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 
Just doing a little research on where Heston grew up and I came across this nugget that I didn’t remember:
Heston was designated for assignment on July 13 to clear a roster spot for Jeff Francoeur and released on July 21.[4] He was re-signed by the Giants to a minor league contract on July 24.[5][6] In 2014, Heston improved to 12–9 with a 3.38 ERA in Fresno and was re-added to the 40-man roster in September 2014.[7]
Wasn’t a good night for Kruk either. He ragged on Odor pretty hard and then Kuip when he got back on TV side basically defended the guy. Then they made it seem like Bum was after the guy and defending Panik when he wasn’t at all.
Time for Bum to be mad was a lot earlier when he was getting raked. I guess no one gets complete games any more but Bum hasn’t gone deep that often either this year.
I’d wonder about Aoki not leading off too–no comparison in OB btw. he and Pagan, tho with a DH LU is a little funky anyway. Whole idea of a LU is to have better hitters at top getting more ABs and Pagan has been one of worst hitting regs for a long time.
Still think the baseball gods aren’t on Bum’s side this year when guys like Andrus hit his 4th of the year off him
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Don’t groove pitches. Gods got nothing to do with it.
Some folks just have a hot button and I guess it’s the bat flip for Bum. Do you remember Joaquin Andujar? Besides just being wired very tight on a daily basis, I remember watching a game where two guys bunted in a row and Joaquin blew a gasket, it took him an inning or two to calm down. What I didn’t understand is why the Manager of the other team didn’t have the next five guys bunt, I mean if you have a guy’s button, use it, take him out of his game. If I was a Manager facing Bum and the Giants, all my guys would be flipping their bats, no matter what they did at the plate (I hope the Managers of other teams don’t read the Flap).
Pretty funny line from last night was the one Flav posted about the s/h costing more than the Maldonado item itself. One of those rare guys who came from LA to SF, traded for Alex Trevino according to B/R.
Hit 20 bombs couple times, but buddies and I used to make jokes about Candy Maldonado school of OF.
Wonder if Aoki attended the J version. Just weird to see a guy who grew up there and went through all the fundamentals they practice take such funky routes and misplay stuff out there.
A lot of teams improved themselves (including the Giants), but I am scratching my head regarding the Padres. Complete ineptitude IMO, insofar as selling pieces, so they could reload next season. Now, they are stuck with five players – Kimbrel, Shields, Kemp, Upton and Gyorko – who will eat 75 percent of their payroll, leaving them with zero bucks to improve the club next season. The boy genius Preller dropped the ball and the Padres will pay a price going forward for his stupidity during the trade deadline.
Stark describes the aforementioned well in this column . . . http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/13356150/why-san-diego-padres-sell-trade-deadline
all I needed to see was this: Padres wanted Goldschmidt for Kimbrel. If Stewart did that he’d be fired immediately……
This single example exposes the Padre management as buffoons, they have no idea what their players are worth. That’s a trade offer (and possible acceptance followed by a vote and a swift cancellation) that we might have seen in one of the old Flap leagues. lqtm….
Why the hell would AZ cough up Goldie in that deal? The Pads had to be delusional.
Preller and Cherrington make Spec Richardson look like a bloody genius.
Speaking of Rowdy Roddy Piper, if you haven’t seen the sci fi flick ‘They Live’ check it out. Fairly interesting , if weirdly acted, movie with one of of the best single-camera single take fight scenes you will ever see, between Rowdy Roddy and Keith David. Given the topic is subconscious media bombardment by alien overlords, it’s very prescient for being made in 1988 regarding the corporate monopolies and media oversaturation. Cheesy and cornball at times, but David Carpenter can always put together some good stuff.
If you like Rowdy Roddy Piper, yo’ll love the movie. He does a pretty damn good job in this.
Great movie with a cult following. Not high art, mind you, but pretty good, especially if you’re a John Carpenter fan.
I’m gonna step up and defend my hometown Padres again. I think Preller was in a tough spot. He made all of these “we want to win now” moves and they have struggled. So then teams come around and want to pay fifty cents on the dollar for star players like Upton and Kimbrell. I think it took guts to say “fuck this–we’re not gonna get bent over by these other teams, we’re gonna go all in and hope we get the ace of spades on the river.” I like that attitude.
The D-backs probably offered something equivalent to Hector and Kickham for Kimbrell and Preller countered with an equally ridiculous offer asking for Goldschlager. Again, I have no problem with that.
I take the same attitude when hosting a garage sale. At a certain point, if someone is trying to lowball me something vicious, I will sooner reject the offer and donate the item to a thrift shop than get totally abused on the deal.
Diggity– you’re assuming he got lowballed. That would be unusual for every gm to try that. And all we know is that they asked for Goldy for Kimbrel. Who knows what really went down but the article blade posted seemed to have at least some inside info that made them look bad at best, incompetent at worst
C’mon…you know he was getting lowballed.
I feel like if you want to take a crack at a GM, look at Dombrowski in Detroit. 3.5 out of the wild card and he stomps on the panic button and blows out 5 top players??? If I were a Tigers fan, I’d be furious. To make it worse, in my eyes anyway, the Tigers in the last 6-7 years had totally restored the luster of their franchise after that horrible stretch they had. Now, they go and do something like this that makes them look like the Marlins instead of a flagship AL franchise. That’s the guy who should be catching heat IMO.
He may have been lowballed but he had pieces other teams really needed. I can’t believe that ALL HE GOT were lowball offers. And that article Blade posted was a good reminder that being a seller is a lot harder than being a buyer. If all he was going to take were guys at the Goldschmidt level then of course he couldn’t make a trade. And now he’s getting almost nothing for these guys who are going to leave at the end of the year. Bad GMing in my opinion and it’s ludicrous to try to convince your fan base that you think you can make the playoffs this year. They’re totally done.
They are 6.5 games out of the wild card with 59 games to play with a pretty talented roster and Matt Kemp heating up. Its not that far-fetched that they make a run at the WC.
I’ll shut up now on this topic.
agree to disagree. Curious, do you chat with Padre fans about the team? Are they taking the same stance as you?
Rarely. The passionate and knowledgeable Padre fan is about as easy to find as a 5 tool outfielder.
This was a bigger game than it might have appeared on the service. The team was coming off a nice homestand, was red hot and had their ace on the mound. And he gets shelled. Piss-poor performance by Bumgarner. They need to be beating teams like Texas no matter where it is they’re playing.
Surface, even.
Totally agree. Aside from that shitshow vs. the Twins in 2011, this was one of MadBum’s most disappointing starts. Giants rolling into Texas on a 13-2 run to take on below .500 Rangers team, with everyone — everyone — feeling good about the Leake trade, and how does MadBum start off? 6 in the first two innings while throwing hissy fits over every perceived slight. And now they gotta deal with Hamels tonight.
For those of you guys who are outside of the Bay Area: Laskey and Vida are a pretty hilarious radio show. You don’t listen to them for inside baseball stuff, they don’t say anything interesting when it comes to baseball analysis.
Here’s an example of why you listen to them ( might have gotten the player names wrong below, I was too busy laughing): anyway, Vida and Laskey are old enough to not give a fuck anymore. Vida was talking about how he never learned the players wives names because he’s bad at remembering names. So he would just refer to them as “Mrs. Knepper” or “Mrs. Madlock ” stuff like that. Laskey goes, “Well what did you do when you were on the road?” Vida laughs and goes, “What do you mean?” knowing full well what he meant. Laskey pushes and says, “you know on the road, like when they were with a different woman. Did you still call them “Mrs. Knepper?” Vida just starts laughing his ass off saying “that’s Bill Laskey talking not Vida Blue.” And Laskey goes, “Whatever, it’s been 30 years, figured we could talk about it….” Now, these 2 aren’t chatting at the bar by themselves, they’re on KNBR which basically reaches around the world……
I was laughing so hard I almost crashed my car……
That’s awesome.
Bum turns 26 today by the way. Thinking about his bitch-fit a little more, I really think he had been doing a slow burn about Aoki and Pence fuck ups in the outfield and finally blew his gasket at the batter who flipped his bat. He was waiting to go off and that was just the final straw…..
my single negative take on the Mike Leake move: dude looks like kind of a weasel to me. Tiny lips, little eyes. Then you get the stolen merchandise story, a lame-o excuse, plus the article by a blogger that Blade posted yesterday. He’s no slam dunk to fit into the clubhouse in my opinion. The fact that Boch has known his since he was a kid though, that goes a long way for me to not worry about that other stuff too much…..
Flav–can you at least agree with me on my garage sale philosophy? If I put my cadillac-level golf bag out on the driveway and I’m asking $15 for it, I’ll sooner haul it to the thrift shop and donate it than sell it for $3—capiche???? (Its a pretty sweet bag by the way, I’m looking at it right now—its got a dedicated sleeve for both the putter and sand wedge, sturdy construction, and you can fit 15 beers in it easily)
absolutely, 100%. I’m just looking at it differently than you. I don’t doubt there was some lowballing going on but these GM’s aren’t crazy grandma’s looking for a deal at the corner garage sale. They have legit needs to fill with shitloads on the line and guys like Kimbrel and Upton would have filled those needs. My guess is that they made legit offers but the Pads stood pat on wanting the moon. Could be wrong, that’s just my guess based off the results of inaction that we saw at the deadline.
Hold that bid, I’ll go $10.50 Dawg.. Raise or fold WJ?
I was actually just asking strictly about my garage sale philosophy and that wasn’t a veiled way of furthering my Preller argument. SanDawg is moving out of the home where he partially raised 3 kids in the next few weeks, which means some serious downsizing is in order and a garage sale is on the horizon. Exciting stuff, but it does have me asking myself some tough existential questions such as “Do I really need 4 different golf bags???”
Sounds great! Can we meet in the middle? I’ll give you $9 for it.
Done!
In a lot of ways, MadBum reminds me of Cain in his younger days. Both really good pitchers who have made a great contribution to the Giants. But, neither with electric stuff and both always around the plate with a tendency to challenge guys and make them hit their way on rather than issue a shitload of walks. And if they are a little off with their command or the hitters are having a good day guessing what’s coming, it can get ugly.
Take a look at Steve Carlton’s lifetime stats. And then imagine Bum in a 4 man rotation back in the day.
That backfoot breaking stuff is very Carlton like and better than anything Cain has ever featured. Carlton was not throwing mid-90s, either.
I’m glad someone commented on this take, cuz mixed in with all of my other bullshit about golf bags and show wrestlers, I was curious if any of you agreed with me on this. Funny, as I would have guessed you would have been someone who did agree me, but you don’t. You’ve told me you were never blown away by Cain’s stuff, so I knew you were with me on that side of the equation, but it sounds like you think Bum does have stuff that is at least a bit on the nasty side. Interesting.
The response was partially an exercise in showing some love for a player who hasn’t been as good as Kershaw and who, OTOH, gets praised for possessing characteristics that are mostly random shit, which is stuff I tend to keep quiet about, especially when the player is actually very good. Yesterday, the very same WS myth somehow couldn’t pull together the mental toughness to pitch well in a “big” regular season game. After going 13-2, there’s gonna be some payback for SF. Plus, I was one of the early skeptics who thought his arm was shot when he lost velocity back in spring 2010. 🙂
Zobrist with 2 HRs today; he would have been a good Giant.
Downsizing and getting rid of knick knacks and other garbage that is gathering dust is very empowering SD . . . When I sold the mountain home – which I loved – I easily got rid of one room of furniture (mostly new) and ditto for another bedroom. In fact, the latter I think I visited once every couple of months. Same thing for another bedroom I had – which was my official junk room. Going from 3000 plus sq. feet to 1450 sq. feet felt marvelous.
Also, no more stairs . . . Damn, I hated those with a passion. When you start your career, you want all the bling, including a big house. Fast forward to your 50s, you just want to get rid of shit. My take anyway.
…and I know having 4 different golf bags sounds ridiculous, but which one(s) do I give up?
The tiny little Cobra with about a 4 inch diameter? Its the cutest little thing you’ve ever seen and is the bag of choice when 4 of us are piling into one car for a golf and surf weekend in Mexico and space is at an absolute premium. Its also great when playing a short course with a few clubs or you want to keep it light while walking 9, or you’re just going to the range to work on a couple of clubs. Its going nowhere.
Then there’s the customized UC Davis Rolf Benirshke bag that I picked up a rummage sale. It looks awesome with UCD colors and embroidering and has the 2 straps so you can wear it like a backpack. Anyone remember Benirshcke? (Kicker for the Chargers who went to UCD) UCD must have given this bag to him at an alumni event and he tossed it when he got a new one the next year. How can I let that one go??
Then, there’s the cadillac bag I already described. If I am playing 18 with the fellas and riding in a cart, then the cadillac bag is the only way to go.
And then finally, the crush proof travel bag that totally protects the clubs from negligent baggage handlers and can then be used as a serviceable playing golf bag at your destination.
It’s all so difficult!
PS I hear you Chi. I’m a little stuck on this golf bag deal, but overall this is gonna be a good process for me.
Blade I meant, not Chi.
That was weird. I used to get Blade and Dirt confused, but now that I have met both guys, I don’t have that problem anymore.
I try to live my life like Aoki . . . or, what I imagine how Aoki lives his life. Or, maybe I should say how I think Japanese people live their lives. From what I know, I admire their homes and gardens. They are usually simple, serene and peaceful. I had a Japanese aunt (since passed away) and I learned so much about their culture through her, then later during my travels.
You can learn a lot of neat stuff here sometimes. You guys are a lot smarter than most of dumbos I consort with.
My father-in-law did a SanDawg. His mother (my wife’s grandmother) passed away at the age of 104 (!) and they were selling some leftover things from her house in a yard sale (yes, she lived in her own home until she was 104, with a live-in aid), and a “customer” saw a particular $1.00 item and asked if my father-in-law would take 50 cents for it. So my father-in-law picked it up and threw it in a trash barrel.
He said it was worth it to see the person’s stunned facial expression.
lulz!
I’m going to disagree with any that feel that all of Bum’s HR pitches were grooved. That pitch to Beltre was head-high. It’s probably exactly where the scouting report said to throw that pitch in that situation. Beltre just tomahawked that thing. That’s just a bad break. Bum didn’t pitch very well, overall, but the Beltre HR was just a freak thing, IMO.
Even apart from Beltre’s Pablo impersonation (that video BF posted yesterday, wow), for someone with Bumgarner’s command and stuff, not pitching well is often just random bad shit happening, like a few hitters catching up to the same pitches that he throws 100s of times in a season with no ill inconsequence.
Like, Bum is having a little more BABIP bad luck than usual. this season. I could see that. I thought his stuff was looking real good at the start of last night’s game. And then wham/bam 6 runs. No wonder he was so frustrated. But baseball is a frustrating game. He does need to control his temper better.
Yeah, the temper thing is really embarrassing.
I only heard bits and pieces of yesterday’s game and then saw some video replays. Whoever the Rangers player was he seemed to think Bumgarner was so lame with his act that he had a hard time getting pissed off. The reaction was more of a ‘yeah okay captain douchebag’ which is really what Bumgarner looks like. Anything is better than the constant snot rocket discussion I guess.
Sandog, I recently moved again and have gone from 1900 sq feet 3 years ago to 1450 now. We’ve offered some items to friends but mostly just been getting rid of stuff or donated it to various charities. I agree with blade. It’s been liberating.
Yeah, its gonna be a good thing, but I’m kind of a sentimental guy and my kids are a bit the same, so it will have its challenges.
The trampoline gets dismantled after this weekend, so that is a good start!
Mr. Heaney matching zeroes with Kershaw through 6!
Hank Kimball would be proud!
Yeah Dawg, it can be hard to let go, I’m like that.
Then again I have a anal type A personality neighbor who’s always saying “When in doubt throw it out”
So I took his advice,”and I threw out my wife.”
Have a day, Travis Shaw, Pablo’s replacement today. A ‘4 5 4 3’ box score. That’s a heckuva box score. Trying to Wally Pip the Panda.
Doesn’t take much to move the Panda to the dugout.Then again he’s closer to sneaking into the clubhouse for a food binge every inning…
And a quick rub and tug.
The Red Sox have about 90 million reasons to make sure that doesn’t happen. 😉
Yeah, we’ve moved 3 times in 2 years, and we went from 2600 sf to 2200 to 1450. About 30 truckloads to the goodwill and 40 to the dump. Problem is my daughters were in college at the same time and kept unloading shit at our house as fast as we were getting rid of it. By the time we got to WC we had 3 fridges and the people we bought the house from left their fridge plus washer and dryer here. So now all we are stuck with is our daughters fricking clothes and trying to sell a fuckload of appliances. Plus the dirt bikes, and the miscellaneous kid stuff we can’t do without.
Defense of the Pads, if they didn’t get what they were looking for to help them ( ml ready SS and other IF help, etc.) then no reason to sell off pieces. I think it’s good they kept their pitching staff intact and they can always make waiver deal later if they so choose.
If Upton leaves they get a high pick as long they do a QO, which I’m sure they factored in when they made the original trade. They have been disappointing but I think their real fans would have been disheartened to see Shields Upton Cashner Kimbrel dealt off for prospects like Beane did.
Gum Throwing Pussy goes yard!
Every time I saw that thread headline I wassure you guys were talking about Belt.
See? No one on base.
Dead red
Dead CF
Nice bomb Belt!!
Way not to get the job done Pagan you pussy.
Thank goodness Panik& Duffy know how to do it!!
Belt bomb!
Craw and Panik get ‘ er done!
I knew Pagan wouldn’t do jack with Craw on third.
This umps suxxx on balls and strikes, totally squeezing Heston last frame. But, hector suxx at framing; wtf has he been doing in Sac? — apparently not proving his framing skills. He friggin stabs and reaches instead of framing…
The Morse ship has sailed…thank goodness. No way in hell he makes the play that the Silver Hammer just made.
What an excellent play by Hector. Wow.
Yeah that was sweet play by Hector after I just ripped him😃
That’s an inning killer play!!
Something Sanchez has never figured out Snarkk.
Give the indicator/sign then keep your mitt still. He bends his wrist downward on every pitch, which would I think would drive a pitcher crazy. Posey’s one of the best framing pitches and keeping the mitt still..
Great play by Hector and DuffMan! Fuck yeah!
Belt sure got hosed out of a hit there..
It’s against the rules to block a base, but everybody gets away with it. The pick-off should not have been allowed. It’s weird how that rule is never enforced.
But we’ll take it! (grin)
I don’t know Zumie, I think it’s the discretion of the umpire on a bang bang play, especially on the bases over home plate nowadays.Doubt the ump could even tell Duffy’s foot was blocking the bag, he’s seeing the tag on the leg 1st ..
The loophole in the rule is that, if the throw causes the runner to block the base, then it’s allowed. Well, every player would claim the throw made them move their foot in front of the base, so the umps don’t bother to call it.
They are calling it once in a great while at homeplate, though. It’s a bigger point of emphasis on plays at the plate. The catcher can block the plate IF the throw causes them to move in front of the runner’s path to the plate.
Pagan. Sucks. I think we’ve squeezed all the grape juice there is out of that grape……
Unfortunately he will be our Aaron Rowand down the stretch, cause Boch won’t bench him..
Some may consider it merely anecdotal, but if you take the time to check the stats i’m fairly certain that you will discover that Belt is often at his best when leading off an inning. So here’s an unorthodox proposal: Since Pagan has basically lost it, bat Belt leadoff and drop Angel down to 8th where he would be a better fit in his current basically hapless state. Though of course Ricky Henderson had your typical leadoff man’s skills, particularly his ability to steal, steal, steal, he also happened to be a power hitter and had a pretty good ability to draw walks.
Makes sense to me, anyway,
The Red Sox had success with Youkilis batting lead off. Belt would be Youkilis-lite, but still not a bad idea. Bochy would never do it though; it’s a little further outside the box than he likes to get.
Had the same thought about Bochy’s conservative ways. He may be the best manager in the game today, but he is hardly the best ever.
How the hell is it different from rowand leading off? Wouldn’t do it belts case but wouldn’t have done it in rowand’s case.
Fuck, what do you do? Great pitch, beaten by a duck fart..
Man, Posey is thinking: “What a delightful bandbox this place is.”
Buster is just on fire the 2nd half!MVP numbers again..
He owns Hamels, just wish another Giant was on base..
I don’t care for the look of this stadium, tho’ not as bad, it seems, as the Dbacks’ industrial warehouse. At Global Village Terrestrial Planetary Life Park, those outfield grandstands look like some sort of faux riverboat gambler brothel auction house.
I’m guessing they closed those weird gaps they used to have, like where the guy fell and died while trying to catch a toss from Hamilton a few years ago.
Billy Pierce, requiescat in pace. It was Pierce vs. Whitey Ford at my first game, at Yankee Stadium, 1958. Those two had quite a rivalry. The White Sox won.
Fielder is like Sandoval: faster than one might expect, but still weighed down by bouncing man-tits that induce winces.
LOL
Fucking Pagan!!! Take the leg irons off and get after a ball, your a disgrace out there..
That would’ve been a hard play; he had to play deep. But I suppose a better read on it would’ve helped.
This game is beginning to disgust me.
Charge that run to Pagan.
We gotta stop getting steamrolled on the road.
steam being the operative syllable
Buster stay hot!!
1run game now!!
What a cool rally!!
Nice comeback
Yeah Baby!!!
The Pence machine!!
Tie game , what oh ,no decision for Hamels, such a bummer, NOT!!
At least we know there won’t be a bowling pin walk off bomb.
Pagan really has to hit the DL. I don’t give a shit how bad Maxwell Smart is hitting. Pagan’s defense is becoming a big problem and he can’t hit for shit.
Very nice comeback though.
I absolutely agree, Charlie. But only after he logs 100 games. 😆
hoooooooo. Nice, but those were hit hard…
I mean, at least with Rowand he was still playing good defense till the end. Pagan is horrible in CF right now and when he’s not striking out THE BEST he can do is kinda flip one barely into the outfield. Time for him to hit the DL with HUddy……
and there’s that little flip into the outfield. Worked in that at bat but he’s turned into Mark DeRosa…..
Infield dirt power.
And the flips are getting harder to get hits on because the outfield cheats in more on him.
Stupid if they pitch to the hottest hitter in the league, but the Rangers qualify..
I don’t care that they got him out now, that’s just dumb with 2 bases open.
That was finally a nice frame job by Hector
Jeeeeeezus. Time to get a run, quick, or this one could get walked off. Rangers have hit some screamers that have been caught….
Belt bomb to put ’em ahead? Who’s with me!!!!!!!
No one on base. Typical.
Or Pence, either way. Wahoo!!!!!!!!!
Greatest trade ever…
Hunter welcome home!!!!
The Reverend with some old tyme religion!
no, herbal is for the Bay Area 🙂
Wow. Can’t miss there with the Hunter . . . BOOM!
Hunter Pence doing it in front of his home town friends!!!
Way to launch one!!!!
With Pence’s bomb, Texas Hold ‘Em assumes new meaning.
Pence over the fence!
You win by a few seconds. 🙂
As they say, great minds . . .
Pence over the fence!
Pence over the, oh nevermind
Belted! Fuck Yeah!!!
back to back BELTS!!
Flav calls another one! Amazing!
Belt over the fence!