Friday Re-cap
What did we learn yesterday? In an epic throwback day of Flap posting, I’ll try to recap:
1) Mad Bum is a hot head. I guess this one isn’t new. However, I’ve never really understood why he gets cheesed off at a guy flipping his bat after making an out. Zumiee and Snarkk supplied the answers:
To Bum, he takes it as the batter saying “I should have crushed that sorry pitch, and I’m going to say it to everyone.”
Let’s stop pussyfooting around. Bum is an idiot doing this feigned insult gig when somebody throws a bat or flips it or cuts a fart for being disgusted with himself for missing a hittable pitch. In the ’60s, guys like Mays and Aaron were getting buzzed regularly about the head and neck with inside heat. They didn’t rush the mound, like would happen today with far less talented hitters. These players, including Bum, need to get over themselves. Get somebody out, stop giving up dingers, and stop being an ass on the mound just when you’re getting pounded. It’s embarrassing…
2) We learned what Steve Rushin calls August:
Amen to that. And I’m still firmly planted in July here in San Diego. I’m not a huge Steve Rushin fan, but he had a great line in his Sports Illustrated column this week saying that August is “summer’s warning track.’
That is a fantastic line.
3) We finally cobbled together the 3 people who past away yesterday:
Lynn Anderson, Rowdy Roddy Piper and Billy Pierce
4) I was able to secure a signed Candy Maldonado 8 X10 courtesy of…..
What exactly made the ball a Photo Ball? I’m guessing there was a photo of a player on the ball? Different players…or everyone got the same guy? I tried ebay for answers, but came up empty.
By the way, this guy was never my cup of tea, but Flav or Loo or somebody needs to get on this asap….
5) We got a great re-tell of the Deion signing balls during the game story
Deion was still with Atlanta, he’d already taken a beer to the face when going for a foul ball. Instead of playing catch before the inning started, a kid dropped a ball, he picked it up and signed it and spent the rest of his warm-up time signing balls. No more beer was thrown at him but he was out on the field when all those balls started flying from the stands. The umps almost forfeited the game to the Braves. We came back from being down by 5 runs twice (? or was it three times), an amazing day.
I know it was kind of fucked up for all those baseball being thrown from the stands (including the upper deck), but strangely, I found it to be a beautiful thing.
6) We saw Wilmer Flores stop crying long enough to knock out a walk off bomb, his first home run in 6 weeks. As he neared the plate he tugged at the front of his jersey as if to say “that’s right, this is my town.” And that was the coolest thing of the night, in my opinion….
7) We saw idiot Bryce Harper get thrown out of yet another game for arguing balls and strikes. But this toss was especially hilarious since it was a tie game in the 11th and the only position player still on the bench was Dan Uggla. Kudos to Matt Williams for finally not getting thrown out with him……
8) we discovered that newly acquired Mike Leake has an unusual way of exchanging shirts. He walks into Macy’s and whispers quietly to himself, “I am exchanging these shirts that are yours for shirts that are now mine…”
9) Twin sighting:
Hey, at 68, shaky hands, and a right side lean, I could still play third base better than “Long Ball Duvall” -as could the Dawg.
Way off subject, there’s something oddly comforting to see Eli in the dugout. Sort of like the Good Ol’ Shoe…
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Yes it was a full day of baseball and a full day of posting here at the Flap. I’m sure I missed a bunch including another education on wrestlers who wrestled on Sac-Town’s Channel 40 back in the early 70’s…..
But I’m tired of typing. Let’s see what today brings……
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
Texas Fight!
Every pitcher that has ever come into a game, Krukow has declared to have great stuff….
And there’s the Belt bomb I called for!
Giants hitters love this yard!!
The Pence-Belt Effect (PBE).
Yeah Belt likes to hit solo homers, but it adds to the lead this time!!!
Isn’t Aubry Huff from Texas? Remember him? YES WE DO.
Gives even more perspective on how incredibly well the Giants pitchers pitched in this yard in the ’10 World Series.
What cracks me up about Krukow in a negative way, is how he was saying, ” well if this game goes long into the night (16-17 innings) Peavy or Cain might have to raise their arms and volunteer?
Like baseball in the history of the game gives a shit about if you run low on pitchers? The game continues even if you bring in Mike Murphy to pitch..
there was no way this game was going late, not with every single hitter swinging for the fences in a hitters yard
pretty stoked about that extra run for Santiago, I’ll just leave it at that
Ballgame! Great comeback!
Ball fucking game!
The Ryan Howard ending…
classic. Thought same thing
Another called strike 3 to end it against Texas.
Prince treated that last at bat like he had a whole bunch of Saturday night pussy lined up…..
Best game of the year? That’s a big yes, YES, YES!!!!!!!!
beat me to it
That signature comeback game I mentioned last night? This gets a vote for the 2015 edition.
and wins by a landslide
Jesus, great pitch by Casilla.
Did not expect that bender nor did Fielder I suspect!
Great comeback Giants!!!!!!
I have one word to describe tonight’s game – wowgiantsfuckyeah.
The Hunters gettin’ it done tonight.
ah, good point…I never think of plural Hunters; Brandons, yes…. (remember Brandon Hicks?)
Did plural Willies ever do anything for you?
definitely: Mays, McCovey, Kirkland come to mind
Those pansy ass Ranger fans giving that standing ovation to Hamels like he was their their fucking savior. I love it!
that’s some redemptive adjective
I hate Dallasites. Their like wannabe Los Angelites. If you pretend to be from LA, you deserve to fucking lose.
A Kennedy was murdered in both cities…
Or is it Los Angelos? Either way, fuck em.
Pansy ass Ranger fans…LMAO. Love it..go get ’em Wilco!
If Belt played at Texas he’d hit 35-40 Belt-Bombs…
I am with you, Flavor. Best win of the year. Sets up the possibility of a series win for tomorrow!
Ah, excellent call.
Wow. Can of corn. Ended up being a great win in weird circumstances. Hamels pitches great and the pen gets smoked.
big, big win….we seemed dead in the heat till late in regulation
I feel like celebrating at a Hungry Hunter and add a Belt!
To bad they closed down, otherwise it would have been perfect..
Dodger fans, giving respect to the Giants:
Hamels had Panik in 8th, down 0-2, made him swing weakly on the second offspeed. Panik drives the 4th pitch in the alley for a stand up double to keep the inning alive. Opens the floodgates for that big inning. Lesser teams would just die there, the reason the Giants are great is because they’re relentless.
by Pure Azure on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:37 PM up reply
grind
grind
grind
I recognize and admire
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:38 PM up reply
Molly Knight tweeted. “The Giants aren’t going away….ever”
by Lex in South Central on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:40 PM up reply
Nope, never
The sweetest victory comes against the best competition. Bring it on, excellence raises the level of play. If the Dodgers fall short again, well get better next year.
by Pure Azure on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:44 PM up reply
Outside of their fucking titles, I wouldn’t want it any other way. It’s way more fun dealing with them than the D Backs or Pads.
by Lex in South Central on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:47 PM up reply
Looking forward to the debut of the shoplifting, kid hating, beady-eyed weasel tomorrow…
Well , if he’s paranoid, too — maybe he’s Nixon reincarnated…
the new Evan Thomas Nixon book sounds great
Nixon’s politics would make him a democrat now; and still a crook…
Yeah Leake does remind of the cartoon character “Morocco Mole’ sidekick of Secret Squirrel…
lulz!
Seeecret…
LMAO…
Some more Dodger fan comments, during the Pence and Belt HRs:
and Pence goes deep
Great player
by Lex in South Central on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:33 PM up reply
goofy as F …but a damn good player
by arbfuldodger on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:34 PM up reply
that awkward gangly fuck is always winning one way or another
by Jack Huber on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:35 PM up reply
Belt goes deep
by Lex in South Central on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:38 PM up reply
welp
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 1, 2015 | 8:38 PM up reply
none of the announcers said a thing, but I thought Panik was limping a bit (hamstring type limp) after one of those Tex-Mex leaguers near the end; he seemed to say something to Crawdad……maybe just my search-for-the-doom existential gloomy disposition…anyway, Kierkegaard can give him an existential rubdown in the locker room
Is BBOTD really there since April?
Pawlie mentioned Evan Thomas….
Thomas is a terrific historian. His book about Eisenhower is very good.
Carl Bernstein did a book review of two new Nixon bios and gave the Thomas one a lukewarm thumbs up. One thing I hadn’t heard is that several weeks before the ’68 election, Nixon representatives were afraid LBJ was going to get a major agreement in The Paris peace talks, so Nixon secretly made it known to the NViets that he’d give them a better deal than LBJ and Humphrey. So Nixon scuttled a possible earlier end to the war so that Humphrey would not get a pre-election boost. LBJ found out and was furious about what amounted to treasonous behavior. A lot of Nixon’s antics while pres was related to making sure that info never got out, because it cost about 25,000 American lives– since Nixon never followed thru with his “better” deal , and doubled down on bombing the North after he took office…
Hoping it’s an encouraging sign that Belt hit both homers vs. a couple of lefties tonight.
Agreed. When he first arrived, he raked lefties more than righties, then they fixed his swing…
2 things I did not know before the excellent come-back victory last night: 1) As MacDog mentioned, Belt had not homered off a lefty. 2) The G’s were 1-37 this year when losing after the 7th inning. Wow. 1-37? I would not have guessed that. Last year, I seem to remember these guys as the late inning comeback kids. Here’s hoping 2 new trends have started with the advent of August and the push to the post-season.
Oh, and, yeah, Nixon did end up giving the North Vietnamese a “better deal”. It was called complete withdrawal in ’73, which of course led to the fall of Saigon 2 years later. Ah, Tricky Dick. When pressed by my students here to define “irony”, I say, as a 17 year old in the ’73 military draft lottery, my birthday came up #9. Cue the White Album. I would’ve gone the next year. But hell no, I wouldn’t go, I filed for Conscientious Objector, saying to myself, no way I’m going to die in Vietnam. Now here I am in my late 50s in my 10th year in Vietnam and probably looking at… living out my years here… hah. On we go.
you’re the Vietnamese Klinger. lqtm
Let’s get a series win today! Make Texas Leake like a broken-down POS…
Last day competing with the pooch in Carson City. Hoping to get home before 1st pitch.
4 in 6! Why not…
Humm Baby – Let’S Do It Agin!
Maybe Nip watched this one, as SF shows they can win AL style with Posey at DH. Cool W for Strick.
Nixon stories will come out of the woodwork for years. His complicity in the downfall of Salvador Allende in Chile, a country with a rich democratic history of free elections ended by the murderous Pinochet dictatorship is one of the most awful things to happen to a heretofore peaceful South American republic.
I will say this for Texans tho—I used to really enjoy reading Molly Ivins in the Chron, and her book about Bush Jr. admin as guv in Texas, “Shrub”, is a classic.
Thx Zum for the best of LA takes…”Giants aren’t going away…ever” is POTD stuff. I really think Giants are in their FO’s heads, reason for their flurry of deals, mostly “signifying nothing.”
Meanwhile, tough times for Mrs. Zum. Braves have lost 6 straight and 9 of last 10 after getting smoked 12-2 by Phils (a team they are lot closer too than either Nats or Mets) last night. They have 2 more Ws than Sherps and Brewers on season after 104 games.
And the kid they throw vs. Cain Monday is the Polish alphabet.
This used to be pretty heated rivalry, not so much anymore.
Trippin’ on Ronda Rousey . . . Rousey is so good that she’s finished another fight in less than a minute. If you blinked, you missed it. 🙂
Here’s the deal on MOST politicians – they mostly lie; they mostly are interested in increasing their net worth (see Clintons); and, the separation of how much they are bought and paid for by lobbyists is insignificant insofar the labels, Democrat and Republican are concerned. One of the worst mistakes I ever made was working on Obama’s 1st Presidential campaign. That being said, I will take the Democrat candidate 9 times out of 10 going forward.
I wish Warren would run and if I determine that Sanders has a half decent chance of winning, whereby I don’t waste my vote – I’ll likely vote for him.
By the by, liberals in particular should see much to like in Nixon’s accomplishments. He recognized the People’s Republic of China, created the Environmental Protection Agency, created OSHA to oversee workplace safety and comfort, created the Consumer Product Safety Commission, created Title IX for women’s sports, added the cost-of-living adjustment to Social Security, and expanded food stamps and welfare assistance. He also supported the Equal Rights Amendment, though that failed out among the States.
President Nixon is also the first national leader I am aware of to sign a settlement with indigenous peoples that was made on equal terms. In 1971 he signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act into law; this Act constitutes the largest settlement of America’s indigenous peoples’ claims to their ancestral lands to that date, and served as a model and inspiration for land claim settlements by Eskimo and Inuit in Canada and Greenland.
In short, I would take Nixon every day and twice on Sunday versus the imbecilic right wing candidates we have today.
Scary, eh? Of the 37 republican candidates, there are maybe 2 with a few decent ideas. Rand Paul isn’t all bad, but some of his shit is just out there. I get not needing huge military bases all over the world, but self-regulating businesses is not the answer to anything but trouble. Din;’t Wall St show him anything? Shutting down things like the FDA and the USDA, understaffed as they are anyway, would lead to a lot of unnecessary problems.
Let the marketplace decide? Yeah, after hundreds die from bad chicken. Oooops.
I actually like Rand Paul. Liked some of his fathers ideas too. Yes, very scary – all of them.
sorry Blade, feel free to repost but I fired up a new thread.
Blade, the story of the ANCSA is pretty complicated. Strangely, after Nixon appointed AK gov. Wally Hickel Secretary of the Interior, settlement made progress in DC (despite Hickel’s previous hardball bargaining tactics in Juneau). Then oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, and settlement became essential (and probably more economical) to corporate interests. So that got done, but, of course, soon thereafter Nixon fired Hickel because Wally spoke out in opposition to the Viet Nam war. (Crazy mofo, Wally. His hotel in Anchorage had a great gym anyone could join, and as late as 1991 you could see him there jumping rope like the boxer he once was.)
In 1975, my second trip to Alaska, I worked as a wilderness fishing guide for the first half of the year and then, to make money, as a construction worker the second half. The big project was not far from Wasilla, and it was funded by Native money. The idea was to build a new luxury town, with a commercial district, golf course and float-plane lake, in between Anchorage and Willow, which was the future home of the new state capitol. Smoking D8s plowed streets through the birch forest and we installed many miles of water pipe 10-12 feet in the ground (frost). Then the Alaskans passed a referendum revoking the move of the capitol to Willow. The new town project vanished like a dream. The birch forest took over again (I visited the site in 1991). But a whole lot of people put that Native money in their pockets and lived well while they waited for the pipeline boom to begin. (Or if you want to see the story from a more personal side, google homeless anchorage native.)
Thanks for the thoughtful post . . . Your personal experience provides context to what I posted.
If Bernie was an independent I’d consider him. Just with the idea of a viable 3rd party could emerge. But the system won’t allow it.
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