Winning Big and Flying HIGH
I’m not sure, but I think 15 runs is the most runs I’ve seen the Giants score (in person). I’m guessing I’ve been to 250 games or so in my life. I vaguely remember being at a game in the 80’s where Darrell Evans hit an absolute BOMB into the bleachers (and a second one later in the game) and the team won 18-1. But I might have just dreamed that.
There is a fairly hilarious video taken of me dancing inside the stadium. If my buddy decides to send it to me, I’ll post it here. It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself.
Headed into altitude now. And I’m not just talking about Coors Field. This team is flying HIGH these days!
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interesting observation about the Lincecum appearance. When he got called into the game the crowd went INSANE and gave him what felt like a one minute STANDING ovation. After Braun hit that monster bomb there was barely a low groan from the crowd. But every time he would throw a simple strike they erupted in celebration. It was the oddest scene—40K literally trying to will their former hero back to glory…….
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as many of you know, my daughter doesn’t give much of a shit about baseball. That always makes taking her a bit of a financial grind since I know she won’t appreciate the seat she gets ($350 for the 6 of us to sit in the center field bleachers) and I know going in that I’m on the hook for buying her some gear once inside the park because she likes the “look” of a Giants fan.
So around the 4th inning she’s bored and wants to shop. Check out how many freaking people are in this store in the middle of the game! If anyone wonders how much dough the Giants haul in with merchandise sales, well, they just shouldn’t wonder anymore….
I got out of there pretty clean– 1 tank top for $32 and arm socks for $15. At least she LOOKS like a fan. 🙂 Cute as hell too.
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
At great risk of upsetting our mojo as the boys head into that house of horrors, as snarkk called it, to play the Rockies’ warped brand of baseball:
Sept. 2013: 16-11
Sept. 2012: 19-8
26 games left (or is it 25.5?). 28 days. Time for another big-time stretch drive and a September to remember. Let’s go Giants!
Well, Flav, anyone would beieve your daughter’s a big Giants fan. The kid’s got the making of a fine actress
Now that the bats are warmed up it could be that SF is ready to go wild in the Box of Rox. Hudson, Peavey and Vogelsong are not the types to get too intimidated by the current Sherpa lineup. Time to kick some ass.
cute girl Flav…way to go. Stick I believe Petit is going to start one not Peavy
Yep…Petit will be starting again in Tim’s slot.
Even after the audition in the bullpen yesterday?
I really dig men with tight asses.
Nice photos, BF. My experience is it doesn’t matter when you go into that ATT Dugout store, whether before, after or during a game. The place is a cha ching money printing machine, one of many bulging revenue streams. That’s why I laugh when I hear about the Giants “budget”…
Actually, my experience before or after the game – there is usually a line waiting to get in. I have frequently given up because the line is daunting or once you get in, it’s almost impossible to walk around. Looking at that photo, it looks like a “slow day.” However, the point both of you make is valid.
I guess I should have been more clear. Whenever I’ve been in there, regardless of time in relation to game, it’s been a zoo. Sometimes, yeah, you can barely move or turn around in the aisles. I guess the fire dept. lets it slide. The cash registers are smokin’…
Reports are that Machi or Affeldt will start the suspended game today. Maybe Affeldt can actually get somebody out today…
I am confused, what happened to the suspended game?
They start that game first, in the exact place in the game where it got suspended. 6th inning I think, and Rockies up. Tulo was up, but he’s now on the DL, so Rocks will put in a PH for him to re-start the game. The full 9 will be played, like a regular game. Start time is 1:10 Pacific time. After the suspended game is finished, there will be about a 20 minute pause, then the regularly scheduled game for today will begin. I assume people with tix to the suspended game can get in to see it finished with their tix stubs, then will have to leave the game if they don’t have tix for the next game. Not sure how that works…
Great to see you here, Ed.
Ah, ha! it is the time zone thing. I saw 1.10pm and thought that was eastern time as is used on mlb.com but I must have been on SFGiants.com where they use pacific. So I clicked on watch game and K&K are saying Tim Hudson is pitching but THAT was a replay of the original game I realised as soon as I saw Cuddy batting and hicks at second.
SO . . . still 2 hours till game time and
Go Gigantes!
Now you’re getting me confused. One hour to game time–right?
yes, closer to one half hour now. I am, for any reason as any other, looking forward to being in California because I can watch the game in real time on television or in person (even better)
Games starting at 3am (7pm PDT) gets old after a while.
Ed – you moving back to California?
Yes, Chi, I am. And I will be all over hwy 49 in Sept/Oct visiting all the old friends. I moved to Colfax as a teenager. I will be in the Bay Area the rest of the time with some trips to Fresno area to visit. It will start out as a visit but I am staying, probably in the north bay area or san jose or livermore or santa cruz.
When you are in the Gold Country, look me up. I think I have your email address, but not sure. I will PM you on Facebook, and let’s exchange numbers, etc. It would be cool to meet up in person if that works out.
Ed – just sent you a message on FB with my email and cell #.
Why would the Astros fire their manager at this point, after nearly 2 seasons on the job. The team has been playing better this year, obviously in an undermanned state. Not that I care about the Stros, but I am interested in baseball, and it seems pretty ridiculous, unless there was a major personality clash…
That team is an absolute train wreck.
Juan Perez is a callup, Gary Brown not. If I’m Gary Brown, that tells me that after 4 years I need to agitate for a trade to a new organization, since I’m obviously going nowhere within the Giants. At a .707 OPS in Fresburg, he’s not going to bring much in return…
Call me crazy, but if I am Gary Brown, I’m thinking 2 things: 1. I better start freakin’ playing better; 2. Or, Plan B, which is registering at California State University, Fullerton (where he went to school) to get the degree he thought he wouldn’t need, because he was too busy partying and being BMOC.
I am thinking he must give the most consideration to 2 (Plan B)…
Ditto.
Game will start with Rocks runner at first, two down, bottom of 6th. Callups are available to play in this game, though they weren’t available to play at the time of the original start. Bochy says he’ll likely use the usual Pen suspects in the suspended game, Huddy will start game #2…
Are you sure, snarkk? What I heard yesterday (post-game) was the the call-ups were NOT available for the resumed game…
They’re available per Jon Miller on the pre-game…
Snarkk is right.
I believe both of you…just different than what was reported yesterday during the post-game…and I like it.
So happy you got to see a great game, Flavor. And your daughter is a doll (one other thing that you and I have in common beside being huge fans – we both are blessed with lovely daughters). Maybe she will come around (my daughter is hard core and has been for a while, but it was not always that way). But even if Kate doesn’t become a big fan, it is all good!
LET’S PLAY TWO! Well…how about one and a half…what a fucking trip to be picking-up this game, mid-game. So many changes on both teams from when the game started. And while today is roster expansion day, they cannot use any of those call-ups in the resumed game.
Doesn’t fucking matter…September baseball and as you say, the boys are flying high!
GO GIANTS!
Welcome to Bizarro World, where it is 81 F, wind is 10 MPH ENE (get your OH OH ready on balls hit to right and right center) and humidity is 21%. In other words, pretty optimum conditions for hitting.
Steve – you at the yard representing the Orange and Black?
No . . . Actually finalizing preparations for my trip. Unfortunately, I forgot today was Labor Day, so everything is closed. Anywho, too much to do before my trip next Tuesday. Got the game going on the TV via the PC. Nice.
Wow. You leave on Tuesday?
It’s a trip seeing Colvin and Hicks in the boxscore for this game.
Speaking of suspended games- what’s up with yesterday’s Royals game being suspended? 4-2 in extra innings. I thought if one of the teams has a lead and it’s at or past the official game mark, then it’s a game. I guess I could look that up, but I guess I’m not that motivated about it. Anyone know it off the top of their head?
I looked up a few articles about that game, and none of them explained why the game was suspended instead of called a finished game.
I think it was lightening…
Ah, thanks. So they have a different procedure if it’s not a rainout.
I know Evan…I had the same thoughts. And David Huff as the pitcher. And also to see Tulo and Cargo in the box for the Sherpas, too…
Pence! Stay Hot, My Friend!
Pence with the RBI double!…
Fuck yeah…too bad Posey got hung-out to dry…but we’ll take two…thank you very much.
Not certain you guys are getting the same commercials, but Loo said that Kuip is boning that blond hooker on the Solar Company. 🙂
I have heard him say that before (couple of weeks ago???)…
Affeldt actually got people out. Yeah, baby…
Ishi with a big hit — and he wasn’t even on the team when the game was suspended.
Nice play, Pagan…
Whew! That was scary at the end of that inning.
Steady, zum.
One more frame to go… 😉
Yeah, I was all ready to see the post-game handshakes.
That’s weird. I sorta thought that was the end of the game. This suspended game is just strange.
Oh shit…I forgot I am delayed a minute or so. Went outside to help Gail unload a tree…OK…I just saw the third out. Breathe…
You’re a good husband, but I’m sure she’d rather do that in private…
I like the way Panik handles his stance in the box. No repeated moves in and out of the box, constantly adjusting his gloves, grabbing his jock, looking into space, etc. He gets in there, pretty much stays in there, and gets himself ready and focused to hit, feet nice and steady and quiet…
Agreed. Kid just constantly looks like a ball player. I like all the kids that made it up this year…Panik, Susac, and Duffy…
Well, the resumption of the game couldn’t have gone much better until now, with Casilla onto make the save.
Get ‘er done…
Casilla is starting to be annoying as closer. How about a 1-2-3 for once?…
Yeah, baby. That’s it, the DP ground ball…
Bochy has announced that Casilla and Romo will be sharing the closer job.
A tandem, not a committee…
Put Casilla’s stuff together with Romo’s brass balls, and that’d be a fine closer. Either one by themselves is a little iffy right now…
Agree on Casilla. A bit too much torture…
Casilla and Lincecum are the weak links on this team right now.
Exhale.
Ballgame! Let’s tee it up for another!
Thank god they didn’t resume this game in July.
Nice! And quick!
Miller seems unsure whether or not this counts as the Giants 7th straight win.
Does it?
Officially, it goes onto the May record…
I would guess not. It’s going on the record as a May game. But then again…..it’s affecting the standings today. So, who knows?
A nice 3.1 inning game. No muss, no fuss win. Weird, but hey, a win is a win. Kinda balances out that F’d up rainout suspended game at Wrigley they lost. Now, if they can win the “nightcap”, that’d be an awesome start to the roadie…
Even better would be that MOFO Gonzales shutting down the Bums tonight. Dipshit has been totally inconsistent this year.
I like how David Huff, since traded to the Yanks, also pitched in this one. Too bad he didn’t get the win.
I think it counts as a win on May 22
Hey, the Giants were even better in April-May than we thought!…
Gonzalez is do for a Gio-Win and Nats bats are hot. Really they are wooden and meeting the ball a lot lately.
Giants have gained 4 games on the doggers since 12 August. I have to re-learn how to write dates.
Ed, I hope you are right . . . I have Cole (who fucked up today) and Gio on one of my pro leagues. I’m dropping the SOB if he fucks up one more time.
A win is a win is a win. Two out. Twenty-five games to go. Starting directly. LaBumbos looking over their shoulders again and they get to face Washington’s staff. Giants WHIP at 1.16 is best in the league. Second in both walks and hits given up. ERA is fifth or sixth. Overall hitting is 6th in several categories ~ and generally on an uptick.
Arias in due to Morse injury. Arrrrgggghhhh!
Hurt his hip somehow in batting practice. Sheezus…
What happened to Morse? I was at Chiefs’ game. Chiefs won the International League (IL) North. First division title since 1989, first playoff appearance since 1998, which was interrupted by a deadly storm that killed several people and felled 30,000 trees (our home team had to play in Buffalo). (Game 3 here Friday vs. Pawsox. Yes, I have tix.) Jackie Robinson played for Montreal in the venerable IL.
So Susac’s hit today now becomes his first ML hit, officially. How stupid is that?
Bochy’s kid and others on the way:
http://www.csnbayarea.com/giants/giants-promote-brett-bochy-four-others
Stranger than paradise.
So far, I’m liking September. Or is it May?
Both are memorable on this Labor Day…
Four Phillies combined for a no-hitter against the Braves, with five walks and a hit batter. Is that an imperfect game?
that’s the way I roll
Craw baby! Yeah, get your bat hot, too, and on the 0-2 count…
Rev is on fire
As i said earlier during completion of the suspended game (re: Pence)…Stay Hot, My Friend! Fuck yeah…3 run bomb works…
Pence working to be team MVP…
He’s got the Willie Mac Award sewn up, right?
Can’t remember who won it last year…
Great start to get 4 runs. They may need all of that and more, ball is carrying well, Huddy usually has problems at this so called ballpark…
Ballpark? That place is a pinball game on steroids…
It is a nice park though…I’ve seen a couple of games there when I was in Denver on business.
I dig the fourth run, but dammit…second time today that a Giant gets hung-out to dry between 2nd and 3rd. Fuck…come on Blanco…
He may have done that to give himself up and make sure Arias scored as they cut off the throw home, with the pitcher coming up to hit. At least, the radio guys seem to think Arias might have been out on the throw had it gone through, so that “give up” scenario seems very plausible. Runners do that fairly often if they think they can stall getting out until after the runner scores…
Fuck that. I would rather have Hudson hit with runners on, and if he gets out, you have Pagan leading off the inning. Not a strategy that I really like, if true…
did blanco just make the third out at third base?
Yep. And Posey did the same damned thing in the earlier game. Grrrrr….
Pence won the Willie Mac last year…
Ed – not sure if you saw my earlier reply. I sent you a message via FB with my contact info. Call me when you are rambling around on hiway 49. I’ll buy ya lunch and a cold one.
Looking forward to it. I do love me the foothills.
Me too. Living in paradise…can you make a swing over to Old Hangtown (Placerville) when you are in these neck of the woods?
You still in hangtown? I thought you moved. But, yeah, Placerville is in my comfort zone.
Moved to Placerville in December, Ed. Was in Camino prior to that.
I swear, Crawford is Johnny (Boot) LeMaster…make the tough spectacular plays, and boot the easy ones…
The resumed game skipped right along…and here we are only in the 2nd inning of the “night cap.”
Craw baby! Yeah, get your bat hot, too, and on the 0-2 count…
CrawDaddy may only be hitting .230, but his 54th and 55th RBI’s this afternoon indicate that he’s deadly with ducks on the pond. Seems that baserunners in scoring position bring out something extra in him.
Well, there were a number of Flappers who wanted to run his ass outta town of late. I have said nothing, but part of the problem with his average is he has been hitting in the 8 hole a lot. And you don’t get many quality pitches to hit there. I’m good with Craw until they have a better option.
Maybe next year they can spell him some more with Duffy, that kid looks like a future utility man possibility…
Wow, Huddy’s gotta get that bunt down. Bummer not moving the runners…
Damn, almost got a Dickerson fumble there.
I posted the video of me getting down on my twitter acct.
@1flapdown77 if you want to join the party
Get down, BF.
Groovy, baby…
Any way to see it for those of us who do not tweet?
don’t think so. It’s a google doc vid so I seemed to have limited options on where I could post it. Not sure you even need a twitter acct to view tweets but I could be wrong about that.
I don’t twitter, I saw it. Anybody can view it, just click on it…
Danger time for Huddy. 88 pitch count at altitude.
Get the Pen a little warm…
Agree, snarkk. If he gives up a hit/run there, I think you have to go to the pen.
Time to go to the pen. Come on Bochy…
OK, get him the hell outta there! What is Bochy waiting for?…
WTF.
You can’t fuck around here. Kuik or Kruk comment, “Pedal to the medal” all game long is spot on. Four run lead aint shit here.
Yup. Get Huddy the fuck outta there and give the ball to Jean Jean the Pitching Machine…
When it’s time for a change…Well, it’s fucking time RIGHT NOW!
Really? Is Pablo channeling Bob Fucking Brenley? Grrrr…
Yes, Hudson seems to be gassed. Switch the pitch.
Fuck…he was potentially outta the inning if Pablo fields that grounder cleanly…
Need to stop this bullshit defense right now. Why is Panik dropping balls? And, Bochy was 2 batters late changing out Huddy. I don’t understand that slow move to the Pen…
Snarkk, the Astros GM and Bo Porter had a falling out on Friday in front of a couple members of the media. Luhnow apparently had been very critical of Porter’s game management decisions ( in many instances, rightly so) so he gave him the heave ho…I thought it was a pretty chicken shit move to do and it has now confirmed my suspicions that Luhnow is a piece of shit. The Houston Chronicle has a great young beat writer (Evan Drellich?) who has uncovered a lot of shit that takes place behind closed doors, this story included. It’s his first year covering the club and he has done a stellar job of speaking the truth.
Well, now this is making a little sense. I thought there might have been a personality deal, thanks WilcoJoe…
Oh for fucks sake…
FuUUUUUUUUCK.
Pablo and Panik F’d up, yes. But, this is on Bochy asleep at the damn switch pulling Huddy…
It’s on all of them….fuck!
This is bullshit.
combined no hitters are lame-o. All that tells me is that the opposing batters were completely checked out. No chance 3 or 4 guys all show up in a game with no-hit stuff unless the hitters are just not into it or flailing…..
Yep…weak shit…