Black Friday
It’s probably too much to hope for Sabes to pull off a lil’ Black Friday Magic and find us another outfielder or two. Maybe a shortstop. A catcher. Oh well, nothing is happening right now. Could be a good day for a Haiku. Last night’s Niner game was frustrating on both sides of the ball, we were out coached and outplayed. When you give up 9 sacks and record none, you have officially had your ass handed to you. Surprisingly, if the Ginn TD is allowed and/or the interception called instead of PI, we might have won that game……..
How about some Retro Action?
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It’s August 29th, 1978 and Joe Torre’s Mets are in town. 34K showed up for this night game. The Mets were in the middle of an awful year and when you look at that line up it’s no surprise why. Bob Knepper handcuffed them in pitching a complete game 2-0 shut out to run his record to 14-9 on the year….
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Yes the Ravens gave the Niners a reality check. Nine sacks tells the story. Still it was a close hard fought game. Niners defensive goal line efforts were impressive.
You betcha, Nipper! Now remember, the road to the Super Bowl goes through Green Bay, so the Niners have to play ball-control offense. , they have to establish their running game, they have to stop the big play, they need to dominate the line of scrimmage, they have to pound it out on the ground, they need to air it out more, they have to open up the passing lanes, they have to take care of the football, they should just go out and execute, they have to make plays on both sides of the ball, they should go out there and play smash-mouth football and they have to stick to their game plan!
But if they don’t do all that at 110 percent, they can forget it..
I didn’t realize that Rachel was in there. he’s just not very good. Lord knows he’s been there long enough, not been shuffled around the line, so this is probably as good as he gets. right now my number 1 draft priority would be a right guard, followed by a receiver than maybe a db. They won’t be drafting high enough to get a qb and alex is servicable. I like hunter but not sure if he’s big enough to go every down if we lose frank. dixon so far has failed to impress.
Alex proven to be more than serviceable. Get him an “elite” receiver and better protection, he’s more than capable of taking this team all the way.
Still, can’t base too much on this game. It’s difficult to beat a good team on the road with a full week of prep.
The Ravens are 6-0 at home and turned “Big Ben” into Littlle Bengi, I just would not make too big a deal of this loss unless they don’t rebound quickly. Flacco is no Aaron Rogers but he’s no John Skelton either, a decent QB was going to burn our DBs unless we got more pressure on the QB. My only guess as to why Vic didn’t bring more than 4 is because the game was close and he didn’t want to get burned by a cheapie TD while blitzing. On the other side of the ball, I noted weeks ago that it was a mirage about the OL improving in protection- Harbaugh and Roman just weren’t calling plays that took time to develop.Now with the sudden disappearance of Walker, they’re down to two consistent receivers- VD and, lo and behold, Crabs. No idea what happened with Kyle last light, I didn’t even notice if he played. They’re getting nothing from the backs in the pass game, I didn’t see one called rollout for Alex, no screens to the backs, just the two bubble screens seem to be all they did to counter the rush. Alex seemed to take some responsibility for that, saying he called some poor plays, I presume he audibled into some disasters. But whatever- last night no play calling was going to help when there were 4 and 5 rushers on top of Smith all night. It could be a good thing that issues everyone should have been aware of were exposed now rather in the playoffs. Pittsburgh shoud be a pretty good test to see if they’ve done their homework.
The Arizona team we beat last week is called Cardinals and the one we lost to this week, Ravens . . . Just a meaner bird.
Ravens are smart birds.
A guy who called himself John Tamargo was of the best Splash posters ever. He never said he was the real deal and probably wasn’t, but was one of few who you’d believe. I’m sure Craig and Chuck remember him, real mellow guy.
Sure, he was great. More recently, I really liked *ChiPower* who was very active and then just fell off the map one day…….
Yeah, ChiPower was cool.
Hope he makes a comeback here someday….
No parking, lines, fools….
Sweet Niners schwag discounted…
Black Friday madness…
Magnus tosses out a holiday haiku!
I thought of John because of the LU.
I’m very sad today, a woman I’ve know and loved for a long time can’t deal with what’s happening with me and doesn’t want to see me or hear from me again. Not an argument or anything, she just can’t deal with it all…
Yeah, Chi was a pleasure .Joe comes and goes too, another good guy.
Maybe she should get over herself— sounds like she’s being a shitty friend to me. Of course, I’m lacking all the details, but still…
Yeah, maybe it didn’t translate well in text versus verbally. Likewise, I don’t know the details, so enough said.
Well, it’s been a long time, lots of false hope and false alarms as well. Had a very sweet encounter that made me love her. She was my neighbor in Santa Rosa, she had become a physician in her forties. I had a litlle skin cancer on my forehead, not a melanoma, I forget what they call them. She asked if she could take care of it and I said she could if she’d wear a pretty dress to work ( she was with a clinic). The day came and lo and behold she was in a very lovely dress, even tiny pearl earrings… of course she would change into doctorly garb but I was hooked forever..
That was before my NHL diagnosis. This had nothing to with it, sent to lab of course, it was benign.
Twin, that’s a story of Ernest Hemingway simplicity and Raymond Carver heartbreak.
It may surprise some of you, 😉 but I haven’t always been an easy person to deal with over these last few years. So I’m more sad than angry. Hope she will reconsider.
Craig, it’s not Bea, BTW. And here’s a hearbreaker, Bea’s daughter Pliar was the young lady who was in pre-med at UCSF. I had never met her but she came to see me every day after my lung cancer surgery,brought the Chronicle, dim sum a couple times, walked with me around the floor.. well, she had gotten carbon monoxide poisoning when she moved into a new apartment about that time. It seemed it been taken care of but she began having psychotic episodes and now will have to be on anti-psychotic meds the rest of here life- she’s just 27..I think she plans to come over this weekend, she’s up for Thanksgiving..
This is an oft-overlooked element of disease and illness, its toll on one’s personality. We all know the expression, “he’s not himself” or “she’s not herself”? Well, those sayings are trying to illustrate this, in my view. Suffering or anxiety or illness or meds (or a combination of these things) can corrode the personality, despite our best efforts, in my uneducated view. The flip side of that is that when we feel better, we see better, as shown by the rescued survivor or charmed odds-beater: “I never knew a blade of grass could be so miraculous” or “It’s pouring rain, and I’m delighted.”
Paul, there’s no doubt about what you say, IMO. Decadron is the only effective drug for edema after brain surgery or radiation. But you have to put up with sometimes ghastly side effects. It’s that or die, very simple. And no doubt that it changes you, as do many other neccessary drugs.
I don’t think I’m totally corroded quite yet though -some may disagree 😉 but between the decadron and anti-seizure drugs, they do cause big mood swings, never kicked my Zekey though. Very low stress threshold- my God, to think I started contibuting to blogs because it seemed so stress free…fuckwad..
Ewisco: thanks for yesterday’s expansive good wishes, (Well, everybody is a bit expansive on Thanksgiving, eh?)
i expanded the shit out of parts of me!
Off to the leftovers…
Folks, I just spent the last hour or so enjoying the bonus DVD that comes with the 2010 World Series DVD set. It never gets old. Jubilation redux. And yet a slight tinge of melancholia because it cannot remain frozen in amber, or at least we ourselves cannot. The highlights of the regular season were fun: Torres, Huff, Posey, Uribe, Burrell show up an awful lot, oh yes they do. And in the victory speeches I noticed how classy Neukom was always to give a decent tip of the hat to the Phillies and the Rangers and to his whole organization. Freddie Sanchez hypercaffeinated with 1000-kilovolt joy, Eugenio Velez eager to celebrate, and Pablo Sandoval beaming and pointing to the heavens after his double in game 5 of the NLCS. Beautiful. Anyway, not a bad way to spend an hour on the day after after Thanksgiving. Not bad at all.
Dear Sun Dressed Goddess (SDG),
Silently support us, stay with us, we beseech you. Sprinkle more fairy dust on us in 2012. And wink at Magnus next time you see him on the train. Maybe he’ll pay your fare. Or just text you greetings from Flapper Nation. Stay thrifty, my friend.
Epic
SHE was epic; she kept us rolling at the end there. (My post, in my view, was so un-epic, I came within a nanosecond of deleting it.)
if you were a nano-second away from deleting that gold, then you need to go back to Deleting School. Or something equivalent. “Stay thrifty, my friend?” –14 caret gold…….
ChiPower introduced me to this blog 3 years ago. No idea why he doesn’t come here anymore, since I never asked. However, he stills emails me every few weeks or so, asking about the blog, me, and/or sending jokes, patriotic slideshows (very pro U.S.A. and Military) and umm . . . uhh . . . jokes about sex. Ha.
I’ve met him twice . . . Once at a Giants game and once when he was in Denver on business. I took him to Wynkoop’s Brew Pub for dinner (famous pub in Denver owned by the former mayor and now, governor of Colorado). He’s good people and would give you the shirt off his back.
Watching the features on the Harbaugh family, it sure harkened back to simpler times. If they all didn’t seem like such nice, genuine people; they’d be almost a suspiciously happy family. But seeing them together and hearing ” Who has it better than us?” you have to agree: “Nobody!”
I’ve told this story many times before but I’ll add to what you are saying (at least a little bit). The Harbaugh’s moved on to my street about 4 houses away slightly around the corner around 6th grade (for me). We played a lot of street football back then, there was always a game after school between the 6-8 core kids who lived across the street from each other. We played “lamp post to lamp post” as the field. To kick an extra point you had to throw it between the 4 foot horizontal thing at the top of the lamp post–actually, quite hard to do.
Anyway, Jim showed up one day, he had just moved into the neighborhood and he was walking around with a family friend or just some dude who he knew. We didn’t know either one of them. Someone tossed him our football (he was older than us by at least 4 or 5 years) and my friend went out for a pass, eager to receive a throw from *an older kid*. He kept waving my buddy down the street to the point of almost giving up since Harbaugh refused to throw the ball, he just kept waving him down the street. He gets to nearly the other lamp post and he was just standing there, probably feeling like a chump that some high school kid just doofed him into running all the way down the street. All of a sudden, Harbaugh unloads the ball, he really just seemed to flick it, and it soared, a perfect majestic spiral, all the way down the street, one lamp post all the way to the other. This, of course, had never been done before in the history of our football league–a lamp post to lamp post throw. His friend high fived him and they just wandered away, probably looking for some early 80’s pussy or something.
I never saw Jim spend a second of his short stay on Walter Hays Drive on our side of the street ever again. His sister Joanie, who was in my class, was pretty visible in the neighborhood but she didn’t hang with me or any of my friends. She was actually pretty stuck up.
But I’ll never forget that throw. We all thought it was because he was in high school. Turns out he was a future All American, first round NFL pick.
Anyway, a good story I thought I’d share for the 10th time……..
and a side note–they lived in a 3 bedroom, 2bath ranch house. All the floor plans were the same on that street–maybe 1200 feet on an 8000 sq foot lot.
another cool short story…
Well, I’m up to about 20 on my better ones..I can tell because I hear groans as I start… “As Maz rounded third…”
Prediction, file under the Is Nothing Sacred File: Next year, Black Friday becomes Black Thursday, with shopping madness starting at 7pm Thanksgiving in the ever-escalating retail arms race.
whoa! this just tweeted by Logan Morrison of the Marlins:
Breaking News: Talked to my boy Pujols, he said he wont be playing with the Birds anymore…
you heard it first here
What a douche. Now Logan Morrison tweets:
Should’ve been more clear, my buddy Renee Pujols’ landlord is making him get rid of his beloved pet cockatoos…
Reeled me in.
I’ve been had.
LoMo is more into tweeting than playing baseball. I can dig why the *miami’s* sent his ass down last year
there was a period today when i thought: it’s quiet in flapperville. too quiet.
but just the after-glow of thanksgiving it seems. great stories.
good night all.
Hi, all, long time no see. Not so much indifference as more computer problems (monitor died) and one of the engineers at work left suddenly making my role move from part-time to over-time. Plus it is winter beginning and I am reading more fiction; re-read ‘Band of MiSFits’ even. My Saturday nights are done for the next month as Forbrydelsen II (The Killing series 2 original Danish) is airing on BBC 4. Catch it if you can on BBC America (or wherever) it is quite superior to the American version.
NINERS: Glad to hear there was some defence during Thursday’s game, ya gotta dance with who brung ya. Unfortunately all NFL games shown here are on a subscription channel. BLEEP
T-DAY: I cannot believe the big holiday/shopping days have come and gone with nary a peep or notice. I was one of those that went shopping at 5am back when the whole Black Friday thing started.
AND, OF COURSE: Like a boring birthday coming up I hope for a surprise, a positive result, when Spring Training starts to form. I have been really amiss tracking what other teams are doing, but I am overjoyed that prospects and rehabilitations from the discard pile can bring pleasant surprises. Like the eldritch force that it is ‘the game’ keeps on giving.
GO GIGANTES!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Great stories posted here Friday by Twin and Flav. There is a reason why I check out this blog every chance I get.
Looks like the NBA’s back in business, starting on Christmas Day. As a Nets fan, I was quite content to have the entire season wiped out. Oh well. It’s their last year in Jersey before moving to Brooklyn, maybe I can make it to a game.