Waiting Because They Can And We Can’t
I’m not checking team stats or anything, I will just assume the Rangers are at the bottom of the AL. Feel free to correct. This is a screen shot I took of their *hitters* last night. Look at this nonsense.
Makes The Gorkly One and The Invisible Span look not so bad, eh? That is their STARTING line up. Rua is their “lefty killer” and goddamn if he didn’t get a hit. Their manager’s a genius.
So we are stuck with our Out-Field of (Shitty) Dreams. At least for a while. I always wonder what the decision process is when the brass gets stuck with an obvious move to make but stubbornly refuse to make it. I can’t believe it’s about $$$$ or Super Two stuff or any of that. But who knows, maybe that’s ALL it’s about.
Or maybe they’re just pouting away in their precious suite looking down on the plebeians with great disdain, refusing to make a move because they don’t want to be the second ones to come up with this. Ultimate hubris.
Crawford gofundme crested 40K last night…….
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Boys need to get in a groove and finish strong in April. Three against the Rox (are they for real?), then we bring it home for four against the hated bambinos of lala land, and finish the month at home with three against the Friars.
There are guys in that Tex LU that can hit like Lucroy Odor Napoli…and I’d say same about Giants.
They are currently 12th in NL for slugging and OPS. Pence has 4 XBHs in 62 ABs (same as Span in 40+) and .750 OPS. Belt’s BA is down to .220.
Regardless of who is in LF Giants need to hit better and score more runs to compete. I think Posey goes back to C he’ll be more into it and his bat will come back around too.
This is a hitters yard where ball carries and a lot of open space. Like to see Giants break loose with bats before home and home with LA sandwiched around Pad series.
Yeah we know how well things go in Colo, Chuck. That was a painful game we got to see last year. Blade was lucky he had back problems!
And yeah, i get real sick of the ‘can’t bring him up yet’ shit. Dithering with arb years in 2022 is ludicrous when you are floundering with Laurel and Hardy in the outfield now. Wasn’t that the initial reason for not bringing up Posey in 2010?
Ouch…that is a painful memory. And I was sitting with a bunch of folks from our Denver office…all big Rox fans. UGH…
Turn that shit around and win a fucking series on the road, I say!
weather looks cold and shitty in Col today. Not idea weather for the ball to travel….
cueto has excellent numbers in Katmandu, maybe Giants win a torture game. Or 3.
“Out-Field of Shitty Dreams”
Outstanding…
Gmen will be lucky to take one this weekend…
Agree Tom. Tonight is the best opportunity to win. Per Flavor, the weather is cold and has the potential for rain. Consequently, the humidity/dampness may keep the ball in the park. Lefties Blackmon, Gonzales, Parra, and Wolters have the platoon advantage.
Good fun in the NL West this weekend. The Giants at the Rockies, and the Dodgers at the D-Backs.
HOLY SHIT: Bumgarner on DL. Sprained his left shoulder in a dirt bike accident.
Baggs: Bumgarner has bruised ribs and a grade 1 or 2 left shoulder sprain, Giants say. He is “out of the hospital.” Resting at team hotel.
His Dumb ass should have said he was washing his truck.
Shit he’s out 2 months!!
Wtf was he thinking dirt bike riding in the season, which should of been in his clause along with any sport like X-treme sports!!
Of course with his dumbass signing he got taken for the Giants aren’t going void anything anyway… But what a killer, especially on offense losing one of our best bats..
unfuckingreal…..
298 days till pitchers and catchers report…
After Blach takes his place in the rotation and performs poorly, we can start complaining about the failure to bring up The Venerable Beede *and* Arroyo.
No more $18 crab sandwich’s for me this year.
my older son figured out how to get those sandwiches without standing in a long line
Taking the glass-half-full POV: Giants were 0-4 in MadBum starts anyway…
He’s only on the 10 day DL according to MLB Network crawl.
Does that mean anything?
They put Will Smith on the 60 day . . . .
Rosenthal: 6-8 weeks…
How would he know
We have a new contender who has wrestled the crown for Dumbest Giant away from Strickland and Smarge. And his name is Madison Bumgarner.
Maybe if the Giants had shown him some respect he would have had a different mindset about doing shit like this…
actually I’m gonna go ahead and blame that shitty contract. If he had been making more he might not have been so careless.
I was just typing the same thing above…
Yeah it means the east coast ( present company not included Loo) are the usual 10 days behind the west coast in intelligence..
Why couldn’t he just fucked around with his stable of F150 4 wheelers in the dirt??
this is actually probably a good thing for us:
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Source: Melvin Upton will be out eight weeks due to hand surgery.
Was he dirt-biking with MadBum?
had his wife been better looking maybe he would have been banging her instead of doing wheelies in Colorado dirt.
Too early?
🙂
lulz, preach.
DON’T LOOK AT ME !!! Or my wife!
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So how about that 2018 Giants team???
I hope they dint bring Beede up now. Want him to be a mystery. Blach deserves the spot..
The Giants have the $$$ and the need – why not THIS guy??? :
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/225593268/favorites-to-sign-cuban-outfielder-luis-robert/
Shit, talk about the wheels coming off.
What the Denver Post is reporting about Bum . . . http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/21/madison-bumgarner-dirt-bike-accident-colorado/
Bumgarner is a meathead, drafted out of high school, gave his wife a cow as a wedding present, etc. etc. Now he’ll lose money as Ford cancels those MadBum enjoying himself in the mud on an offday commercials. I guess it’s better that the inevitable stupid injury occurred this way instead of during a take down of Puig in Chavez Latrine.
He’s not a meathead, he just fucked up. Obviously his solid upbringing resulted in a man with a lot of character and fortitude, so if that’s a meathead I’ll take him any day. He’ll be back.
I’ll take a meathead with character and fortitude and inevitable eff ups over the sleazy high-iq shysters I deal with on a daily basis
everyone has different definitions for words. I would have gone with “country bumpkin” before meathead but I get where you’re coming from
The hothead country bumpkin with character, fortitude, and lack of judgment.
I greatly admire MadBum and respect his country, uh, ethos. I also like his fire. I suspect he voted for Trump, however. Life is never perfect.
I could never get mad at Bum – so he’s not perfect…
LA played well and took over first from SF last year without Kershaw. A single great player isn’t worth that many more wins than an average one over the course of a season, and even less so over any shorter stretch. I’m being positive.
Tough yard.
Well, well.
This season is going great so far…
It’s still a dumbshit way to get injured. But so were Affeldt’s injuries.
2011 Redux. But at least Buster was in a game, a baseball game.
#FMH
It was 3-0 Giants while I was in my car, and I was thinking they should double that to 6-0 for some insurance, given Coors. Before I got out of the car, it turned to down 6-3. What a joke of a yard…
I blinked while following on the internet and it was 4-3.
the rain started to fall on Cueto during that inning. three singles and a grand slam that wasn’t all that big a blast
Posey on Bum:
“You have to be grateful he’s not hurt worse than he is,” Posey said of Bumgarner. “You have to look at it in that light. I don’t know the timetable; I’m not sure anybody does. Just thankful he’s not hurt any worse.”
snarkk on Bum:
BIG.FUCKING.DUMB.ASS. …
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Brandon Belt Home Run #4
Distance = 456 ft.
106 MPH off bat
FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY SIX FEET. Wow.
Marrero has the misfortune of being slow, too.
God didn’t bestow upon him a bounty of physical gifts….
I’ve been a big advocate of Bum not getting a contract upgrade, because he had professional advice and was an adult, not under duress, when he signed it. Even more so now, given his hubris and selfish dumbassery. Violation of contract ban I suppose will come out as the beat scribes come out of the brew pubs and bars to ask a few questions. My question is this: where/how do you rent a dirt bike in a visitor city and just fire off to wherever on it? Don’t you need a motorcycle license to actually do that? — I assume Dumbass has one. Maybe he was riding with friends/acquaintances that gave lent him the bike ?…
Geez, some guys will do anything to get out of having to pitch with no run support.
Or at Coors Field.
On the bright side:
1. Blach gets at least 2 months of starts, getting out of the Pen where he doesn’t belong anyway
2. Maybe Cain craters, so bring Beede up
3. By August, those two will have established themselves as MLB level starters. So, with Cain and Cueto gone in 2018 (Cueto will pull ripcord to another squad that scores runs and pays big LT $), you’ve got two young starting arms already set to roll into 2018…
gorkys can’t even bunt. wtf is he doing on the 25?
Gorkys = Agent OOO.
Yep.
Can Gorkys be DFA’d in the middle of the game?…
he’s the worst baseball player I’ve ever seen.
….at any level.
Get two guys on, then Gorkys and Span coming up? Forget about it.
I’m not blaming this Gorkys guy.
He is not a MLB caliber player. Never was.
You can’t just be an OF glove, with no semblance of a bat, and be a real major leaguer.
His atrociousness is all on the Giants front office…
I have a stat question for you dudes, James weigh in.
Gorkys is ripping at a below .100 clip. Below 1 in 10.
With 2 strikes on him in his latest worthless AB, they pulled off the bunt.
Wouldn’t it have made more sense to let him take the shot at the bunt with 2 strikes? I was thinking that before he flied out. I figured there was no way in hell he’d get on with a hit, so why not keep the bunt on and risk the foul ball strike out — how much more of a risk of failure would that be, probably less, compared to swinging away?…
Failure was inevitable.
Holland gets his 9th save.
Maybe the Giants are shitting the bed all at once to wish Bochy good bye. Maybe, I can’t believe I am saying this, it is the time for a rebuild.
I could totally see Snarkk being right and could see Cueto departing. Cain goes. We should figure out how to dump Smardj. We have two option years with Moore. If they go rebuild, can we get a young OF for Pence. You all know where I am with Posey if we could get a bunch of prospects…Nunez then goes and we get our Donger and Arroyo next year. Just release Spam now…
An accident. Would we be up in arms if a horse had slipped and he went down? Could have been a car. He will be back, and fresh come playoff time. Blach is good. If mad bum had gone 5-2 in 10 starts he misses and Blach goes 4-4 we are alright. Besides..2nd best ERA on the team is Cain…Strange times
Thank you.
And on the glass half empty side we have gianthead!!!
some teams go through rebuilding years. the Giants are going through and accounting readjustment year.
So, cut beer and garlic fries prices in half…
Forsythe’s roster replacement hit an HR tonight. The Dodgers showing off their organizational depth.
We can’t bring up Arroyo because…..whatever.
Despite what the announcer said, I’m not certain Pence lost that inside the park HR because of the lights. He looked like an old man fielding that ball.
Moore up next . . . He didn’t even go 3 innings during his last stint at Coors back in September. If I recall correctly, he gave up 6 or 7 runs.
blade, where are you, dude? In the US, Vietnam or ? I went Giants 1 for 3 this weekend. That was Cueto, I figured. Uh, hope they can steal one now. Moore and Smardzxxx are not my picks to rock at Coors…
Been in Colorado since the 6th . . . Back to Vietnam on May 6th. Stay for 3 months and return to SF bay area on August 1st.
Maybe should have a Flapalooza at ATT while you’re in town in August?…
Romo balked in the go-ahead run.
I would like that. I suspect the Giants will be voicing a collective, “Wait ’til next year,” but Flapalooza’s rarely are about just watching the game.
Arroyo, has hit in 21 consecutive games dating back to last season, and now leads the PCL in average (.479), OBP (.510), and OPS (1.260) while coming in 3rd in SLG (.750). Why is he in the minors?
Epic bullpen meltdown from the Dodgers tonight.
Curse of Jason Schmidt. Romo, Wilson, and Marichal also not having stellar stints with the Bums . . . Or, as we like to perceive – all double agents for the Giants cause.
By the by, I have been tracking Casilla – he tossed the ninth inning for the A’s last night, giving up his first hit of the season. Hitters had been 0-for-17 previously. Not bad for a guy that many here thought was kaput. I think James and I were the only ones here who believed he still had gas in the tank (albeit, insofar as PR was concerned, yeah, probably a good idea for him to move on).
Tom and Steve, Giants are home from Aug. 1-8 or thereabouts. I will quite possibly also be in SF for just a day or two around the 5th or 6th before flying out to Saigon (I’ll be back east for a few weeks moving my Mom to assisted living, etc.). Could indeed be a good week or weekend for at least a mini-Flapalooza..
Let’s plan on it.
Sunday Aug 6th at ATT, DBacks at 1:05 pm.
Saturday is a 6:05 start, I much prefer the 1:05 starts…
Snarkk, no you don’t need a motorcycle license to rent (or buy) a dirt bike. The skill of the rider is the only license needed. I just sold mine a coupe months ago. . . .
So, looks like BumAss needed a bit more skill …
What is galling to no end is the refusal to change things up for the next 2 months. Got to protect Arroyo’s arbitration year in 2023.
Dodgers lost.
Doesn’t matter much when we go 72-90…
Nobody got mad at Thurman Munson for crashing his own plane on an off day. Would you let Bum slide if he died in the accident?
Then, I’d really be pissed…
Sure they did.
Whyinhell didn’t somebody rent Zito a bigass dirtbike sometime in his FA offseason of 2006?…
Why couldn’t MadBum have invited Gorkys and/or Span along for the ride?
Sunday Aug 6th at ATT, DBacks at 1:05 pm is perfect. I’ll be sufficiently half-assed recovered from jet lag. More the merrier, works even better. 🙂
Will you be a daddy by then?
Yeah, but likely still working on long term Visas for Linh (my wife), 2 children, and myself (in Vietnam). Consequently, I’m limited by their 90 day tourist Visas, where I have to return here frequently.
I always thought the pregnancy period was 9 months (3 trimesters). But 2 pregnant women I know insist that it’s really 10 months (40) weeks. So if they’re right then this 3 trimester thing doesn’t make sense…
I will be in deep doo doo if that’s the case Loo. We’re counting on that baby popping out on July 14th. With me returning here (SF bay area first) on August 1st, that leaves 2 weeks to work with.