon. That happens and everything starts clicking again. Remember early September and the way the Champs sprang back while the Dagos frittered away? The Freak set the tone.
A return to the cool, moist Bayside air should also provide a needed tonic.
I would think so, Stix. Bum was lights-out the first 3 innings. Had great stuff. Had a great breaking pitch that the Royals couldn’t do anything with. They looked real off-balance. Then he seemed to stop throwing it or something. Maybe he was trying to work on a different pitch.
But whatever- in a real game, Bochy wouldn’t have left him out there that long to take a pounding like that. You don’t see that sort of thing in a real game.
It’s getting to be a little too much isn’t it? Try as I might, my magical wishing powers only seem to work for losses, not wins. Maybe I went a little overboard busting out the voodoo doll. I’ll take out the pins.
Plus, was there a NO Whitey effect? How often has Bum ever thrown to NO Whitey in a game? Probably pretty rarely.
Eli had a couple of hits, though. He’s gonna be a 2011 Giant, folks, like it or not!
So Latos has a sore shoulder. Boo fucking hoo. Go get another tattoo, idiot…..
Dennis, I told you not to complain about wins, I said never complain about wins even in ST.
BF, those posts are the reason I am here. Build it and they will come. I don’t know if that is the right saying but that is what you did. You built this blog and we all came here to talk baseball
Great Job BF!!
The one good thing about Alex Smith — I never had to complain about winning too much.
LOL, Dennis, Dennis, are you mentally prepared to accept Alex if he starts for the Niners??
Not concerned much with the losing streak. The veterans have been ready to break camp for over a week. Three and four years ago, losing 5 or 6 in a row in ST might actually have been a portent of the crap seasons to come. Not now. The fact that the Wilson and Ross injuries are more inconveniences now than short term devastation they would have wrought then speaks to the much broader level of quality across the top 30 of the 40 man than before…
Thanks Flav, very nice to see all those again.
A FB friend of my wife posted something about Boston winning it all this year. She replied “you’re going to have to go through SF, so don’t order those rings just yet”. It actually shut him up (or maybe he unfriended her, whatever). I Loved it.
Me, too, loved the ‘finally’ feeling, loved the WS win, my team,WOW. Still feeling that way.
2011 looks promising and I am going to watch this team play its ever loving SF heart(s) out. Go Giants!
I know they do it for the
moneylove, but I hope no one on the team gets over wrought about the Bay Bridge (BB) series and keeps their minds mellow and their eyes on the prize. Like Blockhead said: the first month of the season is an uphill trot and it is so very important to get off on the right hoof.Per Schulman — Bochy says Burrell definitely starting in LF to start season…
as he should be.
Well, of course he should. His status depended to a large degree on Belt. Now with Ross out, it’s a total no brainer.
Ishikawa’s status, at least in terms of making the team, depending on what they did with Belt. And Rowand is going nowhere now…..
Ted, strictly speaking, may I gingerly (spicily) add, regarding your POTD, the verb should be “is.” But, as Bill Clinton noted, what is “is”? (How many of these BBs know Mr. Bill personally?)
You is correct
The nice thing is, if Ishi starts at 1B, he’ll bat close to .300 for April.
So there.
(I need to make these declarations as a counterweight to my genetic doomerishness.)
I have Drew Stubbs on my fantasy team. Do I get any pts. for him making a PO in a ST game?
Pablo just missed that one.
That was pretty spiffy play made right there by the Panda. I’m expecting him to truly “revert to form” and hit north of .300
Freddie Funk with the HR!
Andres with the almost-HR triple!
I know it’s only ST, but goddamn this don’t look too good. SP is getting roped. Timmeh gives up a 3-run jack to fucking Freddie Lew. Who, might not even make the Reds roster. Then with a stoopid balk. Torres with an even stoopider assumption that he hit a homer and walks into an out.
I just wanted for us to lose a few games. I didn’t ask to turn into the Bad News Bears.
I think Timmy Lupus is now playing CF.
The Giants need to sign Kelly Leak
Es un bandido
If you get a chance read today’s NY Times MLB predictions article . . . Loved this part about Romo . . .
“Even if Wilson is down, the Giants will still have a right-handed reliever with a bushy black beard: Sergio Romo, the setup man, who still sounds awed that he plays for the World Series champions.
“I don’t know how I weaseled my way onto this team,” Romo said. “I believe I worked hard enough and deserve an opportunity to be part of the major league fraternity. But to be a part of a team like this — holy cow, it’s a dream.””
Romo captures the humility, innocence, and enthusiasm of the entire team. Damn, am I proud to be a Giants fan!
Perfect
Romo utterly cherishes and oozes gratitude that he is on the Giants. He says — with great emotion — that the turning point was when he gave up that HR to Hinske against ATL in the postseason. His teammates did not berate him, they held him up. He was one of ’em. It meant — and means — everything to him. Go, Romo!
Against my better judgement, I just popped over to the Splash. And, man, am I glad I did. Some clown, dubbed idjit and BongoBrain by a character named jackcrabby, wrote the absolute funniest fucking post ever to grace SFGate. We’ve all typed LOL at one time or another. I literally *did* LOL
Flav, nice start to the thread.
I’m not worried about the club’s performance of late. Come opening day it all resets to zero. Totally ready for the season to kick off. ST is too long.
Bases loaded
Nice
Safe? Wow
I think Engelberg is now catching for the Reds. Quick, give ’em a candy bar before he passes out.
ha ha ha
Pill at first base? I need to keep up
Vogelsong is getting the start over Soup in our SS game later tonight vs the Tribe. Unless Ryan implodes, I think he gets the final spot. Now, if BW opens on the DL that could open up a spot for Kroon. But something tells me Mota will get the nod instead. Nice 1-2-3 inning there can’t hurt his chances.
re-reading it was like re-living it. what a ride. thanks oh flavorish one.
Hey, Magnus Flavoris, I forgot to mention this in my two mentally ill phone calls: your name, Magnus [at least in my psychotic universe], is also the name of a 20-year-old chess wizard from Norway, Magnus Carlsen. Great article on him in The New Yorker. I didn’t realize this, but the chess world is all computer-driven in its thinking and prep — but not w/ this kid. Just plays it as it lays. Sort of the Timmy of chess. Magnus is also the first name of Magnus Pym, one of my favorite literary characters (“A Perfect Spy,” John Le Carre).
Back to baseball. It’s not on here, but we were winning, last I looked online, 9-6.
Years ago, when I was in Australia for a coupla months, I kept meeting Swedish dudes named Magnus. Always in pubs, of course, didn’t matter where. Sydney, Adelaide, Cairns, Brisbane, wherever. Always a Magnus, and usually with a coupla other Swedish dudes. They always got roaring pissed (drunk in Aussie), with Magnus leading the charge. Beer is cheaper in Australia…
Why does Affeldt’s line have no innings, hits, walks, strikeouts, runs, or anything? He didn’t throw one pitch and get hurt, did he?
ah, now it’s showing 1 inning, 1 H,1 K for him; nifty 0.87 ERA
I know this is juvenile and ever-so-slightly volatile, but, hey, I am really glad we won this; it feels like a big win to me. Fans have to get ready for the season too!
Man did we light up Chapman, or what? I guess our guys were unimpressed with his 104mph fastballs. Pawlie, got your two *mentally ill* phone messages. As much as I enjoy talking with you, I think I like your vm’s better. Without fail, there is always a story about some interaction with another GIants fan or another team’s fan. It usually starts off because of a hat you or someone else is wearing. That leads to about a 3 minute message that never really, TOTALLY, has a point to it but it’s still a good listen. Thanks.
In truth, you’re right, Magnus. I’d be boring if I weren’t leaving a VM. Performance art. Self-indulgence. Mental-oral-aural-hygiene-hijinks.
I think my wife and daughter would watch NCIS reruns 17 hours a day. What can I say?
Play ball! Or as umps say, “PLAYBAW!”
I really do enjoy them. I just can’t usually take the call. Either I don’t have my ph with me or I’m busy (today we were at basketball practice). But if you call me when I’m in the car? That’s all good……
I see Roger Kieschnick is geting a start in the other game. He struggled at Richmond after a big year in San Jose, perhaps due to a back injury that ended his season in early July. He was a pretty good prospect.
Another SP meltdown in the desert. This time Timmy had one of his most horrid lines ever, with him giving up a pair of HRs and 6 runs on eleven hits over five innings. Personally, i still think its the desert air. On a far more favorable note, the 4 relievers gave up a single tally over four. Bullpen depth at both SF and ladder levels looks excellent. If Wilson is out for a short stint, so be it.
Torres is torrid once again, going 3-4, including a pair of doubles, scoring a run and driving in four. Remember, last season, he probably would have copped the doubles crown with sufficient playing time. Doubles can be devastating in a rally situation. He showed that today. Franchez, Tejada and DeRosa all had good days at the plate. Buster drew three walks.
Dennis, you’re off the hook at last. Nice to see that big W, coming with that six run rally. Looks like the offense may be over their funk and ready to heat up in time for the season. Still thinking the Rotation’s recent problems are mostly due to those funky desert climate conditions. This team looks close to ready now. Bout time.
As for the enemy: Kershaw 10 up, 10 down, Uribe HR and 4 RBI vs. the Pads.
Enough of spring training, which I’ll bet the players were getting bored with as early as last week. Bring on the Bums!
And today’s thread: Thank you, Flav. When I get home, I’m gonna drink in every glorious word of it while slowly nursing a brewski.
Almost positive that all of you who live in the bay area have seen these Giants TV commercials for the upcoming season. So, for those of you who moved away (Paul in Asia, Dirt, myself, etc.) or vice versa, where the Giants have moved away (Pawlie . . . grin), these are for you. Quite funny and also includes a short documentary of the making of the commercials . . .
Blade, those were great fun! Thanks.
I can’t resist this: On a few of them, the text on-screen says, “Once you’ve been there, we’re part of you,” but Bochy (I think he’s on the voiceover) says, “Once you’ve been there, we’re *a* part of you.” The voiceover has the natural “a.” As an editor, such inconsistencies bug me, a lot. Of course, no one will spend the money to correct them. Interestingly, it’s just like our recent “Cool Hand Luke” discussion here, except in this case the “a” really is spoken.
Glad to oblige Pawlie . . . My cuz is a baseball fanatic (actually, all sports) and sent me that link. He lives near Troy Tulowitski’s dad and is always getting loads of swag, including game tickets, from him. He also has KNBR on speed dial and probably is the 1st or 2nd person to call the radio station whenever they are giving away free stuff such as game tickets.* Consequently, whenever I visit family there, he usually has free Giants memorabilia for me, as well as 2-3 games he takes me too.
*Yeah, yeah, yeah, he knows it’s against the law to use his cell phone while driving in CA.
Needless to say, I’m sure yer down with the Neil Armstrong controversy.
Those are pretty funny
RF Torres
2B Sanchez
1B Huff
C Posey
LF Burrell
3B Sandoval
SS Tejada
CF Rowand
P Lincecum
I didn’t know they stacked shit that high.
Been hitting the books, and haven’t been on this week. What a pick me up Craig. Maybe you can put up the video again before the season starts..
…”What just happened?”….
My big grin is back, just like before. May have to play the last out again. Works whenever I get tired!
Did Mr. Brandon “I’m Not Marlon” Belt just earn himself a job?
If true Pawlie, Tizzle from the Flap League was clearly clairvoyant in selecting him from the waiver wire heap. I think his ranking was over one thousand due to the expectation that he would start the season in the minors.
Ronnie Ray pitching?? Reminds me of Chris Ray, who helped a lot for a spell last year and then slipped through the cracks. Hope they gave him a ring.
Blade, thanks for thinkin’ of us expats! Still always *a* part of or just plain part of Giants nation. Actually, Giants planet is more like it. I remember someone interviewing Buster after another post-season win, maybe against Philly, and the interviewer asked him about playing in such pressure situations, and was the pressure too much, and Buster said something like, “Um, actually, this is a lot of fun..” So the most real moment for me in all of those commercials was Buster simply sayin’, “This is fun. We should do this again.” Good idea, Buster. BF, your reposting of all of those original posts seems to have re-injected the fun and the bask into the Flap again. People commenting on a late spring training game as if it was the rubber match of a 3-game series against the Dogs in August. Nice. Yes, ST is almost over, the Flappers are ready!
Paulinasia, I can relate, i.e., when I was in the Air Force overseas, it was even worse . . . No internet, no smart phones, no satellite television. Only the frickin’ Stars and Stripes newspaper, which only carried box scores . . . a couple of days late (if I recall correctly).
Might as well have been sending smoke signals, carrier pidgeons, or floating a message in a bottle. Ha.
Blade, hard to imagine living on the other side of the world and not having that kind of connection. I love YouTube. The other night I came home from being out in the Saigon night, caught up on the Flap, clicked on the link to a Giants video that Kevin had posted, and it sent me down the path of looking at about a half-dozen YouTube videos about the Giants. A shot or two of homemade rice wine and 6 videos later, I had both a smile on my face and a tear in my eye. Basking continues.
Yes, “basking continues.” Related to that, something you wrote in your 8:51pm post is quite appropriate, “BF, your reposting of all of those original posts seems to have re-injected the fun and the bask into the Flap again. People commenting on a late spring training game as if it was the rubber match of a 3-game series against the Dogs in August. Nice. Yes, ST is almost over, the Flappers are ready!”
Agree Paul . . . I absolutely have no problem with BB evaluation, Cool Hand Luke quotations, March Madness brackets, and Ursula undre . . . Uhh, Andress attributes. But frankly, I am ready for the baseball season to start.
Again, as you said, “Yes, ST is almost over, the Flappers are ready!”
Good night all.
Nice to get the win against Cincy, and to see the offense come alive.
The interview with Posey gave the definite impression the players are rarin’ to get out of Arizona, and get to the real season.
And it struck me- yeah, it’s got to be hard for a lot of the real squad to get enthusiasm for these ST games, playing in front of 12,000 people, which is a lot for a ST game, but compared to winning the World Series in front of frenetic crowds of 40,000-50,000 people, is just no comparison. Heck, they don’t even have to stay for the whole ST game! Once, they’re out of the game, they can leave!
Belt has an HR and a single in the other game. Greenwald on the internet radio does a good job. He grows on you. He’s definitely going to be a regular MLB broadcaster at some point. He’s good enough. The Giants are pretty set though. Not sure when a spot would open up.
Question Zum – Is this Hank Greenwald’s son, Doug, that you are referencing? If so, I had no idea he was doing the Giants broadcasts . . . I thought he was doing Fresno Grizzlies broadcasts.
Use to love to listen to his dad broadcast games. Droll, wry sense of humor and easy going style. Great broadcaster.
Giants could end up sending down a group of relievers who could make up the entire pen on some clubs…
The kid who just replaced Rowand ( Jarrett Parker) has never had a pro at bat.Was a second round pick last year.
So true about a few relievers who won’t open with the parent club; great depth, and not just in the bullpen. Bochy et al proved so well last year how good they are at mixing and matching, plugging someone in at any given time when needed. The injuries to Wilson, Ross, etc. (unless any of them turn out to be super serious, which doesn’t seem to be the case) don’t bother me one bit; in fact, they actually make things more exciting. This is really the first team I can ever remember rooting for that the phrase “no problem” enters my mind when there’s an injury to a “starter.” We’ve got a lot of starters on this team, and the players all seem to think like that too. Throw in the element of fun that they seem to share, and this is potentially a great team, and certainly at the very least fun to watch.
Losing Posey is no problem? Huff or Torres? Even the depth at SS is questionable.
Blade, you are correct that he’s Hank Greenwald’s son and he does the Grizzlies games. He’s just doing ST games for the Giants, on MLB.com audio.