The Panda’s Sad Demise
I wish I knew a Red Sox fan. Actually, I do know one. Maybe I’ll call him. I’m truly interested in how the Red Sox fans are feeling about our beloved Panda. Besides sucking this year, he’s now slipping away from games to go check out the hotties on his instagram account. Think about that. So unfocused on the game, he’s not just thinking about the ladies he’s LEAVING THE GAME to go check them out on his phone.
He took some shit from Giants fans but deep down he was always loved and will be forever. But that’s due to the 3 World Series he helped us win. He’s bequeathed the Red Sox no trophies. But he is taking 100 million from them.
Anyone got a pic of the chick he was so desperate to click “like” on? Hope she was worth all the shit he’s getting now……
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Giants record vs. Dodgers, 8-2.
Giants vs. everybody else: 29-30.
How to make sense of that?
Baseball, you are a marvelous and inexhaustibly fascinating game.
Zum’s right that makes zero sense. If Sf played the dbax the way they play LA…
Thought the kid was gonna give the lead back, but then Giants scored enough it didn’t matter.
Loved Belt’s opposite field double, 12 hits 6 walks, contributions up and down LU.
But if I managed, every time Belt gets caught looking it’d cost him $1K into kangaroo court pool, esp on the ones outside. With the shift on he can hit an Aoki special, 3 hopper to OF grass and still get a hit.
I realize end of the day an out is an out no matter how it’s made, but the Kc is such a bad look. Swing the bat!
I agree. Belt hits oppo with power so much, why not just punch the bat to left field against that shift and start taking singles and doubles down the 3rd base line. Especially at ATT where pulling to RF will get you into outs in Death Valley out there in right center…
The guy (Zack Hample) who caught ARod’s 3000 hit isn’t giving it back (IMO, finally someone who isn’t an idiot, as this ball will be worth at least $50k). However, that isn’t the interesting thing about this guy making the grab.
According to his website, Hample has snagged more than 8,000 baseballs across 51 major league stadiums since 1990. He’s written three books, including “How To Snag Major League Baseballs,” and has appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”
Kansas City Royals right-hander Jeremy Guthrie has noticed Hample at past games.
“He’s the best ball-catching fan of our generation,” Guthrie said. “He is legitimately above average at catching balls in the stands. I’ve seen him sprint up rows, down and across aisles, and he has no fear of catching the ball. In Baltimore, I saw him catch three balls in a game I was in — one in right field, two innings later on a popup behind home plate, and another one literally catching it on the run going full speed.”
Blade, too funny man. I was just reading about that and planning to post the link. Sounds like A-Rod and Hample deserve one another. I was happy for him when he won a championship but otherwise I could care less about A-Rod and the taint surrounding his records. Maybe it’s because he’s slogged away in the beer league. I don’t know. Djloo, our man on the scene in NY might have some good insight on his time there. Guthrie’s comments are hilarious.
Absolutely agree with what you wrote. No love lost between Steroid man and I . . . I did read a good column in Grantland about him 2-3 months ago and it described him as a very sympathetic flawed person. Basically, he is insecure and tries to compensate for this. His father was an asshole and ARod spent his entire life trying to get his approval. In short, it’s no wonder he is all fucked up emotionally. Same shit happens with females who only have looks. Once that is gone, they crumble.
Regarding Hample – good for him! Shit, I have never caught one ball, much less have very few balls landed near me. Here you have a guy that has caught/grabbed 8000. Unbelievable.
Maybe Hample is holding out for one of the minotaur paintings.
The Dodgers are now 5-16 against teams with a winning record. I would guess that their front office is troubled by that. If not, they should be. The Dodgers lack depth in their starting rotation (who doesn’t?), and will look to make a deal at some point, I would think. It’ll be interesting to see what transpires.
The division lead gets so tantalizingly close to the Giants at times. They’re still more likely to be competing for a wild card spot, but that division lead is just so right there….
If the D-Backs are able to get to a winning record (they are close), then the Dodgers record against teams with winning records will shoot right up, though.
The Giants’ struggles against the D-Backs are really the only thing keeping the Giants out of first place.
When the Giants lost those nine in a row at home, if they had just gone 2-7 in that stretch they’d be in first place.
What galls me about people, like Marty Lurie, saying the season is long and that things balance out, blah blah, is that you can’t get back those 9 straight home losses. There is no way any team should lose that many in a row at home, I don’t care how bad you are. As you say, zum, just win a couple or three in that stretch, and it makes a world of difference. Sure, they could win 9 straight at home in August, who knows. But, that would just put them back to a modestly decent record at home. That 9 game loser at home will prevent a .600 record at home, which is what you want, with a .,500 roadie, to get to 90 wins. They’ll need to go near .550 on the road to make up — maybe they can do that…
Something I tend to disagree regarding SABR people is their general belief that what matters about a player is that player’s stats at the end of the season; that it’s not really that important WHEN the player put the stats up during the season.
But I disagree with that. For example, a bunch of the Red Sox players underperformed, and the team is in a big hole now. It’s not just that they’re nine games out of first place, but they’re also in last place, five games behind the team in fourth place. If the Sox end up missing the playoffs, but their players go on to end up with decent stats, it’s going to be deceptive. When the season was being lost, those players underperformed.
And I’m not even sure what I mean by the phrase “SABR people.” We’re all SABR people now, to some extent; but I mean the ones that are most hardcore about it, I guess.
Today’s Giants game is on Bay Area Comcast, but it’s also one of the MLB Network games, I think.
And, of course, tomorrow’s game is the ESPN evening game, 5:00 Pacific Time.
JDR maven Anna Piranha put this together:
http://captiongenerator.com/46684/Hitler-Addresses-the-Dodger-Brass
Pretty darned funny.
Frickin’ hilarious.
FOX’s coverage of the US Open couldnt be any more boring if they tried. Too bad they couldnt pay NBC to borrow Johnny Miller for the weekend.
Scherzer threw a no-hitter vs. the Pirates. 8 2/3 innings of a perfect game and then hit a batter on a cheesy play where the batter kind of leaned into the path of a curveball.
My neighbor (Nats fan) was there for this game.
New thread. Hope nobody minds; I posted a Game-Time Thread.