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Pawlie working his magic. Blade heckling from the peanut gallery . . .
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The Fllappers in all their unabashed glory . . .
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As last night’s game unfolded, I was dumbfounded by 2 questions, impossible to answer:
1) How was a journeyman no-name nobody pitcher, designated twice by the Giants this season, pulling this off?
2) How did a journeyman no-name nobody pitcher, designated twice by the Giants this season, score a wife with such a spectacular rack?
Well done on both counts, Mr Petit. And by the way, she definitely did not marry for that last name. Hey Now!!!!!!!!!
I didn’t see the post game show and maybe this was discussed, but Hunter Pence was playing too deep on the Chavez at bat. The AZ announcers said that Pence was “respecting Chavez’ power”. Huh? With Petit dealing all night and a pinch hitter at bat (with marginal to not that much power) you don’t play that deep. Chavez was trying to do nothing more than break up the perfecto, he’s not a guy who swings from his shoes. And I’m not putting that on Pence, I’m putting it on whoever aligns the defense from the Giants dugout. I think it’s R-Kelly…..
Before the game I posted this:
Flavor said, on September 6, 2013 at 4:46 pm (Edit)
Dammit, I missed the the millionth hit. Saw Blade at the gym this afternoon, he’s excited, as I am, about Flapalooza 3.0 tomorrow! I hope tonight isn’t a high scoring game, those are always followed by duds the next day. And I can enjoy a pitchers duel easily but tomorrow I want to see a bunch of Giants running around the bases, balls bouncing up against the wall, the crowd going crazy. And I want to see Brandon Belt hit a home run tomorrow. In fact, I’m feeling it and I am predicting a bomb from both Belt and Sandoval. Pagan will hit a triple (if he plays). Hunter Pence will do something 3 times, either strike out 3 times or get 3 hits. That vision isn’t coming to me as clearly as the other ones……
So hopefully, this now means we see some runs scored tonight.
I saw this building on the way to work yesterday. It’s weird, I drive by it all the time, never noticed the name on it:
MacDog snapped the best pic of the year, though:
Speaking of pictures, we will take a bunch of them tonight. I’ll dump the ones I take into my twitter account as the day/night unfolds. I’m not a tweeter, I re-tweet more than I tweet. I’m mostly on twitter to follow the sports news breakers that I care about as well as a few people that I know. If you want to *follow* our slow, meandering path to the SF county jail you can do it here (I don’t even know what my handle is, have to go look it up now):
@1flapdown77
That was rather obvious, can’t believe I had to look that up.
If you listen to KNBR 680, Pawlie Kokonuts will be on Marty Lurie’s Show today around 2pm. Flappers will be be displaying keen attendance…….
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
this is what me and Kate woke up to this morning:
careful; they’ve crashed through into houses in our area
Well Flav, I was really hoping I could make it out tonight but I just have way too much shit going on…Possible new job opportunity may find me having to relocate to Birmingham and I don’t mean the one near Eddd.
Anyhow I have spent the better part of the morning trying to convince my dad who lives in Concord to take my place. I am not holding my breath but I think he would get a kick out of meeting you all. I told him about Pawlie being on Marty Lurie’s show at the PH, and he thought that was pretty cool. So we shall see.
Anyway y’all have a good time tonight and I can’t wait to see the pics.
Here’s the simple version of my “it is written” episode last night. [I think Omar Sharif’s character in “Lawrence of Arabia” uses that phrase.] I go to the A’s game, late, to add it to my last of ballparks. 22nd? Section 316, way up, back of plate. Stadium reminds me of Tropicana Field, and that is not an architectural bow. Anyway, during game I’m watching the Giants game on the scoreboard. 2-0, through 5, 6, 7. I’m texting Necklace Lady, whom I met at Finnerty’s in January at WS trophy tour. She assumed I was texting from OUR game. I said no. “Are you following what’s happening?” she asks. “Um, are you trying to tell me something that we might be superstitious about?” She clues me in, still rather indirectly, but noting that K&K already broke the taboo. 8th inning. 9th. She asked, “Are they showing it in Oakland?” “You kidding? Seems like I’m the only one who knows.” Then 5 or 6 rows in back, a guy w/ his son yells, “I knew I should’ve gone! Wrong game!” I walk toward him. While Necklace Lady is texting me updates and we are on the last batter, 2 outs, and I approach this fellow with an interest in the Giants game, who is listening w/ earbuds, and I’m getting confused w/ his shoutouts and Necklace’s texts, and time delays on phones versus radio, and is it a Perfecto?, and I hear, “PAUL! Paul.” What? There’s a lot of Pauls in the world. Is someone calling my name? “Paul. It’s Tike.” (I know only one Tike.) Simultaneously as I learn the Perfecto is being broken, a guy I learn later is named Pat calls up the action live on his phone. It’s all crazy. The dude in back of me, whom I approached? Holy mackerel! You know how I’m always accosting people with Giants gear on in Syracuse or Pittsburgh or Atlanta or Charlotte or Philly or Parsippany? (It is hard to adjust here in SF. I mean, calm down, Pawlie; we’re all here in this together, we’re in San Francisco itself, son. The Giants Homeland Zone. A Giants hat is NOT a novelty.) Anyway, I met this guy Tike and his family last year, in June, as I was buying tix in fecking ATLANTA. He’s in WORLD SERIOUS. Wow.
Dude yer famous, what did you expect?
Knowing you flew out to S.F. yesterday, I was wondering what you were up to last night. And that, Pawlie, is the Story of the Year.
Already this week, there’s been a 3 home run game by Pablo and a near-perfecto by Petit. So what could possibly be on tap tonight for Flapalooza? Perhaps something even more strange, like a walk-off home run by Kieschnick into McCovey Cove that elicits a barely detectable fist pump.
flav eerily calls another one, with Pence scoring all *3* runs last night.
Great story from Pawlie, hope many more follow today. A’s yard did not used to be such a bad place to see a game. Buddy of mine from Newark (CA) and I used to take BART over there a lot.
Hope my boys in blue from Jose State (not those other f-wads) can hang tonite vs. Stanford Cards. QB is for real, see what he can do vs. that defense, with healthy Skov.
Funny but my HS Fremont of Sunnyvale (Tulo’s alma mater) used to be Indians when I was there late ’60s and had Stanford fight song. Now they are firebirds or some ridiculous BS.
Enjoy guys, should be warm night…doubt it’s another 3-0 game. Hope SF continues domination of West…if they’d only done better vs. Cubs, Brewers, Mets, Marlins….
Well I called it for tonight, but I like the fact that your looking for reasons to believe I’m part-wizard 🙂
maybe some 3 run bombs by the home squad.
Long day, go easy on the *pre game warm up*.
Btw, bout time for a W on flap nite!
Enjoy Big Guy, and everyone else too.
Went to a game vs Reds in 2010 during a heat wave and score was 16-5 gmen. Balls were flying out of there. The previous night they scored 11. Maybe it was Cincy pitching. But got a feeling they will be riding high tonight after Petit’s remarkable effort.
Enjoy guys, be safe.
i thought it might be interesting to see how our guys do on the first pitch. i thought of this after monell popped out in his first mlb at bat, on the first pitch he saw. this is their batting average when the ball is put in play on the first pitch of the at bat. i’ve only included those who we would consider regulars. i was somewhat suprised at how most fared. not suprisingly, panda with 76 ab and pence with 80, put the most balls in play on the first pitch, and both did well- panda at .316 and pence at .363. the runaway batting leader on the first pitch was belt at .441 in 59 ab. posey came in at .340 in 47 ab. blanco was .333 in 42 ab, torres .318 in 44 ab. there were 3 players under .300- crawford at .274 in 62 ab, scooter at .242 in 33 ab, and pagan at .200 in 20 ab.
pagan’s number of at bats putting the ball in play on the first pitch seems rather low even considering his time missed, but i don’t see that as a bad thing- as the lead off hitter we expect him to look at pitches. as to the others, i think it shows as much about the opposition pitching as it does about our hitters- how often have we heard about pitchers trying to steal that first strike- the first pitch is often the best pitch the batter will see. home runs on the first pitch- posey 1, belt 2, crawford 2, panda 1, pence 2.
i’m not suggesting that swinging on the first pitch is always a good thing, but it is an unfairly maligned practice. imo.
a few side notes; miggy cabrera has 13 homers on the first pitch, chris davis has 10. who swings at the most first pitches- carlos gomez ( panda is 7th, pence 14th) who misses the most, by percentage- pedro alvarez 37.8 percent. who takes the most first pitches- dustin pedroia 520.
fun, cool site:
http://tinyurl.com/mmrnwdd
enjoy the flapakaloppalooza, guys. and if you’re driving- be careful out there…
those of us who are kind and wonderful people would have said that petit was the most improbable pitcher to throw a perfect game. the rest of you heathens would have said he would have been the ‘worst’ 😉 …how did he *almost* do it- he threw 70 pecent of his 95 pitches away- and they chased nearly half -45 percent- of those that were outside the strike zone. and that, many say, is the essence of pitching- throwings balls that look like strikes. i watched the game again and rarely have i seen a pitcher do exactly that as often as petit did. what wasn’t on the corner was just off of it. btw, he averaged 88.5 mph on his heater, threw first pitch strikes to 21 of 28 hitters. he threw 52 percent fastbballs but he also threw everything in his arsenal- 21% curveballs, 11 percent sliders, nine percent cutters, and seven percent changeups.
i’d characterize his performance as the definition of ‘masterful’.
Great analysis.
On train now.
Nice tit viewing weather….
and yet no pics on twitter???
😛
yes, interesting as was the first pitch info.
Flashmob Flappers, I love it. Have fun y’all, I’ll be looking for the foul balls in the club (I meant hit into the club).
Eeeha.
superstitious slant. and shots of the er, lovely Ms Petit.
http://tinyurl.com/lpj2pza
your flappadoppapalooka line up-
1. Angel Pagan (S) CF
2. Marco Scutaro (R) 2B
3. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
4. Hunter Pence (R) RF
5. Pablo Sandoval (S) 3B
6. Hector Sanchez (S) C
7. Gregor Blanco (L) LF
8. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
9. Matt Cain (R) P
Pawlie was on Knbr about 30 min ago–great segment.
So I’m going to tease you all with this: the most inprobable, unreal, surreal story has surfaced here during Flapper co-mingling that I can’t put it into words right now. Need to process it. Check to make sure this isn’t a dream.
But I will share it tomorrow….
And I have 3 great videos of Kokonuts Knbr interview….and an unreal story that’s still blowing my mind
*smiling*
tanks4 sharing
I’m still having trouble processing the info given to me a couple hours ago. This does not compute.
Hint: it is a connection between San dawg and unca chuck…
Mind blown
hmmm.. they had a discussion last night about whether petit’s performance cheapened matt’s perfect game, had petit finished with the perfecto. did it have anything to do with that? not sure about dawg but chuck will argue about how many snowflakes make up a flurry 😉
If I gave you 1000 guesses, you wouldn’t come close to the bomb that chuck dropped on us tonight. Unreal!
Listened to Pawlie Show, very nice!!
Belt makes dreams die
Go Gigantes!
san dawg and unca chuck connection? Not sure I need to know that one.
Hey Flappers, hope you all enjoy your evening there, wish I could be there!
And the Padres won again!
Damn!
Hell of a boring game, but what a blast to meet tthe flapapaloozas .. . .
The Flapapalooza pic is:
Unca, Zumie, Flav, San Dawg, and James in back.
Blade, Pawlie and Snarkk in front . . .
Chi was at the game but missed the pic, Ted joined us early but had to split, If I’m leaving anyone else out, sorry, it went by very fast.
Back at my quarters in the Mission, after a long ride on the 14 bus. A wring-all-out-of-life day. Love you guys. (I should say, “girls,” as I typically do.)
😉
I just got home a half hour ago and finally got online . . . Wow! I am just reading through this thread. A wonderful day . . . One of the best I have had in quite awhile. Even though the Giants lost, I will treasure this day forever! Great to meet so many Flappers today!!!!!
Steve, I second that emotion. It is no small feat to bring people together, as happened today, and manage to fill it with such unbridled joy and hearty camaraderie. So much fun. Worth the trip. Entirely. (And good to meet and engage in conversation; missed seeing more of Chi and Ted. Steve, tho’ we have talked and Skyped, this was infinitely better.)
Just listened to the Pawlie interview. Very nice, though would’ve liked to have heard more Pawlie and less yapping by that one guy.
http://www.stationcaster.com/player_skinned.php?s=851&c=4871&f=1828061
Great Flapalooza. Not such a great outcome in the game, but a good game nonetheless.
It was/is a crazy confluence with Chuck and SanDawg that I will leave BF to describe.
Great meeting all of you Flappers — REAL Giants fans through and through.
G’nite all…
Outstanding day. Was in a sold out show (Yeah, big fucking whoop, Ted, 50 people and 6 were comps what being actor’s moms) but the highlight of the day was the FLAPALOOZA!!! (Well, that and the sweet, sexy Filipinas what was in the flash mob).
Missed the game (uhm..kinda thanks for that) but for the 3rd year in a row, the Flapper Nation met in the flesh (somewhat shriveled as it is) and rejoiced in our mutual love for the Giants and each other.
I swear, it was a joyous afternoon.
Even sober.
And I apologize for my lack of intercourse (I mean that in a good way) lately but I felt rejuvinated today. So to quote George Costanza, or paraphrase—-
I’M BACK, BABY!!!
Oh, by the way. The Flav post
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As last night’s game unfolded, I was dumbfounded by 2 questions, impossible to answer:
1) How was a journeyman no-name nobody pitcher, designated twice by the Giants this season, pulling this off?
2) How did a journeyman no-name nobody pitcher, designated twice by the Giants this season, score a wife with such a spectacular rack?
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That’s gold, Flav, gold
Hi. My name’s DJLoo
I’m blind—and I’m a nun
Today, we are all DJLoo.