WannaBee Rollie

Posted in Uncategorized by Flavor on June 28, 2016

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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Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:01 pm

Terrible pitch by Kontos.
sandog said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:02 pm

The Bay Area has been very very good to the Kuipers. Duane was a part time scrub on 3 lousy Giant teams and he parlayed that into his great gig with the Giants and sweet jobs for his brothers in MLB as well.
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:02 pm

Good job George.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:03 pm

One of the things that has made Gillaspie a journeyman….
pawliekokonuts said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:03 pm

Albert Suarez is this year’s Chris Ray. I have a playoff t-shirt from 2010 that lists the roster. Even then, I’d be like, Chris Who? [went 3-0 if you’re wondering]
- pawliekokonuts said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:12 pm
  
  I forgot that Chris Ray was like Bengie Molina, could’ve gotten a ring no matter who won the WS. And I also didn’t realize Molina’s career was over in 2010. Hey, do you blame me for the digression? Game turned into a CF.
pawliekokonuts said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:05 pm

Gillaspie, your name needs an E for error.
Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:05 pm

That play was about as routine as they get.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:06 pm

And the thing that has kept Kontos from moving higher up the reliever heirarchy….
Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:07 pm

fucking wheels are coming off.
- sandog said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:09 pm
  
  Cue the Johnny Rutherford gif and maybe the Pink Floyd album cover as well.
  - zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:17 pm
    
    Which album cover? The Wall, as in the Giants hitting the wall that inning?
  - sandog said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:38 pm
    
    That would work! But I was thinking “Wish You Were Here” for an image to show Kontos’ effectiveness tonight.
Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:08 pm

Unbelievable.
unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:10 pm

4-1 us to 5-4 them? Wtf happened? I missed 5 minutes.
- Irish Kevin said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:14 pm
  
  That’s all it took, was 5 mins
Macdog said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:10 pm

MacKontos clusterfuck.
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:12 pm
  
  Throw in a throwing error on a routine play, mix, stir and voila — you lose the lead…
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:13 pm

The Pen this season makes one realize how good it was 2010-15…
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:16 pm

Yeah, Pawlie, I saw that Iceland beat England. Maybe you met some of the Icelandic players — guys had some beards going on. As for England, a bit of a rough few days lately…
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:20 pm

One does wonder why Parker sticks with such a fidgety batting stance. There’s a lot of stuff going on during that batting stance.
- djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:25 pm
  
  I agree. It’s like watching a puppet bat…
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:24 pm

That was one of Span’s better swings in a while. He really stayed right on that pitch and went with it opposite field.
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:24 pm

OK, that was better than the walk.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:26 pm

I sometimes wonder if HRs get Span’s and Panik’s swings a little out of whack. They start elevating their swings too much and get too many fly outs. I always dig it when they do hit an HR, but maybe there’s a price to be paid for those HRs. I don’t know. I could be totally wrong.
gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:27 pm

Ahhh I don’t quite know what just happened there that inning…they had Vogt 0-2 and they threw 2 waste pitches and then one right down the middle..wtf???

All you need to know Flav about Game of Thrones is that it is probably thr best show ever made for television. The finale this week was like watching a mini-movie. The quality of the battle scenes the week before have never been scene on tv before. The shot of the horses charging across the battlefield are as good cinematographically as any Oscar winning movie.

And I am with Lurker (I think it was John who said it) on the fantasy aspect of the show/books, I kind of gloss over those parts in the book even though I like the Tolkien fantasy tradition. But they have had to stretch out the show in order to keep up where the books have been and now are past the last book as those into the show know. So to get 10 episodes in per year with all the directions the books go in, there is a bit of time wasted on the numerous side stories.

The other aspect of the show that is mesmerizing is that it almost always does the exact opposite of what you expect from traditional story telling. And as a viewer/reader you really enjoy watching the evil in people. It is like when I was a kid watching wrestling on a Saturday morning, I always loved the bad guys and hated the good guys…
- gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:29 pm
  
  At least we got one run back…let’s go…
- zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:31 pm
  
  Great review, but I think The Wire and Breaking Bad can both also makes claims for best TV show ever. It’s a tie between all those shows, IMO.
  - snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:32 pm
    
    Breaking Bad was great, and virtually bereft of boobage…
  - Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:09 pm
    
    BB was freaky good. Another show I never watched until the end of the last season. When AMC ran the whole series 2-3 episodes at a time. I was hooked. The show is unbelievable on so many levels.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:28 pm

I don’t think either pitch that Pagan and Belt swung at were strikes.
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:28 pm

Uh, maybe Pagan and Belt could have taken a pitch first to see what this guy’s got?…
- Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:10 pm
  
  Yes.
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:29 pm

Craw is friggin en fuego…
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:30 pm

And no pulled hamstrings!
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:30 pm

Manbun, clears em….
- zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:33 pm
  
  Manbun and MadBum- that’s classic.
gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:31 pm

Crawford the most under-rated player in baseball???? what a shot…
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:32 pm

That deserves retaliation…
- Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:35 pm
  
  Yup. Time to clear the benches.
unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:33 pm

Yeah I’ve never been one for the magic/sorcery type sci fi.

Yeah baby! Thank youBrandon!

That being said, g 0 t is very well done. Another extremely well-written show from HBO.
unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:35 pm

Oh fuck. I’d be dead.

The crack medical staff will find cracked ribs for Blanco. Next week.
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:40 pm
  
  Displaced fractures can sometimes be hard to read…
  - unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:43 pm
    
    Just got over that.
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:38 pm

Osich warming up.
I’ll admit, when that guy comes in these days, I start worrying…
Paul Sorensen said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:39 pm

Breaking Bad, absolutely the best. The Wire, I just couldn’t get into. I’d rank 24 and Shameless (my most recent favorite, just finished watching Season 6) in my top 3. Six Feet Under and Weeds as well. Game of Thrones is fun viewing, but I also would not rank it as “must see TV”. Unless Dany and her dragons are featured…. 🙂 This season’s finale was fun, though: Jon Snow takes over the North, F-ing Ceirsee or whatever takes over the South, Dany is on her way for what will surely be an epic battle at Westeros, and loving Sansa and Arya Stark back in the picture. And this commercial interruption was brought to you by the Giants reasserting themselves, thank you very much.
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:43 pm
  
  Loved “Six Feet Under”.
  Great theme music to begin show.
  Great characters, great writing. Quirky to the max, but believable with fine acting.
  I loved the young sister’s character played by Lauren Ambrose. I wonder if she has gone onto more roles? Sometimes the mother would utter a line that made me just suddenly bust out laughing, it was so outrageous — but fit her character.
  Epic final show, one of the best ever show-concluding episodes…
unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:42 pm

Yeah Paul, I tried the Wire as well and didn’t get it. Liked 6 feet under for a while. Dexter of course. They all had top notch writing. Dexter was creepy as fuck.
- gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:53 pm
  
  I literally just finished the Wire last week finally and with you both that it was just ehhh.
  
  But Paul, I have Breaking Bad as best basic cable show ever. Mr. ROBOT season one is a very close second. Unbelievable show last year. But Thrones is just at a different level. I would never rewatch a tv episode ever and have already watched the Thrones finale again and it is only Tuesday. I binged on Dexter a couple of years ago and just couldn’t stop watching. Every time my wife walked in when I had the tv on I had a Dexter episode on…she must think I am disturbed. The music interlude in Dexter is still the best.
  
  I’ve never heard anyone rave about Shameless before. Will check it out when I put Showtime back in my lineup and swap out HBO for a couple of months until Thrones is back…
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:48 pm

For the first time in years, I just cored an apple dead center.
I had to tell someone…
- zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:57 pm
  
  Excellent, dude!
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:01 pm
  
  Is it possible to core one off center?…
  - djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:03 pm
    
    Yes, it usually veers off course somewhere in the middle, snarkk…
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:50 pm

Gillaspie should’ve been playing more even when Duffy was healthy…
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:01 pm
  
  Maybe he will…
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:52 pm

My quick top 10 drama / semi-drama shows. I’m not saying they are all the best quality, some were guilty pleasures:

Breaking Bad
Sopranos
X-Files
Six Feet Under
The Shield
Hill Street Blues
Miami Vice
St. Elsewhere
Northern Exposure
NYPD Blue
ER
Hon mention: White Shadow
- gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:56 pm
  
  I have Lost in my Top 5…and with you on X Files….Rome is also a top fav for me…what got me back into HBO…
  - snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:59 pm
    
    Mid to late X-files before it got off the rails a bit, I would tune in just to see Gillian Anderson, she was looking mighty awesome. She’s a quirky woman in real life, but hubba bubba late in that show run. I loved the episode where somehow she took some drug or was somehow affected by some mysterious power to lose most of her inhibitions — and came on to Muldur in a big way. Hilarious…
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:56 pm
  
  i’ve not yet seen Wire or Thrones…
  - gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:58 pm
    
    And great call on White Shadow…my favorite show growing up. I’ve had my oldest son watch a bunch of it as well…
- djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:01 pm
  
  I loved White Shadow, but they were a flawed team. Aside from Coolidge, they had no size. They also couldn’t shoot for shit. Wardell Stone was super-talented but under utilized IMO…
gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 9:59 pm

Is it safe to go to bed yet with this lead as we hit 1 am east coast???
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:00 pm
  
  With this Pen?
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:03 pm

The Wire,
Treme,,
Sopranos,
Deadwood, and
Dexter.

Lagniappe – Anthony Bourdain, Parts Unknown.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:03 pm

For dramas, off the top of my head:
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Hell On Wheels
Fringe
Better Call Saul
Deadwood
Justified

A type of show that I’ve never gotten into are all the forensic shows like CSI and whatever. There’s a zillion of them, and I find them really unpleasant.
Paul Sorensen said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:05 pm

I like Shameless because I’m not easily surprised by a show or film, but Shameless is the one show that is guaranteed, at least once an episode, to stun me to the point where my mouth drops and I just stare at the screen and think, “ohmygod, I can’t believe that just happened”… 🙂 William H. Macy is always good, all the characters are whacko but you care about them. That’s why I never got into the Wire, just didn’t really care about the characters. A couple of years back during an extremely isolated and boring stint in China, I streamed all seasons of 24, and it reminded me how good it really was. IMO. Always wished I could *Be Like Jack*.. haha. Breaking Bad? I’m now binge watching the whole thing again for the 3rd time. It still surprises me. Tom, good call on ER, I never missed an episode its first couple of years. And I can always watch re-runs of Law & Order… Geez, reading all this, I’m beginning to think I need to get a life…
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:05 pm

This friggin Pen. 3 up and you walk 2 in a row?
Vince Gilligan, who created and ran Breaking Bad, was a major scriptwriter for years on X-files. He made his writing bones on X-files…
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:05 pm

Bochy’s theme song this year: “Don’t Stop Relievin”…
- Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:07 pm
  
  Gold.
- blade3colorado said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:09 pm
  
  You’re the first person I know of – who cores an apple. Guess I’m too impatient to eat it.
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:07 pm

Here we go again.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:08 pm

If you’re Gearrin, you just can’t be that bad in an outing at this point in the season. The time for growing pains is over; it’s time to step up and be consistent.
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:08 pm

I’ll take Modern Family any time.
Especially when Manny and Luke were little…
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:10 pm

This is the day of the ExSpanding man…
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:11 pm

What a catch!!
gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:11 pm

Apparently not safe to go to bed…but what a catch to keep the lead from Denard…
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:14 pm
  
  Well, ghead, I told you not to go to bed on this Pen…
  - gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:19 pm
    
    And I just turned over to CNN as I was catching up with the terrorist bombing at the Istanbul Airport. I was there almost exactly 6 years ago, June 30th 2010, and that was the same exit at departures and same parking garage where it looks like two of the bombs went off. I have a ton of relatives in Istanbul but not likely anyone would have been at the International airport at that time of night…thankfully. so I missed the first two batters and the frickin walks….
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:13 pm

Lopez vs RHBs = no bueno. Why was Bochy going with that?..
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:13 pm

I seriously don’t fuckin’ believe it…
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:14 pm

Ahh shit.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:14 pm

Why was Law not being warmed up earlier?
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:15 pm
  
  Bochy royally F’d up this inning. Seriously…
- Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:17 pm
  
  I thought he was back when Strickland was warming up.
  - djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:22 pm
    
    I’m pretty sure he was up earlier…
gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:14 pm

Well I can only say what the fuck…scour the A’s dugout for voodoo dolls…
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:15 pm

Leaking oil??? He’s fuckin’ bleeding to death…
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:15 pm

Now you want to bring in Law? I hope Lopez nails the next guy.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:16 pm

Krukow is trying to defend Lopez. Lopez hasn’t been real good all season.
unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:16 pm

Jesus. You’ve got to be kidding me.
unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:16 pm

Lopez shouldn’t be pitching to a rightie.
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:19 pm
  
  Melvin totally schooled Bochy on the match ups. Lopez is horsecrap against righties; just like Romo sucks against lefties…
wilcojoe said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:18 pm

My Top 10 TV Dramas:
1. The Sopranos Season 6
2. The Sopranos Season 1
3. The Sopranos season 5
4. The Sopranos season 3
5. The Sopranos season 4
6. The Sopranos season 2
7. Mad Men
8. In Treatment
9. Chicago Hope (Mandy Patinkin stole the show)
10. Friday Night Lights
unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:18 pm

Ever. Bochy is sleeping at the wheel.
mrsprtdude said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:18 pm

@Snarrk..Great list. Haven’t watched Breaking bad yet, but on my list for next off season. Hill street and Shield best cop shows ever!!
Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:19 pm

The fucking A’s were 11 games under coming into yesterday’s game.
Paul Sorensen said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:20 pm

“I don’t fuckin’ believe it…” “You gotta be kidding me…” “WTF…” I don’t even have to go check the score….. Actually been a lot of these kinds of unbelieving statements from the Flap lately. I don’t think the wheels are completely about to fall off, but it’s looking like this team needs a pit stop to tighten the lug nuts. All-Star break, maybe.
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:22 pm
  
  The Pen is the most obvious weakness. Sabean and Evans need to get real with it. Romo is due back, but we’ll see about him. Any Pen that gives up five runs late, in one frame, is not very good…
  - blade3colorado said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:32 pm
    
    Rockies do it just about every other game.
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:20 pm

If you want to see a great cop movie try “Prince Of The City (1980)”
- blade3colorado said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:33 pm
  
  Agree. Too bad Treat Williams was susceptible to cocaine. Ruined his career. I can relate – almost took me out too. Ha.
  - djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:44 pm
    
    Lumet was a genious…
mrsprtdude said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:20 pm

Shit!! Get distracted by TV lists and shit.
mrsprtdude said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:23 pm

Bochy watching old Larussa reruns. Strickland threw 3 pitches. Let him com out for the 7th…Grr
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:23 pm

The seagulls have thrown in the towel.
zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:23 pm

What’s the deal with Bochy lately? A few weeks ago, he brought in 5 relievers in one inning to get the win.
Now I’m getting worked up about that 8th inning last night all over again. Stratton batting with the bases loaded and none out. Bochy just gave up. Maybe he’s not feeling well. Seriously.
gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:23 pm

Snarkk, I liked the Mini – X Files they ran this year…and is it me or did Gillian Anderson not look really good????
- Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:25 pm
  
  Gillian has always looked good and the new mini series was no exception.
  - snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:27 pm
    
    Well, I’d let her give me an examination…
- gianthead said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:25 pm
  
  How did we piss this lead away and this team was smoking until last night. Javy Lopez finished??? Why I personally think Andrew Miller may be the most important potential pickup this trade season between us and the Cubs..
snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:25 pm

Bochy didn’t have a righty ready to counter after Span made that great grab on that line shot against Lopez. So, he rolled dice on Slivovitz or whatever that righty’s name is, and Bochy got reamed with being unprepared. If this were NYCity, Bochy’d have some ‘splainin’ to do post-game, if they lose it…
Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:26 pm

Fucking ugly 2 games.
unca_chuck said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:26 pm

Let the As have their 5 minutes of giddy. They suck balls and they play in the worst shit-hole in the majors. Their owners have done nothing but alienate their meager fan base to near zero while the GM trades every valuable player in existence.

Fuck ’em sideways. This is what they will hang their season on as they drift to 72-90.
- Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:28 pm
  
  not much consolation when you’re getting smoked
Lurker John said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:26 pm

WTF was Lopez doing in there for the last two batters.
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:31 pm
  
  Bochy had to figure melvin would burn the lefty hitter for a first righty PHitter. After he scorched one that Spann saved, Bochy should have brought in a righty, IMO. You cannot let two righties hit consecutively against Lopez with multiple dudes on the bags…
  - zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:36 pm
    
    Bringing Law in was the easy obvious choice, but….he didn’t have Law warming up, for some reason.
  - snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:40 pm
    
    Hopefully the vaunted SF beat writers will ask…
djloo27 said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:27 pm

Bochy’s bullpen theme song:
Macdog said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:28 pm

A’s batters hit ropes and bombs in the 8th. Giants answer with a Belt dribbler and a Posey whiff.
- zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:30 pm
  
  It seems like every mistake-pitch by the Giants is getting crushed these days.
- snarkk said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:32 pm
  
  Posey’s stats aren’t bad, but his production just seems continuously underwhelming, especially at $20 million per year…
mrsprtdude said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:30 pm

Lopez has given up 13 hits and 10 walks in 12.1 innings in his 35 appearances. 9 runs alowed in 12 innings??? Whip close to 2 is awful.
- zumiee said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:32 pm
  
  What hurts is, even after the 3-run HR, he gave up ANOTHER run.
  - Macdog said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:39 pm
    
    Yep, now that extra run could end up the difference.
  - Macdog said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:59 pm
    
    Or maybe not.
Bozo said, on June 28, 2016 at 10:31 pm

Trevor Brown, off the bench, no problem.