The Future Is Now. Or Maybe Not. No, Probably Not.
Enough of the obsequiousness. Enough of fellow Flappers saying, “Great thread! Good topic!” This lazily constructed bit of verbal fabric (i.e., “loose thread”) will put a leaden-thump of an end to that, for one day.
Girls, today we will prognosticate the results of this weekend’s series with the Dodgers. (If it is a four-game series, better yet a demonstration of my morning haziness.) You will notice in the following that I haven’t even bothered to name the Dodgers’ winning or losing pitchers or HR hitters. Can’t be bothered.
FRIDAY:
SF 5 LA 3
WP: Cain Save: Casilla HRs: Schierholtz, Belt
SATURDAY:
LA 7 SF 3
LP: Zito HRs: None.
SUNDAY:
SF 4 LA 2
WP: Vogelsong Save: Affeldt HRs: Melky
Have at it.
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Also from Baggs:
Melky heard the rumor from one of the trainers. He called his agent and the union. They said it was unfounded. Said he was tested last week.
Before MLB suspends a player, they inform him of a positive test and get a B sample. Specimen collectors are here today but Melky not tested
more tweets from Baggs
Melky heard the rumor from one of the trainers. He called his agent and the union. They said it was unfounded. Said he was tested last week.
Before MLB suspends a player, they inform him of a positive test and get a B sample. Specimen collectors are here today but Melky not tested
In the “news I can confirm” department, Pablo Sandoval is walking without a limp.
echo . . . echo . . . echo . . . now pinch hitting . . . Manny Mota . . . Mota . . . Mota. . .
sorry chuck, it is 1am and I have been in Berger’s 8% stash
Schlitz Malt talls?
I guess in your case it’s Olde English 800 . . .
Hmmmm, I sense a thread forming in my head . . .
How many friggin’ Hairstons are there in MLB? Seems the Giants play a team with one about every other series, and they’re equally annoying…
Looked it up, Only 2. Seems like 5. I can’t tell ’em apart either.
eddacker: Please take a fuckin’ quaalude…
This Melky thing is very unnerving…
Frank Visco’s advice on how I can improve my writing skills:
Avoid alliteration. Always.
Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
Contractions aren’t necessary.
Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
One should never generalize.
Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
Profanity sucks.
Be more or less specific.
Understatement is always best.
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
One-word sentences? Eliminate.
Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
The passive voice is to be avoided.
Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
Who needs rhetorical questions?
I like it. I thought this was from William Safire, no?
You writers know how to kill a blog.
This is kind of a big game for Cain, tonight, I think. He has fully become the #1 Ace this season, and tonight’s game is a sort of #1 Ace moment, being the first game of this big series and all. It would have been nice to have had Pablo for this series, but as the ancient Chinese book “The Art Of War” says: “You have to fight the battle you’re in, and not the battle you WISH you were in.”
The flap just made chronicle live!!! The melk maids were on and they quoted a post from “the sf giants blog” where one of u all had commented that u like your maids a little sluttier and that they didn’t look like they were there for baseball. Papa asked them all questions about melk and giants history and they got them all right. I vote for a melkmaid bbotd
I wonder if the Melkmen know I called ’em a bunch of homos…
It was you wasn’t it? I recognized the quote but couldn’t remember who it was
No, the Melkmaid quote was not me, e….
I made the comment about the ‘maids but I’m assuming lots of people have made the same comment.
Well I’m not messing around with the 8% stuff. It’s a nice single malt for me. So maybe I’m in error.
actually I just re-read your post, ewisco, that’s exactly what I said. They said sf giants blog? That’s awesome. They probably have been googling the internet looking for anyone talking about them
Flav if u had seen it u would have recognized it. It was you
Comcast is lurking on the flap! Play nice for the audience.
I sold quite a few books live at an Arts & Crafts Festival today. One chick was there before it started, looking for me. Bought three books. Said she “wants to dress me for my TV appearances.” Um, ok. I made a very important, ego-boosting discovery today: Chicks, young and old, like authors. Woo-hoo.
…and Magnus, it was wall-to-wall MTs, without the mall.
maybe I contact the melkmaid’s via twitter and help them with their wardrobe. I can start with a *MT* design. 🙂
Yeah, if there’s something in it for them, PK….
My dad always said: “get ’em young and train ’em”.
Your dad is Woody Stephens?
so this was the post I made back on July 13th:
Flavor said, on July 13, 2012 at 7:37 pm (Edit)
Personally, I prefer my *melk maids* to be dressed a little sluttier. I get why the dudes are doing this, they’re into the game, the team, they found a nitch and ran with it, etc….But what are those 4 chicks doing out there? Not to judge a book by it’s cover but none of them look like they’re huge baseball fans ready to hit EVERY game……..
and when I went back to copy and paste it this is the post one of the MIlkchicks wrote as a response:
The Melkmaids (@SFMelkmaids) said, on July 16, 2012 at 8:04 pm (Edit)
Hey Falvor…just saw your comment. I’m one of those “melk maids”. Out of curiosity, do we not look like baseball fans because we’re in little orange dresses? One of the “maids” is a season ticket holder and the remaining 3 have probably been to around 10+ games (each) this season, including the game on Saturday where we were dressed in “normal” Giants gear. When we aren’t at the yard we’re usually watching the game at home, at a bar, or listening to it on KNBR. So yes, please don’t judge a book by its cover. I’m happy to talk baseball with you any day of the week We are just 4 ladies trying to support Melky and the rest of the team. Oh, and it’s a ballgame, not a strip joint which is why we are trying to keep things “G” rated. Go Giants!
Maybe I should tweet her something. I don’t really know how to do that, I’m fairly retarded as a tweeter…….
Dude. Contact the melk maid. Repeat, contact the maid. They seem very cool.
Btw that was the exact post they showed on the show. Maybe they told comcast to show it so they could answer what they probably believe to be common attitude. It’s also possible the questions were a plant to make them look good. Though from her answer, and my experience with a couple of female friends who are die hards, they may be the real thing. Would that I were 10 years younger. Though I’m sure they have boyfriends/partners
what kind of baseball questions did they answer?
Tweeting: 1. Say what you want to the planet in 140 characters or less. 2. Follow whom you like. 3. If they Follow you, lovely. now if we can only get Miss Erin (@Love4PattheBat) to post here.
I’m heading over to my Twitter account RIGHT NOW pronto ipso facto prego.
Greg Papa: “this might be the most important series for the Giants all year.”
Um, no dude, they could get swept, we could sweep, there is no series played anywhere in the world that dictates the title of “most important series of the year.”
Papa should stick to basketball.
I seem to recall there is a game tonight. If I’m not mistaken it’s a Friday night Giants Dodger game. No offense to the Olympics but the REAL games are about to begin.
Actually I did appreciate all of Edd’s posts. It was better than anything I saw on tv where every time they discuss an athlete it’s the “long odds-cue story” he/she overcame to get there, lol
Like I said, no offense to the Olympics and never to my guy Ed. Buuuuut, fuck those wankers, it’s Giant Dodger time (Friday night, drunk clowns, you got the picture Flav.)
it’s another filet mignon bbq night. For you Zin fans, try the Sobon Estate old Vine Zin. Very good. It’s only 12 bucks a bottle.
I don;t even want to talk about it. We went to Pismo beach last weekend, and my wife dropped 4 bills on 15 bottles of wine and joined a wine club in Paso Robles. I like red wine, but I ain;t THAT big a fan.
That being said, I did get to ride ATV’s on the dunes with my son. Totally kick ass . . .
Grow up…
Grow up? I passed you 47 years ago.
Just playin’ with you, Chucky. Who loves ya more than Loo-Loo?
What about dogs and weiners?
Nipper, Stay the BLEEP away from my wiener dog.
Yeah, we’re going to pitch a wang dand doodle all night long. Giants take 2 of 3, Belt heats up finally.
A good omen getting Kemp out. He’s killed Cain
Well, you could say most important series so far. Inasmuch as it’s the CURRENT series.
Buster Munson!
I’m very freaked out by that Melky rumor. If he gets 50 games he’ll be back around 9/20…
if he’s been cheating, would you really want him back?
Yes!
Loo is freaked out!
Flav, tweet this blog addy to her.
Pagan has truly been awful with the exception of May
smoke G, not sure if i agree with “awful” but he’s not really been all that great. a couple of good defensive plays but a few not so good. he really needs to show he can hit with risp.
I thought he would’ve picked it back up by now. I’ll say this for him – he always hustles and he’s faster than I thought. Not really expecting to see him in a Giant uniform next season…
The team hasn’t been so great as a group w/RISP. At .256 Pagan has been better than most. But where’s James on this? 😉
He certainly can’t complain about the way the Giants have used him. Bochy treats him like he is a long-time established solid center fielder and middle of the order guy. Which is smart, really. We don’t have much in the way of alternatives and Crazy Horse strikes me as the kind of guy who plays better when he senses his manager has total confidence in him. I hope he gets it going again soon.
dawg i think you totally nail it with how bochy is helping pagan help him. he is a bit of a head case and keeping him “on board” is important. and twin, yes the team hasn’t hit for dick w/risp, but once he was out of the leadoff spot, it was hoped he could be that guy.
Just had halibut on the grill with a light soy based sauce with some rice and steamed broccoli on the side. Washed it down with a Modelo Especial.
We had some Chinese food….garlic chicken, shrimp, and white rice, and some berry juice to drink. And a strawberry popsicle for dessert.
cain, saws of the bat of hamran. it’s like halibut on the grill but different. it still smells like burnt wood.
Pawlie, here’s William Safire’s list. It’s pretty similar to the other guy’s:
1. No sentence fragments.
2. It behooves us to avoid archaisms.
3. Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration.
4. Don’t use no double negatives.
5. If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times, “Resist hyperbole!”
6. Avoid commas, that are not necessary.
7. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
8. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
9. Writing carefully, dangling participles should not be used.
10. Kill all exclamation points!!!
11. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
12. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
13. Take the bull by the hand and don’t mix metaphors.
14. Don’t verb nouns.
15. Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
16. Last, but not least, avoid clichés like the plague.
I like this one better, I think. Safire was liberal as a lexicographer, but not politically. Hugely entertaining and smart and influential as a language writer. His brother was NYPD police chief; spelled last name without the E.
Kent, Butler?
Who are the 2 players to make the All-Star team in both a Giant and a Dodger uniform?
Kent, Haller?
I had Butler. Reggie Smith? Orel?
Kent sounds right though.
edd, when you said that the queen and 007 jumped into the stadium, i laughed my ass off, thinking you pulled it out of your imagination. alas, you were merely documenting the actuality.
Yeah, we’ve been flipping over there once in a while. It’s a very cool production. Great job on the event. I liked the whole steampunk industrial era stuff that was going on. It was big-time theater.
Fuuuuuuck. He had his eyes closed.
When exactly did the opening ceremonies turn into the first 15 minutes of a Bond movie?
Dial a shot for DJ…
Dial a shot? Now you’re talking clown, Unca.
The hope is that a player hits the same with RISP as he does in “regular” ABs, anything more is gravy.. Pagan isn’t counted on anymore than anyone else in that regard. And hitting w/RISP is not a figure that is dependant on batting order postion, except maybe the 8.
color me naive, but i’m thinking that the guys in the middle need to hit with risp. one of the points for setting the lineup is that you figure the guys at the top will get on and the guys in the middle will drive them in. so you hope that the guys in the middle will hit better with risp than anyone else. otherwise, you replace them.
As I said- the hope is that a guy hits his regular average with RISP. So obviously the better hitters should also hit better w/RISP- and at .256, Pagan’s actually IS one of the better ones. But it does not matter where one hits in the order as far as hitting their average w/RISP- for example, Theriot is hitting .191 w/RISP= he should be hitting .282, the same as his regular average. What the middle of the order hitters are expected to do more than the others- is drive in MORE runs with their chances.Pagan doesn’t have the extra base power one likes in the MOR.
From Baggs: “Charlie Culberson was pulled from tonight’s game in Fresno. Looks like Giants will be announcing a deal tonight.”
FLASH Scutaro for Culberson.
Ha, just beat me to it.
from Troy Renck tweet, Rox writer
No surprise we’re down 2-1 (notice, I didn’t use the word *deserve*.). We’ve had this sinkerballin’ fuck on the ropes all night and haven’t closed the deal on shit.
Agreed. God damn it, this guy is nothing and he’s toying with our guys.
Angry clowns are not a pretty sight.
nor are happy clowns
Ever see the movie “The Devil’s Rejects?” That’s the angriest clown I’ve ever seen in my life. I wouldn’t dare tell him to go fuck off.
At least I won’t have to put up with Burriss and his goddamn bunting any longer…
Fucker’s tjhrown like 80 pitches and left 7 on base.
My limited knowledge of Marco Scutaro: great name, great defensive play in Game 162 last year, seemed to run not quite fast enough on a key play in the same game. Don’t look over your shoulder; run like f*ck, Marco, and just watch Flannery.
I saw him play some games in Single A. It seems like a zillion years ago now.
This game is starting to piss me off, and I’m tired.
Fuck this.
Double fuck. Fucking Fifre started this shit.
That’s Fife, funny as it seems….
twinfan said, on July 27, 2012 at 8:37 pm
The hope is that a player hits the same with RISP as he does in “regular” ABs, anything more is gravy.. Pagan isn’t counted on anymore than anyone else in that regard. And hitting w/RISP is not a figure that is dependant on batting order postion, except maybe the 8.
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Exactamundo. If you’re a good hitter, you have a good RISP because you fell in a position to have a RISP. Same as a “clutch hitter”. No such thing. You can hit or you can’t hit.
Period. Number of saves as well. You have a lot of saves when you’re in a save position. No more, no less
i hear what you’re saying. not sure i’m buying. pagan in the early part of the season had the softest, meaning not hitting with risp, hitting streak i’ve seen. reminded me of al oliver, owwwh, .300, but not so much when there are ducks on the pond.
not sure where you’re your going with saves. there is a difference between people who can pitch at the end of the game and those who don’t. i compare it to relays. the guy at the end is your best guy, the guy who can bring it home, make up a gap, whatever. the pressure is intense. not many people, good people, can handle that. a save is not a save.
Al Oiver hit .309 w/RISP, .303 in regular ABs.
as a giant?
Career. But that’s the point when it’s said that it evens out- Nate was killer last year, at least the first half. Career he’s .272 RISP, ,270 regular. Like almost everybody- it evens out in the long run.
You mofos are arguing just to argue. A guy can hit .375 for a year. But if that .375 didn’t include RISP, that RISP can be .204 and that ain’t his fault. That;s the guys hitting in front of him. RISP depends on the guys in front of you. You can either hit or you can’t hit.
And saves. If you have 78 save positions and you lead the league in saves with 47, you still blew 31 chances.
Why do I have to explain this shit to youse?
I’m not arguing, Ted. I’m trying to explain RISP. And sorry, but now you are wrong. RISP is an AVERAGE. If a hits .200 with RISP, it’s totally his doing. To round it off- 100 guys were in RISP when he batted- but he only got 20 hits. He is not penalized if no one is in scoring position ahead of him.
Yeah, you’re right. I just get annoyed with people that blame ballplayers for having bad RISP when they don’t understand the circumstances that apply to RISP.
I know it was only 2 five second clips, but Scully looks like he’s doing his HW. He had his glasses on, a pen in his hand, he was shuffling papers and kept looking to the left over and over again. He’s still bringin’ it. Either that, or he doesn’t know what the hell is happening or what he’s doing, it looked like that too. 🙂
what a marvelous day for all concerned.
Scutaro’s a baller, I like this pick up. He’s not going to do anything besides his job and stay out of the way of fucking shit up. His stats were a little high playing in Boston and, hey, probably in Col too. But he’s still stealing bags and hitting. He’s not done. The same could NOT be said about last year’s deadline acquisition (Cabrera). And I still can’t remember which one it was……..
Do you remember Scutaro’s walk-off grand slam in Oakland a few years ago off Mariano?
absolutely. (I think it was with 2 outs, 2 strikes.He’s worse than Freddy at his best in SF and basically *Theriot with more power right now.” I’ll take that as some depth. Now we need a first baseman……
Just looked it up. It was actually a 2 out 3 run job not a GS. (4-15-07). I didn’t realize that he was still a regular.
A decent pick-up for nothing I guess…
Exactly: nothing. I remember the dumbfounded looks on everyone after he took down Mo. Felt like a grand slam.
very pissed off we didn’t hit this guy, he was *had-able*……
Time to beat the Choad . . .
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………………………………..
Fuck this. I gotta watch the O;ympics?
I know things aren’t going well Chuck, but let’s not get crazy.
Nice tits, nice catch….it’s like a variety show.
Ted, you lose your mind tonight? Yoiur 9:26 post is backward pretzel logic. If someone blew 31 saves, they wouldn’t be a closer.
If someone is hitting .204 with RISP, then, when guys are on base, he’s not getting hits. It has nothing to do with the other guys. He may not get getting that many opportunities, but then they are there, he’s failing.
Truth be told? Yes chuck. I think I’ve lost my mind tonight.
Belasario looks like a bloated version of Julian Tavarez…..
Fuggly AB for Posey there . . .
Beltman!
Excellent. Now THAT is a hit that matters…….
Book it: Pawlie sleeps – Giants rally
I’d make this POTD if I didn’t think it would cause him to tear up a little bit while sipping his morning green tea. I’ve got no idea what PK drinks in the morning but I just assumed writers drink green tea instead of coffee.
Maybe I’m just used to it. Most of the writers I know are from Marin. 🙂
Too fucking funny.
POTD. And we LUV pawlie
aNGEL BABY!
I still think Belt’s moving his hands too much as he starts to address the ball. *Jazz hands in reverse*. But that’s a post for another time……
you should have watched his front foot. he must have moved it 3 or 4 times.
Redemption Song!!!
I’m a big fan of the wRC+ stat but that stat doesn’t mean shit. It’s just an indicator of something better (or worse) that *might* happen in the future. It helps you make fantasy baseball decisions.
That broken bat line drive hit was worth a million wRC+ units…..
test
pass!
Funny, Flav. Nah it’s just I lost my login for being a Stable Boy.
I’ll figure it out. I better before Wednesday.
“watching” the rest on radio. ‘night lads.
Yeah, that was an interesting slo-mo of Belt hitting. Seemed like a lot of “extra” movement going on.
His hands always look like that. I noticed it a while back after I watched an Ike Davis at bat–Belt does the same thing……
Casilla’s not wasting shit. That;s way too much zone on those last 3.
Now, MISS the zone
OK, enough missing…………
I miss Angela Mao Ying movies
Are those like Yoko Ono albums?
Kinda. Only…not
This is a test
That was…..big time!
Schwing
End this bitch . . .
I’m back in, baby YEAH!!!
On the other hand…I have to watch a Nate AB
There is no greater truth in baseball than Nate gets worse the more he plays.
Sort of a reverse Zen thingie
The time zone thing is a trip. People on the East Coast can watch live major league baseball at 1:20 AM right now.
Like that Tubes album. The completion backwards principle.
It’s still happy our in Hawaii
Edd may catch the end of this . . .