Can the Cainer put an arrow in the heart of the birdies?
Game 2 of the NLCS was a hearty win for the home team. 7-1 looks a bit more dominate than a 6-4 win by StL. We have broken the home field slump. We are now 1 & 3 in PO games at phone park. If necessary one or maybe two wins at home gives us the league championships and on to the WS.
Umpires were lacking in the Cincy series. They have not been too bad in this one. The one run STL got last night was on some bad calls and a pitcher double – our specialty. Then, later in the game, a blown call kept Blanco in the game and he eventually scored.
[rant]
The umpires are not out there to be perfect or to make sure the game is played perfectly. That would be a goal. The umpires are out there to keep things as close to the rules as they can. The way ML ball is currently played, at such a high level and fast pace, it is tough to get every call correct. This is partly due to having humans on the field and the human part of the game that I love. We have the technology to use one umpire per game and he (or she?) wouldn’t have to be on the field. Would you want to see games played likke that? Or are you willing to suffer the slings and arrows of human error? As we all know these things can balance themselves out as they did last night. And which is why I am never comfortable when my team is getting all the breaks. [/rant]
Bochy has reported xrays on Scooter’s hip are negative. I hope he is able to get a decent night’s rest ’cause that baby is going to be sore. With the resources available he should miss no more than one game. With Arias and The Riot we have that game covered.
Matt Cain, come on down
Cain ended the year with a seven inning shutout of AZ and a no decision in LA. He was 16 & 5 w/era @ 2.79 (nl leader @ 2.53) slightly better than his 2010 season numbers. One number from last year? He did not give up HRs in 2011(9), but for the last three years he has been very consistent and very good.
Flash forward to now and in October he has pitched 3 games and not made it to the sixth inning once. In three games in October he has given up 4 HR and 4 BB with 15 H and 11 SO. In three games. His ERA is over 5. He won game 5 in Cincy. He is the horse and a gamer.
Which Cainer will we see in StL?
Winning
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UPDATE, 6:00 p.m. PDT: Just a quick update after talking to Matt Scutaro for the first time. He was in great spirits and thinks he can play Wednesday.
Asked what he would do if Matt Holliday tried to talk to him before the game, Scutaro said, “I might kick his ass.”
He was joking. He said he felt like a train hit him and tore his hip apart, and he’s surprised he feels as good as he does today.
In fact, he ran a few sprints and took batting practice, hitting a couple of home runs.
Scutaro did not sound real angry with Holliday but did say after watching the replay that the hit was late. Any later, he said, “and he would have hit the shortstop.
Asked if he expects one of his pitchers to retaliate, he said, “I don’t know. You’ll have to ask them. I just work here,” but added the best retaliation would be a nine-inning shutout and a Giants win.
Zumie– love that response from Scoots, that’s great…….
Verlander is just a man but right now he’s impersonating something bigger than that. And I get that he’s beatable and the Yankees are busy doing their best impression of the Boston Red Sox, but this guy is a monster right now. And he gets stronger as the game goes on. And if we advance we are going to likely see him pitch 1/4/7.
That’s scary…….
I haven’r read other comments aout it so if this is repeittive, sorry…
Romney made two huge errors: getting caught, not by an accusation from Obama, but by the moderator and video evidence, of flat out lying about what the President about Libya and terrorism
Second was being so incredibly stupid as to hand the 47 percent issue to Obama by making reference to it in his closing remarks. Obama had to feel he’d been give an early Christmas present.
it is a good bet yanks go down 4-0
no wonder you wanted them in the WS
well, part of that was because I thought it would be great theater (as well as an easier opponent) but the Yankee team is in no danger of producing great theater. Jeter sucked the life out of them, as did A-Rod’s constant, ongoing annoying disruption. Not to mention that Cano has forgotten how to hit a baseball.
Detroit is locked and loaded, I fear them.
fucking Cano 0 for 29
and people think the gmen have probs
it’s stats like that when you can really start to appreciate the insanity of Yankee Nation. He’s one of the top 4 hitters in the American League and he’s 0-29. You can’t write scripts that are less believable…….
Detroit is feeling torture, SF style
my guess is Tigers win. Verlander went 8 shutout innings
Detroit has white towels to wave
SF has orange rally rags
sounds like a colorful win for the Giants
we score we win
I was waiting through several games looking for Coke to make a difference. Until he faces us I like him as a reliever.
Detroit is going to sit around and get stale.
Well, while I wanted to play the Yankees for different reasons than Craig (maybe), I’d be quite happy being in WS again if we were facing. any AL team. And having the two best managers in the game in it would be cool. As to Verlander, he *is* a monster right now but he can be quite bad as well, I believe it was 6 outings giving up 5 or more this year. We beat him once, we win the series.IMO. And yes, I’m presuming we’re in the series.And them.
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Verlander’s just the tip of the iceberg. They have starting pitchers capable of outstanding performances up and down that bullpen
Shoulda said “roster” not “bullpen”. Very tired. Catch you all tomorrow for what looks like another stupid fucking day game….
I only addressed Verlander brecause he was who you addressed . I can talk about my opinion about the rest of their staff at another time.
I keep thinking back to that post who’s your favorite other teams. Who wrote that? Anyway at the time I admitted that the cubbies are my second favorite team. In the American League I have always favored the Tigers. Especially this year when they have both Cabrera and Fielder. Of course Verlander is one freak and an outstanding pitcher,
I understand why big flavor wanted to see the Yanks in the World Series they look like a dead team. Detroit meanwhile barely made it into the playoffs. And now they are coming alive scary
not really sure why I keep thinking back to that topic of who’s your second favorite team but I think I finally answered that question the cubbies are really my second favorite team and if I had a team in the American League it was the Tigers. Of course over the last few years I have loved the Tampa bay rays because they’ve been putting pressure on the evil Empire & the Bo Sox. You have to love that team playing in the East against those powerhouses and doing well. I think David Price is going to be a fantastic player for several years to come and I think the rays have a great coach and apparently, although I don’t know, they have a great front office.
Go Giants!
I’ve been thinking a lot about Syria lately.
Not the country. She’s a co-worker
Ah HA! I always knew you had a weakness for the girl with the unusual name.
Busted. You’re right. I once dated an Indonesian girl for a couple of months just because I liked saying, like, “Hey, Ajisaka, you wanna watch re-runs of Mr. Ed or M*A*S*H?”
Granted though–she *was* fine
So, after Cain dominates the cards (per Chi) who we got? Bum and Voggy already pitched. That leaves Zito and TL or the new guy, PTBNL.
and that game should be BIG.
Lincecum. No doubt
It’s a day game. Will you & Syria be taking in the drama?
Well, we’ll, at least, be e-mailing each other when drama erupts.
So to speak
speaking for myself, I love the emailed times. It makes me so nervous. And excit_edd.
I think I have a disorder that allows me to be myself, not to my advantage, but very freeing.
Go Giants!
excit-edd?
Oh you kid
edd – exactly when did I say Cain would dominate the Cards? I sure as hell don’t remember that one. I haven’t really made a comment about tomorrow’s game. I do believe Cain is due, but sure as hell don’t remember saying he would dominate.
And I think it will be Tim in game 4.
7am hangtown time, mate:
I think we’ll see the dominate Matt Cain. And if the Giant’s brain trust decides that Holliday gets a little “old school medicine” I am totally down with that!
there is no reason to waffel you freaking ace!
As much as I love San Francisco, here it is the Teesside; Newcastle. We have the city of London which, of course, is supposed to match New York and San Francisco, but I live in the middle of the country and I love both places.
I am here in the quiet of 5 AM listening to the gentle rain of this green and glorious island.
And yet my heart and soul is in California. For some strange reasons I love Jerry Brown. I love Sacramento in the great Central Valley.
The 49 mile drive; the coast going North.
I am one of those people who think California should be divided at Monterey and give Southern California its own freakin state. If they want to support the Dodgers?
These games with the St. Louis @home could be just as dangerous as any game we have played this year.
So the question remains will Cain show up and dominate(per Chi)? Or will we lose a game three and have no one to pitch game four?
Which doesn’t address the problem of: after this game and the next game does the freak pitch?
I really want to know where you are getting that I said Cain would dominate. It wasn’t me…think you have me confused with someone else, edd.
Hey, mate, it is not like you gave up the balance and grace, keep in keeping on!
chipower9 said, on October 16, 2012 at 7:07 am
I think we’ll see the dominant Matt Cain. And if the Giant’s brain trust decides that Holliday gets a little “old school medicine” I am totally down with that!
And I am totally down with that.
Do people really still bring coals to Newcastle?…
😉
ACTUALLY, since the Reagan era,
Thatcher here, trickle down has been a failed policy.
But the powers that be are still touting it.
Newcastle, now, has enjoyed the benefits of “regeneration” and is called the ‘TeeSide’.
Over the years I have gone there and seen Yoko, and other artists making coal a second thought.
TF, I love this quote from Obama tonight. It just says it so well. Obama brought his “A game” tonight.
“Governor Romney doesn’t have a five point plan. He has a one point plan, and that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules. That’s been his philosophy in the private sector, that’s been his philosophy as governor, that’s been his philosophy as a presidential candidate. You can make a lot of money and pay lower tax rates than someone who makes less. You can ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks for it. You can invest in a company, bankrupt it, lay off the workers, strip away their pensions, and you still make money. That’s exactly the philosophy that we have seen in place for the last decade. That’s what’s been squeezing middle class families, and we have fought back for four years to get out of that mess. The last thing we need to do is to go back to the very same policies that got us there.”
I guess, like baseball, I will hear about this tomorrow.
From here I do not see any way Barak does not get another 4 years.
Like the Daily show says: 2016 The road to Jeb Bush”
I am never surprised by the idiocy of much of America. One thing and one thing only is needed to educate the populace about Mitt Romney, but many just won’t get it, or refuse to get it. He is a private equity investor. His firm, Bain Capital, is a private equity firm. These types of firms exist as corporate raiders, vultures. They take out huge bank and/or other debt to buy a company that’s usually underperforming, they consolidate (get rid of) some assets that are not efficient, pretty up the balance sheet for a while, and then sell off the shell of the company to pay off the debt and still make a tidy profit over their actual equity investment. And, oh yeah, they FIRE lots of employees to improve the P&L. Private equity plays don’t work, don’t turn a profit, by HIRING oodles of people and running the business for years and years. It’s the exact opposite. Buy cheap with high debt, slash, burn, then sell the shell. So, when he says he created jobs, somebody needs to point out that the very method that his type of business uses to make money demands that he KILL jobs for the “middle class” that he’s tirelessly working so hard to help…
Well said.
And here’s a really funny website. Cracked me up. Betcha it will make y’all laugh.
http://www.romneytaxplan.com/
Liked it, Zum…
Okay – I think I see where edd says I suggested Cain will dominate that Cards. My first post I said I think we’ll see the dominant Cain. That was more a hope and wish, and because I think he IS DUE. He has really not had his “A” stuff for a few games…and again, I just feel he is due. I do HOPE he dominates, but I don’t have a really strong sense he will (that because he has struggled recently).
Okay Flappers, I’m out. Gonna get up really early tomorrow and be at work by 6 – no lunch and gonna bail a couple of hours early so I can get home to take in the game.
Let’s Go Giants!
Oh! How we laughed.
This game is crucial, Cain wins or Giants go home.
Cain wins AND the Giants go home. That’s the point! (grin)
I am just jealous hwy 49 is my home
the UK is great, but it ain’t my foothills
Romney said tonite that Holliday’s slide was a little aggressive, but totally legal and would help create jobs… 😉
God preserve us.
only 15 hours till tonight’s game. If ever there was a moment in Giants history tonight is the night there is no reason to think that tonight losing would be okay I think pushing through is the only way to go.
It certainly looks like the Tigers are the team we are going to play.
And there is no doubt that we will take the Cardinals the birdies to get to the World Series.
I and a you great and eight at and him and him and him and him and him and him and him and pressed him
Obama was excelleht and the exchange about the attack was as clear a distinction as you’ll see between a CIC and a salesman.And if one caught the earlier interview with Hillary Clinton on it, the administration and State Department turned what the Republicans thought was a huge winner for Romney into a disaster for him..And the next debate is centered on foreign policy.Romney will be finished then. It should be a 6-8 point margin on election day.
New Post.
Virtual shot, bozo?
Tomorrow’s game is big!
win or lose, headed to a WS matchup with the Tigers.
Fuck Yeah!
per ESPN: Holiday gets one through the legs
Holiday is an ass
Final Word:
Go Gigantes!