Improbable Happenings
Maybe the Padres have just had the worst luck of any team in the history of baseball? The most potent 62 win team in the league?
Is it possible the Cardinals are worse than San Diego? Of course not. I think I am being too linear with everything. “This team lost to this team so they are worse than this team…” That doesn’t work in baseball. Any team can beat any team in a series for a variety of reasons.
And for whatever those reasons are, we are beating St Louis rather handily right now.
I saw something last night, didn’t understand it, maybe you guys could help me out. It was the 4th inning and Buster Posey hit a ball in the air (no seriously, he did) and it flew and kept flying and it ended up going over that wall that separates the fans from the field. Then for some reason play just kinda stopped. Buster was running slower than usual around the bases and the fans were cheering. Cardinals were standing around, nothing was happening and the ball he hit was never returned to the field of play. What exactly happened there? Did the Giants or Buster get penalized because Buster seemed to have inadvertently lost the ball they were using?
It’s Saturday. Go dominate this great day….
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I was wondering why Z-Span wasn’t given 3rd base when the 2nd baseman tripped him when he tried to go to 3rd on the wild pickoff throw.
Buster running slower than usual? That’s his top speed.
Reminds me of Monty Python…Bring out your dead.
Well I’m not quite dead yet.
Belt said something about Posey actually smiling and loosening up a bit off his normal stoneface, and Posey deadpanned reporters questions afterward about the HR drought.
Still and all he is the best dang C out there, hitting .298 (yes with a lot of singles) and top defense (just like Crawford). Molina is good too, but that was costly error he made last night. Giants rake another Cards SP.
Read an ESPN short column on 3 flawed WC teams pointing out varied strengths of each. Giants SP ERA near top of league and so is runs saved by defense.
Gene Richards (from checklist) was a cool Padre.
Krukow gave a completely wrong explanation of shingles last night. I think Greg Papa was kind of dumbfounded with how wrong Krukow was.
Papa: “It’s a painful skin rash, right?”
Krukow: “No, it has nothing to do with the skin.”
I’m glad I missed that.
Real sad, he really is losing it fast…
Another name off the checklist that got me was Bert Campaneris.
I always liked this guy ever since A’s left KC and moved to Oaktown.
Plus he is responsible for one signature moment (akin to Marichal) for throwing his bat right over the head of Tigers pitcher who beaned him in the ankle ’72 playoffs, year A’s eventually won it all.
If not for Campy, no one would remember Lerrin Lagrow…
The guy on the Dodgers who was the most publicly outraged at Marichal’s suspension (10 days) and fine ($1,750.00) was none other than future SF broadcaster, Ron Fairly. I recall him saying Marichal should’ve got 1,750 days…
Catching the replay of that Posey lost ball over the fence, loved the dugout reaction….RALLY FUCKING RALLY!!!
Yeah at one point they were showing Poesy in the dugout putting on his gear and he broke out a goofy grin and gave a thumbs-up. Way out of character.
What’s this Buster Bomb thing that you speak of? Who knew there was a personality behind his resting “serious pro face”? It’s nice to see the guy lighten up a bit.
Samardzija going on a Saturday, just like his old college football days. I expect good things.
college baseball, not football.
I think the homer drought was wearing on him.
Yeah, it probably was wearing on him. I got an unexpected offer to go to tonight’s game so hopefully they keep rolling.
Looks like blade made it to SE Asia. Apparently they give you a cuter chick on every return trip.
Cool. Keep it rolling, Micah.
I felt like I was one of hundreds of thousands of Giants fans watching that blast from Posey head toward the wall urging it to actually go over the fence this one time. It was like the whole deal was in slow motion because it such an epic accomplishment. It looked like he was even grinning a bit heading back to the dugout after touching home. That was a huge moment—Sam Rutigliano would have compared it to an enema.
The Campaneris bat-fling is one of the my earliest memories of watching baseball on TV. I was at my next door neighbor’s house at the time. I was also at his house during the Immaculate Reception. Growing up, my house was never the “let’s go hang out at Pete’s house” kind of place. My mom ran way too tight of a ship to allow any of the fun that boys of any age like to get into. She still runs a tight ship to this day, and she’s coming up on 92.
Fun fact: Sam Rutigliano was my uncle’s gym teacher at Lafayette High in Brooklyn…
Craig, great thread and one of the most sarcastically funny things I’ve read in awhile. But I don’t know about Posey… some of you saw smiles, but I saw a bit of a grimace on his swing, is he still hurt?, and then that thumbs up thing didn’t look exactly joyful. Almost a sarcastic “fuck you, camera man, yeah, here’s my thumb’s up … your ass”…. Not sure how *fun* he is in the clubhouse. Hey, dude, you’re the de facto captain, if you produce, it’s all gravy. Now we need another good game from Large Smarge. And yes, the Bald Eagle has landed, in Saigon, saw Steve this afternoon for a bit, will catch up with him more soon.
Bald Eagle. LMAO….that’s gold.
Hey, cool. We can now expect a Posey HR every 2 months. Sweet…
My mom has never been the same since shingles in 2012. Yes, it APPEARS as a rash but the nerve damage lasts.
#herewecome
Moore did a good job pitching through control issues but those poorly timed walks jacked his pitch count. I checked his stats and since coming to SF he’s close to issuing more walks than the rest of his season in the AL.
On willied’s comment late last night re: Span.
Not surprised he’s making noise about not being right this season after surgery, I predicted he/Giants would float that one after the season, so he’s early. Going 3 for 49 or whatever and getting roasted by fans must have forced play of the surgery card. I don’t doubt there’s some truth in it — Sabevans paid $30 million for damaged goods, and nobody forced them to do it. Lack of OF talent in the SF minors did. The Cards and other orgs regularly crap minor league OFers that are better than the Giants’ farmhand OFers…
As much as I don’t remember any of Leake’s underwhelming starts for us I trust I am not the only Flapper here who wants to see us pound him into the ground tonight…..
I’ll be mostly watching the Stanford/USC game but hopefully we have a nice first quarter lead and I can focus on the impending Leake beatdown.
I read that Michael Wacha, P for the Cards, has had shoulder issues. That’s a real downer. This is an unusually mediocre Cards team…
yes. I think we have been fooled into believing they’re better than they are because of all the home runs but their starting pitching is actually quite suspect and their manager sucks.
The Campaneris incident wasn’t handled great by MLB. He was given something like a 5 game suspension to be served at the start of the next regular season. The Tigers were understandably not pleased.
Penn State home game today. It’s honoring the memory of Joe “I enabled a child molester monster for decades” Paterno. Disgusting, and beyond tone deaf. Franco Harris is calling on the university to apologize for firing the beloved see-no-evil, hear-no-evil JoPa that ruled there for 50 years. F him and other ex-players and alums with the same tunnel vision that ignores the evidence. I read lots of info from various sources on this including court transcripts. Chilling. He KNEW, and he knew in the ’90s, if not way earlier. Others in position of power knew. If PSU handed a Snarkette a full ride offer, I’d tell them to shove it. Sure there are good people there, and its good scholastically. But, still, in view of all the suffering of victims that has been revealed, today’s “celebration” shows that it’s a warped place with a gutter institutional ethos that could easily look the other way at a football player raping a co-ed…
Spot on and POTD as far as I’m concerned.
This truck driver friend I knew came into my work to pickup some lumber years ago and he had shingles and he was miserable his skin was flaking and he had a rash ( shit I thought he looked liked Tom Hanks in Philadelphia)
The kicker was part of the lumber he was picking up that day was shingle mold ( yeah I gave him a bust the gut laugh, that even he enjoyed in his misery)
Great Post Snarkk!
Amazing post, Snarkk. Completely agree.
You and several others here can really write.
Unfortunately, one of the tricks to padding your POTD stats is brevity…
lol, EXACTLY
What? I had NO idea!…
You’re catching on already!
You fucking nailed it, brother! Unreal…
My sister went through it as well. Not fun in anyway shape or form. She got over it in about 1.5 months, but it was annoying as fuck for her.
I heard there’s a shingles vaccine, but it doesn’t work.
I think the best move is to get acquainted with many people who have had shingles which would proportionately reduce your own odds. I am taking this approach with many diseases…
The security guard got his own leg broken while tackling the fan on the field at the Giants game.
the video of it on Deadspin was gnarley. Did you see it?
Yes.
So, does he sue the fan now?
i just listened to a very cool interview on KNBR with Willie McGee. I was surprised to find out he played 4 seasons with us. I remembered him as a 1 and done guy like Reggie Smith. Anyway, he had some very interesting takes on how the game has changed. Did anyone else hear it?
Snarkk, I am so glad you posted that take on Ja-Pa. I read today that there are sealed docs coming out recently that say he knew about this as early as 1976 and he did nothing. It is unconscionable that the university is honoring this fuck and the fans that are celebrating him are sick. Penn State can go fuck themselves…..
Or just fuck some young boys and keep the tradition alive…
It is arguable, barely, that Paterno in his old age was clueless about this stuff, and it passed over his head. But, this dude in his younger days and even towards the end, was THE guy at Penn State. If you crossed his ass for whatever reason and you worked for the University, he would be able to bury you. The evidence is overwhelming that there is no way he didn’t know about Sandusky, the only question is actually when did he first know it. Whenever it was, it was surely well, well before the final incident that blew up the Sandusky scandal. The friggin’ monster for years would take kids from that charity organization on road trips and trips to bowl games, fer Kreissakes. I consider that scandal to be one of the worst, if not the worst, scandal in the modern history of US college sports. Beyond horrendous. Pedophiles, IMO, next to murderers, are the worst of the worst, they cannot be rehabbed. They plot, plan and gain confidence of kids, and then prey on them…
good article
http://deadspin.com/joe-paterno-honored-by-tone-deaf-penn-state-officials-a-1786757273?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Delusional people. Willfully delusional. Probably a high percentage of Trump supporters amongst them.
Speaking of politics, Hillary seems intent on squandering her lead. She’s the second half of ’16 Giants right now. She needs to gather some mojo together.
This election is just weird.
Yesterday Trump basically admits he lied for half a decade about this birther nonsense. With no new evidence rolling in, Yep, Obama always was a US citizen. Somehow that admission of the big lie is supposed to be a good thing for him — and he immediately covered it with a new lie that it was Hillary, not him, that instigated and was pushing that lie all along. Then, he again makes thinly veiled threats that maybe somebody should shoot her. WTF? I don’t get how a charlatan and fraud like this POS has even a chance of winning this election. If the dems had nominated somebody else without so much baggage as Hillary, this would be a blowout election like Johnson/Goldwater…
Yeah, part of the problem is that Hillary’s not a strong candidate. She and Bill make mistakes, and have generally been over-rated by Dems over the years.
Bernie was that person! Still pisses me off to no end!
Longest HR drought in Posey’s career. Glad to see it end. We need him, Pence and others to get hot. The time is NOW!
Here We Come! Why not the Giants…seriously. Time to find that first half mojo and swagger!
I’m still having meat-sweats from that In ‘n Out Burger dinner yesterday, and I’m taking that as a good sign about the game tonight.
Single or double-double Animal Style?…
Two singles, no cheese, and no fries.
Very nice. Once in a while I’ll get the protein burger — no buns, lettuce wrap. Actually good, but beware it’s pretty sloppy. Extra napkins a must…
Yewah, cut the bread and lot weight pretty quick. Mainly beer gut.
Yeah, the thing about a good burger is it feels like a good instant protein lift.
I used to be vegetarian, but I was always struggling to keep a good dose of protein. I felt like I had to eat all day long. It got kind of tiring, actually. I don’t eat burgers all that often. Mostly chicken. And still sometimes no meat for dinner.
Mets hurler deGrom out for the season with elbow trouble.
Needs surgery. Not TJ, though…
Angel Pagan (S)
Joe Panik (L)
Buster Posey (R)
Hunter Pence (R)
Brandon Belt (L)
Brandon Crawford (L)
Eduardo Nunez (R)
Denard Span (L)
Jeff Samardzija (R)
Suddenly, Buster has been hitting with some authority.
Cortisone?…
Could be, but of course the Giants treat that kind of information like Top Secret nuclear code information.
Should shortly be out on WikiLeaks then…
Does the rest of the nation know In ‘n Out Burger? A good burger, and a good reputation for treatment of workers, for a fast-food place.
I’m a 5 Guys guy > In and Out all day long
A few 5 Guys have sprung up in Brooklyn. How do you order your burgers there, Flav?
I could use help. Subway confuses me, too.
I gotta say, I went to a 5 Guys once, and was not much impressed.
Expensive, too…
Never even heard of 5 Guys.
these might be the 2 dumbest people on the planet
In a way, helpful. Just letting other people know, before they waste time finding out, that “hey, I’m an idiot”. If either one of these tools came home wearing that with one of my Snarkkettes, I’d kick his butt out of the house pronto, and tell her to re-calibrate her loser-o-meter…
These two look capable of anything in a shower room…
A political pundit the other day said “we’re living now in a post-fact world,” which shouldn’t be happening, given all the access to information there is now. But there’s so much garabage, too, out there, which can bury facts.
To me, “post-fact world” means a place where lots of imbeciles don’t process objective facts that conflict with their pre-conceived notions and world view. Like a dude that’s got dark skin can’t possibly be a legitimate US president, no. He’s gotta be born elsewhere, despite official documents and a local Hawaii newspaper blurb / birth announcement printed contemporaneously with the birthdate over 50 years ago…
At one point a few years ago, Phil Mickelson owned franchise rights for 5 Guys in Orange county, or some such. Not sure what’s become of that. I heard on radio the other day on talk re the upcoming Napa tourney where Tiger is coming, that Phil routinely hands out C notes to anybody that serves him in some way. Minimum one C-Note. He pulls out a roll of them, and peels ’em off. Tiger has always been a notoriously bad tipper — at least in public…
A Google check shows that there’s a 5 Guys about 20 miles from where I live. One of these days I’ll give it a try!
all over south bay, pretty good imo. They were highly rated along with Habit which are down here too but a chain I haven’t tried.
The Penn St thing reflects the small town football is everything to us mode. Attack football coaches or players, your the enemy…police and authorities seem to look the other way when wrong is done and it’s the accusers who are the ones investigated.
Loo, Subway became a good place for me, with practice. I know what I like there now, and so with all those many options they have, I basically narrowed it down to something like: Turkey foot-long, with Swiss cheese, on a 7-grain roll, not heated, with everything on it, except no olives and no hot peppers. The only condiment I want on it is honey mustard. So I zip through that place pretty quickly, without agonizing over all the choices.
And watch them make the sandwich with an eagle eye just to make sure they got it right. Often I have to stop them on the olives.
Thanks Zum. I may just get exactly that.
Let me know if you have any other suggestions…
I was in a sandwich place in San Francisco many years ago, near Fisherman’s Wharf, and it seemed like the place was owned by Swedes or Norwegians who spoke very little English. I told the fellow at the counter several times not to heat my sandwich when I was making the order. I thought for sure he understood what I meant. And I’ll be darned, he put that sandwich in some kind of heating device. Oh well. 🙂 I still took the sandwich. I’m just not a big one for making a big deal about stuff like that.
Mets running into problems today and already tonight. I had an excellent sandwich in southern New Hampshire years ago, prepared by a babe in a t-shirt that her nipples elevated. Invisible clothes pins couldn’t have raised that cloth in two points more neatly, but the clothes pins wouldn’t’ve moved like that as she worked. I was mesmerized. “You got the hots?” she demanded. “What?” “You want the hots?” she repeated. “Uh, yeah, sure.” She sprinkled sliced hot peppers onto the sandwich. The paralegal kid who’d accompanied me to New Hampshire ordered next. He kept a straight face the entire time, until we sat down outside at a picnic table in the shade of a maple tree. We bit into the sandwiches. Very good. Then the kid suddenly said “The hots! The hots!” and reached dramatically for his iced tea, laughing like hell.
When I was a poor college student, one of the part-time jobs I had was shelving library books at night. A friend of mine asked me one time: “Do you have sex in the library?” I was kind of perplexed at his question for a moment. And then he laughed, realizing the miscommunication, and said: “I mean “Sex,” the Madonna photo book” that had just been published a few months before. That friend was often like that, leaving out some crucial bit of information on something.
I had a few embarrassing moments at that library job, although I did like the job, in spite of minimum wage pay. My supervisor, an older woman who had a southern accent, handed me a box one night and said “Please take this it to mayoll.” I didn’t know what she meant. And I kind of dumbly repeated “To mayoll?” And she actually blushed. She then said “M-E-L, mayoll.” She meant Mel, a guy who worked in the basement area of the library, in the book-repair area. I felt bad for having sort of accidentally made a thing about her accent. It had embarrassed her. She was a terrific supervisor. It wasn’t a great job, and she did things like bring birthday cakes to celebrate birthdays on our crew.
Some politician down south innocently got in trouble with the media a few years ago because the word “retired” sounded like “retard” in a speech he made…
Maybe he’s the retard..
Like years ago Ross Perot’s running mate..A 5 star general named James Stockdale. When they had a debate with the other VP’s, the panel would ask him a question and he had this dementia look on his face like a bomb fragment lit him up, and after a loooong pause he mumbled out something not irrelevant..” Yeah like I want that guy pushing a button to start a nuclear war”
Smardj serving up one of his tasty biscuits to the batter.
5 Guys and In n Out compete within a couple of blocks in SValley. They’re both fine, if you want a burger.
Fucking Span Jesus Christ.
He’s got to know Nunez is fast enough to make it. That intentional out on the throw home is so over-used in MLB in so many situations when it’s not needed. You’d think managers would get tired of it. If the thirdbase coach sends the guy, the guy on first shouldn’t be making the willy-nilly decision to sacrifice himself.
I assume that’s what Span was doing. He had to have seen the cut-off man, I would think.
total brain fart. The entire play is unfolding in front of his eyes.
Italian Bmt is always a winner too Loo..
Thanks, Kat…
Romo in for the 9th inning.
Mets win…
Granderson is a trip. Seems like he goes either 0-4 or he hits a bomb. Tonight 2.
Checking in from western Pa., I can almost see Ohio. Here we go….
Amazing catch!
Location mistake by Romo…
WTF was Pagan doing? Why is he even fucking out there? Worst outfielder we have by far.
Not exactly great defense by Pagan.
Are you fucking kidding me with this Casilla shit……
My sentiments exactly.
Romo smiled, like: this is B.S. getting pulled for Casiila right now.
Crawford has to rescue Pagan the sleepwalker.
Gawd. Here we go. If we lose this game . . . let me just stop right there.
there is no good outcome here. Either he blows the save or he saves it and Bochy starts running his dumb ass out there regularly again…
I don’t care for Yadier Molina and I don’t know why.
He’s a Cardinal, good enough reason.
Yeah. Bochy’s lost his mind. Or, maybe he’s a genius. We’ll find out.
I’m voting: lost his mind.
Bochy is certifiable…
get him outta there STAT
cant watch
I’m just watching dots on Game Day, so I don’t know, but… those dots are all over the strike zone…. I mean… everywhere possible on the graphic. WTF…
Jesus…..
Why do I watch when Casilla is pitching?? Shit, shit, shit!!
His 9th blown save.
fuckinfuckfuckmefuck
Dumb and dumber.
It was a 4 hopper – can’t fault Casilla on that…
he failed to hold Pham on first base, then he walked a dude, and then the hit. Granted, it wasn’t a rocket but when you have nothing but negativity and bad luck following you shit like this happens. Bochy seems totally tone deaf when it comes to using this guy. He’s just lost his mind over Casilla….
Fuck Bochy. FUCK BOCHY.
They are booing Bochy and/or Casilla.
I say boo Bochy. He is an ass right now. I do NOT understand his bullshit managing right now…
Let me make myself clear.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK Bruce BOCHY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s a stubborn side to Bochy.
He’s off his rocker these days, though.
WTF was wrong with leaving Romo in? Was he hurt? Is Bochy trying to lose?
Would fans at the game ever consider standing up and chanting “Fire Bochy now!!” Or, just silently exiting the park in protest before the game is even over… I mean, this is ridiculous. How does it go on? Sabean? Evans? Bueller? Anybody? Sheesh.
I can’t believe this. This guy needs to be written off for this season. His confidence is shot, he’s looking into the dugout after every pitch. Get him the fuck out of there Bochy.
Ah sandwiches, my son is always looking for a new place. When we go to SF we go to Ike’s. They have sandwiches named after Giants players. Here in Sacramento I go to Beach Hut Deli.
Sandwiches?!?!?!
I was reading older posts about subway
He shouldn’t have been brought in, but that was a seeing eye grounder that could have just as easily been a game ending DP…
I agree it was a double-play squibbler but Crawford was positioned wrong, and we could have been out of the inning with Romo OR ANYONE ELSE
So this will be the “bad break” portion of Bochy’s post-game spiel
Bruce Bochy has gone from HOF manager to an absolute idiot. Is he getting paid off by somebody in Vegas? This is incomprehensible. If this is NY, Bochy would be CRUCIFIED…
just gave the muthafuckin game away, and not some unimportant meaningless game…stupid, idiotic, and how can the announcers be so nonchalant???!!! in NY they’d skewer Bochy
this pisses me off
totally gave the game away
They only get real critical on their morning radio appearances.