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…But I’m out of town. Nice win last night. Golden State just might win this game today. Think it’s kinda cool that The Red Sox are on a 6 game winning streak. And while I don’t give a rip about the Celtics I will be rooting for them vs the Knicks. Timmy pitching today. Hope he leaves his bad inning in the bullpen.
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GS has a solid group of mostly young vets, Jack and Landry off the bench, and rookies who will get a taste of playoff ball Barnes Green and Ezeli. Physicality of Nuggets plus half court defense might be issues, but it will be good experience win or lose the series.
Posey behind plate tonite hopefully makes a difference. Pen was great last night; with TL and Zito next two days don’t want to see them get overworked before Bax come in.
Nip…if you were up til end of game last night and were on here posting at 4:53 AM (and you are not with Edd or PIA)….I’d recommend more rest and recovery time…after whatever it is you do during the day.
And for all you youngsters at home who watched the final inning- that’s not the way to execute the sac bunt, but I hope you paid attention to the events in Boston. That was a fine lesson for you aspiring terrorists on how to bring a city to it’s knees with just few Walmart purchases with Mom’s card, a helpful media, and a couple of incompetent law enforcement agencies. Except for that meddlesome boat owner our inspiring duo might have had every city east of the Mississippi on lock down…
Seriously- this episode has to be a real time lesson on how not to handle future incidents.Some wackos are proposing that the lockdown was a dress rehearsal for when the Kenyan comes to take your guns or some such nonsense, but what it did accomplish was to show the havoc that even a couple of relatively unsophisticated newbies can wreak. Mass transit shut down, major sporting events cancelled, a shelter-in-place edict ? IMO this was insane overkill that mostly served as a template for how easy it really is to terrorize a major city with little or no “education”. Here’s what an Israeli miltary correspondent who was among those ordered to stay inside, had to say about the aftermath of terrorist attacks he had covered in Israel:
“people were out in the streets, filling up coffee shops right next to the one that had been bombed or standing at bus stops waiting for the next bus from the same line that had just exploded. This has always impressed me as a sign of true resilience, of a refusal to allow terrorism to change our way of life….
….there is symbolism when one of the US’s largest cities paralyzes itself in face of terrorism.
Is this the message the US wants to send around the world – That a single terrorist can disrupt so many lives and possibly more important – the American way of life?”
http://tinyurl.com/c5elbgw
I agree with some of what you say. They closed down an entire city to find one stupid kid who had a gun and possibly a few home made explosives. Possibly. If a thief murders a convenience store clerk and carjacks a passerby to get away, do the cops close down the entire city to find the murderer? It looked like some kind of police state. And all the various agency heads come out of the woodwork in those news conferences to stand behind the one guy speaking that thanks them all for their work. Well, OK. Isn’t that what they are paid to do? And well paid, with huge pensions that are bankrupting our municipalities? They got the guy, with the help of the boat owner. I feel for the families of the one cop killed and one wounded. But, how about the families of the people killed/injured in the bombing? How 100 or more cops let the kid escape in the first place after they had a shootout with him is something that should be asked. There was less disruption in the Bay Area after the ’89 quake than searching for this one guy. A million people are supposed to stay inside? What if I want to leave my house. Am I subject to arrest? I say BS to how the whole thing was handled….
Interesting viewpoint, Michael.. but have to disagree. There was some luck in finding these guys… or instead of luck, maybe it was, for the first time in a really long time, everyone pulling together to do what they had to do. The people of Boston supported and complied with the lock down, and it seemed to me that the government and the people were actually in this thing together, and that’s how they caught the guys. I don’t know what “experts” are saying, but I seriously doubt many people in Boston would agree with your position. That city is tough, and they are united, and this thing ended a helluva lot better than it could have.
Did you read what the Jerusalem Post writer,Yaakov Katz, wrote?
I cited the article by Katz because too often what I posit is represented here as a roque opinion . It’s not just an “interesting viewpoint” from me, it’s a compelling one. I respect the differing viewpoint, but as Katz says in the full piece I linked to, even the timing of the lockdown was strange.
No, not yet, and as it’s 11:30pm here now, it’ll have to wait til morning. Well, considering that a major terrorism attack happened on Monday, and 4 days later, the perps are apprehended without another bomb attack, and considering Bostonians are joyfully back out on the streets after a very short “lock down”… they don’t seem so paralyzed to me. And I’ve talked with a bunch of ’em, I still have a lot of friends in Boston. It was tense, it was weird, but of course it was. Personally, I give Bostonians a lot of credit for not standing next to a bombed out coffee shop the very next day…. Anyway, sorry, I can’t continue this, I’m out, but we probably wouldn’t change our positions much anyway…
Good win last night.
I’ll probably have a drone following me for the rest of my life, but I have to agree with Twin, albeit, I see your point as well Paul. My take is this – I feel we usurp or diminish our bill of rights by implementing the Patriot Act or other zealous laws. Core civil liberties and rights were taken away in the name of protecting us by passing the Patriot Act. Now, they don’t have to even pass laws – someone commits a crime (and yes, you can parse words and call it terrorism – whatever) and some yahoo declares “Marshall Law” and like lemmings we (Boston) all say this is a good thing. Sorry, I disagree. What’s next? People disappearing in the middle of the night because they were suspected of being traitorous to the State? Don’t laugh. It’s happened many, many times, e.g., Nazi Germany, China, Soviet Union, etc.
Personally, I haven’t agreed with much anything we have done since 9/11 occurred to combat terrorism, supposedly all in the name of protecting us.
It’s come to that, has it? Drones take to the air seeking out Twinfan1 apologists 😉
Actuallly, Steve, take heart, many agree with “my” viewpoint:
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, stopped short of directly criticizing the decision, but he lamented the development as a win of sorts for terrorists.
“When you have lives at stake, it’s up to law enforcement,” Ruppersberger said. “But it’s an accomplishment when someone shuts down an entire community and people can’t go outside and are told to stay away. We have to stand up as Americans to this. … We’ve got to continue to go to baseball games, continue to go to events. We can’t allow these people to shut us down.”
There a rah-rah element to the capture of a teen aged terrorist that’s understandable in a country that fortunately hasn’t had to endure what is common place in many parts of the world. Many are undoubtedly slapping their foreheads in amazement at the absurd and counterproductive (in the long term ) overkill of the shutdown.
Mark my words, this shit wont be funny when it’s routine. Here is how I see the future (which isn’t too far away):
Scenario – Suspected terrorist on loose in Sunnyvale, USA. Air sirens go off and all forms of communication, e.g., cell phones, landlines, PCs, televisions, radios, and outdoor speakers state the following, “Enemy of State, last seen in white Honda sedan, considered armed and dangerous, last seen on Central Expressway. 10 mile radius Marshal Law declared. Anyone found ouside their designated shelter in place, will be shot on site beginning at 1300 hours when this public service message officially is in effect. Thank you for your cooperation.”
Now we have morons like Lindsay Graham say this kid, a US citizen (naturalized last fall), accused of committing a crime on US soil, should be treated as an “enemy combatant” outside the US justice system. Essentially, he’s advocating throwing out the US constitutional protections of a US citizen on US soil, or as he says, “the homeland”. Sounds a lot like “der Vaterland”. Our forbears and our military fought for those constitutional rights for the last 230+ years, against George III, Hitler, against Tojo, and here is an American that wants to just take them away — our OWN senator, not a foreign power. Start doing that, and look around. We’re citizens, too. It’s crazy…
By the by, a mini miracle occurred in my life – yep, my wallet was returned. I just wrote a blog post about it.
Well, we were fortunate. With the brothers showing how it easy it is, we may not be so lucky if/when the copycat incidents (that MANY terrorism experts acknowledge this incident may encourage ) happen. Al Qaeda undoubtedly considers this a success..
Yeah, good win. Have a nice sleep.
‘Nite Paul. 🙂
I tend to agree with the article Twin posted. I think if this happens more frequently, and you have to think it will, law enforcement will develop a more skillful approach to containing and/or pursuing guys like these murderers.
I apologize for bringing it up here, though. That was a classic Giants’ win last night.
glad you did, it was an interesting article
Only appropriate that Timmy pitches on “420”
Petit and Heston, who had been the most likely replacements for an ineffective starter, both sport +7 ERAs. The Boofer at 5.02 has been the best starter at Fresno. It might be Gaudin if it came to replacing Tim.
Twin, I agree with you. That was a classic Giants win.
Regarding the police state comments. We’re already well down the road. Most people just don’t understand the technologies deployed.
Was the lockdown overkill? Probably. We’re all undoubtedly learning on the fly how to deal with terrorism on the homefront, and perhaps a similar situation will be handled differently in the future. But, while many were inconvenienced between the time the murderer eluded the police and the time he was captured, no one else — not another young woman, not another college student, not another cop, and most certainly not another 8-year-old boy — was killed..
I was never worrying about any inconvenience of the shut ins.. there was no lockdown while both suspects were on the loose from Monday until Friday. And the lockdown that did occur was while the remaining suspect was sitting in a backyard boat bleeding . The lockdown had zero to do with saving lives, all it did was show how easy it is to bring a major American city to it’s knees..
IMO.
Well, first I want to thank BF?, for letting us voice our opinions on this event. What I didn’t like is that it paralyses everything not just Boston. My wife flew to SanDiego on Saturday. Her flight on Thursday, yes thursday was delayedre 3 hours. She was flying back to Sacramento!!!! WTF is that, I can understand flights going back east, but within CA. Sounded like they knew who was involved and where they were by that time!! Oh, and we all haven’t seen anything yet!! The hunt was nothing compared to what this trial is going to be like with the media!! Oh and don’t forget this guy has rights!! To the best defense this country can provide. This MF killed an 8 year old little boy!!, and others, and maimed hundreds. If he doesn’t get the death penalty there is something wrong with our justice system. Mike brings up an Isreal Writer, this guy would be tortured, yes tortured to find out why and if anyone else was involved if this had happened in Isreal. After the Olympic debacle Isreal does not fuck around with terrorist!! Alright I am done. A prayer for all the families that had someone killed or hurt by this senseless act.
I don’t follow what you’re saying about the Israeli writer. He’s also covered terrorist attacks in Israel. Israeali journalists are not tortured by their government for covering terrorist attacks. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three daughters.
I share your lack of sympathy towards the man who committed these terrible crimes.
No, no, I was not saying he was tortured or did any torturing, sorry was not clear. I should have left him out entirely, and just referenced Isreal in general, they do not tolerate terrorist acts.
Kevin, I share your animosity towards this person. I don’t care about his motivation, the act was heinous and he must be punished after a trial finds him guilty. But, he’s a US citizen. I assume you are, and I am. I don’t want my government taking away the constitutional rights of a US citizen on US soil because somebody–the President, the Attorney General, or Fox News, decides that they should. If that happens, we are heading for banana republic status, where if you or I disagree with somebody — the Constitution that protects us all is rendered a limp piece of parchment as it gets wet from the waterboarding applied to us…
Totally agree, except what is America going to do with a home grown terrorist? When the bombings become more frequent like the middle east. My wife is from Vietnam, when we first got married she commented that sometimes there is too much freedom in America. There is a fine line on what the government should and should not control. Don’t get me wrong here Snark, I love America, but I think America needs to be more intolerant to terrorist acts. With America’s diverse cultures, the Constitution is now under constant attack from within it’s boarders.
Damn this thing had me so pissed, I forgot to say that a woman I work with gave me tickets to tomorrows game. Section 321.
For the time being, Timmy’s starts are the most, ah, intriguing games on the schedule. A truly solid 7 or 8 innings from him would provide some reassuring evidence that the pitching is not going to decline significantly this year. Which isn’t to say that I think a good start will be a sign that he’s on his way to becoming a top flight starter again. I suspect the team simply can’t afford a 5+ ERA from one of its starters this year again. He just needs to step it up a little.
I think libertarian paranoia is a greater danger than “big brother.” Bring on the gun registry and national healthcare.
I want to know where the guns are so I know whose paper to steal when mine is in the pond, again..
I agree generally with the “big brother” statement. However, I am concerned about the last decade of infringement upon first and fourth amendment rights. People seemingly are more than willing to give up more and more of those freedoms in exchange for supposed large increases in security. It is a devil’s bargain, as I believe we have seen from this week’s events in Boston. Rights given away, and we are not so secure…
Henry tweets that he’s not fond of jokes about this kind of thing, but this one was too good:
“Let the uncle have at him first.”
Come on, some of you must have green thumbs. go on over to my blog and tell us about your gardening triumphs. One year I planted some French pumpkins- they look just like Frenchmen: squat,red faces bulging with veins… I got dozens. Never got more than 2 or 3 again…
@Snarkk, I just read where they are not going to Mirandize this guy, don’t know how I feel about that. When was the exception added? Seems wrong.
There’s a SCOTUS case from 2010 that allows a suspect to be questioned without Miranda for a short period of time if public safety is in danger to gain information about how to secure the danger. Tell me where all the bombs are and when they are timed to go off, etc. The exception only holds so long as the danger exists, and any self incriminating statements said during the time are banned from use as future evidence against the suspect. In this case, the public safety emergency seems to be going on a little long, if you know what I mean…
Oops, sorry snarkk. I didn’t see your post before I posted mine.
Bozo’s right, I had the case date wrong. I was reading from a 2010 FBI publication talking about using the exception. Since this kid is in the hospital, they are probably saying he’s in no shape to give Miranda to now anyway, until he’s able to understand what’s going on…
Kev, this exception to Miranda was from a Supreme Court case – New York v. Quarles in 1984.(1984, I know, I know).
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=467&invol=649
Jesus, Curry is missing everything and they’re still winning. Good sign.
That brain fart at the end of the half was caca, though.
Richard scratched, Cashner going for Pads
CF Pagan
2B Scutaro
3B Sandoval
C Posey
RF Pence
SS Crawford
1B Belt
LF Blanco
P Lincecum
I posted this really late last night, so I’m assuming many didn’t see it. Sorry if you have already, but I thought I should note it again for any of those who missed the news, considering the player involved. Willie Mays’ wife Mae died yesterday.
I just learned that Mrs. Mays was just 74, and had been suffering from Alzheimers for 16 years. That is so young to have that start, and so long to have to deal with it, for all concerned. Having experienced a mother with increasing dementia over the last 7-8 or so years of her life, I sympathize absolutely and totally with Willie. I understand well, I think, something of what he went through, only he stood strong through it for an even longer, longer time, and for his spouse. I’ve said some things about Willie that others have said as well, he could be difficult at times. For 16 years that most surely must have been increasingly hard to deal with; so I can imagine that would cause someone to be a bit difficult at times when outside the home. Today, I say all the best to the Say Hey kid, a champ on the field, and in life…
My late Uncle Hal took care of his wife, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, for the last decade of her life. He said it was the hardest and proudest job of his life. I’ve definitely gained new respect for Willie…
I met MIranda’s lawyer, John P. Frank, a few times, back in the 90s. He was a force during the Warren Court era; great guy. I doubt it’s possible for a lawyer like him (or his co-counsel T. Marshall, or for that matter R.B. Ginsburg, etc.) to succeed today. Boies is excellent at what he does, but he’s not close. Every Warren Court advance has eroded in the decades since. On the other hand, the surge of civil rights and affirmative action that we did get made a huge difference. The reactionaries gathered force to make sure it didn’t go too far. Still, maybe we’ll get lucky and Obama will have more than one or two SCt justices to replace.
A link to an interesting article on this public safety exception to Miranda. It is very abusable…
http://tinyurl.com/c52vnas
Yes it is abusable. And as US residents get more and more inured to terrorism maybe we’ll even tolerate justice systems like the one Israelis live under. http://israelresearchsociety.org/criminal-law-miranda-rights
I hope not. But societies subject to constant terrorism become, well, let’s saydefensive and restrictive.
Good article, Xoot. Comparative Law was an interest of mine as a law student. I may not agree with the Israeli treatment, but it’s laughable to me that some people decry the Supreme Court looking for analytical assistance in cases from other legal systems. Through the chants of USA, USA!, it’s actually true that the US isn’t the sole repository of intelligence in the world with regard to all subject areas of life…
Ginsburg should resign after this term and let Obama appoint a younger progressive. The senate could turn even more hostile next election…
The W’s will never have better shot to win in Denver.Despite the the 3-pointer at the end, Curry is still a million dollar talent with a nickel head. The turnovers at the end of the first half and 4th quarter killed them.
It’s incomprehensible that he didn’t pick up on getting double teamed. he had NO IDEA that Lawson was there. And their inability to stop a 37 year old has-been tells most of the tale….
Yep, I don’t know how if you’re Curry you possibly get picked clean at the end of the game like that. Turnovers killed them in the second half. They had the upper hand to win the game with the last shot, and gave it away. Probably their only shot at winning in Denver…
Oh, and Marc Jackson got completely out-coached in the final 2 minutes. The TO immediately after a TO was evidence of that as was the horrible defense played on the final play. Anyone with a brain knew MIller was gonna take that shot and yet Landry (or whoever was guarding him I forget) was left completely alone with zero help…
Green had him but the fault appeared to be mostly with Bogut, who never stepped in.
Posey catching Timmeh?
Stop the presses!…
Bochy said Posey was going to catch him one of his other starts, too. I think that’s the one where Belt was sick.
Damn, I’d like to see Lincecum get in a good, solid 6 innings without walking half the world and a blow up inning. I’d settle for 6 innings and 3 scattered runs. It’s come to that, unfortunately…
Anyone else thinking that Pagan has exceeded expectations when Sabes first brought him here? He was nails most of last year, and was highly valuable in the WS run. So far, he’s doing very well, and seems to love it here in SF. I like the guy, and in his interviews, he seems a very level headed and grateful individual for his station in life. I’m a fan…
I’m a huge Pagan fan — and nice to learn of Andres Torres’s part in the ending, which I learned today. (Inexplicably the whole Boston saga seemed to wear me out.)
He sure exceeded mine.
Hi, Flappers. The things one learns. My brother works across the street from the JFK Library in Boston and his daughter dates a kid from nearby Watertown. I also discovered that the gal I met at the trophy thing at Finnerty’s had a friend finish the Boston Marathon 7 mins before the bombing and a cousin who worked at a restaurant 3o ft from the bombing. Hey, I saw “42” today. I liked it a lot. I especially liked the following; the talented young man who plays Jackie Robinson combines acting with athleticism; Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey; the photography — sometimes gorgeous as a still life; the depictions of old ballparks, including the Polo Grounds; the depiction of baseball itself, which is often weak or erroneous. And of course, the real-life story. (Former giants Leo Durocher and Eddie Stanky are instrumental.) If there is any weakness it is in the narrative arc and pace. One of the most touching things was Rickey relating to Jackie how a white kid was making believe he was Jackie. That moved me. That’s what willie Mays meant / did to me and for me.
7 92’s in the first, then 3 straight change ups to finish off Headley.
Regarding some of the discussion above, I recall one of the most telling things I read after 9/11. It was by Pete Hamill. (“A Drinking Life” by him is superb.) A woman I worked with (since deceased too young) passed it on to me. The short piece by Hamill was in Cigar Aficionado magazine, of all things. A few years earlier I had met the fine journalist Pete Hamill, with my ballet-dancer daughter, at the famed Elaine’s restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (she wanted to go there for her birthday; she would move to NY’s Lincoln Center, at 15 years old, a week before the attacks). The article was brief and related how Hamill and his wife went to their villa in Mexico shortly after the 9/11 tragedy. I can’t convey this properly, but the point was something like this: Hamill found that the local Mexican villagers were surprisingly undramatic about the attack. He had a conversation with people there. The gist of it was something like this: You Americans are a young country. We have been around a long time. We understand there is a lot of suffering in the world, a lot of pain and tragedy. We are not surprised by it. I am not properly conveying the line of thought or its power, but it obviously left an impression on me. I also recall the Buddhist roshi who visited my Episcopal church at this post-9/11 time, saying: “We are made low. We have been brought low. This gives us the opportunity to understand the sufferings of others with more compassion and understanding.”
Go, Giants!
To the game.
Does any one know of a pirate feed for this game?
That quote by the Buddist was very good! I will try to remember that one. I don’t alway live by it, but I try to remember the “thee who have not sinned cast the first stone” alas I am not the best person always in thought and words.
Dodgers lose again. Has the clock started on 2-Trips yet? Who would they replace him with? If they wanted to go “big splash,” who is there? Lasorda, in a stunning comeback, trying to do a Davey Johnson?
Of the news networks this week, CNN was especially awful. The manic insane quest to be first with “exclusives” sent them completely over the edge of a cliff. Who can listen to John King now saying “My sources tell me…..” without laughing?
Yeah I thought NBC did a pretty good job. How fucked up is that?
Pawlie, not sure about the pirate feeds this year, sorry man.
Timmy getting out of that inning, well, I hope that’s a good sign.
We typically watch ABC (why, I can’t say; probably because wife and daughter watch GMA; even they agree Diane Sawyer is just too much), but we switched to NBC when we learned from Twitter that NBC was scooping ABC bad.
Twitter last night had some funny shit skewering CNN and Fox (which apparently had an erroneous Zooey Duschanel caption under the suspect) and the NY Post (which said in a headline that 12 had died). I can’t recall it exactly, but stuff like: “John King of CNN is reporting it is a dark-skinned boat.” Or “This just in. Wolf Blitzer with a correction. It’s not a boat but a schooner.” Etc.
I don’t have the benefit of video or audio, but I’m bound to conclude Timmy is pitching decently and just critically dodged a bullet.
I would agree with that.
So….it turns out that Suspect #2 actually killed Suspect #1 during their 2-Stooges attempt at a get-away. Younger brother ran over his beloved older brother with an SUV during a chaotic shootout.
They were worse at exit strategies than Donald Rumsfeld, one of the news pundits said.
Is that an update? I read that the older brother was already dead from the gunfire when he was run over.
According to a report today, they were putting handcuffs on the older brother when the younger brother came at them all in the SUV. He may have been trying to save his brother in the process. The cops jumped out of the way, and the SUV ran over the older brother.
I guess it doesn’t matter much, but there are conficting reports on that. Hardly the first time. False reports were the norm.
http://tinyurl.com/d4g3sc3
Way to be Hunter.
One, two, three, one two, three. The Timmy waltz.
I watched MSNBC and I thought their on site reporters did a good job. The dueling terrorist experts didn’t do much for me, and Matthews, as much I often agree with him , constantly interrupts the reporters and his guests.And he’s SO loud.
PANDA!!!
tell me; there is a time delay on ESPN!!!
homer!?!?!
Two run HR.
Dodgers on the cusp of losing Game 2 today. Boohoo. Is this kid Cashner as good as the box score indicates? (Oh. Another thing: I liked the way the movie “42” portrayed announcers. Heck, I think I liked their Red Barber more than the real-life guy, whom I considered boring as a little kid.)
Well I will take Pablo right now overe weight or whatever. He can field and hit!! What more do the Giants want right now!!
Pawlie, if you want, we could try and set-up a Skype thing. I could put one computer on the Giants game and point the other towards it. The quality might not be the best, but I’m up for it if you are.
That is one very modern, generous, and cool offer. Thanks. It’s like two tin cans with a string for the digital world. But I think I might make motions to turn in on this snowy, cold (just flurries) night. Maybe I will take you up on it next time, if convenient mutually.
Could be fun. We can work it out if you’re game.
Seven strong for Tim!
Well, almost. Good to see Timmy was smokin’ tonight.
I think it’s six innings- and still throwing 92.
I haven’t been watching the whole game, but I thought I saw saw 88-89 on the fastball in the 4th.
There was an 89 in the 4th, but he threw some 92 in the 6th as per the gun MLB.COM uses. His best was 91 in the 7th.
I love seeing Montana at the game.
End of the hector/tim combo I hope. Notice Posey went out there after a couple rockets from guzman and blanks opened the inning.
Mets hit 4 HRs at home last night for the first time in 11 yrs. and won. Today they give 4 to the Nats and lose. I’m sure their hitters feel better, but so do those coming in too.
Good move from bochy,,,Tim did his part but it’s time to ice down and chill and leave it to the pen hold them off.
My bad, six strong innings, the seventh, not so strong. Two outs ,come on Mijares.
That will do it.
False alarm from Kuip- that was a can ‘o corn all the way.
He’s done that a couple times tonight.
Best effort in a long while by Tim. Did Posey have anything to do with it? Dunno. 6 2/3 with zero runs and key, just 2 walks, is a good omen. Well done…
Kiechsnick just hit his 12th. Might be time for a catcher down and Roger up.
I think I spell his name differently every time. Major prob- no decent nickname to make out of that.
Snicker?
I knew it wasn’t going to happen but I would have liked to see Bochy leave Casilla in to hopefully finish the Pads off…and more importantly so he could get an AB.
I’m always amazed when a hitter does what Sandoval did: shorten the arms on an inside pitch and still hit a home run. It’s pretty darned cool.
Ballgame
Spark one up!
Goodnight Ted. Wherever you are!
haaa-cha-cha-cha-cha
2 1/2 hours of sharp Giants baseball- good pitching; we score, we win!
That sure looks like Amy is wearing a WS ring. Either that or she wears an equally hideous one.
Uh, I meant equally *big*..
Romo on pace for 81 appearances, about 78 innings. That’s 12 more games and 16 more innings than 2010, his busiest year. Without arm or knee trouble, he nails 40 or more saves easily.
Last night Bochy used Casilla in the tie game at home in the 9th. He’s always used his closer for that. After Romo’s early heavy workoad, Bochy is obviously going to cut back, IMO.
Yeah, he’ll probably throw about 60 innings. Closers are usually in the 60-70 IP range.
Barry’s streak may be over, but Timmy is on his way — 5 wins in row, and 9 of the last 10!
The Freaky Friday curse has been lifted
It’s all mighty suspicious. Timmy starts to get well and Zits and Cain get the virus. Somehow Milano is involved.
Alyssa with Barry and Matt, 8-1-2013…
Milano. Not just a witch…a cookie
Yo quiero Mami?…
Timmeh throws his best start in quite a while. Caught by Posey, not Hector.
Coincidence? I think fuckin’ NOT.
Tim was ahead of the count many times tonite. That was the deal for him. If Tim comes back, we’re gold…
Snarkk you just have to believe. There’s no “if” here………..ever.
First. the game
Snark got his wish and can die in peace:
” I’d like to see Lincecum get in a good, solid 6 innings without walking half the world and a blow up inning. I’d settle for 6 innings and . . . ”
I got my wish: Posey catching Timmeh!
We ALL got our wish – nice win!
When you see someone as strong as panda muxcle a 95mph pitch into right, no where near a splash hit, you are reminded just how great Barry Bonds was.
ROMO – leading the nation in saves.
BOZO – email me about feeding pawlie 🙂
Second. the boston stuff:
With the London Marathon going off a week after Boston, the night of the bombings (Monday morning here) the security chief was on the hot seat: would it be run, would the bombers be here, what extra security, etc. And he said:
“I have lived with terrorism my entire life (IRA especially) and we are always on alert for these kinds of events. The marathon will be run and we already have the best security policies in place.”
The race is currently (21/Apr/2013 11:00 BST) one hour old with spectators packing the venue and it is a beautiful spring day.
I quit going to games after Bonds left the sport.