Turning the Page on The (L)astros
See, the problem was, the Astros are just too bad for us to play. Now they are running around playing all their kids who are wide eyed with nothing to lose and they did all the things that most major league teams can do: work a walk, steal a bag, bunt a guy over, sac flies, stuff like that. The truth is, we don’t match up very well with a young team that has wheels. I said this last year when SD was beating us regularly: when the other team forces issues with their speed we usually play slow and cautious. And defensive. And not the good kind of *defensive*….
Now we get the Cubs. They’ve got a little bit better record than the Astros and they’ve got a different team—old, slow and overpaid. This is a team we can relate to. And really, it’s a team we can beat. Hopefully the D-backs stumble a little vs Colorado—the Rox are playing fairly inspired ball these days. And then on Friday we sink or swim. We need 2 of 3 and preferably a sweep. We lose 2 or 3 and I will stand up strong and admit I was wrong about the Giants in 2011. But let’s see what happens. Despite only splitting the series with the lowly Astros we were at least playing inspired ball. There was heart shown and that is what they had last year. Take that up another notch and who knows what could happen…….
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Well said Flav, you make a very compelling argument. I have to agree with you. I have a sinking feeling about the weekend, though. Dbacks look like they’re just going to roll right through October. The Giants haven’t shown me anything that makes me thing they’re gonna snap out of the funk anytime soon.
well Sarge, I’d say they got some fire from DeRosa throughout the entire series. I LOVED how he got right in that umps face. Now that was some good jawing. I know he’s old and broken down but he’s getting on base, he’s been super clutch and outside of Torres, I don’t know where the fire is gonna come from. It’s certainly not coming from Belt striking out over and over.
Good point made on the last thread about merchandise. Belt has done essentially nothing in his career, he gets a snapping new nickname and the park is littered with giraffe hats and stuffed giraffe’s. I’m all for fans getting into the game but their enthusiasm seems as manufactured as those hats. As Loo pointed out, back in the day the fans made their own Cone Heads. Now that is legit……
Fans are hungry for a new face…..hence the giraffe hats for Belt.
Posted this at the end of yesterday’s string, liked the quote from the Little Leaguer so much that I’m puttin’ it here too: “I was just thinking. ‘Oh, God, Oh, God,’ before I was getting in the box,” the 12-year-old Pratto said. “But once I got into the box, I calmed myself by telling myself to just look for a good pitch.” Quote from the Little Leaguer who had the Little League World Series Championship game-winning hit with 2 outs and the bases loaded in the 9th inning. Maybe he can be SF’s new batting coach…. just calm yourselves and look for a good pitch. And.. is that really DeRosa’s wife? Damn, it’s obvious where the dude’s fire comes from…
I thought last Sunday’s come from behind victory in extra innings in Houston was going to turn around our season….WRONG! So hopefully the come from behind extra inning loss yesterday will not be as devastating as I fear.
We are still out of electricity, so I missed Surkamp’s start, how did he look?
Surkamp looked good — 6IP, 1ER, 3BB, 4K. Good enough that Bochy will start him again on Sep 6 against SD. We’ll use this week’s day off (Thu) to skip the #5 slot, come back Fri starting with Cain.
thanks for the report…I guess he will skip a start and be back Sept. 6…
I love this part, “Now we get the Cubs. They’ve got a little bit better record than the Astros and they’ve got a different team—old, slow and overpaid. This is a team we can relate to. And really, it’s a team we can beat.”
I think the disasters are out of the way, e.g., Houston series, Bozo’s house floating away, etc.
Now, it’s our turn . . . I’m looking for the following this week:
1. We sweep the Cubs.
2. Rockies sweep the Diamondbacks.
3. Bozo finds his gas can, secures his propane tank, and finds a place for his dog to shit, without using a canoe.
😉
we should bedue to hear from the dyspepsic ambulance chaser withmore on how offensive the offense is, I’m going to try to sleep through it .Go Vungo.
dyspepsic?
No Pepsi, Coke!
good takes, all. torres single and steal was great, as was another clutch play by MDR, and for the second time lately Huff scorches one off the wall. Pitching cost them yesterday tho, from Cain unable to hold late lead to affeldt and ramirez giving up late rockets.
As to nicknames in baseball, there was a pitcher in the 60s named vinegar bend mizell, and I don’t remember ever hearing his real name.
forrest “smokey” burgess
toy cannon jimmy wynn
oil can boyd (whom we used to call “film can”…back in the day those little plastic things could be used to hide a convenient amount of controlled substances)
mike hargrove used to be known as “the human rain delay” for all the ridiculous shit he used to go through after every pitch
, bunch of guys named ‘moose” including walt moose moryn who homered off gaylord perry (not sure) for the only hit his team (cubs or cards) got. A grand parent got me a scorebook as a kid, and I can remember listening to this game on radio one summer and score keeping it while outside with radio on.
gotta add…the schtick has gotten past old, but Berman’s baseball ones were pretty funny back in the day.
Willie: If your frontname was Wilmer, wouldn’t you just as rather get nicked as “Vinegar Bend”?
Any interest in andre ethier? Sounds like he and LA are about done with each other. Assuming Beltran does not return, seems we could do a lot worse in RF. I’ve seen him yank balls out of the yard to left center here (off Sanchez as I recall). Most recent controversy concerning his health (and maybe not just his knees but slightly north of there as well) give you pause?
Giants trivia ? yesterday was about guys from the PR with 300 bombs….after naming the 5 guys on the list, Kruk said Beltran is at 296. Man, hope he gets there soon.
One that I had suspected was on there was ruben sierra, whom I recall LaRussa once referred to as “the village idiot.”
i thought the exact same thing about Sierra when i heard he was on that list…
Well guyz~~~ After yesterday’s latest fiasco one thing became abundantly clear to me. Giants need to take five of the next six to still be in this thing. Flav correctly points out that the Cubs are a team of a type the Giants are built to dominate ~ particularly in our park. Then it’s the Snakes. Giants don’t take at least two of three from them and the season is pretty much down the swirly. At four games out with fewer than 30 to play and the Snakes on a roll lately, this is the math.
We know about the injuries, particularly the loss of our team leader and most effective hitter. Who knows what the WAR for Posey vs Whitey truly happens to be. You look at NoWhitey’s 4 K’s last night and his lack of peg in most situations and those who do those stat things such as WAR need to set up a whole new scale. Would not surprise me a bit if Buster’s blistering presence would not have added seven or eight wins to the total. Add in Freddy for another three or more wins and you have this team up by the comfortable margin some of us had anticipated.
We also know about the mistakes, though there is not as much agreement there. First mistake was to not get a decent SS offseason. Sabean presumed that Tejada would fill in nicely for a year till one of the kids was ready. Second of Brian’s boo-boos was not to get a decent backup catcher during the offseason. Rest of the bad calls have occurred during the season. Ownership should have cut ties with Rowand by the Break. Perhaps with Zito as well. This MUST be done offseason. Belt has been mishandled since his relatively slow start. NOW, in the heat of the race, he is expected to perform, after being yo-yoed all season. Good luck with that. Kid is 23, with less than two full years of organized ball behind him. There have been more mistakes. These are merely some of the more egregious ones. Team is old, slow, bruised, battered and pretty much beaten down AND ironically hitched to the most dominating pitching staff in the game.
Changes will hafta be made. Meanwhile we can hang on the hope for a miracle.
“Meanwhile we can hang on the hope for a miracle.” Hardly a fucking miracle. They were out more last year. Look, why don’t those who are teetering just fucking jump?
Why did we not try and claim the Reds catcher Hernandez on waivers? Not getting a catcher at the trade deadline I think has been the most harmful to the team…cant do much with the injuries we have suffered, but management could have done something more proactive in landing a vet catcher…
i think we did claim him but he was pulled back by the Reds.
Yes, he’s right. I noted that here last week.
thanks for that, had not been able to keep up much all this earhtquake and hurricane shit out here last week..armageddon…was there no other catcher we could have made a decent run at ebfore the trade deadline?
Who did you have in mind?
With no end in sight to the woeful offense, my biggest concern is that ever since this freefall began July 29, the Snakes have shown they are more than capable of beating up on the mediocre/bad teams while the Giants have not.
Giants: 0-3 Reds, 1-2 Pirates, 2-1 Marlins, 1-1 Pads, 3-4, Astros = 7-11.
D-Backs: 3-3 Bums, 3-1 Astros, 3-0 Mets, 3-1 Nats, 3-0 Pads = 15-5.
That’s a 7-game difference. When the slide began, the Giants were 4 up, and now they’re 4 back.
Other than the six games with each other, both teams play opponents with losing records the rest of the way. Given that the D-Backs have gone 15-5 vs. such teams over the last month, it’s not likely the Giants are going to receive much help, which means they damn well better start helping themselves. They just had seven shots at the awful Astros and couldn’t get it done. Will it start tonite vs. the Cubbies? It’s gonna have to if we want to get to October.
Brandi can hit or she can’t,,
The most effective hitter is and was Sandoval, not Posey..
NO ONE, including Stix, thought Tejada would fall off as he has. The most pessimistic guess had him around .260 10-50
For now at least, good thing they didn’t shitcan DeRosa as some wanted..
Ted: thanks for the E-Mail..
Berman is a mental deficient..
Since it’s my contest, I’ve already named the September MVP- Sandoval. Thanks for your participation. Polls are closed.
Doesn’t matter what i thought about Tejada when he was signed. I do tend to be a Polly, after all. What does matter is that the scouts, Sabean and the braintrust “misoverestimated” him to quote our exprez in an offhanded kinda way. Maybe nobody could see it coming. But you are always taking more of a chance adopting a guy well out into his thirties, with at best modest defensive skills, for the demanding position of shortstop; than you would be getting a good fielding adequate hitting type. If i could figure that out a well-paid ML exec shouldn’t even have to think about it.
On the World Championship team the most effective hitter was Posey, not Sandoval. Not that Pablo doesn’t have the potential to fill that role…
Pablo was the best hitter THIS year. They both played all of April. You didn’t say shit about last year. It’s Sandoval.
Who did you want instead of Tejada?
one thing we have for us is that Colorado knows they have to sweep AZ to have any chance to get into this race, so they may smash around their pitching right in time for them to come into SF. I think we have to sweep the Cubs and let’s say Colorado wins two there in AZ, so we would gain two games and get to 2 out heading to this weekend.
Then we just need a simple 2 of 3 from AZ and back to a game out and then I think AZ panics and loses their momentum…
Good take, GH: That is the ideal scenario for SF getting back into this thing. Could happen, tho my stance vs the Giants needing to take five of the next six still stands, as you have just expounded so thoughtfully. Bochy is gonna need to be inspired when it comes to setting his lineup. Curious thing is that NOT ONE Giant has gone on an offensive tear all season. One man erupting into a 7-10 game streak while the great pitching maintains, could turn this thing around. Without somesuch spark SF is dead in the water.
Flav, interesting take on the Astros in your opening paragraph about why they have been beating the Giants lately (what is it? 4-3 for this season?). And there could be a lot of truth to it. It kind of reminds me of when Orson Welles was discussing why CITIZEN KANE was often and continually being called the best American movie ever. He stated something to to the conclusion that if the fim *was* brilliant and revolutionary, it had a lot to do with the fact he had no idea what he was doing at the time. Like the Astros, wide eyed with a feeling of nothing to lose
That’s the way it is at the end of every fuckingf year. The so-called “bottom feeders” are just left with the satisfaction of knocking off contenders. Usually they’re playing quite a few kids, yada yada.. nothing new. That’s why the niotion of an easy series win is dunderhead crap…
Bochy does just fine “setting his lineup”…I’m curious- where did you stand when they were 6 out on the moning of 8/29/10 ?
Actually, Citizen Kane sucked major dick at the box office when it first came out, albeit, it was a critical success . . . The film faded from view soon after but its reputation was restored, initially by French critics and more widely after its American revival in 1956. Just sayin’
Those French are always reviving careers . . . See Jerry Lewis 🙂
True but that doesn’t negate Welles’ point or my metaphor. And as for the film’s rep, it was most strongly cemented by an American. New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael’s book RAISING KANE
The Astros don’t have Gregg Toiand or Joseph Mankiewicz on their roster.
“Metaphor.” You actually described an analogy, but it’s your metaphor, so I’ll butt out.
Ted’s metaphor is homologous to Blade’s analogy.
It was a metaphor of an anology.
I wont even discuss the word homologous . . . 🙂
Yawn . . . Umm, what time is the game?
Well, you’re rid of me for awhile, going up to the hospital. I took MLB debuts down. See ya.
Citizen Kane? Man you guys are desperate for a topic.
For an accurate recollection of where we all stood a year ago today, I present to you the thread from August 29th, 2010. Enjoy. You’ll probably have to hit “older comments” a few times. Feel free to re=post your favorite from that particular thread…..
https://oneflapdown77.com/2010/08/29/ugly-got-uglier/
Some funny stuff there. And shit, did anyone else besides me forget about Guillen batting cleanup?
And to be clear, I’m not saying he shouldn’t have but I actually forgot he was on the team.
Like a mustard burp — momentarily tangy, then lost in the wind.
Different music, same chairs and Flappers.
Guillen was never a productive hitter for us and hitting him 4th, even playing him at all, was dumb. I wrote several threads about how unproductive he was until her mercifully got busted for steroid trafficking. Simply, Ross would have never gotten a chance to shine if guillen’s wife hadn’t gotten busted with the juice.
Yes, he sucked, sweaty, rancid, marsupial balls for the Giants but you have to remember they only acquired him in August. He hadn’t been with them long enough to form a solid opinion on his production. Or lack thereof
at that point in the season, there wasn’t time to wait around. And I fully expect that Bochy would have given him Sept based off how he usually deals with vets. Thank God for dumb wives and steroid shipments…..
Go Giants. Bring it, Torres.
6 more games on this homestand. Let’s hope Romo and Torres get these guys going in the right direction. The time is now. No more waiting around for the D-Bags to stumble. The Giants need to start hitting and reel off a string of W’s.
Good point Chuck. We can wish for other teams to help out, but the GMen need to start getting a win streak going.
They gave up their top prospect for Beltran and they need Torres to carry them? Vungo- get your agent on the hook: 2 milion for September ought to do it…
OK, Mike, how about, gee, I hope everyone keeps hitting in the high .100s and we win every game 1-0 in 14 innings?
Probably more likely than hitting all of a sudden.
Any one guy is too much to ask? Then, yeah, the Giants are toast.
If you’re choosing one guy, WTF Torres- not Beltran? If Torres is supposed to be the “Big Dog”, we want Wheeler back..
If the Niners are to do anything, it’s all up to Josh Morgan…
The acquisition of Guillen obviously became unpopular when he played poorly, but there was no significant opposition at the time he was picked up.
Stix: i got the PC, I”m pretty slow but I’ll get it fixed for you…
Super. Appreciate the gesture and the effort. No need to rush. Too busy this time of year to spend much time there anyhoo.
Wow. Schulman on Ralph/Tom Telling them that he’s trying to find the right words write their Epithet. How anyone could write them off before the next 6 games happen, especially the fucking beat writer, makes no sense to me. I’m sure the Chron really appreciated that he basically just told the readers to stop following the team or read the newspaper stories and go find a better way to use your time…
Members of the Flap league got news from Bozo (John) this morning regarding Hurricane Irene. Him and his family are fine, but they were affected by the storm. For those of you not having access to the Flap League message board, this was posted by Bozo . . .
“Our house sits 3 up feet and we took in 18″ of water (and mud) in the house, enough to fill the vegetable drawers with the muck. No power for 36 hours (still no phones and the cell service is iffy). Had to put the dog in a canoe to find high enough ground for him to do his biz. Went in water over my knees to save our house propane tank (100 gall) from floating away. 40 – 50 mph sustained wind with gusts up to 80 for 24 hrs, my shed doors blew off and I have no clue where the gas can with the two stoke mix is. Some trees down, parts of someones deck is floating, I can also see the hull of someones row boat poking up. We were able to camp out on the second floor and my wife and I and all our animals are safe. Will be a bit busy cleaning and replacing furniture and appliances.
Oh yeah, we had just gotten someone out to bid raising our house 8ft. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. Will check in when I can. Hope everyone else is OK.”
“Steve, I thought I was going to stroke out PREPARING for the storm, two days over 80 with about 100% humidity I thought I’d stroke out just boarding the windows. We won’t be able to do anything with yard kinda stuff until the water recedes more (it’s dropped quite a bit). My wife works for a car dealership and they sent 5 guys, supplies and an extra truck. The guys helped us move the furniture that will be toast when the mold sets in, bagging for trash stuff, on lower shelves (books,VHS, DVDs, stero system etc). Oh when I said about the water/mud/muck being in the vegetable drawers, I was talking about the vegetable crispers (whatever you call them) in the frig. Most of my downstairs outlets are toast. But, we have found a few that still do work. The good new is the wild fire should be completely out now.”
“Pawlie the storm went up the Sound and I’m right by it, it was tough but the surge is what killed us. That water rose fast. This house was built in the 30s and never took on water, so this hurricane was a bit odd for us (even being living in Hurricane Alley). Most storms will hit on the ocean side and head into the Atlantic, we’ll still get the rains, wind and flooding but nothing like this and it was only a cat 2 (but it did hit us dead on).
On a lighter note, I see my team got a half point more than if the clown manager was involved.
Cheers all.”
And I’m glad he and his are all right but that still sux. Death toll last I read was at 37.
Didja hear Michelle Bachman say God brought earthquakes and hurricanes to the east coast because of gov’t spending?
“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”
Christ, these people are serious?
She said it was a “joke”. I don’t know. Either way, incredibly bad taste
…and I’m an aficionado of bad taste
Blade– thanlks for putting that together. I was hoping someone was going to do that. Clown, we are all happy that you’re ok. Sounds like you went through a lot of shit the last few days…….
De nada . . . Glad to do it and it’s good that John knows we’re thinking of him and his family.
I’m hitting the game saturday. BBQ at Big Pasty’s sounds better but I’ll survive. Go Giants!!
Dirt! The Big Flap Get Together will be better than the game. Reserve the right to pass those tickets off to a friend and come meet us for the real party……
Yer cast for t’night:
CF Torres
2B Keppinger
RF Beltran
3B Sandoval
1B Huff
SS Cabrera
LF Belt
C Stewart
P Lincecum
this is the LU that will sink or swim the rest of the season. At least, it should be. And getting Burriss and Ford back for some late inning PR magic is going to be huge. Actually, if Cabrera keeps sucking it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Crawford got a bunch of the playing time at SS the rest of the way (once he’s recalled). Crawford was hitting .190 or whatever? Cabrera is like 3 hits a month better. Not good enough. Get some defense in there ASAP…….
Enjoy the game. I’m under doctor’s orders to avoid stimulants and arguments. Chucky and I are already going there.
Mike, if you gave your doctor the Flap blog records, he would probably say, “Voilà! I think I have found the cause!”
Unfortunately, the cure would probably not be good for you either . . .
I’m not positive what you mean but I’m not blaming anybody else, Steve.
Being humorous . . . that’s all. I’ll be heading to Room B immediately.
Nah, You’re always an “A”.
Thanks Mike 🙂
Wishing all the best for John and family. Glad it wasn’t worse.
Giants have their hands full with Randy Wells, who was lights out against Atlanta in his last start, outside of one mistake pitch to Chipper Jones. Wells (5-4) has been making the most of his efforts on the hill of late, failing to lose in each of his last five starts, with three wins in the span. He trimmed his ERA to 5.53 in his latest effort, the lowest it’s been since June 4. However, the good news is that his ERA on the road this year is 6.43.
Wells was a saber-metric under-radar guy before season started. The Boney One loved him as a dark horse. He had lots of hype on the nerdy saber message boards–I was gonna draft him 27-28th round but he got hurt before season started and stumbled into the season when he did show up. But he’s got good stuff, he could definitely be tough tonight….He’s pitched pretty well the last 6 weeks or so.
Yeah, I almost picked him up for a spot start on my FL team . . . but, but, but, but . . . I was conflicted. HA.
I just wanted to say FUCK YOU, Bozo. And thanks guys, I don’t know how the Giants have been doing but I know the Flap Nation will bring home a winner. I’m on the DL so you guys and gals need to pick it up. I’ve got to switch this extension cord to an AC unit so I won’t be able to respond (need to unplug the PC). But it looks like I’ll be able to check in more as time (and insurance money etc) goes by. Go Giants.
Cheers all and you of the Flap Nation please stay well, I don’t think we can produce with as high a DL listing as the Giants.
Really great to see you post. I thought about you a lot this weekend.
Hey, I could be wrong, but I believe you have me to blame for the “FUCK YOU, Bozo.” This goes back to our first fantasy league that Flav ran on MLB.com It had that little message board and the Splash and just gone PC and wouldn’t allow any more swear words. You were on vacation down in New Orleans at a jazz festival, and it was the weekend of the LA Derby. You got on my case for touting another loser. The name escapes me now, but it was another loser. You mentioned something about a goddamn camel down in New Orleans. Even posted a pic. Then you made fun of my horse — said it couldn’t even beat a camel. Well, that lead to…FUCK YOU, Bozo!
That was about four years ago. So glad to see you’re OK, and we can make it five years of FUCK YOU, Bozo! 😀
hang in there my man.
Roberts HR in 1st against the Rockies, Snakes 1-0.
I’m looking for Tim to K 13 tonight and hit his first HR…
I heard he was a good hitter.
Dennis, who owned Soriano longer, you or Chuck?
I dunno, but I have him in my starting lineup tonight. That guarantees an 0 fer 4.
Both my ESPN playoffs started today and I have Nelson Cruz in both leagues. I’m off to a fine start…
Carlos had the on deck hitter dead to rights…
sigh . . . long out.
All these panda and giraffe hats– I’m sorry, it’s a very gay look for our fan base. And belt is officially fucking horrible at the plate right now
A chick in a giraffe hat doesn’t give me the same feeling as a chick in a Panda hat.
I was thinking the same thing.
Seems like they’ve asked this same trivia question 10 times before….
Actually, I’ve never seen a man wearing a panda hat. Haven’t seen enough giraffe hats. I change my word of “gay” to “soft”.
Glad to hear the Clown’s doing welll…I lived thru Hurricane Ike a few years back, and considering I live less than half a mile from Galveston Bay, it was a miracle we came out mostly unscathed…Keeping fingers crossed that your claims process goes well…For some that can be misery or a blessing in disguise.
Trivia answer – Marichal and Lincecum, right?
Where did that 0-2 pitch miss?
Glad to hear everyone’s safe, if not waterlogged, Bozo.
Timmy’s nursing a groin?
It’s the burgers . . .
Sheesh, if Timmy went on the DL, I see that scene in Aliens playing out . . .
Hudson: That’s it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
Burke: Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don’t we try that?
Who gives a fuck Amy G?
Amos Fuckin’ Rusie???
Huff showin’ some huff.
I still like the original Aramis cologne.
That’s one of your better ones, Loo, and that’s saying sumthin’. I prefer Aqua Di Gio myself.
Light, breezy with a hint of the sea. The chicks seem to dig it. It’s increased the egg production in my barn.
If you like Aqua Di Gio, you’ll love Nautica Voyage. Although in my case it only seems to attract lesbians….
Gawwwwwwwwwwwwwd. Sorry Timmy. You need to drive in more runs tonight.
Is Amos Rusie a nickname?
4 years in a row of 200+ strike outs. He and Juan Marichal
Ouch.
Actually, you can blame Chuck. He was the dumb mofo who dropped him in the first place…
You guys can blame Denny for that homer…Alf is on my fantasy team.
Way our hitters are pounding this stiff tonight makes me wonder how they would do facing either of the two finalists pitching in the Little League World Series.
Timmy hung every pitch in that AB to Soriano. I wonder if he’s OK.
Cubs build an insurmountable 1-0 lead.
lqtm
I’m not gonna check it now but I’m wondering how many innings over the last month we’ve scored 2 or more runs. Probably 250 innings or so? I’ll say 6.
Generous, Flav
I just checked 3 or more. You might be suprised: 14
2 or more: 24
That’s from the game logs at Baseball Reference.
OK, I’m a dumb shit, I did GAMES>
Now I think 6 was way high
A couple of you today were mentioning Sabean regarding the Whitey/Stew situation…..the Giants tried to cheat the baseball gods and stick with that tandem, and Whitey’s 4 strikeouts yesterday were the exclamation point on that decision.
NO Whitey. It wasn’t meant just to be a wise ass fantasy name.
Zumie you are correct to worry about Timmy. He was not right after that pitch we saw him hip-hop. Groin? Hammy?
His entire windup depends on getting maximum leg extension . . . Not good if he’s hurt.
Contract swap proposal:
Soriano, Zambrano & Byrd for Zito, Rowand, Huff & Freddie.
They would laugh at us Loo.
I know it’s absurd, but Soriano and Byrd are both better than Rowand, Zambrano couldn’t be worse than Zito, and only has a year left. Kepp replaces Freddie, Belt replaces Huff, we sign Reyes, and we’re all set.
Well, you have me convinced, now all ya have to do is convince the Cub GM.
It’s interesting from a swap standpoint bug deals like this just never go down. Gm’s just don’t want to ever look stupid down the road.
2 runs? No problem we’ve averaged 2.4 over the last month! Lqtm until someone passes me the fucking gas mask….
Snakes up 2-0, with runners at the corner and no outs. Rockies are no help.
Neither are the Giants…
I just have to get that out of my system every couple of months….
Ahem . . . make that 3 zip Snakes.
We have 1 hit and 2 total base runners ( both Torres) thru 5 vs Randy Wells.
Randy fucking Wells who entered tonight with an ERA of 5 1/2 and a WHIP of 1 /2. FUCK YOU, Bozo!
Plus, the Snakes just went up 5-0 on the humidor boys.
WHIP of “1 1/2.” Might as well been 2 1/2. This is beyond “flip the spread” time. That’s not the attention grabber we need. Time to have sex with someone else’s wife or girlfriend. We need to piss somebody off…
This is really irritating. We can’t hit the ball out of the infield now.
I wanted Torres to set the table, and he has.. . . .
Oh boy. Home runs out of the 7 and 8 spots. On the Cubs. Pull Timmy. He ain’t right.
Fuck. I think the “Dawg,” caught and subsequently threw back that Soto homer. He shoulda threw it at one of our players…on a side note; I just dropped Soto on my ESPN fantasy league (playoff time) in favor of Molina. FUCK Me, Bozo!
I’m not sweating this. We’re averaging 2.4 a gm over the last month. We have them right where we want them 🙂
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA . . . GOOD ONE FLAV!!!!!!!!!!!
If I’m Bochy, I get thrown out every night. I’d be ballistic watching these guys do shit like this.