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I’m not sure if you could put together a bigger sports evening if you could hand picked the events. OBD take on the Cav’s in Game 4. In light of their utter dismantling in Game 3 this now becomes an extremely interesting game.
If you somehow aren’t interested in that you can glue your attention to Giants/Dodgers and Kershaw.
It doesn’t get any better.
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Hella job by Cueto to keep Giants in it to win it.
Especially after that ugly-assed first inning.
The K twins.
Mac/Parker
Unfortunately, too true.
Dammit… thought Craw had one there!
ok, so where are we. I holed myself up alone at my house. OBD game over and I am ready for some baseball…..
2-2 after 7.
The Giants survived a cluster-fart top of the first inning.
Yep…I think Cueto threw something like 117 pitches…
Kick ass Warriors game, eh Flav?
Damn, Craw just missed that one.
Amazing that Cueto has better numbers than Kershaw tonight with that first inning by Cueto.
Jon Miller with the dreadlocks on, now that is some funny shit.
Breathe…you never know when the ball is hit to Williamson.
If Cueto is under 250 pitches, I say keep him in for the 9th. OK, under 245 pitches.
Casilla now? Yikes.
Interesting, tied game, a non save situation.
Hey, if it worked for the Dominican Dandy, why not for the Dreadlocked Dominican? Pitch count? What pitch count??
As I was saying…
Brown, working on his golf swing there?
This would be a great *statement win* if the G’s can pull it off. Beating LA’s best, when the rest of their rotation isn’t even close to Kershaw…. And Cueto is just so cool.
Agree, Paul! How are things in good ol’ Vietnam?
OBD?
One game away. (Warriors.)
our beloved dubs. Loo coined it.
If you are going to blame Kerr for the last one, are you going to give him the credit for tonight?
I really don’t understand what you have against the guy. I think he’s brilliant, and tonite putting in Varejao was a stroke of genius that helped turn the game around.
Fuck, I cringe of late when Casilla gets in the game. I suppose I am probably not alone in that regards…
Fuck! Really?!
FUCKING BULLPEN!!
Casilla is over! We’re sick of it!
See ya Casilla.
Miller can’t be here quick enough.
Brilliant start wasted and fucking Casilla SUCKS.
That is just a shit pitch period….
Fucking classic hanger if there ever was one. Shit pitch.
I still don’t get it chi.
Me neither, LJ. Fucking absolute waste of a killer start by Cueto.
Casilla is….testing my patience.
Then you must be one patient dude, because mine expired a while ago.
Testing your patience? Fuck that…i am ready to string his ass up from the tallest oak tree I can find. I am SO FUCKING DONE with that motherfucker. Bring a kid up from AA or AAA, and send Casilla on is way.
Was Bochy really giving Casilla *one more chance* to prove himself, tie game 9th inning against the Dodgers? Sheesh….
I think this is an indictment against him. Just letting him dig his grave further, so when the closer change comes permanently, he’ll shut the fuck up.
Well, it’s on Bochy, too.
Yes, and we have discussed that exact topic quite a lot of late. One of Bochy’s flaws is his, IMO, over-the-top commitment to his vets. Casilla, Peavy…you get the drift.
I’m here at the pub with the snarkk family and I said oh no, Casilla is going to give up a home run here, and sure enough, 2 pitches later and it’s gone. How many more screwups does Bochy need to put this guy on the back burner?…
Casilla is fooling nobody.
Giants have no shot at Miller.
Look elsewhere…
I know. Wishful thinking. So, my money is on Strickland. Whoopee Doo!
This HAS to be the end of Casilla as closer.
They activated Romo didn’t they?
Yes, let’s bring back the frisbee. Oy!!!!!!!!
No.
Yes, he’s now an active member of the 60 day DL…
Dollars to donuts, Strickland gets the job long term, after the obligatory “torture by committee” is allowed to run its course.
Agree. That probably starts this weekend….
I’d go with Gearrin + committee.
Well it wasn’t really a “closer” appearance – ask DMD…
I told my son the other day that there has been a lot of Warrior talk on the blog and he replied by asking me if Del Mar Dennis is a Warrior fan.
Made me happy and sad at the same time. I miss Denny.
Am I hearing a passive endorsement from the group to promote Strick to Closer????
You’re hearing Anyone But Casilla.
No, only me. š
rabble, rabble . . . rouser, rouser.
If I’m Boch, I have the take signal on for all these batters. Just so there isn’t any chance of Castilla getting the win.
The Giants have just missed 3 times now.
Atta kid BB.
How ’bout Blanco’s first homer of the year.
Fuuck! Yesssss!
Helluva an AB there by Gregor…..and I had no problem that he was swinging for the water
Blind ump
Pfffttt!
Shit. Take the next 2. We need ’em.
Blehhhhh
How ’bout them Dubs?!!!!
Good, hang the loss on Casilla..
Well, I’ll stick with my first thought: just get at least one win in this series, and it’s all good.
Good ballgame. Giants battled back and SF made Jansen strain in the 9th too.
Opie’s the best they’ve got and Cueto battled him dead even.
For all the numbers Op has vs. SF it’s not like rest of the league slaps him around…at least in reg season.
Cueto was lights out after the first.
If we had their closer we’d be leading the division by 10 games.
LA’s got a shitload of talent on that team. I think we got our hands full with these guys every time we face them. I’d settle for splitting these next two as well.
Tough loss. I thought Crawford’s ball was going and it just missed. Cueto is a joy to watch, very entertaining and he always seems to a step ahead of the hitters. He is the real deal.
Harrison Barnes is quietly having a very good series. I’ve been critical of him in the past, but he’s working his ass off on the glass and hitting some big buckets. His +/- is in the plus almost every game. He’s arguably been the team’s best player in this series.
The Dubs once again responded like the champs that they are and I’m proud of ’em. I try to avoid criticizing the officiating, but I saw so many uncalled hacks tonight that it has to be said. At the end on the inbounds play, James cleary grabbed Curry twice with no call. It was blatant. Curry’s been getting the crap beat out of him in this series with very few free throws to show for it. I have no idea why that is.
Anyway, great bounce-back and it’d be great for the W’s to win it on their home floor.
Agree about Curry LJ.
The mossback players that argue Curry isn’t being defended are FOS in the playoffs. Curry has gotten the hell beat out of him away from the ball. LeBron was basically mugging the kid all the time. I loved it when Curry stared him down after a particularly egregious foul. And Draymond walked away from LeBron after LeBron threw him to the floor right in front of the ref — no call. LeBron was baiting him to get a technical, I’m sure of it. Drayman walked away, but I’m sure he wanted to go with him right then and there. Dubs had the last laugh. Gonna have to check on “Vern”, the guy from Cleveland that’s BF’s whipping boy. He must be on suicide watch…
Cannot realistically question Bochy about much, he’s been Yoda for this team. Yet, every now and then, something happens that makes you wonder. I doubt there’s a single Flapper in all of Flap Universe that would’ve brought Casilla in at that point of the game. If he had gotten the job done, Bochy would wear his Yoda hat proudly. But it has seemed pretty evident of late that Casilla is NOT the guy for those situations at this time. Not gonna say “anymore”, because maybe there’s something wrong, blister, etc., which usually comes to light weeks after the suckitude. Casilla has been a trooper for this team. Just .. not…. getting it done right now…. Take a break from him, Brucie. Strickland, Guerrin… couldn’t do any worse, and might just right the bullpen’s shaky ship.
Well said.
Good post Paul š
Great win for the Warriors. Refs were awful. Announcers going on on and on re varijo (sp?) flopping when clearly pushed. Idiot Van Gundy wouldn’t let it go even after their own “expert ex ref” guy says it was a foul on Love. Lame
Refs were bad on both sides, but horrendous in letting Cavs get away with football like play in a basketball game…
I just watched the second half. Seemed like the refs swallowed their whistles in the 4th quarter.
Irving and James were trying to force things too much on offense. They became a two-man team at the end, and that was a disaster for them. Warriors really brought the intensity tonight.
Dubs have to get up for one last game Monday night. Win it, and they win a lasting legend for themselves. A win gives them a great finish to one of the best seasons in modern US sports history, and two of the best back to back seasons in North American sports history…
7 points in the 1st half for Bron? He could have taken 8 more shots and that would have given Cleve about 14 more points. He passed too much early.
Lost respect for Bron Bron and his chickenshit crap with Steph. Sure, fuck with Green, but Steph?
Van Gundy should be canned for being such a homer for the Cavs. Even Jackson was awed at how stupid Van Gundy sounded most of the night.
Didn’t see this!
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport
Check out the 3rd video. You were right, Flav. Some crazy Cleve fan ran onto the court.
Is that Frank the Tank? “We’re going streaking!”