Derby Day and Another Giants Win
My current biggest problem: While I should be pouring over data trying to figure out who’s going to hit the bottom rungs of the super in the Derby, I find myself consumed with the question of when to take down Anna the Slutty Real Estate agent. I know, I know, no one knows *third world* problems like I do. 🙂
She’s 12-0 as the BBOTD (8 wins to close out last season + the last 4 played this season). Part of me wants to take her down so I could use her during the dog days of August. Part of me misses searching the internet for a new BBOTD. And then part of me says, *leave her up there till we lose. Squeeze every last win out of her that she’s got to offer.”
Pfffftttttt…..I can’t decide. Maybe a poll:
I was gonna do a Derby thread but I really don’t have the time. If you read yesterday’s thread you know I’m alive in the Oaks/Derby Double with 3 live longshots today (#6, #12 and #19). The field is 19 strong and the weather is gonna be bad–a certain recipe for chaos. The best thing about this live ticket is that I can leave all three out of my pick 3 and pick 4 as well as the win end of my tri’s and super’s. Anyway, it promises to be a weird, wild race, as it often is. I’m excited.
Oh, and the Giants won another one late with a bomb, This one was a walk off by Posey. Yawn. So predictable. And Salty, you’re going to have to tighten up your predictions if you want to hang with this crew. League instead of Belisario? WTF is up with that mistake!?!?!?! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Is that Salty from Clovis you speak of ? Pretty awesome if it is The Salty.
Not sure, he can answer that though
I don’t know where Salty is from but he’s a great contributor here.
Agree (too bad we don’t have a “Pepper” also to contribute).
Thoughts on Warriors: Jackson, just like his players, is learning as he goes when it comes to playoff ball. He’s probably channeling the best advice he got as a player from coaches he respected. Sometimes simplest is best—take care of the ball, keep a body on people for rebounds, and talk and communicate on D. There’s nothing wrong with being positive and helping everyone stick together, esp when things don’t go right.
What I like best—their balance and the fact they can go with 7 different guys that can get into double figures in different ways even without Lee. As Thompson and Barnes get more confidence attacking the basket and Green learns some post up moves that will help make them less of a perimeter/J shooting team.
What I don’t like—all the turnovers and careless ball handling from jack and curry. They need to be more patient and careful with the ball, make better decisions and not dribble themselves into difficulty.
You need to attack the Spurs better players at the defensive end and make them stop people. Since they have run their sets forever, they know what to do and where open players will be—if you do this they automatically do that. They are completely different from Nuggets. To stop them you need to communicate and have rotations down no matter who is in there. You also need to cut down t/os and take advantage in open court when you get them. Win or lose it will be fun to watch and good experience for the entire team and org.
I loved the Spurs of the Iceman Age, with Johnny Moore Mike Mitchell Rod Brewer Gene Banks Artiste of the all Fro team and Oakland’s own Wildman Edgar Jones. They were fun to watch and capable of putting up 140 any night. Cool road unis too, the white and black with the diamond on the hip.
I’ll preface this comment by saying I dislike ALL Denver teams. In fairness to the Nuggets, the Warriors were very lucky to face a team without injured star, Danilo Gallinari, who came into his own this season before he was injured and eliminated from the playoffs. Frankly, he is the biggest reason the Nuggets won 57 games this season. In fact, I had him and 3 of their players (Igoudala, Lawson and Faried) on my FL team and was in 1st place until he got injured. Lawson also got injured just before Gallinari, but returned. My team sunk after that happened, mirroring what happened to the Nuggets in the 1st round.
That being said, injuries are part of NBA basketball, but I would have bet dollars to donuts that if Gallinari had not been injured, they would have won more than 57 games and they would have been a dark horse contender for the NBA title. Just my take . . . New post on my blog.
The Spurs of the late 70s also were fun to watch, playing in the Eastern Conference and winning with players from the ABA days, including the Iceman, Larry Kenan, the great PG James Silas and Billy “The Whopper” Paultz.
As for Anna, my guess is if she is on top, she will stay there until the ride is over.
I don’t know what took me so long- maybe it dawned on me when I noticed Zeke having a full meal from what was between the keys on my desktop keyboard… but I finally ordered a Logitech washable keyboard- it is awesome. And it’s not one of those roll up jobs. Get one if you’re a frigging slob like me..
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Good advice
I thought I saw Anna at the park last night getting eaten up by ground balls on the 3rd base line.
Anna is a Goddess. I think you have to ride the streak as long as she’s willing. I’m pretty sure she has a Real Estate Expo and convention coming up soon.
Your resident psychic checking in from just across the bay. 😉
Bf- thanks for the acknowledgement!. I expected Ted’s hilarious riff . Good luck today.
Do I feel lucky now? Definitely want to play some races now. Itsmyluckyday was my horse in the derby but then Larry Stumes picked him so I’m torn.
Twin, thanks for the kind words.
Stumes picked him? Fuck!!!!! I liked that horse.
Lol. Maybe this is Larry’s year.
Maybe not . . .
Giants lineup posted on csn. Usual suspects with belt still in 8 hole. I’m in mistlin watching boys play. Won first game 4-3 on two run double on top of 7th.
Gonzalez back in for the Bums, and Uribe at third.
Wow, the LA Times blog is getting weird itself. Not as bad as the Splash and all the unwanted posts being deleted, but lots of gloating Giants fans.
http://discussions.latimes.com/20/lanews/la-sp-0504-dodgers-giants-20130504/10
Mike Scioscia’s Tragic Illness blog is funnier. The mixture of self-loathing and denial exploded last night in the 9th. Strange group of dodger “fans” who seem more intent on being Giants haters.
Man, it would have been GALVANIC to be there for the walkoff. I love the celebration, Love it. Notably Pagan, Pence, Belt, Pandoval, Posey himself. But this time? Loved Pagan the best.
I haven’t read any of the Dodger blogs. But having a bunch of Giants’ haters would seem to be expected. As to the LA Times blog, I can’t imagine why a real Giants’ fan would want to troll and gloat there.
I feel sorry for the Derby horses.
Their faces were all muddy…
My fantasy team is batting 0.75 today, so far. Buster is on my team. But he can’t go 14 for 16 tonight.
Buster! Helping us in 3D life and in my delusional world. MVP Redux!
This first inning has improved my mood.
3-run first inning? Is that a good thing? Seems to be “They score, We win” this year..
White Shark 2 RBIs 2 DAY, WTG
MudBug bring ’em home!!
been feeling lethargic and low in 3D (real) life. Yesterday and now today the great game played by my team is a bright spot to lift the spirits. So lift some spirits and GO GIGANTES!
Ed, have you checked the “Who will stop the pain” page? A horrible song sung horribly always lifts my spirits..
I could use some cheer – shoot me a link.
P.S. always have LOVED CCR
blanco with another nice AB right there, getting the SF to drive in another run (his second of the night) and this one off the LHP.
I dreaded the platoon in LF before season began, but Blanco is doing everything expected–high OB, decent avg and excellent defense.
Peguero might get Andres PT, but he is going to have to show a lot to take the job full time. Maybe, as Twin mentioned, P is our RF next year.
Who the fuck picked the dogers to win the NL West?
I have a theory the betting shops pay these guys to skew the pre-season betting
most flappers predicted the dogers were in danger of injuries and team cohesion
Miguel Cabrera .390/.467/.627 in 28 games with 2 HRs today
YIKES!
One month into the season and not a good start yet by Vogey. And now an inning from hell.
these 7-, 8-, or 9-run innings our pitchers are yielding are OBSCENE
Torres, as spoken by Twinfan1 “hits ’em hard”
Holy Mark Olberding Batman! What the hell happened? I go to eat dinner with the kids and all hell breaks loose!
ps Way to go Andres!
Is anyone even remotely worried about this? Down by 1 in the 5th? Bahahaha ha!!!!!!
only slightly disappointed. Loving the ideea of humiliating the dogers
Vogelsong’s FBs, two-seamers and four-seamers, were very consistently 90-91 mph in the early innings, occasionally 92. In the 5th, he was consistently hitting 88 mph with them.
How could anyone possibly give a single shit about what Estes has to say?
He’s the worst they’ve tried. And that’s saying somethig.
noonan or arias?
Ed:
https://oneflapdown77.com/who-will-stop-the-pain/
noonan is hot but arias is the lefty
doing the “take one for the team”
This is one weird fucking game
Lopez has pretty much been worse than awful so far this year. That appearance he just had was putrid. What the heck — to lead off, he walks a speed guy (Gordon) on 4 friggin pitches — a guy who can’t hit the broad side of a barn? And, that guy scores, of course. As for the last inning, Gyros have bases loaded and basically can’t even hit a ball in play? Wow…
Gordon’s given SF a couple runs tonite with his shaky D, but he got one back there. Man, their (LAs) left side of the IF is sure funky.
SF could have gotten more out of last inning with more plate discipline from Brandons….neither swung at many strikes with bases loaded. Belt K’d earlier on a pitch he chased up and out of the zone too.
Final could still be 12-11.
Javy cannot walk fucking dee dee there
Then again, we’ll figure a way to come back.
You could call this a typical Giants/Dodgers tilt. Or, a really badly played, poorly pitched game. Or, both…
I missed the 7 run Dodger inning. Did Vogie go off the rails??
Pretty much…
Peguero! Scoots!
Poesy for the lead . .
I can’t be too harsh on the Brandons. That was one funky loogy they were facing.
sure, but they helped the guy out by swinging at bad pitches..unlike Gordon vs. Lopez who let them go.
great D on the DP by both of them tho…often the good D leads to rally.
Krikey! WTF is it with our Pen walking the leadoff guy? I thought the Beard was in LA…
Now, THAT is some defense. Great pick and throw to 2nd by Belt…
They should give RBIs or something for plays like Belt made. That was frigging awesome. Nobody makes that play.
About any other first baseman in the league just hopes the bunt goes foul. The phrase “guts of a cat burglar” fits.
That was an outstanding play. He charged hard and went no hesitation.
Yikies . . . I guess the pen deserves a squirrelly night. But let’s end this now . . .
do it
si habla Pablo
Did it. Weird fucking infield hit.
END THIS
ouchhhhhhhh
Buster buster buster. Pablo worked it better than you.
C’mon, Buster. What do you think we are, losers with nothing better to do on a Saturday night / Sunday morning (Allan Sillitoe)? That was the time to wrap it up into a shiny win.
I’d rather not have to go to an 11th, either. Timmy is out of practice as Secret Weapon.
That stupid kid in the panda hat didn’t exactly help the cause there.
Come on Giants. I was hoping to get to bed before 2:30 tonight.
UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!!!
Q-SHOT!
as Marv Albert would say, YES!
Sheezus, Anna had time to get to Quiroz, too?!!!
Beat LA, Beat LA, Beat LA!!!!! …
hahahaha
Now that was a very cool thing..
Quiroz! A new hero every night! As Twin said, they score, we win. EVENTUALLY. Holy mackerel. (Does anyone still say that?)
That was so awesome. Quiroz!
just another happy ending courtesy my girl Anna.
happy ending with a bang
Hey, they used to be 3-2 wins. Now, they’re 10-9 wins. They count just as much…
Mo Guillermo! Another good off-season acquisition by Sabean. Nothing better than a post-game interview by Amy G.
The post-game highlights are going to take an hour…
man oh man oh man oh man The Giants have added a whole new existential dimension to torture this year — and it has a whole different pedigree and drama from what the torture was in 2010. Holy mackerel. Talk of comeback kids!
OK, so I was off by a night on the League part. 🙂
we’re big-hearted here
Salty, when we have a frigging no-hitter prediction to top, the pressure is enormous.
Hey, Quiroz ties Buster for career walk-offs 😉
Seriously, nice interview with Amy. “I just want to be part of it”.. you certainly are..
Another crushing loss for the Dodgers to mull over this lovely night. How you like that magic, Johnson?
That was so awesome, Quiroz will be bathing in beer tonight. That was fucking great.
I woke up in the middle of the night and read an email from my mom, where she said the Giants were leading 5-0 in the 3rd. I wake up again this morning and see the crooked number Vogs allows and all the other subsequent drama, with a frickin’ win in extra innings. MAMA MIA! WAY TO GO GIANTS!
We just have lotsa LUCCA.
By the by, excellent article about your daughter’s lacrosse team. Thanks for sharing.
you’re welcome
Wella this isa what a happenda. We was bueno . . . ah, just another walk-off homer by Guillermo Quiroz.
Issa lova me some Quiroz!
Pretty cool how Scooter gave him an escort to the home plate party..