Trying Not To Stress On This Mess
Yesterday I said I’m not giving up but I’m taking the first step towards that (Oregon?) and that is trying to extricate myself from the normal emotions I’ve had for these games. You simply can’t will a forlorn team to victory and that’s what the Giants are right now. So, why spend time feeling shitty about it?
I woke up this morning remembering the 2014 team. At least, trying to remember them. I remembered Bum and Panda and….that was about it. I also remembered not allowing myself to believe they could actually pull that off until they were literally declared the NL rep in the World Series. I pulled up the post season 25 man roster just to get some of the old feelings back about that team.
Our SP’s were listed as Bum, Huddy, Peavy, Voggy. Hmmmm…. I think I’d take Bum, Cueto, Moore and Smarge over those 4.
Our 5 outfielders were….I can barely type this without laughing…..Blanco, Ishikawa, Morse, Pence and Juan Perez. Even a Span disliker like myself would prefer Pagan, Span and Pence out there…..
I probably shouldn’t have looked up that 2014 team. It’s screwing up my attempt to release myself from the emotions I’ve been having for the 2016 team.
The main emotion I’m having trouble with his *frustration*. I don’t understand why we are the worst team in mlb since the break. We have good SP and good enough position players to be AT WORST like a mid-pack team. I can’t put it on the coaching staff because it’s not their job to motivate these guys. The coaching staff could fuck it up if they were completely incompetent but not even R-Kelly could bungle that many *sends*. And it’s not fair to put it all on the bullpen. They haven’t been that bad. In fact, many games they are very good but no one seems to notice.
And yet here we sit at 15-29. Makes no sense to me at all! But hey, it’s been 20 years and I still don’t even know wtf *hakuna matata* means.
Just try to relax, Flavor. Exhale…Serenity now, serenity now……
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Let’s see what he does here…
99 down the pipe on 0-2…
Every fucking pop up either blows into the stands or falls for a hit.
AKKKKKK! Down the fucking middle. Again.
Fuck! He missed the target by 8″
Kuip with a nice line there.
“I think I’m gonna barf!”
These Cub announcers are okay…
You watching the MLB Network feed?
Yes, LJ…
Yeah, they aren’t bad.
pen needs to nail this thing down
he’s fucking out.
Out.
Finally got one right.
Great play by Romo..
Bring on the Fresh Wince…
Will (I am not legend) Smith.
So fucking tired of this worthless fucking lefty reliever……
Fuuuuuuuck
Smith is giving me a serious case of triskaidekaphobia…
The last thing I want to see with Smith is 0-2
J-Hey Kid thankfully worse than The Fresh Wince. Shadows helped him too. Whatever it takes. What the fuck happened to Heyward? He got hit in the face and that was like the end of him.
…and there was much rejoicing.
Anyone interested in a Nathan 9th? Or Casilla? I know they said Nathan wouldn’t get a 9th inning right away (or ever) but I kinda want to see it.
I have a very bad feeling about this if we see Casilla today……
At a brewpub now with a Fieldwork IPA in hand, it’s ready in case I need to cry in it…
Respect the early start time.
Way to do it, Snarkk!
I’m starting to wonder how many Ks Belt’s going to end up with. He’s at 126 now.
That.s about as many strikes as this fuckng ump has missed today.
Fuck. Another 4 strike walk.
Smith got squeezed there.
That was a strike, but this Smith phuck is constantly throwing balls and walking people, he’s pitching like a damn Brewer…
The goddamn robot umps can’t come fast enough
Well, that worked out nicely.
What an idiot!
Haha..hate the Cubs!
A 5-4-6 DP.
Needed that one. Grienke going for the Snakes tonight against the dog-ears.
not sure if there has ever been a simpler end to a Casilla save…..
Brandon Crawford easily and far and away MVP of the game…..
Textbook win there.
My dad was actually the first robot ump.
He called strikes with his right arm and fired new balls back to the pitcher with his left.
Where the hell did you find that? lol
I owned it 50 years ago…
Holy shit! Double platinum there.
@super70ssports would love this.
Jesus. End up splitting here and I’d feel much better.
This IPA is tasting good now. That was like a damn playoff game. 4 hit win…
Best part is we shut those singing fucks up. Come on, when the game ends go home or go to a bar or something. Staying and singing is about the lamest thing I can think of doing…..
fuck yeah.
That’s a big one.
the wave or the win?
Lulz, the W.
Don’t understand Rizzo there. That was total dumbass move. Posey was covering third for Nunez, but that should be no surprise. Base running gaffes by Vets in key plays like that are inexcusable…
well, he had just come into the game. Maybe his head wasn’t totally into it yet.
Huge win today. 10 total hits in 3 games, and they managed to still win one. Can’t fault the pitching, it’s been nails…
Cards havre hit at least one HR in 22 straight games. Drooling here over that…
That was really a “feel good” win.
It even made me feel good.
And the Relentless Zombies are getting their fuckin’ red feathered asses handed to them in Cincy…
Niners cut Bryce Treggs. I only watched a couple of pre-season snaps this year, did he get any run at all? If he can’t get open it just shows you the massive difference between college and pros.
Josh Rosen of UCLA does nothing for me. Jim Mora must think the same thing based on that shit play calling in OT.
I can read almost anything here, but 400 one liners on McCoveyChron, no.
As for Haft and the Giants not being good at any one thing, um my Exhibits A B and C: the 3 widget pics to the right at top of every daily thread. Anyone else doing something like what Sabes FO and Bochy and his coaching staff have done over last 6 yrs? Cubs? Dodgers? Nats?
I totally see that point, Willie, but Haft was only talking about the ’16 team on the field. But I would agree, there is great leadership in the organization a lot of other teams don’t have.
And certainly, any team would love to have Bum pitching a big game for them. It’s an advantage for the Giants should they end up as a Wild Card team.
And I agree about the McC Chronicle commenters. I’ve never found them interesting. A lot of superficial junk with no heart, in my opinion.
Seems to me every year Giants haven’t had much national support, even when they win.
constantly overlooked, much to opponents peril.
The Relentless Zombies took a 9-1 loss today. Matheny probably had his blank 1,000 yard stare working in over-drive today.
Daniel the Cardinal blogger emailed me the other day and is excited to get a *back and forth* going when we play them for 4 games in the middle of the month. He has to be as frustrated with his team as we are with ours……
Yeah, that should be an epic series. It’ll be cool to see what he says about it. And he should take the “relentless zombie” thing as a compliment to his team. 🙂
very cool enjoy reading him. Always responds to stuff we post on Flap too, so he must have lot of respect for Peerless Leader Big Flavor.
I think he’s just grateful to speak to someone…
Kaepernick jerseys are selling in bigger numbers this past week, according to a news report. I personally haven’t seen anyone wearing one lately, but maybe that will change.
There’s a reasonable chance that Hill will no- hit the Padres tonight.
All the more reason to root for the Red Sox to pummel the A’s again.
And the Sox are doing that. 6-0 in the third inning.
9-0 now. Good times for Billy Beane.
I remember trading emails with Chris Haft several years back. He always responded to every one and in a timely manner. Seemed like a pretty cool guy.
I was talking to a former college buddy of mine this week who covers UT football and basketball for the Hearst papers in Texas (Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express) and he was telling me that he had a larger expense account working for our student newspaper at UT then he does now with Hearst Corp.
Yeah, tough times in the newspaper world, and only going to get worse probably. Younger generations are not into newspapers, in general.
The east coast guys can relate to the old frustration of going to bed not knowing the west coast scores only to see that the morning papers often didn’t have them either…
I don’t know what the attraction is to be an A’s fan. Glutton for punishment? Masochists? At least for all the years the Giants were crap, we fans pretty much knew they had no shot. Every once in a while they would trade away a good player (hello George Foster), sometimes because they couldn’t afford him, sometimes by mistake, but generally the talent sucked, and the results reflected that. The A’s consistently trade away good to really good players as part of the business model…
Well, an A’s fan doesn’t have to be completely ancient to remember the glory days…
Reddick’s finally heating up…5-0 LA
sooner or later he had to hit one, right? I mean, even Rowand hit one occasionally.
The Dodgers will debut yet another AAA guy as a starting pitcher, tomorrow.
There’s no series this season that irks me more than getting swept by the Padres right after the All Star break.
Brisbee of the McCovey Chronicles set off a stat that is really mind blowing. The Twins today just snapped a 13-game losing streak. Post-AS break, the Twins are two games better than the Giants…
The Angels had an 11-game losing streak in August and somehow are only one game under .500 since the break.
Again on the MChronicles, I read an article about the 1985 season, the only 100 loss season in SF history. Anyway, that year most home games were day games, a marketing effort to get people to come out and avoid the blustery, windy, cold nights at the Stick. Results: worse attendance, only 810,000 showed. A guy posted under the article and I LMAO when I read this:
” I went to all the games back then. Each fan had his own vendor.”…
Thankfully I was living on Colo then.
Yeah that really is ” mind blowing ” Snarkk!
To lose 13 straight and still have a better 2nd half record then the G-men just shows the suckitude of futility every Flapper has had to deal with, and yet that 1st half when they did knock off a lot of bottom feeders to build a comfortable cushion helped keep them in this race along with the Wild Card!!!