Our Time is NOW…..
I enjoyed reading last night’s thread (this morning). Good points, respectfully delivered, from both sides. I’ll attribute that to the video of my daughter getting everyone in a nice, friendly mood……
But to add to last night’s discussion, and to quote Snarkk’s final post of the night…”they are here this season. Giants need to make hay THIS season.”
And I couldn’t agree more with that point. We are in the midst of an incredible run of pitching, one that few teams every get to experience over the course of their entire FRANCHISE. The window is still open in all it’s glory. Barring injury, and at least on paper, we have an offense going into the season that looks like it can at least hold the jockstrap of our pitching staff. With a deft add at the break, as well as some good luck rollin’ our way, there is reason for great optimism for the 2012 Giants…..
But the idea of keeping the staff together the way the Braves did in the 90’s is short sighted. For one, a staff like that has been kept together and performed at an extended, collective level very few times over the course of the last 20 years. In fact, I’ll say it’s happened that one single time, but maybe I’m missing another team that did it. And for all that, they won exactly the same number of world series’ that we have.
It’s also a different time. Smoltz, Glavine and those guys were each making around 6 million a year through the mid to late 90’s. You aren’t getting Timmy for less than 22 a year, I don’t think, and probably closer to 25. Cain won’t be less than 18 and will probably be 20. And both deals will be a minimum of 5 years. So you’re talking deals that would be between 200-250 million.
And I’m positive that another pitching starved, big market team looking to make a media splash would offer either of them more than the Giants would offer them.
Do the Giants have the dough to pull it off? Probably. But how much would be left to field the rest of the team? And how many examples have we seen of a pitcher throwing up huge production through his arbitration years only to fall flat backwards after he signs the giant free agent deal. As I’ve said a million times, it is idiotic to pay for the back of someone’s baseball card. Spend your money on advanced scouting throughout the world and make skillful draft picks and foreign signings that hit. That is how you do it in today’s major league baseball world.
The way the ownership has set up their “board of directors” with Baer as the requisite bobblehead, it is clear that the payroll is going to be watched very carefully going forward. You throw 200-250 million at 2 players and you’re digging yourself a potential hole that takes forever to get out of. I would sign one or none and I really would be fine signing neither. We’ve got some fantastic bats in the system for the first time maybe ever. Draft hitters who HAVE to play for us since we can’t get them to come via free agency. Free agent pitchers will want to sign here. We just haven’t had to explore that because of all this fantastic run of pitching. And I don’t mean sign the “Tim’s and Matty’s”. Second tier free agent pitchers will do fine here…….
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A good “bad” example would be the Rockies. It absolutely destroyed that team for 5-6 years when they signed Mike Hampton and Denny Neagle to multi-year contracts. Signed by Colorado in 2000; Hampton for eight years, $121 million, Neagle for five years, $51 million. This was 2000, so extrapolate those numbers to 2012 . . .
Now this is key . . . The vertiginous problem of pitching in Colorado led to some terrible decisions. Even though importing a free agent had failed in the case of Darryl Kile (ERAs of 5.20 and 6.61 in his two seasons before he was traded to St. Louis). IN SHORT, WE DO NOT HAVE THAT PROBLEM OR AS FLAV POINTED OUT LAST NIGHT,
“Check out the position players coming up through the system. It’s how I’ve always hoped they’d do it— draft hitters who HAVE to play for us and sign the occasional FA pitcher who WANTS to play for us.”
In other words, we already have the perfect weapon and it isn’t named Timmy or Matt . . . It’s called AT&T Park.
absolutely dead spot on…..
Fans tend to freak out when they face the possibility of the unknown. No one like to say good bye to players they know and love. But it’s part of sports. Cut ties and move on……..
Oh, one other point that Flav alluded to in his opening post this morning . . . I enjoyed last night’s “give and take” because everyone was nice about making their points and being respectful. Nice always works. Or, as a mentor told me long ago, “When someone cuts you off in traffic, you get a much better response by mouthing the words, “God bless you,” then by giving them the finger (which usually results in escalation of him pulling out a gun).”
Anyway, that’s my opinion 🙂
I see your point blade, but I don’t see cain and linc being in the same discussion as denny neagle and mike hampton. SF is having enough of an issue at the back end of the rotation right now, so it’s hard for me to imagine what happens if you have to replace part of the front of it. As for guys with big contracts, Halladay seems to have held up pretty well. If you can’t afford top grade pitching, then you have to balance the talent out somewhere else, and i’m not sure how SF does that in terms of position players.
As to what’s in the system, no one knows what will happen as they move up the chain and get to the top. I heard M Lurie talking up Joseph for whacking two out of the yard in the first week of ST, and how all the young catchers in the system make Posey into a 1b in a couple years. Pipe dreams, imo.
Sf prospects for the OF and middle IF haven’t shown much for quite some time. We all know the numbers guys like Velez put up in the minors, only to flail hopelessly at mlb level. Brown could be the next Mccutchen or more like Dexter Fowler, struggling to stay in a mlb LU.
As for time is now, I’d feel a lot better if SF had reyes and beltran in place of crawford and pagan/melk/nate.
Remember, we own Lincecum for the next two years and I think it is likely the Giants will lock up Cain . . . So, no one is going anywhere for the near term. Things change willie and if you don’t accept change and/or change with the situation, then life passes you by . . . Same metaphor is applicable for baseball or any sport for that matter.
One other point in regard to your last sentence, “As for time is now, I’d feel a lot better if SF had reyes and beltran in place of crawford and pagan/melk/nate.” We would all like to be the Yankees and spend like drunken sailors, but you can’t have everything. Your last sentence supports my point and what Flav is saying also. Specifically, the Giants have to be judicious with their payroll money. If anyone had told me 4 years ago that the payroll would be at 130 million plus today, I would have said they were crazy (especially considering that it was at around 90 million back then). So, what do you want, the best hitting team that money can buy or the best pitching team money can buy? Or, how about this – a balanced team of good pitching and hitting? I think that is what the Giants are trying to do (with a smart leaning toward pitching to take advantage of the Phone Park).
Don’t forget that Baer said the payments for the ball park will end in 2017, just five years from now. So besides the contracts coming off the books there will be a huge chunk of cash for either the owners or to put into the team as they go forward.
I like the nothing longer then three year philosophy the team has used lately. If they wanted to go four for Matt, I don’t have a problem with that. Timmy got his two years and after that who knows what he’ll do. Go for the big bucks? Retire to travel the world? I’m not sure that Timmy even knows what he wants to do In two years, so enjoy the show now.
I know it’s ST and all but 6 SBs from Blanco (I think in 7 attempts?) has got to be creating a nice little problem for The Giants and the final 25, don’t ya think?.
I guess i just don’t trust Sabes to have a back up plan in case things don’t work out the way he wants them to. If one or two of the big 3 tells him “no dice, i’m out” I don’t think he can recover, and will wind up scrambling.
which is how we wound up with Jose Castillo at 3b after he low balled feliz, and that spot was brutal until Sando developed. He has f-ed up SS for a number of years. Rent gets a life time pass, but the contract was not good and we still don’t have more than replacement level talent there.
Rowand didn’t work out the way they thought he would, and it’s fair to say beltran didn’t do enough to get SF over the hump, but I haven’t seen other OF besides one great year from Torres who have done much either for the last few years. Melk and Pagan are guys i’m holding my breath on and hoping they don’t turn into ross and guillen. 1b was handled by Bowker, Ishi, etc. Again, one good year from Huff and not a lot else.
I applauded Sabes for not making a dumb splash deal in the past like crawford, werth, or figgins. If he decided he didn’t want to pay for top quality pitching, I’m not sure how he reloads the team. drafting and developing pitching has been something he has done well, position players, less so.
blade, I would have tried for a splash move this year in anticipation of someone walking. R would have solved leadoff and SS, and b would have solved LF and a .900 OPS bat in the middle. They are expensive, it didn’t work out, so be it. Sabes has a plan, so we’ll see.
I just think there have been too many garkos in sabes past to trust him to be able to rebuild/reload if he loses talent of the level of c or l. And SP depth being what it is already, I’d have tried to pick up more than he did offensively while he hopes for rebounds from the likes of huff and pagan and return to forms from FS and Posey. projections of minor league guys I have little faith in, as too many of them have turned out to be suspects instead of prospects..
Teams that contend year in year out are not built through the draft, free agency, or trades-they are by all three methods. We fell on hard times after 10 years of regular contention under Sabean because he neglected the draft and inevitably paid the price-with the low point coming when their first pick in 2005 draft was in the 4th round. Only Sergio Romo saves them from a rare shut out-zero players from that draft in the nmajor leagues..and it did teach Sabean a lesson- the turn around in the farm system began in 2006 with the drafting of Lincecum in the first round.And they’re drafting difference makers- Tim, next was Bumgarner, then Posey, 2009 is still undecided- they traded Wheeler for Beltran ( and contrary to some Room B thinking, when you make a deadline trade to make the playoffs, you don’t get credit for trying. It’s a failure if you miss the playoffs), but they have Belt, Joseph, and Domingez yet to be determined. Gary Brown and Hembree appear to be the best of the 2010 draft, Panik and Susac 2011… more to come- whoope!
Sabean had limited funds even with the budget at 130. Tim and the arb cases, think he came in about 1.83 cents below budget.
Great (and funny) last line St 😉
I’m very sentimental about the WS team, admittedly to a fault. I didn’t want Uribe to go, or Torres, or even Ramirez, but I’m also realistic enough to know there’s no way in hell the Giants will be able to keep both Timmy and Matty. So I’m hoping they’ll be able to keep one of them, just because I want to see one of the two greatest SF Giants pitchers spend his entire career in San Francisco. I’d also feel a little less uneasy losing one of them if they hadn’t traded Zack Wheeler.
No doubt we’d all love to have added some high priced talent if the budget was of no concern. CJ wilson would look awfully nice in there instead of ZIts.
Too early to ay definitively, but think the g’s scouting and drafting improved significantly with the addition of John Barr several yrs ago. I expect we’ll see more of these kids make it to the bigs.
Go team!
A couple things- the 2010 WS win made the drafting and keeping of pitchers an unqualified success as it was the first time in MLB history that 4 starters in the WS were all home grown. As to position players, it’s obvious Sabean has begun to concentrate on them, but with that really beginning in 2008, it’s a little early to be trashing how the position players will fare. I personally think it’s patently obvious that Sabean is now looking to build what had been the traditional SF team- hitters. Posey, Belt, Panda, HSanchez with Brown, Joseph, Panik on the way. We’ll see as those younger guys hit AA- that’s the deal maker or breaker. But I’m totally confident that we’ll have a LU by 2014 where the offense will be carrying the team. They’ll need to pick up a couple respectable starting pitchers, Bumgarner and with luck, Cain, will be the 1-2.
I like kids!
Just catching up with yesterday’s threads. Good stuff. And thanks for the compliment, twin
From CSN:
“After Monday’s game, RHP Seth Rosin, RHP Shawn Sanford, C Andrew Susac and IF Joe Panik were reassigned to minor league camp and IF Ehire Adrianza was optioned to Triple-A. Before the game, OF Francisco Peguero was optioned to Triple-A and C Tommy Joseph, who had two home runs Saturday, was reassigned to minor league camp.
Prior to Sunday’s game, RHP Stephen Harrold, RHP Jake Dunning, RHP Austin Fleet and LHP David Quinowski were also assigned to minor league camp.
As I noted yesterday, Miami is quite obviously giving Rowand a serious look. Since I also noted that he got his first hit of the spring, it’s equally obvious that he’s not exactly taking advantage of it. He played again today and went 0-3.You see, it’s possible to note Aaron’s lack of success this spring without sounding like it’s important to you that he fail…
BF’s thread is preaching to the choir here. I’ve said for a long while now that Sabes had it wrong, bassackwards for a long time, and just recently, maybe since 2008 or 2009, he’s figured out he needs to move to the better strategic approach for the organization given the ballpark. With ATT, a pitcher’s park, you put the investment into your farm system, the domestic and overseas scouts and coaches/teachers. Draft and develop oodles of US and international position players, fast, speedy (with HR power to LFand gapper power to RF if you really get specific about it) with great defensive skills. Eventually, some will be prospects and make it as real MLB players. The position stars you develop, you don’t mind that much paying high dollar LT deals, because they aren’t subject to the devastating arm injury situation with pitchers that kills your team. Draft the occasional pitching help to keep the system fresh, but start to depend mainly on FA to re-stock and re-fresh your pitching staff. Whether thats 2:1 ratio in position to pitching draftees or another ratio, I dunno. Depends on the draft year, and on who you find and can sign out of the DR or Venezuela or wherever. FA hitters don’t want to come here, pitchers will. The opposite of the situation in Colorado. Once Sabes is gone, and I’m hoping he leaves a position of real organizational influence after 2013, a younger, more flexible GM will hopefully come on board to fully implement that type of strategy…
Agree with the theory about FA’s and the park. But I think their strategy is fine, with more emphasis on striking a balance of pitching and hitting prospects. I think it’s more a problem of successfully drafting PP’s.
They have been targeting and signing International players including Pablo, Hector, Villalona, Adrianza and Peguero.
Since 06, they took Lincecum, Bum, Alderson, Wheeler and Crick in the first rd.
And since 06, took PP’s Posey, Brown, Panik, Gillaspie, Burriss, Noonan, Fairley and Culberson in the first rd.
It’s not that they haven’t drafted them, it’s just too few of them had made an impact yet. That could change quickly as twinfan notes, with Belt Brown Panik and Hector.
Key again, imho, was bringing Barr on board in 08 to head scouting. We’ll see in a yr or two.
Well, most here are in on Crawford. And although he’s not a draftee, Sandoval counts as a successful PP. So 4 of the 8 PP starters are home grown ( Nate is the other) , 2 of them All-Star caliber ( Buster and Pablo) . Plus the top 3 pitching starters, the closer, and the set up guy. So we have SEVEN home grown All-Star caliber players..I seriously doubt there are many teams with a better group.
Bracket People: If you clink on the link and they want a username or ID or whatever, they want you to register with cbs–fill that out, it takes seconds, and then you’re good to go….
After this year, they will be at the end of the 4th year of serious contention, after 2013 it will be 5. Sabean will be here as long as he wants to be here…
Oh hai guise! Still lurking on occasion — not much of an off-season’er. Catching up on the latest.
Blade was asking about Kostaz and streaming a few days ago. He won’t be doing the justin.tv thing … has new home, here: http://kostazkrew.webs.com/index.htm
“howdee” to PaulieK and the rest. 24 days till “Life” begins again!
BillBill–nice to see you. I know a lot of Flappers will be excited about the kostaz posting
That address requires a plug-in, which is nothing more than a proprietary Flash video (FLV format) upgrade, similar to Youtube. Eh, * Windows-only *. 😦 Since my Mac is Bootcamped running both OS, guess I’ll have to flip to watch da gamez … or do the MLB option, which I hated when I did it in 2010.
We … uh … have some hitters now, at least a marginal upgrade to last yr?
Hi Bill2 . . . Yes, I was asking about it. Question – the plug in you referenced, which one? Asking for 2, one which I believe is the correct one, Illivid and another one, that references PDF files. Thanks. Good to see you here.
I’m getting a different prompt, neither of those two, but would imagine it’s Illivid, not a PDF reference.
The prompt I’m getting is for “FoxTab FLV Player”. No idea about the others.
OK, I downloaded the two video files (FoxTab FLV Player and Illivid). Do I need both????
no idea … the FLV player should be enough. Not familiar w/ the Illivid product but it appears to be just a download mgr. of some sort. I’d start w/ the player only, first. I probably won’t get around to messing w/ it until there’s a game.
I deleted the Illivid . . . Doesn’t seem to be related. I hate these add ons that glom onto downloads. Got to be careful or you get shit you don’t need.
Speaking of scouts….that’s a funny scene in “Moneyball,” with the old scouts around the table. They’re negative about one prospect because “he has an ugly girlfriend, and that shows a lack of confidence.”
More likely, a lack of money…
Could be a vision problem
Maybe he was just trying to bust a perpetual slump.
Boch on Belt in RF from the Merc:
“He’s done fine. He played a little more right in his younger years and I think he’s a little more comfortable there. I just want to take a look at him there, but more than likely, he’ll be going back to left, particularly in our ballpark. Melky will probably be the one going to right field (if necessary in place of Schierholtz). I just want to take a look at it. Huff will play some outfield, too, and we’ll have to make that decision which way is the best way to go.”
Warriors trade Ellis?
Pagan apparently had a good day at the plate today, and showed speed with a 2b and 3b hits. What about an over/under on Giants team steals this season? Last year it was a total of 85. Of course we don’t have the final 25 yet, but team steals should be way up this year. Bochy looks like he’s ready to pull the trigger some. With Cabrera, Pagan, and Blanco onboard — maybe up to 140?. I didn’t think much of Blance when they announced his signing to the minor league deal — looked to me like a shot in the dark fodder for ST. But, the guy is sure making a case for the 4th OFer. Gotta love the speed. What would you call an OF with Melky, Pagan, and Blanco — the Gazelles, the Cheetahs?…
Snarkk is happy!
Speed on the bags makes me happy…
sure , when they are actually on the bags. M. Bourn didn’t much help the ATL last year in late season deal.
The Warriors have agreed in principle on a deal that would send Monta Ellis, Ekpe Udoh and Kwame Brown to Milwaukee for Andrew Bogut and Stephen Jackson. .
Monta and Udoh and Kwame Brown to the Bucks.
Bogut and Stephen Jackson to the Dubs.
Bogut is out the season with injury. They give up Udoh, too? Looks like the Bucks get the better of this…
Fans hating this one
So, Jackson is now starting guard, or is Thompson now playing that role?
Curry can’t stay on the floor, so Rush has to step up. Bogut has consistently had injury issues the past 4 years.
Guess they had to do something. The status quo was going nowhere…
From SFGate:
“One Warriors player said: “If we’re giving up, I can feel my hip hurting already.”
The players are NOT happy.
THAT is funny…
fuck the players. If they were 21-17 instead of 17-21 maybe they might be happier……..
I’m willing to wait this one out. It hurts to give up Udoh a little bit and I’ve enjoyed Monta over the years but they were just never going to go anywhere with him. And by blowing up the center position this year it should ensure we retain our lotto pick this year. That would be excellent.
Captain Jack is coming back? Why not, all the other shit is water under the bridge, I loved that dude when he was here.
If Bogut is healthy next year we finally have a legitimate NBA center……
Stak Jack has an expiring contract, that’s the reason he’s in the deal, makes the numbers work. But, Udoh, too, seems an excessive throw in. If the Dubs do actually tank to a top 7 pick, this year’s draft has lots of big men, but now they’ve got a big man — a guy that always gets hurt…
I get why Captain Jack and Kwame were in the deal. I just like Capt J and will enjoy watching him play this year. The Warriors can still draft a big man, get the best fucking big man available. We need anyone big who can play. And this is a great draft, I hope we are going to be a part of it.
Well, you’re right, they could draft another big guy. But, why do this trade then?…
Welcome to the NBA, Monta . . .
I see All Star games in your future
why? He’s still going to another shitty team.
Oh, the trade should cause the Warriors to be unsettled tonight vs. the Kings, thus advantage to the Kings in this titanic Nor. Cal. duel!!
absolutely. I don’t bet on basketball games or even know what the spread is tonight, but I would guess they get blown out……..
And the Kings have actually been playing fairly well lately. They’ve been cutting Jimmer’s time. Some of the fans aren’t happy about that, but it’s no big deal to me. I’m not sure his game is fully NBA-level yet. DeMarcus Cousins is way better since the coaching change.
And I should have mentioned that Clifford Ray has been hired by the Kings to work with the team on post play. Nice to have a Clifford Ray sighting.
Yeah, will the Dubs lose by 20, or 30 after this news?…
Here’s what a blogger at http://www.bucksketball.com/ says about the deal:
“The Bucks were willing to do anything to get rid of Stephen Jackson after all. This doesn’t look like much now, but if the rumors are to be believed, this is just the first part of a process to get Monta Ellis to the Orlando Magic. Kwame Brown was most likely in the deal to make the numbers work. He is coming off the books at the end of the season. And Ekpe Udoh is an interesting case in the plus/minus stat: every time he enters the floor, his team goes on a run. His adjusted plus/minus for the year is 10.78 which is pretty impressive for a team as bad as the Warriors.
And so ends the Andrew Bogut era in Milwaukee. It was an era fraught with promising starts and rampant stops. Good luck to him, but the organization had to move away from a centerpiece that could never stay on the court.”
yeah, the health of Bogut is going to be a definite concern. I’m not super excited about this trade or anything. I’m just happy that we are likely going to retain our draft pick this year, we kept Klay Thompson and Ellis is on to greener pastures.
Ellis is a fan favorite because he’s so much fun to watch, probably the quickest player in the NBA. But *fun to watch* will never translate into lots of Warrior wins and a playoff berth. He just can’t do everything and they had no other trade chip.
These kinds of trades are another reason why I don’t care much about the NBA. Many of the players in trades have nothing to do with actual helping the other team — it’s based on the requirement to essentially even out the salary impact of the trade on both teams. If this were baseball, think of what it would take for the Royals to trade for Lincecum — they’d have to throw in ten players to make the trade work…
I get the not caring about the NBA, but I think a big part of that is the not winning. I care much more about the NBA when the Warriors and/or Kings are playing well. The most I was into the NBA in the last 10 years was when the Kings were making their run in the early 2000s.
Good point. I was much more of a fan when I was young and the Dubs were good — in the ’70s. When I was really young, I was a Celtic fan, too. I liked the parquet floor — and was a big Bird fan. I saw him once in the Boston Garden in ’82 or something like that — playing Cleveland or some crap team like that. The old Garden was a trip, the place had that overhanging deck and looked like a dump and smelled like a dump. But, the bars were classic in the area….
Oh man I loved that Laker/Celtic rivalry in the ’80s. That was just awesome stuff. It was INTENSE.
Yeah, NBA was at its best then. Celtics v Lakers was always good. Magic v. Bird. Hell, it was always good in the 60s and 70s. Russell, Sam Jones, Havlicek vs. West, Baylor, Wilt, Goodrich. I can even remember Bailey Howell — the guy looked like he should be a tall house painter, not an NBA player. Nowadays, Kobe is great, a real competitor, but Labron doesn’t do much for me…
This is worse than Jerry Lucas for Cazzie Russell…
With Udoh gone, Dubs are now going to get crushed even more on the boards the rest of this season.
Going to be brutal in that respect…
It occurred to me that I haven’t bored y’all with what I’ve been reading lately. I just finished Michael Moore’s collection of autobiographical stories, called “Here Comes Trouble.” Before that I read a new biography of Gandhi called “Great Soul.” And I’ve resumed reading a novel that I had set aside for a while, a 1000 page novel by Neal Stephenson, his latest. It’s kind of a hi-tech thriller.
Well now you have…
Well, this will entertain you, ‘cuz it’s great:
Good stuff. We showed up in the middle of the set by these 2 at GG Park a few weeks back. Now I’m curious if they played this before we got there. I will also say I was personally disappointed that Boz Scaggs didn’t play a bluegrass version of “Lido Shuffle” that day. One of the bands did play an entertaining version of “I Want to Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me” by Whitney Houston though. I can’t say the crowd was digging it too hard.
I also have to give credit to Zumie in regards to The Great Mephisto. He was the one who first mentioned TGM here on the blog.
forget Loo dude, I always like me a good Zumie book club report. I don’t always follow along to the end of the post but I like to know you’re still ticking off those books one after another. Knowledge is a good thing. Why is it that all my most well read friends AREN’T republicans?
Ha!
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I just saw that Santorum won the cracker-fest tonight in Alabama. Mississippi might be closer. Santorum would be such an easy win for Obama. Romney might be a little more competitive against Obama.
Nothing ever comes of these trades, is Beane behind it all? Last trade that was exciting was the Captain Jack trade from Indiana, turned into their first exciting year since 1896..
Wow, just heard Carlos Rogers is signing BACK with Niners…
great. Looks like he was serious when he said he wanted to come back here……..
He had to show them an old jaywalking citation to seal the deal…
But I am NOT feelin’ the Costanzo misfire. How did we not re-sign THAT guy? Shit he was the plumber’s son, we should have been able to bring him back……
Yeah, just heard he went to the Bears. I guess special teams guys with no upside to play on defense much are just considered cannon fodder, no matter how well they play. Unless, there’s something we don’t know about to nix him. I’ll go further with Oracle’s theory here — maybe he did a lot of charity work?…
A lot has to go right for this to work but it totally could: IF Curry can ever get that foot straight and IF Bogut can stay healthy, then you add Klay (who I love), Lee and a stud top 6 or 7 pick…..hey, it’s not all bad.
And Captain Jack back too? Haha, didn’t Larry Riley run him out of town? If anyone thought Larry Riley is anything but a bobble head they now know that, well, he’s just a bobble head…….
Dawg- Gil and Dave sang it as their last song at the Hardly Strictly festival this past October. I wasn’t able to make it to the Hellman memorial concert. We loved Warren. He sat on our tarp one time to watch Emmylou’s set. My wife did some artwork and mailed it to his corporation headquarters in the hope that if he actually got it, it was our way of saying ‘thank you’ for the festival. Not only did he get it, he wrote a little letter to my wife to thank her for the artwork, and told her he was displaying it in his house. He sent us 2 passes to the “Friends and Family” section of the festival, which allows access to a reserved section, and a free lunch, and nicer restrooms than the porta-potties. It was a real nice thing for him to do. The whole festival is such a cool thing.
The Warriors can’t do anything fucking right. Winning at half time?Tank already! What happened to the guy who was gonna quit because of his fake bad hip? If they fiddle through the rest of this season and somehow DON’T get the 7th pick or better I’m gonna be so bummed……..
Never under-estimate the ability of the Kings to out-suck an opponent.
Neal Stephenson? I’ll have to give that a look on the kindle.
My copy of the book is on a Kindle. Definitely THE way to read a 1000 page book!
Snow Crash was such a good book.
Yeah, that’s a cool book. I’m a huge Stephenson fan. He can do no wrong as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve read Zodiac and Crytonomicon as well. Really weird cool stuff. A lot like PK Dick back in the day. I kinda lost track of him . . .
He did a long interesting series set back in the time of Isaac Newton and the birth of the scientific revolution. Yet still had the Stephenson cool way of looking at things, and sense of humor.
The W’s are sharing the ball playing d and rebounding, and they are beating the F out of the kings. The backups are rolling and dunking on them. Even Biedrins looks good…and blade’s guy wright is out of sight tonite, popping 3s and rebounding.
Might not last but i’m sure they are having fun tonite at least.
Just like we predicted! (grin)
Yeah, Wright was absent in the first half and then turned on a switch in the second half . . . Almost regretted starting him willie, but he came through.
It IS the Kings, although their pattern is usually to beat the Heat and lose to the Newts…
Uh, not a Romney indictment. The Nets . . .
meanwhile trent johnson loses another game in the pac 12, as LSU gives up 96 to Oregon in the NIT and loses by 20. come back anytime, doof.
Warriors win by 26!
They are out from under the suffocating presence of Monta Ellis.
WhoTF invited Winter back? It’s raining cats and dogs, and the wind is approaching Zito’s fas… well, medium-ball up here.