Dusting the Snakes and A Big Start for Lincecum
I don’t know why, but I’ve always thought of winning a series as “dusting” a team. It’s kinda *sweep* related and it sounds like a fairly disrespectful thing to do to someone. Anyway, that’s how my tortured mind works……By the way, the Snakes are clearly significantly worse than we are. Despite how boring and uninspiring our offense is, there just isn’t a team in the NL West that even remotely scares me……..
Timmy needs to get it going tonight against someone named “Godfrey”. His velocity has been fine, but his location has been crap. I wonder if we’ll see Stewart catch him tonight? I know Whitey got a hit this week, but it’s possible that Tim is just a little out of whack with El President catching. It’s possible and it probably doesn’t take much of a jolt to disrupt that complicated delivery. Anyway, Lincecum is the #5 right now so I’m gonna cut him some slack if he doesn’t do well tonight 🙂 ……
It’s possible that Fontenot is going to replace Burriss when he comes off the DL. That would be disappointing but not totally surprising. Burriss has not taken advantage of his opportunities to play. He might bring more to the team with his skills but Bochy will want a guy who isn’t going to make mistakes as often and that’s Fontenot. And we will likely get an upcoming opportunity to see what Bill Hall is going to bring to the table. If it’s an occasional bomb that might be enough to get him a lot of playing time at second base……..
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Hey! I crawled out of 6th place! Got to get back to the 90s . . .
That’s a good word for you Chuck, “crawled.”
Yeah, you have to think Stewart gets the nod. Whitehead has been mediocre at best, and throw in the lousy defense, and 6-27 (22%) in CS is crap.
“….pablo ross burrell torres in OPS.” It wasn’t that way last season, tho, when he was 6-WAR player. His slugging is down over 80 points, and it just seems like he is not trying to steal as many bases. It doesn’t seem like it’s physical, because even when bochy doesn’t start him he gets him in there, and he made a great running grab last night. But it’s hard to see a reason given the talent he has that he wouldn’t be in the LU 4 days out of 6.
Bottom line, with SF struggling to score runs, healthy Torres is a must. You are only going to get so much out of Nate rowand burrell. I have less issue with the other guys such as crawford burriss tejada and whitey, because I don’t expect near as much out of them as I do torres, who was super last year. If something is bothering him, either mental or physical, that’s unfortunate.
I wasn’t disputing that Torres’ numbers are down, just Loo-weinie’s ragging on him all the time.Even with his current numbers, he remains:
1. An above average lead off hitter both by OBP and OPS
2. The ONLY lead off hitter on this team
Yeah, all eyes on Brother Timothy. Who he throws to shouldn’t fucking matter.
Someone can point out how they struggle against this type, but facing Godfrey and Moscoso certainly preferable to Andersen and Gonzales. Expect at least 2 of 3.
Ya godda think leaving AZ the 2010 world chanpion SF Giants have to be smelling blood. And in their backyard with fan support Oakland should be a feast.
I don’t double-post here and on the splash much. TF occassionally doubles up some of his zingers or his more trenchant baseball insights, and that works fine. But the two blogs are very different. Nonetheless, when you have a good idea, share it — right?
Will the Giants wear their orange-Friday jerseys and orange and black cleats tonight? Hope so. I would also like them to hire a Brad Pitt look-alike for the series, dress him in bizness cazh, and have him sit behind the A’s dugout and shout insults at the players as they return to the bench after striking out or allowing 3 or 4 ERs.
Your first instinct was correct.
Yeah, maybe. How’s your fantasy team doing, Chuckles?
5th place, Orb. You?
That was the sarcasm font, General Chuck, and a rhetorical question.
Also — why are you calling me “Orb”? Are you confused again? (That’s another rhetorical question.)
I would also like them to hire a Brad Pitt look-alike for the series
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Sorry xoot. I’m otherwise occupied 😉
Now come on. Do you think it’s mere coincidence that they released this trailer just before this weekend’s series with the World Champions?
Zito pitched for Fresno against Tackytown last night and gave up four runs, one HR, in 6 innings. Compare that AAA performance against Vogelsong’s half the number in as many innings against a hard-hitting ML team. Something tells me that there is a relapse developing with Zito’s injury.
It’s been asked before but…can Zito catch?
Burriss did not look like a major leaguer last night at the plate or in the field. Did you catch the body language on the shitty throw to first?
I missed the shitty throw but came back to look at the screen when I heard Jon Miller say, “Wow. That throw was terrible.” Then I never saw a replay. Apparently he threw wide and low from 15 feet away from 1B?
The throw was from a normal distance, Xoot. He just gave it a who gives a fuck toss. Looked like his mind was elsewhere…
Manny is as good as gone. If they had a replacement he’d be gone now.
Took a peek at the Drumbeat-evidently someone has hacked into their system. VK is talking Hearst lawyers getting inviolved.
‘Someone’? Is that ‘someone’s initials TF?
You are seriouly accusing me of hacking into SFGate? If really could do that I could also crash your free computer in 1…2..3..
No, you dumbfuck, it wasn’t “TF”…
Or I’d steal every fucking penny you have and, uh, well.. have a burger and half a shake…
Christ, skippy. It’s a joke . . .
Settle . . .
Sometimes you wonder what’s going through an athlete’s mind…..to the rest of the league, Burriss is basically a nobody, so I was a bit perplexed watching him take the longest make-the-umpire-look-like-a-schmuck jog to firstbase that I’ve ever seen. And then took another one almost as long, as he was striking out, with the broadcasters trying to telepathically warn Burriss before that last pitch- “you better not take anything close on that next pitch.”
Funny thing was, the 1st thing my son noticed was how quiet that ump was last night. The guy the night before was loud as hell, enough to hear on TV easily. This guy last night? Not a peep. Cue Burriss, and he apparently didn’t hear anything.
But taking the 2nd pitch was moronic.
Hey, where were you guys 17 yrs ago today? Good bet you were glued to a TV set watching a white Ford Bronco get a city-wide escort to Brentwood.
I wonder what AC is up to nowadays?
Aleister Crowley?
As in Ozzy singing . . “Mr. Crowley, won’t you ride my white horse?”
Al Cowlings drove a white Bronco . . .
Therefore OJ is the Antichrist.
That’s my theory anyway . . .
Hey, I was at all of those gms back in ’79 when AC and his good buddy were teammates for the Niners. I don’t think AC played much, if at all. The Juice was the one who shouldn’t have played.
I think Dennis is talking about A. C. Lyles. He hasn’t done anything since DEADWOOD
Freddie gets a second opinion on his shoulder, sticks with rehab for now: http://buzztap.com/-O6Lg1U
I asked my doctor for a second opinion once ….. he said I was ugly, too!
Torres CF, Hall 2B, Sandoval 1B, Huff DH, Ross LF, Schierholtz RF, Tejada 3B, Crawford SS, Stewart C, Lincecum P
Believe it or not, I like it. But it’s not about our lineup tonight. Bochy could start nine Flappers tonight and it wouldn’t change a goddamn thing. This game is all about Tim. Haircut Boy needs to right the ship and his shit tonight. Shutdown the A’s.
No excuses.
Of course, they’ve got to be careful. The As are sending William Powell to the mound tonight
Ted, that’s good William Powell knowledge. Would the A’s starter tonight also perhaps be a “Thin Man?”
He ain’t no 2010 Panda
So much has been made of the 133 pitch effort. Question should be why it took that long..
Who’s making a big deal out of it?
Speaking of pitch counts, something stix omitted in his comments earlier this morning, it took Zito 95 to get through 6 innings yesterday
Not gonna seriously rag on Tim, but I do think he has some growing up to do. I was at the 1,000th strikeout game with my kids and Tim gave up a bomb in the 2nd just before he got his 1K to end the inning, and he was seriously pissed off. When he walked off the field he showed no acknowledgement of the fans who were cheering their hearts out for him, too caught up in himself. The cheers went on and on but Tim just sat on the bench and sulked, no coming out of the dugout to acknowledge the fans.
I get it about his competitiveness and like the fire he shows, but that scene showed me why the guy is unable to make adjustments during a game. He is just not able to step out of himself during the game at all. And that is a weakness. He can make adjustments between starts and I’m sure he will get back to being a top starter soon, but until that guy learns to step back and look around himself at what is going on, he is never going to be able to make any in-game adjustments.
After two Cy Youngs lets be grateful for Tim.
It would be hard for any player to tip their cap when things aren’t going well. I’m sure he was aware of the 1,000 strikeout thing, but it may not have mattered to him at that moment.
To quote a favorite sophism, “Sierra Nevada is spot-on.”
Bottoms up!
And like Soph, he’s wrong.
It’s not a right/wrong issue . SN is right, but Zoom’s right too. The scoreboard-hyped fans should’ve understood Tim’s funk, but Tim’s funk looks pretty fucking self-inflicted.
Hey, is anyone else having troubles trying to post a comment? Not really a “problem,” I just have to click it twice all the time before it goes…
Just tip a few more. It gets easier.
“He doesn’t need to follow the Yellow Brick Road, he built it.”
Stay thirsty, my friend.
Hey, you and your DH. The Giants went 2-22 (.091) last yr using the DH. 2nd lowest mark in the big leagues.
In ’09, the Giants DH had the lowest mark of all. Take your DH and flush it down with your next Pabst Blue Ribbon cold one.
The DH is stupid but I like that it’s in the other league. It one of the few things that distinguishes the NL from the AL. Its one of the best things about the world series.
What a crock. You don’t win 2 Cy’s without being able to make adjustments during a game.
“Mike Krukow is on assignment.” Translation: he’s playing 36 holes between now and Father’s Day and he’s drinking the same amount of beers.
I think it should be goddamn near mandatory that pitchers tip their caps to the fans when they come off the field. Matt Cain finally came around to doing the right thing. Jesus Christ, it takes two seconds. The fans love you. They appreciate your effort.
SAY THANK YOU.
bip reminds me of the famous song by mose allison:
“your mind’s on vacation
and your mouth is working overtime”
And Timmy leaves another fb up in the zone…
Focus.
if he says “drives in a rbi” again, I’m pleading for ray fosse.
Ha!
How bout that Clown!
Sandoval’s having fun playing firstbase. Firstbase has to be a blast after usually playing thirdbase.
the giants should petition the league to let them DH for Nate until the 7th inning. It’s a reverse DH thing, he plays the field instead of hitting…….
Excellent idea. 😉
Bip is one of the worst color guys I’ve ever heard….
I heard Bip bragging about the four years he spent coaching Skyline High in Oakland (they played Crawford’s HS team). Based on the stories I’ve heard from players who spent all four of those years with Bip, the little guy shouldn’t be bragging. There’s a reason why he lasted only four years, after announcing his commitment to the program.
“Is that a chair?” asks Bip, as the camera pans past a chair.
Yikes. We need a catcher.
Mike Napoli, Tex. Currently on the DL, but that hasn’t stopped the Giants from acquiring injured players in the past.
I’ve been in and out of the house and in the car, so I’m not sure it was Kruk who said this, on tv or on the radio side, but one of them said something like: “Stewart isn’t here for his bat; he’s here for his catching and his arm.” Next.
Does Stewart take throwing lessons from NO Whitey? And Jesus H. Christ. I’ll say it again, that stolen base and run was all predicated on the fact that Timmy paid NO Whitey attention to the runner and lost FOCUS.
He didn’t lose focus he just doesn’t give a shit about runners on base. He should start to. Can someone please call Timmy out as a worthless piece of shit so we don’t have to deal with Twin declaring us Timmy apologists later? I can’t do it, I already gave him a pass tonight as our shitty #5…..
Will my last comment suffice? I’ve known to be harsher.
Seriously, reigning two-time Cy Young Award winner or not. I’m sick and tired of Timmy’s bullshit THIS year.
You’re better than than.
Don’t get why Timmeh continues to ignore baserunners. Bad on him. But, he was not only culprit. Tejada playing matador defense again, should have at least stopped that grounder from getting past for a double, the umps bungled the call about the ball being dead, and Stewart’s throw was an abomination. Other than that, great inning…
Timmy hasn’t been awesome lately. Sorry, that’s the best I can do. After winning the World Series last season, the players from last year can do no wrong, for me.
Awful decision holding Pablo, DeJesus has zero arm.The play at the plate was just bad luck.
Well, shit, Stewart does have an arm doesn’t he? Tim is fucked up mentally, and he’s taking a long time working through it. But he has been through worse, and come out of it even better. His arm looks strong. He’ll be back. In the meantime, he’s far from bad. They’re in the game.
I’m going easy on Lincecum because giving up 3 to the A’s means something is terribly terriblly wrong.. those double doubles have been known to back up- it ain’t pretty, my friends..
“Hey, the food ain’t that bad.”
No, it’s the pitching stoopid!
“It looks like it’s easier when he [the pitcher] hits his target…” ? Really, Bip. Bring back the Polish Prince!
Tomorrow’s poll: Who is a worse color guy, Snow or Bip? I think I’d rather gauge my eye with a fork than try to answer that correctly……..
That was a horrible AB from Pablo. Not as horrible as Bip’s broadcasting, but close.
Danny Noonan at SS! We’ll take the freebie. Go see Judge Smails…
Zumarast,
I’m with with you. Timmy is the man who has a WS ring. I will still root for them to take it again, but after a lose I just cue up the last pitch on fox on the tivo and see Tim scale that fence again to join the winning pile and all is forgiven!
Giants seriously need some power. They can’t consistently “move the line” as Lurie says, so they need to score by parking some over the fences. Where it will come from, that’s a mystery. Cody got one tonite, but they’re seriously power deficient. I don’t know what the game to game comparison is with last year, but I’d guess the squad is fairly far behind last year’s tater count to date. Unfortunately, I don’t see anybody breaking out the HR sticks anytime soon on a consistent basis….
Ross scored 50% of their runs tonight on a HR, and they’re only one back.
My post is about the season. I duly noted his HR tonite….
No, you didn’t “duly” note Ross’s homer, you discounted it, you mendacious piece of . . . well, you know.
In the inimitable words of Harbaugh, what’s your deal?
“Mendacious”? My goodness. Really?
I noted Cody’s HR, great, but in the big picture, it’s a drop in the bucket, as the HR stats indicate. Note the facts….
Snarkk- that’s the single reason I can get behind a little bill hall love. hitting the timely bomb by a bunch of different random dudes is the only way we win games. Bill hall, goddamn. That was ugly…
Gyros are 24th in MLB with 45 HRs, a little better than I expected. But, last year at the AS break (88 games) they had 82 HRs, for a 0.93 HR/game average. So far, they’re at 45 HRs over 69 games, or a 0.65 HR/game average clip. That’s a 30% drop in HR production from last year. Not good….
Jesus fucking Christ. Great stop by Tejada, and Hall Danny Noonan’s the catch. No glove.
I know I’ve been a member of the pack, if the leader of the Tejada bashing brigade, but that was a sweet play.
Hey, Marcel (Bill Hall)! Catch the fucking ball!
I’m not sweatin’ the Hall drop. Dumb play, whatever. He was trippin on it so hard he forgot to jump on that 2bag play. That’s how Nishikowa went down earlier this year…. I’m trying to type something coherent about a Bill Hall flier but Bip keeps interrupting me with his idiocy…
The offense has to do better than 1 ER off of Oakland’s man Godfrey
Just checked through May- 39 HR last year 36 this year. Of course they got power later from Pat, Buster, Ross…so they’re well behind. Which wuld be expected with the time lost by Panda, Ross, Torres, Buster…it’ll pick up some but I’m sure they’ll be short. Of course, the pitching is a bit better…
In other words, the stats I cited are correct. They’re seriously down on year on year power to date. Burrell and Ross weren’t even there before the AS break, which is what I cited. The power drain is hurting run production. They’re still 9 up over .500, so one can argue BFD. But, if they were on similar HR pace now as last year, they’d be even better….
Never said you were wrong, Snarkklefuck. If you read my post, I’m supporting what you said but expanding on it
Awright. I stand clarified and supported and expanded.
Think I’ll get another glass of Syrah and hope for last ups heroics…
Bip did praise Kuip’s skill as a 2B. That gracious moment of honesty, from a guy who was a pretty good 2B himself, gives him a pass tonight. But, man, is he a vapid rapid talker.
Well, the A’s have Shooty…
the giants can’t win this one as Balfour goes 2 scoreless innings
(that should jinks him)
any other team by the As and Timmy is out of the game by the fifth. Great to see his velocity is good and he _seemed_ to have a little better outing than recently.
I was watching the archived MLB – TV game.
“…a little better outing than recently”?
OK, I’ll admit the last Oakland start wasn’t recent.
Guess my selective memory only wants to remember the good outings…can you blame it?
I heartily agree with xoot on Bip. Pretty empty.
Earlier in other arenas I was bagging on Bochy for starting Whiteside over Nelson based on Nelson’s snappier throws.
So now Chris goes and makes me look the fool. Folks familiar with me know I need no assistance in that area.
interesting blog. Seems popular.
What gets you banned here?
No need to reply, I’ll find out either by choice or chance.
Marlins now 3-19 since the collision. Weird statistic.
Lincecum had 5 walks, he wasn’t very good. But he still only gave up 3. In the end, it was an indifferent start, but winnable, if only the team could score more than a couple off of a nobody…
I don’t think ‘nobody’ plays in the majors. They might no be elite or even noteworthy, but you make it this far and you got something, somehow and that makes you a somebody.
The guy just won his first MLB game. He was a nobody. Now, he’s sorta a somebody….
has anyone seen the mythbusters ultimate paintball gun? The shoot one round at a 6′ plyboard target and paint the mona lisa. that’s what moto’s pitches looked like they were all over, in and out, of the strike zone.
Yeah! Huff
blah, fail
It’ll be Mota out, Zito in pretty soon. Zito won’t be of much use in the bullpen, but that’s the way it’ll have to be.
Why is that how it “has to be”?
Why can’t the Giants simply admit financial defeat, keep the spots in the SP/BP filled with the currently effective roster and move on? After last year’s pointed omission from the postseason roster it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
And as far as value for money spent – well, it’s spent whether Zito pitches or Vogelsong pitches or Mota pitches.
Why not get some wins instead of losses?
Going into tonight they’re 4th in runs on the road and 4th in HRs on the road. Offensively their home park is hurting them more than in the past. But, as I’ve patiently pointed out, they are #1 in pitching at home. There’s nothing to worry about. The bummer tonight is that Mota may have opened the door for Zitboy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uj5JvSYrbg
crawford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJbjzpB1Is
mythbusters
it’s a bit ling so skip forward, shown again in slo-mo at the end
I am not pissed, it is just a loss
and I love getting up at 4am to see a lackluster Huffster DHing
Ed, I’m happy you’re not pissed. But over here across the pond, I’m pissed off like a homeless lost soul who just had his Sunday classified section swiped off his favorite bench at the Japanese Tea Gardens.
I’m pissed!
I’ll go out on a short limb. If this squad doesn’t get to at least 4.0 runs/game, and I don’t know how they will unless Sabes seriously re-tools at or before the trade deadline, they will not make the playoffs….
To which the only consolation will be…last year.
Which I’m certain will be one well worn (but so deliciously effective!) consolation.
Well, that was a pretty durn good effort from a 4 or 5 starter, I ‘ll say that.
That was great effort from a future HOFer who has recently lost his mind. People will cite back to games like this with wonder — he had no mind, no mind at all, and yet he pitched through it, “kept his team in the game(s).” You should post your sightings, tips and other ideas at wherestimmysmind123.org. (Just don’t mention haircuts. That sort of malice doesn’t help anyone.)
I stick with the rotten teeth now..
It was a decent effort. No more no less. Remember this was the AAA’s..
I remember looking at him during his start against – who was it, the Cardinals? The Reds?
The one he picked up his 1000th K.
/Googles
Oh, snap – the Nationals!
(I don’t sleep much. All I remember were red jerseys.)
I say a lot of slow facial movement. And a lot of blank expressions.
And this thought occurred to me…maybe he’s stoned.
Highly unlikely? Maybe.
Impossible? No.
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Hey, Loo! No need to search for any documents here. I’ll make sure I spell all the words correctly, and I’ll try to use all the different keywords that I know…Here it comes: Bob Baffert has a firster running Sunday in the 2nd at Hollywood. His name is NIGHT TIDE. He’s number EIGHT. He’s going to WIN. (hopefully) 😀
What’s his VORH?
Yucko all the way around. Too many walks by Timmy, too few hits off a no-name pitcher, yet another bad play by one of the catchers, Pablo scared off by the pride of Manalapan, N.J., Mota putting it out of reach. I know it’s considered a road game, but even though they’re only 8 miles away and half the crowd is Giants fans, they just can’t seem to get anything going at that tomb of a ballpark.
I live in the metro Phoenix area.
MLB – TV blacks out local team games’ video feeds until 90 minutes after they’re over.
I don’t pay $120/year to listen to the radio, so I wait for the archived game. That explains how I handle Giants/DiamondBlanks’ games.
Also, here in Hell it’s a tad warm in the day, so I do my conscious stuff at night.
That covers how I handle games with everyone else.
All this time I’ve had the archived game on pause. This is Bob Melvin’s fault.
(Remember the trivia question? And what Kuip said Melvin would say about the trade being what led the giants to the playoffs?)
I went to Baseball Reference and read play by play accounts of the ’87 NLCS between the Cardinals and Giants.
Then I looked at stats of a completely different player – the MVP of that series, who is still the only MVP to come from the losing side.
The paused archived game keeps coming back on while I screw around elsewhere on the ‘Nets.
For some strange reason I don’t want to watch games I know the Giants lose, so I block out the inning and final scores of archived games.
I also don’t go places where scores are posted.
Of course there are many ways of becoming historically informed. And until I showed up here and read commentary I didn’t know how that one was going to turn out.
This is, of course, entirely my bad. But honestly – thanks for saving me the wasted time.
If I’d made a similar move last night (actually yesterday morning) I could have saved a lot of time as well.
Damned Blanks…toodles, Vic
I don’t care who you play.
If you only score 2, you can’t expect to win the game…
You can if you’re playing the Giants…
But only you and Doomin’ Denny make a BFD out of every loss.
Lets send them a case of Old Milwaukee each.
“If you only score 2, you can’t expect to win the game…Lincecum against the AAA’s they should..
Guess you’ve missed my numerous posts saying “can’t win ’em all”, and get ’em tomorrow.
When you only score 2, I don’t go the Gene Kelly singin’ in the rain route….
Just reminded me of one of my favorite broadcasting goofs ever. Pat Summerall calling Giant LB Brian Kelley – “Emmitt Kelly”.
Emmitt Kelly sacking Roger Staubach?
The 6 man rotation is coming. Don’t forget these guys pitched into November. The BP is tired, too…
So, Timmy’s problems are due to last year’s playoffs?
Mota’s pitching himself to the DL. Zito takes his spot. They aren’t putting Zito in the rotation. Unless a starter goes down.
Timmy walking 5 A’s is pretty bad. He’s git to cut back on the cheeseburgers . . .
Maybe pot and fast food isn’t the best way to grind through a season . . .
Hell, if he didn’t have some double doubles, maybe he walks 8….
Hey was that you at Burger King stuffing down a Whopper? BLEEP the A’s!