Game Time!

Posted in Uncategorized by Flavor on April 13, 2013

Welcome to the CQ-ZG-Free Game-Time Thread!

So, what’d everybody have for breakfast?

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snarkk said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:07 am

I’ve had an “everything” bagel with garlic cream cheese and some gravlax. And, some Peet’s coffee. Pretty dang good so far. I’ll get a little fruit shortly. Little sore in the shoulder though, think I slept wrong on my collarbone…
- Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:12 am
  
  Well next time ease into bed. I bet you slammed your head on to that pillow. Next time, ease your head on to it. Or just toss it aside. That works too. I’m having a burrito from El Grullense and it is spectacular.
snarkk said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:09 am

Pagan out with a reported minor wrist owie incurred in a diving catch in the getaway game at ATT. Romo not available to close, per Bochy, unless absolutely necessary…
Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:18 am

And turning over the Snapple cap I just found out that “a rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.”
- snarkk said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:23 am
  
  Shoot, even Vidal Sassoon would have had some trouble combing that one out…
salty said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:21 am

Hey snarrk I’m down in Pacific Grove..what did you recommend having at the Fishwife?
- snarkk said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:28 am
  
  Basically anything, salty.
  But, if you’re into deep fried oysters or clams, go for it, especially oysters, if they have ’em. I usually go for the appetizer plate of the oysters, and then their special fish of the day, if they have one. If you have a special type of fish you like, and they’ve got that, go for it. I prefer my fish grilled, but they do other preparations, too. Damn, I’m getting hungry for lunch right now…
  - snarkk said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:31 am
    
    And, when I say fried oysters, I don’t mean those things that ooze oil on your plate with 1/2″ thick of some sort of gunky batter. No. These things are lightly battered and are fried to perfection, with some sort of sauce on the side that is great with ’em. And, the clam chowder is always good…
  - salty said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:34 am
    
    Thanks sounds delicious.
Macdog said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:22 am

Toasted English Muffin with peanut butter.
- snarkk said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:39 am
  
  Classic preparation…
- twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:42 am
  
  That’s a staple for me. Sometimes with a glass of soda on the table by Zeke’s couch from the night before. With a fly in it. With two flies, it’s a three course breakfast.
twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:27 am

Well, gee. I have a craving for a burger from Tommy’s just down the street on Beverly Boulevard…. oops. I mean, well, I’m busted…
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- snarkk said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:36 am
  
  Years ago when I lived in LA in the early ’80s, I worked in mid-Wilshire. My boss would take me to Tommy’s on Beverly (just off Rampart) about once every two weeks for lunch for his “ration of grease”. I wish I had prevacid available in those days. It was common knowledge in the area that if you got stopped by cops from the Rampart station, just shut up and take the ticket. Those guys then, and I suppose now, had more than a bit of a rogue rep…
Macdog said, on April 13, 2013 at 10:57 am

God, I hate Fox. Since when did they start doing national Saturday games at 1 p.m. Eastern? Looks like today, just in time for Giants-Cubs. So I’m stuck with Rays-Red Sox (NY channel) or Braves-Nats (Philly). At least I get to hear K&K and Miller on the radio feed instead of the Fox doofuses.
Macdog said, on April 13, 2013 at 11:53 am

A nit-pick listening to Miller on radio: He doesn’t always immediately give the outcome of the play. There was a near-collision with a couple Cubs on a pop-up, but it took Miller a while to say the catch was made after describing the near-collision. Earlier a Cub didn’t run after he hit one up the 1B line, and it took forever before Miller said it was an out.
- salty said, on April 13, 2013 at 12:00 pm
  
  I’m with you. He drives me crazy at times.
twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 12:11 pm

So far MadBum is making the Cy predictors look pretty good. The huge difference I see is that he’s throwing “better” strikes- more on the gray whereas he often grabbed too much of the SZ before.Even in this tough 6th he made good pitches- not just strikes, but corner strikes.Hairston had to reach and the lazy fly ensued for the final out.
- Macdog said, on April 13, 2013 at 12:18 pm
  
  Sounds like his baserunning needs some work, though. 😉
  - twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 12:37 pm
    
    Yeah,, and just as I laud his corner work, he grooves one…nevertheless, I like how he’s throwng..
zumiee said, on April 13, 2013 at 12:45 pm

I had quiche for breakfast, with some strawberries on the side, and a blueberry muffin. The big meal today is going to be BBQ chicken.
I was a vegetarian for a few years a while back, but had to give it up. The daily quest to get enough protein was always the thing. I was always losing too much weight. It’s possible to be “too thin.” Although, I need to get a bit thinner these days. (grin)
Macdog said, on April 13, 2013 at 12:53 pm

Good thing Navarro doesn’t play the whole game.
zumiee said, on April 13, 2013 at 12:53 pm

6-4-3.
Very cool.
zumiee said, on April 13, 2013 at 1:07 pm

Great play by Sandoval. That will be in the ESPN Top 10 today, and could be #1.
- Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 1:25 pm
  
  I’m looking forward to seeing the play. On the radio, Kruk seemed pretty worried about Sandoval saying “and he’s not getting up.”
  Also, what happened to the dude who struck out to end the game? Sniper?
  - zumiee said, on April 13, 2013 at 1:35 pm
    
    Looked like an oblique. It was a weird ending to the game, because the guy was in pain on the ground, but FOX had to leave the broadcast, and the broadcasters were feeling kind of awkward about having to sign off at that moment.
    Also, Casilla sprinted off the mound toward the dugout like he thought there was another inning to go, before he realized the game was over.
twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 1:20 pm

The outing by Santiago should make it easier for Bochy to give the Surge Protector a day off when he’s been pitching a lot.
twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 1:25 pm

Oh, lunch- polish sausage, potato salad, doctored up baked beans. The Irish always have exactly 239 beans when peparing a bean dish. Why? Because one more would be two-farty…
zumiee said, on April 13, 2013 at 1:47 pm

And yet another cool baseball book to look forward to is this one recently published:
“Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes,” by John Rosengren

Here’s the description at Amazon:

Baseball in the 1930s was more than a national pastime; it was a cultural touchstone that galvanized communities and gave a struggling country its heroes despite the woes of the Depression. Hank Greenberg, one of the most exciting sluggers in baseball history, gave the people of Detroit a reason to be proud.

But America was facing more than economic hardship. With the Nazis gaining power across Europe, political and social tensions were approaching a boiling point. As one of the few Jewish athletes competing nationally, Hank Greenberg became not only an iconic ball player, but also an important and sometimes controversial symbol of Jewish identity and the American immigrant experience.

When Hank joined the Detroit Tigers in 1933, they were headed for a dismal fifth-place season finish. The following year, with Hank leading the charge, they were fighting off the Yankees for the pennant. As his star ascended, he found himself cheered wherever he went. But there were other noises also. On and off the field, he met with taunts and anti-Semitic threats. Yet the hardship only drove him on to greater heights, sharing the spotlight with the most legendary sluggers of the day, including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig.

Hank Greenberg offers an intimate account of the man’s life on and off the field. It is a portrait of integrity, triumph over adversity, and one of the greatest baseball players to ever grace the field.
- Nipper said, on April 13, 2013 at 1:55 pm
  
  Excellent posting, Zumiee!
eddacker said, on April 13, 2013 at 3:31 pm

portobello mushrooms, eggs, toast and lincolnshire sausages. Seven hours later had a pb&j on seeded whole wheat bread. I am loving Whole Earth pnut butter and Brits are famous for their strawberry jam. Nine hours later and I just had fish and chips with curry sauce from the Jolly Fryer. yum.

OH! and another 9th inning win for my team.
Life is good,
Quinten 8 day suspension, Greinke 8 weeks, fuck the dogers!
Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 3:41 pm

by the way, I want to apologize to Twin and the rest of you for carrying last night into today. I know everyone hates the blog when it gets like that.
While I feel strongly about my opinion there was no reason to get this worked up about it. Sorry, Michael. Go Giants.
- zumiee said, on April 13, 2013 at 3:51 pm
  
  Thanks for the link to the Kruk and Kuip video. I hadn’t seen that. I appreciated getting to hear their take on it.
  - Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 4:43 pm
    
    no problema
Yogi Barrister said, on April 13, 2013 at 4:15 pm

Bochy had a good game today.
I hate to say it, but the Giants might have caught a break last season when they lost Wilson. I know I had more peace of mind in the ninth inning of close games. In May of 2010, I stopped watching (or listening on the radio) when he came into the game, playoffs and WS included, it was bad for my health. In fact the only time I saw him pitch after that, was the excrutiating save he got against Houston, which ended with the bases loaded and a 15 pitch AB by Matsui. Even then, I walked out of the bar I was at after the 14th pitch.
I’m not a big believer in having one pitcher always start the ninth in a save situation. Yesterday, with the wind blowing out at Wrigley, it might have been wiser to use someone less likely to give up a fly ball. I love Romo, but control pitchers like him are prone to giving up HRs. Still, better that then walking the bases loaded. I also don’t think you should always use your closer when you’re up by three runs. If Romo hadn’t pitched against the Rockies with a 9-6 lead, he might have been fresher yesterday.
Conventional wisdom, since Tony LaRussa’s days with Oakland, has specific pitchers for the 8th and 9th inning. That works well, but with a bullpen like the Giants , you have several guys that can handle the pressure of getting the last out. Maybe in the future, Bochy’s system of matching up will become the norm.
- Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 4:48 pm
  
  totally agree about Wilson. The thing that was so infuriating, at least when he was putting guys on base, was that he never EVER gave in to the hitter. Consequently, he walked too many guys. He started giving up too many hits in 2011 too, but that might have been due to his injury. His strike out dip in 2011 was a sign of that as well.
  I don’t miss the drama The Beard brought to the 9th, that’s for sure.
  But I do kinda miss The Beard himself. Oh, and I miss the end of most of the games he pitched.
twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 4:25 pm

OK, dinner is to be a salad with some of the few plantings I made this winter, red mustard ( love it’s spiciness ), arugula, and beet greens small enough to be tender raw. I’ll grill a couple chicken breasts and toss some apple slices, tiny beets, red onion, gorgonzola cheese..
I try for a 2 to 1 ratio of heathy to the terrible stuff I love. For me. Merna gets just the good stuff.
- Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 4:52 pm
  
  we’re kicking around a round table delivery because I don’t feel like cooking since my angelic daughter woke me up at 4am. Grrrrrrr.
  We live in the hills and they can never find it. That’s just gonna piss me off again.
  So, back to the drawing board.
Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 4:54 pm

Something else: I added the “goodreads” widget to the blog about 6 months ago (I think). I asked Zumie to take it over and he’s done a fabulous job with it. Click on one of the book avatars to read his reviews…….
dirtnrocksnomo said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:08 pm

Apparently Casilla’s last pitch was devastating. Man, I have never seen anything like that. Hopefully Clevenger is alright.
Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:17 pm

this is the weirdest scene I’ve seen in baseball in a long time. Casilla ends the game, the batter falls to the ground in agony and Casilla trots of the mound to the dugout forgetting the game was over only to half-Uturn back to Posey for the high fives. Posey then looks back at Clevenger on the way to meet Casilla, sees him and then just keeps on going.
Weird, wild stuff. Here’s the clip:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?cid=mlb
- Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:18 pm
  
  sorry, it’s the 4th clip on the link I posted. If you go just below the vid I posted of Morneau you can click on the video of a fallen Clevenger, if you don’t want to watch the first 3
  - Macdog said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:40 pm
    
    Here Flav, this should do it:
  - Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 6:16 pm
    
    MacDiggity! Yes, thanks.
- twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:46 pm
  
  Yeah, Buster’s reaction was a classic.I kinda wish he hadn’t looked back.,
twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:30 pm

Just to shed some more light on Yogi’s closer comments, Wilson has 171 career saves in 196 SVO, 87.2 percent and 6 for 7 in the postseasoin Nen is 206 of 240, 85.8 perecent (SF totals) . Beck is 199 for 234 ( SF) 85 percent. Beck has never recorded a postseason save. Nen was 7 for 9 in the postseason for us. I listed those three because they are far and away the best we’ve had. As a comparison to Rivera, who saves at a 89.3 percentage rate, based on 50 SVO per year, Rivera would save 2 more games than Wilson. Wilson has been our best closer ever- but Nen and Shooter are damn close.
It’s way early to rate Sergio yet but on the HR issue Sergio gives up 0.7 per 9 innings, Wilson 0.5.
- Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:39 pm
  
  Wilson’s rad save % doesn’t capture the *fear and loathing* of that 87.2% success rate.
  - twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:54 pm
    
    WHIP would be the best way to rate the torture scale for a closer -you are correct as to the *fear and loathing*- Wilson is 1.338, Nen1.084, Beck 1.073. So a stiff drink and a smoke were certainly understandable, if not required, with the Beard on the hill.
    I hadn’t looked at that until I remembered my times on the porch chain smoking and later sucking the life out of lollipops with Brian on the hill. Which made his work in the 2010 postseason all the more remarkable- he was nearly torture free with his 0.771 WHIP.
James said, on April 13, 2013 at 5:43 pm

#2 burger and Guiness shake at 25 degrees off Hollywood blvd. Roxy Music’s “Ladytron” blasting out over the sidewalk filled with proletarian tourists, just past the Erich Von Stroheim star. Restored print of “High Tide” at the Egyptian after dinner.
- PawlieKokonuts said, on April 13, 2013 at 6:20 pm
  
  That’s a pretty damn good word sketch.
Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 6:02 pm

I just posted my recent fishing story at Twin’s blog. I encourage you to do the same.
http://zekesplace.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/fly-fishing-with-diana-rigg/comment-page-1/#comment-205
PawlieKokonuts said, on April 13, 2013 at 6:06 pm

Heidelberg [the best, from Herkimer, NY, near Utica] Cracked Wheat bread, 3 slices, two with butter, one with butter and Welch’s concord grape jelly. With chocolate-hazelnut black tea, from Roji Tea Lounge, and whole milk. I did not see any of the game. Was wearing out Jasper, my grandson. Then Sam P. and I, local giants fan, met in person. Just before we met he texted that the Giants had won. It is a treat to have Sam around in this Babylon of Giants fandom.
Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 6:14 pm

Boo fucking hoo, Scott Cousins just got designated by the Angels to make room for someone even less irrelevant to actual future baseball success than he is. Enjoy unemployment, and karma, bitch…..
Flavor said, on April 13, 2013 at 6:23 pm

Round Table just made it! This was like watching the Lewis and Clark crew show up at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. Me and the delivery guy were crying and hugging each other. We couldn’t believe it! I’m not gonna lie, despite my *glee*, that was an awkward moment. So I executed him, and tossed him down the basement steps. 😦
Anyway, me and my kid are now plowing through an extra cheese, half pepperoni, white sauce instead of red, cooked crispy, Round Table Special.
It’s quite good, actually.
- dirtnrocksnomo said, on April 13, 2013 at 8:57 pm
  
  From doing all the prep to making them, delivering them and running pizza joints I’ve had a lot of pizza over the years. Round Table is still my favorite though. I think it is the multi-cheese blend. For pesto I go with Pizza My Heart but for all around pies Round Table is top shelf. I remember some pretty sketchy situations doing deliveries though. Always tip your delivery person with cash. Not bong loads.
unca_chuck said, on April 13, 2013 at 9:14 pm

Yeah, used to go to the one on 3rd Ave in San Mateo. . . . Them pizza sandwiches were great.

Breakfast was a mini fruit tart and a Pete’s after walking the dogs . . . Little Maggie is getting big and it’s pissing off Jozie.
twinfan1 said, on April 13, 2013 at 9:59 pm

Misc. notes:
Melky is hitting .300 in 40 AB but just 1 extra base hit, 1 RBI..
Dan Runzler is kicking ass in Fresno..a couple more weeks of it, they’re going to have to figure out a way to bring him up. If he’s back to where he was when he first came up, I take him over any lefty in the pen…
Brett Wallace, Astro first bagger- 17 strike outs, 22 AB.Not to worry, he walked once..
If you can’t enjoy it, what’s the pernt? Panda a solid 6 in slowest HR trots for April 6…
Quiz: top 5 Giants hitters by WAR ( hitting and fielding only)
1. Crawford’
2. Pagan
3. Panda
4. Zito
5.Noonan

Before you burn Tom Tango’s house down, remember 2 things:
1. These numbers are extremely fluid
2. Tom Tango is an alias- you’ll be torching the wrong house. On the bright side: a guy with a really stupid name will be homeless..
TedSpe said, on April 14, 2013 at 12:02 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MruG888gH50
- blade3colorado said, on April 14, 2013 at 6:46 am
  
  This was excellent Ted. I watched the entire segment when I woke up this morning. Thanks.