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Sorry fellas, don’t have time to spin enough BS together today to create a discussion. Game’s at 1:05pm. I’m sure you’ll have no problem finding a topic to kick around……
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Heading to the game today and hopefully, they will win. Go Bum and Giants!
hope you don’t get candlesticked late afternoon–looks to be pretty warm in south bay next few; see how ball carries today. Enjoy.
Day Game….have fun.
Thanks Nip . . . Enjoy your day too.
Instead of blowing this mofo up I wish blogmeisterflav would throw up more threads like this or mix in some guest posts to save the sanity. Just sayin.
I second the motion. It’s also way past time for me to join the chorus of praise for BF. The volume and quality of the writing is amazing — you are the Stephen King of bloggers.
Second snarkk comment at 8:29 last night about casilla and flannery, altho C should hardly be the lone ranger. No idea, but do pitchers ever do any defensive IF work at all during season? Makes you appreciate those who can field their position well. belt deserves props for his D last night too, saving a couple bases on casilla throw.
Used to play softball with a P who turned every one hopper back to the mound, which from the OF looked like easiest play imaginable, into an adventure.
Yeah enjoy the game Blade.
Perfect day to knock down some “Cold Ones “Go Giants and. “The Undertaker”
Yeah, Belt with the good D and, shock of all shocks, a hit with a runner in scoring position, a stat frowned heavily upon by SaberMetrics guys but the play itself and the drama it provides at the moment actually helps wins games….
Belt was 2/10 w/ RISP before last night’s game, now he’s 3/11. He also had led off an inning in 15 of his meager number of PAs, This has been chewed on many times before. Over any real statistical sample, BA w/ RISP will be close to actual BA. It just doesn’t tell you very much about how valuable a player is as a hitter.
Oh, and I second Dirt’s comment about not blowing up the Flap but rather figure out a sort of self-service way of doing it…. It’ll never be the same without Craig moderating it, but it could still live on in some way..
Sorry, James, didn’t see your post first, then I third the motion…
Dirt, James, and anyone else who suggested it, I fourth the motion (proper term???). Thanks willieD and alleykat – I hope my mojo brings luck and not disaster this afternoon.
and Paul 🙂
Blade, have fun. Hope you’re not too close. The boogers will be flying.
It’s a shame that it might be Huff’s misfortune that causes Bochy to install Belt as the regular first baseman, a job he never should have lost in the first place. Next priority should be giving Blanco a chance… as I said when he had his brief outburst, Nate has repeatedly shown that he’s not up to regular duty. The question with PaGONE! is whether his offensive production will be able to keep up with his boneheaded blunders and liability defensively- it’s a tight race..
Off topic but ? for Zum: In the ike bio, any mention of his oft quoted remark about dangers of mil-ind complex, which from what I understand was taken out of context and whose real meaning has been misconstrued? Also, any discussion of what US “advisers” were up to in Nam during his years in office, esp after Dienbienphu?
Good showing by Timmy, and although there were still too many walks, not one of the Padres’ 3 hits left the infield. The hardest hits by Pads all night were the line drive sac fly to Melky and the two running catches by Melky. And Belt coming through with the big hit is most encouraging.
Only bummer of the night was Rodriguez’s 9th-inning meltdown in L.A. It looked like he would escape a 2nd & 3rd no-out jam and get the save, but then he pulled an Affeldt and threw a wild pitch for the tying run.
Blade, bring back a W — preferably a shutout!
The pressure is on! Gulp . . .
You have my 3-0 to shoot for…
Pagan CF, Cabrera RF, Sandoval 3B, Posey 1B, Pill LF, Sanchez C, Arias SS, Theriot 2B, (Bumgarner P)
So much for rewarding Belt for the game winner…I really would like to see Bochy go with last nights lineup for one week straight, versus the “matchup” one he consistently goes with.
Well, Belt is .347 in 47 career AB against LHers
Crawford: .149 in the same number of career AB
Burriss:.266 173 AB
Nate .307 218 AB
Tose are the numbers against lefties for the 4 guys sitting today.
Darn it..numbers always kill the blog.
Well, we don’t have to fuck the numbers. Maybe just engage in a little foreplay . . .
Maybe you should send those over to Boch– you haven’t really offered up a theory of why Bochy isn’t playing him regularly. Thoughts?
I thouht you were out.. I’m not discusssing Belt with you. You might notice I didn’t even mention his clutch hit last night. But I listed numbers for four guys,I think you have an obsession with Belt.
Ask Joe.
OK, no numbers here. Bip is a goddamn idiot..he’s an embarassment.
Where’s Belt? Probably grabbing another Bud Light. I’d be crying too after Bochy didn’t put my name in the lineup after last night. Over-Managing Mook.
There ya go. I’m sure Dennis or one of the other dozen or so flappers who think Belt should be in there everyday will be happy to talk about it.
Madison Bumgarner has held opponents to 2-runs-or-less in his last 8 starts at AT&T Park.
Might get tested today. Flem said on the pregame that the flags were limp and the park was “playing small.”
Anyone take the OVER?
Ok then how about your theory for why Bochy has, again, put out the worst defense he could possibly field………..
My best guess is that Bochy is sticking with what he thinks is his best matchups. He always has been and continues to be a R/L, L/R matchup manager. I honestly believe he thinks he’s giving the club the best chance to win. I’m no conspiracy theorist. I just happen to disagree with his strategy.
I wonder what Affeldt has to say about that throw by Hector? Asshole.
It just doesn’t make any sense. He wins the game for them last night and Bochy obviously knows his numbers against lefties. Must be something that doesn’t have anything to do with the numbers. Bochy isn’t stupid, as we know…..
PABLO!!!
Tater, for the Panda. Days looking good so far.
As I told Loo, it is a line up of RH bats against a LH pitcher. I don’t agree with all of it, but that’s the reason, not offense vs. defense…
I get that. I just don’t understand why Bochy seems to have almost no regard for the quality of defense he’s putting out there. Every single position player (except Pablo) is worse defensively than the player who is sitting on the bench….Mix and match a little, it doesn’t have to be be 100% your worst defensive LU
We all know that errors don’t tell the whole story, but more than half their errors have come from Panda, Buster, and Crawford…
But anyway, I said I don’t agree with all of the LU
Pill wouldn’t have gotten to a single one of those 3 balls that Melky hauled in last night in the 7th (or whatever inning it was). Pill shouldn’t ever play the OF, IMO
Willie, the Eisenhower bio takes the mil./ind. quote at face value, that it means exactly what it seems to say. Some folks nowadays may be trying to do some revisionist history on that, but the author (Newton) makes the case that throughout his presidency, Ike said similar things. That speech at the end wasn’t just a one-shot deal. Ike was VERY concerned throughout his presidency that the mil./ind. complex (and the politicians in close relationship with it) that had arisen during WWII would oversell the dangers of the Cold War and cause the U.S. to spend way too much on the military, which is what ended up happening anyway.
And continues on today, of course. Who’s beating the drums for a war with Iran? It’s not hard to guess.
thx. sounds interesting.
That Halberstam book about the ’50s is pretty interesting, too, though very long.
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Halberstam died in a car wreck in Menlo Park in 2007. He was being driven to an interview with Y.A. Tittle by a Cal grad student. The Cal guy made a lefthand turn right into oncoming traffic, and the car was T-Boned on Halberstam’s side. It went from being the best day in that grad student’s life to the worst day in his life in that one instant.
Halberstam was writing a football book about the ’58 NFL season. The book was eventually published anyway, with the book being completed by Frank Gifford, of all people.
A little humor from Henry at the Splash today:
Yup, no Brandon Belt the night after he got the winning hit and a rare clutch hit for the Giants. Manager Bruce Bochy said it’s a combination of changing the lineup for a day game after a night game and a desire to throw a wall of right-handed hitters at Clayton Richard.
Richard has a career OPS against of .789 vs righties and .615 v lefties.
“We’ve got a pretty good right-handed bat at first base,” Bochy said of Posey. “Day game after a night game, facing a left-hander. We have our right-handed bats out there. This guy’s been tough on us. He’s given up all his home runs against right-handers. We’re going to go with hitters who give us the best chance to win.”
That’s the explanation. If you have an issue with it, please write:
Anybody But Henry Schulman
24 Willie Mays Plaza
San Francisco, CA 94107
Henry also reports that Hector Sanchez took some infield practice at firstbase yesterday.
I guess because of the massive shortage of firstbasemen the Giants have. (grin)
My buddy took some nice pix at the Giants-Mets game last Saturday, so I’m using a few for my avatar. I’ll lead off with this one: Twin’s preferred outfield? 😉
My eye isn’t so good, who are they?
Melky, Pagan and Nate.
Ryan Klesko for the trivia answer?
cameron maybin wearing #24…this guys looks like he should be a dominating player, and bloggers posted marlins gave up on him too soon. As a b-ball coach, the guys that were the most frustrating to deal with were the ones with a lot of talent that didn’t seem to always use it to the best of their abilities to help the team.
Pagan’s wearing his sunglasses on top of his hat. Balls should fly over your head when you pull off that look.
Ridiculous.
He looked like Fred going after that ball.
I never did get that. If there’s enough glare to take the glasses out there, put the damn things on…
nice sunny day in the city by the bay, now I know why Pagan was so slow going after that fly . . lazing on a sunny afternoon
Smooth as silk..
Pill the fly catcher
Arias is earning himself some more playing time. Wouldn’t be surprised to see a strict platoon with Craw.
I knew Bochy should have played this lineup (grin).
When BF calls it a day on writing the daily lede on the Flap, maybe we could keep it alive anyway. Just rotate writing the daily lede among the regulars on a 10-day rotation or whatever the number would be based on who wants to do that. So, everybody knows when their lede is due, and prepare (or not) accordingly. If somebody forgets to turn it in on time or blows their turn off, no biggie, just continue as now when BF occasionally skips a day. People could e-mail their lede to BF, and all he’d have to do is put it up. That’s assuming he would even want to continue doing that. Just throwing that out there…
Well, given the resounding “yawn” on that proposition, I guess nobody’s interested in doing THAT….
I’m down with it
Another stellar outing by Bum!
Does Romo stay in for the 9th?
Is agreeing with Bochy in hindsight allowed? I’ll chance it. No question he should have stayed with Casilla. A briliant decision..
Love the Kinks reference, Edd. Underrated band IMO. And John Grisham wrote a baseball book?
Weird.
Shaping up to be a nice game.Yikes. Romo gets a little work.
Romo’s not had a lot of work lately, which should be a good thing; only two pitches today another good thing.. If the SPs continue to be solid and go deep in games, unless bochy morphs into Torre, pen should be fine.
Ballgame!
Giants win! Good game.
Good game, enough hitting with great pitching, recipe for a winning team. You all have great rest of a Sunday afternoon.
MBum looks like he’s headed in the direction of an All Star invitation.
If he keeps this up, this could be a 18+ win season for the kid…
It never gets old hearing Tony Bennett sing “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” after a Giants victory.
Nice to hear Bochy acknowledge that goldarnit Belt is kinda a first baseman too and will play a bit dependin’ on them match ups..
Was that on the post game Twin? I think Bochy is setting it up for more of Sanchez behind the plate and Posey at 1b. Who knows what is going on behind the scene maybe they are trying to be extra careful of his leg.
Yeah, postgame. It was like Pill, Buster, Hector- they’re all doing a mighty fine job… and, oh, uh, Belt, too…
( no, it’s not a quote, but it’s what he really said)
Gorgeous day at the ballpark on the bay . . . umm, in more ways then one (Ya should have been there Loo just for the beautiful females strutting their stuff. Damn, they look sooooooooooo much better when they aren’t sporting all that goofing arctic Panda gear).
Game wasn’t bad either – truly enjoyable sitting out in the sun watching the Giants give a whipping to the Friars. Bum was dominant and did I tell ya about the females????
Weird story at the Gate by Schulman—He said that Richard is *significantly tougher against left handers than right handers.” That claim appears to be Schulman’s since it wasn’t in quotes. Bochy goes on to say how tough Richard has been on the Giants in his career.
Richard, like almost any left hander, is better against lefty’s than righty’s. That’s a staple of the game and pretty much dictates most PH/reliever match ups late in games.
BUt I wouldn’t call Richard “significantly tougher against left handers”
This year, lefty’s are hitting .217 against him, righty’s are hitting .239. For his career, lefty’s have hit .240, righty’s .281. I know there’s a 41 point gap there but being a lefty and holding lefty’s to a .240 career batting average is fairly pedestrian.
Lefty’s have hit .198 against Kershaw in his career. Lefty’s are hitting .233 vs CC Sabathia and I’ve never heard CC have the reputation that he’s *death* to LH hitters. Nor have I heard that for MadBUm who has almost the exact same lifetime BA against vs lefty’s that Richard has–.241. To compare him to a lefty specialist reliever, Lopez holds lefty’s to a .227 batting average, righty’s hit .297 off him…….
I just don’t see the argument that you have to go all right handed bats against Richard because he destroys left handed hitting. He doesn’t. He’s very good against them like almost any left handed pitcher is……..
Well, I would have started Theriot ( .299 career against lefties) and Arias ( .329) , Belt (.347), and Nate (.307).
Pill and Hector would have sat. I think one can see Bochy’s problem, though. All of these mentioned deserve playing time plus Crawfowd still deserves time and has the good glove,and Manny has played well. Blanco is really the odd guy out. The bench has turned out much better than thought-so far.
I bought Torres for a buck tonight in one of my free agent bids and have installed him as a starting OF in an NFBC league. I can’t change the LU until the end of next week so I will either be celebrating him or cursing myself for this *reach*……..
Santiago Casilla, who I always thought to be a wild, unreliable man unsure of the ultimate destination of any of his pitches, is actually closing out games far more reliably than Wilson ever did. He’s got 4 saves and probably would have had 5 had Bochy not pulled him int he Met game due to *match ups*.. Last year, I think he was 5 for 5. He’s fucking perfect. And his saves are usually a breeze.
Wilson would load the bases seemingly every single save opportunity. I like Casilla’s way much better……
He was 6-7 last year, 6 of 6 after Wilson went down. A couple of adventurous ones, but pretty solid, really.
Flav I’d like to know your thoughts (and everyone elses) on H Sanchez. bochy said his bat is forcing him into the LU, esp vs. LHP. He’s a hacker, so will that catch up to him? I watched him gun down a couple Pads the other night. How often should he be playing? When he does, what do you do with Posey? Can he catch all of the SPs? Anything to make of the IF practice at 1b, or this is just late game double switch stuff?
How does our depth at C, minors guys included, affect Posey and where he plays?