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That giant ass……
A stance on the mound so wide he could ride 2 fine steeds at once….
The meticulously oiled mustache….
And that herky jerky two pump chump wind up…….
Everything about that guy I want to go away.
And it happened again. The pitiful A’s who are 16.5 games out of first place came into our park and smacked us around.
I could easily see the A’s sweeping us.
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It seems to that we have the toughest time with the A’s and Rockies no matter how terrible they are. Two teams that just always seems to have our number
A’s players don’t bother me, unlike Beane and ownership.
the kid pitched a good game and he’s not a fluke. threw hard and mixed in some off speed stuff. Hey the stache sox and windup work for him. Houston kid out of Westside High and Tex A&M Aggies, and that’s not easy either.
Semien is a Berkeley kid, good to see him improve defensively with hard work and he has some pop.
Davis and Valencia can both hit for power too.
Crisp is their version of Pagan, OK when healthy, otherwise…
Melvin is a good guy too, and had them in position to take down Royals in WC 2014 before Lester and his pen ran out of gas.
They are still the team of Billy Butler and Yonder Alonso and Axford, 10 games under .500.
Like to know how many giants fans crowd the O wed/thurs. Bum’s going Thurs, they are all night games and you obviously don’t have to hassle with StubHub or scalpers. If you can get to BART you can walk right in, not a bad deal.
So, I mentioned yesterday that I am probably in the minority as to liking inter-league play. I mean really, Blade and I would not be heading to Boston and NYC if inter-league did not exist.
But, every time we get our asses handed to us by the Fucking A’s, it gives me pause as to my appreciation of inter-league. I mean really, we have the superior team, and they rock those funky-assed unis with the WHITE shoes. I just hate everything about their look and their seemingly unending ability to kick our ass. Fuck the A’s…cannot wait for these two series to be over.
Agreed. Their unis look stupid and their colors…ugggh. But I have to say their few hardcore fans bring great energy to their yard. But those stupid vuvuzelas I want them to choke on, just idiotic. It’s funny, I went to an A’s game a couple of years back with my wife for a company thing and I was rocking Giants gear and I had a SF hanging from my rear view mirror and as I was driving into the parking lot, the parking attendant yelled at me “you’re at the wrong park bro” and I got a lot of stink eye from the oh so friendly fans over there. But when I see people wearing A’s gear at AT&T no one really seems to care. They definitely hate us and they are just a minor annoyance to us. That aspect of the “rivalry” tickles me.
I have had similar experience at their yard. Last time was probably 15 years ago or so, and while walking out (after the Giants had beat their sorry asses), I had some chump who wanted to start some shit because I was rocking my Giants gear. Ain’t nobody got time for that shit!
Yes, their fans are hardcore and love their team. And no shit re: the vuvuzelas…makes me want to shove one up their ass popsicle style.
Yep…tons of good seats available on the A’s site. For $99 you can sit in box seats right behind the Giant’s dugout. For $28, you can sit in the nose-bleed seats, right behind home plate, and a couple of innings later could probably stroll down to lower box seats with no issues.
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/MLBEventInfo?agency=MLB&pid=8122624&tfl=Oakland_Athletics-Tickets-Single_Game_Tickets-Lowest_Price-xo
I think that guy’s stretch move is a borderline balk. Wouldn’t surprise me if he gets some balk calls.
It makes you think, as someone posted yesterday (I can’t remember who), that the A’s get super pumped for this “Bay series” and the Giants are pretty meh about it.
mm, idk. Giants are in a pennant race and can’t overlook anyone, as series with Phils should have shown. You see this happen all the time—Rays had lost 10 in a row and walked into Fenway and pounded Red Sox
I’d imagine lot of these guys know each other and see them around local haunts. Pagan at 2b was chatting it up with infielders, and he was talking to Alonso too who used to be a Pad over at 1b. Bragging rights over who kicked who’s ass still mean something.
Plus iirc Giants did well against them last year…have to look that one up.
Only quasi-related: what did you think of Bochy’s move, letting Stratton bat with the bases loaded and no out in the 8th inning?
I was gone by then, but i don’t like it at all.
Send up Bumgarner – or anyone else…
The one thing that pissed me off about yesterday’s game, and I only saw the last 3 innings, its because I’m on dish network now, I had to listen to the fucking A’s announcers. Fosse is an imbecile. Kuiper is worse.
On the tough play that Panik didn’t make in the 8th on the popup to shallow center, Fosse said, “if it was a closer game, Panik makes that play.” I was baffled by that comment as being completely bereft of logic. My son said, “That’s Tim McCarver territory. He not only states the obvious, he misstates the obvious.”
Then they went on and on how this is a revenge game because the Giants won 4 of 5 from the A’s last year. Irregardless of the veracity of that statement, you don’t win a series in one game.
“That’s Tim McCarver territory…” – that is my newest favorite saying.
I hated McCarver so much…I think I’ve told the story of trying to get him fired with head of Fox Sports at that time in 1998 I believe….
RIP Buddy Ryan. Quite a character . . . Loved it when he cold cocked a player (forgot who . . . maybe it was a fan?). I hated that 46 defense when the 49ers played against it, but give credit where credit is due – it was innovative and changed the game. I really thought that Bears team would be more than a one and out type team. Players went “Hollywood” and never regained that magic they had in 85 SB run.
From BR playbook . . . https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmCdKimWkAAOyes.jpg:large
He was an asshole, but an innovative asshole. RIP.
Buddy cold-cocked his offensive coordinator, Kevin Gilbride when they were coaching the Oilers iirc.
Ahh . . . Thanks Chuck.
Yeah, Jack Pardee was the HD, Ryan the DC, and Gilbride the OC. Buddy got pissed about something and tok a shot. Thing ids, Gilbride would have kicked Buddy’s ass.
That Bears D had some talent, too…
Over the course of his career Samardzija has typically performed poorly in June. 42 games, 181 innings = 5.94 ERA. Maybe he’s just got a case of dead arm cured by the All-Star break. Maybe I’m just hoping for the best.
In honor of the A’s win, I promise to puke green and yellow today.
sfsarge is right, when we played at the Stick, the As fans that I knew really talked up how great their stadium was, how their weather was so much better, how they didn’t understand why we still went to games etc.. We get the new yard and it was just, oh yeah just because you have a new stadium blah blah blah. Although they did bother me some (well, sharing the Sporting Green in the Chronicle did piss me off) but it was those folks that wore the split SF/As hat that pissed me off the most. I just wanted to yell, make up your fucking mind, to them.
plus A’s fans had the flags from the 70s which I used to hear about. Now that the Giants have their own, shoe and the yards obviously on the other foot.
Zum I balied early after samrdz gave up a couple more to make it 6-0 so I didn’t see the 8th. Read about it over on Baggs blog—lightning rod for an argument over there about whether Bochy just gave up or whether he did the smart thing by not batting Craw who was hurting.
Do the A’s employ a voodoo witch doctor against us????
There are Dodger fans that swear the Giants have a voodoo witch doctor. 🙂
The worst part about Fosse is that he literally has no sense of humor at all and yet he tries to say things that are funny. And it falls flat every single time. Kuip gives him a half hearty chuckle but you can tell it’s forced.
Blade, the biggest reason the Bears didn’t repeat is because Buddy left after that 85 season to become the head coach for the Eagles. He and Ditka had no love for each other, but they fed off each other’s animosity. Once Buddy left, they never got back to the Super Bowl for quite a while. Course, the Niners had something to do with that. . .
I think the punching of the Oilers OC was because the Oilers were doing the ‘run and shoot,’ and they were having a lot of quick 3-and-outs, and Ryan was angry the Oilers defense didn’t get much chance to rest.
Obviously it doesn’t justify punching someone.
Well, as Chuck said – Ryan was an old man at that time . . . 70 or something like that . . . Gilbride after being slugged, must have held in his laughter after that. I found it hilarious at the time.
I don’t remember at what point in the game the punch occurred, but it was during a game the Oilers won 24-0 over the Jets, so it’s not like the Oilers were struggling.
With the lead, Ryan wanted more running to eat up clock, but the ‘run and shoot’ wasn’t good at that. His frustration with the offense had been building.
I’ve read where Dent blames Ditka, but that rings hollow. I think it is more accurate to say the offense began and started with Payton. In short, the offense never passed the eye test in my opinion. Also, the team was polarized as you suggested, e.g., they carried Ryan off the field, along with Ditka after the SB win. lulz.
Bears went 14-2 the year after Buddy left, so it’s not like they took a big fall. And they actually gave up fewer points in ’86 than ’85. They got upset at home by the ‘Skins in the playoffs, with Flutie at QB instead of McMahon, and that was that. And of course, Buddy never won a playoff game as a head coach.
McMahon was the straw for that team. he was the first (only?) legitimate QB the bears ever had. he was able to take some of the pressure off of peyton and give the defense enough points for it to stand up. I said at the time he was going to be a difference maker for them. don’t get me wrong, he wasn’t great, but he was a great fit for the bears. and peyton was flat out amazing. everyone in the world new he was going to get the ball and he would get yards anyway. that the perry has a td in the superbowl and he doesn’t is just flat criminal and Ditka should burn for that lapse.
I dunno Eric – I remember Bobby Douglas being a pretty decent QB, they just did not have the complimentary parts…
you could be right Chi, but he seemed just another guy to me.
At least Jack Concannon had a great QB name…
I thought the A’s pitcher reminded me of Ron Goldman’s dad from the OJ trial. What a douchebag that guy was/is…WilieD mentioned that Dick Callahan is the PA announcer at the Mausloeum for A’s games. I had no idea he was still alive. I used to do impressions of him as a kid. “Chris Mullin at the line, shooooting twoooo.”
oh man was he awesome, i’m sure you weren’t alone doing the imitations. He used to always give the guy’s number after a hoop..For a while I lived at an apt with #2 and my buddy’d point to it and say.”#2 is Alex English.”
And to hear him yell out “Purvis! Short!” while the arena went crazy after another rainbow J.
Trrrrrraveling.
Since I dug the Sixers of Wilt’s days always got a big kick out of Zinkoff. “Grrreer!”
Don’t know who the guy was, but in the early days of the Milwaukee Bucks their PA announcer would yell the home team’s baskets twice (Basket by Alcindor!!! – Basket by Alcindor!!!). A visitor’s basket (just the player’s last name) was muttered in a low, depressed monotone (“Reed”). John Condon at the Garden was fantastic and pretty much impartial. “That was Dave DeBusschere”…
I’ve pondered Ray Fosse’s accent. I can’t really place it. He drops his y’s, so you get:
“Billuh Martin managed for manuh years.”
The ’85 Bears were a great team, but such a clown show They started their Super Bowl celebration in the middle of the season. A lot of Bears fans were buffoons.
Yeah, that was the point I was trying to make. The song they cut, McMahon mooning the press, and pissing off teams with Perry’s goal line TD antics didn’t endear them to many beyond the Chicago area.
I like this Giants team. They are resilient. I also like our reserves, especially Brown, who is a capable catcher when Posey needs a breather. I don’t believe in luck (i.e., I have always believed luck is defined as preparation meeting opportunity), so the Giants tied for the league in wins and one behind the MLB leader is well deserved. I’ll leave the stats to James to figure out, but this team in my opinion – just pulls together and even more so, when one of the pieces is injured or not doing well.
Related to that, I am not even for a second concerned about Smargman . . . Once we get into the playoffs, we only need Bum, Cueto, and fill in the blank (Smarg, Peavy, or ?). Seeing good things for this team.
Great post and observation Blade. I have been having the same thought for a while now. I do like the make-up of this team. I mentioned yesterday that without Pence, and now Duffy for a while, they have just had guys pick up the pieces and, as of yesterday were 1/2 game from having the best record in baseball.
Blade – in three weeks our asses will be jetting to Boston! I am pumped, brother! Going to be a kick-ass trip. I am hopeful that we get a chance to meet up with some of you right coast knuckleheads. By-the-by…after some back and forth with Loo (I think) a while back, and also one of the bartenders at my local brewery (he is from NYC), I decided to fly out of La Guardia when coming home. I think you are flying out of Newark, correct?
My flight into Boston on the 19th doesn’t get in until around midnight. Ouch. But fuck it…it is still going to be an amazing trip.
Wow. That blows Chi . . . Entire day blown on the 19th. You should try to get an earlier flight. Possible? Send me an email.
Well, I booked it through Priceline, and at the time, every flight, regardless of the time it left Sacto, ended up hitting Boston around midnight. I will look into it, but if I cannot…no biggie. I should have looked for red-eye flights on the 18th, in retrospect. Fucking dumbass…
Here’s to Pat Summitt. She heroically stood up against a terrible disease.
The Julianne Moore movie “Still Alice” is a well-made but disturbing depiction of someone with early Alzeimer’s. Great movie, but tough to watch.
Several years ago, I played in a low level celebrity golf tournament out near Palm Springs. Jim McMahon was the headline celebrity and every foursome had one “celebrity” in it. We had a guy in our group who played bass in Styx and The Babies. He was a cool dude. The Bears kicker, Robbie Gould was the celebrity in the group behind us and he flew drives over our head—twice. Anyhoo, on Saturday morning, we got out early to catch the shuttle so we could take a few swings and when we get on board there was one person sitting in the back—Jim McMahon himself. I was the first one on and said something to him and he either completely ignored me or made the slightest nod of his head (with sunglasses on). I took that to mean he didn’t want to mix with the common folk at 630 in the morning and did not address him again, but my friend Todd wouldn’t leave him alone. “I watched you on the Chargers— I’m a season ticket holder” “What do you know about this course” “Man, that Bears team was great” He kept going on and on and McMahon barely responded. We were trying to get him to shut the fuck up, but he is one of those guys who doesn’t read body language well and never backs off. This all took place not long after Jimmer Fredette was going off at BYU. Some of you hoopheads might remember this, but that year BYU was ranked at or near the top of the polls and suddenly they kicked the second best player off the team. He was a black guy and reportedly he had been having a sexual relationship with a white student. It was controversial deal at the time. So then Todd asked McMahon about that whole deal and all the sudden McMahon came to life and spent the rest of the shuttle ride telling us how hypocritical and bigoted BYU was/is, mixing in a couple of other stories from his time there.
It was pretty wild how just putting the right topic on the table completely transformed his mood.
Has this technique been tested with other people?
Yeah, just say anything even remotely political to my brother-in-law and you get to hear 25 Fox News talking-points non-stop.
That’s an awesome story, Dawg. Thanks for sharing.
Ruh-roh, Kershaw is seeing a specialist about some back pain.
Turner has a slight hamstring strain and is out of their lineup tonight. He looked a little gimpy near the end of the Sunday night game.
Big time juicer…
He did have the kind of career turnaround that looks suspicious.
I thought that was a great story dawg , , , Then Zumiee chips in his 1 liner – “Yeah, just say anything even remotely political to my brother-in-law and you get to hear 25 Fox News talking-points non-stop.” and I’m practically rolling on the floor with laughter. Hilarious Zum.
Nice studio appearance by Morse today on the MLB Network in suit and tie. He had a lot of great things to say about the ’14 Giants. They showed some great highlight clips of him with the Giants. He didn’t say if he’s officially retired or not, but I’m guessing that’s the basic reality of it.
Dodger fans are flipping out with worry about Kershaw. His performance and psychological importance to that team are incredibly huge, obviously.
A Dodger fan posted this gif:
more gold from Diggity at 2:32pm– easily the best storyteller at the blog.
And he delivers in Stephen King like quantities.
Panik on the DL for concussion symptoms?? Wow
From the HBP on the helmet last week?
Yep. Your crack giants medicos. Or us that medicos on crack? Have they diagnosed a concussion correctly yet? Just amazing.
Yes, that is what was reported on KNBR
Now Panik? Best infield in the game and now they are at half-strength. Wow. Somebody must be sticking pins in voodoo dolls. Well, we get to see what the farm has to offer. Pena has played over his head so far (not that i’m complaining) and re-run Gillaspie hasn’t been half-bad. Soon though, Sacramento will not have much left. Survivors of the original 8 will have to step it up. Hoping at least one of the rookie outfielders get a start tonight. Can’t say we don’t need the firepower.
What did I say about the A’s and voodoo????
Maybe that explains Panik’s Belt-like baserunning the other night.
Could be, Mac…
It doesn’t explain being thrown out at 3rd base twice in one game.
Jim Hickman dies at 79. I’m sure Fosse will have warm memories of him tonight.
I liked Hickman. He was the prime example of something strange going on in 1970…
Chi and Blade, I just confirmed our overnight accommodations in Boston the night of the 18th. Our cousins invited us to spend the night of the 19th.
Have either one of you been in Boston? If we are there around lunch time in the 20th, is Cheers to touristy for you all for a drink or we can do something around Newberry St. and get some chowdah!!!!
Yes, I am open to anything and everything GH. Looking forward to meeting you. As the time gets closer, let’s talk.
One of the joys of East Coast/Mid South life…9:40 at night, just getting dark..humid, watching a line of thunderstorms rolling by 15 miles away. Sitting on deck, stogie in mouth, vodka cranberry in hand chased with a Sierra Nevada stout….Nick Cave on my ipod ..life is good. Need a Gigante win…
And Reds just tied the Cubs bottom of the 9th…wife and three kids already asleep with the two dogs and the older two kids at friends/in-laws…life real good…
Do your dogs have a curfew or do they just come and go as they please?
Having lived in the east quite a bit, the post … Says it all. Love a quiet house and a good drink in my hand .
I have to admit I’ve on just started GoT. I’m in season 1!
Nick Cave, cool!
Zum…have you seen him live? Really really great…
Summer and baseball, it’s an awesome thing.
Zum, what did you think of Game of Thrones finale? Wow to that as well..
Haven’t seen him in concert, but I like his stuff. I also enjoyed reading a novel he wrote, and his work on the movie The Proposition. I saw that film in a theater and was very impressed.
Only just started GoT. Season 1!
Have not read his novel yet, but will be on my reading list. Was surprised how good the proposition was. You will enjoy Game of Thrones immensely…but this was the best finale yet…
“You should have said a prayer for the butcher’s boy.”
That would be a perfect song for Nick Cave sandog….Nick Cave and his writing partner and bandmate did the soundtrack for The Road and the Assassination of Jesse James and also the ok movie Lawless. Apparently they did the soundtrack for upcoming Jeff Bridges thriller set in West Texas titled Hell or High Water coming out in August…
Is Nick Cave still backed by the Bad Seeds?
The Bad Seeds no longer have his longtime cohorts Mick Harvey who goes all the way back with Nick Cave to his punk band The Birthday Party and euro guitarist Blixa Bargeld. But his new main Bad Seed is Warren Ellis who plays everything from piano, guitars and fiddle and is his co-writer for all these soundtracks and probably has a lot to do with their more rootsy, western/country Gothic sound….my best description, especially with the Western themed soundtracks.
Damn right the dogs have a curfew, especially the 170 pound Mastiff Leo, who prefers sleeping on the bathroom floor and you can hear him snore from the basement….
Timmy’s start #3 is tonight.
Lincecum gives up two walks and then a three run homer to Correa in the top of the first.
I was surprised he got so many + reviews after his first game this year. I thought he looked pretty awful. And getting blasted his next 2 starts is sad. End of the road for one of our fav players of all time
Shoulda done something akin to the Sandy Koufax thing. Although I was surprised to see that Koufax pitched until 30 . . . .
Goodbye, Timmy. Always a Giants hero.
it’s the free game on Yahoo if anyone wants to peek in on his second inning (hasn’t started yet, Angels now in bottom of first)
You guys were talking about hip hop and rap the other night. I think Kevin mentioned something about them not playing instruments. I like this band, Prophets of Rage . . . Tom Morello (he hates Trump) joined forces with Rage Against the Machine members Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, DJ Lord and rappers Chuck D from Public Enemy and B-Real from Cypress Hill and formed this group, a rock and hip-hop supergroup that is kicking off a national “Make America Rage Again” tour on the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, in July.
By the by, you may not like it if you have virgin ears. lulz
The last concert I saw in CA before moving to Texas was the first annual Tibetan Freedom Concert at Golden Gate Park. Rage absolutely killed it with that song.
Just turned game on…why Suarez starting? What did I miss?
uh, like the last couple of weeks?
ba-ha!
Lol
Wasn’t this supposed to be Peavy’s start?
Bochy flipped them when Peavy had neck soreness, to give him an extra day of rest.
Ahhh…thought it was the $15 million investment hangover…ouch…
Mr. Belt has a lot of two-baggers. Always loved a guy who could hit a lot of doubles.
That’s why I loved Lee Maye in 1964…
Buster’s on an awfully quiet hot streak…
Grienke just got pulled with an injury. Not sure what it is.
Didn’t sound like Panik was DL’ed from Tile Teeth’s report just now…
that Tilex-line from last week still slays me. Literally, I lol’d about it on the way into work yesterday.
It’s the least I can do for you.
is anyone surprised that it’s now coming out that Panik is dealing with concussion issues? It should be mandatory that if you get hit in the head you come out of the game. All this bullshit about “passing the concussion protocol” is nonsense. Anyone with even a casual understanding of brain injury and concussion knows that symptoms develop post injury…..
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Greinke ran into the dugout tunnel and locker room, then came back out and was gone after a couple warm-up pitches. Very strange exit.
So is Panik on the DL or not?
From Baggs earlier: Bochy said he should know later today whether Panik would have to go on 7-day concussion DL.
Thanks, Mac…I was getting a little agitated here on my deck with my drink…
I’ll bet you can’t beat the view of the projects.
LULZ!!!
Wasn’t this Peavy’s turn in the rotation? I had Suarez as fifth starter for Cain…did they swap them?
At some point (last week?), yes, I think to give Peavy an extra day of rest.
Suarez pitched last Thurs, Peavy Fri. Same schedule this week (Suarez today, Peavy tomorrow)
Ahhh. Thanks to you and zum. I missed that day game last Thurs for a trip to air and space museum at Dulles. And the late night games recently been hard to stay up for. Need more stogie and vodka nights. That story about Peavy getting robbed of $15 mill was shocking. He said he wanted to have $20 mill to retire on…how does not already have that stocked away beyond this $15 mill??? Little mind blowing how some atheletes/musicians don’t pay any attention to who is handling their money…Prince with no will. Every bastard is going to be crawling out of every Minneapolis hole…
Span looked pretty bad on that backfoot slider. His average dips to .249.
K-Span.
Well said.
Manbun!
STPOOT!
Agreed.
Loo, who was Lee Maye playing for then? Braves? Stros?
I liked the other Lee May (no e) on the Reds, related to Carlos right?
Craw with the awesome double that was crushed. What a stud that guy is turning into, power and rbis galore from SS position + GG D.
Yes, Braves – and he wore #24 which also endeared him (and Jim Wynn) to me.
Pretty sure Lee and Carlos were brothers. Carlos had part of his thumb blown off by a mortar shell in the service, but came back to play…
“Bout time the Giants get an early lead. I read somewhere that so far this season, the Gyros have the lowest runs total in the first frame of all NL teams…
I liked the earlier discussion about the A’s. Like many Giants fans, I don’t really care about the A’s. Somebody could give me free tix to the Mausoleum, and I’d be hard pressed to make the effort to go. I don’t know how A’s fans stay fans since the only consistent thing about this team is that every season from now until end July, the big talk about the team is which players are going to get traded out to get prospects. WTF kind of organization is permanently grooming prospects at the MLB level? What is the point of it? Ridiculous…
The novelty of Billy Beane is way over. “Moneyball” is a good book and a good movie, but they describe a season from 2001 or so, when Beane had a sabermetric edge on other teams; but basically all the other teams have caught up on that.
Maybe the only reason Beane stays there is because they gave him a small share of ownership of the team.
G.H. said:
“Zum, what did you think of Game of Thrones finale? Wow to that as well..”
A lot of house cleaning. my friend, a lot of house cleaning. GoT seasons are way too short. Over right when they really get rolling. 9 months until a new season.
So true…we might have a book at least to hold us over…maybe…
Damn, Loo, you weren’t lying, 44 doubles for Lee Maye in 1964.
I’m gonna do some more zigging while everyone else zags and say that I think Fosse is pretty good as a color guy and that “Thrones” is overrated. I’m not saying I don’t watch, I’m not saying I don’t find the show entertaining at times, but for me it ain’t must-see TV.
Heresy (Thrones being overrated).
Must be living in a cave, because I have never seen it and at least for me, nothing is “must see TV.”
Brewers just had tying run thrown out at home…
Great at bat by Span, best walk all night.
Angel! Seeing-eye grounder plates 2!
I think Gillaspie thoroughly enjoyed that high ten he just shared with Pena!
We’re getting way more out of Crazy Horse this year than I expected…
Pagan continues to salute.
Posey is killing me here. Fuck.
I’ve been pretty much a Pagan supporter all along. He’s proving my proposition that when he’s healthy, he gives an energy to the team that is unique. Chi, I believe, also has held that view. Pagan should be leadoff right now, Span can hit #8 or even sit — the guy is doing very little, has very little energy, is not doing leadoff work. He’s not particularly good in the OF, either. Span is what happens when you don’t generate a major league OFer in 20 years…
Absolutely agree snarkk. When healthy Pagan has always been an important part of the team. Right now he’s hitting when a lot of guys aren’t. I hate to think of where we’d be if he wasn’t.
You 2, maybe Chi, and I are the only ones I think in the Pagan fan club. Ha.
I like him, I just don’t have much confidence in him as a player anymore. He’s proving me wrong thus far though. The “Magic Man” narrative about Pagan always makes for a healthy debate-I’m glad to see it resurface.
“Try to understand, try to understand, try try try to understand, he’s a Magic Man…he’s got the magic hands.”
Seems crazy to remember that we traded Torres for Pagan. Torres seems like a million years ago….
Fosse is horrible. The only way you like him is if you’re forcing yourself to go contrarian.
Speaking of that, I’ve never seen Thrones, don’t even know what it’s about…..
🙂 🙂 🙂
Think medieval knights and princesses kind of stuff. Lot of realistic sword fighting violence, really good writing and really good acting.
I see. I have no interest in any of that. I really don’t watch any tv at all except sports.
…with a healthy dose of magic mixed in, which is probably my number one complaint about the show.
Yes, a healthy dose of that, with more than ever coming next season with the White Walkers (IMO).
Flav, I’ve just become a junky for HBO shows. Some are so good I can’t help myself. I didn’t start watching Game of Thrones until last year for probably the same reasons you don’t. Someone piqued my interest, and about 6 weeks later I had rolled through 5 seasons worth. On Demand is like crack to a junky, binge watching as it were.
So, with all the chatter, I’m listening to the A’s broadcast tonight. Which one is Fosse, play-by-play or color? Either way, I’m not annoyed by them so far. They seem to be solid.
Fosse does color. He’s there most games, but not all.
And that’s Duane Kuiper’s brother doing the play-by-play?
He’s there tonight.
yes. Also bad, just like Fosse.
Yes, Kuiper’s brother Glenn.
Another brother is a producer for Comcast. How they all ended up involved in broadcasting would be interesting to know. And all in the Bay area together.
That’s how it is with broadcasters, right? The more you listen to them, the more their flaws start grating on you.
Fosse is color. Love his Charlie Finley stories and his take about guys shouldn’t guess on pitches with 2 strikes—which he said after Semien took a strike 3 fastball right across the plate.
Yeah, I was listening when he said that. Good insight. Of course, he’s unforgettable for the Pete Rose incident…
Contrary to popular belief, the Pete Rose incident did not destroy Fosse’s playing career, although he says he was never the same player after it…
In a sense it destroyed it, as he was on track to become a star player, and it never happened for him. I think he also got seriously hurt years later breaking up the legendary Billy North/Reggie Jackson fight.
Fosse is the guy that you can’t understand half the time…
Thanks, zu, I had no idea about the Kuipers.
Speaking of TV shows, I watched the first episode of the final season of “Hell on Wheels” the other day. It starts off with a harrowing flashback to the Andersonville prisoner of war camp during the Civil War, and the episode gets more harrowing from there.
A gritty “realism” western in the tradition of the movie “The Unforgiven” and the TV show “Deadwood.”
LA held on…
I saw some of that game early on. The Brewers had a runner picked off first, and also their catcher threw a ball into centerfield which led to a run. Just a really bad baseball team.
Enjoying reading the comments here, doing some catching up, being a Flap voyeur as opposed to commenteur. Stuff been going on, esp. with my mom. But she’s okay. Plus, I had dinner with Yankee Stadium Mystery Companion. Carry on.
A “re-united and it feels so good” kind of dinner?…
I’ll say yup . . . I even ate an oyster. STOP. Stop right there.
Sounds like a story waiting to be told.
Who is this “Kuip” announcer for OAK you guys are mentioning?
Duane’s younger brother Glen…
tnx
YW. Glen’s not as good as Kuip. But, I don’t think he eats and drinks over an open mic, either…
Reading ‘The Fall’ by Albert Camus. Even though it is slim, it’s taking me a while.
I understand Caymus cab very well. The Albert varietal, not so much. I need a lot of the former to understand a little of the latter…
I should add that another benefit of HBO series’ is the prevalence of boobies in virtually every episode. It’s amazing how many women have perfect tits.
sheesh…ALL series on HBO? What the heck does HBO stand for? Heavenly Breast Optimization?
lol
Not sure about all, but most.
Dang, I better fire up my Netflix order onto this series…
My existential philosophy is very deep, based on N.L. Diamond’s writings:
“I am”… I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
“I am”… I cried , “I am”… said I
And I am lost and I can’t
Even say why
Leavin’ me lonely still
Reading him, as opposed to hearing him, he sounds as deep as Leonard Cohen [whose latest I just got]
When Panik got beaned, I may’ve mentioned here how crazy it seemed that everyone, including him, seemed so blase about it. Crazy. Reckless, too. How about ICELAND beating England!? [old news]
It’s a tough call sometimes, unless teams go to a policy of automatically removing players in those situations, which baseball hasn’t gotten to, yet. If the player seems OK, they sometimes let them continue to play. Panik was smiling, saying he was fine, so they went with the player’s word on that.
If I get sick at ATT, I’m going to run from Giants medicos and head for the nearest witch doctor…
Bochy is making sure he doesn’t wait a batter too long, regarding removing Suarez. Bochy usually has a keen feel for that. I think he just was a little off on that a couple a games during the weekend.
Looks like he should have left him in…
Well, so much for that move.