What In the World Ever Became of Sweet Jane?
“Busted down on Bourbon Street, Set up like a bowling pin…..”
There is one Flapper who gets to strut around and say he knew it all along, and that Flapper is the great and storied WILLIED.
Dee Gordon got taken to the woodshed for PED’s and now last season makes a lot more sense. I wonder what his hitting coach has to say about this? lqtm.
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The Giants are in NY for a very difficult series vs a solid Mets club. Matz? deGrom? Thor? Jesus, those are 3 studs lined up and we counter tonight with fucking Peavy.
Do we have any New York Flappers storming the gates this weekend?
Heard Finnerty’s owner on KNBR this morning. He says they’ll be 160 strong in section 138 today. All wearing orange shirts and loud as fuck.
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Peavy did okay in his last start. Matz has been struggling early. So that part may be a bit of a toss-up. Meanwhile Giants hitters have just fattened up on Dagos’ pitching, formed nice congalines and may have gotten back in tune. Game two’s matchup scares me. Sunday brings the battle of the aces. So we should win one, have a chance at two and make this a well-contested series.
Kruk was on KNBR this morning telling us not to look at Cain’s ERA and that he’s actually pitching great. And that it was a huge accomplishment to beat the Padres who can beat anyone anytime. SMH. Kruk is just hilarious……
Kruk will pump up anybody with a $20 million per year deal…
I think Peavy gets blasted today. Peavy at home vs Peavy on the road are two very different Peavy’s…..
Anyone else know this shit (literally) about Mad Dog? Click on the links for more detail. Example – Wiping teammates’ shirts on his ass and then let them wear those shirts. What a scumbag.
http://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/greg_maddux_was_a_great_pitcher_and_a_disgusting_locker_room_presence/s1_13156_20797432?mb_edition=5722&linksrc=mb_favorites_head
Are teams putting PED clauses into players contracts that void a contract if the player get’s caught? Nope. Until it happens (which I don’t think it will anytime soon) it’s only going to get worse. We’re about to see a second huge resurgence of PED allegations. Great article in USA Today on Collabello this week in which Victor Conte spoke of some of these new drugs (really good ones) which only stay in your system for a few hours. Too many idiot ballplayers that won’t be able to follow the directions on the label.
Agree with Peavy on the road getting hammered. Though for some unseen reason in the force the Giants usually play pretty well in NY, so I could see a win tonight in a comeback capacity..
Like I always say, Nobody is above suspicion these days…
The PED cloud continues to hang over baseball because…..they work! And the players fully know it. That enticing forbidden fruit is always hanging within reach. Even after getting caught, the players often still benefit from a PED-aided huge contract.
It doesn’t look good on paper for the Giants this weekend, but the Giants have been defeating paper in even-numbered years lately.
And…..that’s why they play the games. Baseball has the infinite capacity to surprise. 🙂
Exactly. Non-issue, e.g., which one of us or for that matter, which baseball media expert picked us to win in 2010? 2012? 2014? I’m continuously surprised by what happens in baseball or life.
I doubt Kruk and Kuip will do much moralizing about PEDs tonight. They can’t, until they’re willing to say something about Bonds, and to my knowledge, they’ve never done that. They continue to wax eloquently about the amazing home-run accomplishments of Bonds, and pretend the whole PED-thing doesn’t exist in Bonds’ legacy. It’s pretty silly the way K&K ignore that elephant in the room regarding Bonds.
Peavy will be in the clubhouse playing his banjo by the bottom of the 4th.
Good one. lulz (did I get that right? All lower case?).
haha, yeah. Use the lulz however you want my man. It’s my gift to the flap world.
You’re an innovator dirt. A Flap Steve Jobs . . . Me? I gave the world Pfffttt! However, that’s ant small. Think Tim Cook 😦
I prefer systems integrator. The IPO is in the works.
I could give 2 shits about PEDs – who does them especially. Actually, I assume they are ALL using some form of PEDs and/or stimulants. Me? I wish they would approve their use. Testing continues to be a cosmic level joke.
but they nailed the batting champion. That’s a big deal. Either he’s too stupid to take the masking drugs at the right time or mlb is getting better at testing.
K&K might be less-likely now to be gushing about how Adrianza’s physique filled out so well in a few months. He might be totally clean, but it does look a bit suspicious.
he was going to get busted before he got hurt. I’m convinced of that.
I guess I just have an irrational poly view of Cain. I think he’ll be okay as in a sub 4.00 ERA. Hard to see him approaching 200 innings though.
Could see some crappy weather for this series. Light rain/drizzle possible tonight, tomorrow’s supposed to be a pretty good day, but then rain expected Sunday, the game I’m going to.
That sucks.
Gordon tested positive in Spring Training per Stark. I guess he dropped his appeal otherwise this could have dragged out even longer.
We greatly appreciate that he waited until after the Dodger series. 🙂
That’s the most hilarious part, he got suspended right after he played a big part in finishing off the sweep.
Love it!
Sure, zum but the timing of it all still stinks to me. Was the LA/Mia game last night nationally televised?
Yes; it was on the MLB Network.
Seriously? I’m game for theories and all, but that’s a little thin. They wait til after this one game? Or the series?
I’d guess he dropped the appeal before the game and they held off on the penalty.
If the stories are to be believed, you have to be beyond retarded to test positive. This shit cycles out pretty fast.
Time to whoop some Matz and Mets ass!
1. Denard Span (L) CF
2. Joe Panik (L) 2B
3. Matt Duffy (R) 3B
4. Buster Posey (R) C
5. Hunter Pence (R) RF
6. Brandon Belt (L) 1B
7. Brandon Crawford (L) SS
8. Jake Peavy (R) P
9. Angel Pagan (S) LF
Got word that Kokonuts is at the game
Buster Buster Buster . . .
Go Pawlie!!! Bring it home on the road.
Peavy is so fuckin’ washed up…
Shit. Peavy ain’t doing great but he got squeezed on those first 2 guys.
This was so easy to predict. What a lollipop pitch. A Flapper could have hit that.
Time to get one of our interchangeable long-haired garbage cans up in the pen…
Foul ball was tattooed.
66 pitches, 3 innings and no outs. Sheesh, Cincy on May 2nd can’t come soon enough.
Bring in fuckin’ Shitway or Shitland or fuckin’ Ogurkich or whatever the fuck is out there…
Hello? Bruce? Bruce?
Can’t wait to hear Kruk tell us how locked in Peavy is. I’m on the radio listening to Miller and Flem so I don’t know how Kruk spun this shit performance
Did Pawlie leave yet?
Jesus. I talk to a buddy on the phone, take out the garbage, and grab another beer, and there are no outs in the bottom of the 3rd still. Yikes.
Let ’em score all their runs tonight.
Pawlie, high-tail it to Finnerty’s…………
I’m assuming there’s an out in our future?
. . . Granderson walked, got a base hit, and walked. In the 3rd.
Giants brain trust need to give Peavy the remainder of his $9 million salary, along with his gold watch. As far as I’m concerned, he can start his next career singing songs in hotel stairwells.
Whence the fireman?
6-0 in the bottom of the third? Fuck that, back to drinking.
Check that, 7-0.
Make that 12 zip
So Zito reincarnate is Peavy!! Damn awful, just awful pitching!!
Zito Part 2 tomorrow…
Pence should have had that. Easily.
Nifty 8.61 ERA for Peavy now.
Peavy’s lookalike Blake Shelton could have pitched better.
The aptly named Broadway.
I see a phantom injury DL stint in his near future.
Peavy.
54 pitches 1 out so far this inning
Yeah, not sure WTF happened with Pence there. It was a high pop fly. Can of fucking corn.
Throw it down . . . wait for it . . . Main Street?
Elm? B-r-o-a-d-w-a-y! Jesus. This is when announcers earn their pay. Describing a complete and utter meltdown.
My.
Pawlie witnessing history…
Krukow is on to something. Put Gardner in.
Put Kruk in, he’ll get torched. Then tomorrow on the radio he can pat himself on the back with how “everybody” thought he had great stuff, but got no breaks…
Well this sucks!!
See, if Buster had gotten a base hit in the top of the 3rd . . .
That must be a record for SF, too.
I can’t remember the last time a team scored 12 on the Giants in one inning, is this a first?
I should have seen this coming – Stadium big Apple after that bomb . . . and my 1500 shares of Apple which went into the proverbial dumpster this week after reporting putrid earnings.
This is fucking embarrassing. Peavy should be dumped into the East River with a pair of cement cleats, and this stiff Broadway shouldn’t be far behind.
Flushing Bay is closer…
“They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose”
😉
Pawlie and other Giants fans . . .
I turned the car radio on. 12 runs in one inning– Mets record. WTF? Peavy gave up only 6. I’m reading the Flapper posts– hilarious. Zumiee’s probably right, Peavy will need to go on the DL, maybe from whiplash watching the hits go by…
PK just sent me pic of him and the owner of Finnerty’s. That’s rad. I was listening to the dude get interviewed at 6:30am this morning in the car and less than 12 hours later PK is snapping a pic with him
Here’s a depressing thought. Giants spent all this money on Cueto & Samajrwhatever — and it’s still not enough. They have no No. 4 starter. They have no No. 5 starter.
It should not be that difficult to find two starters who are just adequately subpar, 4.1 to 4.3 ERA. Too bad we don’t still have one my favorites on the staff, Y. Petit.
Well done on the “Pancho and Lefty” reference. 🙂
Start trotting some AAA starting pitchers out there. Some of them were first round picks.
PA-GONE! Here we go Giants!
Happy for Angel (coming back to the place he started and doing a good job).
Yikes. I just checked some minor league stats. They’re grim.
I thought SF was supposed to have quality starters below — Blackburn , etc. Where is Heston– the guy has disappeared like Petit did last year…
He’s only pitched 4 innings in Sac so far.
Beede is in Richmond, not tearing it up so far.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Timmy wearing a Giants uniform by the end of May or June.
SF has $35 mill invested in rotation spots 4 and 5. I don’t see AAA arms to the rescue for at least into June. Hope I’m wrong…
Cain is hitting 91 mph, which means, in theory, he could still be useful. After the first season or so, his fastball was never more than 92-3 anyway.
Trouble is, that 91 mph fastball gets turned around a lot at about 108 mph…
What have we learned from this debacle? (l) After three innings Peavy lost all control ~ 32 balls to 38 strikes. (2) Right down Broadway is NOT my idea of a fireman and soon will be plying his pitches for Sactown. (3) With runners on the corners Buster was not able to come through. (4) A certain gentlemen with the surname of Blackburn will not be keeping his SF apartment search on the back burner for much longer.
Snarkk, Petit didn’t disappear, he was disappeared:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/petityu01.shtml
Note his consistent ERAs for SF. An undervalued player, who is better than Cain, Peavy, Timmy.
And a wife with a major rack…
Yes, the b-ref data set is incomplete.
I know Bochy disappeared him. He didn’t pitch sometimes for a week at a time. No wonder he was “inconsistent”…
Oh boy Lopez in there now, could be 20 – 1 by the time this inning is over
If I was at this game now, I would knee fuckin’ “Cow-bell Man” in the balls and stomp his fuckin’ guts out.
Do you hear that cocksucker??? It’s fuckin’ 13-1 in the 8th inning!!!
Well we all could just sit back and drink Irish Car Bombs and and just say fuck it 1 game out of 162!!
I thought they’d save the Blanco pinch-hit until the deficit got to 6.
Dee Gordon must be consulting with Melky Cabrera . . .
“Though I did not do so knowingly, I have been informed that test results showed I ingested something that contained prohibited substances,” Gordon said in a statement released by the players union Friday morning.
“The hardest part about this is feeling that I have let down my teammates, the organization, and the fans. I have been careful to avoid products that could contain something banned by MLB and the 20-plus tests that I have taken and passed throughout my career prove this,” he said.
Back to your regularly scheduled broadcast . . .
I totally get that. I’m about to go out to a brewpub and unintentionally and unknowingly pound down a pint or two…
Yes, I can definitely see how that is plausible. 🙂
On this day in history, Hitler married Eva Braun, and the next day they killed themselves.
Saved on divorce lawyer fees…
Yeah, that marriage was going nowhere.
Not to mention the stupid-ass chocolate heart on Valentine’s Day…
The real problem was the irreconcilable differences with the Russian Army…
Bill Maher said tonight that Cruz picking Fiorina as his running mate is like Hitler marrying Eva Braun in the bunker.
Good analogy!