Haiku Time
Shrouded in the darkness and cold of a post-Christmas/pre-New Year morning…..Juan Gutierrez has been resigned to a minor league deal. Not sure, but I think we’ve reached the bottom of the news barrel. And we all know what that means. It’s haiku time…
This one was written by Giants fan Steve Hermanos. It’s about Country Legend
Your expanding pants
Now accommodating balls
Big as tractor wheels
I forget when this started making the rounds on KNBR.I think it was mid October…..
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Unca C here . . .
Found this restaurant 2 blocks from my office in the financial district . . .
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Hey, don’t miss the link from MacDog’s end of previous thread for pix of Busy block sweaters in Giants colors (and a lot more). The Posey one, is um quite busy and the $$$ have gotta be a misprint.
Haft wrote some words on the Giants. I’m not going to link. Here’s the best part.
“It’s easy to forget that Bumgarner, 25, also delivered an outstanding regular-season performance. His total of 18 victories was the highest by a Giants pitcher since Shawn Estes had 19 in 1997. Bumgarner struck out 219 batters, the most in history by a Giants left-hander since the franchise moved to San Francisco in 1958. He made the NL All-Star team, won an NL Silver Slugger Award as the league’s best hitter among pitchers, captured the league’s Pitcher of the Month honors in May and August and was named the “Willie Mac Award” winner as the team’s most inspirational player.”
Not winter’s hot stove
nor five-seven-five will do:
Three-in-five warms us.
Flapper’s knowing nods
Basking till the Cactus League
Baseball magic soon
Ishikawa blast
BOOM redemptive helmet slam
pennant-seizing awe
LM, EDD and PK, those are awesome! I’ll try to come up with one while I watch the Military Bowl.
A hit off of Bum that was erred,
but Gordon was stopped there at third.
To home was not steered,was “Posey Rule” feared?
A Shot “Round the World” not unheard.
Ishi hits walk-off
The Giants win the pennant
Pandemonium.
Huddy, Affeldt: here
ice-veined gunslinger rides in
Undertaker rules
pop foul by Third Base
Panda grasps, falling backward
in eternity
second-base vacuum
nadir: Uggla ugliness
apogee: Panik
Joe Buck..
No Luck..
Any other team but the Giants..
Christmas Ruined in the Midwest.
That Hermanos Haiku is actually a coupla years old. It started back to 2012. Maybe earlier. KNBR pulls it out every now and again when conditions merit, like this past post season…
they turned it into a reading that they replay now and again. I guess I didn’t pay attention to it before this Fall
My season..now done
My ballpark empty of life
My heart waits for spring
heavy.
Sabes’ deep winter slumber
Gutierrez’ signing pesters
A snooze alarm, basking…
lol
Three trophies on tour
A Ko-Ko-Mac-A-Loo-za
Four weeks from today
fantastic
You’ve brought many people together, Big Jesus…
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/12/26/giants-may-target-ben-zobrist/
If he didn’t cost too much, I’d take Zobrist for his versatility. We certainly need more good positional players…..
I’m in on Zobrist- it’s interesting now because Sabean wanted him at the deadline .At the time Panik was hitting .211. He might have been optioned back to Fresno.
Bochy is signed through 2016. Cotts doesn’t have his contract $ numbers, but there’s info out there he might be making up to $5M/year. Is he worth more or less than Harbaugh? After winning 3 out of 5, you’d have a great argument he’s worth more, especially after how much $ the Giants have pulled in during and after these WS runs…
Pawlie, I feel like this thread is feeding into a strength…. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Huff, Scoots, Theriot
The White Shark hunts stronger prey
Cheap-O contracts win
Doesn’t it seem weird that Brian Sabean only makes 2 mil a year? Every non-arb player makes more than him? That just doesn’t seem right….
Looks like he agrees:
this must have been taken during a Kickham start….
Nice BF. Yeah, those Kickham appearances were head in hands deals, for sure…
at Ishi HR
I am thinking this was after another Homer given up by Strickland relief appearance
Or put another way, Brian Cashman, who I think sucks as a GM, makes 3 mil a year. Wrong on many levels. Hopefully Sabes gets a WS share to help feed him family. lqtm
Well, Cashman gets an extra mill because the other GMs know his phone number…
3 in 5 basking
B B O T D is back
a pair to draw to
today’s BBOTD passes the test, yes?
hell yes!
this is some comedian I follow on twitter and this just showed up in my feed.
ASW @TotallyAllen 18m18 minutes ago
Haiku #1:
The curtains are drawn
I have seven tabs open
It’s time to jerk off
Here’s my Ode to 2nd baseman haiku
Glass Sanchez, Riot
Scutaro, eyes skyward, drenched
Panik to Flap Spawn
BF must have run out of BBOTDs from Farmer’s Almanac and Butcher Holler MILFs.
We’re golden ’til the 2015 editions go online…
I’m just trying to lure some page viewers back into the fold. The Farmer’s Almanac and Butcher Holler MILFs are waiting patiently, respectfully, for their time in 2015
He has a type. They will be back.
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i was thinking of ending mine previous one with: beware the undead.
If anyone missed “The Conformist”- an incredibly beautiful and sad film by Bernardo Bertolucci , it’s definitely worth your time. It stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Dominique Sanda . I first saw it more than 40 years ago. It’s on Netflix.
good shit here
BBOTD has nice eyes.
I hope we get to meet on 1/24, Pawlie.
Speaking of news, Jim Harbaugh is taking the Michigan job.
Don’t sweat it too much, Chuckie. The last time my team was in the Super Bowl, Nixon was invading Cambodia…
Hey, I’m happy he’s gone. His offenses were mediocre at best. His passing schemes were 70s era bland.
Just hope we get a strong offensive guy. Pete Carmichael comes to mind.
Just wonder if VD decides to stay with Harbaugh out.
Crabs is likely gone anyway,
Flap border ponders
the even year quandary:
another ring? where?
Eras wax and wane
while the 3 in 5 remain
pinnacle climbed
Here’s a little Trivia:
With Derek Jeter’s retirement, who’s the only active player with 4 W/S appearances?
Javier Lopez?
gotta be Lopez
Loo, great minds…..
I was between him and Affeldt, Flav. But I just looked up Affeldt and it appears he did it as well…
Winner Winner
Chicken Dinner Loo!
Yeah Lopez has bragging rights with more bling then his teammates as well..
Should of mentioned 4 W/S appearances + W/S rings.
Javier Lopez has 4…. 1 with Boston,3 with the Giants.
Jeremy Affeldt has 3 with the Giants, but loss out with the Rockies for his 4 th ring
No one here needs reminding: like Yusmeiro Petit, Jeremy Affeldt is a guy whose fairly quiet postseason accomplishments in 2014 cannot be overestimated. They came up big in big moments. Thanks!
Anyone know Petit’s contract status? He could be a very very key part of the pitching staff in 2015, I’m just curious about his status and haven’t found anything on it.
He was arb eligible last year and signed a one year deal, so I assume he’s arb eligible again…
Avoided arbitration last year and signed for 845k. He is arb eligible for the next two years (FA in 2017).
I spent most of today on my book. Done, for now, with chapter on 1962. It was like deep psychotherapy, let me tellya.
Blade reports on his blog that he’s back in Vietnam for another few weeks. He hasn’t been on the Flap much lately because he’s been “very busy” on his travels. Yep, I’m sure he has been. Way busier than Sabes, for sure….
Yes, Tom, and only Steve can tell you exactly how many ‘transactions’ he has completed…. :-p
Steve’s had more happy endings than 15 Disney movies.
Re Kat’s World Series trivia: Yadier Molina also has 4 World Series appearances (’04, ’06, ’11, ’13).
MacDog..Yeah I switched it to 4 W/S rings, and after Jeter retired,the only active player to have 4 now is Javier Lopez, maybe he can get a 5th for his thumb.Cause Yadier Molina doesn’t have 4 rings, so screw him😄
Got it, Kat, And yeah, Molina has “only” 2 rings, so he’s not even in Affeldt’s neighborhood.
Still basking in Giants heaven
Niners? Harbaugh runs away
Dubs play Kerr-azy
I’m just glad the drama and the trauma over who is butt hurt is over.
Kinda funny that Killion, who has complained loudest and longest since pre-season about everything from traffic, the yard and myriad dysfunction, wonders if things will get worse. Jed isn’t most inspiring CEO.
I just think Niners issues go a lot deeper than HC and are more complex. It’s never easy to keep winning group together and tough to build through draft and FA pick ups/trades.
And once any system has success, 30 others including those in division that see you often, are hard at work figuring out how to stop it. Niners lack of success in second half of games I think points to that and I do think Harbs has a fall back plan he is in love with that won’t work with players he has.
Yeah there were a ton of problems when Harbaugh came on board. Biggest was a mess of people trying to get on the same page. Eddie complained that there were too many from office types and no clear path of hierarchy or communicAtion. Winning masked those problems, for a while but it is now rearing its head again.
I don’t think they have a choice but to hire from within due to the mess upstairs.
The team is sti going to have a LOT of talent so that coould attract someone.
Basking My Ass Off
Fifty One Days P&C Report
Fresh Cut Grass, Dogs, Beers
Haiku is fun
Baseball is funner
Bring on the real Games
By the way, some GREAT haikus here. As we are forever indebted to Flavor for keeping this blog around, we also owe Pawlie for presenting haikus to the Flap Universe.
Thank you to both of you for making this the greatest gathering of Giants fans ever.
I mean really…where else can you talk Giants baseball, write and read haikus, and gawk at BBOTDs? NOWHERE but here.
Happy New Year Flappers – wishing you all the best of fortune, happiness, and good health in the coming year!
Chuck…danke. It’s all of us, the whole gang, the whole playground, that make this The Place.
…and, yes, thanks, Magnus, for keeping it going, no small task, no small task indeed.
thanks, Chi Couldn’t have this place without you guys.
Wishing y’all fortune-cookie good fortune in 2015, and then some. Before, during, and after 2015. Love the typography and the name: B A S K. Oh yeah. B A S K.
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