Superstitions, High Jinks, Low Jinks, Et Cetera
Tell us one thing you will do today before or during Game 1 of the NLDS vs. the Reds to “help” the team win, whether by warding off evil spirits or by evoking friendly powers. Wear a special GIANTS shirt, cap, or jersey? Stick pins into a Johnny Bench bobblehead? Burn Dusty Baker toothpicks? Align your chakras? Rotate your tires?
Name it.
And may the baseball gods and goddesses be with us.
Go [insert vocative comma here] Giants!
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I’m not superstitious until something happens during the game. Like if I took a leak before Posey hit a bomb I’d go take another one just before his next at bat. And for huge games I’ll often watch them totally alone but that’s more about not getting distracted than it is about superstition…….
I tweeted out a couple of pics this morning of me and Blade at my gym (they are a little grainy). Dude’s in very good shape, especially considering the two several inch long scars along his bicep up to his shoulder where he had major surgery 3 years ago. He’s bounced back and then some.
You’re too kind Magnus! You’re no slouch yourself. The Flavster is in EXCELLENT shape Flappers. I really appreciate the gym time my man. I try to go 5 of 7 days a week and when I take off 3 weeks from working out, it’s a bitch trying to get back into it, even with the infrequent cardio I am doing at a park near my Mom’s house. After you left, I finished cardio on the elliptical machine, than did ab exercises, with and without the fit ball. Consequently, the 2 hours plus I spent there will hold me over for awhile . . . Again, thank you for the invite Flav. Much appreciated. Really hoping that you do hit the gym Monday, because I will be there if the offer still stands.
So tonight, the Gmen begin their second season and I haven’t been this excited since 2010. Bring it Cincy – I believe we are ready for you.
Go Giants!
Firstly I will be taking a long nap. It is 6pm here and the game starts in 8 hours. I will set my dream machine (by Roberts £39 at Argos) to my custom sleep sound: SF Giants.
I always make somekindof game snack. Tonight it is stuffed mushrooms with Reggae Jerk Sauce (put some music in your food)
I also have strawberry jello with real strawberries and laced with tequila (it’s what I have and I ain’t picky)
thusly I am prepared to yell and cheer loud enough to be heard in China Basin.
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? BLUE!
(If yesterday’s games were a portend)
No soup for you!
I have done an exhaustive investigation on numerous search engines of the words “soup” and “soupy” insofar as being used as British smack talk and have yet to find out what exactly they mean. Perhaps, this is a Gaelic or Celtic expression? Only Ed knows . . .
I typed this the other night. There is none, sortof. there is a “wearing his soup and fish” (tuxedo) But that is incorrectly called English as it was early 1900s American. There is lots of British slang/words/sayings that I do not know. And a lot I do.
To ‘soup up’ something means to make it faster or more powerful. Tim Allen used to soup up all his Binford power tools.
there is also the saying, keep out of the soup. Which supposedly came from explorers seeing cannibals cooking.
Would you agree that the expressions, “I will soup you to your knees MOFO” or “The dude was being all soupy” are not exactly overwhelming as smack talk?
🙂
Little Alex was always good for a little smack talk.
“Ho, ho, ho! Well if it isn’t fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, ya eunuch jelly thou!”
Well, other than not bathing until Manny Burriss hits his next big league HR, I have no superstitions,,,
why don’t you just ratchet that down to “next extra base hit”. Zeke will appreciate it. 🙂
I don’t have any baseball superstitions, but I do have a goal of trying to enjoy today’s game as a game. I tend not to enjoy Giants and Niners playoff games much as actual experiences. They’re very nerve-wracking, and I have a hard time sitting still for them. There’s an advantage to actually being there, where you can feel like the cheers you are cheering can add to the total crowd noise, and help raise your team’s level of play. But at home in front of a TV set? What a powerless, awful feeling.
So I “get” superstitions. They make the TV viewer feel like they have some kind of input on what’s happening. So……I’m going to start one today. And if it works…..I will keep it going!!!
I am going to……wear my Giants orange socks I bought at the ballpark, ALL DAY TODAY. And I’m going to be wearing shorts, and I have to run a few errands today out in the public, so those socks are going to be OUT THERE, IN PEOPLE’S FACES (so to speak.)
Look out, world- here comes the GIANTS ORANGE SOCKS THAT WILL LEAD US TO VICTORY TONIGHT!!!
I’m wearing a WS2010 bright orange hooded sweatshirt. I understand the nerve-wracking part of it. either I am becoming more Zen-detached, more mature, or more jaded, but in 2010 I was much calmer watching on TV. (In 2002, the family was upstairs; I was downstairs, pacing, mumbling, fidgeting.) Or I’m lying to myself.
Well, mine is sort of like Flav. I normally don’t shave anyway on the weekends but if the Giants win today I won’t shave tommorow. And then it just continues until they win it all or my wife brings out the straight razor and the leather strap!!
I never really believed in superstition, and I still consider this a coincidence..I mean, BFD, I stepped on a crack.Mom was 700 miles away ferchrissakes.
ROTFLMFAO
for 2010 i couldn’t STAND listening to the fox dweebs, so i had the radio on and the tv sound off. the delay was incredible, 10-15 seconds. the next pitch was almost being delivered before you saw the last pitch. but i really liked knowing the result before i saw it. it was like i could influence the play before it was on the tv at which point it became “real”. so i’ll probably do that again. I agree, playoff games make me a wreck. pacing, yelling, dogs and kids cowering in the next room.
The media is often accused of an East Coast bias, but I’d say this is very welcome from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/sports/baseball/young-and-talented-buster-posey-is-the-heart-of-the-giants.html?smid=pl-share
In retrospect, I’ve noticed the Giants have done well in playoff games on days when I go get the morning paper off the front porch without wearing pants. But usually, this is not planned thing
hence the term, schwing and a miss?
Sitting at Twin Peaks (think Hooters but MUCH hotter women) getting ready for TX-W. Virg followed by the Giants….Days dont get much better than this.
wow, that didnt take long, for WVU to go down the field.
See what Horns got going for themselves.
You like the coach, wilco?
and neither did that. should be a fun game.
Chili Davis looks about the same as he did 30 years ago. How is that possible?
Brotox
Here are a few of the more unusual superstitions I found on a site called “SportsPickle”:..
When your team plane crosses over the Mississippi, always stab the nearest rookie in the leg with a dinner fork..
Don’t slide headfirst if you’re free-balling it.
Don’t sleep with the wife of a teammate who is hitting over .300.
Don’t eat soup while playing centerfield.
Never run the wrong way around the bases
Seemed to me whenever I shitfted position from couch to chair, something about the game changed right away.
Just got in and saw Furd with a 4th and 2, man coverage on outside on toilolo and Nunes throws him the slant and they get a bunch of yards for a first and goal and then score on next play to cut lead to 7. Uh, Shaw, any reason you didn’t do that last week, dumbfuck?
nice comeback going right now, though
Toilolo is pissing me off.
I’m not a big Nunez fan (and I can’t stand David Shaw) but that was a great TD run by Nunez there.
Alex Smith throwing out the first pitch–LOVE it.
I bet he gets to wear his Giants cap.
And a good chance he won’t get booed ;- )
If he’s a reflective sort, and I’d think he is, that has to blow him away, as he contemplates his history here…
What am I going to do for the game? I’m thinking about nothing, not watching or following the game. That’s right, fuck MLB and the Selig horse they rode in on. Fuck Misters Larry Baer, Brian Sabean and your Bruce Bochy’s. Fuck the Posey outta the Matt’s Belt and the Pence outta of a Pagan Panda. You can Huff that Blanco Scutaro but not me, I’ve got some Romo to Crawford.
Ha. “Got Heem.”
You vidiot, you know I can look across the pond and see your house.
Don’t make me come over there and duct tape your ass to the chair
2″ from the big screen.
and no shots till you yell
GO GIANTS
Man Bozo, you are really souped (or substitute “fucked”) up.
Verlander cannot find the plate.
Always nice to have upper 90s FB when nothing is working.
Holding the A’s to 1 run through six when he has his worse stuff!!!
As much as I am a Bay Area homer, Verlander is pretty cool.
from Henry:
“In other news, 49ers quarterback Alex Smith will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. The Giants rallied around Smith when he got in trouble from the NFL for wearing a Giants cap to a postgame news conference. Bochy said he would welcome Smith to come into the clubhouse and talk to Giants players.
“We may take a look at him,” Bochy said. “He’s got a pretty good arm.””
nice one Boch.
In my opinion, Cleveland totally blew it by selecting Terry Francona as their manager. I have no idea if Sandy Alomar Jr. – said to also be in contention for the position – would have been a better manager, but Francona was a stupid, imbecilic choice. Francona was “punked” by his Boston players in 2011 and for that reason alone, he was radioactive and unemployable.
He is good friends with one of the owners. Or someone well placed.
not that that had anything to do with it?
well, Francona left and it then became clear who and what the problem was: an out of control clubhouse full of entitled stars who didn’t give a shit about following the direction of a manager. Valentine’s a clown, but Francona is respected in the baseball world. He couldn’t fix the 2011 club so he got fired. I don’t think anyone could have fixed that club and management must agree with me because they jettisoned A-Gone a year into the 7 year deal they signed him to. They wanted to clean house and start over.
And Cleveland needed to try something different, they’ve been shuttling the same B-level managers through their losing system for too many years to count. Hiring a *name* is new for them……
I don’t like or dislike the Francona hiring but I can see where they’re going with it…
the flip side is that every decision Cleveland makes is the wrong one so they should have used the George Costanza approach and just hired Alomar…..
Tito was a colour guy during the LL WS
maybe he was learning how to deal with children?
Reddick . . . Mr. Feast or Famine.
made a great catch earlier. and a single, but looked overmatched with Benoit. Lefevre sent in a signal to the catcher and after that it was 3 straight heaters to Reddick.
I picked him up late for one of my fantasy league teams . . . He was a complete zero for me.
you’re probably right blade.
He probably doesn’t have a lot of fantasy value save for stolen bases. Maybe.
well I am one who is of the opinion that we all be able to watch batting practice over here we use the red button, which usually leads to different views, different cameras.
In fact, we should be alert blank out the adverts and watch the pregame events.
Starting to get geared up. It’s a beautiful evening in the Bay.
Blade, Katie isn’t feeling too hot so I’m staying up here with her and not going out to watch the game. Oh, but I will be watching the game. Haven’t seen this team in a game like this since Bee-Wheezy turned his back on the plate and posed down for his dad. Let’s get it on…….
I freaking LOVE this video and this song. The only part I don’t like is near the end where they have that group of fans start chanting out stupid shit. But the rest of it? It’s legit, it binds and bonds Giants fans everywhere…….
Ashkon sucks. Much ado about nothing. His 15 minutes need to be done.
Hadn’t seen this – thanks Flav! My only problem is the colors are Orange & Black – Ashkon had the same problem with Don’t Stop Believin’.
alert = able to
Any manager who treats his players like men could be at the mercy of men who act like children.
back in the 80s when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my career. I thought it would be great to be a technician on a television crew for a sports team. I wonder how many technicians. There are for TBS today? And AT&T Park is one of the most high-tech parks, going.
One of the local Formula One teams had an opening for a technician and if I’d been a younger man. I’m either gone for it.
That play by Belt tellselt me why Posey should NOT play first base!!! Great play Belt!!
Posey is smart enough not to fall into someone’s beer
🙂
OK, this is about to get very interesting.
not Latos, my bad
2012 is going to be the “curious” play-offs. so far every game has had some unusual events.
Did Flavor get a ‘Latos’ scare?
Striking out the first guy is supposed to be bad luck for defensive team, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen that.
If Larussa was managing Pagan would be dead meat.
He did it to himself – he should have thrown, TO was _not_ called.
of course I have little doubt that would change Larussa’s mind
I remember Kruk saying that before, you are better off just throwing the ball and following through natural rhythm. Oh fuck–did somebody mention Latos?
Figured I’d stick with what worked in ’10 – listening to the radio, fartin’ around on my ‘puter.
Busy reading the stupid post & watching the video – what happened to Cueto?
Flav – post wasn’t stupid, only in that it made me miss what happened…
He strained a muscle, looks like one of those internal hip area, he tried to throw a pitch and then said: “no mas”
oblique muscle, that is the word I was looking for.
Cueto hurt his back on the no pitch. If dusty wastes latos he’s an idiot
They’re reporting he first hurt it before the game in warm-ups.
Flav, sorry to hear about Katie. Maybe a hot toddy (from our English friends) will help. Great hit by blanco.
She’s fine, she has a little cold, gave it 100% in her soccer game (3-0 victory) and she just needs a little love tonight (as opposed to me dropping her off at her g-parents for 3 hours)
Huge AB for cain
Sugar!
Before the f-wad takes the mound what do you think about wisc post? Dusty doesn’t trust pen guys or #5 type starter enough? LeCure looked OK before walk and double…you had Latos set up game 3 anyway…Not sure I would have done what he did.
Agreed. But he should have always has Latos going in 1/2 games.
Fuckin Reds!..Jumped on that Cain mistake.
If they think they can just flip Cueto and Latos it. could work out for them
Risky since Cueto’s short term future is unknown. I dunno, up 2-0 I would have strongly considered just keeping this a BP game.
I’m Latos intolerant, let’s kick his ass and spit him out.
Everything about Latos, especially the horribly unartistic tat design on his left forearm, makes me want to pinch him in the face. Twice.
I suspected you were a pincher 🙂
By a show of hands, who is going to Game 2?
This game is far from over. Let’s not get our dauber down, as Roger Craig once said.
Damn, my Longhorns lost to West Vagina 48-45.
Fuck!
Over/under on how many knuckles i broke when my fist hit the wall?
Cain, I secretely really want to give you a blow job.
I’m not sweating the score or the two bombs but the momentum the Reds have is discouraging. Our bats look limp and lame. Nothing we can’t fix but still…
This almost became a must win when Cueto went out. Maybe that pressure is hurting our bats. We’ll see….
Okay, get your thinking caps on, ’cause I don’t have the answer. What year did the Reds draft Jay Bruce, and who did the Giants draft that same year? Just curious.
He was drafted in ’04 or ‘o5, probably early in Ed 1. I’m on my ph and it’s too hard to look it up
That should be rd 1, not Ed 1
We might be in for a long night.
Wilco, if you broke more than five knuckles when your fist hit the wall, I’d be really impressed.
I hate to see line drive double plays like that— suggests it’s just not our night. Long way to go tho
ya think?
there have been so many foul offs going straight back to the wall.
I don’t see anyone chatting with Matt in the dugout
Did this dooshbag announcer just make a joke about Dusty’s heart problem in that interview?
Yup!
Can latos chew his gum any faster? He’s twitching in the dugout, too. This guy is on multiple hits of adderral, it’s almost not even debatable. Lots of MLB players are but he’s not even trying to hide it.
Legal speed, another thing MLB doesn’t give a shit about….
Somebody better lay out some extra oranges and snacks for the baseball gods. They do not seem pleased.
And why is Huff on this postseason roster?Besides the 11mil BS owed.
Well, ya never know. Edgar earned 18 million plus with one swing….
I’m finally ready to admit it. I’m a gay man and I’d let Matt Cain skull fuck me if I was ever so lucky
Bochy is already thinking about a Game 4, pulling Matt early. IMO.
Flav, I just saw your message . . . Sorry to hear about Katie being under the weather. I ended up going to dinner with a friend and just turned on the TV . . . WTF? Damn, Gmen need to get it going in the 6th!
MVPosey!
Can I have a Woo Hoo from the peanut gallery? Posey!
WOO HOO Blade!.From the Rowdy Giants Bar im getting loaded in..
Hey Kat! Your “Woo Hoo” works as good as a Ferret one . . . 🙂
Latos really isn’t pitching that well, we just need to get multiple bats going. Buster started it, hopefully.
Yeah, we got a run but this is going to get us into the Red’s BP
a diving catch on Belt’s flair
Apparently if we could have gotten two hits into right field instead of anywhere else it would be a completely different kettle of fish.
Man, when Curly Ludwick is stumbling around making catches, it could be trouble..
yeah, as I said at 8:01pm, sometimes the writing is on the wall. Might not be our night. Bad timing for a bad luck game……
Or maybe they’re due…for the ground attack
we could find some holes as easy as gloves, make it to OT for some torture?
Fuck! Bang bang play and Scutaro had a brain fart. I can see why it happened, but shit . . .
Broxton? Seriously?
which Broxton will show up?
As long a the Reds keep running Ludwick out there, keep hitting to Left. No way that ball keeps finding it’s way to that guys glove.
to add insult to injury I have to watch ESPN during the breaks.
That called third was brutal
Blanco needed to seize the moment a little more there.
Ump looked like an NFL replacement ref IMO.
Too close to take. Swing the fucking bat.