It’s *Money Ball* Time
I feel bad for A’s fans–their most important time of the year just came and went with very little to celebrate. The next 2 months is a dead time for them….
On the other hand, the Giants are just getting started. This is when they take their game to the next level. I think it’s possible that the trade deadline got into Torres’ head a little. It’s sink or swim with him right now. Same with Beltran. You’re one of the guys now dude and that doesn’t mean you’ve forgotten how to hit. Huff? It’s time for him to sit until this *back problem* clears up. He’s only hurting the team right now…
I didn’t really sweat the Cincinnati series. We got down early in all 3 games and it makes it very difficult to come back on the road when you put yourself in a hole like that. Just chalk it up to a weird series with the trade deadline approaching and being on the road in a weird ball park….
Now we come home to play the D-backs, a team that is wide eyed and clueless as they head into this post-trade deadline season. I think experience really will help guide us from here on out as there is something to be said for *been there–know how to do that*. And as much as I hate the Cabrera trade, at least he’s got that going for him…
I’m over the no-trade for a catcher thing. The fact is, we were never going to trade for a young catcher like Iannetta with Posey coming back next year. And all the old guys are only marginally better than Stew-side. I really would just go with Stewart primarily since he can at least throw and block balls. Plus, he’s the best bunter in all of baseball so that’s gotta come in handy at some point 🙂
The rest of the season starts today…..
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Listen you guys, Zito going on the DL is a bunch of hooey. As a Giants fan I’m behind it 100%
But Jesus H. Christ. I’ve lied through my teeth before, but I don’t have the David Letterman gap…
Zito’s salary was Magowan’s folly. The guy did great things in the 90s (one of which was hiring Sabean). But he fucked up in the steroid era and never regained perspective.
From Baseball Reference: “Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.”
It’s probably not real had to find something wrong with about any player as month 5 arrives.
Cain throws a 3-2 fastball down the middle, and says- hey dude, go for it, knock yourself out, you just got AT&Teed!
There is language in the CBA against “gaming he system” But just understanding that I know what I’m talking about would be a better way to go.
“The freed-up roster spot can be strategically valuable, leading to occasional creative use of disabled lists by MLB teams and their affiliates (similar to teams appealing or dropping the appeal of a suspended player to maximize player contribution). Players who are performing poorly and are slightly injured might be put on the DL so they can go to the minors on rehab, when the MLB club might only want them in the minors because they are playing poorly. There are rules against blatantly “gaming the system” in the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the players and the league.”
I can find a lot more on this but I already had too much time wasted on the Shierholtz playing LF before bullshit.
Or you vcan prove he’s not hurt at all..
I guess what I mean is, what proof is there that Zito has no injury- other than you saying he doesn’t?
If the roles were reversed, and we were 2 GB of the D-Backs. If they pulled a move similar to this, you, I, Chuckles, Nipper and the man living in van down by the river would be up in arms. Listen, I’m 100% for cheating, just don’t get caught.
Good morning, good afternoon, and good night NO Whitey. Even Vern and Vera on their death beds couldn’t call that a “good AB.” Only begotten son or not. So help me Christ if his name is announced to bat 8th in Game 1 of the NLDS you guys are gonna here bitching and moaning like never before…
you said they monitor fake injuries. All that legal blather says is that there are rules against it. Who didn’t fucking know that? Stop posting legal blather and tell us how they specifically go about monitoring fake injuries. Or you could just admit that you are in the same boat as the rest of us. We’ve got no idea how they fucking do it……
They have to submit the injury report to the motherfucking league. Don’t be a total asshole on this.The burden is on you or a complaining team to show an injury is fake if the league approves it- going on the DL is subject to league approval and the CBA- which is in place to protect the PLAYER from a bogus DL stint.. The injury in this case is the same one that got him there in the first place. So there is video proof of an injury. League Medical people are not qualified to measure things like pain tolerance.Now don’t waste my time on a non-arguable issue.
idiotic response. Just admit you have no fucking idea how they monitor it other than the same ways we can all guess they do. The only reason I made a big deal of this is because it’s another example of you talking down to people about all the shit you know. Turns out, when called on it, you know about the same as any of us who can operate a google search engine. NOW we are done with this…..
So why aren’t there complaints if it’s so obvious? My response was coherent and accurate. Try it.
Cainer!
Ah, how normal it feels to be back in the comfort zone of one-run-ness, safe and insecure within the all-too-familiar Tension Envelope.
Magnus, how does one (i.e., me) insert an image? I want to show the Tension Envelopes sign to the Flap Nation.
And my coveted-player-crush, Mike Stanton of the Marlins, just KO’d the Metropolitans with a GS.
I’ll add you to a secret list that allows you to do that. But I can’t do it right now.
Gee, no one has ever put me on a secret list, except maybe the FBI when I played all those Phil Ochs records and went to his and Mimi Farina concerts.
My own Mimi Farina (she was gorgeous) story is not admirable at all: New Year’s Eve, 1971, she was in concert with Tom Jans (“In the Quiet Morning” LP with him is very decent) at the Gaslight in Greenwich Village. Someone very similar in name to Pawlie Kokonuts was sitting at the front table. Early in the evening, the performers publicly warned against obnoxious drunken audience members from making a scene at midnight. I heard the warning. I could not comply with its demands, barreling and racing at the stroke of midnight to the toilets to unburden myself of the vast quantity of whiskey quickly consumed. And that was the good part of the night. The scene on the floor of Grand Central Terminal, by the famous and iconic information booth, was not scrapbook material either. The marble floor was never intended as a rest room. Ah, what a night.
aw, c’mon, I spilled my guts out above, so to speak
Well, maybe we’re getting real, after all.
Yay for Carlos!
I’m sure the teams have to submit MD reports. The Giants have MDs ready to write reports. “Hallux limitus, poss. hallux rigidus. Rx: med & rest.”
Whoa. “Professional hitter.” Beltran needs to get some more hits this homestand.
Huff-duddy.
“Shawn Bradley”, who might have been the ugliest player in the NBA since Mel Counts and Hank Finkel. both of those guys played for Boston at one time and had to wear those disgustingly hideous black high tops.
In the famous words of Fred Sanford,
“I’ll take your face, put it in some dough, and make me a gorilla cookie.”
we have an unending parade of shitty hitters who can’t hit. I’m gonna go do some other shit, come back, and wait for one of them to fuck up less than the others and weazel out a hit to win it late…
Cainer!!
Oblique injuries seem to be considered suspect often. The nice thing about accusing a team of faking a player injury is that the accuser knows there just isn’t proof available either way ( to the blogosphere,anyway) .The person most likely to complain would not be a player or exec from another team- but Zito himself if he thought they were jacking him around.
it’s fucking headline news when Whiteside can get the ball out of the infield….
Your pitcher labors to get through an inning and the first 2 batters go out on 3 pitches with your pitcher hitting third. As dumb as it gets…
just not as dumb as the Snake hitters, right?
We’ve had pretty good success against the dumbfucks…
I guess they don’t look wide eyed and clueless either, eh? What are you, Snarkk’s running mate now/
Baseball is an unpredictable game: the lowly Astros just accomplished what we could not. They beat the Reds.
Cain got no breather between innings and this is the result…
The wheels got wobbly on the Cainer-mobile.
Wow. Death by a thousand cuts.
Dbacks are such dumb hitters.
Only 8 of the last 12 have got on base….
Sorry, make that 9 of 13. Even dumber…
Oh my God! The other team scored 3 runs! In the Giants world that means that our pitching has fallen apart. The offense never gets any fucking blame at all…….
You’re the dude that had Beltran totally transforming the offense, pal.
Thank Christ I have prescribed medicine for just such an occasion.
Flavor has said the same thing about the DBack hitters- it’s why they’ve traditionally led the league in K’s. Snarkk’s not here, so I guess he’s filling in. What’s pathetic is being delighted that Cain is out dumbing them…
And Flavor is the dude that had Beltran totally transforming the offense.
I think it’s high time Twin tells me how wrong I was again about the
Snakes.
Telly Savalas just called, “who luvs ya, baby?” Please note, Telly Savalas dumped A*** S**** as a client.
You were wrong. You said they would be in firstplace.
Well, you said they’d be in first on May 30, July 4, the AS break- yeah, you’ve fucking blown every call, asshole.
I predict that the ump will give Kennedy a close strike, and Bochy is going to go ballistic and get tossed.
Well, game over now.
Interesting that Zito is divined as actually hurt where there is no independent note of that, yet the team was divined as surely lying when Timmy was said to have stomach flu, though the beat reports indicated he actually had a stomach problem before he even got to Philly. Interesting medical divination, that…
Tim wasn’t submitted to the league as a DL candidate.
Old man Beltran
Flavor, Denny, Snarkkles all delighted that they perceive my division call might be wrong. That is truly pathetic. Even more so ids the idiotic presumption that because Cain had a poor inning, the Dbacks are suddenly intelligent hitters.
And I never said our crew are Einsteins at the plate…so that’s a red herring..
Someone get a hit with RISP . . .
Joan Baez territory?
Holy Mother of Pearl. Not only is this shit gonna get interesting, but it’s gonna get brutally painful and sorrowful. .We could be in 2nd place come Wednesday afternoon. I hope to hell that doesn’t happen. Otherwise the shit’s gonna hit the fan…
Fuck, Dennis. You used to be fun. Now yer a fucking nag . . .
I see
Surely you must be joking
I’m not joking. And don’t call me Shirley
Okay. The Flap’s going all over the place now.
Hurly Burly
Hellzapoppin
Mariners fan in the crowd
Is Burrell still a Giant?
Only in name . . .
Bullshit, Dennis. You’ll never be happier than if AZ takes over first. All doomers prefer doom. And you’d act like the season ended August 3. You pulled the same shit all last year- SF was never catching SD.
Dennis, that is a direct threat and you can’t get away with your usual I was kidding bullshit. And the only call you made on the DBacks was that they’d lead on several dates- youi aren’t right yet, fuckwad. Being threatented by a person who knows where I live is an extremely unsettling experience. It wasn’t a good idea.
Alright for the Huff-ster there!
A Huffie sighting. . .
Shit, someone deleted something. The posts are going out of time . . .
The Giants have a shortstop/catcher black hole vortex in their lineup.
Flavor often starts deleting my posts, especially if they piss off Snarkk or Denny.
Baggs’ blog via Steward reported Zito was with the media waiting to go into see Bochy and Sabes, and he didn’t know what was up. He apparently didn’t know he was hurt — yet.
I applaud the DL move, they had no other choice, but to DFA him, and they won’t do that in the middle of a season. This is it for Zito. He’ll be back in September, maybe used here and there. He will be moved somehow in the offseason, maybe on a rare Sunday when the Niners win so that few will notice he’s gone…
Joan Baez???
You’ve all lost me…
Let’s go boys. Beltran for the tie
OK. Let’s go . . .
ONE hit w/RISP . . . .
This is just plain weird
And that rally went Phhhhhhhtttttttttt………..
Someone said you have to use reply when this shit happens. Anyway- a pitcher having a bad inning and the offense performing poorly does not excuse EITHER. In Cincy the pitchers gave up 10 total.in the first inning. That’s on them, just as Matt’s five spot is on him. I said AZ is not an intelligent hitting team, Flavor said they’re pitching over their heads, wide eyed, and clueless. big fucking diff…
Joan Baez?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
This got fucked up. Whoever has the power to fuck this up, allow me to request most politely.
FUCKING STOP IT OR DON’T FUCKING DO IT AGAIN!!!!
I said when Sabes picked up Keppinger that it meant Franchez was going under the knife. They got smart and figured the earlier, the better for next year, so went out to get Cabrera to solidify, if that can be said, the middle infield. So, Franchez reported to have shoulder surgery tomorrow. Hopefully, he can be ready by no later than maybe late next May. I like the guy, getting hurt was a huge loss. Unfortunate that he’s damn fragile…
Seriously, Snarkk, why is it important to remind us that you said it?
They proceeded exacty how they said they would, Karnak.
I dunno, kinda like being reminded by you that the Giants have a “shortstop/catcher black hole vortex” in the LU…
Wow . . . The Giants suck right now. And they may fall out of the lead at this rate. But this is a long way from over. these guys WILL settle down and start hitting. They will take the division.
But really. A DP for Beltran? Cheeeeerist . . .
Well, too confusing. Goodnight, gentlemen. Hopee the Giants win. Get back tomorrow
Okay. Okay.
gentlemen, welcome to august. it won’t be easy, but hopefully it will be fun in the end. strap in, drink up and hold on.
Bochy passed up some marvelous opportunities to get tossed.
Even Boch is tired.
Denver media is speculating that their catcher, Iannetta might be placed on waivers this week. If he clears, the Rocks would be in a position to trade him this month if a contender has an injury to a catcher. If somebody puts in a claim, the Rocks could see if they can work out a deal. They also want to get rid of Ian Stewart and almost had a suc . . . umm, deal to move Stewart, but it fell apart about half an hour before Sunday’s 2 p.m. MDT nonwaiver trade deadline.
I’m outta here. This time stamp crap is making me dizzy, along with El Presidente’s crap throws to second. This squad looks out of sorts right now, maybe it’s all the new guys have messed up the chemistry. Ooops. Now, they’re saying Casilla may actually be hurt. Wow, they may have stepped on Zito’s foot a little too soon. Bon soir….
But before I go, I’d just like to say:
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There was the Great Wall of China, and the Berlin Wall, and the great wall the Giants have to climb over to get two runs in a game.
Game. Goodnight, gentlemen (kram noitseuq)
Actually, it was zumie, not xoot. Whatever. LSD> NOW AND FOREVER!!!!!
Zumie, not Xoot, in regard to what?
“Is Burrell still a Giant?” Yep, and he had the second highest OPS on the team going into last night’s game!
If the Giants lose today they will have scored fewer runs than the opposition for the season, while sporting a 61-48 record. For all of the injuries and unmet expectations, and the continued blather about how they don’t get the “big hit,” this is, at least in one major respect, a pretty lucky crew.
Make that 61-49 . . . .