Tweet This Ahole
I’m all-in on Twitter man, and I hate it. But there are just too many details in the news that you miss if you aren’t following the news breakers. But there’s one thing I really dislike about it and it’s tweets like this one from Dan Meyer:
First of all, Dan Meyer sucks and I think if the situation were reversed and he was taking steroids and Bastardo wasn’t, he still wouldn’t have won that job. But my main beef with this tweet is that if you are gonna call another man an “ahole” have the decency to do it to his face. Or don’t say it at all.
Back in the day, if you had a problem with someone you dealt with that person directly. If that didn’t go well, you rolled up or threw down, whatever you called it back in YOUR day, that’s what you did. And then usually, whatever the problem was, it was over.
But with twitter and facebook, you’ve got all these people talking sh!t about other people with absolutely zero repercussion for doing so. And it never ends, it just keeps going. Kids are bullied via social media to the point of suicide.
And I know that this thread has now morphed into a weird social commentary that doesn’t have anything to do with baseball anymore. I’m just tired of watching people do a virtual high-five when they “retweet” the words of another person who’s actually too afraid to say the same words directly to the person their dissing in their tweet.
While Dan Meyer is busy celebrating all those retweets and getting interviewed on ESPN last night, he might want to also consider that he could have expressed his feelings to Bastardo in a more direct, private way. Or tweet it out minus that pussy hashtag at the end.
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I have no cure for human behaviours that are rude, cowardly, lumpen.
In fact, just last night, Nipper and I were discussing other people’s deportment; in the van.
Boy, did we come up with some good ones! (you’re gonna laugh)
BTW, that guy really knows how to celebrate a win. #gobsmacked
I don’t follow Twitter…have no desire, nor the time. But I do agree…if you have a beef with someone, tell them about it to their face. Anything less and you just a BIG PUSSY.
the odds that meyer used just went to ‘odds on’..
I have just not had the time to learn how to tweet. shortly though I will. Facebook is good but from what I have seen Tweeting can really get a conversation going. With that said, yes it is very very easy to text, tweet, Facebook a comment to someone. It takes moxy to man/woman up and say something to someone who is standing right in front of you. A good example is when Jim Rome kept calling Jim Everette, Chris Everette. Jim told him to knock it off, Rome did it again and Everette came right out of his chair!! Now that is the way it is done.
I know I could look it up, but instead I’ll share my stupidity. Who the fuck is Dan Meyer?
most recently, a pitcher for the long island ducks..
OK, thanks.
deleted by me,see you all later.
Sad day when your team wins and the game story appears on Page 5 of the sports section. And the team across the pond takes up half the front page.
Why do I loathe the A’s so much? Even during their 70’s run I couldn’t care less. Would be great if I could shift my attention there now and not feel like I just inhaled a five day old pretzel cheeseburger.
I hear ya salty. When I used to live in SF I’d get pissed when I got the sporting green and an Oaktown team was above the fold. My argument was that we were separate cities, each having our on news paper, maybe, just maybe the hometown team should get the prime coverage.
I was a proud member of the lumpenproletariat for a good time after college. Pre-computers. Cheap wine, real in your face discussions and an occasional brawl. Good times.
Must have also grumbled a lot to myself without blogs.
RULES FOR SUSPENDED PLAYERS
What they can’t do:
Cannot receive pay
Cannot participate in Arizona Fall League
Cannot participate in Postseason games
Cannot be elected or selected to the All-Star Game (if player is suspended during the offseason, Spring Training, or championship season prior to the All-Star Game)
What they can do:
Can participate in Spring Training and extended spring training
Can participate in affiliated Winter League games
Can work out with the club
Can participate in batting practice before the gates open before a game
Can consent to an assignment to a Minor League affiliate for a period of time prescribed under Section 7.H.2 of the Joint Drug Program
The only thing on this list I was unaware of, was in regard to participating in post season games. I could have sworn that this was a decision made by the clubs, e.g., Melky last year was eligible, but the Giants did not add him to the roster, right? Or, was this a moot point and they couldn’t add him without MLB permission? Or, these rules are ONLY specific to this particular case (i.e., negotiated by the Union and Commissioner’s office)? If anyone knows the answer, please share . . .
The period when Melky was eligible to join the Giants in the post-season was after he had finished serving his 50 game suspension. It was the Giants who made the decision not to add him.
I tweet once in a blue moon. Meh. Before I joined last year (waste of time – only did it because the Gmen won the WS), I thought tweets were what birds did. Silly me.
I don’t tweet, don’t facebook. But, aren’t we kind of doing that here, when we call each other FOS? I know it’s fun and all, and there’s not the audience and “re-Flapping” and all that, and not like this Meyer/Bastardo dustup which is real stuff, but isn’t it sort of the same? I dunno. I know if we were limited here to 140 characters, I’d be toast. So, at the Flapalooza, it’s “throw down time”, Boys! Hopefully, we’re throwing down some brews, and that’s it…
Only thing I may throw down in addition to some brews is a dog or some kind of ballpark grub.
It musta been staged. Phantom sack aside, ANY NFL football player could kick the shit out of JimRome. Well, maybe not Garo Yepremian . . .
Here Chuck, not staged
That incident made Rome a ton of money and a long career. Kinda looks staged to me. Notice how Everett is starting to overturn the table before Rome says the “Chris” word the last time? And, Everett doesn’t really go after him when Rome is down. Everett should get a piece of every check Rome cashes…
Probably staged, but I am a HUGE fan of anyone who puts a whoop-ass on Jim Rome. I cannot stand that jack-ass…and yeah, if I had the chance, I’d tell him to his face. He’s a fucking over-paid blow-hard in my book.
Looks real to me (but Rome is a fake . . . LMAO).
I don’t know this Meyer dude at all. But, he sounds like the guys I always thought were the ones nobody talks about in all this, the guys that are the real victims. When FP Santageroid was using PEDs (supposedly only a short time, he says), he was doing it to stay in the league. Some minor leaguer, assume a clean one, looking for a 24th or 25th spot on a roster was denied that shot, because good ‘ol FP was using — whether to get to the league, or to stay there. Same thing in the minors, a guy that uses and doesn’t get caught gets the call up, a guy with the same natural skills, he’s a lifetime AAAA dude. It’s so messed up, I don’t even know if a guy like Pill is legit. Maybe he’s clean and that’s why he never made it. Or, maybe he uses/used, and that’s why he even got where he is to a AAAA player with a cup of coffee now and again. That’s the problem. You just don’t know…
Something that has always kind of bothered me about steroid usage is the Canseco brothers. Identical twins, I assume both used steroids yet one has a career in MLB hitting HRs the other only gets into twenty some odd games and never hits a HR at the major league level. What’s up with that? Did Ozzie get on the needle train late? Was his ideal sport a bouncer at a nightclub? What happened there? I don’t get it.
i was reading just the other day about a successful singer whose identical twin sister can’t carry a tune at all. Sounds like the premise for a good bad movie.
His brother was better.
So Ozzie was really, really bad and steroids only made him sorta bad?
Tweet!
How unmodern of you. That’s what Twitter is all about, Magnus: mindlessly, cowardly hurl grenades over the transom and walk away. Just my style.
You wicked person.
Kinda like here.
RIght, Bozo. I mean, look at Barry Bonds. His brother, for all intents and purposes, was as good as his brother talent-wise (according to both of them). Bobby Jr. didn’t have the drive or determination of his brother.
Chuck…Bobby Jr couldnt hold Barry’s jock strap in talent.
Couldnt cut it the minors,too much coke and other drugs.
Barry just muscled up with his PED’s and said fuck everybody.
Stanford to retire John Elway’s jersey #.
Along with the wierd-o band member’s trombone after he got run over on “The Play”
I’m a bit torn. The Public House just called to say they don’t do any events on game days. My hope was to piggyback a book signing with Flapalooza fest orange sombrero soiree. I could come, like, on the previous Wednesday. And what? Stare at 11 tourists?
Stop the excuses. Get yer ass out there #ahole.
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#cringeing
Hey Chuck, this is especially for you . . . Mannings and homies doing rap.
Baseball note: Giants nearing a AAA deal for Ted Lilly…
With. maybe next year he’s a left handed Gaudin.
AK, talk to Barry about it. Barry said Bobby Jr. had more pure talent than he did. He just didn’t have the will or drive to succeed, or whatever. Then he got into trouble.
Barry just muscled up? Yeah, at 38 . . .
Twitter’s pretty good for quick news bites, like this one from Baggs a couple minutes ago:
From Giants: “Update: Upon reviewing Ted Lilly’s medical history we are going to hold off on pursuing a minor league contract right now.”
Could be the end of his Giants career for Theodore Roosevelt Lilly.
before we signed zito i was in on getting lilly and marquis. instead the cubs signed them both and we got barry, which i’ll admit to approving of. i’ve given peter and brian permission to blame me,
btw. if you haven’t caught it yet, netflix now has the rest of the 5th season of breaking bad. great show as i’m sure you know. bunch of real assholes in it..
Love BB. That show is addicting. The two main guys are great. They’re thinking of spinning off Saul Goodman into his own series. I dunno. He’s great in BB. His own series might be too much of a good thing.
But, to clarify, NetFlix has the first half of the final (5th) season, since the last half (final 8 episodes) hasn’t aired yet, that’s starting soon — this Sunday…
yes, they just have 8 episodes, my bad. sorry. won’t be a spoiler but the train episode is one the great 40 plus minutes you’ll ever spend in front of the tv.
Love BBad…Sunday begins final season. Can’t wait.
Oops didnt see the Snarrk post
Think the Giants are really holding out for Jamie Moyer over Ted Lilly..
Just havent got back the emballment test results.
if imballment was an intentional misspelling, great work, kat. if not, great accident…
the rome incident has for years been rumored to be a staged incident. or at the least everett knew there would be a rome-ulan attack. the overlooked part is that chris evert was the party who was insulted. everett should be flattered to be compared to her, she was one of the toughest competitors in any any sport, male or female.
True. Met her ex back in the day (Andy Mill). Nice enough guy. Bought a pair of his skis for a race . . .
How BBad will end, I don’t know. But, I’m certain it will be done well. This creator guy Vince Gilligan hasn’t let us down yet. I don’t remember one false move the whole show. I can really think, maybe, of just one show that rang a little off, and that was when WW went into Tuco’s upstairs office and blew it up, but survived, got outta there alive, and nobody came after him, as he got in his car right across the street. That’s about the only time when I thought, hmmm, that’s kinda not believable. Even taking out the whole cartel brass around the pool with Jesse and Fring surviving and escaping was sorta believable. You would think from where WW was at the beginning to what he has become, that journey would be unbelievable. But, step by step, they’ve pulled it off, IMO…
cranston has pulled off a tough task- overcoming being a sitcom daddy ( malcolm in the middle). i love this advice from mike, ‘there are two kinds of heists- those who get away with it and those who leave witnesses’. it’s sort of like a rule that i learned long ago- if there is anything you don’t want your wife to know about, you can’t tell it to anyone who has ever known her. *ever*.* known*. *her*…
1. Marco Scutaro (R) 2B
2. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
3. Hunter Pence (R) RF
4. Buster Posey (R) C
5. Pablo Sandoval (S) 3B
6. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
7. Roger Kieschnick (L) LF
8. Gregor Blanco (L) CF
9. Matt Cain (R) P
minor league notes – escobar was eastern league pitcher of the week. villlalona on 7-day dl, can’t find out why.clayton blackburn on baseball america july all-prospect team. draft picks arroyo and ryder jones off to pretty good starts in the rookie league
http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&cid=408
This lineup seems about right. If this doesn’t work, there’s no further playing around with LUs that will do any good unless they play Sept callups. Who that would be, or what diff it would make, I dunno. They just have to hit and start scoring some runs, that’s all…
i do think that the lf and cf platoons will continue. not sure about first base. it’s tough to have just a couple of abs to torch your chances, but pill has given it a try. he swung at a pitch that just missed a guy waiting in line for a hot dog.
Looks like I get to watch the game . . . Send me an email if you need a feed.
This dudes dangerous . . . He’ll hit someone before the nights over.
Panda must have been the wiffle ball champ, growing up.
The Dodgers with 15 road wins in a row, are trying to catch the NL record of 17, which the Giants (in their NY years) hold, and the AL record is 18, I think. But the Dodgers are losing 5-1 at the moment, so their streak may end tonight.
Has the plot thickened? Turns out Amy G is a competitor in the market for books about the Giants.
Speaking of TV shows….I saw two episodes of a new show “Copper” this week, on the BBC America network. It’s set in New York in 1865, and is basically about the early years of Irish in the police force. Interesting show, although I wouldn’t call it great.
Nice at bat by Kieschnick.
1 for 23? We don’t have anyone on the bench? Organization? Where is Torres?
Definitely could PH for Cain here.
Hard call Z. I see your point, but Cain hasn’t been terrible. Couple that with only having thrown 64 pitches, I can see why Bochy let him hit.
Besides, he got the job done (sacrifice).
revret
Theodore!
great. bruised ribs for Buster.
I wonder if there’ll be retaliation.
Neither Cain nor Bochy goes for that. Usually. A retaliatory pop into Peralta’s ribcage would’ve been good, but he’s gone either after or during this inning. Maybe drill the PH for him? Ah, I doubt it.
I’m reconsidering the DH.
For every Giants hitter in the lineup…
The Giants missed their nap today.
A run!
I knew that MOFO would hurt someone (see my 7:40pm).
You called it…
Over the last 2 nights, ATT has taken away at least 4 Hrs between both teams.
Jesus frickin’ . . . WHAT IN THE HELL WAS PABLO SWINGING AT??????????????
If the heart of your order regularly can’t get a guy in from 2nd into score, with nobody or one out, well, you’re pretty much screwed…
Agree. Is it any wonder that our power guys (Pence) are trying to bunt? Wait. What am I saying? What power guys? This team doesn’t have any.
There’s your season in a nutshell. Instead of an inning ending DP, a booted grounder. Then, the opponent’s cleanup guy hits a sac fly like it’s no big deal and gets the unearned RBI insurance, while your heart of the order can’t get anybody in…
I was thinking the Giants might have gotten out of the cellar (actually a tie with the Sherpas) tonight, but it looks like it may take another couple of games. Yes, the Sherpas are playing pathetically worse than the Giants.
Well, another game, another Loss. Giants looked like sleepwalkers in this game. WTF? Cain gets a loss, when he basically just gave up a solo dinger, everything else he did was better than good. Pitching’s not the problem now. I guess we suck so bad, everybody left the blog early. So, I will, too…
Still here like one of those World War Z Zombies. š
Blade, go out and find some hot divorcee or something. Spend your time more wisely than reviewing this loss. š Even Posey is infected now, he makes a throwing error to let in a run. What a disappointing performance. At least Kiesch is getting some hits, even Belt got a double and scored the lone run. See, I’m looking for positives…
Say a prayer of thanks to the MLB Master Scheduler and God that our Flapalooza September 7th fest is against the San Diego Padres. I don’t think it would be much fun getting our asses kicked against almost every other MLB team that could have been scheduled that day.
pence, pablo, posey, scooter: quatro sinko.
Good one…
I was serious when I said we were playing better than the Mountain Yodelers . . . We are 4-6 and they are 2-8 over our respective last 10 games. We all can take solace in that. Amen!
OK, Blade, the Rocks suck worse than we do, lately. Somehow, I’m not stoked by that. Good try, tho. GNite…
Nite all.
Went to Pads/Orioles tonight. Had field level seats down the first base line. Caught a foul ball hit by Nick Hundley and pitched by Flav’s boy Bud Norris. Fended off several of my teacher friends to make the catch, which made it even better. Sounds like a slow night for both the Giants and the blog.
Did the Toeur de Francoeur do anything tonight?
Awesome night for you, S-Dawg! Very cool!
Kieschnick got the start for the Giants in left, and had a couple of hits.