Winning By Producing the Bare Mimimum
It’s too bad, the last one was one of my better ones. Oh well, new gold is alway but a click away…..
I want to know if any of you have a lead with one of the Elias Sports guys. I need to know if this has ever happened before in the history of major league baseball. I’m guessing it has not…
The Giants have won 8 straight home games. These are the runs they’ve scored in each game: 4, 3, 3, 1, 4, 3, 2, 3. Grand total: 23 in 8 games. There opponents have scored, get this, 11 (E-L-E-V-E-N) runs. In 8 (E-I-G-H-T) games. I find that…wait for it……ASTOUNDING!!!!!!!!!!
There has to be something historical there. First guy who hears back from an Elias guy about it gets a bobblehead of me taking a dump (in fact, such an item truly does exist–a 40 year old birthday present from The Boney One, one of the great b-day presents in the history of time)….
By the way, XOOT and BOZO tied in the voting for POTVP. I’ll post it later today. How it will pain me to take down “All things Molina”…..
I’m having some technical difficulties with the snipping tool, that’s why you aren’t seeing the Flap Fantasy Standings posted lately…….
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Hey Flappers. Ted here, posting from Heaven. The rapture was fucking radical. Really weird, though…of all humanity very few of us made it. Me, Jenna Jameson, Dolores Hope and some fat dude named soph
Oh yeah, in case you were wondering, the May 21, 2011 oneflapdown77 thread is up here too
Wondered where it went. The last part of it was rapturous…
Make that nine games Flav . . . I am going to the game today and the 2 other times I’ve attended on this latest trip, they have won.
Going to say this now for posterity . . . My weakness (BA/hitting) has been addressed, albeit, Josh Johnson going on the DL will probably delay the ascension to 1st place a bit longer than I anticipated. Regardless, No Talent, Flavorino, and No Whitey are GOING DOWN . . . However, first I will take care of the little matter of Uncas’s Army, PawliesPandas, and CrazyDiamonds.*
*You all should have bought your Stub Hub Rapture tickets. Too late now . . .
blade, how many more games are you going to? Color me impressed. I’ve got tickets to Wednesday’s Florida game (big whoop). You stil going to be around?
I would join you Ted, but Wednesday is the day I skiddadle back to Cowtown, U.S.A.
I was actually hoping to meet one of you slackers on this trip, but no luck (Chuck missing me by two games – I think he went to the Friday night game).
first 23 years of my life were in … Greeley. Oy. We went to Platteville just for vacations.
Bill2 completely understands what Greeley is like . . . also, knows what it smells like.
Too bad. Oh well
“Winning By Producing the Bare Mimimum” … I graduated from high school the same way. Caught nothing but shit from the counselors.
… best seven years of my life, though.
ha ha ha
Bill2, I did the same thing my Senior year in High School, only taking the required U.S. Government, Algebra, and P.E. classes during the entire year. Lotsa fun. However, it almost cost me, as I was failing Algebra. Back then, some High Schools had open campuses and I majored in “Pot Smoking,” with an elective in “Drinking Beer.” Fortunately, my Algebra teacher was understanding and forewarned me about my Ridgemont High ways and I passed the course with her assistance . . . barely.
her…assistance? Barely?
Oh beehave
Funny, that you should mention that . . . We had a PE and social studies teacher/football coach, that dated one of the hottest juniors in my HS. Back then it wasn’t a big thing like it is now, where it can land you in jail. They were discreet about it, but everyone knew what was going on. I wont mention his name (no need to), but he was a very good college player and had a WR tryout with the Jets, prior to getting the coaching and teaching gig in HS.
Really? Wow
I have only met one Flapper,* ChiPower – who rarely posts here anymore.
*Does Skypping with Pawlie count? Ha.
OK, what do you do vs. LHP with the OF? burrell hasn’t hit anything lately, esp the breaking ball, and has put up much worse numbers vs. lefties than righties, where he has .500 slugging and .900 OPS. Nate can hit lefties a little, but singles only when and if he does, very low OB…even torres hasn’t done much (yet, hopefully). Rowand is back down to .250, with a .299 OB.
burriss is supposedly about to become super utility guy that fills in everywhere, including the OF….if he starts for Fontenot, where do you put him, SS or 3B?
Multiple arrests made today on the scumbags involved in the beating of Brian Stow. Details sketchy
Blade— you receive ultimate props for all the games you’ve hit during your trip. I haven’t been to even one this yr, Game 1 of the WS was my last one. I seem to remember you stay in Sunnyale when you visit (could be mistaken) and if you do and want to hook up for a beer after the game at my buddy’s sportsbar in Los Altos, let me know……
WillieD– I think you play Nate versus everyone right now and just hope for the best with his at bats v lefties. Ride this defensive streak as long as it goes. He’s not really hitting righties either so I think you take the substantial bounty that he bestows us on defense and let it ride…..
Indications pablo may be back by the next time SF gets a day off after tmw, 3 weeks away after home series vs. Reds June 12. Plus Casilla I hope…more roster moves imminent?
Flav, if blade is live for a post game cold one, shoot me an email…I’m 20 minutes or so to the south of there.
I still don’t believe there really is a bob geren, mlb mgr….I think any south bay HS AP physics/robotics class could come up with an improvement.
Y, know, I’M even finding it difficult to post right now because there’s so little (as in hitting) to complain and kvetch about. Last night, postgame, it even reached the point where internecine squabbles took over the board. Big turnoff for me. So what happens if the Giants keep winning? Silent board? Four day monsoon season here in the Northwoods now. Otherwise i’d already be outdoors Another quiet day at the plate again today with Gio and Drrrrty going? Most likely. Baseball purists tend to enjoy the low-scoring stuff. Casual fans look more for hyperstimulation and are happier with the two inferior sports.
Flav and Willied – Usually, it’s just my cousin and I, but this time, his family (wife and daughter) is also coming to the game. Consequently, I’m doubtful that I will be able to make it, since I am in their car and . . . umm, their daughter is 9 years old . . . uhh, she doesn’t drink yet. Grin.
Definitely a rain check on next visit, ok? Nor, does it have to be after the game.
Flav I hadn’t been able to focus on the streak till you mentioned it. Amazing. Even when I am away from the posts it is like coming home to see a game. Like I never left!
Anyone else have info on Brian Stow’s attackers arrest? I haven’t found anything.
Police descended onto a East Hollywood apartment building this morning. One arrested appears to match sketches/description of one of the attackers. That’s about all the details so far. LAPD say they have 17 detectives following about 500 leads on the case.
LA has an army of cops.
Good news
http://lat.ms/m7apsI
Thanks Bill
Nate’s “defensive streak” won’t impact his playing time. God… he has to hit. He already appears to be doing his usual tankerino at the plate. And a familar pattern- stops hitting, claims a phantom injury.
He’s a role player but a good one. Everyday player, forget it.
I miss Pablo.
Nip – Per Yahoo, “3B Pablo Sandoval is two to three weeks away from returning from surgery to remove the hamate bone in his right wrist, according to manager Bruce Bochy, who told MLB.com, “He’s doing quite well.” Sandoval played catch and ran the bases Friday, and Bochy told MLB.com that Sandoval can grip a bat and is close to taking right-handed swings off a tee.”
My point is that Nate not hitting lefties or anyone for that matter, isn’t really a big deal if we don’t have someone substantially better (offensively) to play instead. And since we don’t you just ride his defense for as long as you can. He’s clearly getting more confident out there, maybe this is how he’ll always be. Who knows, maybe he gets BETTER defensively. Right now, his defense is making up for any of his offensive shortcomings and/or those of his possible replacements…
Zito’s scheduled to throw to batters on Tue. S’posed to play a simulated game next week (which should be a good fit for his simulated pitching 😉 )
Wonder what the Mets will ask for Beltran…
$4,000 and a Thai hooker. Under 40
Maybe Bochy’s come to the realization that he should be playing Gomez every damn day.
Anybody missing Rowand’s name in the starting lineup? That’s what I thought. And, yeah, I know his back hurts. I’ll have Chuck make his back hurt…
Torres CF F.Sanchez 2B Posey C Burrell LF Ross RF Huff 1B Tejada 3B Fontenot SS J. Sanchez SP
As Curtis Granderson knocks another cheapie into the short porch at Yankee Stadium, I wish the Giants had a guy who could take advantage of 307′ down the RF line or whatever is down the LF line. Seems like they just don’t make pull hitters anymore. Did Lau and Hriniak ruin it for everybody?
Charley Lau worked wonders for Michael McPhee. Just ask Max Dugan.
Granderson is having a career year. He homered Saturday too and now has 16 jacks. Looks like he is adjusting to the bright lights of NY.
Since august 14th of last year, when Granderson changed his swing he’s got 30 homeruns…Bautista has 36.
wish ross could have convinced his buddy Uggla to sign here, he loves it.
sorry you guys but I had to restore last night’s thread. I want to review some specific posts. It’ll get deleted in about 10 minutes.
Why should Nate have a “phantom” injury, yet Gamer’s balky back and everybody else’s injuries are real?…
Nate’s are usually reported by Nate himself and not at the time of the alleged injury. We seem to hear about it after an 0-4..
There are wind factors that make it extremely difficult to keep a ball fair down the RF line ( at least that’s what K and K report). Just wondering: how much of a lead do they need before doomering subsides? Dennis? Loo?
They could have a 10-game lead on the Fourth of July for all I care. If they’re still dead LAST in runs scored, they ain’t winning shit.
Bitter, bitter boy…that has nothing to with it, you’re a chronic bitcher.
But you NEVER see it. I think the last one I remember might’ve been Snow’s homer off Armando in 2000 NLDS.
anyone reached their Elias Sports contact yet??????????????
Will you do your own homework, Marv?
Ted I just sent you an email can you read it and get back to me? Thanks
This day in baseball, 1933: Joe Sewell of the Yankees struck out for the first time this season, during a 3-0 win over Cleveland (his former team). Sewell would strike out only three more times in 524 at-bats. In his final two years with the Yanks, Joe struck out a grand total of seven times in over 1,000+ at-bats.
Just seven strike outs in two years? Rowand accomplishes that in two games.
Check 1971, Twin…
About what?
It was a response to your 10:55 AM question.
I don’t feel like it. I’d guess they blew a lead and that’s why you’re still bitching and dooming 40 years later.
Hopefully, Sanchee can repeat some of his stellar last performance. He got in a lot of first strikes last time. That would help since the A’s take pitches like swinging at the ball is a mortal sin. If he’s wild, he’s going to throw 100 pitches in 4 innings against these clods…..
Bitchin’ and hopin’ and doomin’ and gloomin’
Thinkin’ and dreamin’ each night of their arms,
But still they don’t hit any bombs…
“Bitchin’ and hopin’ and doomin’ and gloomin’”
It’s when you are happiest, Loo. Enjoy.
Kat was the most bizarre on the dooming, Snarkk is similar. Kat would predict like 95 wins and comment like they’d win 60.
What’d you predict? 92 or something? Yet, they rarely make any blunders, will win by 7 or 8 games,. no prob. Kat was cool, most of the time. Wonder where he went…
Matt and Timmy are a combined 2 for 42 at the plate with half of those ABs resulting in strikeouts.
I can hear Nipper crying for the DH now…
Pitchers at the plate……boring!
Giants lead 1-0 again!
Torres has reached base to start each game of the series and scored each time.
I wonder how’d that work out if Rowand was leading off…Gomez!
Pat the Bat has been nothing short of a pole smoker as of late.
Burrell is starting to make that $1 million look like it might be too much…
With the Torres-Sanchez opener it almost sounds like we’re talking a Spanish chess strategy.
If the mets are shopping guys, I wonder what they would want for David Wright?
Where would he play?
Wright’s started 1,038 games in his career. 1,035 have been at 3B, the other 3 were at DH.
I think he’s due for a little time over at shortstop…
From the LA Times, looks like his parole agent tipped the LAPD to the guy they arrested this morning for the Stow assault. No word on the why’s and wherefors of the bust, yet. No surprise the suspected perp has a rap sheet…
“even torres hasn’t done much “..286 BA .366 OBP .811 OPS ain’t exactly shabby.
not vs. lefties, which is what my question was. So far this season coming in today, he’s 0-11, with one walk for an OB of .083.
ooooh, nice shot of the scoreboard putting that F for final up there for Rox game. Milwaukee held them to what, 6 runs in 3 games in that yard?
The Pat earned a few $$$ on that play. Nice job holding the runner to a single.
Now swing the goddamn bat, Pat!
I don’t care if Buster started to speak Latin after that latest ding. Given the alternative, he’s fine!
“Now swing the goddamn bat, Pat!” Time is running out.
Sharks down 3-0 in the 2nd quarter. All power play goals. One thing I’ve never understood about hockey is some of these dudes make obvious penalties like tripping, cracking a guy with a stick, hooking, etc. like they don’t give a crap about making the penalty, when they know if they get called for it and sent off for 2 minutes, the team is at a huge disadvantage and in danger of giving up a goal. All these penalties can’t be in the heat of the moment. I’ll never be a big hockey fan, the fighting and macho crap is idiotic…
See, I even called it a quarter. 2nd period, that is…
Bob Geren can’t even argue well enough to get tossed. He sucks at every facet of managing.
Although we did catch a break, Ross was out. That was one of the few times (though I maintain the correct play is always to go to 1B) that the 3B could have crawled over and just tagged out Burrell. I remember the Panda (this yr, last yr?) trying to tag out the runner coming over from second w/ 2 outs only to lose him in a rundown.
if they can lay off the curve, which is mostly out of the strike zone, giants are on gonzalez’ fastball. why he threw one to burrell is beyond me.
Looks to me like Sanchee has throttled back on his fastball. Haven’t heard the gun readouts, whether that’s true. Whatever he’s done the last two starts, the control is better, for sure. Krukow says he’s getting on top of the pitches, fine. To me, I call it follow through. When he’s wild, he seems to finish the throw standing up too high, when he’s got control, he finishes lower…
According to Gameday his fast ball is where it always is: 90-92.
Sanchee is pretty dang good at the Butcher Boy. Love that play…
Well, some baseball people are waking up to the fact that some teams get screwed on this so-called “regional rivalry” inter-league stuff, because some teams get an easier ride every year. St. Louis gets 6 games against the Royals. The Yankees get 6 with the Mets. Texas gets 6 with Houston. I think I ranted about this last year, too. Sorry.
I actually like inter-league games overall, I just don’t like the fake contrived “regional rivalry.”
Is there a pitcher in the game who has improved his hitting more than Head Case?
His triple in the last regular season game last year should not be forgotten by Giants fans. HUUUUGE hit.
Sheez, the left side of the infield is a defensive adventure…
Now THAT is encouraging with Dirrrty. The infield lets him down once, arguably twice, then he sticks with it to get the DP ball to end the frame. That was a solid performance right there…
Flav – I didn’t vote on the POTW so I vote for xoot and he wins.
Zum – sorry dude, I can’t stand interleague games, I still believe those games should be reserved for the All Star game and World Series.
Loo, (from last night) I love Mitch, even though I’ve been getting rid of memorabilia I’d love some Mitchell stuff.
MLB is convinced that inter-league boosts attendance. It does in certain cases, but I’m skeptical that it’s a major total boost overall. And that uncertain boost is used to justify adding inequities to the schedules.
Inequities with the “rivalry series”, I mean.
I still think, Interleague play and the All Star game determining home field for the WS are some of the worst things Selig ever did “for baseball” (well, Fox being able to block all Sat. games should be included).
Nice rip by Cody, horrible CF play by Coco Crispy…
Coco splatted against the wall.
Just get this out Dirty.
J. Sanchez hanging tough.
Good on Gomez to pitch out of another jam that was unnecessary.
If you guys think we’re gonna win this division continuing to only excel at just one of the three facets of the game, you got another thing coming.
The Giants have made a lot outstanding plays on defense this week.
The more you doom, the bigger their lead gets.
Bozo, I’m not diggin’ the idea of the extra wildcard team next season. It’s bogus.
I agree zum.
Thanks for getting outta bed today Rowand. Jesus H. Christ he should be put to rest — permanently.
He’s probably done for the day. So the wildly inconsistent Basket Case has now given up more than 3 earned runs ONCE in 10 starts…
I’ll have four more of those, waitress..
If Affeldt has to field this, hold your breath.
Franchez was not pleased at the 90 MPH fastball at his groin.
Too bad about Affeldt, he’s just a gasoline man anymore.
Affeldt best not fuck up this game for Gomez. I’ve grown tired of his act. His best performance was of the year was giving the speech at the Bryan Stow Dodger game.
He’s trying his best to literally throw this game away. I’d package his ass in trade for a SS in a heartbeat.
And just like that as I type, he fucked it up. Fuck that worthless piece of shit…
Zum, when I used to work at Fair Isaac (the FICO score people), they essentially made the MLB schedules (not sure if they still do, as I left in 2009). Basically they take a raw data dump from MLB, run it through formulas consisting of about 400 variables based partially on attendance, regional network revenues, radio advertising, etc…
It’s pretty well figured out to the “nth” degree of an insurance actuary.
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“It does in certain cases, but I’m skeptical that it’s a major total boost overall. And that uncertain boost is used to justify adding inequities to the schedules.“
Ah, that could explain the Giants playing the Rockies 3 games at the end of the season.
And perhaps last year, ending the season with the Pads … somebody knows something? 🙂 Although FICO is almost exclusively known as a/the “credit score” firm, they’re really a mathematical modeling company. Or … really sophisticated bookies!
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“Ah, that could explain the Giants playing the Rockies 3 games at the end of the season.”
go on, DMD, say what you really mean.
I feel like an Affeldt DL visit may be needed. He has basically sucked since the season started…
He had been, I thought, relegated to pitching when they were behind. He, Runzler, Mota.
Seriously, Jeremy Affeldt is DONE. How Bochy can have any confidence in sending him out there is beyond me. Doesn’t help when his other choice is Runzler, but that’s no excuse. Package both of those POS for a SS. I’m sick and tired of their shit.
But you know, if we had a legitimate ML offense, maybe a suck-ass performance wouldn’t come back to bite you in the ass like today. But when you always play with NO Whitey margin for error because of your lack of offense, this shit is surely to ensue…
Thanks repitive-Soph.
Wasn’t watching the game tracker. Why didn’t sanchez start the 7th with only 100 pitches. only one walk…
With a lead the guys are Ramirez, Lopez,Romo, Wilson.
Bochy tries to “rehabilitate” guys, I think. He’s a player’s manager. He was trying to give Affeldt a chance to turn his season around. Didn’t happen, obviously.
I’m all for that, but not when the game is right on the line, until you prove you’re back and sharp. Problem is, Giants are never in a laugher (good problem) so somebody can be put in the game to get the cobwebs out. Affeldt has admitted himself that he suxxx. That is not a good sign. What are they going to to with him? He can’t be trusted now whatsoever in a close game, and that’s all the Giants play…
“Rehabilitation” is for drunks, drug addicts and repeat criminal offenders. NOT for baseball players.
The hitters due were Pennington, pitcher, Crisp. Runzler was hardly the only alternative.
The worst part of that inning was that we didn’t force the A’s to hit for Gonzalez.
Fuck that Gomez!
Lemme guess. Wow, that was not a smart move, Franchez. Not even close at second…