Ignition Time
I’m not even going to look at the O/U number and go out on a limb and say take the under tonight.
This is when guys like Nunie, Moore and that fucking lefty reliever need to step up and realize they aren’t playing meaningless baseball anymore.
If a Giants/Dodgers series doesn’t get these guys going I am concerned that nothing will.
Here’s the deal: I don’t think the Dodgers are very good. Their starting pitching sucks. If we pitch them into submission, which is totally possible, I will be very disappointed if we don’t score enough runs to win at least 2 of these games.
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i have some thoughts on Belt I may share tomorrow morning if he keeps sucking shit tonight….James needs to come back post haste and balance my mood about this fuck…….
btw, San Diggity and me connected with James via email this week. He’s dealing with a lot of work shit but is coming back to the blog soon.
Sheez, how long does it take to type “the hitting is fine, the pitching sucks”?…
and I just shot TedSpe a salty email requesting his whereabouts, I’m on fire tonight.
James seems pretty preoccupied per his email. I think he’s coming back.
I virtually guarantee you that I can get TedSpe back, if only for a dramatic cameo. And we know he likes acting. We’ll take more than a cameo, though.
i’m starting to feel like the only way we save this season, with some mojo from 2010ish, is if TedSpe comes back…….
The Giants took my advice!
Well, it doesn’t work if they give up a hit to Turner.
Fuck. A meatball to AGon.
I watched the first 1.5 episodes of PINKY BLINDERS on Netflix. Liked it a lot. Several times they used the expression “in the cuts.” When my daughter went to a tough urban HS, she’d repeat that. I was amused. “It’s in the cuts.” Off the beaten path, rough area. Completely off fuckin topic.
didn’t Meg Ryan do a totally against type role in a flick called In the Cut?…
IDK
Belt hasn’t fouled a ball off in 3 games.
At least it feels like it.
and when he swings and misses it’s like he misses the ball by 2 feet……
There’s no Giants player that Dodgers fans hate more than Bum. It goes deep with them. I think the bottom line is it infuriates them that he’s been having the post-season career they think Kershaw should be having.
#2 on their list is Pagan, for general hot doggery.
Mr. Pickle’s. We don’t have that around here. Will refrain from the too-easy porn reference.
Not dissing our boy Pence, but wasn’t he supposed to be our power hitter? His numbers are underwhelming. I’m surprised his BA is that high. It seems he hasn’t homered since his return.
He was on a good power pace before the injury.
Word! I am going with my own urban jargon….
Nice by Noonie. Move him.
That’s Beethoven’s 5th Symphony the Dodgers use for strikeouts should be Belt’s walk-up song.
AU!
Nobody *dances* off first anymore, a la Mays, Jackie Robinson. I can’t remember any modern player of recent vintage who waved his arms, etc. I miss it.
if I have to go door to door in SF searching for TedSpe just to get him to answer and say *hello how can I help you?” and all I do is mop up his sweaty brow with random asian chicks standing near and to and fro and I still mop that sweaty brow up……that will be enough for me. I want TedSpe back…….
Yeah, I miss his iconic “gentlemen (?)”
I will sext him forthwith. I mean text.
Do it Bum!!!
???
horrible jump by Nunie
Stupid.
Well no one was expecting that…missed sign?
Out by a miiiiiiiiiiiiile.
No clue what that was for. God forbid you bunt with the pitcher. Bummie or not.
Bochy was asking Noonie somethIng…I get the feeling that was a hit and run and Bum didn’t like the pitch…hence the bad jump by Noonie…
Bum’s a .170 hitter; Bochy should remember that once in a while.
Jesus. How ducking stupid is all that?
Scully pronounces Nunez – “None-yezz”
Why?
Even if noonie gets a good jump, he’s out.
Bunt and run? With the pitcher?
Awful rally killer. CLUNK.
Dreadful. Nunez was out from here to eternity.
Nunez got caught stealing Sunday vs. Thor. Can’t blame Bochy for trying, but dang he’s the one guy I thought could get it done.
Had to be a botched hit and run…Panik was looking straight back at Bum at half speed and Nunez didn’t seem to start off at full speed…
Maeda throws a lot of pitches per batter; he never goes all that deep into games.
Well, that describes all their current starting pitchers.
no one sweats better on a hot day at the Public House than TedSpe. His sweat goes nowhere, it defies fucking gravity, it’s sits there on his forehead like he he begging you to fight, daring you to fuck with him…I fucked with the sweat………
Giants gonna win this game easy….
This just in from Tedspe: “Hahaha. too funny. I’m still waiting for a bus to get home”
And he does recall The Mop Brow Incident.
tell him to turn that sweat into some kind of sustainable energy that gets his ass back here and saves the season.
Barbara Eden turned 85 today. That is just….unacceptable.
I think the idea was, stay out of the DP and if you can get Nunez to 3b Bum might be able to deliver sac fly.
Maeda mostly is junkyard dog, lot of off speed and the fastball is upper 80s.
And yes Flav, I’m with you on Belt. The ks bug me-it’s either the above the hands fastball or the change up.
First half he was fine, second he’s in a world of hurt.
Bum looks a little pissed, wipes them out.
Ted is a great guy. Last Flap meet up I was at First and Main poor guy got lost as F going to the Gf’s house in SanJose and then trying to get back to the City.
did Kuip really have to mention Marvin Benard?
Span does less than Spam.
Fair enough. so how do you feel about the guys doing less than Span, cause second half there’s a lot of them, right?
Yeah f-ing pull the ball! Do that at home you can hit HRs.
Loo on fire, called that one.
It feels like 2 a.m. already.
You mean it’s not Pawlie????
I’m drifting..
Finally. Nice hit. Thank the ghost of James.
this game’s pissing me off so far. As to “lulz,” I believe DJLoo introduced it here about a year back, more or less. He posted a comment predicting that we would see gay-themed viagra or cialis tv ads within a year, and I replied with something about vacations to SE Asia. He replied “lulz.” First I’d ever seen it. He used it some more and someone asked about it and he explained and a tradition began.
As the 65 year old father of a 19 year old, I’m sympathetic to both the neck/back pain and physical therapy and MRI horror stories and the parental concern stories. The golf stuff, however, I can’t get into. Pretty soon, you’ll have memory lapses. Oh, wait. lulz!
Belt!
Xoot: Lulz was introduced by dirtrocksnreno, I believe. I was just mimicking it. I didn’t know what it was at the time…
You and I share common terrain: 67, with a 19yo.
But a 50yo sometimes maybe sorta unofficial GF. For today. Maybe.
a 50 yo GF? so you have the neck/back pain PT MRI ordeals too?
I knew Belt would come through. He always does when Chi or I criticize him. Tonight, it was Flavor. The dude has extrasensory perception and obviously is tuned into the Flap.
I think Belt has Schizophrenia . . . What’s the old saying? Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.
Keep it up then…Pence also sucks…OK he did suck there
I swear it always works with Belt. Pence doesn’t have ESP, so no effect. Ha.
Just out of a Thai restaurant in Phoenix, was watching the Flap in the middle of my Nid Prow Yuk or whatever. Heading out onto Indian School Road, and listening to a scratchy KNBR on the car radio…
That’s amazing snarkk, but apparently, not unusual. I remember hearing KNBR’s signal near Redding and in Nevada. I was so curious about what you just posted that I wanted to know the distance record for an AM signal . . . I cut and pasted this post from a Ham Radio blog:
“If by AM you mean signals in the .7 to 1.8 Mhz range, they can go around the world in good conditions. At slightly higher frequencies it’s not too uncommon for a ham sending CW to hear his own signals back in his receiver after they circle the earth. They are weak of course and conditions need to be ideal. It’s certainly not an every day, or evening actually, occurrence”
I put this in my new book: from Connecticut, we’d pick up games on AM in STL, ATL, CHI, PITT…..
Jesus, Pence is missing fat ones…
I keep expecting him to crush one of those and it just doesn’t happen.
You know if Parker had been brought up I’d have sat Pence before Span.
Pence, that’s rough.
Shit. Pence should’ve bunted. Why not.
He and Belt have had more 2′ misses these last 3 weeks than the entire team all season.
Fuck Bummie. Get through a fucking inning.
big quake in Italy
Yikes. Lots of old buildings there.
6.1 I heard. No idea about the damage. Hope it’s minimal.
Heard 2 people dead and the small town of Perugia is pretty much leveled.
Kiki might’ve hurt himself on that Utley move.
Bummie can’t find his fastball.
Nunie has reflexes like a corpse…
He hesitated on the ball.
Uh-oh. Here’s the game on the line.
Pffffffffffffffffft.
Nunie doesn’t get an out even if he gets it clean. This is onBummie all the way.
It really wasn’t just Gonzalez’s hit; it was everything that led to that.
Bum came up small tonight. Dodgers’ offense has been on a tear in the second half, and he didn’t slow them down.
Have to make something happen against the Dodger bullpen. Totally possible.
yeah this first guy Chavez is an A’s reject.
K says he’s got great stuff—with a 4.50 ERA and LH batting .329 off him.
That goes down as looking brilliant.
I’ll give Bochy props there for not giving up on Nunez and running game. That SB plus Panik’s productive out put him on 3b where Triple O bloops one in.
OOO with the productive bloop. It works!
a page out of Eugenio’s hymnal
Jesus, the Ponderous Slug strikes again.
Miller’s letting him have it too, and you know Kruk would never do that.
Boy oh boy. Bochy has Slim and None in the pen.
Wow. This blows.
I gues a couple more runs won’t matter.
Huge game and we came out like shit. Grr. Mad Bum hasen’t beaten the Dodgers since last august. 5th start against them since…
Maybe a bunch of Giants got hooked on heroin during the All Star break.
Just kidding.
Or am I?!
(Yes, just kidding)
I’ve always questioned Cain
So much for ignition. Just left sitting on the line.
Seriously?
My my hey hey
It’s better to burn out than to fade away.
Pour some sugar on me
Took me about 1 1/2 freaking hours to get back here. Considering how long I’ve been gone…shouldn’t really bitch
Hey Ted, welcome back. Now hurry up and do something to wake up this sad sack squad!!… 🙂
Rooster must be trying desperately to peck his way out of Flavor’s spam filter…
Rooster? Is that a ‘Baretta’ joke? Or have I been gone too long?
Hey Ted. Good to see you.
Rooster’s the Dodger fan who shows up here when they’re doing well, then goes out to dinner for 2 years when they flop…
And why is it djloo27? Is the 27 required?
I think I couldn’t get djloo by itself for some reason and I had to add to it.
It was very stressful…
Uhm…not good
Toles might be Span’s baby…
Well, us Colorado folk are hitting the sack after that stake in the heart. Pfffttt!
Ted, it’s good to see you here . . . Hope you are well!
Hiya blade. Well enough to be my usual post All-Star annoyed. How are ya kid?
. . . Just woke up. Game was too depressing. I’m doing fine Ted. Taking off for SE Asia in a few weeks and will be there for 3 months.
If Texas can dump Hamilton today with $30 million left on his deal, then the giants should be able to do the same thing with Cain, per blade’s earlier post..
I think they just don’t want to disrespect or embarrass Cain after all he contributed to 2 of the championships…
Didn’t see blade’s post but totally agree. I’ve said for years Cain wouldn’t have survived as a starter anywhere else but SF. Giving up the long ball since day one. Just lucky for the park he played in. And no one argue me with “perfect game” bull crap. Unless you strike out 27 in a row or have a shitload of comebackers, perfect games ain’t one man shows
But I digress. How about that new Mustang? What a honey.
Gotta go. Have to memorize lines (probably shoulda started hours ago but…you know…Giants game. Have it on in the back with the sound off)
Night gentlmen, question mark
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