Winning the Wild Card, Finishing Ahead of the Dodgers and Alex Smith
Now that we are closer to winning the WC than we are to winning the division, let’s all turn our attention to some Braves score board watching. Come on! Who’s with me! Hey, let’s go 14-2 the rest of the way and see what happens. 🙂
Do any of you really care if we finish ahead of the Dodgers? I mean, REALLY CARE. Are you scoreboard watching their games? Personally, I would like to see us stay ahead of them but I really don’t care much one way or the other…..
Alex Smith: I replied to Dennis’ post last night but only because he chose to take our discussion from Chuck’s New and Improved Blog to The Flap. But that will be THE END of the Alex Smith discussions here at my blog. I don’t mind some Niner talk and referencing Smith in that context, especially if the reference isn’t made the way a third grader or a serial killer would reference him. But if you have something ongoing to say about the Niners or the QB, say it over at Chuck’s blog. There’s a link to the right…..
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Only thing I have to say about the Niners after watching them and Alex Smith over the last couple of years was to bet big against them and those seahawks blew a 4 team tease for me with those two frickin Ginn td returns…I need some locks next week Flav…
Too bad!
OK….my question is, how much stock can you really put into player evaluation of the youngsters over the remaining games? Since SF (like rays and cards) are still in it until they aren’t, Pill Crawford Sanchez and even Belt are only going to get so many starts. Even if you assume worse case scenario and SF gets eliminated by end of Sunday the 18th, there would still be only 10 games left.
Burriss and Ford, we already know are not mlb quality hitters. I like Ford, but burriss is a jittery defender everywhere he has ever played, with zero pop and not a high OB. Even Font is a better option.
As to the others….Crawford remains below the mendoza line. If he stays there, what of it? Even if he hits a little over the last two weeks, is this guy starting SS material, esp on an offensively challenged unit like SF?
Pill is 4 for 14, couple bombs. He might get around 50 ABs, total, and Sanchez of course way less. I just don’t think you can really get much idea on these guys (maybe defensively) in such a limited time frame, esp if the games are vs. other teams just playing out the string. I realize the extent to which others in their spots (C, SS, 1b/OF) have under performed, but any results have to be taken with a grain of salt.
As an example, look at the A’s Brandon Allen. As soon as he came over from AZ he started to rake, with pop, and looked like a steal. Now he is 0 for his last 18, and 3 Ks in 3 ABs yesterday. The A’s (long out of any thoughts of contending) sat others to give him a look, and now have to be wondering if he is real deal or not.
Allen had been considered the DBack’s top prospect- you don’t give up your top prospect for Ziggy Frigging Ziegler if you still value him as that.
Patience……
49ers – Ginn’s the tonic.
Giants – Go 14 – 2 like Flav says, and they could win the Division. WC or Division they would most likely get Philly and that’s what I want. I didn’t care much for Philly last year, this year I hate them and their cheese whiz samich AND would love nothing more than to send them home crying about SF being lucky. Again.
Bozo projects……
Yes yes yes..we’ve got sand dabs, Peking Duck, Dungeness crabs, sourdough… they’ve got greasy beef and Cheeze Whiz sandwches…
mmmmmmm, duck
Plus, we don’t even need fucking bowls . . . Just put the clam chowder in that hollowed out loaf of sourdough.
mmmmmmmm, chowder
At least the Texas dude went down like a man,
Howard: ” Gee, Mr. Umpire, I beg to differ. I felt that pitch was a smidgy-widgy off the plate”
mmmmmmmmm, smidgy-widgies
“Smidgy-Widgie”
1. A little bit
2. The stuff between your toes
Twin, doesn’t your number two also define cheese whiz?
Not too much that Homer dislikes, huh?
Nipper you’re especially one-wordy today. Everything ok? Or is their disorder at Casa de Nipper?
Waste not want not.
Nipper’s the best . . . He reminds me of those birds that roost on crocodiles and hippos. Him and Twin have a symbiotic relationship which is supportive. We should all have a Nipper.
In fact, these are scenarios where I wish Nipper was in my corner:
1. When I ask the boss for a raise, he could provide additional reasons why and/or echo my reasons.
2. If I was President of the United States, he could take that bullet from the assassin.
3. Again, if I was President, he could be the official food taster.
4. Official rebuttal to the “Chucks and Snarkks” of the world.
I know if given additional time, I could think of more reasons why everyone should have a “My Man Friday” Nipper, but these are the ones that come to mind.
I wish Zeke were as supportive as Nipper….hell, I don’t even feed Nipper. No idea why I’ve gained his support. I’m not even particulary nice to him. I’ve talked of Zeke and his “loyalty” before- if I fell to the floor gasping for air,, Nipper would perform CPR, Zeke would check my pockets for cheeseburgers..
Just
The hug was for Alex’s run, not his passing.
Hyuk . . .
Well, for the Giants to even have a sniff at the division (or even WC), they need to make up 5-6 games in 10 days. Some shit like that. Frankly, I just want to see them get back to having a little fun. These grind-ass 2-1 losses (agony) are what is killing the mojo.
My daughters were doubly lucky yesterday. They picked yesterday to go, and they scored tix 8 rows behind home plate.
Worry about one game at a time, Chuckles- leave the doomer scenarios to Snarkkles.
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Simple-minded post? Bingo. The hug was sweet and special, but without the Ginn tonic, we don’t know how or if Smith and the Niners win the game.
And
If we tie the Braves, do we get a one-game playoff or do they win some type of tie-break for winning the season series 6-1???…ouch
If the Braves go 6-9 (which seems a possibility, split 6 games at home between FL and NYM, lose road series in Florida and DC and then lose two of three at home against the Phillies), we then have to go 14-2 to tie, but we may not get that playoff game if there was a tie-break…
Those two loses in Atlanta where BWilson blew his last save, the extra-inning loss and the Lincecume 1-0 defeat killed us. If we had won 2 of those, we would be sitting just 3.5 out right now:( Would be an entire different season for us…
A tie for that playoff spot would be a one-game playoff. The season record doesn’t matter at all in that situation. That’s only in the NFL.
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Yer best post in a while, Mikie . . .
Waaah!!!
Mike, for someone who doles shit out with regularity, you sure are thin-skinned at times.
Delete away. . . Take mine while yer at it.
Posting in code, Mike?
By leaving a letter in, it didn’t fuck up the time stamp.
Clever I like it
I don’t delete others, Flavor asked me not to. This wasn’t about “thin-skinned”, it was about you not getting it again. I have/had no problem with you responding, it’s that you totally missed the point.
It was a big win for the Niners. The division is obviously wide-open, and they took care of business yesterday. Dallas will be favored this week, but a case could be made that the Niners have a better chance of making the playoffs than Dallas.
Yes, the NFC West is weak sauce compared to the NFC East Philly and Wa could come out of there as the playoff teams. The Giants look lost and old. . . . The Rams took a bunch of injuries out of their loss to Philly. Az got torched for ~500 yards (400+ in the air from Fig Newton) by the Panthers. Seattle’s in rebuild mode as much as the Niners are. The Rams especially have a tough schedule early.
The Niners have the luxury of easing into their rough patch later in the season. It would behoove these bastards to 4-2 by the bye. They’ll have to beat Cincy, Tampax and Detroit. Philly and Dallas will be tough orders for these guys. TB and Detroit could be very tough as well. Detroit laid 430 (305 for Stafford) yards on a good TB defense.
Dallas? All the Niners have to do is hit Romo hard and early, and often. He gets skittish under pressure, and folds up under pressure. See last night . . .
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Is it April 2012 yet?
I’d wallow in apathy — if I could get up enough motivation to not care. Since nobody’s posted the LU that’s been up all day:
Ross CF
Keppinger 2B
Beltran RF
Sandoval 3B
Huff 1B
Belt LF
Sanchez C,
Crawford SS
Surkamp P
Mr. DJ LOO is the man. Why? Well, you should already know the reasons. The list is long. But today in my mail I received a gift from Loo. It was a Will Clark Flipp Tipps things from the 80’s where you flip through the pages quickly and it shows you a scene of him hitting a bomb off Maddux in the playoffs (it was the Grand Slam, I jumped out our third story window in college at that exact moment). San Dawg, you would love this thing. There are 72 pages, it’s like watching an old school cartoon. On each page WIll the Thrill (or someone) has written a little blurb about what’s happening at that particular point in the swing or advice on hitting.
Examples:
#2: Don’t imitate anyone else’s stance. Get comfortable at the plate and relax.
#23– players strides vary but should not be longer than the width of your stance
#38– ball is driven upward with a force of over 1400 pounds at impact (uh, Thrill didn’t write this, lol)
#59–don’t be a one field hitter, Learn to hit the ball where it’s pitched.
#71: “If you don’t want to come up with the bases loaded, you should hang it up”…
Ok, ok, not anything earth shattering but still a very good old school gift from my of my favorite old school bloggers. Thanks Loo…….
An important fact you might not have known about DJ Loo. He has impeccable hand writing, The address tag was so perfectly written it looked like some goddamn new font I would pick on my computer……
Alex Smith is not yet appearing on any “bust lists”. Amazing. I don’t put him up there with Ryan Leaf but he is in the same ranks as David Klingler and Brady Quinn.
Welcome aboard, great debut post.
Does your seat have a big hole in the middle?
Get
no. How about you ignore a post for once, there’s nothing he said that is delete-able.Now if you attack or he attacks you, we’ll talk. he’s got a perfectly legit email address and a matching IP address, if he wants to post here he can post here. But I will say this to FROMTHISSEAT.COM: If you want to talk about Smith go to the Niners blog in my blogroll. They’ll chat you up about him all day.
Of
I deleted posts about football- cuz you didn’t want it here- then Chuck and this
dude start it up.Don’t fucking rag on me.
actually, I appreciated your efforts with that. Some guy coming along and advertising his blog with a dumbfuck single post about Alex Smith doesn’t bother me. Notice how I ignored it. It’s the dudes who go on and on and on all day about killing him that bothers me. Those are the posts that I want banned. (And I’m not linking you to any of that but you engage the blogger who does and that probably keeps him going a little bit).
I like that we finally got to Harangue early for once. He sucks, as do most pitchers who dominate us……..
Well, I’ll delete my others, too. But his comment was obviously intended to incite. His post is Total Troll.
yes, maybe that’s true. But it’s also completely easy to ignore. If he keeps going with it I will get rid of him. If he wants to post something else with an argument that supports his claim, I’ll read it. Either way, I will do what I always do, and that is: moderate this place in a way that I consider fair.
Atlanta’s getting dragged into the 11th in a tie, we’re winning. Hey, it’s not totally insane to think we can’t still do this…….
Can’t speak for others, I’ve never wavered, although I still like the divison more.There’s no one here to gloat if they’re eliminated, anyway. Everyone counted the division ours. The usual perps will try, though.
Whatfuckingever.I asked nicely if you’d lose the troll. You declined. Your blog, your prerogative. You got a guy openly rooting against both our teams. So, yeah, this From guy is practically a saint.
Alright Mr. Clown Wannabe.
I was talking about Cody there.
Montefusco & Falcone…
We really oughta consider putting on offensive clinics — like these the past two days — more often. I’ll send a note to Bochy about it to see if he concurs.
Maybe it’s been said, but remember how last year we were greatly helped by SD losing 10 in a row and the collapse of the Rox (whom I had feared more)? In other words, yeah, the Giants had to do their part, but we truly would’ve come up short without failure on the part of our foes. So here’s a toast to failure for the Dbacks, the Braves, Cards — anyone in our way. They’re only human, too. And in the meantime, we can have fun and merely win our own games.
Keeping hope alive.
To wit, Marlins just beat the Braves in 12.
I think SF was only 5-5 while SD was dropping 10 straight…
I recall 6-4, but you’re probably right..
Tri-Score watching: Atlanta and St. Louis both lose, Dodgers lead LA 1-0 in 5th..
I think the only comparable miracle still in sight is the ’64 Phils…
Checked, it was 6-4.
Get that run back Giants.
Falcone (from Brooklyn) did it, too. Somebody call K & K…
Oops…..he was a Cardinal in his second year – traded for the great Ken Reitz.
The Rooster is back at the Splash, and back to gloating. Lord knows why
That was one long dinner date for El Pollo.
Ha, classic. I was in the minority, I thought he said some funny shit fairly regularly.Actually, he’s got a little “Spit” in him from chuck’s blog. Say what you want about him but some of the shit Spit writes has me laughing out loud.
and it would be classic if the Giants won the WC and not a single person ever mentioned it as a possibility till now.
Baseball has always had more to do with failure than success.We weren’t lucky that the Pads failed, they never the talent to maintain their record.That happened to us this year but it wasn’t talent level as much as the injuries catching up. Arizona also got unconcious, all credit to them….maybe
Your first sentence is uber-true (can I lapse into faux German tinged with French here?). After all, in what other sport — or human endeavor, for that matter — is failure 70% of the time, as in a .300 batting average, adjudged success? “…there’s no success like failure / And … failure’s no success at all” — Bob Dylan, Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Picking up chicks?
didn’t work “then” why would it work now?
oh, I get it. Sure, even the 1 for 100 can be a great night!
Edlefson reminds me of a top spinning out of control…
Not thatit matters, but Seabass just kicked a 63 yard FG . . .
Is 63 (Dempsey) still the record? Did Elam break it in Denver?
Yeah,. it is getting out of control/
Tough inning there. I’d sure like to see the Gs get some of those runs back, hell, I might even do a little happy dance if (when) they do.
Rooster (original name: Giant Losers?) was usually OK, but his disappearance and return now is inexcusable. His low point was when Twin mocked his avatar – a photo of him displaying some fish that he’d apparently caught. It was soon replaced by a closeup of a baseball, I believe…
Our fearless blog leader should have a sun dress as an avatar — a filled sun dress, that is.
It was a magazine photo of somebody displaying some fish…his handle was “gloatingrooster”. could be a pretty cool poster but he’d often revert to form,
Shocker, Diamondbacks, after being no-hit, now winning. But, hey, who cares? Magnus Flavoris has liberated me from such trivial concern. Wild card!
I’m disappointed that Bochy has gone with 3 aaa pitchers in this gm. We’re still technically in this, it’s like he’s given up or something. Bush league managing to go with that trifecta tonight. It barely worked out. Please, no more Edelfsowhstever
Mota can’t go every night.And Surkamp hasn’t been lights out but they’re in a position to win every game he’s pitched. The alternative is now Zito. “Bush eague managing” is over the top.
surkamp–edelsfwhatnot—runzler. Sorry, but that’s not the lock down pitching staff we are known for. Every win keeps hope alive.
And they’re ahead. If you don’t pitch those two relievers early- you could end up with of ’em closing.
If it’s the WC, take it one team at a time. Thay can pull within 2 of St. Louis with a win tonight.
I, with the always glass half full attitude, simply feels…Bochy likes bush
Flemming just said ‘Torres took a real chance or risk of getting thrown out’ (or close to that). Sounds reasonable. Then you think two things: one, there’s a very good chance they would never knock Torres in, and two, let’s reward the effort and hustle. Maybe Flemming’s brain-dead at this point, or just conventional wisdom.
I didn’t see a stop sign.
Flemming said as much about the replay, that Flannery wasn’t windmilling but urging him on. I was just struck by the brainlessness of the comment. I mean, Torres with all he’s been through this year, isn’t go to make sure he’s going to score?
SANDAVOL
For most ball players, Georgie was probably a little too left leaning..last thing you ever wanna know is their politics…
hahaha
I used the lower case “b”, twin 😉
Doing a little happy dance here.
Excellent. Let’s reel off 6 of these bad boys and then see where we stand. It’ll take our collective mind off the horror of Alex Smith winning a football game. The Niners front office should start making their fans take an IQ test or something…
I thought you weren’t gonna talk about Alex Smith.
Mall tits!
I can do what I want. 🙂 and my posts about him aren’t about threatening to murder him 24/7. it’s easy to skip over a random non baseball related post. It’s a little more difficult to bypass a death threat or something racist. I’m not putting up with that shit here.
I’ll try to tone down my comments on the Dutch
Pabloval!
Heart and soul of the team!
Now that Romo’s the real deal.
Error.
Tommy Chong
Is it just me or is Darnell copying Rowand’s batting stance?
BALLGAME
Now it’s just 13 and 2.
pffft. Child’s fucking play.
Uber polly here. But not giving up till they’re 10 games out with 9 games left
Ross, Beltran, Sandoval, Huff stay hot, they can fucking win out. Why not? Get the fucking juvies out of the LU and go for it.
Yarp. I’m still in this. Emotionally
Emotionally, I’m still a wreck.
Per usual.
But happy tonight!
Isn’t it past your bedtime, Pawlie?
Took the words off my typepad: Snarkk’s Kids (Belt, Crawford, et al.): kerplunk!
‘Juvies-‘–too funny, Twin. But seriously, I’m down with it.
After Crawford swung at a first pitch and grounded out, dropping him below .200, I checked his stats. He’s now got over 160 ABs. At some point, with no track record of success, it seems to me you try another approach. Like taking a walk.
I think Miller really enjoys calling Pablo’s shots. Remember last year’s “Look out, Oakland!”
A win is a win!
And a loss is a loss. And a rose is a rose. And a sausage is more like tapioca if you open the gate and let the fig newton speak
I had to support my impression with some facts: Denorfia is 25 for 65 now lifetime against us for .385.
Goodnight, gentlemen (question mark)