Tough Game
Weird, last night’s epic fail is bothering me more this morning than it did last night. It’s usually the reverse. All I’ve got in me is a “knowing *dude* nod”. But it’s not vertical, it’s horizontal. You want a few heaping servings of bad luck? Not only does our best hitter foul a ball off his foot but he hits a grounder to third that he has to run out as hard as he can! I’m sure the foot felt great after that…..
And now, with great irony, we turn to Dirrrrty to right this wayward ship. Only because I feel certain that he will fail today do I have hope that he will pitch masterfully. It’s upside-down day. And faced with nothing but more injuries, players healing slowly and wins being ripped away from us, there’s nothing else that can possibly happen except the impossible. I need my knowing dude nod to get vertical again…….
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didn’t Prado have a top 40 hit in the ’50s? ba-doom
c’mon, MDR, be a hero
DeRosa Lives!
Amen to that
Incredible Houdini act by Lopez and the inflield. Nifty prescient doubleswitch by Bochy. We could win this.
A DeRosa contribution!!!! Good for him.
Ain’t a home run but I’ll take it.
DeRosa doing everything he can. Dribble as many singles as you can, my man.
DeRosa with a freekin knock!
Why has Bochy been hiding this guy? Who knew?!!!…
They finally earhole him. Almost
Double up time.
WOw. When he’s on. he squares shit up.
You hate Ross much, chuck?
Uh, nevermind.
I think we will likely lose this game. But I could care less, it’s been unbelievably entertaining and it showed these guys that they can do whatever they fucking want to do if they stick together. Fuck AZ and their win tonight. We are the World Champions until someone else wins it. And tonight, beaten and battered, we are playing like WORLD CHAMPIONS……..
I totally agree. Atlanta has a home advantage here and all that, but we walk out of this game with a sense of victory — not the same as a W, but we showed something.
Little Lord Fontenot is not the guy I want up in any situation. I just don’t like that guy.
Nice Spanish-Irish step dancing from Lopez.
There will absolutely come a day with part of maple bat in a player’s eye..
I’m going for a tumbler of Makers and ice.
This shit is exciting, and driving me nutz…
Jints did play a great game…that was a good post flav
thanks. And hey, if you can fire off 100 posts at JDR’s blog you can big time us here every once in an while 🙂
Thanks, flav…you were jumping back n forth too…
Later Flappers
Fuck. Oh well, this was epic and they should take something from it……
Oh well. Another tough tough loss.
No prob, though. Matt and Timmy on the way . . .
Last night was a punch in the gut. And tonight we get the boxer’s mother coming into the ring with her stiletto heel for good measure.
Not at all pleased to see a loss; they grind on me. But i am proud of these Giants. They gave it all they got. Proves they can be in any game against any team. What else to say?
I heard that you have to get a wrist band before you can buy a ticket to get to the bridge.
Damn. Had a feeling it was trouble when Conrad came up.
guess he sort of owed us one, or we him, karmicly speaking (which is pure nonsense)
Fuck the Braves and good for Conrad (I guess).
That loss showed this team’s heart and character more than most wins. What a gutty performance.. now Cain and Lincecum get the split..
Papa just said “bottom line, they lost”. Another example of why he has no clue…
yes, idiotic spot by him..
With this valiant loss, and the Dbacks win over Halladay, Giants are on the ropes.
They have to gather, and get at least one of the next 2, then limp into Houston and win that series. Do that, and they live to go to the corner to come out for the next round….
or we could just throw in the towel…
Bip: “the Giants have to re-group quickly or this race is over”— Another idiot. They RE-GROUPED tonight you stupid fuck. I don’t even give a shit if we lose the next 2 as long as we sweep Houston. Look, we play 6 more against the Doosh-backs and every other single game we play are against teams with losing records. And yet the COmcast fuckheads completely missed the spirit of this game and say we’re on the ropes, in mid August with shit teams to play the rest of the way. Unreal……..
They ARE on the ropes. That doesn’t diminish the greatness of this loss.
They can pull it back together, because of the pitching
But, with all these injuries, it doesn’t look too good…
Snakes may be getting pretty cocky now. Could they be coming into their own or are they peaking too early? So Conrad gets his revenge and the Devil wears Prado. Okay, but this is still August. Helluva lot of heart on this team. One run given up over 9 by the bullpen. What a performance. Who knows what may have happened had the team been at full strength. I’m sure we’ll all be watching to see what gives with the injury list. For a squad with one leg hobbled and an arm tied behind their back, this bunch put up one helluva fight. This could fire up Matt and Timmy. Big ol Southern boy like our Horse would like nothing better than to put down Jair Jurrgens.
good one
Looks like we’re gonna need another 5th starter. Bochy said Sanchez will be out awhile.
We should have traded for Ubaldo.
God, it really is Soph.
stix, i think you make a good point: this is going to fire up matt and timmy. i prefer to see az hot in mid august than in mid sept. don’t you just love a good pennant race?
There’s a long way to go and 6 with the DBacks. “They can pull it back together, because of the pitching” And defense, and the heart of all.
1. Brave’s announcer called Cody’s home run trot the “off to see the wizard routine.” Hadn’t heard that one before. Outstanding.
2. If someone had to come through against us, I was glad to see it was Conrad. Went to high school right around the corner from my house and I didn’t even know if he was still in the league after that debacle in the playoffs last year.
3. Helluva gutsy performance. We’ve got big balls–they’re such big balls and they’re dirty big balls!
I was fortunate to be at Panda’s big league debut in Houston a few years ago, maybe I can say the same about Erik Surkamp if he get’s the call on Sunday.
Sorry Snarkk, but I don’t think we are on the ropes on Aug 15th. We are actually a half a game closer today than we were last year…….
I’m not talkin’ heart, BF. They showed that tonite.
But, all these injuries are for real, they have real consequences.
Giants had trouble scoring when everybody was healthy, I don’t know how they can score with half the team DL’d or limping…
Flav, that’s the best news we’ve heard all day!
Twitterverse doesn’t get it either. I made my point on Twitter, as I did here. One guy saying “just not our year.” Grow up. I know the feeling (I was guilty of it last year), but c’mon, did you watch the game? Did you really watch it? We may indeed end up out of it, but you just can’t make that call yet. Why would you? And if you’ve heard Bochy, he will not tolerate even a hint of a whisper of that attitude. So, win or lose, I am 100% these guys will play hard until the last day.
and while we are going with this “beaten and battered” theme, check this: Atlanta is one of the best home teams in the NL. Last night we were a strike away from beating them and tonight we hung with them like men only to lose late like many teams do when you go extra innings on the road. Come on, with our remaining schedule and the spirit of this team (that they are absolutely feeding on despite the cluelessness of Papa and Bip Idiot) it’s a real stretch to say we are on the ropes right now……..
I agree, and I am naturally and Slavically disposed toward doomeritis, though not a gloomy, Lutheran Midwesterner [that’s to see what Stix says]
they’re saying Dirty on crutches; and Kepp and Nate day to day. Is it Nate’s hip? Oh well, builds character. Bochy will tolerate no whining, and maybe even some dark humor will be thrown in.
And the Phils will take the next 2.
Those Comcast guys aren’t the only media dolts to leave the Giants for dead. Reading the game stories today from Monday’s loss, it sounded like Bochy was asked something along the lines of, Is this simply not the Giants’ year? (From Baggs’ story.) Like the Giants are supposed to just throw in the towel in mid-August and down only 2 1/2 games (now 3 1/2). They’re all a bunch of friggin’ idiots.
right, and as I said, Bochy — and the players — just don’t approach it that way. They will keep their swagger until the last scintilla [is that the right word] of a shred of hope and possibility
they watch the games but they’re too busy with their sound bites and not saying shit to upset a vanilla party line. Lose game? Talk about how bad it is to lose game. Win game? Talk about how great it is to win a game. Worthless…….
As some others might have posted, last night was a kick in the gut- tonight showed a team that must have been shell shocked by the spate of injuries- then saw Dirty go down as well. No, they still didn’t hit and we’ll hear plenty about that from the usual perp- what they did was battle in the field and show all but the dimmest why they’re the Champs…
I respectfully declare someone else should be POTD, probably even you, Magnus Flavoris.
thanks, but negative. Your post was simple, too the point, and it covered exactly what we have been talking about tonight that has eluded the Bip-Idiots of the world…….
For what little we saw of him, Dirrrty did look pretty good, possibly back to form.
zero strike outs was not a good sign and Stewart bailed him out of what usually is a killer inning for him. But I agree, he pitched decently, I wouldn’t call him back to form though, especially with 0 SO’s…..
Rowand rockin’ the *handlebars*……Ummmmmm.
Now just some leather chaps, the batting stance, and … good to go!
This is pissing me off. Some douche named Will (sfgigante will, or something like that) @Twitter, whines, “some rookie pitcher we get only one hit off.” Maybe this goes on at the Splash. I never read it. But how narrow a view. Um, the ONE hit? Did you see it? It tied the game. Took out the rook. The guy woulda shut down the Phils or Bosox or Yanks tonight. He was terrific. But, what if we had 12 hits and no runs off him?? How silly a view. You simply CANNOT ignore how tough we played. I am sure the Braves fans and players got it.
BTW, Dirty saying now he might be able to make next start, so we’ll see. And Kepp and Nate were sort of almost quasi ready to PH.
Forgotten: gutsy of Pablo to pay like he did on a very sore foot; you can see it.
“Tests negative on Nate, Keppinger.” per Shea. I think that was x-ray and MRI, respectively. A little pos’tive news…
It was a little early to declare it was a good outing., also way early to judge him on the Ks. We all know he can rack them up in a hurry. He was as high as 92, his usual best. He also had a couple 88s..
Jesus, all the usual morons on Comcast..are going to battle for Head Doomer.
sniff…..
And with the retro-active DL, Car-less is just a week away…
Loo can count!
G’night.
zzzzzzzzz
let’s play two!
We won’t have enough players by the end of a double-dip . . . !
i was only hoping you wouldn’t make that particular point.
How about a loud BLEEP!
Bip was kinda on the right track talking about the guttiness amid the injuries, then just faded into “well, they lost”.
Major dumbosity.
Drrrty could well be on his way back. One walk? But he did only go 2-2/3.
Time to ride the horse . . .
Mr. Crowley . . . can I ride your white horse?
Ann Killion was reasonably sane about things, and she’s not the worst looking woman in the world either.. OMG. Yet another way to tell that that the only women who will have anything to do with me have moved to Nepal…
Nip, you’re a recent potd winner. “sniff” and “bleep” are for those beneath you..,
You just noticed that’s 94% of Nip’s repertoire? Other than “Twin’s right!!”?
Tough loss tonight. So time for some sick humor.
One of the worst positioning of headlines occurred in the San Jose Mercury News on the day that former baseball player Dave Dravecky announced that he would have his arm amputated and the Chicago Bulls won the NBA title: DRAVECKY TO LOSE ARM – THE BULLS PULL IT OFF.
Goodnight, gentlemen…question mark
The misplaced photo is always good for a chuckle or two….
I have zero idea why Nipper has my back. Maybe he’s one of my ex-wives. No, that’s obviously not it…. I don’t know when the very first blog appeared, but I’d bet Nipper posted on it.
After a stiff Makers and an iced Drambuie chaser, I have concluded that tonight’s tilt may have been the best game of the year. Yet, it was a loss. In losing. sometimes legends are wrought…
As Craig said, it was a game that they were totally expected to lose, even with, or maybe especially with, the kid pitcher going against them. Somehow, Dirty going down just seemed part of the plot. Perhaps the only surprising thing was that they didn’t run out of players and end up with Don Nelson managing.
All of the rot on the TV, I absolutely cannot believe that everyone missed it. This loss was not crushing or fatal- it was perhaps the game that will reverse their fortunes…
If Bruce can round up 9 guys for tomorrow, that is..