Seven Guys Who are Pissing Me Off…..
Screw *basking*. Screw it all to Hell. I’m pissed off at this team right now. PISSED OFF. In the past I’d just go fire down a few Pliny’s to kill the pain. He’s an elder, he knows more than me. But tonight I choose to vent my pissed off-ness via the blog world. My blog. My words…..
My List of Seven Idiot Giant Players Who are PISSING ME OFF.
In descending order of anger…….
Freddy Sanchez: He’s hitting ok but his throws are smoking pole and that at bat in the 9th today was pathetic. Down 3-0, needing base runners, he’s leading off. First pitch comes and he LUNGES for it and rolls in to the infield. Stupid. Take some pitches, work a count and god forbid you actually take a walk.
Brain Wilson: I know he’s been hurt (twice) and he’s starting to get it together. But the stupid ass George Lopez appearance started pissing me off, that 33.00 ERA fueled it and the current 7.71 is, still………..pissing me off.
Buster Posey: He’s been hitting like shit lately. In fact, hardly *lately*—for quite some time now. Piss off.
Aubry Huff: a lone extra base hit in his last 8 games— ABSOLUTELY pissing me off. Plus, when he’s not hitting his first name pisses me off.
Dan Runzler: too good of stuff to be walkin’ the earth with a 6.55 ERA. Tighten up your game, dude. He’s not really pissing me off but his at bat last year when he dislocated his knee–that pissed me off. Learn how to hit, you’re in the National League…..
Cody Ross: His OPS before today’s game was .415. Four…..Fucking….Fifteen. I knew he wouldn’t repeat his 2 month run from the end of last year but I didn’t think he’d be pissing me off this early in the season. But he’s somehow accomplishing that feat…..
Miquel Tejada: Where to start? Of the 7 guys pissing me off the most, this dude is leading the pack. Bad defense. Can’t hit. Can’t fucking stop pissing me off…….
Ok. That’s better. Time to take a deep breath and relax. Maybe fire down a Pliny. Do my nightly *bask* for a minute or two. And then tomorrow it’s time to stop sucking dick and pissing me off (a perfect and direct correlation, I might add) and beat the shit out of a team that World Champions handle in their sleep……..
I’d call them “The Magnificent Seven” but that’s a little underwhelming. The Shit Seven. That’ll work………
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Last night at the Rose & Crown, Pliny the Elder spoke to me for the first time. But Catullus 27 came to mind:
Listen kid, go bring us something
decent to drink, you heard the lady,
she’s smashed as a grape and wants
good old Falernian bubbly, the best.
Get out, water, you kill the wine,
move, go chase the squares instead,
over here we do only serious drinking.
testing, check … 1-2-3 … is this mic on? Can you hear me in the back? Tough crowd tonight — like somebody’s shooting from the Dallas Book Suppository.
Catullus quote … Dallas Book Suppository .., mrmrbill, if that was intentional, I bend over for you . . . .
Tonight’s was a disheartening loss. I figured some humour could lighten the load.
Greater grew the sadness as, being an educated man (high school was the best seven years of my life) I had to look up Catullus. Then, the further salt was not quite finding “Catullus quote”, though I’m on a bare thread by context, at least. I feel like I should be Flav’s “Top Descending Seven”.
If you think Latin or poetry is boring after reading Catullus, well, . . . you ain’t no human bein’. Try the Carl Sesar translation. It’s Feliini Satyricon combined with Guccione’s Caligula, only a whole lot better. May a copy be found within the Dallas city limits.
I’d actually reverse the “pissing me off” order. Why is Tejada #1 pisser when he was already a known quantity? Pretty much that whole list of 7-thru- 1, I’d reverse to 1 -thru- 7. For starters, in your “reverse 6” slot, Wilson’s gotten over his oblique strain, but he’s not gotten over the fame of his beard. So, he goes to #2 of the “pissing me off” slot. etc… etc… etc…
All I saw was the 1st inning. Had a couple things to do, but still expected to get back in time to catch the last couple innings, only the game was over in an instant. I imagine some of you had commutes home that took longer than this one.
I’ll add this about Fruckie: Stop with the first-inning bunts when the leadoff hitter gets on base. The guy’s a former batting champ, try getting a hit, maybe even a double, instead of leaving it up to Huff and Posey all the time.
Two straight zeros from the “A” lineup. Is it too much to ask for the WS Champs to be .500 when I go to CitiField on Thursday?
re: “over in an instant” … the WashGNat’s rag-arm had like a 7-pitch 8th, and a 6-pitch 9th for his CG. Think we gave up somewhere in the middle of the game?
Don’t have much to add to BF’s opus there. The squad is sucking major dick this trip, and was lucky to snag 2 out of the hands of the awful Bucs. Timmy gave up some tonight, but he never had a chance the way they played this game. Time for Bochy to step up and do some managing. Change out a major part of the squad for the second string, whatever it takes. They need to take those WS rings off, and start playing some ball…
I could say you’re all over thinking this April, except such an estimate would be far too charitable. Your advanced degrees demand more; you’re all full of shit. As to Pliny and Catullus, anything said in Latin sounds profound, and if you didn’t know the source of the beer’s name before now, you’re a fucking idiot. My older kid came home to visit this weekend, wearing his “Let Timmy Smoke — Fuck Yeah!” sweatshirt. We suffered through the sixth through ninth innings. The team’s failures and our frustrations were clear. Tough April. We made plans to watch tomorrow’s game over lunch, Sunday’s over breakfast. Last year the Giants were only a couple of games over .500 at the break. There’s no reason to shit your pants now, Giants fans.
“and if you didn’t know the source of the beer’s name before now, you’re a fucking idiot.” Xoot, counselor, you aren’t in court trying to dupe some dumbfuck jury.
If you know “P. the E.” from Russian River Brewing, I would suggest getting one’s ass down to only one of five establishments in SF who were allotted some barrels of “P. the Younger” — a very special limited-edition. I had it last at La Trappe on Greenwich & Columbus. And yes, one of five. If you like the Elder… well …
there’s a *younger*? Tell me more, Obi-Wan….
Most juries include at least one sanctimonious egghead, James.
I was shooting for harmless hyperbole.
BF, we feel your pain… if not necessarily your anger. As April draws to a close, they’ll either be at .500 or 2 games under. If I remember correctly, you yourself predicted a sub-.500 April, something like 3 or 4 games under, right? If so, how did you envision such sub-average play would unfold in this first month? To me, this is what below-average play looks like (lack of timely hitting [or, lack of hitting, period], occasional bullpen give-aways, and lousy defense). I guess for you, it’s the manner in which they’re playing below average at the moment. I just find it interesting that you predicted a below-average April (and seemed fine and confident that it wouldn’t matter in the long run, which it probably won’t) but these guys are pissing you off anyway.
For me, I figured they’d come out above-average the first month, yet I don’t feel angry that they’re not…. more disappointed. I thought they’d start the campaign to repeat with a bit more confidence and FUN that they showed so well last year. That is totally missing at this early point. The key will be, they made such great adjustments last year; I didn’t think they would have to do too much of that again this year, but it’s starting to look like they might. Can they do it again? Time will tell.
Paul– you are correct sir. I predicted 15-18 to start the first 33 and I listed off all the concrete reasons why I thought it would happen. *Predicting it* is one thing. Watching it unfold in all it’s misery is another thing. I can also only tolerate so much smoking pole at the plate and we have scored 8 fucking runs in the last 4 games and 5 of those were scored in one game. Sorry, but that’s going to chafe me a bit and that’s why I posted what I posted last night.
I woke up happy. And I have gotten happier after hearing MrBillBill disclose to me that there’s a Pliny Younger somewhere out in the world for me to discover……
I agree, their play is indeed a bit chafing at times, these days… not sure I’ve ever heard that term refer to baseball, but scratch it if it itches, huh… Also, living on the other side of the world, I appreciated and was happy to see you start a new thread at the end of your day (start of mine here). Ah, fireworks outside now on this Saturday night, Re-Unification Day, end of war, 36 years ago. I’m sure the older Saigonese who remember that day aren’t too pleased with all the bombs a-bursting in air…
Paul, serendipitously, Madame Nhu obit reported…died Wed in Rome at 86. I think San Jose has one of the larger Viet communities in Cal. My company used to hire a few in IT and sales, from families that were well educated…most of the girls complained about how “traditional” their Moms were.
Plus, when he’s not hitting his first name pisses me off.
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Funny
Gentlemen (question mark), don’t be so gloomy. After all, it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace..and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Apparently they played ball with Hitler.
Benching a slumping Huff is a better alternative than putting him back in the OF if and when Belt returns. I think an occasional game at 1B might do Buster a little good. And I think they miss Uribe regardless of his LA numbers.
A solid baseball post by me.
Well…a baseball post
The Rockies got shut out by Correia. That’s some crazy stuff.
At Coors Field no less. Why it’s crazy to bet on baseball.
Exactly. The “awful bucs” shut out the mighty rockies last night, and hit two HRs off whiz kid Chacin. Fowler lead off guy 0-4 with 3 Ks (vs. Correia remember), Cargo hitting .216, Helton back to reality at .209, Iannetta (25 bomb potential alleged on this blog) below mendoza line at .173.
Slumps are gonna happen, and we’ve all seen SF hitters last couple years make the journeymen and kids look like aces at times. Marquis had them fooled and off balance, and Tim knows he made one bad mistake that wouond up leaving the yard. I’m sure Posey and others who had great finishes to last season realize how hard it really is to succeed at this sport, esp at the plate.
Bochy isn’t a rock the boat type of guy, but might shuffle the LU vs. the lefty. And it could look kind of odd, like the last LU that hit pretty well (Burriss, whitey, font, etc). If you are going to play Posey at 1B, I don’t see how the Prez is an improvement over anyone currently on mlb roster, and playhing 1B for 9 does not equal a “day off.”
Another tough loss but Sanchez then Cain can pick the club up. Surprised that Burrell didn’t make your list. Huff has close to 100 AB and is still fighting it. I’ve been calling for Sandoval in the 3-hole for a while. Maybe today the change is made.
If I were Bochy, I wouldn’t fill out a lineup card today. I’d be too goddamn embarrassed.
If nothing else, at least I’m back atop Chuck in the Flap fantasy standings.
Being behind him, now that’s embarrassing.
Chuclefuck: you boy Spit has acknowklewdged he threatened me. Lose him and his posts today. My address is pretty easy to find so get rid of him or I
post yours.
BLEEP that “Chucklefuck!”
I was thinking errors were a big problem. League average is 16 right now SF has 17 so it’s not that big but it still feels like 2-3 games have gotten away due to poor fielding. The 4 blown saves aren’t helping either though.
Take a breath. It’s early.
It should be noted that pissee Wilson has 1 blown save.
Wilson has given up a run in just one of his last 8 games, racked up seven save in those, and NOW he’s pissing you off? You just want to be pissed. Really fucking dumb is joining the clowns judging his personal life and/or grooming.
agreed. Tearing the oblique I really don’t think had anything whatsoever to do with his offseason. What he looks like and what TV shows he appears on, etc., is irrelevant to what he does on the field. Baseball players over the long history of the game have been known to party til all hours and still go out and play the game well, including many HOF guys. So far at least, imo Wilson has pitched better than anyone else in the pen.
Chucklefuck is a funny nickname.
Relax they still have a chance to take this series at this point in time.
Yeah, Willied, I read about the passing of the “Dragon Lady”, she was apparently a piece of work and right in the middle of things here.
“Most of the girls complained about how “traditional” their Moms were.” They do that here, too…
Flavor would be the first guy to be tearing you a new arsehole if you were talking about a reliever’s ERA after 10 or 12 innings.
yeah, I could have left Wilson off that list. Maybe Buster too. But I wanted 7 things to be pissed off about so…..
I don’t believe this shit. I guess we’re actually trying not to score today. What a joke.
Rowand CF, F.Sanchez 2B, Posey 1B, Burrell LF, Tejada 3B, Ross RF, Fontenot SS, Whiteside C, J. Sanchez P
I was the one fucking stuck that shit ass game from center field…at least I got drunk!!!
When franchez swung at that first in the 9th, I was cursing. They made marquis look like an all-star and frickin Timmy made Nix look like a hall of famer. When ross fucked up the Rowand catch, you could just see Timmy’s concentration go on vacation.
Tejada fuckin sucks thoroughly and Huff needs to be moved down the order along with Posey. Panda deserves the 3rd spot right now. I would not mind sitting Ross and give Ford a start in center and Rowand in right.
We met Javier Lopez last night. I had not realized he was at UVA when my bro-in-law played soccer there. Lopez was a freshman when my bro-in-law was a junrior and Lopez said he sort of remembered him (he was the star on that soccer team and they made it to the finals and lost that year to UCLA).
Lineup I want to see today when I am there:
1) Ford – CF
2) Franchez – 2B
3) Panda – 3B
4) Burrell – LF
5) Posey – C
6) Rowand – RF
7) Huff – 1B
8) Burriss – SS
9) Sanchez – SP
With this anemic offense, let’s get some speed in the lineup and manufacture some runs…
Tejada batting 5th. Today’s lineup is a goddamn laughingstock. I truly am embarrassed.
The lineup’s a little strange, but I kinda like it for today. Go look at some of those lineups from 2007 & 2008 if you really want to get sick.
DJLoo called Posey at 1st today. I scoffed.
Loo…SOLID!!! Mea Culpa.
Just turned off KNBR. Interview with Fucking Prick Santangelo(sic).
His thoughts…”original” thoughts quoted both Bochy and some of you Flappers.
If this guy ever had an original thought…it would die of loneliness
BTW, great post of the Day!
by EdGdsnInExile
yes, it was good to hear from Ed–and only a day after Loo called for him. Loo’s got pull…..
Now if I could only get MIdwest Ed back. Remember him, Flav?
He would always “sign” his name at the end of a post.
Midwest Ed
So instead of dropping Pablo to 8th in the batting order vs lefties, Bochy’s new Master Plan is to remove him from the lineup entirely. I guess I’m just not smart enough to see the genius behind that move.
Well, shit. Now we really are fucked. This tweet from Schulman: Pablo has some kind of injury. He wouldn’t say what. Said he couldn’t talk about it. I asked him if it was big, and he said, “Yes.”
Looking almost like Bochy wrote the names down on a set of cards, shuffled them and then dealt them out. Looks like a pretty strange L.U., but who knows, maybe there is some psychological weirdness in Tejada which would respond positively to his batting fifth. Only possible sense i can make outta that scenario. Huff needed to sit, so check that off on the positive side. Gerald at First? Maybe two or three games there and once he returns to catching he will start hammering the horsehide like he did on donning the tools of ignorance last July.
I mean these guys seem to have their heads screwed on inside-out. So either its rearranging the deck-chairs on the Titanic, or its a matter of shuffling the cards so there will be some support behind the Ace. Frankly, i don’t give a Royal Rat’s Raunchy Rump how they win today, just that they do.
Seriously, we are totally fucked. Bochy told Jon Miller Pablo has a hamate bone injury in his hand. This often requires surgery.
I’d like to hear you Pollys paint a pretty picture on that canvass. How many days until pitchers and catchers report?
This year is over.
ugh. That’s awful news.
All this Doomer talk. It is only April. Swear reading some of these posts I am on the Splash, did Soph take over some of you? Some of you are calling out Bochy, he does shiver the course of a 162 game season. He does not work miracles in only a month. Plus the players are the ones who need to step up. I picture some of you as those Acupulco cliff divers, except you guys are doing cannon balls. Now everyone close there eyes say It is only April while clicking your heals three times, you will end up in front of your TV watching the Giants win today
He does shit over the course of a season
Who would try to make light of a possibly serious injury to Pablo, asshole? And “Pollies”? I always suspected you were a Soph apologist> Fuck off.
Yeah, I’m really happy Pablo’s hurt. Go fuck yourself.
Only a certifiable fucking moron would be Bochy bashing.
And leave your Soph comments to the Splash. I thought we were above that here. Asshole.
4-6 weeks… Rohlinger up.
this is a huge deal. Without any help from DeRosa we are fucked at the corners–no 3rd baseman and a first baseman who is slumping terribly.
You’re worse than Soph, Dennis.
Maybe, but I’m still better than Alex Smith.
http://twitter.com/#!/Buster_ESPN
Interesting tweets between Buster Olney and Andrew Baggarly.
I haven’t seen all his at bats lately but I don’t remember him getting hit in the hand. Did he fucking punch a wall or something?
Here’s a pretty good article on it.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/06/01/pea_to_have_surgery/
Tejada will go to 3rd, Font to SS> Ok, I can actual dig that a smidge. At least Tejada is now playing a position that he’s better suited for. Hey, maybe Font gets hot, you never know.
Hey Flav, just sent you photos from yesterday’s game…
Lousy news. Pablo had been the most steady this year and with improved focus. Maybe Miggy will respond at 3rd with less pressure to perform where his skills have diminished. When they signed him last year, I felt (hoped) that he was not a lock on SS, that the position was open in camp. Maybe Manny gets his shot there, once he gets a bit acclimated.
Ed–got ’em. I’ll post them later today. Thanks,
Rohlinger was the regular SS at Fresno. Doubt he’s up to back up.We’ll see.
Maybe Panda had some of this hamate thing going on last season? I read that article linked above, sometimes its a while in really making itself known. Anyway, I’d pencil him out for the entire summer. What they need to do is hobble along with the callups for a coupla weeks, then put DeRosa in there and force his issue. If he can’t play, there’s no sense in having him take a roster spot. Made no sense before, but really makes no sense now with Panda gone. If he craps out, DeRosa should go on 60 day DL or just DFA him, and make a move to bollster the roster from outside. This team’s going nowhere with Tejada and Fontenot playing everyday, and Burriss playing SS…
All this, and nobody’s talking much about Franchez’ arm. His throwing is mediocre, at best, something is not cool there. The usual cone of silence around the trainer’s room, only this one works better than Control’s…
So when Franchez throws one into the stands because of his bum shoulder, I’ll assume we can all say, “missed it, by that much.”
Would you believe, this ain’t new at all?
August 11, 2008:
NEW YORK (AP) – Freddy Sanchez was held out of Pittsburgh’s starting lineup with a sore right shoulder Monday, leaving the Pirates without their starting double-play combination against the Mets.
So we have one solid position player and he’s the one getting hurt. Yikes! Guess we get to find out once and for all if Rohlinger has any future in MLB. Twin does not seem to think so as per his previous postings pretty much discounting Ryan as a genuine prospect. So maybe this is his one, last big chance.
Only positive i can think of in this is that it serves as a wake-up call to guys like Posey and Huff. If either or both of them can revert to form and provided Rowand keeps contributing and Torres rises to the occasion on his return, there may be something of an offense. Remember, a significant chunk of last year’s championship season was occasioned by Sandoval’s lack of Pandativity or his absence altogether.
More than ever now, the pitching staff will need to continue rising to the occasion. Even without Pablo, the hitting can only improve over what we have seen in the past few days. After all, we are talking Major League hitters who just happened to play a major role in the World Championship season just last year.
A win today, in the face of the accumulation of bad news, would send a huge message. Hope we see some extremely Drrrrrty mound magic today ~ backed up by a few timely hits.
I’d say Belt needs to come back up and give them at least close to what Buster did last yr. Got a bad feeling though with all these injuries occurring. Didn’t happen last yr.
None of them so far are major injuries. Rowand and Torres, Renteria, Uribe and FSanchez all missed significant time due to injury last year.
Did they all occur one month into the season?
No. And I was wrong about Uribe. But look at it this way for a second: If they win today, they’re at .500, after playing 16 road games in April. (Also, if they don’t win today, they still have 5 games left against the Nats and the Mets to hit .500.) Who the fuck wouldn’t have been happy coming out of the five weeks at .500, given the horrendous schedule and the water buffalo OF they had to field? Ross is back; Torres is on the way. They’ll get their runs. Wilson looks good. So the starting pitching will be the key. Although I certainly don’t disagree with you re Belt. I would love to see him come roaring back.
Much as it sucks, they kinda won it wthout Pablo last year. Of course they did have Uribe. Bochy and Sabean have earned my undying faith. I ain’t worried…
Uribe played 148 games last year. He didn’t miss significant time, that’s true.
I meant to say I ain’t THAT worried…
The obvious suspects just have to step it up, and if they have to part with some pitching and top prospect(s) to make a deal than so be it. Defending the crown should be priority #1.
I remember Namath breaking that bone in a pre-season game vs. the Lions about 40 years ago. He cracked it on the helmet of LB Paul Naumoff on his follow through. He was out for the year.
If you get the chance, check out Frankel’s victory in the 2000 Guineas. Most impressive racehorse I’ve seen in awhile. A true pleasure to watch that guy run.
Hey, he’s still got the no no going 🙂
Pathetic at bats so far…..and four 4 bloody walks for Sanchez, could be a bloody long game again…
A “real” SS makes that catch. And as for NO Whitey making NO play, WTF do you expect?
That could have been worse.
Bases loaded. Only one out. Facing the heart of the lineup, including the $126M Man, Sanchez goes all down and Drrrrrrrrrrty. Love it.
Maybe this will wake up the hitters?
I don’t know where Dirrty’s head is, but it’s certainly not in the game. I’d grab the nearest Louisville Slugger and knock some sense into ’em. That should never happen.
Dennis: He got it when he had to. That’s what counts. Couple years back we probably would have been facing five runs scored. Game over.
Are you fucking kidding me? NO Whitey!
Listening to this one on the radio, Miller has been mercilessly reaming Sanchez for his brain farts and shitty pitching…….
You shoulda seen the look on Bochy’s face when Dirrty came into the dugout. “Hanging’s too good for you.”
I hate to bring it up again, but it’s a fact. Dirrrty’s mental makeup is a ?
Whitey?!!!!!!! We got told!
And lil’ Eli shows his appreciation for his starting role this afternoon. A betting man could have one huge, monstrous huge, working unbelievable odds, on calling that shot. Yeehah!
That last play was just embarrassing. Why make one egregious out when you can make two.
Sanchez dancing through rain drops.
Giants playing like they had a 7 course lunch with paired wine flights after the White House tour today…
80 pitches after four. Looks to be a busy day for the BP. Good thing is that the damage is no greater than the advantage.
Whether out for a spin, or in baseball, you cannot ALWAYS rely on a Ford.
Ha! Nats deserve that for walking Eli.
Huff-daddy! That’ll work!
That was the best AB Sir Aubrey has had in a bunch of while.