Time For 2002 R(even)ge?
Ashamed to admit I didn’t make it to the end of that game, not by a long shot. I did what I normally do when I don’t see the end, I opened up my lap top and went to the Flap.
590 comments. Either something really good or something really bad happened.
Or both….
I read through the highs and lows, then went to mlb.com to see it for myself. I don’t really think you can understate this Gillaspie thing. For starters, I can now spell his last name without having to look it up. That in itself is a miracle. Driving down the hill to Safeway this morning I was listening to the KNBR guys jizzing the radio waves and heard that lefties are hitting .122 off Chapman in his career. He had never given up a triple before last night. And had that been a park normally configured his no-triples record would still be in tact (cue: Diggity’s grass roots effort to get the park changed).
I’m just glad we got at least one. I watched the Red Sox game and as it wound down you could just see how desperate and disappointed all those players were. Swept out of the post season at home. Screw that.
I’d like to lather up the hate for Lackey tonight but I just don’t have it in me. That 2002 game wasn’t won by him it was lost by Dusty for starting Livan. And do you remember who are two pinch hitters were that game?
Shingo and Tom Goodwin. We never stood a chance in Game 7.
Instead of talking about tonight’s game I want to bring back and old quote from the past. It was 2012 and the Giants were down 2-0 to the Reds. Hunter Pence gathered the team around him. Retold by Tim Flannery, I’ll let The Reverend take it from here…..
“GET IN HERE, EVERYONE GET IN HERE..LOOK INTO EACH OTHER EYES..NOW! LOOK INTO EACH OTHERS EYES, I WANT ONE MORE DAY WITH YOU, IT’S THE MOST FUN, THE BEST TEAM I HAVE EVER BEEN ON SAID THE REVEREND HUNTER PENCE. ” AND NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS WE MUST NOT GIVE IN, WE OWE IT TO EACH OTHER, PLAY FOR EACH OTHER, I NEED ONE MORE DAY WITH YOU GUYS, I NEED TO SEE WHAT THERIOT (JERRY) WILL WEAR TOMORROW, I WANT TO PLAY DEFENSE BEHIND VOGELSONG BECAUSE HE’S NEVER BEEN TO THE PLAYOFFS..PLAY FOR EACH OTHER NOT YOURSELF, WIN EACH MOMENT, WIN EACH INNING, IT’S ALL WE HAVE LEFT”
Now go out there and do what you do with your Even Year Bullshit……
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I’m done with baseball forever after this…
I may give up sports entirely.
Chi, how many day till pitchers and catchers report?
lqtm…
Unmitigated disaster.
“….PLAY FOR EACH OTHER NOT YOURSELF, WIN EACH MOMENT, WIN EACH INNING, IT’S ALL WE HAVE LEFT”
it is utterly absurd we don’t have a single fucking guy down there who can get an out. Moore pitches 8 fucking god-like innings. Every reliever we have should fucking execute themselves as soon as this game is over.
nightmarish
Will Smith can only pitch with no fucking runners on…
The second half of the season in microcosm.
that’s it, perfectly stated
It really is. As I said above, it’s a most fitting ending to this season.
0-2 buster is retarded
What a way to go.
On an 0-2 pitch to a hacker.
for fucking fuck sake
Now adding insult to injury.
And suddenly, poof. Just like that. Ouch.
Shoulda been 3 pitches in the dirt.
I am so fucking cross-eyed mad right now, not sure I can watch the rest of this game.
I am going to bed, I can’t watch this shitty performance by the pen!!
And now they get the fucking DP…utter bullshit! Moore would have had them in the clubhouse with champagne prior to this fucking nightmare inning ending.
Absolute meltdown.
If this happened after Moore gave up a hit or something, well, then that’s this Pen.
But, he was DEALING.
Bochy absolutely wears this. It is on HIM.
If this were New York, he would be crucified…
Horrible time to pull a Maddon…
Partially he does Snarkk, but our entire bullpen wears this as much or more imo.
Crawford a bit of a goat in this, too.
there aren’t any words to capture my disappointment right now. This feels like the Roger Craig fumble all over again….
And Romo smiling after that performance, hope his contract is over at the end of this season!! What little prick!!
Yeah, what the hell was that about?
His protest to Bochy, and it’s disrespectful.
Entire bullpen should jump off the Golden Gate Bridge after this humiliating fiasco. I’m dumbfounded by their ineptitude.
3 outs, 3!!! Damn damn damn the bullpen!!
Totally agree with Smoltz!!
Slider Slider Slider but know Strickland throws a heater in the wheelhouse of Baez???
Shit ya might as well have throw Casilla out there as well he used 5 fucking relievers and they all chocked the chicken!!!
Bochy eats this one. Lopez was an auto walk. Smith should be in before Lopez. Fucking Moore should have started the inning. Law should have had more than one guy.
Lopez is the key fuckup tho. He came in and did what he always does. Walk a guy.
Lots of goats in that clusterfuck, brother.
Lopez pitches like a coward all season, and he wins a Willie Mac Award. I don’t get it.
This is worse than that POS world series loss to the fucking Angels, iMO…
In many ways it is, because this was so predictable. It’s like every flapper knew what was coming the moment Lopez came in.
Posey called it AK.
monumental embarrassment
3 up 3 down for Chapman guaranteed. Belt Ks to end the season. Fuck.
Yup.
Agree with Chuck that Lopez was key fuck up.
Yep…he is Billy Goat Gruff…
He simply can’t throw strikes any more.
That was his usual $15K walk or whatever it is…
Say goodbye to the stalwarts in the ‘pen the past 7 years…. Romo, Lopez, Casilla, all gone after this….
We better hear some lame excuse that Moore was tired or hurt at 117 pitches or whatever…
No shit. At least lie to us and say that he was.
You’ll hear some bullshit from Bochy that he had the match-ups he wanted…blah fucking blah…
About the only guys I keep in the pen is Law, Okert and Blach if that’s where they keep him. Everyone else is gone. I’ve never seen anything like this. Bochy needs to retire and spend time with his family while he still can. He’s finished.
Law can really wave a towel, though.
LMAO…good one, Zume…
Wouldn’t it be something for Belt to splash one here?
Yeah, it would be…
That would certainly be something…
Come on Belt! Surprise me. Just once!
Fuck the Cubs and fuck Maddon.
If he strikes out on a called third strike I am going to cry and laugh at the same time.
At least he went down swinging.
Most monumental Giant meltdown in my life…
Fucking absurd and embarrassing and sickening…….
pathetic….just pathetic
Even Year Over and Out. Should be an interesting off-season.
Bochy better announce gis retirement in 5 fucking minutes. He lost it with his idiocy in the 9th.
Pfffttt! How fitting – a SO.
Only 144 days until pitchers and catchers report. Bust out your fishing poles, boys…
The dynasty is officialy over.
I agree, it’s time for Bruce to retire. Move him upstairs. Or downstairs.
Well Flav, we gave it a run. Y’all have a nice off season.
1st half of the season seemed to come back to the boys this series. 2nd half, as Zum said, resurfaced swiftly and fatally and it’s all gone in a flash. Double ouch.
What a difference 26 hours make…I am so fucking pissed. This should have been a lock for a Game 5. The league and Vespurgeonmyself so wantes the Cubs to win…completley mismanaged 9th inning. I seriously wonder if Bochy contemplates stepping down…
Hate watching the celebration on our field…has never happened in the playoffs on our field right????
I don’t want to hear one word about the Giants needing outfielders or any other position player!! The very first thing they need to address is the bullpen!! That was awful!! I don’t know how I am going to sleep thinking about the shit job the bullpen did!
We’re still going to need one or two productive hitters. Number one defense in MLB this year, Craw’s 2 errors tonight notwithstanding. Bullpen and hitting. Critical.
5 runs in a playoff game should be more than enough to win the game against quality pitching should be enough to win!!
You’re right, but the offense went long stretches this season where they didn’t do squat, including the first two games of this series. Time to take a serious look at some free agent bats
The sheer consistency of shit performances coming out of that bullpen is stunning. Just one after another. What is the final tally, 32 blown saves? And I want to know what the fuck Romo finds so funny in that situation. Several of these guys have been great Giants, but I’m done with them. Get them out of here.
No words. Love ya all. Out.
Have fun, blade…
Well, we’ll always have the Mets game and last night. Great games.
Better, i guess, than not making playoffs at all.
But, ugly way to finish…
After a well played loss in a game 5, I coulda been philosophical. This is, as they say, irredeemable.
Yeah, agreed.
Even if Moore gave up a homer to the first guy, then the Pen gave it up, I could stomach it to some extent.
To just pull Moore without even a shot at it, it’s just maddening….
I mean, it’s shameful. What an asinine way to lose.
Pete Rose channeling del mar Dennis, “they didn’t deserve to win”
Someone needs to tell Pete that his call to the Hall will never come.
I had better not see Romo, Casilla, or Lopez on the team next year!!
It’s been said here: I just would not be surprised if Bochy resigned. Win, lose, or draw, he was off this year.
There has to be serious questioning of Bochy for this.
Yes, he wasn’t pitching. But, he orchestrated the same BS rote moves that led to the previous meltdowns. Law gives up one hit, he’s gone. And, he’s one of the few with strike out stuff, and has a nasty curve that could draw a DP grounder. Chuck is right — Lopez, what an ignominious way to leave the organization. He’s so afraid of his stuff, he walks guys.
Arggggh.
Good-by to the golden years of the Giants.
Onto the future, whatever it will be…
I think that’s exactly it, he just doesn’t trust his stuff anymore.
Such a letdown after last night. Gnight.
Wonder if Matt Moore has a opt out on his contract? Cause after this sickening BP performance I would want out!!!
Fuck Bochy I this one, he rides his Horse Bum all the time but not another starter who was lights out? Fuck him total stupity!!!
We have Moore for a while thankfully…
Gail will sleep undisturbed tonight.
Unreal. I’m stunned but know i shouldn’t be. Bochy’s continued need to pitch one guy one batter never worked all year. Fitting it failed now. Crushed right now.
2 unearned runs as a result of bad throws by our gold glove ss.
Gillespie and Panic 6/7 tonight. Blanco came up in key situations and continued to fail. Pagan being hurt cost us more than anything…Bochy insistence on playing him didn’t help
The bullpen was truly horrible yet again, but Crawford did throw away two balls tonight. That was a DP that would likely have kept the score even in the 9th.
Yep, killer error. Still, the pitching could have not given up the RBI on that…
Tired of the broadcast crew blaming ground balls finding holes, etc. Utter BS excuses.
This team had no closer, and paid for it.
Sabean and Evans definitely wear this one, too…
Larry Krueger @sportslarryknbr 2m2 minutes ago Walnut Creek, CA
Bochy blew this one. Yanked Moore who was on cruise control to put the game in the hands of the @SFGiants Achilles heel, the pen. Ridiculous
Post game radio wrap.
NO discussion of Bochy decision to pull Moore for the 9th.
None…
Chi, IMO this is not worse than 2002 Game 6. We had never won anything my whole life as a Giants fan until that point so that loss when we had a nice lead was completely heartbreaking. This is just pure anger. We have three titles and no guarantee we win Game 5 or the next series. Cubs will now destory the Nats or Fodgers…Bochy did not seem all that upset even though he fucked around too much that inning. Will Smith was probably the better move than Javier Lopez who I think every one of us said he was done back in June…real pisser tonight…
You’re right, GH, 3 titles makes up for a lot and makes it easier to get over things like this. I would not be so rational if the Giants still hadn’t won one. This was brutal but nowhere near the 2002 Series.
Lots of goats. But when fuckng Lopez came in we all knew…
Sharks, Dubs, and this.
Hey Kappy Kaepernick is starting on Sunday!
Yeah baby! The Kap era redux!
Gillaspie and Cueto deserved one more game…
This team has tons of heart. These last two games and the Mets game proves it, as does the Dodger series. They just have holes that weren’t addressed. They had better be this off-season or they may have a fan base mutiny on their hands. Spend the money and get some quality relievers in here and get a couple of hitters who can actually produce. I will be so pissed if some serious effort isn’t made to fix the things that aren’t working. A team this wealthy has now excuses.
The heart will still be there. Plug the holes and this team will contend next year.