Not Worrying About The Loss of Bee-Wheezy
I pulled some stats from last season that covered *post all star break*– that doesn’t cover it perfectly, but it covers most of the time that Wilson missed last season. They had 2 blown saves post all star break 2011 which was 2nd best in the NL next to Arizona (who had 1). They only had 21 save opportunities post AS break, but that’s still a 90% success rate, which is outstanding.
Maybe I’ll feel different after a few wild and wild and whooly appearances from that maniac Casilla. We’ll see. But right now, the closer role is not on my list of things to worry about (Giant’s related).
In fact, I don’t have a single thing to worry or complain about regarding the team. At this point in the season, that’s fairly amazing. Zito is pitching reliably. The hitting has been fine collectively. The shoddy and downright weird starting pitching has righted itself. I suppose if Timmy gets shelled tonight that’ll give me something to rant about tomorrow.
Speaking of tonight, this is an exciting match up. Four Cy Young’s between these two. The Phillies are shells of their phormer phucking selves, at least in terms of their bats. I phear no Philly bat this year……
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
The only thing I am worried about is the “Sun Dressed Goddess.” I have been meaning to bring this up, but have forgotten to. However, I digress . . . In my opinion, we don’t need a mascot that hasn’t brought us any luck, i.e., we didn’t win anything last year. My recommendation is that Flavor Nation scour the homeland and search for a new mascot that brings hope and renewal to our beloved Giants. By the by, I agree with Loo – do you guys ever go to a baseball game? We can’t find a replacement Sun Dressed Goddess by typing on our laptops in the living room. Just saying’ . . . 🙂
In any event, some might find my message sacrilegious, but I stand by what I said – that the first Sun Dressed Goddess be retired forthwith and a replacement be found. If it would help, have a poll on retiring her ass, whereby you could vote anonymously.
good one blade. As to the immediate future of the roster, forseeable FS returns in couple weeks if all goes well (depends on how you look at that, sure). So who does he replace? There is a glut of guys able to play 1b/OF, and given recent injury history seems unlikely they would dump a middle IF. Would Sf already try and deal for pitching depth in the pen? Does bochy keep same number of pitchers?
time for a new godess. someone dressed in giants garb. hopefully with big tits and a willing disposition :).
Not sure what to do with FS. Burress seems to be handling himself well. You send Belt down until either huff or nate drops off. curious as to how melky’s hand is feeling and whether it’s contributing to his recent o-fers.
As i’ve said in years past, the key is to be at or very near .500 going into all-star break, without any major losing streaks. then get hot going into august and september and roll into playoffs en fuego.
Freddy coming back, if he’s truly healthy, should be a good thing, and Theriot disappears. The ‘Ot’s’ were truly ought nots. Burriss stays, and if they need more IF help, Arias comes up. That’s not what I think will happen, just what I think should happen.
Wilson will be missed but will not sink the ship. Several of us have said here we’re more concerned about Tim than we were about the closer.
This team will (should) be well above .500 at the break.
Agree about the Phils… just got an email from my Dad, who lives in PA and is a long-time Phils fan, and he said he’s not even watching them yet, too boring. The pitching is still strong, but I’d love to see this offense take them down this week. Don’t know about Melky’s hand, good point… and a possible concern, he’s clearly key to this team.
Someone send me some Giants gear, and I’ll get one (or some) of my students to model it for the Flap. They would surely bring good luck. Craig has seen some of my photos on FaceBook, I’m guessing he would second that emotion….. I’ll be back visiting the US in June/July, I’ll buy some gear then. And, would love to meet up with Flappers for a game or viewing the game at a good watering hole.
Based on the Facebook pics I’ve seen there’s definite potential for some Flapettes to model the hell out of Giants shwag. I liked the photo of your classroom and the “final” final your students were taking. Judging by their comments (at least the ones I could read in English) you will be sorely missed at that school.
As I will sorely miss them. They are my family over here….
Pill is the logical choice to go down. And please, skip the spiel about the imaginary requirement for a RH bat “off the bench”…
Steward, at the Merc blog, referred to last night’s miscue by Pablo as “another disturbing ‘fat’ error”. One, I don’t see where his weight had anything to do with it, it was a tough play, those pretending that it was routine or “had to be made” don’t understand the game. Whatever he weighs, he’s the MVP of this team, there are far more pressing concerns, it looks like our best leadoff hitter and OFer is on the DL in NY, and obviously we need Tim to get back to form..
it was a really hard play, and if his weight was bothering him what about the play he made on the foul pop? my only thought was he could have held the ball, but he’s trying to get an out there to help out his pitcher and keep the game close.
Interesting all 4 guys on pg wrap jumped on Pagan not scoring from third on the IF grounder to 1b from melk, who has hit a lot of balls on the ground (hard, admiitedly) lately with a guy at 3b. You’re a speed guy you don’t hesitate when it’s hit that side where they were playing back and conceding the run anyway. they weren’t going to even throw…wtf?
He should be ashamed of himself for making fun of someone’s weight…
It was a bush league comment that had no place in a publication like The Mercury.
There’s always Jenny Craig for men.
Barkley got himself trimmed down.
I think it’s great that all the players wear #42 once during the season. A nice yearly reminder that non-whites were barred from MLB for so many years. Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and so many other great players were never the nation-wide household names they should have been. And MLB never knew Satchel Paige in his prime. All the players wearing #42 once a year, for the next 100 years, might begin to earn some forgiveness for that.
8% of Blacks on current rosters.
I mean current rosters for MLB have 8% total for the league.
I made Loo’s comment POTD because it was topical and stated a strong, unique opinion. I don’t have a problem with how MLB handles JR Day
Does he get a plaque?
Everyone will be dead by then and it won’t matter, Zumie. What’s the point of forgiving corpses?
Kids today in NY don’t know or care about anything pre-Jeter…
The enemy is always ignorance; but that doesn’t mean concede to that enemy.
When in doubt erect a statue or plaque to make note of history. Only the tourists will take note.
Kind of odd that 1b has always been where you hide the big lumbering types with pop. No way pablo is near the size of prince fielder, for one. And a 1b has to move quite a lot during a game, esp once there is a baserunner, plus all the parks where there is a lot of foul territory. 3b is more a quick reaction position that generally requires less mobility than middle IF, right?
Pablo likes to eat!
There’s always Sensa!
I am sort of optimistic that Wilson will be back in baseball at all. I have watched a lot of closers just burn out their arms, from Scott Garrelts, Shooter, Rob Nen, and now Wilson. It seems like when a closer goes down with needing surgery they rarely if ever come back. Before everyone goes crazy and lists a bunch of Closers who have come back, I am listing the Giants that I know about. But go ahead and list those pitchers.
well, Wilson has already blew out his arm, got surgery and returned to win dominate the closing position and win a world series so I think guys can and do come back from it….
I was not saying it can never be done, its just that the guys I listed did not make it back. Scott Garrelts was my favorite Giant back in the day. It was sad to see his carreer end the way it did. loved the guy
If there’s a problem I have with Jackie’s day, it’s that MLB is doing so little to reinvigorate the black presence in the game. It’s encouraging that Magic Johnson has already partnered with the Jackie Robinson Foundation and there are some efforts to make playing the game actually affordable for inner city youth..
The problem with the bunt was that the Giants were taken by surprise. Pablo was too far back to make the play. If he’s in 3-4 steps, he makes the play.
Pirates were on the ball!
My question is, what is Flan telling Pagan at 3rd? Isn’t he telling him run on contact? Krukow said it was the right play at the tiime with zero outs, but I didn’t buy it. Then they jumped all over him after the game.
Flannerey can tell him what to do, but he froze.
Trivia time: Who was the last SF Giant to wear #42?
Personally, I do not know…
Bobby Bolin wore 42
And surely you remember Jim Willoughby, circa 1974.
You obviously have a “steel trap” eidetic memory St . . . or, you are really good at googling information 😉
Thanks, Now I have to friggin look up eidetic
1. End of this week
2. End of this month
3. All-Star Break
4. End of season
What’s he talking about NOW? Glad you asked… When Valentine gets canned..
Memorial Day weekend
Loo, good question. (Well, for me, being sick with the flu anyway)
I’m going with Kirk Rueter, 1996 and part of 97.
St: You are good………I loved Bolin – I remember a clutch 2-hitter vs the hard hitting Bucs in very late ’66, I think….
Willoughby forever linked to Little Joe….
Good article on Wilson by Schulman. I liked Wilson’s quotes in it, a lot. It’s hard not to like this guy, he’s like Nen — no doubt gave up his arm to win the 2010 season and WS. And, he succeeded. I’m sure to him, that ring is well worth another visit to Dr. Andrews’ OR. If anybody can make it back from a TJ #2 surgery, he can. Good luck to him, and thanks. And BTW, he’s going to rehab with the team during the year. That’s awesome, and shows me a lot. Whether he ever makes it back the same, not as good, or not at all, Baer might as well put up his plaque on the wall tonight before the game, he’s more than earned it. BTW2, that ankle injury thing was a hoot — he got the save in Denver with a blown elbow. That’s impressive. Scutaro must feel good, he made out against a pitcher throwing with a broken wing…
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/15/SP841O3MVI.DTL
How about a plaque for Snarkk for having the best avatar.
I will always remember this Wilson pitch, the best pitch he’s ever thrown, all things considered, IMO…
And wow, has ever been a whole lotta bitching going on that that was a ball.. no, it was a perfect pitch and a pitch Howard had to swing at…
Down the block where I live there’s a plaque for a historic tree that is long gone. A plaque for a tree.
I’ve always thought Wilson to to be one of the smartest and most interesting men in sports…
I admit I was skeptical of the dude when he came along, I couldn’t figure whether he was serious or seriously deranged. He is definitely a cut above the average MLB player in the gray matter department. He can put sentences together better than a lot of the media covering him. Glad he’s staying around the clubhouse during the rehab. His personality definitely contributes to a positive vibe, somehow, on that squad. The wackiness is more than a bit contrived and for public consumption, IMO, but the dedication to craft is clearly not, and that’s the main thing.,..
He seems like one of those guys who thinks he always has to be “on”. Of course whenever I see him he is on.
All the bitching about borrrrrrring Bochy, now it’s because a guy isn’t boring.
After listening to Marty Lurie interview Giants 1962 W/S pitcher Billy Pierce on KNBR last night(great stuff) I could really enjoy a 50th Anniversary W/S between the Giants and Yanks and of course a different result.
Here’s some facts back then…Game 6 was the first game back in SF after the Yanks went up 3-2 in NY.The previous game was Oct 10,this one was Oct 15 because of a travel day and 3 straight days of heavy rain.The Giants won behind Billy Pierce’s CG 3 hitter,
The price of a ticket to sit in the lower boxes was $12.00 adjusted for inflation that is just a few cents over $90.I would gladly shell out $90 like any Flapper fora lower box W/S ticket,i mean aren’t some field boxes for regular season games more than that now?No one ever said that MLB has not made money in the Selig era.
Ford C. Frick was the commish in 1962.Joe Cronin was the president of the AL.Warrren Giles of the NL.The Giants Executive Family consisted of Horace Stoneham,President,Charles Feeny VP,Charles Stoneham VP,Ed Brannick,Secretary,and Edgar Feeley,Treasurer.
Orlando Cepeda got 3 hits in game 6,and 2 RBI’s.He was also caught stealing once.The losing pitcher was Whitey Ford,lasting only 4 2/3 innings and giving up all 5 runs.The Giants did not hit a HR,although Roger Maris hit a solo shot.The Giants Starting LU…..
Harvey Kuenn- LF
Charley Hiller-2B
Felipe Alou-RF
Willie Mays-CF
Orlando Cepeda-1B
Jim Davenport-3B
Ed Bailey-C
Jose Pagan-SS
Billy Pierce-P
The Giants Equipment was Eddie Logan,”Doc” Bowman was the trainer.
Juan Marichal was the only Giant pitcher not born in the US.
A few advertisements back then were…Roos-Atkins,Laura Scudder’s Potato Chips “The noisiest chips in the world”….Soft Whirled Wonder Bread….RCA Victor “Mark 8″ Color TV….You get alot to like-filter,flavor,pack or box! You may remember the jingle,”You get alot to like witha Marlboro”.
Harrah’s Tahoe featured Guy Lombardo,Polly Bergen,Lonesome Geoge Gobel,Louis Armstrong and Harry Belafonte.Imaging stayingat the lake for 2 days and catching Louie and Harry on consecutive nights? You could of done it (well are parents could have) on Nov 7-8, 1962.
The World Series winner’s share was $9,883 and the loser’s share was $7,291
Righteous Bucks!
I thought Murph was the equipment mgr back then.
Wasn’t the Cuban missile crisis in high gear at the time?
Kevin cornered the Flap League market in closers – he initially had 8 – but is now down to 5, since Storen, Wilson, and Madson are out with injuries (the latter two for the season). Couple the aforementioned with two more of his players out on the DL, his team is the walking wounded.
His team is called IrishKev . . . Luck of the Irish I guess you would call it. 😉
Yeah, thanks for reminding me!! glad I didn’t do some of the trades that were sent before the season started.
I tried to sell him on a deal pre-BWilson getting hurt, now, he will never trade one of the ones remaining…
“Glad I didn’t do some of the trades that were sent before the season started.”
I’m not exactly certain if he knows what he is talking about after that line above, especially if you were offering him someone healthy for someone who now has a broken wing. LQTM.
Sorry, Dennis. I’m not breaking up my pitching staff for those guys.
The Giants announced that starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner was signed to a five-year contract extension through 2017, with options for 2018 and 2019.
Bumgarner extended 5 years. No word on the dollars
Guess they’ve seen enough, no need for further convincing. He’s the real deal. Bum exchanges arb upside for dollar certainty and lifetime wealth, even if his arm blows up like Wilson’s this week. Giants get payroll certainty, limit the arb hit. Timmeh is almost certainly now gone, as early as mid next season…
Ya think? Perhaps a pipe dream – filled with with the following types of marijuana – Afghan,AmsterdamIndica,Aussie Blues,Azura,Big Bud,Californian Skunk,Caramelicious,Cheese,Citral,Crystal Rain,Easy Rider,Ganeshas Dream,Happy Outdoor Mix,Haze,Hindu Kush,Dutch Dope,Supernova A.K.A. Chronic,Waikiki Queen,Le Fruit Defendu,Light Of Jah,Maroc X Skunk,Master Kush,Master Kush X NL,Lowrider,Medijuana,Misty,Bob Marley Sativa,Strawberry Ice,New York Diesel,Yoruba Nigeria,Northern Light,Northern Light X Big Bud,Charas,Shiva Shanti,Skunk Red Hair,Skunk Special,Super Skunk,California Dream,Tatanka,Thai X Skunk,White Queen,White Widow,Durban Poison,Early Misty,First Girl,Hawaii Skunk,Maroc X Skunk Special,Ganja Dwarf – Lowrider,Purple Power,Pride Of Amsterdam,New Super Silver Haze,Four Way,Shiva,Silver Haze,and Easy Rider, but this might happen . . .
Timmy, after having a bowl of the aforementioned, says to his agent, “Ya know, after last night’s loss to Halladay and the Phils, I’m thinking you go to Sabes, with hat in hand, and tell him, “Timmy thinks your last offer of $75 million for 5 years, with a team option, was quite generous . . . umm, and we would like to sign that offer if it’s still available????” Sabes laughs at him and says, “We’ll think about it.” 😉
Nice ERA Timmy has. I know, I know only 2 games.
San Francisco: Lincecum (0-1, 12.91 ERA)
Bum gets $35M minimum guaranteed locked up through 2017, his 1st FA year. $40M if he qualifies for arb after this year. Vesting and club options for years 2018 and 2019, terms of that unclear. If he stays healthy, a good deal for all…
LInk on details…
http://blog.sfgate.com/giants/2012/04/16/giants-hand-madison-bumgarner-35-million-extension/?tsp=1
You are looking at tonight’s LU and what *should* be the everyday LU..
Giants:
Pagan CF
Cabrera RF
Sandoval 3B
Posey C
Huff LF
Belt 1B
Crawford SS
Burriss 2B
Lincecum SP
Go team and of course Twin is right again!
Snarkk, real good post about Wilson earlier today.
Actually, you had a couple of real good ones about Wilson.
Well, the dude got the last outs in the 2010 pennant and first SF WS win clincher. That’s ranks pretty high up there in my SF fan history book….
Maybe best of all, perhaps he knew that we couldn’t take any more torture beyond what just being in the postseason inflicted. He pitched with as much efficiency as he ever had..
Well, Kevin is snake bit by the DL this season as I was last season and the no Dogers rule would have evened the scores this early in the season for ua, although I cannot complain about Kemp (or Kershaw) too much. I still don’t understand FL trading it seems to be more ‘you show me yours and I’ll show you mine’ when I need my glasses to see yours and explain how mine looks when it’s working before the yeahs and nays start being decided.
did I see Nate making a great catch in the game last night?
thank the mlb.com replays for being able to see any games at all this year.
I would love to be in SF in june/july and meet Paul and you others, but I can’t make it as I will be going to the Olympics, which I prefer to the ASG
If any of you are going to the summer Olympics in 2012 be sure to let me know I will show you a good british fry up.
Fantastic deal for the Giants today locking up Bum for a known, completely reasonable cost.
Its always nice to come home to a package on the porch. A 12 pack of mechanical pencils, Foster the People CD, and a hot-off-the-presses copy of “Baseball’s Starry Night.” Thanks to Pawlie for hooking us up with the Free Super Saver Shipping option.
I totally agree with Snarkk and others re Wilson. He goes down as a great SF Giant whether he ever throws another pitch or not.
I also agree with Loo’s take on Jackie Robinson day. A bit much for me.
Good dog!
I’m not worried now about losing Weezy, but it’ll become an issue if:
a) Romo keeps showing his aversion to the job
b) Casilla becomes the wild thing trying to do the job and walks a shitload of people
c) Affeldt and/or Lopez don’t get righties out if they are asked to do more than LOOGY work.
d) The recent history of Closer-By-Committee-Flameout rears its pointy little head
That’s a lot of ifs. Why don’t you just come out and say you’re worried about it, Chuckie?
I think losing Wilson was obviously a tough blow, but I think Bochy’s greatest strength is the way he handles pitchers–especially the bullpen. I saw it for years down here in SD and now in SF. With all the good arms we have down there, I’m confident he’ll find a way to make it work.
How many of Bumgarner’s free agent years did we buy out with this deal?
One dog
Two, since they are team options for 2018-2019. It doesn’t seem our country boy has an agent worth his salt. This is stealing..
Actually, three: 17,18,19.
Our good old country boy,probably got liquored up on some vintage “Moonshine” by Sabes and Baer and was forced to sign his mark or X. While they pumped some Marshall Tucker “Thank God im a Country Boy” on loudspeakers.
You better inform the AP then Twin . . . Per them, “Bumgarner and the Giants agreed to a new $35.56 million, six-year contract through the 2017 season Monday, locking up the lefty through arbitration and his first year of free agency.”
But the TEAM has two option years-18 and 19. So if they choose he’s theirs through 2019.
barring an unexpected comeback this evening, I regret to inform The Flap that we are sans a blog mascot. She’s coming down, boys……….
I think it should be Ferret Head. Since she bugged out we haven’t been the same. Yup, I vote for the mighty Ferret as a new mascot.
Wasn’t your house getting stilted today or tomorrow? How did the cabin problem sort out?
Not a bad choice, although I’m partial to Hanger…
Where the heck are these 39 people who voted, Flav?
The shadow knows Loo.
Research indicates that “lurkers make up over 90% of online groups”.
I don’t really get the lurker thing, I couldn’t do it. But it’s obviously a large % of the visitors to this blog……
The house goes up Wednesday. Today was an electrician getting the shack back up and running (with a building inspector that basically walked up and slapped a sticker on the new box). Today electric on the shack, cut off the utility porch on the house, put up temp props for the front porch roof and cut the columns holding them. Not to mention shutting off and unhooking the sewer system on our house, cutting off all the plumbing, gas and electrical. I’ve been doing some demo on some old kitchen cabinets and clearing out a bunch of shit (payback for leaving the wife to go up to DC for the Nats opener).
Next week we head off to New Orleans for a couple of weeks of music and complete debauchery. No need for dial a shots, although there will be at least one that’s bar to bar (NOLA to SF).
Why don’t you put up a poll for lurkers only and let them vote for their favorite and least favorite Flapper?
I bet the same guy would win both…
ha, if there was a way to monitor that I’d do it……
It would be a very uncool thing to do.
Let’s vote on that…
Well, with your votes, it’s already 10-0.
I don’t think most of the extra votes are lurkers, I think they’re people with multiple PCs or access to them.
The Dodgers are now favored to win the NL West at 8/5.
I guess that makes sense. Especially when you consider they’re on pace to win ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX GAMES.
. . . and they get to play the Padres every other series, then yeah, maybe.
well they’re the chalk Denny, shouldn’t you now be hammering them?
What’s their magic number, Dennis?
151. Pass the rum.
I vote once, and only once to each and every poll. As most of you know, I’m superstitious as hell.
I voted to lose the big boobed bitch. She’s been nothing but bad luck.
I didn’t vote. Maybe some folks from Chicago are voting for their old granny from the old country or something.
Safe to say we’ll put that mistake on Pagan. Jesus.
Good thing for Lincecum and the Giants,No Utley,No Howard early in the season.
Umm, right now Kat – it doesn’t seem to matter.
Yeah I couldn’t type fast enough Blade and it was four zip….Ouch….
Well, still early . . . hehehe 🙂
Trade ’em now. He’s a joke.
Tim Zitcecum…
Can’t blame Hector for this one.
I blame my father for my poor sex life. All he told me was ‘the man goes on top and the woman underneath.’ For three years my wife and I slept in bunk beds.
budda bump bump; seriously folks, i’ll be here all night. tip your waiters.
this is very frustrating to watch, I thought he would have a good start. His fastball is 91, acceptable. I’d like to see that hit 92-93 next inning;
To me, the biggest change in Lincecum is his body language. He looks absolutely beaten out there. He looked that way in the dugout before he ran out for the 1st inning.
Well Craig, How many more of these before you change Lincecum to a worry
I think we are easily in DEFCON 4 regarding Timmy.
They’re hanging the plastic in the Dodger clubhouse…
Maybe there was a baseball conference of MLB Aces and they all got something that was contagious.
I thought Tim was going to ask, “Do I have to go out there?”
Christ. Turns out #1 was the biggest problem. Pagan is getting a bit tiresome. He’s got to make the call on the fly ball.
didn’t see it but that was miller’s take on radio, and he was pretty vocal about it. At that point it should have been bases empty two out.
Looks like the old In-N-Out burger is kicking in.
Didn’t he say he was not doing the Pink Slime anymore? Maybe he needed to taper off, like many drugs. Maybe some Single-Singles for a while…
Yeah Twin, if he went cold turkey would that be a double gobble?
I agree with Flavor on his demeanor. If you could can the look on his face when he gives up a screamer, it could be the poster for “Stay in School”. He definitely has “duh’ down pat.
Good Lord, why did they show her?
I just can’t…..
I’ll prefer to root for Timmy to do well, instead of cracking tired “jokes” about a guy who deserves more respect than that from Giants fans.
You can do both, Zumie…
Some don’t appear to be doing both.
Players have a way of undermining on the mark comments in the moment.
Is Oswalt still available?….
re: closers, I noticed this looking at box scores from yesterday. In the NL there were 4 blown saves, but all of them were by set up guys btw 6th and 8th innings, including i believe r ramirez of mets.
LOL . . . Yeah, my Hector Santiago of the White Sox just allowed 2 home runs to the Orioles in the 9th inning. My plans for world domination in the Flap League is going down the drain quick.
We all root for him to do well,but it’s kinda tough when they’re down 4 three minutes in…
Lighten up Zum . . . We all love Timmy. Moreover, we have less than a dozen games played thus far, i.e., it’s going to be a long season with much ebb and flow. 🙂
Giants are going to make Doc work for it. This isn’t one of his better outings either.
Giants have always done well against Doc,Willie D,this game is far from over.Giants will still get to him.Just hope Phils don’t do more damage to Timmy though.
I think you walk Tim here…
Nice work by Timmeh to get the bat on the ball for that ribby with 2 strikes.
See, there’s no law against the pitcher helping himself. That was a a good AB.
Making jokes, “tired” or not, is a healthy way to deal with all kinds of problems, Tim’s being among the least important of them. As I said earlier today, Tim getting back to form is crucial. But when he stinks it up, he deserves criticism as much as anybony else. This is not a game of what did you do for me last year…
Time for the “Tim has something to build on” cliche…
Funny that our most successful pitcher and the least successful are the ones who can give up 5 in 6 innings and we’re to be happy..
So is Crawford our SS for the next 8-10 years? Not a word about him around here lately….
No.
And there’s “a word”. Sometimes that’s all it takes. 🙂
Bobby Evans is hopingCrawford will be the guy the next eight to ten years,but Joe Panik could change that.Though he could also switch to 2B.
Zum- I made a joke about Tim and it wasn’t that creative. OK, I can live with that. I hope he wins 20 games this year and stops playing like his banjo is strung upside down. That wasn’t all that creative either, oh well, I think I can live with that as well. I guess having electricity is no reason to abuse it but it’s kind of like indoor plumbing, I’ve got it and I’m using it.
There’s not a damn thing wrong or out of line in making jokes when players don’t perform well. It is totally someone’s over wrought imagination that any of us don’t want all of the Giants to perform well, ESPECIALLY me.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……………………………….
Sure they were down early. Sure it’s Halladay, but Christ, they’ve left bushels of guys on base.
Cabrera has cooled down considerably. Huff is playing his way to throwing out the ceremonial 1st pitch with his buddy Pat pretty soon.
And on a more somber note –
“The San Francisco Giants join the Bay Area in mourning the loss of the five crew members of the ‘Low Speed Chase’ sailboat who died tragically this past weekend.
We were deeply saddened to learn that a member of the Giants Family – Alexis Busch – was one of the victims of this horrible tragedy.
The daughter of former Giants Executive Vice President Corey Busch, Alexis grew up in the Giants organization and went on to become Major League Baseball’s first bat girl – a position she held with the Giants for several seasons at Candlestick and AT&T Parks. A true baseball fan, she was a passionate and dedicated member of our organization and she will be deeply missed by the Giants family.”
After 9/11 Alexis wasn’t allowed to be a bat girl anymore. She and her dad sat in front of me at a game and what great stories they told me. Corey talking old Giants and Alexis the Giants of the day. She had a huge crush on Shawon Dunston because he made her laugh. RIP Alexis.
Sorry to hear that.
Me to twin, I only met her once but I thought she was pretty cool. She was pissed MLB wouldn’t let her be a ballgirl anymore. At one point I was asking Corey why the Giants didn’t get Koufax to work with Estes like he did with the Mets. He reminded me that Sandy had a contract with the Dodgers and they probably wouldn’t want Koufax working with Estes. He then turned to his daughter and asked her to tell me her story. She told me she had given Estes a book about Koufax and he was pitching great. I asked her why he wasn’t pitching so well now and she said he lost the book on the last road trip.
They got Timmy off of a 6 run deficit last time. Sorry, you give up 4 in the first, you’re the problem.
Crawford now has 4 errors( same as Panda) and that last WAS an error. If it was Panda, it would be another “fat error”.
OK, it was a stupid error…
The Sun Dressed Goddess is a no good unlucky bitch. Fuck her.