Puke
I still can’t get over what a self-absorbed pussy Yasiel Puig is. There is nothing lamer than a guy who mills around waiting for an umpire or a catcher to get in his way before going bezerko. He’s just a joke. And no, I wouldn’t want him on my team. He’s got a golden arm, that’s true. But his hitting is overrated. He’s got one more RBI than Brandon Crawford and he usually hits in a much better RBI spot. His babyish attitude about literally everything makes him not worth the hassle. Now, if he turns into a 30-30 guy somewhere down the road, I would change my tune about wanting him on my team.
Ask Matt Kemp if he wants Puke on his team and I think we all know what the answer is.
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A trip to St. Loo is still a very real possibility.
I would prefer St. Loo over that house of horrors in Pittsburgh.
Absolutely resigned to the wild card. Without a sweep of the bums it was going to be time to wave the flag re: winning the West. And I really don’t give a fuck if those cocksuckers get to celebrate a division win in front of us in the latrine. Fuck them.
Certainly didn’t want to see Madison ejected early in the game last night, but at some point I would love to see Bum beat the living dog shit out of Puig.
I didn’t catch much of last nights game. I like how Bumgarner doesn’t back down and even instigates a little bit but he let his emotions get the better of him there early last night.
Agree with you on Puig. Sure he’s got a great arm but he’s so in love with it that he makes the wrong play trying to show it off. He’s down in nearly every category compared to last year and acts like a clown. It’s one thing to be a red ass that your teammates can respect. It’s another thing to be openly ridiculed by your teammates and manager. Speaking of the dodger manager. Is it just me or does Mattingly really have no strategy or idea of what he is doing? On top of it he doesn’t seem to manage personalities very well which is necessary in the modern club house. Maybe its hard to do when the clown car is packed full of morons that hate one another.
BubbleGamer got things started early with the first hitter he faced last night:
Sorry Phlabb’s, I’m not typically going to edit your posts unless you pop up a video like this that takes up half the page. –Flavor
OK, then:
If teams tie, Cards come here as SF owns season series.
On other hand, SF loses that to Pirates, so they need to finish ahead of them to play here.
Pirates great at home, very ordinary on road, tho hottest team going now.
STL also great at home, under .500 on road.
Greinke had SF eating out of his hand last night. No one could lay off pitches out of the zone, esp the low sinkers. Pence last AB he took first pitch strike, the best pitch he saw and then flailed at 2 nowhere near a strike.
Belt did same—looked at 3 balls, swung at 3 and missed.
As for LA looking different next year, they are still gonna be tough. Kemp isn’t going anywhere and appears to have re-discovered hitting stroke. Puke is Puke, tremendous athlete from neck down. League might be getting handle on how to pitch him. Hanley likely gone as they have younger replacements on IF, maybe Uribe too. Turner has been really good this year, hopefully just a one off.
Haren has been up and down but pretty effective back end guy, and top 3 SPs very good. Even if they score less runs, SPs and Jansen are proven quality.
I disagree with Kemp. He will be a big question mark next season. He was putrid in the first half and only a monster September saved his season. However, a big part of his game – steals – is gone forever. Only 8 SBs this season and he hasn’t stolen a base since August 15th. My point being he will be 31 next season and he definitely is no longer a 5 tool player (if he ever was one). I can see him face planting next season easily or worse, going back to his familiar home – the disabled list.
Fuck that Pussy Puig!
I would pay for a Bumgarner vs Puig fight in a shed this off season!
Asked after the game if you and Puig could ever be friends,Bum flat out said”It’s not in the Cards”
Fuck yeah,as it should be from a True Giant!!
Don’t see the point of throwing all the kids in vs. Kershaw. Vs. Pads, OK. But not into firestorm of Opie in LA while team is still fighting for every W. Gotta go at best with your best. Are Dodgers playing their kids?
I understand frustration of watching guys fail, but vets at least have seen him and know what he is about. How would Hudson feel with AAA LU behind him battling first place team with their ace on the mound?
I agree WillieD. No way I would trot out the line-ups that some respected Flappers suggested last night. With all due respect, the vets need to be in the line-up. If the game gets out of hand at any point, then yeah, let the kids play.
Come on you guys. Do you think I have any hope that that lineup would get anywhere near Bochy reality?
Absolutely not. That line-up has significantly less of a chance than a snow ball’s chance in hell. And thank goodness for that. But it was an entertaining line-up, snarkk.
I am almost embarrassed to admit it, but last night’s game was hugely entertaining, despite the loss. Bumgarner’s TAKE THAT homer after the fake fight was a gem. It’s a little like Carlton’s Fisk’s famous homer: the Bosox lost that WS but everyone remembers that homer. #letsgo
BubbleGamer’s third-inning AB turned the game around. Bochy didn’t even have to use his formidable bench in the top of the eighth, because he could count on another dinger (well, in the bottom of the inning, at least).
Any loss to the Dodgers is PUKE! Giants can’t depend on the injured Pagan. He’s gone. Too damn bad.
The Morning After Pill:
* OK, i should have said “Hot Head” (about MadBum losing his cool)” . But I forgot that this ain’t Gooberburg where “Block Head” means the young ‘un is jest like his Pappy.
*Zeke got into it with Mickey after the game last night- it got pretty heated there for a bit. Jack Barker saw it all while he was peeing in the pansies and now the whole neighborhood knows…
*Gary Brown is wearing a catcher’s mask on top of his head tonight
*I’m sooooo over Pablo. He’s getting 75 mill and not a penny more.
* Informal poll: Who does Opie plunk tonight? A. Blanco ( get it over with fast) B. Posey ( best real brawl potential) C. Pablo ( who swings at it) D. Perez ( that’s just darn mean, when did he ever hit anything? )
*Some say we should play the kids now. But Duff won’t come out of his boy cave unless he gets to pitch.
* OK, now it’s “Go Time”! Uh, that was last week? So who forgot to set the alarm?
Classic stuff. Always gets me laughing. Thanks, Michael.
75 for Pablo? for how many years Mike?
75.
Well, I was kinda kidding. The club offer of 3 years, 41 Million is starting to look reasonable. Decent production this month out of Pence and Pablo and we’re probably in first place. September:
Pence .184 BA .262 OBP .525 OPS Pablo .192 BA .263 OBP .523 OPS
Same guy, different pants.
These posts are worth the price of admission BY THEMSELVES.
muchas gracias senior mike
Thanks Ed, If a guy is going to spend 22 hours a day trying to come up with funny stuff, it really helps that people, like, you know, think that it actually *is* funny..
All that’s missing are the three dots . . .
(see the main thread)
You know, there comes a time when a man has to come to terms with what’s important to him. I’ve had a good life, a good family, friends…but we all need a goal as “that time” nears. Mine is to prove to Big Flavor that I really do have a sense of humor..
Now THAT’S funny, Mike . . . besides, you’ve dodged ‘that time’ more than any 9 cats . . .
Funny stuff, twinfan
Yeah, poor Gary Brown. Only time on camera is when he’s being used as a drum. Kid seems to be taking it all in stride though.
He and Posey show how one draft pick can affect a teams fortune, good and bad.
Yep, I think Gary Brown is a great topic, though some don’t. We all know baseball draft picks are a crapshoot, generally. But, this guy was first round. First round. You know, Lincecum, Cain, Posey, Panik that round that we give Sabes credit for being so brilliant. If Giants had picked a winner OFer in that draft, or one not long ago, the Pagan injury would not be so potentially devastating. But, here we are. Brown being used as a good luck rabbit’s foot. Offseason, the Giants can’t possibly, IMO, just figure on Pagan coming back. They have got to go out and get MLB quality OFers. Pagan could be another Scutaro, and not be available, or only available for short stints — who knows? Unfortunately, the FA list sucks. They may need to trade to get what they need — trade with what is the question. Or, maybe it’s checkbook time for Yasmany Tomas…
Norichika Aoki
Emilio Bonifacio
Melky Cabrera
Nelson Cruz
Michael Cuddyer
Chris Denorfia
Jeff Francoeur
Jonny Gomes
Franklin Gutierrez
Tony Gwynn Jr.
Scott Hairston
Torii Hunter
Raul Ibanez
Reed Johnson
Ryan Lukwick *
Nick Markakis *
Darnell McDonald
Mike Morse
Colby Rasmus
Alex Rios *
Nate Schierholtz
Grady Sizemore
Seth Smith
Alfonso Soriano
Denard Span *
Ichiro Suzuki
Ryan Sweeney
Josh Willingham
Chris Young
Delmon Young
Cuddyer is having a decent year and can play multiple positions. Plus Sabean has been interested in him in the past so I wouldn’t be surprised to see some movement on him. Unfortunately Sabean has also been interested in Ichiro in the past.
What is the SF clubhouse so sensitive about: http://deadspin.com/reports-san-francisco-giants-boycotting-long-time-beat-1638407737
What’s your dumbfuck CFer so cranky about? A little owie on his toe? Poor baby.
I love how he hides behind the ump, the little pussy. Puig knew good and goddamn well that Bummie would have destroyed him had he not played hide-and-seek with the ump.
In the interest of fair play, perhaps YP should be given a chance to throw at BubbleGamer.
In the interest of being a little pussy, maybe Puig should get mad when the situation warrants it. Not when he gets hit in the pinkie toe and then waits for the ump to protect his sorry ass. I would have buried one in his ribs his next AB. He wants to act like a princess? Give him something to really whine about.
Can you imagine if someone goes into a Vegas casino the day after the Red Sox win the WS last year and says I want to bet that the Red Sox, Yankees, Lakers, and Celtics will not make the post season playoffs in 2014. What’s the price on that?
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/96181542/dave-stewart-reportedly-d-backs-gm-choice
Not a big Olberman fan, but this is pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__UJ9VZB508&feature=youtu.be
Saw this yesterday. Spot on. The Yankee fans have been standing for every Jeter AB for several games now. Yesterday Selig gave him some kind of Commissioner’s special recognition award. This Jetergasm thing has gone so far round the bend, that it’s coming up on the other side of the bend again…
Shit, does that means ANOTHER 20 years of Jeter? Oh fuck me.
Brett Favre is going to throw the first pitch at Jeter’s final home game today. 5 times.
Today is Jeter’s last home game. Maybe they’ll have a booth set up near the SS position where Yankee female fans can lineup to give him farewell BJs…
Actually his final home game is supposed to be tomorrow night and heavy rain is forecast. Another controversy is looming about how long they might wait out a rain delay and whether or not this otherwise meaningless game would be re-scheduled if postponed.
Thanks, Loo. My mistake.
If it rains, they’ll need a nice tent out there on the infield for the Jeterfluffing…
Yeah, I retweeted Olberman and have taunted my Yankee fan buddies with it.
Flabbyboxxl’s drop about the Giant’s boycotting Baggs is finally a fair, sensible shot. BF said it before, last night. As a Giants fan, I’m embarrassed and disappointed to hear this candy ass move. Baggs is the best beat guy, in a group of beat guys that basically have been fluffers for this team for years. When’s the last time the beat writers really ripped a player? It’s almost always peaches and cream. So, the clubhouse was open, meaning in that world everybody knows anything going on is fair game to report. Baggs reported the Romo-Dunston dust up. So did the LA Times, so it wasn’t going to be a secret. My question is where were Schulman and Pavlovic? Were they there, but swallowed hard and wrote nothing? Where are Bochy and Baer and Sabes to put an end to this embarrassment? The team and MLB feed off media coverage, so you take the good with the bad. This is a tiny pimple on the local media PR face of the Giants. I love the Giants, but this is really weak stuff that puts me in the rare mood of not liking the players (whoever is leading it, obviously not the rooks) much today…
Agreed. Great post Snarkk.
When I first read about it, I thought back to when Baggs took shit for questioning Melky about the steroid rumors in 2012, only to be validated a couple weeks later.
Good point, WJoe. Baggarly was doing his job then, and now. Nothing more…
Here’s what Schulman wrote in the Splash about the boycott, kind of confirming, IMO, the accuracy of the criticism BF laid on Schulman the other night. Schulman doesn’t even detail what the situation is about, apparently wants to steer clear of it?
“Pagan was not immediately available for comment. Before Bochy spoke, Pagan abruptly cut short a group interview because of the presence of one beat reporter whom he and other players say they will boycott, angry over something he wrote.”
“Argument happened while clubhouse was open to media” – that says it all. Ridiculous boycott the definition of pettiness from the players.
I wonder if it’s unanimous…
Clubhouse was open, players boycott Baggs. Fucking ridiculous. Grow the fuck up.
That’s asking an awful lot of this clubhouse.
LMAO…just look at the constant disarry on the bumbinos. Even with the latest bullshit around boycotting Baggs, I’ll take our clubhouse over the insane asylum that is the bum’s clubhouse any fucking day.
Double header today, heading out to an As game then back home for SFGs on your favorite network.
My Brooklyn Dodger fan turned Met fan grandpa always called it a double-headache…
I find myself following the AL wild card race, something unthinkable in yrs past. So I guess the two WC’s can work in heightening fan interest. I’ve stated an aversion for the A’s, but oddly enough, I now find myself following them. Not sure if it’s like slowing to look at a bad accident or not, but I’m very curious to see how it all plays out.
It’s hard to disagree with Flavor. When you’ve got prime outfield talent like Blanco, Perez and Dominguez tearing up the league, who needs a Puig to spoil it all?
If you pulled your head out of your ass long enough to see what other regulars here were saying, you would see that most agree that our OF is weak shit. Puig is a cocksucker any way you slice it. And as someone else mentioned, our SS, batting most of the year in the 8 hole, has more RBIs than Puigy. Fuck that clown (no offense to John/Bozo).
Imagine the difficulty just getting it in there…
YP has a career OPS of .889; BC’s is .669. BC has more assists, though, so he must have a better arm.
How many rings does Yassshole have? Where does Yasshole Pig bat in the order? I bet it ain’t the 8th spot.
Truth is, teams have figured him out. Hence the steadily declining numbers.
Chuck appears to be even more sensitive than the SF clubhouse.
Puig is done with getting slack for being a stranger in a strange land. He’s been in the league now 1.5 seasons. Time for the hands off treatment. His own teammates think he’s a doofus, and the LA Times writers call him out regularly. Doghairs can have him and the chaos and drama he creates…
I was thinking if you make the WC game, you only have to go 12-8 in the post-season to win the whole thing.
Wouldn’t take more than a couple of hot bats and some decent pitching to accomplish that.
#Optimistic Loo
I am definitely still there, Loo. I have said all along…get into the dance and anything can happen.
Tonight is a mismatch, so I have to expect the Giants will lose this game. If they do, the odds favor a WC game in Pittsburgh, unless the Bucs overtake the Cards, and then the game would be at ATT vs. Cards. That’s the scenario of choice now. I have to think the deck is stacked against SF in a PNC wild card game. The hope there would be that Bum has been good on the road, and he’d need to shut ’em down hard for the Giants to have a shot at it. I’ll be happy to see a WC wherever it is, but being realistic, this team is so wounded now, I don’t see it going very far, even with Bum and Peavy at the top. The outfield has no pop. They desperately need at least one of Posey, Pence and Panda to get hot, and with power. Nobody’s hitting any home runs. When the Giants hit at least one HR, the win record is off the charts. Otherwise, there’s just little chance to score, IMO. When the manager leaves your pitcher in to hit for himself in the 8th down by 2 (Bum), you know things aren’t great…
Well, seeing as the only reason it was only a 2 run deficit was because of the pitcher, well, there you go.
BubbleGamer is unbeatable on the road, just as he was last night.
Low expectations have worked in the Giant’s favor before…who is to say it cannot happen again…
Actually, BubbleGamer pitched pretty well for a guy who might make No. 4 starter on the LA staff.
Maybe Panda&Pence should challenge each other to an ice bucket challenge, since their both ice cold right now anyway.
So does anyone here think that the Cespedes-Lester trade is the reason for the A’s free-fall? Lester has not done much for them. Did the chemistry of the team walk out the door with Yoenis?
“Not long after the trade, with the team’s malaise in its early stages, former A’s pitcher Dallas Braden told 95.7FM, “He was the key guy. It leaves a glaring offensive void because his presence makes everyone better. Now, in a platoon-based lineup, it’s not about every guy making a contribution. It’s who’s gonna step up and take the lead?”
Nobody has.”
The A’s are trying to avoid becoming the first team in the wild-card era (1995 on) to have baseball’s best record at the All-Star break and not make the postseason.
Somebody else has all the chemistry:
If the media was in the clubhouse when the argument between Dunston and Romo happened…Then in my opinion Baggs is out of line for reporting it. What happens in there stays in there unless a “Giant” discloses it. It shouldn’t be up to a reporter.
The clubhouse was open at the time. Bochy cleared it of the other players and closed it down to settle the situation between the two. The rules are that if a clubhouse is open to the media, anything that happens and is said in there while it’s open is fair game to reporters. Baggarly didn’t even report what was said, he said there was a verbal altercation. The players being upset at that is bogus. If that happens in NY, the media probably prints the blow by blow obscenities…
There’s a difference between being a reporter, and being a rat. If the players are “boycotting” him, I would assume I’m not the only one who feels that way. Did he report on the reason why they were at odds? Then obviously they didn’t want him to know
As in politics, if there is a reporter around, everything and anything is open to disclosure…
Agree.
the one thing i’ll say in defense of the players is that Baggs did kind of a half-assed reporting job. He didn’t say what they were arguing about. If it was about Dunston banging Romo’s girlfriend vs a dispute over an unpaid poker debt vs Dunston thinking Romo wasn’t mentally focused in a game, would it make a difference to you? It would to me. Of those 3 scenarios, the only one I want reported is the one about him not being mentally focused in a game and things escalated from there…….
At least he reported it happened. Reporters have discretion. He probably knew the genesis of the argument, maybe felt it was too personal to report the details. I have no clue. But, he did his job, unlike the other two, apparently, who either were eating a burger or decided not to report it. The LA Times reporter wrote about it in similar general terms. I think the beat reporters need to be encouraged by fans to do their jobs, and stop being frequently no more than mouthpieces for management. As for as Baggs being a “rat” as wswins has said, that’s ludicrous. Baggarly doesn’t work for the Giants. Going with that argument, Woodward and Bernstein were ultimate “rats”…
The fate of most whistleblowers usually isn’t a good one.
Doesn’t Baggarly have more access to the team since he’s with CSN, a part owner of the team, rather than the ‘regular’ beat writers?? Frankly I don’t see what the big deal is, and why the boycott. Has he pissed off players before? The only thing I can remember was the Melky thing, and he turned out to be right.
I totally agree that calling Baggs a *rat* is ludicrous. If you don’t want reporters reporting on anything, go read Henry Schulman’s twitter feed. He spends all game NOT reporting on anything.
Exactly…That’s the point…
He has no idea what it was about…The clubhouse isn’t open to the public either btw…why should a reporter open it
From the Blogger Code of Conduct Rules:
“2) I will delete any troll poster who is just posting with a goal of irritation and I will delete them much quicker than I will a Flap vet (who gets the benefit of the doubt if arguing with a new player). You have to build credibility here. It’s not that hard to do.”
I must have missed when Phlab built his credibility.
you know, I should have edited that, I wrote that a long time ago. To me, there’s a big difference between someone posting disgusting shit vs someone posting as an irritant. Irritants can be ignored rather easily, if you try. And we really don’t have enough irritants to make a big deal about it (IMO)
I’ll edit the BCCR at some point to update it. Thanks for the heads up Zumie.
I’m sorry, BF, but I’m just not getting you on this one. I didn’t bring up the rule so you would change the rule. I wanted you to enforce the rule. It’s a good rule, IMO. It’s one of the great things about this blog. A troll is defined as someone’s whose SOLE reason for coming to a blog is to irritate the people on the blog. Flappers are very proud of this blog. The blog is worthy of respect; there’s been some amazing heart-felt things written here over the years, in addition to some hilarious laugh-outloud stuff.
I’m just saying this as someone who holds the blog, and the Flappers, in high regard.
Well maybe I need to hear from all the regs on this. If you guys all want me to delete Phlabby (and those like him) I could see doing it.
But it’s a slippery slope to start deleting bloggers just because they’re irritating. And really, to me, he’s just not that irritating
I have to agree with Zumiee on this issue. This person adds nothing to the Flap discussion. He’s like a mosquito – an irritant. Normally, I would say don’t respond to him and he’ll have less reason to jack off to his posts, but that’s impossible to do. Similar to a mosquito, you end up trying to swat him. Now the MOFO is actually becoming orgasmic when Flappers like Chi vehemently calls out his bullshit. The dude feels he has won. WTF? No Flapper should be put down by some piece of shit troll Dodger fan.
The rule you have was and is still good. Please enforce it.
Flavor, there is a big, big difference between this POS and Rooster and Sandy. As many other Flappers have pointed out (including myself), there is no “give and take” with this fucker. He drops his troll bomb on us and we have to stew and take it – or respond to the imbecile. At that point, he has won.
I don’t mind irritants as long as they participate in give and take. Hell, I’m sure I’m an irritant here fairly often. But, if the intention is just to parachute in some irritation and that’s it, that’s trolling…
Boycotting Baggs for doing what reporters do is almost as lame as Phlatulence’s sad, sad life of trolling.
If the Yankees or Mets said they’d boycott a reporter for doing his job, the whole NYC reporter corps would laugh at them…
Exactly
1. Hunter Pence (R) RF
2. Joe Panik (L) 2B
3. Buster Posey (R) 1B
4. Pablo Sandoval (S) 3B
5. Andrew Susac (R) C
6. Chris Dominguez (R) LF
7. Joaquin Arias (R) SS
8. Gregor Blanco (L) CF
9. Tim Hudson (R) P
This is a fearsome lineup, oozing with chemistry.
Pill and Hicks have gone deep on Opie – guys he didn’t know. It makes sense to plug in a couple kids with pop and see if lightening can strike a third time.
Phlabby, I’ll count your vote as a “don’t delete,” ok? We are currently having a vote (see my 5:25) to decide how I should address idiot trolls like yourself. No offense intended.
I consider myself a voice of realism.
well, that isn’t going to get included in the vote. But I appreciate your right to have a delusional opinion.
My feeling on the Baggs controversy is quite simple- he’s a reporter, As a beat reporter who has to establish trust and rapport, it can be delicate balance. Players and coaches should be able to speak to Baggarly off the record and he should honor that. But if Morse slugs Bochy in an open clubhouse, Baggs puts his reporter shoes on and reports what happened. It’s his job and the players should know that- and they probably do. It was an embarrassing incident and they should have just sucked it up and faced the music.
well said.
Agreed. If they’re going to have altercations, have them in private. Otherwise, let Sabes diss his own players in public, he’s down with that… 😉
I really dig this lineup tonight. Bochy showing some creativity. It might crater, but hell, the SOS again isn’t getting it done. I like Pence leading off instead of Blanco…
Flap vets: Please shoot me an email if you have an opinion about whether or not I should delete posts from identified trolls. Currently, I’m only modifying comments of idiots who get through my spam filter occasionally to post disgusting comments. Zumiee and Snarkk, no need to email me since I heard from you already (unless you have something else you want to discuss).
I’ll do whatever the majority votes for. Right now, it’s 2-0 to delete the posts of troll irritants.
my email is bigflavor77@gmail.com
looking forward to hearing from you.
you could also leave an opinion here in this thread, I will see it here too.
Shot you one…
What will it be?
see this is why I feel like this guy is harmless. He posts the most innocuous, boring shit you could possibly find. Dude, do you think for a single second that anyone here cares about what idiot internet Dodger fans think about how Kershaw is going to do tonight? Um, we kinda have an idea of how this is going to go. But you know what? That’s why they play the games. How do you think the vote went before this game, dipshit?
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/los-angeles-dodgers-arizona-diamondbacks-340517129/
A phew Phlappers appear strangely sensitive to matter-of-fact observations.
Craig P., whose son is perhaps THE hero of ‘Baseball’s Starry Night’ as a crestfallen Braves fan who is loyal to his team, told me on Twitter last night that he was Hunter Strickland’s teacher. Helped him with an audition tape. Good kid. I am trying to reconnect these two via Twitter. BTW, today is the birthday of our once and future closer.
great info. What’s he think of the dude?
great kid…he’s lost touch since 2007 or 2008 so I hope they now find each other. My guy Craig was surprised we had him. apparently Strickland was DFAed by Boston or Pittsburgh or both. How’d we get him? will keep you posted if I hear more.
If we play in Pittsburgh, good chance I’ll go. Macdog or Loo: meet there???
or Gianthead or Bozo?
I’ve thought about it, but recent events probably have made it unlikely. But I won’t rule it out just yet.
Don’t take it personally, but I hope you guys don’t have the chance to go to PNC. 😉
But, if the Giants must go there, it would be awesome to have Flappers represent!…
Hey Twinner– Phlabby is an old San Ho Merc blogger. Don’t ask how I know, I have my ways. Muhuhahahhaaha!
Anyway, do any of his posts sound like any of the regulars over there?
Not really. Honestly, I’ve seen far worse than the PhlabBucket. If it were me, I just put a hit out on him and be done with it..
Just joking. I’d leave him in with a stern warning.
My vote is delete. Not because he/she is a annoying but because there is no attempt at participating outside of trolling.
yeah, that’s the way the email votes are coming in too. And I can see that side. I just don’t want to get in the habit of deleting (really, it’s going to be editing) posts just because they’re annoying. But like you said, if you make no attempt to discuss something and all you do is troll, then…..
let the voting continue….
I agree with you on the slippery slope angle. Plus I feel bad for someone who has this need to troll another fan blog. It’s sad more than anything.
Thank you, Braves. So far.
Rough season for ESPN; both the Yanks and the BoSox eliminated.
when was the last time they both missed the playoffs? Early 90’s?
Speaking of the Red Sox, I was reading an article about the Cubs, of all teams, recently, and it reminded me that Theo Epstein was 28 when the Sox hired him as GM. 28!! That seems insane, but it totally worked well for the Sox, until Fried-Chicken-and-Beer-gate.
Yeah, I would guess early ’90s. Back when Toronto dominated the division.
PK–here’s the transaction history on Strickland:
June 7, 2007: Drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 18th round of the 2007 amateur draft. Player signed June 12, 2007.
July 22, 2009: Traded by the Boston Red Sox with Argenis Diaz to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Adam LaRoche.
April 2, 2013: Selected off waivers by the San Francisco Giants from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
I don’t get any of this. How does a guy who throws 100 with location not get drafted till the 18th round? And why do you trade him? And why does the receiving team waive him? And why didn’t we hear a peep about this guy (other than the reports from Twin) until AFTER Heath Hembree got traded?
Now he’s up here throwing 99 on the black?
Something isn’t adding up here…..
Want he injured in there somewhere? TJ surgery?
Yeah, he’s got a TJ zipper on the elbow…
This whole Jetergasm thing seems way more over the top than the Riveragasm last year. And, given the short shelf life of closers these days, Rivera seems far more deserving of adulation — what was he, the top closer for 15 years? What should we expect the shelf life of a closer to be these days — 3 years? Beck, Nenn were really at the top of their game for what, about 5 or 6? Now, the closer basically throws gas and specialty out pitches, so the arm stress has to be huge. The Beard, a case in point. Strickland’s already got a TJ under his belt, so how long can he last? Probably not too long…
Bumgarner and his wife really have some dancing chemistry, don’t they?
How the F do you get these pics? Hilarious.
He’s really thinking of that Angus bull calf that he saw at the neighbor’s barn earlier…
He gave her a calf as a wedding gift. Think about that. That’s so rad on so many levels……
Wow! So much for my delusion of movie stars, politicians and baseball players living the “life of Riley.”
Now, I don’t feel so bad about giving my ex a vacuum cleaner for our anniversary.
lol, what was the look on her face when she opened that present?
I just don’t know where to begin. Nope I’ll leave it all alone. The Undertaker is ours. Big Country. Whatever you want, suh!
Shock . . . This was reminiscent of when my brother and I got my mom a waffle iron for Christmas and upon opening it, she said, “I guess you expect me to make breakfast right now?” The tone was chilling. 🙂
My only defense regarding the vacuum cleaner was two-fold: 1. I hate shopping at Christmas and without directions or a clue what a person wants . . . I will usually take the first thing I see upon entering the store door; and, 2. She had said the other vacuum cleaner was not picking up dog hair effectively (we had 3 dogs at the time).
this is why I like to have Phlabbs around, for *lqtm* moments like this:
“Phlabloxxxl said, on September 24, 2014 at 5:53 pm (Edit)
A phew Phlappers appear strangely sensitive to matter-of-fact observations.”
Phlabby, “matter of fact” is just that: it’s a fact. Something that has already happened and that cannot be disputed. You posted a stupid ass internet poll. Something that hasn’t happened yet and something that certainly isn’t fact. I won’t even get into the definition of “observation” but it has no place in the sentence you wrote.
Again, I ask you, had you posted your “matter of fact” poll prior to the D-backs handing Kershaw his ass, what does that do to your reality? Your, ahem, “facts?”
I don’t mind you being a troll, I really don’t, but I do loath stupid people. So buck up the IQ or dumb yourself down to a Dodger blog. Stat.
And all I’m gonna say about Bum’s new bride is that she just made Belt’s wife look about 30 pounds lighter.
As I get set to watch the Giants go against Kershaw, I’m reminded of that quote about insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
very hard to determine who said that; likely not einstein, as oft cited. Cf. ‘The Quote Verifier’ by Ralph Keyes. A GREAT resource.
If the score holds in Cincy, SF could still have four meaningful games v. Padres.
even more so, in ATL
Hey 1st time in his last 2 starts Hudson hasn’t got hammered in the 1st inning!
Looking for a positive against Kershaw..
Scully: That’s strikeout number 2 for Kerton.
Amazing how Scully is still able to keep track of those stats.
Balk! Go ground attack
Gimme a fucking break
I’m more stunned Blanco didn’t break. Yes!@@@@
Just a little base hit now . . .
I’ll take it…
Blanco should read that better
Kruk on ESPN saying the same thing, and I agree: Why the hell didn’t Blanco score on that?
Time to rock this bitch
Need a Posey Pop
Or that. Fuck
Don’t be surprised Hudson doesn’t buck up and put some shut down innings tonite. Not his first rodeo and he’s well aware of importance of this game.
Don’t look now but it’s 1-0 Giants. Op pitches out of further damage.
agreed.
Blanco cost us a run
Dumb base running by Blanco cost us a run.
Posey’s DP didn’t help
Gregor gave em a run and took one away there . . . fuck . . . isn’t Posey playing 1B tonight?
For your information:
FYI, The Dodgers haven’t won shit since before you were born.
Blanco .dprobably the lowest baseball IQ of any Ml I”ve ever seen
Next to Yasuel Puig
This kid needs to show some power
Phlabox is on permanent ignore with me anyway, so whatev.
Funny, Baggs never has ad much problem ripping into players and making snarky comments when they aren’t going well. This goes back to his days on Merc blog and still continues with stuff he tweets out (on cbs game tracker). If they don’t want to talk to him, my take is he abused a privilege. And that is their right, even if it seems petty. I’d suspect this will soon blow over if someone takes high road.
Phlabby– I’m shutting down the voting right now. It’s a landslide. Either you start interacting with us respectfully on the blog about baseball topics and cut your normal idiotic posts down to a minimum or your posts will now be edited and that’s assuming you get through the blog filter that I will drop on your ass.
But you still have a chance to avoid all of this.
Start blogging with your fellow Giants bloggers in a respectful way (see Rooster or Sandy’s posts if you want to know how to do this as a Dodger fan) and cut down the dumb ass memes and other ignorant, stupid shit you like to post that bores the fuck out of everyone. Again, no offense intended. Also, this is your only and final warning.
your only Giants fan friend,
Flavor
Hunter Ripken is now 3 for 42. I think that is worse than any of Nate’s droughts…
In Blanco’s defense: he hits a 2 out double on Monday night with Susac at 1B. He assumes the runner is being sent with 2 outs and that there will be a play at the plate. Despite his mistaken assumption, he gets lucky and the run scores. He has made more than one mistake on the base paths by being overly aggressive this season. Two nights later, he plays it way too safe in order to avoid looking bad. Ok, maybe not much of a defense, but an explanation . . . .
I didn’t see it, but I am defending Blanco. Let him make a mistake. He’s been hot, plays his heart out, and is STELLAR in the field. Leave my man alone. Dude ain’t no Eugenio.
James loves Blanco, PK.
And if anyone knows Count Chocula, it is you, my man.
Huddy looking good. Nice quick inning.
willieD called this one and I was on board. *not his first rodeo*
too bad Op burned him there.
Look at this way: SF has held LA to 7 runs total in 25 innings, and they aren’t playing any of the kids in regulation. Giants best has been equal to LA’s best.
He could’ve stole 2nd and 3rd on that pitch.
in Binghamton I saw a pitcher (maybe Bumgarner) pick a guy off fuckin THIRD! how often does that happen?! almost impossible for it to be Bum, though, since he’s a lefty
Phuck. Now it looks as if I GOTTA stay up. It’d be huge if we can steal a win off Hershawl.
Blanco would’ve tagged up on that…