Getting Shut Out Again and I Could Care Less
That one was fairly easy to swallow. The 4th game of a hot ass week in Atlanta–I think our bats were a little flat. Same thing happened last year when Jaime Garcia went through our line up in like 82 pitches (or whatever it was)….
And now, we reach a door that opens to a Nirvana of sorts. The only team we face with a winning record the rest of the way is Arizona. And being only 2.5 back of them, I believe us to be be basically in control of our destiny no matter what the doosh-backs do. In fact, after this 3 game diddy with Houston we start a 12 game home stretch against crap teams….
I’m going to enjoy the furor over this series with the Astros. We are a pretty tired and beat up team right now. Not playing well in Houston won’t surprise me. Then we come home and find the ledge pretty empty. We look around and say “Hmmmm, that’s odd, the ledge should be full right now.” Then we find out it’s because most of you jumped. We’ll give them a few knowing dude nods to honor their short life span as fans of this team and maybe send down a cleaning crew to wipe your asses up. And then we’ll head back inside, grab a beer, turn on the tv, and watch the Giants reel off a 9-3 homestand, cruising past the D-backs by the early part of September….
Romo is coming back. Looks like Beltran is even coming back next week. We’ll probably miss Bee-Wheezy for this series in Houston. But August 23rd is the date to circle. That is the date that we shed all the weight and the sludge we’ve been carrying around the last 3 weeks. You guys can all jump after the ‘Stros series if you want. But you might want to check the schedule before you do. Things are looking up, not down. Violent knowing dude head nod as I type these last words. My head’s about to snap clean off at my neck. Don’t say I didn’t warn you……..
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Per Jeff Passan (Yahoo) a couple of days ago . . .
1. San Francisco Giants
Opponents’ winning %: .453
Home/road: 21/19
Off-days: Aug. 22, Sept. 1, Sept. 8, Sept. 19
Games vs. teams over .500: 9 of 40
Key series: at Arizona, Sept. 23-25
Overview: Fear not, Giants fans. Even if your team is looking distinctly like the post-Bonds-era crew of mediocrity, here comes a gift in the form of San Francisco’s schedule. After their next three games against Atlanta, the Giants play sub-.500 teams 31 of 37 games. They get to feast on the NL West, against whom they’re 28-17 this season, as well as seven games against woebegone Houston and three against Chicago.
2. Arizona Diamondbacks
Opponents’ winning %: .493
Home/road: 19/22
Off-days: Sept. 1, Sept. 15, Sept. 22
Games vs. teams over .500: 12 of 40
Key series: San Francisco, Sept. 23-25
Overview: The Diamondbacks are nearly as good on the road (32-27) as they are at home (36-26), so the majority of road games doesn’t pain them nearly as much as their next two series: at Atlanta, at Philadelphia. Afterward, the Diamondbacks go almost exclusively NL West, which means a whole lot of ugly teams amid one above .500: the Giants, whom they currently lead by 2½ games.
Giants have a decidedly better advantage, i.e., see NL West record. Any questions? Good . . . See ya all in the playoffs. Go Giants!
Blade, Snarkk seemed to be suggesting last night that the two of you were comrades-in-arms.. obviously that’s not true. Good post…
I don’t know where he got that idea . . . I did indicate that the Giants would have a tough time with Atlanta due to the recent injury bug; Atlanta’s position players (Freeman, McCann, and Uggla especially) having better years; and the home field advantage. In short, I indicated a split would be fortunate. They weren’t fortunate, but that’s in the rear mirror now . . .
Giants will still take the division and I think they still have a chance (as you have pointed out all year) to take it going away vs. down to the wire or the last game ala’ last year with San Diego.
I guess you both indicated that they’d be fortunate to get a split.. the deal with guys like Snarkk is that they have to invent some oppostion to their take, as with the offense. No one has argued they’re a good team offensively, who could? But no one else except perhaps the Doomer, incessantly..win or lose.. game after game. inning after inning..pitch by pitch… bitches and bitches and bitches bitches and bitches and bitches bitches and bitches and bitches bitches and bitches and bitches…
That’s a lot of bitches
Alright, alright, OK. I dig the positivity. A win tonight would go a long way toward raising my dauber, though.
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On the Chronicle Live show last night, Damon Bruce said the Giants no longer control their own destiny. He said they have to rely on the out-of-town scoreboard to help them now. That shows a stunning amount of ignorance for a sports talk-show host. Maybe not so stunning, given that it’s Bruce. If a team is 3 back in the loss column and has 6 games left with the team ahead of them, then they still have their destiny in their hands, by the definition of that sports cliche. The host of the show should have called him on it, but like most hosts of those types of shows, it’s all softballs being lobbed, all the time.
Papa and Bruce are a deadly combo…and yeah, cliche or not, 2 1/2 back, and 6 games with the pursued definitely means that they do control their own destiny. And regardless, it’s a mite early to even be discussing that, that’s more for the last week or so. Unless one presumes that AZ is winning out, the Giants ARE most likely to get help if they take of their own business..
Glad to see you have come to your sensible self. Live shows not withstanding.
Yes, Mike I should have said 2 seam, not 4. My point about Wilson’s pitching was Wilson, for about 2 weeks in June, threw a hard downward-breaking slider. Much like the Robb Nen slider. One like he hadn’t thrown before or since. He threw plenty of sliders before this season, but not with the break he had for a short time. His cutter isn’t really a slider. It has the movement of a 2 seam fastball. His ‘new’ pitch. The movement he gets on it is (supposed to be) right to left. His true slider he threw shortly was more of a downward breaking pitch. His old slider was mainly just an offspeed pitch that wasn’t all that special.
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It’s not even softballs, Zumie. It’s the push to dog the team when it is struggling. Be the first to come out and say they are toast so they can point back later and say “Look, I called their death 3 weeks ago.” Much like some folks around here. Much like Ratto’s unceasing hammering of the team since he’s been here. Saying the team has no control of their destiny is amazingly stupid. But it sounds good to the average fan. And it likely lights up the phone lines.
Chuck, that it exactly what I was talking about. BW had a hard, downward slider for a short time earlier in the summer, the thing was Nenn-like. Had not seen it move like that before. It was devastating when he threw it. Haven’t seen it since, it was like a short term comet sighting. The “slider”, cutter or whatever you want to call it he’s been throwing since and lately isn’t close to the nastiness of that earlier variety…
I don’t have a phone, how can I participate?
Oh, yeah, not listen!
I stumbled upon a Darren Ford update. He’s been in Richmond since Aug. 9 and has played in 9 games, all but one as a starter. He’s 8-33 (.242) and 2-4 in stolen bases. I don’t know if he’s all the way back and good to go just yet, but right now I’d rather see Ford on the roster than someone like Rowand, who hasn’t knocked in a run since god knows when and could be stashed on the DL with that nagging injury he had earlier this week. But with Beltran and Torres on the DL, this probably isn’t a realistic option and we’ll likely have to wait until the roster expands for Ford’s arrival. I’m just sick of seeing Timmy pitch his ass off and get zero support.
Ford is probably close to being on that ship that sails often..even with that amazing walk total ( 4 in 205 AB), Peguero is rated far the better prospect and having moved up to Richmond, he should be good to go for a look. Before the team was decimated with injuries, Ford was a good option, now not so much, IMO. I think we’d see Peguero before Ford. But not until September.
Black Tuesday was only three days ago. Already seems half a lifetime. With a two-man bench and “reserves” occupying half the positions, with new injury reports seeming to crop up on an hourly basis; the Giants hit rock bottom that day. Atlanta is over. NL East contests are done. Houston is not exactly the elite of the league, even in their own park. Guys begin to trickle back from the D.L. and from not quite on the D.L. Giants have dominated Western Division competition, far more so than the Snakes. Things could continue to look worse~maybe a ten percent chance of that. So there’s only one logical conclusion. See if you can figure it out on your own without me blurting it out.
10% means something, and the schedule at the start was heavy, now?
Chuckles, I didn’t argue anything you said about his slutter- it was Snarkk’s subsequent post where he said ‘Somebody mentioned here a little while back that they had not seen BW’s slider in a while.”( which Snarkk agreed with) I didn’t even look to see who might have said such a a stupid thing, as I’ve pointed out, and is easily confirmed, he employs it regularly, and I argue, to excess..We had this slider/cutter conversation before and his slider is called a cutter and cutter a slider depending on who’s yakking. But he does throw both. MLB.COM called 14 of his pitches sliders Monday- 4 were strikes, and in any case. it’s too many..
Wilson now throws a 4-seam, 2-seam, slider, and cutter- and for some bizarre reason, the four seam has almost been abandoned. He doesn’t fucking need four pitches, no closer does.And with two high speed breakers( he was throwing his slider at 91 on Monday), no wonder his arm is hurting, the slider and cutter are the toughest on the arm….
Baggs reports that H. Sanchez is in route to Houston. Whitey could be headed to the DL.
I wonder who taught him how to slide, Vern or Vera? It runs in the family…
The man is a catcher, he had to be thinking: if some starts a slide here aaarrrggghhhh!
Yeah, Nate did the same thing recently sliding into 3rd. He started his slide about 5′ short of where he should have, and almost didn’t make it to the bag. he was lucky not to get thrown out, and lucky to even make it to the bag.
A la Major Leagues.
DL for scrapes? Did he get a concussion?
Knowing Dude Nods all around!!
Yeah, those pitches (cutter and slider) are bullshit. He’s a power pitcher. I get sick of watching him try to bend that slider/cutter/2-seamer (whatever the fuck it is. 2-slutter?) over the outside corner to left-handed batters. Nibbling. He should be going up and in with the 4 seam fastball on LHers. I mean, his 4 seam has some movement on it. But that pitch seems to be less effective now that he’s brought in all these other goddamn pitches.
I don’t know. I just think he should get back to basics.
The blogging tuckers me out. It must, because I find myself in agreement with Chuckles. Nappy time!
I sense a tremor in the force!
May the Schwartz be with you . . .
Well, Mike, if it’s any consolation, I’m out of town til Sunday night, so you wan’t have to agree with me for a while . . .
I’m already over it.
Zumarust 8:31am post about “. . . controlling your own destiny.”
This is an absolute fact, a law if you will. Some people call it “The Law of Attraction.” It states that like attracts like meaning what you act, think & speak in your life will attract like things, events & people to you. It is a law and it does work every time no matter what. Therefore, if for example you want to create a positive destiny you must act, speak & think positively in order to attract those types of events, people & things into your life!
Related to the aforementioned, you have to act from the outcome, meaning while you are waiting for whatever it is you are waiting on to manifest into your reality – act, feel and think as though it has already taken place rather than waiting for it to occur to be grateful, happy, fulfilled or whatever it is you will feel when it occurs. This takes unwavering faith, something you must have in order to manifest your own destiny. You must believe without a doubt that what you need or want is manifesting and headed your way somehow, someway.
Are we human? Of course . . . thus the doom and gloom occasionally from some of us, including me. However, if you spend your entire time at the Flap bitching, whining and moaning, I have a fairly good idea how you live your life too. Just sayin’ . . . Go Giants!
However, if you spend your entire time at the Flap bitching, whining and moaning, I have a fairly good idea how you live your life too.
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Ouch. I mean, I know there can be a lot of truth in that. But ouch
We shan’t recover from that one.
I’m always pretty goddamn positive about the Gmen on the Flap,
If some of you don’t think so, then hard cheese and FU!
🙂 …
lineup per shea: CF Rowand, 2B DeRosa, 3B Sandoval, LF Ross, RF Schierholtz, 1B Huff, SS Tejada, C Stewart, RH Vogelsong.
I think that’s the first time i’ve posted the lineup first! It will be interesting to see derosa for a full game. see how the swing is. the thought of ro-ro in the leadoff spot just makes me ill. he’s having a good season as a pinch hitter with some pop. let’s just keep him there. screw the whole lefty-righty thing.
funny. shea reports that sandoval is out. i posted the new lineup but now, it’s gone:
The Giants just posted a new lineup without Pablo Sandoval: CF Rowand, 3B DeRosa, LF Ross, RF Schierholtz, 1B Huff, SS Tejada, C Stewart, 2B Fontenot, RH Vogelsong.
Good save there, ewisco
DeRosa has very good success against Wandy, 8 for 26 2 HR 7 RBI..
hopefully he can pick up where he left off. They could really use his bat in the weeks ahead. maybe move kepp to short?
My only regret being a SF Giants fan? Is that we don’t play @ Wrigley. Day games all the way. BB as it should be!
Houston? Astro turf?
HA! even Ted must wince.
Move all China Basin games up by 4 hours and play on the day!
(petitions available, please sign)
actually we were at a night game at wrigley a couple of weeks ago. it was actually quite lovely. would have been too hot and humid during the day. the flags were blowing out something fierce during batting practice (boys love getting there when the gates open and staying until the last out!). there were all kinds of “home runs” hit. then the wind died and there was only two hit during the game. Great park though. almost no advertising on the walls and no music blasting between innings. ATT is obnoxious with that. if you’re under the overhang, you can’t talk to the person next to you because it’s too loud.
They’re having a shit fit on the Splash!
Baggs, too, Baggarly is feeding his boys and they’re gobbling it up.
Mainly some dickhead with an “inevitable” monicker
Was the artificial turf at Candlestick considered a failure? Why was it installed in the first place?
This kind of information was not readily available from across the country 35 years ago…
Saved maintenance $.
Plus, water table really high caused continual issues with wet turf/sod. Chuck could probably give you a detailed explanation. Wasn’t a failure, if you consider playing on bone-breaking, road rash causing cement (with a thin bit of green plastic shit on top) a success…
I see. Thank you.
As much as I was (am) a technology fan in the day. That one was wrong. Knew it then, but I was a polly. Always hopeful someone knew more than me.
I forgot who it was, but looked it up. Willie McGee, 49er receiver, had a really bad broken leg due to the ‘Stick turf in ’76. That may have been the last straw for the turf, don’t remember when real grass got put back. The technology for drainage, real grass maintenance and sod replacement, etc. has really gone high tech since those bad old days….
Just finished bp….giants fans outnumbered stros fans3 to 1…panda walking with slight limp, obviously still hurting…said my annual welcome to your favorite city to kruk n kuip….
If I were watching the game tonite in Houston, afterwards I’d go down on Westheimer to get a late steak at Churasco’s, followed by a piece or two of Tres Leches for dessert. Good stuff, that. I used to go the Alehouse on Alabama on Friday afternoons with a buddy and knock down a coupla four Boddington’s chased by a handful of “cocktail” cigars. Later on after I left, they turned it into a parking lot. Cue Joni Mitchell. Nothing like walking in from a 95 degree sweat-soaking August scorcher into the Alehouse, and pounding down some good brew for a few hours. Some of the waitresses actually were British, sorta. They usually weren’t much to look at. But, the hiring manager was always pretty damn finickity when it came to quality hires. None of ’em were shy of at least a 38DD…
Sabes was on knbr this pm and said point blank that derosa is swinging tentatively and can’t let loose on a swing. Why the fuck is he on the team, much less starting, if he can barely swing a bat?
Uh, maybe Sabes like seeing DeRosa’s wife in the wives section?…
He’s somebody’s boyfriend? In SF anything goes.
I think that after his rehab they had to release him or activate him. They would have lost him competely if they released him. With the rosters expanding in a couple weeks anyway, my guess was that they wanted his experience down the stretch- he did show enough in Fresno to warrant not DFAing him. That’s just my guess.
You are dead on right. They had to bring him up or DFA. They couldn’t foresee all the injuries and the slide continuing so long, so probably figured they could carry him for almost 4 weeks, But, if they DFA’d, nobody would have claimed him. He’d rejoin Fresno, and be available to come up in September, but only if they somehow could get him back on the 40 after he cleared waivers. That part was too complicated, so they punted him to SF…
Totally unsupportable conjecture that he would not have been claimed. Marlins considered trading for him , now he would be essentially free, their kind of guy. And obviously the Giants thought they could carry him, they did, moron.
Well when the fucking gm of the team is saying on radio that the guy can’t swing something tells me he woulda gone unclaimed. They have scouts who watch that shit and tell the gms, like saves, that he can’t fucking swing a bat
So give me a theory other than the man love one..
He’s a gamer? They’re already paying him? Good clubhouse guy? Who knows. He was a luxury that came back to bite them in the ass now that they need his one armed ass to play
Nobody would have claimed him.
Why would they? So their wrist specialist could keep busy?…
I’ll be positive.
On paper, I’m positive this is one of the worst hitting SF lineups of the season.
What’s the over/under on # of ABs Hector Sanchez will sniff while Whitey is out for a week?
Unless Stewie gets hurt like everybody else seems to be doing, I’ll go with 3.
I’ll try a reverse psych job on the Gamer, since it doesn’t seem to work when I predict good stuff for him. . The Squatter won’t get an HR tonite. He will not. In fact, he’ll K twice, and hit into a DP — leading off the game…
Snarkk positive?
How can you guys put up with it? Listening to KNBR 30 seconds with the skipper and 5 minutes of adverts.
We love ads.
the whole pregame show is practically un-listenable. they spend more time with k and k clips before and after k and k on baseball than they do on the actual k and k show. oh look, gamer getting ready. god i hate that stance/approach.
and this is your SFGs
great for Astros first inning
Ed wade is in the press box ten fewer
The last time I recognized so few of the names in a major league line-up I was about 9 years old.
Not even joking.
I see what you mean. I haven’t ever heard of 5 of those guys
“this guy’s dead!”
“well cross him off than.”
Fucked that post up…. Ed wad is ten feet away….thinking about giving him loo’s lee for rowand proposal
I thot you bought a ticket for 5 bucks, lol
I did in the club level behind home plate
That’s fucking awesome.
Even if it is a decent hittng pitcher next, Flannery had to send him. And it’s not Huff’s fault either, so don’t go there…
Rowan takes really good swings.
He just misses the ball
Does an HBP raise your OPS? Gawd I hope so.
Ach du Lieber, is Mike Murphy the only guy not banged up?
In front of me I’ve got a small bowl of vanilla ice cream. Next to that is a container of Nutella. In my hand is a soup spoon. The order of operations for the spoon is: Nutella, ice cream, mouth. Repeat.
Damn good stuff.
dude, your gonna have to slow these Friday nights down for me. My heart can’t take this!
Aw Shucks!
Who the hell are these Astros? Might as well be Goodfellas hanging out in the Witness Protection Program.
“Can’t even get decent food – right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average nobody… get to live the rest of my life like a schnook. “
I’d guess Beltan on the quiz.
nutella is chocolate? right
Yeah, kind of a chocolate-hazel nut spread. They try to spin it like it is something you could put on toast, but to me it is basically chocolate frosting.
I’m not a fan; well, to be honest never even tried it from my wife’s jar. too chocolately for breakfast, when I have my Heidelberg toast and tea — typ. w/ butter, sometimes w/ margarine; sometimes grape jelly added.
Heidelberg toast you say? Nice! Totally agree Nutella is miscast as a breakfast spread. The kids do like it in crepes with bananas though.
The only thing worse than seeing Rowand strikeout in the dirt is watching him take a called third right down Van Ness.
voggy make us proud
That last pitch to Sanchez didn’t look all that different from the one that Rowand took.
precisely
who hoo
Voggy showed something there, as he has all year. Lumber, awake thy hitting molecules.
DeRosa’s an on-base machine tonight!
I’ll say this about that: there was a brief clip of cody taking bp. in it, he popped up twice. in the game, he’s popped up three times. i don’t think he’s seeing the ball well here. oh look, astros catch a break. arrgghhh.
btw, if you’re not looking curveball you’re an idiot.
Speaking of “Woo Hoo,” where be the Ferrett? I haven’t seen her in a blue moon . . . Is she still monitoring her Flap team?
would you be? she is a known gamer.
WTG Huff
Giants need a three run homer. Stat…
this guy has thrown about a hundred curve balls in the last couple of innings because it’s all he has (100 may be an exaggeration). and yet huff tops one like it’s a huge surprise! arrrrggghhh!
arrrrgggghhhh
I hate to admit this here, but except for Voggy these guys tonight are on the lip of the cusp of the hint of a whisper of BORING! me. (Just trying to be loyal and deferential, though.)
Paulie, the loss was really no surprise… the team knows they are playing with one arm behind their back with the lineup in play.. However, as we all know, there is a reason for the drought and the rescue will hopefully come over the next few days when Kep and Carlos and Pablo are back.
free rally = free run(s) Jesus.
Pawlie, read the main thread. This series vs the Astros is going to test our patience as fans. We’re tired, beaten down, and we’ve got Mark Fucking DeRosa playing, ROwand leading off, Tejada is in there somewhere…there just isn’t a single player to fear even the slightest in this LU.
On the flip side, Arizona hasn’t scored tonight either…….
Magnus, I just read it, or reread it. I forget which. I’ll meditate on that in the zendo, sensei.
stop watching and go fire off a few positive haiku’s. I think we could all benefit from them. Seriously, I’m just not sweating this for a second. Especially if AZ keeps playing like shit. Hey, all of a sudden, this is the NFC West. I can DIG IT!!!!!!!!! lol
August 23rd. Some of you need to go take a long nap till then……
well to go Huff
Adios, amigos and amigas. G’night.
g’night brotha
Wow.I was wrong about rock bottom. We’ll know the’ve reached it when Belt starts..that’s a joke..
aaaarrrrrgggghhhh!
what he said
i didn’t see your earlier contribution. my family is starting to say, “maybe we should watch something else” because this is driving me nutty. curve ball. repeat after me: curve ball.
Krukow made me laugh. “I’m anxious to see how they’re going to score this play.” He’s “anxious” to see how the official scorer will rule on a play in the midst of this disaster?
yeah, font
Well there goes another one. Just got in from mowing part of the three acres and Giants down two-zip, two outs for Houston and two on. Ish da! With all these injuries the hitting has dipped to almost sub-zero temps and now the D. is sloppy. To think that i went outside just after Vogelsong couldn’t provide an RBI with two outs for SF and the bases juiced. So at that point i figured the Giants were gonna get to Wandy pronto. One more hit since that inning. Yechh.
Ted’s knowing dude might tip over the whole damn bus after this one.
Bring home a winner Flappers, I can’t take anymore tonight.
August 23rd……
8/23
Next Tuesday…..
My laptop feels hot, which is slightly different from “my lapdancer feels hot.” [Can you blame me for being slightly distracted? I’m thinking of going upstairs into my office and pulling out the WS Chronicles TedSpe kindly sent me, or watching the vid Magnus sent me, or…going out to the North Side…or… ]
They’re getting most of the injured back soon, and they’ll be home soon…jump now and you just go splat, no help.
Twin’s got this one right, and it’s got nothing to do with pollyanna shit. It’s reality.
Fact: We have a 12 game home streak coming up
Fact: We are playing shit teams the rest of the way
Fact: AZ is one of those shit teams
Fact: We’re getting back some firepower soon (Beltran, Kepp, Bee-Wheezy)
Fact: Me and Twin might be the only fans left after this series…….
Daubers are taking a beating tonight.
Zumie—please no more mention of daubers. Reminds me of Ron Fairly–“don’t get your dauber down.” I think you and I would agree Fairly was the worst SFG announcer ever.
If we ever do a Flapapalooza I look forward to talking hoops with WillieD and announcers with Zumie.
Yeah, Fairly was awful. An inexplicable bleak moment in an otherwise historic string of great announcers.
I wasn’t a big fan of David Glass—boring ass home run call.
Good call, Glass was terrible. My friend’s dad called him “Mushmouth”
Frampton Comes Alive!!!!
i have two words (maybe it’s one): curve fucking ball.
ok. three.
Fact: It will be a Pyrrhic victory if we score one run and break the shutout.
Fact: I just wanted to be a smartass and use “Pyrrhic victory.”
Fact: And I used it wrong.
Yes, you have to actually win to get a Pyrrhic victory. (grin)
Mitch Moreland, on my fantasy team, has hit 2 homers. I wonder if I sat him.
Isn’t he the Speaker of the House or something like that?
OMG- DeRosa is POTG…
….and it’s not even close.
Well, just so some cows aren’t born, I’ll make it co-POTG, pending the 9th- DeRosa and Vogelsong..
since we are going sans runs tonight, let me entertain you with some Aaron Rowand futility:
Month of August:
42 at bats……
0 runs
0 rbi’s
0 walks
he does, however, know how to fill a strike out stat sheet like a man. He’s got 13 of those…..
And he can rack up 5-3s like nobody’s business.
I’m going with “the Squatter” from now on.
Gamer is too over the top….
Squatty McDuck, if you want to get real fancy with it.
Anybody up for taking a flyer on yet another Astro infielder? I’ve always liked Barmes.
SanDawg . . . I saw him play when he came up with Colorado. Not certain what happened to him, but after he fell down the stairs (tripping on deer meat one source said), he was never the same. Guy was lights out when he came up and anointed the future SS of the Rockies, blah, blah, blah.
Total failure after that. Good field, no hit. Hmm, thinking he might fit right in . . . uhh, scratch that.
Todd Helton gave him the deer meat. True story.
yawn. He’d fit right in with this crew.
Didn’t he originally make up some bogus story about falling carrying groceries and later came clean? Yeah, he looked like a future star and then ended up in the minors. He has clawed his way back though and I’d take him in a second.
Yeah, he made up a goofy story after consulting with Jeff Kent . . . JUST KIDDING 🙂
Nice Blade!!!!!