And it Comes to This……
Well, whoever wins tonight can say they genuinely earned it. Nobody plays 6 weeks of spring training, 6 months of baseball plus nearly a month of playoff ball to find out they “lucked” into the crown.
This will be the 38th Game 7 in World Series history (I counted that myself so it could be off by one or two). It’s the second Game 7 since 2002 and I have blocked out that game from my memory bank.
Truly, I’m not really sweatin’ this game. I think we will win. You know who also isn’t sweatin’ it? These guys…..
Lost in all the drama approaching tonight is this sad fact: no matter what, this is the final baseball game of the year and that bums me out a little bit. Here’s to a great season FU—-whatever happens, happens.
Four years ago, nearly to the day, twin posted this:
and even with one win still yet unsecured I feel the same way about the guys on this team. I’ll never forget this team….
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Yeah you’re right Flavor. GO GIANTS!
We can spend the day wringing our hands like what the fuck was Belt thinking, what the fuck was Peavy thinking on that pitch to Aoki, what the fuck was Bochy thinking not saving Petit, what the fuck was Posey thinking swinging on first pitch for the zillionith time this playoffs with the bases fully jacked….but let’s brew some coffee, get our head’s straight and wipe away yesterday’s bad memories. All down to one game and we have had the magic for two championships, do we have a little more mojo in the tank???
I have the odd feeling, Hudson is going to somehow baffle them for 4-5 innings and we need to jump on Guthrie. I also get the odd feeling that our old hero Timmy Lincecum is going to play a huge role in this game in the middle innings and then a Bum appearance in the 8th when the lefties are coming to the plate…one for the ages and hopefully we are the ones on top. Go Giants…redeem Peavy’s poor blabber mouth son…
27 outs to go, winner take all. Time to buck history and add to SF lore.
Fire it up, Giants!
Think gettig blown out early made it easier to stomach and forget about last night.
Excited now to watch history and a game 7. Hopefully it will be one people will be talking about as one of the greatest WS games ever.
Excited for Hudson and the rest of this wonderful team. Exciting no matter what happens. I’m prepared for a loss better than I thought I would be. Figure they have already proven they are winners and given so much. The 18 inning game, the Ishi hr, Bum’s great games, and so on. I know they will be back.
Last night I just kept thinking how incredible it is they have reached this point. Many numbers, but the only one that matter now are they are one of two teams among 30 left standing. Part of me wanted a game 7, just because I didn’t want this amazing up and down year to end. As others have written, it only seems fitting.
*No better choice for Game 7 than Hudson, the ultimate Pro
*Long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, thr biggest night in sports was the Heavyweight Championship. Then it was Game 7 of the World Series. Now it’s the Doritos commercials on Stupid Bowl Sunday
*Headline on MSN: “Why your cat thinks you’re stupid”. Don’t even need to read it- because it’s a cat and you aren’t
*Memo to Ned Yost: last night was *Game Six”, pal. You might want to remember that and cancel your 8:00 dinner reservation for tonight
*San Francisco Giants (Tim Hudson et al) at Kansas City Royals (Jeremy Guthrie et al) 8:07 p.m. Eastern
PECOTA odds of winning: 59% Giants, 41% Royals
*One way to tell that you’re playing a “team of destiny”- they haven’t won anything since the bat boy’s Dad won a wedding ring in a Cracker Back box.
*Why we’ll win tonight-it’s Game 7 and Bochy is our manager. Why KC won’t- see “it’s Game 7 and Bochy is our manager”
* At exactly 2:31 A.M. I will rise from the couch and ask the question that we all want to ask: “When do pitchers and catchers report?”
Awesome Michael. Again. And I love the finish…”when do pitchers and catchers report.”
Great photo!
You want number one fucky?
Really, Loo? With all your great posts here, really? …….
I’m obsessed with Full Metal Jacket.
I apologize.
On cbs site is a picture of Pops Stargell in his yellow top/batting helmet black pants uni from Pirates of ’79…last road team to win game 7.
Nice team to emulate if you want to make some history of your own.
Something about a guy named Tim taking the bump tonight gives me confidence.
I busted out the HAAD jersey today for work, so we’ve got that going for us. Told the kids I’m wearing it again tomorrow after the Giants win.
Wilco/Loo–thanks for clearing up the 2 day v 3 days rest for Bum. I was wondering if I was calculating that right.
Love the photo. Something tells me both of those guys didn’t have a hard time getting their mind off of that brutal loss and woke up in a good mood this morning.
Hey, I do remember Brad Millard– did SMC beat Wake that day you saw them? Omar Samhan was another monstrous post guy from couple years back. I always dug St. Mary’s–they might be rebuilding this year with not many starters back (Carter and Waldow) and bunch of transfers.
You coaching again? Tryouts next Monday up here. At a public school where there’s half dozen kids I used to coach playing on girls side, the varsity coach of 1 year quit the program a month ago to be an assistant at powerhouse private school. Nice commitment to your kids, assistants and program you were in charge of.
No, Wake had a great team including a stud guard named Tony Rutland and they eventually wore down St. Mary’s. Yes, coaching again and trying to sell the head coach on running one simple motion offense for both teams rather than multiple sets that no one fully understands. Plan B is he lets me at least do that with the JV guys. We’ll see. Practice starts 11/17.
Funny, I was telling my oldest daughter that Dellavadova (she went to SMC the same 4 years there that he did) just lucked on to the possible NBA champs this season. Shit, Paddy Mills just got a ring with the Spurs after his world travels in pro ball.
Go Gaels!
Speaking of…I am a SMC alum. Attended through one of their satellite programs in Sacto for my degree in Binnez Management.
“I’ll never forget this team….”
Ditto. And I didn’t even see or hear most of the playoff run. Jet lag and the iPhone at 3:30 am.
The one thing I really don’t want to experience: MadBum repeating Petit’s performance from last night.
I suspect Petit’s magical run may be over. Hope he’s not needed tonight.
I’m just hoping the offense dominates and the pitching takes care of itself…
After the game last night, I watched a few episodes of “Sports Night,” the Aaron Sorkin-created show about the backstage goings-on at an ESPN SportsCenter type of show. Overall, it’s a good show. Sorkin would reach his full capabilities in “West Wing” and some later shows, but the early signs of greatness-to-come are there in “Sports Night.”
In some ways, “Sports Night” is kind of an odd duck. It’s the epitome of the dramedy, the kind of drama/comedy hybrid that Sorkin does so well, but it was a half-hour show, and the network that aired it required a laugh-track. There is no studio audience, and you can tell Sorkin added the laugh-track in a half-hearted way. The laugh-track just kind of comes and goes during the show, softly in the background, just to show that it’s still there once in a while.
Sports Night was a pretty good show. The Newsroom? Terrible.
Agree on both counts.
True Blue L.A. blog is talking about free agents today. Here’s a comment about Hanley:
“I think there is no way Hanley accepts the QO. I think he can get at least 4/60 from 6-8 teams who view him as a SS for maybe one year and then as a viable average 3B for the last three years. He makes too much sense for too many teams. I am vomiting a bit as I say this, but the Giants could view him as a viable option should Panda leave.”
I hadn’t given the Hanley option a thought, if Panda walks. And it could only happen if Hanley agrees to be a 3B only. But no way 4 years. And, overall, yuck. Hanley’s a hard pill to have to swallow. Sure, fans just want to win, but, man, it would be hard to get a good vibe about that guy. Plus he gets injured a lot.
I actually always fear him when he bats against the Giants. But that’s not a good enough reason to bring him here. He is definitely not Giant material….. We don’t like assholes. Well.. except .. sometimes…. in the past…
Well, he was OUR a-hole, even from as a kid, though he made a side trip first to Pittsburgh…
Agree with everything said here. FU is ready for this. LOVE this team. James: Agree. I hope we do NOT see MadBum. And I hope that’s because the game is in hand and we don’t need him. Absolutely Hudson takes the mound in the game of his f-ing life. Wish it was at home, but it doesn’t really matter, this team plays so well on the road a lot of the time. Fuck last night. And, absolutely ANYthing could happen in game 7. This, ending the 2014 season, is like the last night of spring break. Or like the last night of a week on a remote island with someone who really trips your trigger. Or like the last night of a LONG trip that saw loads of highs and lows, but damn, weren’t those highs just so … high. To whoever in the universe who is not/has not been watching this Series due to indifference, your loss. Great to be a part of this. “The opposite of love is indifference”… NOT waking up at 8am with the score 7-0 in the 3rd inning, not this time.
If any team can win a game 7 on the road after losing game 6 badly, it’s this team.
Wrong, Craig, definitely have been sweating this out. You have no idea how difficult it was to decide which of our friends here would wear my vaunted SF t-shirt, which, by the way, the model demanded property as payment, so I let her keep the shirt as long as she promised to post herself on Face Book walking around Saigon proudly wearing the SF. (Hope you got the other pics from Steve.) But not sweating game 7. Would it be painful and sad to see a loss? Absolutely. But I am as proud of this team as I was the other two champs, and will be even more proud of they bring home #3.
At the beginning of this baseball season as usual you guys predict the number of wins the Giants will have. I didn’t give a number, I just said “my prediction for this season is excitement”. Well the only thing more exciting than being in a WS game 7 is winning it…Good luck FU.
Great picture, and I beg to differ…I am sweating this one. As I have said before…I tried to play this off like this series did not mean that much, but failed…this series means a lot. I will still have mad love for this team if they do not complete the trifecta, but I am expecting a win for the ages.
It has been a wonderful ride FU. I have enjoyed it from back in ST daze throught the highs and lows of the season, and especially this playoff and WS run.
One day at a time.
One game.
This one for all the marbles…
GO GIANTS!
Hey…when did Indiana Jones shave his head??? Is that the look for installment 39 in the movie series?
Score early, score often…. done.
“Score early, score often….” And win the last game.
The thing that gives me the most confidence tonight is the opposing pitcher. No excuse for not lighting this guy up. He’s a classic inning-eater, never misses a start. A decent 4 or 5 on a good team. Gives up a ton of homers, too. I see big games for the Brandons. Bombs away.
He also led the league in hit batsmen, which can be an integral part of scoring “stupid” runs…
“Stupid Runs.” Love it, Loo. The Giants have scored a few of those this post season on their way to this 7th game of the WS. Here’s to more Stupid Runs!
I am not sweating it either. Selfishly there is a part of me that will lqtm at those fans who paid high dollar to see a game in which their team eventually lost the series. I know that sounds awful, but I got really sick of hearing people say how it “was worth every penny spent ” to attend games 4 and 5. I could have afforded to pay for my father and myself, but I just couldn’t fathom dropping $700 for a seat in the upper outfield deck of AT&T. I didn’t want to be one of those who went just to say they went. Instead I will always remember my first brief encounter with FU and the three days spent with my father, drinking way more than any 65 and 38 year old father and son ever should. The 2am stumble into the Crazy Horse, drunken quotes from 48 hrs, and most importantly watching your favorite team on the biggest stage with the one person who is responsible for making that happen. As the commercial says, priceless.
Good stuff, Wilco. Hoping I get a chance to meet you at a future Flapalooza.
To me it is hard to be bummed about anything when the club is still standing and it’s the last game of the season to be played. Hudson said he came to SF because he wanted to win a World Series. Well, time to get er done.
Well, there it is, Huddy, all served up nice and warm, on a silver platter. Go Giants.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Sorry about that, guys, but yesterday it was in the low 30’s up here in the Minnesota northwoods and i felt this strong need to traipse down to the local watering hole, the Sportsmens Lodge at Pine Lake for their Tuesday night pizza and two beers special for fourteen bucks ~~ and a chance to watch the Giants on television for the first time this year. Bad choice. Jinx? Perhaps.
That breakdown and the reasons for it was a classic. Virtually everything that could go wrong did. It all began with the Panik AB in the first inning when he hit a screamer to right-center and Lorenzo Cain made another of his long-legged catches, robbing our #2 of a sure double. Giants hit several balls hard early on but they all ended up like Panik’s. KC thrived on dribblers, drippers and downed daubers. Crooked numbers kept mounting. Giants hitters went into a funk after that 2nd and that was the ballgame.
So i’m hoping that the Royals blew their wad last night and that the Giants hitters resume their death of a thousand cuts dink em and dunk em approach vs. Guthrie. I’m sure his junky offerings look awfully tempting, but that spattering of steady singles and long-counts has won many a game for SF. May that be the case tonight to give us a Game 7 to remember.
Sweat it? Aaaak! Yeah. Sweating it. Just because I had a very faint glimmer that they’d reach the WS, I sure don’t want them to lose it now that they are soooo close. It would be fairly devastating as we’d be relegated to also-ran along with the other 29 teams.
I mean, I loved the chart they showed on ESPN regarding who the country wanted to see win b y state.
50-0 KC.
Fuck ’em ALL!!!!!
Bring it home. One. More. Time.
Guam and Puerto Rico went for SF…
Yeah what happened to Nevada???? Fuckers
I’m not thinking about tomorrow.
I’m not thinking about last night.
I’m not thinking about the off season.
I’m not thinking about where Panda lands.
I’m thinking only about this one game.
Tonight.
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
For one last time.
Why the Fuck NOT?…
Harping again. My usual harping target~~ the FIREMAN ~ or the lack thereof. Maybe BB15 forgot something last night. I’d mentioned it over the last couple days. Petit does NOT like to come in to rescue a starter in a jam. He prefers to start an inning with a clean slate. Surely BB15 is well aware of the fact. But who started warming in the pen as Peavy was melting down? It was Petit and Lopez. Perhaps the meltdown was already too far along to bring in Romo, Affeldt or Casilla. But it just might have been the occasion for Timmy. Machi probably would have done no worse than Petit in the situation.
So we return to my #1 and only harping subject: This team needs and does not possess a Fireman ~ a guy who can come in cool as a cucumber and quickly put out the flames. He could be a Stu Miller type junkballer or he could be a fast and furious flamethrower. Likely nothing in between would do. Giants have a number of priorities looming for next year. Number one should be to acquire or develop a designated fireman. It is quite possible a good fireman could save (in a somewhat different sense) say half as many games as a dominant closer does in the 9th inning.
Offseason priority: Fireman. Get it done Sabes.
The Giants just have to win tonight because have I have a 15:1 Las Vegas bet that I place last April that they would win the WS…Go Giants!
Wow, how much did you put down?
Apparently, not enough!
Gurgle, gurgle. Mmmmmm,teabags.
I bet your chin is nice and warm . . .
Huddy gets his wish about playing for a ring. Tonight. In spades.
I’m hoping he brings it at least into the 4th at no less than a tie game…
That KC infield is rock hard.
Maybe Blanco should think about trying to slap a few through, instead of hitting fly balls. Even tonight is not too late to try…
Come on Giants let’s get done tonight cause :”Never fear, it’s an even year”
Though I prefer Koufax,Gibson,or Clemens on the bump, we got Hudson for just this reason to help get this championship!
Gives us 5 + and let Madbum and the rest (not named Machi) bring us a champagne soaked title!!
I keep trying to post….wtf comments not going through…trying to add my good luck mojo
Now goes through….I was trying to lay blame on last night on the Giants fan sitting behind the plate. Total jinx, hopefully he is not sitting there tonight…
Well for me that was just a gut wrenching loss. It brought back 2002 big time for me. I was depressed last night. Maybe if they had at least scored a run it would not have been so bad. As far as today goes well I think Kruk said best in the post game last night. The team wiil either get on the Plane home with a Trophy in hand or they will just go home.
Anyone want to see Hunter (let me give up another homer) Strickland in the game.
I expect the Royals would be delighted to see him.
I was a nervous wreck before Game 6, but I have to admit, I’m not feeling that way for Game 7. But maybe that will change as game-time gets closer. Game 6 was a humbling reminder that once you get past Bumgarner in the rotation it’s a total crap-shoot. It’s amazing the ’14 Giants have gotten this far. I’m just dwelling on the vibe of that. It’s been a remarkable run. If the Giants can win tonight, that’s a great bonus; but after last night, I’m not brimming with confidence. I’m not digging the Huddy lately, and managers’ “short leashes” are never short enough to suit me in these situations. The Giants bats need to make the win happen tonight, if it’s going to happen. The big names, Posey, Pence, and Sandoval need to lead the way. How about some nice extra-base hits, and a couple over the fence?
I think Panik will be the man tonight. He’s been having some good abs without much to show for it.
And I think a “storybook” element would be Morse hitting a big HR.
Gregor Blanco (L)
Joe Panik (L)
Buster Posey (R)
Pablo Sandoval (S)
Hunter Pence (R)
Brandon Belt (L)
Mike Morse (R)
B. Crawford (L)
Juan C. Perez (R)
Perez get the nod. I’m liking this vibe.
I like Perez also, I was scratching my head last nigh when he was not starting.
Ishi’s D out there is real problematic, last night’s efforts as another example. Bochy’s gotta figure he’s got to manage this staff and Pen basically from batter to batter tonight, so he can’t let a blown line drive catch in LF lose the trophy. Who knows? Perez might be the offensive hero…
Game seven, with no tomorrow…I think you have to have your best gloves in the field. And that is not to diminish Ishi’s importance to the club…but I like him off the bench as a PHer in this one.
The 2014 San Francisco Giants and the 1979 Pittsburgh “We Are Family” Pirates forever spoken in the same breath? WTF not?! GO GIANTS!
Possibly the oldest starting pitcher match-up ever in a Game 7. A 39-year old vs. a 35-year old. It’s a darned interesting match-up, I will give it that.
Do you suppose Zito is sitting somewhere, thinking…..’yeah, I got it done in the 2012 playoffs. Miss me?’
(We don’t miss him.)
Last night’s loss was disappointing as hell, but in no way did it have the impact on me that game 6 of the 2002 Series had (still has). The end of that game was a reach-down-my-throat-and-tear-out-my-heart moment, one of utter disbelief and despair. I was positive that the Giants were finally going to grasp the golden ring. I was severely bummed and knew in my soul that game 7 was a done deal. My baseball faith was tested hard at that time. It seemed that the Baseball Gods would forever conspire against us.
2010 and 2012 took the edge off that Series, if it didn’t flat wash it away. Attending both parades, visiting S.F. for the first time in a long while, exiting the City Center BART station and mingling with fans of exactly the same mind as me was awesome and soul-cleansing. The word surreal is trite and over used, IMO, but it applies here. I’d been a fan for well over 40 years at that point and it all felt like I hoped it would as a kid listening to Lon Simmons call the games on KSFO.
I’m not even sure where I’m going with this except to say again that last night was disappointing, but tonight is exciting and I’m anticipating the game with excitement. Everything is aligned up for a historical baseball moment, Rocky-esque, if you will, with the long-suffering Huddy poised to erase a career’s worth of postseason disappointment on baseball’s most dramatic stage and the G’s poised to rise off the deck after last night’s blowout and claim what they know is rightfully theirs. This could be epic.
GO GIANTS!
Excellent post, LJ. GO GIANTS!
Great post. Could you imagine if we were in this situation tonight and hadn’t yet won a ring? You’d have to put me on meds I would be such a mess. I’m about to leave work and do some self-medicating right now, but nothing like I would have needed under that scenario.
And interesting connection to the ’14 Giants and ’79 Pirates; Don Robinson pitched 2/3 of an inning for the Buccos in game 7 of the Series.
I liked Robinson as a Giant. He was a good pitcher and I’ll always remember a pinch-hit homer he hit against the Reds to help win the game.
The Caveman was one of my favs.
Loved it when Rod Beck hit the team in 1991, and he was immediately Caveman Jr.
He became shooter later . . .
Loved the Caveman and Shooter…
That orange and black magic has me in its spell
That orange and black magic that you weave so well
Yeah, I was iffy on Peavy and Ishi last night.
Got to say I feel better tonight. Esp with Perez in there. He’s our secret weapon.
Good article. I like the writers comment on Affeldt
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2014-mlb-playoffs-world-series-game-7-preview-giants-royals/
Game 7 has been won by the home team 7 straight times since 1982.
However in 35 game 7’s in history, it stands at only 18-17 so that works in our favor to even it out at 18-18 and another championship!!!
Giants will do this and party down Market ST again…
2002 is no reminder of last night. That game 6 loss was crushing. To be 5 outs away from the first title, then lose it, well, that was brutal. Last night’s game was over in the second inning. Might as well not have happened, just as I figure KC has already forgotten about being smoked 11 – 4 at ATT.
Onto tonight…
As long as this game is close and doesn’t go extras, the following guys might as well have Ebola: Machi, Strickland, Voggy. Everybody else on staff and in the Pen is fair game to pitch. I’m not as concerned about Hudson as I was about Peavy, but I’m not super confident about Hudson at his age and this late in the year — you can’t be. We’ll see what happens. As long as that sinker stays down, he’s in good shape. Once it starts getting up, time to immediately move to the Pen, no screwing around like last night. That call is on Posey and Bochy. Hopefully last night KC used up all its supply of doinks, dinks and high bouncer cheapy hits, and the Giants can get a few…
Ned Yost’s mouth wrote a check that his ass can’t cash. His overconfidence will doom his team & he will be out-managed tonight on the biggest stage. Huddy brings this home with a story-book finish, then rides off into the sunset …
78..Well Hudson won’t ride out in the sunset,until he collects another 13 mil next year. He signed for 2 years.
Doesn’t mean he won’t retire if he wins the coveted ring … he’s made enough money don’t you think?
Nobody turns down $13 million guaranteed for just showing up…
Some Gman really needs to go yard tonight. I keep thinking Posey will come through with a big night, but he seems to be hitting like he needs an IV drip of Geritol. (Insert argument to start moving him into the infield next season). Yeah, they can win and have won without HRs. But, when they get one or more, it seems to help the chance of winning. And, I mean a meaningful HR like a two or three run shot, not a Blanco solo shot to start off and then phtttt. Pence, Morse, Belt, Panda? Somebody. Blanco just needs to focus on getting on base tonight to get the line moving and pressure this Guthrie dude…
I’d go with Sr October. Hitting .338 in the PS, but 0 hr’s.
I saw it 6-5, bottom of the ninth, Casilla working a bases loaded, 2 outs with pesky giant killer Omar Infante up. Goes to a 3-2 count.
Woke up before it ended.
Snarkk, I’m with ya on the 2002 season. I was crushed beyond recognition after that devastating loss. I felt it was totally inevitable we would lose game 7.
Yesterday? Sure it was a laugher, but better that than 5 outs away.
I feel much better about tonight.
Huddy better bring it. These guys like to hit junk so he’s got to keep his pitches down. Peavy got in trouble early and often count-wise, so Huddy has to watch that.
And yeah, we should crush Guthrie. Waiting for the bats to explode one last time. Fricking Morse’s drive was so close to extras yesterday. That would have been one, if not more. Posey needs a big night. He’s been persona non grata this WS for the most part.
Posey is hitting .182 in the WS. OBP at an icy .280.
The only regular hitting worse is our leadoff guy, Blanco, really raking at a cool .167. At least Blanco has 6 BBs so he’s at a .333 OBP. Posey may be calling good games, maybe. Sometimes, I’m not so sure. But, IMO, for an ex MVP and the supposed leader of the squad and at his monstrous pay grade, so far Posey is a huge disappointment at the plate this post season…
Agree. I still feel like he’s going to come up with the big hit when The Giants need it most.
I went to Game 7 in 2002 and it felt like I was walking into a nightmare. I haven’t been to the Big A since.
Sheez, Dawg. The thought of thundersticks and that rally monkey crap gives me the creeps.
You must have scars from actually being there and surviving it…
The 2 times I went to the Big A were to see the Niners play the Rams. We did a couple of roadtrips. It was a fun experience, even though the Niners lost one of the games. The game the Niners won was something like 35-7, a few days after the Rams had traded Eric Dickerson. The Rams had nothing on offense that day after trading Dickerson.
Thankfully that thunderstick crap has faded from popular use…
Ouch ‘Dawg. I never felt more sure of a loss than that day.
Livan didn’t inspire me at all.
Livan used to drive me crazy how he threw the ball to first on comebackers. He’d lean backwards and make the most casual lob possible. I don’t ever remember him throwing it away, but it seemed so unnecessarily risky.
Livo was a very good athlete, he could field the position, and hit. Deceptively fast runner, too.
He was a better fielder IMO than any pitcher on the staff now…
Posey’s been in the middle of some important rallies this post-season. He’s kept the conga-line moving sometimes. But tonight the Giants need a breakout game from him. His extra-base drought needs to end.
I agree, but he’s obviously gassed. And / or he’s got some back trouble again nobody’s talking about. So, unless he gets some of those greenies that Kruk says he used to pound down like everybody else in the 70s and 80s, I don’t think a breakout will happen…
Radnich: At the end of your career, when you were fighting injuries, you ever feel tempted to do something that was not legal?
Krukow: Well, I was taking cortisone shots left and right. Isn’t that a performance-enhancing drug? Your body can’t process the ability to calm down an inflammation in your elbow or your hip, your shoulder. And now you take cortisone. I mean, isn’t that a performance-enhancing drug to a degree? And I did take amphetamines. There towards the end, I couldn’t lift my arm up. And I had a guaranteed contract. But I wanted to make that contract good. I wanted to justify what (Bob) Lurie did for me. And what he did for me was give me a whole lot of security, and my family. And I felt an obligation to justify that contract. I think a lot of guys did. So for me to sit there and point fingers, I think it’s a little ridiculous because of how I ended my career. I was dealing with injuries. There’s no excuse. I justified it because that was the culture of the game. When I came into the game, you could get amphetamines from the trainer. It was in the clubhouse. “I need a little help today.” You take a greenie, it was like five cups of coffee. You had a hot spot on your elbow, it would pass, you’re good to go.
Would have been nice to see Susac a little more re than we did. Maybe giver Posey a day off somewhere along the playoff line.
I felt like saying this before this game gets underway and after reading Flavors last line of todays post…” I’ll remember this team”…Totally agree. For a ball club that lost 2/3 of it’s outfield for almost 2/3 of the season, for plugging in a rookie 2B about 1/2 way thru, for getting virtually nothing from Cain or Lincy during the year and nothing in the PS, you gotta love these guys win or lose….but in a snarkky kind of way, I’ll say it…I’ll love them more if they win it!
Not to mention their 1B for more than 1/2 the year also…
Wswins… Damm right it’s better if you win!!
Winners fuck the Prom Queen!
Losers fuck Bubba in prison!
Bochy says Bumgarner can go 40-50 pitches tonight. That’s Bum’s normal bullpen session between starts.
Hey, we’ll take it!
I’m just spooked that what happened to Petit last night happens to Bummie.
That’s a worst-case or extra innings kind of deal.
Me, too.
Pitching on 2 days rest is not like pitching on regular 4 day, especially after a 9 inning shutout.
Likely nobody is as strong or sharp on just 2 days. No guarantee Bum would be lights out. The issue is do you prefer a half-assed Bum or full assed anybody else. The other Pen guys are totally rested and ready to rock n roll…
Boch says Bum is good for 50-60 pitches,that’s awesome.So if Huddy craters by the 4th,Bum could go 3 , shut em down,and hopefully Affeldt,Lopez(match ups) Romo,and Casilla close it out..
Yost says his big 3 are good for 2 innings each so he’s really only looking for 3/4 out of Guthrie
If needed, then scratch out a run or two against those dudes later in the game. They have ERAs…
We hit Herrera just fine….so bring it Yost
I’m sweating a little. I think we can get to Guthrie, but I’m worried that the bats won’t wake up. I’ll worry about the season being over when it is. Last song at the big dance.
Here ya go. It’s impossible to listen to the B-52s and not feel better:
Yeah. Tense. But we don’t play, do we? Let’s go. Win this, boyz.
“The shortest answer is doing.” — George Herbert
“Then do it. Win.” Pawlie Kokonuts
My miniature GG Bridge is bathed in orange light as it was in 2010 and 2012 on WS clinching nights.
Let’s win this thing!!!…
Oh, c’mon. Start. Let’s go.
Blanco with the usual fly out…
Damn that Giants fan is back behind home…hopefully the bad luck was all expelled with him yesterday…
My dog just took a dump on the floor right before first pitch. Not sure if that’s good or bad luck.
If the floor has some blue on it, sounds good…
So did I…
Hudson needs a quick easy 1-2-3 also.
I’ll be heading out to a gathering of folks. I won’t be on the Flap during the game. Bring home the victory, Flappers!
Agree with Loo’s earlier post about Guthrie (I said essentially the same thing in his last start against us). Dude sucked when he was in the NL with the Sherpas (6 and a half ERA). In the AL, yeah, he is a decent 4 or 5, but when he was in the NL, he showed he was only Triple A minor league level, if that. Light this SOB up!!!!!!
I knew I heard it somewhere…
tense
terse
Come on boys!
Tick tock tick tock tick tock . . . Now’s the time Gmen. Make it so.
!8th inning HR seems so long ago, c’mon
Morse, please do this = grand slam
Nice start, panda takin one for the team,Pence base hit, Belt base hit!!!
Make em pay “Beast”
getting the first run here was huge considering what happened last night. And there’s the 2nd one. Fuck yeah.
Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
I smell the blood of a KC Royal team.
Be he ‘live, or be he dead,
I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.
Good start!